Everybody knows Team Fortress 2. If not by name but at least by image. It's characters and design is a massive part of internet pop culture. It's gameplay is renouned for it's greatness. With that said, I might have a TF2 problem. According to Steam, I just crossed my 660th hour played which is a lot. So why is the game so loved? Why is it the top 10 most played games per day on all of Steam despite being from 2007? First we should discuss marketing. On YouTube is a series of videos called "Meet the Team." These are classics that really got a ton of people interested in this world. It gave people a perspective on these amazing mercenaries. TF2 also has amazing gameplay which is probably what's given it it's most success. The weapons all feel great to use and are carefully designed to coencide with distinct character movements. Another thing is customization. You can create any kind of loadout you want for the nine different characters. With different primaries, secondaries and melees to choose from, there are many distinct ways to create your own playstyle. Couple that with the over 1600 cosmetic items for your characters, there's so many ways to play how you want. The art style is a distinct cartoon style look that is blended with the 1960s spy aesthetic. The music is also classic and was performed by a real orchestra. Being a game created by the masterminds at Valve, it's very stable with a clean and functional UI, but updates are lacking. The last major update was in 2017 and it's felt like an eternity for me. Despite this, the community continues strong with nearly 150,000 players online at one time in November 2020. Quite impressive for a game of it's age! Oh and the best part? It's free. 100%. No ads, no premium subscribtions. Nothing. It's totally free for anyone to play. I've put my own money into it purely on my own volition and it's a great system. A discussion on the economics of TF2 is for another day though.
5 Stars - An amazing classic with infinite replayability and is 100% free.
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The bifurcation diagram is something most people haven't heard of. It's a simple mathematic equasion that calculates values over time. So what exactly is the equasion? It's fairly simple, esentially it plots sequences. Ok well it gets not simple very quickly. When this equasion is plotted, it starts off rather normal. You can see that as it progresses, it slowly increases. Suddenly though, it breaks into two. Then four, then eight and then into chaos. Each subdivision comes faster and faster until chaos starts. Then, it's all broken. A deterministic equasion is picking radomness. So what does this have to do with computers? A lot, actually. It was one of the first ways that computers were able to create random number generators. Since computers are good with numbers, it was a simple way to create random numbers. This isn't though where the interesting facts stop though. It also is a fractal, an infinite shape, it records heart rates, populations and fluid convections. It's also part of the Mandelbrot Set. What that is is a shape with an infinite perimeter and finite area. I suggest that you look into these strange phenominons as there's just too much for me to cover but it's so amazingly cool.
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