>>718243154 (OP)
TF2 was the first online PC game and FPS I played voluntarily and I mostly dicked around in convoy and orange servers, but then I found a stock server and played that every night. After a week, I was playing one night when one of the regulars went Medic and ubered me. I had never been ubered before and I just ran into the sentry nest and started blowing shit up. I destroyed every building I saw and killed several people, but apparently they had a teleporter around the corner I didn't know about and the guy who ubered me was pissed that I missed it. He didn't say much just groaned and told me I fucked up and he wish he had ubered someone else. It hurt my feelings but I kept playing. The next map was 2fort and someone got the intel so I turned around to stop them, but they were a Scout and they just jumped over my head and my aim was too bad to kill them before they got away, and there was a Pyro who chased him to me who was also a regular sort of and he was like, "Dude, what the fuck was that? You suck."
After that, I left the server and lied down on the couch and felt my eyes welling up. I loved the game so much but I didn't think I could take people shitting on me like that. I wanted people to like me and I didn't want to ruin their experience either.
I decided to keep playing and I came up with a strategy: I'll play Medic. Medic is so easy and so OP, you can just latch onto the best player and basically double your team's kdr. But it also gives you a front row seat to how the best players play. By doing this I eventually became one of the most well-liked players in the server and also learned how to play all the other classes without having to fail over and over again. I ended up becoming good friends with the guy who ubered me and when he made a Steam group for all the server regulars I was the first person he invited. One day I reminded him of that uber incident and how it almost made me cry and he laughed his ass off, he didn't even remember it.
