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"A man without a moustache is rather like a woman with one."
- Nick Cave

Name: Matt Sanderson
Occupation: Habitual Line-Stepper
Location: New Jersey, USA
Date of Birth: June 13, 1983
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Relationship Status: D.O.A.
Blood Type: Too Rich To Die
Gamertag: Adversarius
Steam ID: Sharptoid

My Stuff
No Clip (gaming)
Deep Ape (MST3K)
Tumblr (bullshit)
Twitter (twitters)
Last.fm (musics)



Game Systems Owned
Xbox 360
Xbox
Playstation 2 (sold)
Playstation (gave away)
Gameboy Advance (dim screen)
Nintendo 64 (broken)
Super Nintendo
Sega Game Gear
Sega Genesis
Nintendo

Best Vidya Games Ever
01 Team Fortress 2
02 Earthworm Jim 2
03 Left 4 Dead
04 Half-Life 2
05 Portal
06 Earthworm Jim
07 Rock Band 2

Best Vidya Games Characters
01 Solid Snake
02 Anyone from Team Fortress 2
03 The G-Man
04 Gordon Freeman
05 Samus Aran
06 Francis (Left 4 Dead)
07 Francis York Morgan

Best Musics Ever
01 Wilco
02 Pixies
03 David Byrne / Talking Heads
04 The Beatles
05 They Might Be Giants
06 Interpol
07 Tegan and Sara
08 Paul Simon
09 Lady Gaga

Best Television Ever
01 Lost
02 Arrested Development
03 The Venture Bros.
04 Mystery Science Theater 3000
05 Firefly
06 Doctor Who
07 The Adventures of Pete and Pete
08 Freaks and Geeks
09 Community
10 That Mitchell & Webb Look

Best Ladies Ever
01 Amanda Tapping
02 Ellen Page
03 Thora Birch
04 Anne Hathaway
05 Alison Mosshart
06 Carey Mulligan
07 Kristen Bell
08 Amanda Seyfried
09 Alia Shawkat
10 Anna Kendrick

Best Dudes Ever
01 Steve McQueen
02 Wil Wheaton
03 Paul Newman
04 Conan O'Brien
05 Robert Downey, Jr.
06 Paul Rudd
07 Nathan Fillion
08 Jeff Bridges
09 Zach Galifianakis
10 George Clooney

Best Comic Book Ladies Ever
01 Power Girl
02 Barbara Gordon
03 Stephanie Brown
04 Cassandra Cain
05 Barda
06 Spider-Woman
07 Lady Blackhawke
08 Kitty Pryde
09 Psylocke
10 Miss Marvel

Best Comic Book Dudes Ever
01 Bruce Wayne
02 Vic Sage
03 Dick Grayson
04 Daken Akihiro
05 Booster Gold
06 The Riddler
07 Bane
08 Ted Kord
09 Deadpool
10 Mr. Freeze

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Valve shows off early Demoman concept art [TF2] Sharpless | 3:37 AM on 08.29.2008 10 comments

I'm an unashamed Valve fanboy. I love just about everything they do and I would let Gabe Newell spoon me for a full week, if he so desired. My love runs especially deep for Team Fortress 2, as most of you well know. So, it's kind of difficult for me to come to terms with the fact that Valve actually makes "mistakes." In particular, not using any of these early Demoman designs that Valve posted on the TF2 blog yesterday. Break out the "That's racist!" gifs, because I think they should've gone with one of these more traditional, Groundskeeper Willie-esque Scotsmen, instead of the Demoman we have now. Don't get me wrong, I love the final Demoman, and I love me some black Scotsmen, but take a look at that guy in the header image up there. Take a look at this guy. Tell me you wouldn't love to run around smashing people's heads in with a bottle while looking like that. You can't. Some of the designs are pretty comical, others downright Sniperesque, but I really like the looks of these guys. Not necessarily a bad choice on Valve's part, just a "could've been" that really appeals to me. I've attached the complete collection of designs below, or you can just read the post here, where Valve talks about their maybe-obvious reasoning behind their choices, and also about how TF2 was nearly "Claymation." Attached photos: