[Current Version] Server's wont load past "Parsing Game Info"

I know this might be a stupid little problem, but I've tried everything to get around this; I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling TF2C, and I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling SDK Base, but nothing. I'm pretty sure that the solution is to verify my game files, but something weird happened when I tried doing so; when I went right clicked TF2C in my library and went to Properties>Local Files so that I could verify game files, I got a message in its place.
It said "Something went wrong while displaying this content. Error reference: Library_7267957_b439183b5932428e. Cannot read property 'strUserLabel' of undefined."
The game still launches fine, I can do everything that I could do otherwise in the main menu, it's just that whenever I try to launch a game, whether it be an official server or a custom weapons server, it is just stuck on 'Parsing Game Info". The game doesn't freeze while the server is loading, I am free to press the cancel button. Is my computer f**ked beyond all reason, or am I just impatient?

It's normal for SRCDS to hang at this stage for a bit, but it shouldn't be more than a minute or two. How long have you been waiting?

Also, I don't think the verifying means anything as it's not a steam game, so I'm not sure how Steam would have a record of which files need verification or what the originals should look like.

I went back to try to launch another server, and after 5 minutes of waiting for the bar to get past the "Parsing Game Info" phase, it said I timed out and sent me back to the main menu. I tried this with like 5 servers, I'm out of ideas

Hmm... My next suggestion would be to make sure you don't have a firewall or router blocking the game's traffic. TCP&UDP on ports 27005-27020, and there's also a port for Steam but I can't recall what it is.

What's your steam username and which server did you try? I can take a look in the logs and see if it offers any insight.

I've been trying to load up some custom weapons servers and a few featured servers in the bottom left corner of the main menu, just whatever servers the most people are playing on. I've been playing the custom maps almost exclusively for weeks and have only been having problems with this now.
My username on steam is flatlander, although it was "dumbassidiotman" (it just stuck) up until about 5 minutes ago.

I'm not seeing anything untoward server-side, from our end it just looks like a normal connect with a user-disconnect a few seconds later, so I'm not sure what's going on. If you try the TF2C discord you can likely get in touch with the devs directly to figure out what's going on.

You may be interested in some additional info that was posted here, if you haven't seen it already:

https://www.vaultf4.com/threads/cant-join-servers-am-i-banned-or-blacklisted.5458/