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I think it'd be great if more people posted gameplay: posts here are generally so evanescent that I don't think it's worth fretting too much if a clip doesn't meet self-imposed expectations. It's always been more about a window into personal contemporary gameplay—as convoluted of a description as that may sound—to me. Like a double moment in time. Take this clip, it's just me hearing a decloaking spy and jumping over him, fleeing from an overhealed scout and then two shotting him. The clip itself isn't notable and lacks the context of each player's previous display of skill so it presents only that moment. The full significance of which is completely personal. That's also why I like when I having multiple clips of the same players because it recreates and communicates more of that signfiance.
As for sympathy towards getting recorded? I don't think it's anything to worry about. I don't consider it an affront to their "in-game efforts" to post yourself besting theirs, even just by fluke. I'd even say this about much more competitive games; because ultimately they're just games and reflect not much else. You see some people have meltdowns from losing a casual harvest game so maybe I just don't take it seriously enough. I very much enjoy winning but I don't think it's worth getting genuinely upset over losing especially in TF2, thus I don't think it's irreverent to epotimise the instances that constitute someone else's defeat(s).
Also after sweating on deadlock I can't help but view TF2 as even more casual. Deadlock is unironically the only game where I've found my mood deteriorate from playing