@John Doe: And you can't point the amazon link directly because...?

@Beastwolf I'm not going to post my home or work emails. Don't you keep a pile of emails for posting where they'll get spam?

@John Doe: That sounds like a joke considering the email name.
But I'm tempted to ask since I want files off my bricked laptop.

Honestly good to know everything's alright by you, mate.

Just as well Angie left TF2. Nothing seems to have gone right since the End of the Line update, maybe earlier.

Jo, you should shoot me an email at [email protected]

There is a $35 piece of hardware on Amazon I will point you to that I use for my small computer business to fairly easily recover "unrecoverable" files.

Loads of sympathy here. Two weeks ago the HDD on my gaming desktop crashed. Took the weekend with a Mircosoft tech who didn't want to give up before we said "He's dead Jim".
New SSD and 2 HDD's will be here soon, mean while I'm getting re-antiquated with this console gaming thing.

Thats rough. Get well soon, cumputerJo

Still a great game nevertheless, I'm just pointing the irony of Valve's system where the fans do almost everything (New weapons, stats, skin, maps, modes) and they still don't add! You got Paladins who probably doesn't have a fourth of Valve's money, and they add a new hero monthly. XD

...and weapon skins!
Seriously though, Valve abandoned TF2 already. Now it's all about CS and it's golden child Dota. It's funny because the community it's still very active. There's a s***ton of workshop weapons and maps, but Valve can't be bothered to add it...

to be fair TF2 got a new lobby system and man vs machine was (again) reworked. also the event games have become pretty elaborated over the years.

mvm never did it for me though. it is a nice game just not what I am looking for.

Suckered again