happy early birthday brother

I was 12 when i first joined these servers and now I will be turning 25 soon.

you a real one for that carl

weird to think these are the servers that i found pretty shortly after i just started playing, and was a regular on for so long.

when i look back at the grand scheme of me and TF2, i'm pretty sure i spent WAY less time on these servers than i have the rest of the game since they shut down, but they're still a core memory for me of the game when it was at its original boom since i was young and it was a place that was really consistent.

were all the regulars on HN upstanding and amazing gamers? no, its TF2. there's going to be a lot of trash coming into almost every server; but i also remember there was a sizeable chunk of regulars that were honestly just cool people, and i think with an older moderation team it could run pretty smoothly.



if enough people here are interested, let me know and i'll start renting a server; i'm more than okay with paying a literal sliver of my income every month if it means rebuilding a community of old and new people from the community.

Too busy to be doing that often though, if HN came back I'd hope it'd be a stock rotation server more than anything just so that I have a server to play on that isn't the furry pound or ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ casual.

Man tf are y'all on about all thats changed since highernation went down for me is that I got a job I still ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ like mad in tf2 and its hilarious and people are always befriending me to join in on my wacky hijinks, I'm living my best life. B^)

honestly haven't played this game for a good couple years, but i just meant bring it back as in i miss the old times of just chilling on the game and not having any responsibilities

We've all grown as people in the last 8 years (probably) but if you're still looking back on Highernation's community, the way it was run, the things that pervaded, and think to yourself that it should come back, maybe you still have some growing to do.

There's plenty of other gaming communities. Irl communities too. Both full of potentially like-minded people to fill the Highernation void with. Go find them.

A part of me, sometimes is like "huh, that might be sorta cool".
But then I recall that a lot of the community regulars were weird, racist, gooners and/or losers (myself included; it's been a fair bit of time and I've learned not to be a self-hating brown person and to touch grass) and much of us, as server admins, weren't super far off from that either given the fact that we fostered said community through either participation or indifference. I was like 15 or 16 when I was made admin. That is so wacky, dude. Like, who let that happen lol. It's so nuts that some edgy little teenager was vouched for as admin but this all sorta speaks to the previous thing, I guess; It's not like we were creating the coolest, raddest community or anything. We were all a bunch of edgy children and 20-somethings.

someone should bring the servers back

me when i remember HN and the memories we made :(

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12 years later and i still think about this groups tf2 servers

Understandable

no

Yall are still alive?

WHY DID YOU ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ REMOVE ME

First post of 2025

we do

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ its almost been 7 years, we need a class reunion

but we're cool

i think maybe the worst thing you could do as a group for TF2 servers is not have TF2 servers

how the ♥♥♥♥ is this place losing members no one is even doing anything bad

bush did

9/11

no

no

no

ppl still send messages here?

gottem

spawncamp deez nuts lmfao

no spawn camping on the gulch ♥♥♥♥♥

I can't believe that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Mystletainn just banned me again... sending my ban appeal.

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Only 42 more comments till 500 comments

you unfriended me :c

Legally speaking

oh ♥♥♥♥, uncle vlads alive!!!

I did this for you

keeping this Steam group was a mistake

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Team Fortress 2 was a mistake

imagine commenting 51 times to hit 500 comments

imagine hitting 500 comments

half the people in this group don't even play tf2 anymore

Dude, what a coincidence! Now I'm mad