• automattable@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hi, elder millennial here that’s starting to lose it. Is the joke here that they did do all these things back in 2006 or whenever tf2 came out?

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      Pretty much yes. The only one I’m not 100% on (besides the scout skin, since that was after I stopped playing) is the engineer prosthetic. I feel like that weapon came out a while after TF2 was made (but I can’t check that right now so don’t take my word for it).

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      Am old, also out of the loop and would like someone to explain it to me in “grampa” terms.

      I only remember TFC, and that was a long time ago

        • It still is. In TF2 the progressiveness doesn’t come forced to appeal to some aduience with “look we put a black character in”

          Demoman is a black scottish guy and fits perfectly eith all the misfit mercenaries.

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            1 year ago

            Ok still is. Wasn’t saying it isn’t currently but all these decisions were made like 15+ years ago. Hence “ahead of its time.” The implication is many of these decisions still hold up very well to scrutiny.

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      I’ve never played tf2 (only played tf2), but based on the structure of the joke, I think so.