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Revision as of 03:29, 1 March 2014
| Teufort, New Mexico | |
| City | |
Downtown Teufort | |
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Nickname(s): "America's Gravel Basket"  | |
| Country: United States
State: New Mexico | |
| Population (1968): 1280 [1] | |
Contents
- 1 History
- 2 Geography
- 3 Demographics
- 4 Economy
- 5 Arts and culture
- 6 Media
- 7 Government
- 8 Education
- 9 Transportation
- 10 Notable people
- 11 See also
- 12 References
- 13 External links
- 14 Badlands
- 15 History
- 16 Geography
- 17 Demographics
- 18 Economy
- 19 Arts and culture
- 20 Media
- 21 Government
- 22 Education
- 23 Transportation
- 24 Notable people
- 25 See also
- 26 References
- 27 External links
- 28 temp
- 29 Train
- 30 Descriptions
- 31 User Boxes
- 32 Grainary
- 33 References
- 34 Historical Context
- 35 Late 1960's
- 36 Game Wiki Editor's Prayer
- 37 Train
- 38 Descriptions
- 39 User Boxes
- 40 Grainary
- 41 References
- 42 Historical Context
- 43 Late 1960's
- 44 Game Wiki Editor's Prayer
History
Geography
Teufort is situated within the Badlands[2] region of New Mexico.
Demographics
Population: 1280
Economy
Teufort Mall [3]
Arts and culture
Points of interest
Sports
Media
Government
- Mayor and Judge (1971) : "Mayor Mike"[11]
- Teufort Police Department
- Teufort Department of Corrections [12]
- Park Ranger Service [13]
Education
Transportation
Teufort is served by the Northern Express Railroad.
Passenger jet service is available at the city's airport. [16]
Notable people
See also
References
External links
- Unhappy Returns on the TF2 Official Website.
- A Smissmas Story on the TF2 Official Website.
Badlands
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Nickname(s): "America's Gravel Basket" | |
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State: New Mexico |
History
Geography
Teufort is situated within the Badlands[1] region of New Mexico.
Demographics
Population: 1280
Economy
Teufort Mall [2]
Arts and culture
Points of interest
Sports
Media
Government
- Mayor and Judge (1971) : "Mayor Mike"[10]
- Teufort Police Department
- Teufort Department of Corrections [11]
- Park Ranger Service [12]
Education
Transportation
Teufort is served by the Northern Express Railroad.
Passenger jet service is available at the city's airport. [15]
Notable people
See also
References
External links
- Unhappy Returns on the TF2 Official Website.
- A Smissmas Story on the TF2 Official Website.
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Map name prefixes
Some achievement maps provide areas set off or protected for various specific activities, such as heavy-only boxing areas, soccer fields, pyro tennis courts, private achievement rooms, and surf ramps. Some achievement maps also have mechanisms set up to facilitate specific achievements, some with player controls.
AFK idlers are often spawned into an automated conveyor device where they may be targeted by active players seeking achievements or grind out strange levels. Sometimes Bots are spawned into this mechanism as well, but the presence of idling players support achievements that specifically require players as targets eg Besides achievement grinding and strange leveling, various types of activities often occur. Achievement map servers usually encourage trading. Because the standard same mode of the map is usually suppressed, combat is usually "free fire"; however, it is also not uncommon for opposing players to just hang out with each other, chat, assist each other with achievements, show off, or attempt stunts.
A different cooperative play mode
Some feature secret rooms [youtube], air ships, subways, trains, or other thing that players may ride achievement_idle
Train
Train's paint scheme matches the "Bloody Nose" standard that Southern Pacific used from 1958 on -- with the exception that the characteristic SP nose wings are not the standard Sunset Red but the rare "Halloween" orange that SP experimented with early on.
Bugs
The road name "Northern Express" is in mirrored reverse on the right hand side.
Descriptions
This is the closest most players will come to hiking around old farm shacks,
User Boxes
This user is a fan of Halloween mode Yes, this user is aware there are other modes than Halloween.
This user would like you to kindly consider clicking on this link to his replay. Click for a cheap replay. Click to help user with the replay achievements.
Grainary
While most TF2 maps contain hidden missile bases, U.S. farm kids would tell visiting big-city kids that the big white grain silos were really missile silos.
References
Many item names and achievement titles embody puns and double or even triple entendras; part of the fun of the game is figuring those out. Spoiler alert: Answers or guesses at answers to the riddles in some of those titles are provided herein.
Achievements
The title also refers to Optical Diffusion, the scattering of light, which is an important game technology, such as in the Source Phong shader on the Valve Developer Community. Furthermore, the purposeful misspelling suggests that by defeating Demoman’s Optical organ the player is defusing an explosive situation.
Also, an w:array:array is a standard programing term for a set of things of the same type, like an array of missions.
Heavy is not his previously jolly self.
Companies
others are simply references to actual or archetypical companies, products, and corporate art to support the game's general reference to the 1960s.
subtle incorporation of a "happy" emoticon into a common coopertive circle icon
In software and in general use, and array is an ordered set of of same or related type. the objective of this achievement is the completion of an array of raids
References Archer Daniels Midland’s green leaf and molecule logo (minus one atom), which in 1958 symbolized making industrial chemicals from plants instead of from oil or (ironically) coal.
From 1958, the "Double Circle CO-OP" was an trademark owned by Farmland Industries and was displayed by member CO-OPs.[1]
Several unrelated retail businesses had and have the name Farmers Feed & Seed. Master Mix was a product and trademark of McMillen Feed Mills.
"Make hay while the sun shines."
On the farm, we could play games inside, but only on rainy days. A wonderful rule. This gamer learned to read the clouds.
- Shiny's Bullion/Gilded Gold
- Bullion is another name for gold. Both signs reference a false appearance of gold: A gilded thing looks shiny but is not gold; and "All that shines is not gold." The word choices Shiny/Gilded reflect the BLU/RED new/antique dichotomy designed into the game art.
Foundry
Blue Corn Co. Grey Gravel Cornwell/Cornwell Casali Shafting Co./Dr. Wilson's AUTO-BORAX Self Scrubbing Mechanical Soap
- XAROB-OTUA
- As CP maps are generally laid out symmetrically, the Company signs on this map are symmetric in their references
- BLU STEEL/RED IRON
- These company names both reference characteristic colors of steel; Blue Steel and Red Iron. Note: Grey Iron is a type of gray colored cast iron.
- BLU Blast Complex/RED Iron Works
- A blast complex and an w:Ironworks:Iron Wworks are both places where iron ore is smelted into iron. Neither of these types of places is a Foundry. Note: Grey Iron is only made in a Foundry.
- Industrial Trust the Best/Happy Farmers Trust the Best
- Both signs incorporate a Happy Face. Both signs display a type of tractor. These types of tractors also echo the BLU/RED industrial/rustic dichotomy designed into the game art.
- Goldstream Fuel Co./Brown Nugget Prospecting
- Both of these company names reference one of two closely associated biological processes.
- Scoot's Canoe/Sunny Hay
- Moon and Sun
- Cliffe Rocks Inc./Salt
- Jimi Jam/Driller
- Bigg's/Crummy's
Process Achievements
See counter par
This company is a reference to names th
Like its counterpart BLU Steel, this company's name references several real businesses and products named Red Iron (after a characterist color of weathered iron).
An iron works is a place where iron ore is smelted into pig iron.
This company is a reference to names th
Like its counterpart Red Iron, this company's name references several real businesses and products named Blue Steel (after a characteristic color of tempered steel)
A blast complex is a place where iron is refined into steel.
Neither of these are foundries.
Red iron and blue steel are real names for real materials named for their characteristic colors, neither of which are made in foundries. Grey Iron is also real material named for its characteristic color and it is only made in foundries.
Red Iron may refer to a characteristic color associated with iron and steel or to forms of iron and steel that are associated with that color:Iron Red will refer more to the color, not to iron or steel Ironically, Grey Iron refers to specific alloys of cast iron, due to their characteristic mat finish or fracture. Related to the characteristic blue color of the ... oxide of iron, ... may refer to One of the four main opposing properties on Foundry. One of the two main opposing properties on Granary. Counterpart to the Red Iron, Blue Steel Property on Foundry. Like Red Iron, Blue Steel is a reference to the color of one of the two common oxides of iron. are both references to the natural colors of Blue is a color associated with steel. A Blast Complex implies Blast furnace operation, wherein iron is refined into steel w:iron alloys. Counterpoint to Red Iron on Foundry. Red is a color associated with iron.
Goldstream Nuggets
References biological function. Counterpart to Reference to a mammalian biologial process.
Counterpoint to Brown Nugget on Foundry. Counterpoint to Blue Steel on Foundry. Reference to a mamalian biologial process. Counterpoint to Goldstream on Foundry.
Historical Context
The content of TF2 is based on historical and cultural elements of the late 1960's. The setting of most of the first maps released for the game is 1968, generally in the southwestern deserts of the United States. Several later release maps are set a few years later the purpose here is to list historical events or movements that influenced TF2, but also to mention very important events and movements that are not omitted from the game. If we are to justify games as educational, then we should make efforts to that purpose.
Historical Context of TF2 In someways, the historical presentation in TF2 is reasonably accurate, if nostalgic. The art captures the Atomic Punk and Space Punk movements of the time, yet also shows many iconic references to bygone Americana (rustic farmsteads, delaptidate mines). The Cold War, the Space Race, Hippies, and World War II (the latter still culturally relevantin the late 1960's) are notablty, if steriotypically, evident in maps, items, character back grounds, or responces. However, other serious contemporary issues are not generally referenced; in particular, global civil unrest, War Protests, and Racial tensions.
Late 1960's
1968 is the time frame of the Gravel Wars 1968 is a culmination of a historically and culturally significant period in U.S. and World history
Referenced in Game
Cold War
China was relatively impenetrable.
Space Race
The US was winning the Space Race and was on the verge of the Manned Moon Landing, making the Monkeynaut business a bit anachronistic.
Railroads
Trains appear immensely popular with Valve and Community Developers, appearing in some form in almost all maps. US Railroads were completely dieselized by 1968, but rail passenger service has generally failed by this date, prompting the formation of AMTRAK, which began operation in 1971.
Popular Music
Surf Rock had progressed to Girl Rock and Car Rock and grown to influence soundtracks for Space, Spy, Monster, and Western movies and TV series; these later four forms being a basis for much of the Team Fortress Soundtrack (cf. In 1967, Tom Jones moved to the desert region to begin regular performances at Las Vegas lounges. His television variety show (This Is Tom Jones) abruptly ends with his death in 1971 at the hands of his roommate Merasmus.
Movies/Televison
Silver age of cinema?
Night of the Living Dead (1968) established the Modern Zombie genre (cf. Zombie Fortress) Nuclear Weapons dominated international relations (heavily referenced in TF2 Maps).
Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy was released in the United States in 1967, as tributed in TF2 by references in Engineer items and achievements (Face Full of Festive The Goo badn and .
The scores for these movies established Ennio Morricone's influence in Western movie music, as tributed in TF2 by "The Calm". (signatures whips, whistling, jew's harp, bells, trumpets, reverberating electric guitar
WWII
WWII was still a relatively recent and culturally pervasive event features in several moves produced at that time. (Soldier), references in several items but its significance was to begin to fade as Baby Boomers came to political influence. Having ended just over two decades prior, World War II is still a vivid national memory, but its cultural influence is fading to that of the Vietnam War. Several achievements and Items, especially those of Soldier, reference WWII equipment, events, or movies. Market Gardener Guns of the Navar0wned In 1968, Veterans of WWII are now in middle age and at their peak earnings stage, and they are confronting the Generation Gap -- their children the baby boomers are now passing through high school and college.
Hippies
Long hair became a political statement (Hippies, hair cuts, Hippies)
Soldier natural enemy of robots hippies.
Definitive events happened around 1968 Woodstock 1969
Not Referenced in Game
Some very Big Things were going on then and are referenced in the game, but some of the very Big Things happening then are not referenced at all. Most Americans still live on farms Major, harmful changes in U.S. diet: food processing, replacement of animal fat with hydrogenated vegetable oils. replacement of grass-fed cattle with grain fed Concentrated Feeder Operations
Protests of 1968
The protests of 1968 comprised a worldwide escalation of social conflicts, predominately characterized by popular rebellions in many countries worldwide. This was much larger situation than the recent Islamist uprisings. These revolts were against military, capitalist, and socialist elites alike. The protests were brutally quashed in 2nd and 3rd world Communist Block countries, but were appeased by progressive spending measures in Western 1st world democracies.
Cultural Revolution
Mao Zedong's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution targeted counter-revolutionary revisionists with violent class struggle.
Vietnam War
The archetypical M134 (Minigun) was developed specifically for action in Vietnam War and is one TF2 item that is associated with that war. But other than that, this conflict is largely ignored in TF2.
By the end of the 1960s, the Vietnam War became a major culturally divisive issue in the United States. Then Republican Candidate for U.S. President Richard M. Nixon campaigned on a platform of ending that war and wins the biggest U.S. Presidential landslide
The infamous Tet Offensive occurred in 1968. Even though that event was a major military defeat, it was a political victory
Racial Tensions
Race was an extremely intense issue in the US at this time, witnessing the Long Hot Summer of 1967, desegregation of housing through the Fair Housing Acts of 1968 and the assassination of Martin Luther King, which was followed by riots.
As recently as 1964 and 1965, Civil Rights Acts were passed banning segregation and addressing the voting disenfranchisement of blacks. In 1967, the United States Supreme Court declared unconstitutional all anti-miscegenation laws in the United States.
In truth, the close friendship of Demoman and Soldier, which seems unremarkable today, would have been relatively novel at that time.
Personally, having been an impressionable (white) child in the 1960s, I have always felt a little uncomfortable with the stereotypical blaxploitation hats and miscellaneous items for Demoman; so, I hope their apparent acceptance in the TF2 community reflects that gamers are post-racial.
Game Wiki Editor's Prayer
As I sit to type, I utter this self-admonishing prayer: Very, very few edits to this wiki feed, clothe, or comfort anyone or anything except egos. I pray to minimize my self-absorption and sloth and that I not compound my sins with jealousy and or anger over such petty concerns as games. Loving games is easy, even thieves, murders, and haters love games. How much more glorious is it to love something that does not give such immediate, easy pleasure?
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Heavy is not he previously jolly self.
Train
Train's paint scheme matches the "Bloody Nose" standard that Southern Pacific used from 1958 on -- with the exception that the characteristic SP nose wings are not the standard Sunset Red but the rare "Halloween" orange that SP experimented with early on.
Bugs
The road name "Northern Express" is in mirrored reverse on the right hand side.
Descriptions
This is the closest most players will come to hiking around old farm shacks,
User Boxes
This user is a fan of Atomicpunk.
This user is a fan of Spacepunk.
This user is a fan of Planet of the Apes references.
This user is a fan of Halloween mode
This user would like you to kindly consider clicking on this link to his replay.
Yes, this user is aware there are other modes than Halloween.
This user wants to be a REAL engineer.
Click for cheap replay.
Click to help user with the replay achievements.
Grainary
While most TF2 maps contain hidden missile bases, UlS farm kids really did tell visiting big-city kids that the big white grain silos were really missile silos.
References
Many item names and achievement titles embody puns and double or even triple entendras; part of the fun of the game is figuring those out. Spoiler alert: Answers or guesses at answers to the riddles in some of those titles are provided herein.
Achievements
The title also refers to Optical Diffusion, the scattering of light, which is an important game technology, such as in the Source Phong shader on the Valve Developer Community. Furthermore, the purposeful misspelling suggests that by defeating Demoman’s Optical organ the player is defusing an explosive situation.
Also, an w:array:array is a standard programing term for a set of things of the same type, like an array of missions.
Companies
others are simply references to actual or archetypical companies, products, and corporate art to support the game's general reference to the 1960s.
subtle incorporation of a "happy" emoticon into a common coopertive circle icon
In software and in general use, and array is an ordered set of of same or related type. the objective of this achievement is the completion of an array of raids
References Archer Daniels Midland’s green leaf and molecule logo (minus one atom), which in 1958 symbolized making industrial chemicals from plants instead of from oil or (ironically) coal.
From 1958, the "Double Circle CO-OP" was an trademark owned by Farmland Industries and was displayed by member CO-OPs.[2]
Several unrelated retail businesses had and have the name Farmers Feed & Seed. Master Mix was a product and trademark of McMillen Feed Mills.
"Make hay while the sun shines."
On the farm, we could play games inside, but only on rainy days. A wonderful rule. This gamer learned to read the clouds.
- Shiny's Bullion/Gilded Gold
- Bullion is another name for gold. Both signs reference a false appearance of gold: A gilded thing looks shiny but is not gold; and "All that shines is not gold." The word choices Shiny/Gilded reflect the BLU/RED new/antique dichotomy designed into the game art.
Foundry
Blue Corn Co. Grey Gravel Cornwell/Cornwell Casali Shafting Co./Dr. Wilson's AUTO-BORAX Self Scrubbing Mechanical Soap
- XAROB-OTUA
- As CP maps are generally laid out symmetrically, the Company signs on this map are symmetric in their references
- BLU STEEL/RED IRON
- These company names both reference characteristic colors of steel; Blue Steel and Red Iron. Note: Grey Iron is a type of gray colored cast iron.
- BLU Blast Complex/RED Iron Works
- A blast complex and an w:Ironworks:Iron Wworks are both places where iron ore is smelted into iron. Neither of these types of places is a Foundry. Note: Grey Iron is only made in a Foundry.
- Industrial Trust the Best/Happy Farmers Trust the Best
- Both signs incorporate a Happy Face. Both signs display a type of tractor. These types of tractors also echo the BLU/RED industrial/rustic dichotomy designed into the game art.
- Goldstream Fuel Co./Brown Nugget Prospecting
- Both of these company names reference one of two closely associated biological processes.
- Scoot's Canoe/Sunny Hay
- Moon and Sun
- Cliffe Rocks Inc./Salt
- Jimi Jam/Driller
- Bigg's/Crummy's
Process Achievements
See counter par
This company is a reference to names th
Like its counterpart BLU Steel, this company's name references several real businesses and products named Red Iron (after a characterist color of weathered iron).
An iron works is a place where iron ore is smelted into pig iron.
This company is a reference to names th
Like its counterpart Red Iron, this company's name references several real businesses and products named Blue Steel (after a characteristic color of tempered steel)
A blast complex is a place where iron is refined into steel.
Neither of these are foundries.
Red iron and blue steel are real names for real materials named for their characteristic colors, neither of which are made in foundries. Grey Iron is also real material named for its characteristic color and it is only made in foundries.
Red Iron may refer to a characteristic color associated with iron and steel or to forms of iron and steel that are associated with that color:Iron Red will refer more to the color, not to iron or steel Ironically, Grey Iron refers to specific alloys of cast iron, due to their characteristic mat finish or fracture. Related to the characteristic blue color of the ... oxide of iron, ... may refer to One of the four main opposing properties on Foundry. One of the two main opposing properties on Granary. Counterpart to the Red Iron, Blue Steel Property on Foundry. Like Red Iron, Blue Steel is a reference to the color of one of the two common oxides of iron. are both references to the natural colors of Blue is a color associated with steel. A Blast Complex implies Blast furnace operation, wherein iron is refined into steel w:iron alloys. Counterpoint to Red Iron on Foundry. Red is a color associated with iron.
Goldstream Nuggets
References biological function. Counterpart to Reference to a mammalian biologial process.
Counterpoint to Brown Nugget on Foundry. Counterpoint to Blue Steel on Foundry. Reference to a mamalian biologial process. Counterpoint to Goldstream on Foundry.
Historical Context
The content of TF2 is based on historical and cultural elements of the late 1960's. The setting of most of the first maps released for the game is 1968, generally in the southwestern deserts of the United States. Several later release maps are set a few years later the purpose here is to list historical events or movements that influenced TF2, but also to mention very important events and movements that are not omitted from the game. If we are to justify games as educational, then we should make efforts to that purpose.
Historical Context of TF2 In someways, the historical presentation in TF2 is reasonably accurate, if nostalgic. The art captures the Atomic Punk and Space Punk movements of the time, yet also shows many iconic references to bygone Americana (rustic farmsteads, delaptidate mines). The Cold War, the Space Race, Hippies, and World War II (the latter still culturally relevantin the late 1960's) are notablty, if steriotypically, evident in maps, items, character back grounds, or responces. However, other serious contemporary issues are not generally referenced; in particular, global civil unrest, War Protests, and Racial tensions.
Late 1960's
1968 is the time frame of the Gravel Wars 1968 is a culmination of a historically and culturally significant period in U.S. and World history
Referenced in Game
Cold War
China was relatively impenetrable.
Space Race
The US was winning the Space Race and was on the verge of the Manned Moon Landing, making the Monkeynaut business a bit anachronistic.
Railroads
Trains appear immensely popular with Valve and Community Developers, appearing in some form in almost all maps. US Railroads were completely dieselized by 1968, but rail passenger service has generally failed by this date, prompting the formation of AMTRAK, which began operation in 1971.
Popular Music
Surf Rock had progressed to Girl Rock and Car Rock and grown to influence soundtracks for Space, Spy, Monster, and Western movies and TV series; these later four forms being a basis for much of the Team Fortress Soundtrack (cf. In 1967, Tom Jones moved to the desert region to begin regular performances at Las Vegas lounges. His television variety show (This Is Tom Jones) abruptly ends with his death in 1971 at the hands of his roommate Merasmus.
Movies/Televison
Silver age of cinema?
Night of the Living Dead (1968) established the Modern Zombie genre (cf. Zombie Fortress) Nuclear Weapons dominated international relations (heavily referenced in TF2 Maps).
Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy was released in the United States in 1967, as tributed in TF2 by references in Engineer items and achievements (Face Full of Festive The Goo badn and .
The scores for these movies established Ennio Morricone's influence in Western movie music, as tributed in TF2 by "The Calm". (signatures whips, whistling, jew's harp, bells, trumpets, reverberating electric guitar
WWII
WWII was still a relatively recent and culturally pervasive event features in several moves produced at that time. (Soldier), references in several items but its significance was to begin to fade as Baby Boomers came to political influence. Having ended just over two decades prior, World War II is still a vivid national memory, but its cultural influence is fading to that of the Vietnam War. Several achievements and Items, especially those of Soldier, reference WWII equipment, events, or movies. Market Gardener Guns of the Navar0wned In 1968, Veterans of WWII are now in middle age and at their peak earnings stage, and they are confronting the Generation Gap -- their children the baby boomers are now passing through high school and college.
Hippies
Long hair became a political statement (Hippies, hair cuts, Hippies)
Soldier natural enemy of robots hippies.
Definitive events happened around 1968 Woodstock 1969
Not Referenced in Game
Some very Big Things were going on then and are referenced in the game, but some of the very Big Things happening then are not referenced at all. Most Americans still live on farms Major, harmful changes in U.S. diet: food processing, replacement of animal fat with hydrogenated vegetable oils. replacement of grass-fed cattle with grain fed Concentrated Feeder Operations
Protests of 1968
The protests of 1968 comprised a worldwide escalation of social conflicts, predominately characterized by popular rebellions in many countries worldwide. This was much larger situation than the recent Islamist uprisings. These revolts were against military, capitalist, and socialist elites alike. The protests were brutally quashed in 2nd and 3rd world Communist Block countries, but were appeased by progressive spending measures in Western 1st world democracies.
Cultural Revolution
Mao Zedong's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution targeted counter-revolutionary revisionists with violent class struggle.
Vietnam War
The archetypical M134 (Minigun) was developed specifically for action in Vietnam War and is one TF2 item that is associated with that war. But other than that, this conflict is largely ignored in TF2.
By the end of the 1960s, the Vietnam War became a major culturally divisive issue in the United States. Then Republican Candidate for U.S. President Richard M. Nixon campaigned on a platform of ending that war and wins the biggest U.S. Presidential landslide
The infamous Tet Offensive occurred in 1968. Even though that event was a major military defeat, it was a political victory
Racial Tensions
Race was an extremely intense issue in the US at this time, witnessing the Long Hot Summer of 1967, desegregation of housing through the Fair Housing Acts of 1968 and the assassination of Martin Luther King, which was followed by riots.
As recently as 1964 and 1965, Civil Rights Acts were passed banning segregation and addressing the voting disenfranchisement of blacks. In 1967, the United States Supreme Court declared unconstitutional all anti-miscegenation laws in the United States.
In truth, the close friendship of Demoman and Soldier, which seems unremarkable today, would have been relatively novel at that time.
Personally, having been an impressionable (white) child in the 1960s, I have always felt a little uncomfortable with the stereotypical blaxploitation hats and miscellaneous items for Demoman; so, I hope their apparent acceptance in the TF2 community reflects that gamers are post-racial.
Game Wiki Editor's Prayer
As I sit to type, I utter this self-admonishing prayer: Very, very few edits to this wiki feed, clothe, or comfort anyone or anything except egos. I pray to minimize my self-absorption and sloth and that I not compound my sins with jealousy and or anger over such petty concerns as games.
Loving games is easy, even thieves, murders, and haters love games. How much more glorious is it to love something that does not give such immediate, easy pleasure?
- ↑ Association of CO-OP Members v. Farmland Industries, No. 81-1260, 1982|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/19821818684F2d1134_11641
- ↑ Association of CO-OP Members v. Farmland Industries, No. 81-1260, 1982|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/19821818684F2d1134_11641
