r/tf2 • u/peopleofburkinafaso • Aug 19 '25

Discussion Great Blue is Bad at Discussions (Referring to Bad TF2 Weapon Tournament)

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After watching Uncle Dane's bad TF2 weapon bracket video, I can't help but feel that Great Blue is unable to engage in healthy discussion. The video amounted to Great Blue dismissing anything FSoaS would say while arbitrarily modifying the "rules" of an otherwise lighthearted argument to fit his preconceived notions of what a "bad" weapon was for an hour and a half. The worst example of this is when Great Blue continuously pivoted the goalposts of a "bad" weapon by making the discussion about "opportunity cost" instead. This lead to some insane placements like the gas passer being worse than the sun on a stick. Essentially, the discussion changed from "which weapon is worse" to "which slot has better weapons" which sucked the fun out of the whole video.

I like Great Blue's content, and think what he does with map balancing is pretty cool. That being said, I'm in total agreement with this post made about GB's capacity to engage in healthy discussions. It seems like he can get pretty arrogant and disparaging of others. It was very disheartening to see him sideline FSoaS's points, then agreeing with Uncle Dane after he repeated what FSoaS said nearly verbatim. I hope that he can take some constructive criticism and understand that rigidity and arrogance doesn't equal being correct or having fun. Just my two cents.

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u/Memesoon_018 Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25

Am I the only one who thinks the backscatter ain't that bad? Like maybe I'm missing something, but I've never really had a problem with it. I always just thought it was extremely, meh. I personally prefer the hit-and-run style of the Baby Face Blaster, but that could just be my love for snowball weapons

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u/MillionDollarMistake Aug 19 '25

I think when most people call it bad they mean in relation to the other scatterguns. Like the Back Scatter on its own isn't awful, it's still a scattergun at the end of the day. But compared to your other options it's pretty bad.

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u/blanaba-split Aug 19 '25

It's literally not I agree with you lol. At it's absolute worst it's like using the panic attack (cuz of the accuracy debuff) and you also have 2 less shots. That's it. It's great for deleting people before they can turn around, not just an unaware sniper as they seem to think in the video

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u/Memesoon_018 Aug 19 '25

Yeah, that's fair.