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[Large Professor]

Idle Master portable glitched somehow while I was away, it seemingly it tried to idle in a lot of different games simultaneously without actually triggering drops.

Now I'm over 7 hours into 30 games I never played with no cards dropped in any of them. lol.

My profile now makes it look like I managed to clock almost 8 hours into Go! Go! Nippon and Cherry Tree High I! My! Girls!, and those times will grow even longer since I still need the cards from those games.

Idle master idles all your games with less than 2 hours playtime simultaneously. Also some games require more idle time than others.

 

[The Illiterati]

I'm thinking of buying Squarecells or Paint It Back. Paint It Back seems to offer a lot more value for the price, but I really really liked the Hexcells games. If you could only pick one, which one would you choose?

Oh and Merry Christmas guys (and girls)!

I bought them both because I love the genre. But for reference I played Squarecells first as a veteran of the Hexcells games and it took me 6 hrs. It's definitely reminiscent of the first Hexcells in that it is short and only gets challenging near the end, but it's still wonderful while it lasts. I'm sure he'll continue to refine.

 

[Diablohead]

I was wondering why the store page was not loading, it's not my end then.

 

[ScientificPizza]

Is the Steam web page acting up again?

yeah it's up and down

 

[Fuu]

yeah I've noticed this a lot lately.. sometimes I will have closed idlemaster but if I go to task manager steam-idle.exe is still running..

Guess I won't leave it running while I'm away anymore, I haven't used it in a while but last time it worked flawlessly when it only looked like a CMD window months ago.

Glad I'm not OCD about my profile or game times or I'd be freaking out right now lol.

Idle master idles all your games with less than 2 hours playtime simultaneously. Also some games require more idle time than others.

This was an actual glitch though, when I looked 7 hours later it had a list of games opened simultaneously and wasn't showing any game image, instead of idling one after the other. None of the 30 separate games dropped any cards and they all clocked around 7 hours each.

 

[SSPssp]

________ is the new Tuesday it seems for Steam the last few weeks. Can't they afford more capacity?

 

[bj00rn_]

My kid is having a nap and..yeah, I wanted to browse the sales for a while.. But no..

How is it even possible that high load can take down a major store front like Steam. It shouldn't be possible..

 

[Uzzy]

For you, the day Steam went down was the most important day of your life. But for Steam, it was always Tuesday.

 

[Gintoki]

Time to make the switch to Origin

 

[OldAsUrSock]

that feel when you end up on a team in which in your teammates seem to have some basic understanding of the rules and strategy of soccer and not like a bunch of toddlers chasing a ball...

Soccer knowledge helps in Rocket League?

 

[Anteater]

sorry i was uploading screenshots and i think that killed the servers

 

[Uzzy]

Soccer knowledge helps in Rocket League?

Sure. Don't all crowd the ball, make yourself open for passes, blame the ref for poor desicions, take back handers from countries to host tournaments in the desert.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

Soccer knowledge helps in Rocket League?

.

 

[Hektor]

Finished Undertale. I found it to be pretty good. Liked the humour. Took me about 5-6 hours.

You sure you finished it?

Spoiler

The game got 3 very different endings.

 

[Deleted member 125677]

Soccer knowledge helps in Rocket League?

Sure, if you have RL soccer experience in timing aerials you'll be golden

but seriously, basic knowledge of positioning helps a lot

 

[Grief.exe]

Downwell gif from the GAF GOTY Voting thread.

 

[Deleted member 125677]

Downwell is so awesome. Considering moving it even higher up on my ballott

 

[Jirotrom]

steam is down... ugh

 

[freshVeggie]

If it's stealth you want, play Styx.

I hear ya. Remember your posts when you were playing it. Not only by you but in general I only hear good things about it. It's on the list for future sales/bundles.

I shouldn't have stopped idling when Styx came out.

I was actually a stone's throw from using up my remaining drops at the time, but after completing Styx, I just sort of forgot to get back to it.

When we are generous and say every 10mins a card drops, you'll be idling more than 1050hrs or 43 days. Not included of course the growing number of new games and hence new drops..... I kinda think you won't be finishing idling until next winter sale, haha.

 

[AbundantChoice]

steam is down... ugh

I can imagine tons of husbands and boyfriends unwrapping Steam Gift Cards this morning and rushing to buy games.

...or it's just Steam being Steam.

 

[TheLetdown]

I can imagine tons of husbands and boyfriends unwrapping Steam Gift Cards this morning and rushing to buy games.

...or it's just Steam being Steam.

That, and new devices, laptops, PCs that need to download Steam and its updates.

But in all likelihood, it really is just Steam being Steam.

 

[accel]

When we are generous and say every 10mins a card drops, you'll be idling more than 1050hrs or 43 days. Not included of course the growing number of new games and hence new drops..... I kinda think you won't be finishing idling until next winter sale, haha.

From experience, idling ~1000 cards in a single run took me about 6 weeks, although I didn't idle 24/7 (more like 8/7). So... yes, it's going to take quite a bit.

 

[Haunted]

Sure. Don't all crowd the ball, make yourself open for passes, blame the ref for poor desicions, take back handers from countries to host tournaments in the desert.

Don't forget flipping over the car on your own and blaming the opponent, demanding a penalty.

 

[Grimm Fandango]

Downwell gif from the GAF GOTY Voting thread.

Looking good, might have to check it out. Sterling awarded it goty too.

 

[Hero Prinny]

Merry Christmas guys. No matter how your day is going stay positive cause hero prinny loves you

 

[Mikurden]

Don't forget flipping over the car on your own and blaming the opponent, demanding a penalty.

...and don't forget being celebrated for it, because it's the height of sportsmanship and that's why it's worthy of the title "the beautiful game".

 

[Nzyme32]

Merry Christmas one and all!

 

[Eraser_Arcade]

Merry Christmas everybody!

 

[kami_sama]

Merry Christmas for all!

Also, is the store down for anyone else?

 

[exmachina64]

Merry Christmas for all!

Also, is the store down for anyone else?

Yes, the terrorists won.

 

[TheAutomator]

Soccer knowledge helps in Rocket League?

Yes. Helps with positioning; thousands of hours playing FIFA has finally paid off.

 

[Systemwarrior]

Downwell gif from the GAF GOTY Voting thread.

I'm having a great time playing it.

 

[dsk1210]

Merry Christmas every one.

The store is down as well

 

[The Dear Leader]

The deals on the Steam page now are about as good as the ones from rest of the sale.

 

[Ozium]

Gaben wants you be with your friends and family and so he closed the store

 

[Black Soma]

Merry Christmas.

 

[gdt]

Just got my gf a laptop for Christmas, so I'm wondering what is the best way to use Steam Sharing?

Any tips and tricks? Obviously it's not a tech beast but I'd like her to be able to share in certain story and indie games. Her Story, Walking Dead maybe, etc.

 

[The Dear Leader]

Just got my gf a laptop for Christmas, so I'm wondering what is the best way to use Steam Sharing?

Any tips and tricks? Obviously it's not a tech beast but I'd like her to be able to share in certain story and indie games. Her Story, Walking Dead maybe, etc.

Just sign into your account on her PC and authorize it and you're good. It's a pretty simple and easy process.

 

[Purkake4]

I shouldn't have stopped idling when Styx came out.

I was actually a stone's throw from using up my remaining drops at the time, but after completing Styx, I just sort of forgot to get back to it.

Now all you need is another program to sell all those cards.

 

[freshVeggie]

Hm. Don't remember last time the webpage has been this down for so long.

Weird, Steam works from client but not browser...

 

[Tecnniqe]

So far it's been a "in library" sale.
Was hoping something would catch my eye that I didn't already own.
And rip steam.

 

[The Dear Leader]

Hm. Don't remember last time the webpage has been this down for so long.

Gabe got back in this office and saw the sale that they put up and told them to take it down and redo it with dailies and flash sales.

Spoiler

#believe

 

[Deepo]

I miss the daily deals, much more fun to open Steam to see what was on sale. Now I was finished shopping day 1.

 

[NingenJanai]

Gabe got back in this office and saw the sale that they put up and told them to take it down and redo it with dailies and flash sales.

Spoiler

#believe

The discovery queue didn't have enough crap so they are adding more.

 

[someguyinahat]

The discovery queue didn't have enough crap so they are adding more.

I nominate Ozium to be in charge of setting up the queues.

 

[Warnen]

Downwell and Party Hard, my 2 favorite games I got this sale so far

 

[Ozium]

I nominate Ozium to be in charge of setting up the queues.

Have you heard about DRAGON: THE GAME?

also check out COUGAR: THE GAME - http://store.steampowered.com/app/378580 - currently 85% off

 

[Auto_aim1]

Steam down? Getting a "Cannot connect to Steam network" error.

 

[Gintoki]

I nominate Ozium to be in charge of setting up the queues.

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[WillyFive]

Steam down? Getting a "Cannot connect to Steam network" error.

Same.