{"id":401,"date":"2012-09-10T15:03:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T21:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/djangodurango.net\/?p=401"},"modified":"2022-12-13T01:38:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T07:38:01","slug":"crossteam-high-fives-there-is-something-in-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/djangodurango.com\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"Crossteam High-Fives: There is Something in the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"There is Something in the Way\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe hidef\" id=\"WYL_3l2NwvvIJyg\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/djangodurango.com\/site\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F3l2NwvvIJyg%2Fmaxresdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3l2NwvvIJyg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT4M46S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2012-06-27T22:33:09Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_3l2NwvvIJyg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/djangodurango.com\/site\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F3l2NwvvIJyg%2Fmaxresdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">There is Something in the Way<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3l2NwvvIJyg\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/djangodurango.com\/site\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F3l2NwvvIJyg%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"There is Something in the Way\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Please Valve, let RED and BLU be able to high five. We long for the day when the other team can reciprocate our gesture, and plenty of people besides us would love to partake in the cross-team palm action. Allow us a moment of conspiratorial fun here and there amidst the bullets, rockets, pipe bombs, stickies, flames, melee weapons, tauntkills, telefrags, spycrabs, various choices of attire, pooshing of karts, and capping of points\/intels. Please.\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Dear Valve,<\/p>\n<p>I think Team Fortress 2 has a certain whimsy and humor to it that most online multiplayer games, especially other FPS\u2019s, do not have. That in turn creates a certain atmosphere among its players. True, there\u2019s always going to be THOSE people, the ones who want to bring down the mood because your objective isn\u2019t to score the most points. My experience, though, is that meeting an enemy player is almost always an opportunity to make a friend.<\/p>\n<p>When I was new to the game, I found that people were not only mostly understanding about my not knowing what do, but they even tried to help me improve. Perfect strangers, and on the other team no less, stopped farming points off me to instead teach me how to rocketjump or be a sneakier Spy. One time, I even had a guy who spoke practically no English try to teach me to perform falling backstabs. This sense of charity transcends language. And skill. If they did not try to teach me new skills, they would play friendly little games instead. Spy and Seek, Pyro Tennis, Dueling Sentries, etc.<\/p>\n<p>There are times that what team you are on doesn\u2019t matter much at all. While we play the game like we\u2019re supposed to most of the time, the unserious tone of TF2 reminds most people that we are here to have fun and that we are not really enemies.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is something in the way of this truly being realized in-game.<\/p>\n<p>I feel that we should be able to high five any player, regardless of which team they are on, if they agree to do so. To limit such a fun and delightful action to one\u2019s teammates is to drive a dividing line between players. While we may fight for different teams, argue over how OP every update\u2019s new items are, and hate on each other\u2019s hats, we all share the same ultimate goal: to have a good time. As you can see in this video my friend Wydell put together to illustrate the point, high fives make for good times. And the inability to high five does not. In fact, it makes for extremely sad times.<\/p>\n<p>I ask that you consider changing the High Five Taunt so that it may be shared between players of either team. The High Five was, after all, supposed to be used as an alternative to the celebratory gesture of punching our friends in the face while they punch us in the face. Half the time we have no other choice at all and really, we are all friends here, aren\u2019t we?<\/p>\n<p>THIS IS NOT A TRICK,<br \/>\nDJ<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every year, Logan makes me a birthday card in GMod. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djangodurango.com\/images\/articles\/team_fortress_2\/high_fives\/01_crossteam_high_five_birthday_card.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\">This<\/a> was his card this year. Please don&#8217;t let the year go by with my wish unfulfilled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>There is now a <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.alliedmods.net\/showthread.php?t=183604\">mod<\/a>!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>6\/18\/2104: PARTNER TAUNTS CAN NOW BE PERFORMED WITH THE OPPOSING TEAM<\/p>\n<p><center><div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe hidef\" id=\"WYL_zwxM--iDH2c\"><div id=\"lyte_zwxM--iDH2c\" data-src=\"https:\/\/djangodurango.com\/site\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FzwxM--iDH2c%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zwxM--iDH2c\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/djangodurango.com\/site\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FzwxM--iDH2c%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/center><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos","category-team-fortress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/djangodurango.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/djangodurango.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/djangodurango.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djangodurango.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djangodurango.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/djangodurango.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2509,"href":"https:\/\/djangodurango.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/djangodurango.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djangodurango.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djangodurango.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}