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STEAM | December II 2014 - A thread for people who don't like sale side posters.

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Spyware

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iosefe said:
you could always remake the raffle. it will update to be the short raffle
and also give you a chance to reconsider nowinnersdaily xD
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Oh I know. I'm just too lazy sick and tired.
Sorry... :(

MakeshiftChef said:
Blech, having the flu during the holidays is full of suckage.
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Oh god yes D: Hope you get better quickly!
Atm it feels like someone rammed knives into my ears and down my throat. I'm trying to go to bed since I know sleep is good but it feels like I'm gonna die if I lay down :p
 
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iosefe

Member
Spyware said:
Oh I know. I'm just too lazy sick and tired.
Sorry... :(


Oh god yes D: Hope you get better quickly!
Atm it feels like someone rammed knives into my ears and down my throat. I'm trying to go to bed since I know sleep is good but it feels like I'm gonna die if I lay down :p
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i feel yeah, the holidays are tiring
and it's fine, i got incest quest today so i'm set
 
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Leon Belmont

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The_Monk said:
I already left a small message on my Activity feed for the people on my friends list a couple of hours ago but might as well leave something similar in here.

I honestly hope that everyone can have a good day weather you are celebrating the Holiday/Christmas season or not. Hope you can all have a hot meal, some memories to share and I hope you can be with your loved ones from family members, lovers and close friends. SteamGAF has been a house for me for quite some time. It's a great place to discuss a lot of themes regarding this hobby of ours and I feel quite lucky to have you all every time I decide to talk about a certain game. For the last years I've met some incredible people, many with different ways of thinking or even different ways of engaging life. It's funny, because while I don't exactly know you all I... feel I know quite a few members, more than the name or the avatar and this is what the community is all about.

I'm not going to lie, I felt a bit emotional when time was not kind to me and I had to be away from SteamGAF (and GAF in general) and when I got some time it felt very warm to the heart to see the same friendly "faces" I've met along this years saying "welcome". This is a great community and I truly respect every GAFfer. I just wanted to thank you all for all the help, the kindness, the conversations about everything. I hope I helped you out when you were in need of help, I hope you can forgive me if I let you down somehow, I hope you don't hate me simply because you don't like me or the way I talk. I am incredibly lucky because all those years I learned what really, really matters in life, just like the people I live everyday, my lovers, my friends, my family, you all also made a positive impact on my life, for good. I thank you all for your patience and friendship, for all the laugh and silly moments. There's so many different people in here, yet, I feel most of us learned something from each other. I know this might sound really lame for many, others will simply put me on ignore but I have never given up on building a better community, on having a place that is friendly and can welcome anyone because that is what really matters in here, to have fun and respect each other. I'm blessed for having the chance to talk with you all and I hope you know this. Thank you all for everything, honestly. :')
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Thank you for your kind words Monk, I wish you a Merry Christmas :D
 
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madjoki

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JaseC said:
It's not a workaround; rather, publishers generally forget to region-lock the gift sub that's awarded upon activating the gift/key.
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I'm pretty sure it's actually broken:

https://steamdb.info/sub/45471/ is clearly region locked. Both current default locking and no cross region trading flag.

Yet, I was able to activate a copy from Russia successfully. It had warning without any countries listed.
 
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Nzyme32

Member
The_Monk said:
I already left a small message on my Activity feed for the people on my friends list a couple of hours ago but might as well leave something similar in here.

I honestly hope that everyone can have a good day weather you are celebrating the Holiday/Christmas season or not. Hope you can all have a hot meal, some memories to share and I hope you can be with your loved ones from family members, lovers and close friends. SteamGAF has been a house for me for quite some time. It's a great place to discuss a lot of themes regarding this hobby of ours and I feel quite lucky to have you all every time I decide to talk about a certain game. For the last years I've met some incredible people, many with different ways of thinking or even different ways of engaging life. It's funny, because while I don't exactly know you all I... feel I know quite a few members, more than the name or the avatar and this is what the community is all about.

I'm not going to lie, I felt a bit emotional when time was not kind to me and I had to be away from SteamGAF (and GAF in general) and when I got some time it felt very warm to the heart to see the same friendly "faces" I've met along this years saying "welcome". This is a great community and I truly respect every GAFfer. I just wanted to thank you all for all the help, the kindness, the conversations about everything. I hope I helped you out when you were in need of help, I hope you can forgive me if I let you down somehow, I hope you don't hate me simply because you don't like me or the way I talk. I am incredibly lucky because all those years I learned what really, really matters in life, just like the people I live everyday, my lovers, my friends, my family, you all also made a positive impact on my life, for good. I thank you all for your patience and friendship, for all the laugh and silly moments. There's so many different people in here, yet, I feel most of us learned something from each other. I know this might sound really lame for many, others will simply put me on ignore but I have never given up on building a better community, on having a place that is friendly and can welcome anyone because that is what really matters in here, to have fun and respect each other. I'm blessed for having the chance to talk with you all and I hope you know this. Thank you all for everything, honestly. :')
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Happy holidays to you too Monk. As I said in the activity feed, it has been great to see such positivity in all your posts particularly when it is needed on my end as well as others. Hope you have the best new year too!
 
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Chariot

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Ventara said:
CTL-F search "Ventara"



NOOOOOO!!!!11!1 Chariot-sama, why?!
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someguyinahat said:
It feels weird vouching for someone, you know? Like you're not sure if they turn out to be a douchebag and then that's on you because you said they were okay?

*scans list anyway*

You blocked CHUBIGANS?! Chariot, that's just...what is this...I don't even...
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I dom't know, it's difficult to remember names of non-anime characters ;___;

TheLetdown said:
Well, I'm green and my heart is two sizes too small. Boris Karloff wouldn't touch me with a 39 and a 1/2 foot pole, if his opinion matters.
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Inner beauty matters, not Boris Karloff.
 
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freshVeggie

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just got a booster - not crafted, hah.
decided to open it since prices plummeted and also to bolster my set for crafting.
crafted badge and got this
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to my surprise this is the second winter foil!
the first went for 1€. this..
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hm. welp.
 
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Casimir

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CRPG/Richard Garriot fans may find this interesting:

AKALABETH: WORLD OF DOOM is free on GOG.

The_Monk said:
I already left a small message on my Activity feed for the people on my friends list a couple of hours ago but might as well leave something similar in here.

I honestly hope that everyone can have a good day weather you are celebrating the Holiday/Christmas season or not. Hope you can all have a hot meal, some memories to share and I hope you can be with your loved ones from family members, lovers and close friends. SteamGAF has been a house for me for quite some time. It's a great place to discuss a lot of themes regarding this hobby of ours and I feel quite lucky to have you all every time I decide to talk about a certain game. For the last years I've met some incredible people, many with different ways of thinking or even different ways of engaging life. It's funny, because while I don't exactly know you all I... feel I know quite a few members, more than the name or the avatar and this is what the community is all about.

I'm not going to lie, I felt a bit emotional when time was not kind to me and I had to be away from SteamGAF (and GAF in general) and when I got some time it felt very warm to the heart to see the same friendly "faces" I've met along this years saying "welcome". This is a great community and I truly respect every GAFfer. I just wanted to thank you all for all the help, the kindness, the conversations about everything. I hope I helped you out when you were in need of help, I hope you can forgive me if I let you down somehow, I hope you don't hate me simply because you don't like me or the way I talk. I am incredibly lucky because all those years I learned what really, really matters in life, just like the people I live everyday, my lovers, my friends, my family, you all also made a positive impact on my life, for good. I thank you all for your patience and friendship, for all the laugh and silly moments. There's so many different people in here, yet, I feel most of us learned something from each other. I know this might sound really lame for many, others will simply put me on ignore but I have never given up on building a better community, on having a place that is friendly and can welcome anyone because that is what really matters in here, to have fun and respect each other. I'm blessed for having the chance to talk with you all and I hope you know this. Thank you all for everything, honestly. :')
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^_^ Happy Holidays!

gngf123 said:
Also it just turned Christmas here half an hour ago, merry Christmas SteamGAF.

I'm off for the night.
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Merry Christmas!
 
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orthodoxy1095

Banned
Chariot said:
Aww, I blocked so many good people. Ok, but this can be a good thing. Here's the list. I already sorted some out. Help me to clean the list of everyone cool. Then we can get a list out of it that can help to reject people who are not part of the community if anyone has the need for it for whatever reason.
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CTRL-F "orthodoxy1095"

Aw I guess I just started hanging out here this month, so understandable.
Casimir said:
CRPG/Richard Garriot fans may find this interesting:

AKALABETH: WORLD OF DOOM is free on GOG.
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Oooooh neat! Thanks!
 
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
bigzgod said:
Eh, the onlyallowrun tag hasn't really been used in recent times. Technically, with Valve basically applying the acrtag to everything from the store, it should also apply to the gifts from the 4 pack. That's why I consider it a workaround, especially since it's not the publisher applying the tag, it's Valve itself locking everything from the store in those regions, even when the game was previously ROW.
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Valve's method automatically applies ACRTAG to purchased subs. It wasn't a blanket change to every sub in the registry -- that's why it wasn't retroactive (and why SteamDB didn't pick up on it).

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madjoki said:
I'm pretty sure it's actually broken:

https://steamdb.info/sub/45471/ is clearly region locked. Both current default locking and no cross region trading flag.

Yet, I was able to activate a copy from Russia successfully. It had warning without any countries listed.
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Ah, strange. I seem to recall seeing region-locked bonus gifts at some point.
 
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Maniac

Banned
Spyware said:
Alright. I hope this works now.
I was gonna make it a 15 min raffle but apparently forgot to type "short". Ohwell. A sign that I should go to sleep! Happy holidays everyone!
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Well... I'm gonna have to try my luck at this. It looks like it could be excellent for lans.

Nice giveaway btw, and merry christmas! :)
MRORANGE said:
Okay, this could actually work.
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I'd personally prefer if it was reverse. Big ole Steam logo, and STEAM at the bottom in a small font.

Might just be me though.
 
Kiru

Kiru

Member
The_Monk said:
I already left a small message on my Activity feed for the people on my friends list a couple of hours ago but might as well leave something similar in here.

I honestly hope that everyone can have a good day weather you are celebrating the Holiday/Christmas season or not. Hope you can all have a hot meal, some memories to share and I hope you can be with your loved ones from family members, lovers and close friends. SteamGAF has been a house for me for quite some time. It's a great place to discuss a lot of themes regarding this hobby of ours and I feel quite lucky to have you all every time I decide to talk about a certain game. For the last years I've met some incredible people, many with different ways of thinking or even different ways of engaging life. It's funny, because while I don't exactly know you all I... feel I know quite a few members, more than the name or the avatar and this is what the community is all about.

I'm not going to lie, I felt a bit emotional when time was not kind to me and I had to be away from SteamGAF (and GAF in general) and when I got some time it felt very warm to the heart to see the same friendly "faces" I've met along this years saying "welcome". This is a great community and I truly respect every GAFfer. I just wanted to thank you all for all the help, the kindness, the conversations about everything. I hope I helped you out when you were in need of help, I hope you can forgive me if I let you down somehow, I hope you don't hate me simply because you don't like me or the way I talk. I am incredibly lucky because all those years I learned what really, really matters in life, just like the people I live everyday, my lovers, my friends, my family, you all also made a positive impact on my life, for good. I thank you all for your patience and friendship, for all the laugh and silly moments. There's so many different people in here, yet, I feel most of us learned something from each other. I know this might sound really lame for many, others will simply put me on ignore but I have never given up on building a better community, on having a place that is friendly and can welcome anyone because that is what really matters in here, to have fun and respect each other. I'm blessed for having the chance to talk with you all and I hope you know this. Thank you all for everything, honestly. :')
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I know you from the times I've been lurking without an account here, your "fellow GAFfer" catchphrase is a classic! :D (Oh boy that one time when you told someone that he isn't a fellow GAFfer, that's when you know you dun goofed). You're just too kind, love your attitude, just keep being awesome. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! :)
 
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Blu(e)

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The_Monk said:
I already left a small message on my Activity feed for the people on my friends list a couple of hours ago but might as well leave something similar in here.

I honestly hope that everyone can have a good day weather you are celebrating the Holiday/Christmas season or not. Hope you can all have a hot meal, some memories to share and I hope you can be with your loved ones from family members, lovers and close friends. SteamGAF has been a house for me for quite some time. It's a great place to discuss a lot of themes regarding this hobby of ours and I feel quite lucky to have you all every time I decide to talk about a certain game. For the last years I've met some incredible people, many with different ways of thinking or even different ways of engaging life. It's funny, because while I don't exactly know you all I... feel I know quite a few members, more than the name or the avatar and this is what the community is all about.

I'm not going to lie, I felt a bit emotional when time was not kind to me and I had to be away from SteamGAF (and GAF in general) and when I got some time it felt very warm to the heart to see the same friendly "faces" I've met along this years saying "welcome". This is a great community and I truly respect every GAFfer. I just wanted to thank you all for all the help, the kindness, the conversations about everything. I hope I helped you out when you were in need of help, I hope you can forgive me if I let you down somehow, I hope you don't hate me simply because you don't like me or the way I talk. I am incredibly lucky because all those years I learned what really, really matters in life, just like the people I live everyday, my lovers, my friends, my family, you all also made a positive impact on my life, for good. I thank you all for your patience and friendship, for all the laugh and silly moments. There's so many different people in here, yet, I feel most of us learned something from each other. I know this might sound really lame for many, others will simply put me on ignore but I have never given up on building a better community, on having a place that is friendly and can welcome anyone because that is what really matters in here, to have fun and respect each other. I'm blessed for having the chance to talk with you all and I hope you know this. Thank you all for everything, honestly. :')
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I completely missed this. You're too good for us Monk. Hope you have a wonderful Christmas and Happy Holidays.
 
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Volimar

Member
Can you get holiday foils from voting or does it have to be from crafting?



Also want to take the moment to wish everyone a happy Christmas!
 
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Varg

Banned
Chariot said:
Aww, I blocked so many good people. Ok, but this can be a good thing. Here's the list. I already sorted some out. Help me to clean the list of everyone cool. Then we can get a list out of it that can help to reject people who are not part of the community if anyone has the need for it for whatever reason.

--I actually do this sometimes. But sometimes I just feel like using different methods.Very nice given that there is no deal for the game this sale.
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Nice im on the block list. Thanks.
 
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Kifimbo

Member
The_Monk said:
I already left a small message on my Activity feed for the people on my friends list a couple of hours ago but might as well leave something similar in here.

I honestly hope that everyone can have a good day weather you are celebrating the Holiday/Christmas season or not. Hope you can all have a hot meal, some memories to share and I hope you can be with your loved ones from family members, lovers and close friends. SteamGAF has been a house for me for quite some time. It's a great place to discuss a lot of themes regarding this hobby of ours and I feel quite lucky to have you all every time I decide to talk about a certain game. For the last years I've met some incredible people, many with different ways of thinking or even different ways of engaging life. It's funny, because while I don't exactly know you all I... feel I know quite a few members, more than the name or the avatar and this is what the community is all about.

I'm not going to lie, I felt a bit emotional when time was not kind to me and I had to be away from SteamGAF (and GAF in general) and when I got some time it felt very warm to the heart to see the same friendly "faces" I've met along this years saying "welcome". This is a great community and I truly respect every GAFfer. I just wanted to thank you all for all the help, the kindness, the conversations about everything. I hope I helped you out when you were in need of help, I hope you can forgive me if I let you down somehow, I hope you don't hate me simply because you don't like me or the way I talk. I am incredibly lucky because all those years I learned what really, really matters in life, just like the people I live everyday, my lovers, my friends, my family, you all also made a positive impact on my life, for good. I thank you all for your patience and friendship, for all the laugh and silly moments. There's so many different people in here, yet, I feel most of us learned something from each other. I know this might sound really lame for many, others will simply put me on ignore but I have never given up on building a better community, on having a place that is friendly and can welcome anyone because that is what really matters in here, to have fun and respect each other. I'm blessed for having the chance to talk with you all and I hope you know this. Thank you all for everything, honestly. :')
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I can't do better than that. Enjoy life, people!
 
autoduelist

autoduelist

Member
crazyrabbits said:
Don't think I've ever played this. I confused it with Ultima I for a few moments. They look remarkably similar.

That also makes four of the Ultima games that are currently free on GOG (this, IV, Ultima Worlds I/II).
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Akalabeth was Garriot getting his toes warm as a game designer, definitely a blood relative of Ultima I. I actually posted about the free game in the gog thread yesterday, because I wasn't sure if GOG stuff was allowed in here or not (plus the gog thread needs love too).

I beat Ultima I back in the day, but never got a chance to play Akalabeth back then.

I miss those days... all the Ultima games were so well packaged, with tons of well produced goodies (cloth maps, well written monster and spell manuals, goodies (like a baggie of coins of the realm)).... no 'special edition' bs, that's just how games came.

Those were the days. Though $3 gems on Steam come close.
 
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Crab Milk Mickey

Member
Anustart said:
Playing through Guacamelee! and it's barely hooking me. The controls a tad annoying with regards to turning around, combat isn't much fun, though it isn't bad. Figure I'll slog through til the finish because it's good enough for that I guess, but otherwise I'm let down.
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zkylon said:
yea, i didn't feel guacamelee did anything to remain in my head more than what was necessary
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Drive-by "Outland is Guacamelee done right" post. Guacamelee's only strengths are it having a pretty visual style with character (disregarding the memes here) and the combat feeling smooth once you roll cancel everything in order to abuse the ridiculous amount of invincibility frames, whereas everything else is either far too easy or lacks depth to remain engaging all the way through... for what's an already short experience. I wasn't very impressed by it either and funnily enough the Super Arcade Turbo Whatever Edition makes it even less difficult than before, so at best it's a polished yet ultimately subpar game.

Outland on the other hand is a lot more interesting on a conceptual level. There's actual challenge to speak of so you can't just auto-pilot through it, the platforming requires more precision, is more varied and overall feels smoother, the bosses are memorable and put up a fight (spider alert for zkylon however), polarity swapping is taken further than how Guacamelee handles it et cetera. Also no tacky sense of humor or prolonged exposition that harms the game's pacing. Its only shortcoming (comparatively speaking) is the combat not feeling as tight, but it's still serviceable. Definitely a gameplay component that's due for re-iteration in a hypothetical sequel, which I hope Housemarque is taking into consideration after they wrapped up all their other announced titles, but I wouldn't go so far as to say it deterred my enjoyment.

In other words, take a gander at Outland if you haven't already.
 
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MMBosstones86

Member
Chariot said:
Aww, I blocked so many good people. Ok, but this can be a good thing. Here's the list. I already sorted some out. Help me to clean the list of everyone cool. Then we can get a list out of it that can help to reject people who are not part of the community if anyone has the need for it for whatever reason.
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I think the important thing we learned here is to not post your personal blocklist.
 
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Articalys

Member
Rogue Agent said:
Haha, I know you're obviously kidding but here's a cute one...

3R8XoAX.gif
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I still have Jormungand on my "to watch eventually" anime list... it's only a little bit worse than my game backlog list.

Speaking of which, finally started to dig into the latter list and fired up Ys I a few hours ago. It's been pretty fun for the most part, but the old-schoolness of it is finally starting to kick in with the labyrinthine dungeons that are so poorly lit you can barely see around you and monsters that can kill in only a handful of hits. Wonder if there's some trick that I'm missing or if it's just a matter of drawing out my own map or something...
At least the music is kickass.
 
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MRORANGE

Member
Oh yeah, Merry Christmas everyone.


I hope everyone is having a great time with their loved ones, at the moment I've got a rotten cold and a pile of work on my desk which I am trying really hard to ignore in any way possible.

ijYKTMUVqGdef.jpg
 
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LurkerPrime

Member
MRORANGE said:
Oh yeah, Merry Christmas everyone.


I hope everyone is having a great time with their loved ones, at the moment I've got a rotten cold and a pile of work on my desk which I am trying really hard to ignore in any way possible.

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It's always heartwarming to see companies giving their employees holiday gifts.

Season's greetings, y'all. Consider this my gift to you. (Yes, it was already posted... but it's all I've got to give right now.)
 
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Ventara

Member
MRORANGE said:
Oh yeah, Merry Christmas everyone.


I hope everyone is having a great time with their loved ones, at the moment I've got a rotten cold and a pile of work on my desk which I am trying really hard to ignore in any way possible.
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That sucks. I hope you get well soon, and will at least have a little time to celebrate between all the work. You certainly deserve it. I appreciate everything you do for the Steam threads. Merry Christmas!
 
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brassica

Member
Received an email an hour ago from Isthereanydeal.com informing me that The Evil Within is 15€ today on GameplanetUK which is even cheaper than today's Steam Special deal for this game.
Key is Steam compatible.

Oh, and I was blocked by Chariot too, despite my manga/anime avatar :-(
 
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inm8num2

Member
MRORANGE said:
Oh yeah, Merry Christmas everyone.


I hope everyone is having a great time with their loved ones, at the moment I've got a rotten cold and a pile of work on my desk which I am trying really hard to ignore in any way possible.

[IMGs]http://i2.minus.com/ijYKTMUVqGdef.jpg[/IMG]
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Thanks for all you do in creating, organizing, and leading the Steam threads. :)
 
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freshVeggie

Member
MRORANGE said:
Oh yeah, Merry Christmas everyone.
I hope everyone is having a great time with their loved ones, at the moment I've got a rotten cold and a pile of work on my desk which I am trying really hard to ignore in any way possible.
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get well orange and thanks for all your work here!
merry xmas!
 
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darkchewie

Member
Does anybody have Dragon Age Origins on Steam, but not the expansion DAO Awakening?

I know most just get the Ultimate edition, but somehow
(through a series of unfortunate events lol D: )
I have a gift copy that I'm happy to give away to whomever has DAO already. I would modbot it, but it is kind of useless without the base game. Feel free to PM me.
 
Nabs

Nabs

Member
I get so mad when I see that stupid Ultra Edition store page. Capcom needs to start from scratch and give Ultra Edition a new app so it doesn't confuse AE owners.
 
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