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heyf00L said:
It's looking to be a midnight EST release. I don't think it's strange to think it was set up to unlock at that time all along.
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Valve's fake, rigged, waste of time Progress Quest troll Portal 2 ARG
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It's looking to be a midnight EST release. I don't think it's strange to think it was set up to unlock at that time all along.
enzo_gt said:
If I might indulge in blind, last minute, totally out of character fanboy optimism briefly: We just passed 125,000 potatoes left at 10:25. At roughly 700 potatoes a minute, that's roughly 35 minutes from both 11:00 PM EST and an even 100,000 potatoes. It's conceivable - if baseless and unlikely - that the last 100,000 potato countdown starting at around 11:00 PM EST will result in all games SUPER charging.
Okay, optimism off. Realistically we're looking at maybe a 1 AM/1:30 AM EST release. Assuming SMB and Killing Floor both shave off a conservative 30 minutes a piece, that puts the release in that timeframe nicely with Amnesia and Defense Grid never finishing before launch.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
The only people that this ARG ended well for are the 8 who got flown to Valve HQ and showered with gifts.
We don't know when it's going to unlock. We know when the potatoes will run out (1am EST right?). The only thing Valve really had control over was how much time got knocked off by completing games. I guess they could control it that way to some extent, but it's obvious that it's been up to use to chose which games to complete first. The easy games knocked of a little time. The hard games have knocked off more. Seems to be more in our hands.DrForester said:
Certainly tho they should have hinted that it'd only be a few hours early. And really launching so late at night isn't very great for most people.
Billychu said:
But they did encourage people to buy the games with the sale they were offering. It kind of sucks that they led people to believe that Portal 2 would be released much sooner on the pc, but now at this rate most people will be able to play on the 360 or ps3 before pc owners will be able to.
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Billychu said:
Why are people pointing out to this without any significant proof? Valve fucked up and could've skipped this entire ordeal completely if they had this "breaking street date" deal with Gamestop.
So Naive, you all are.
Yes it is rigged but for all the wrong reasons.
so if there's one complete positive out of all this, it's that I've discovered that a lot of these potato games are actually really good. I finally (yeah i know shutup) started playing Super Meat Boy, which is amazin. Killing Floor manages to be a good coop FPS about fighting waves of zombies that plays almost completely differently from Left 4 Dead. Rush and Cogs are both good puzzlers. The Ball, from what I've played, is a pretty darn good first person puzzle game. The special portal themed levels for that are actually kind of amazing.
That's one thing that I think we're kind of skipping over in the whole riot about how lame the last stage of the ARG ended up being - some of these games got some really good extra content out of this whole Potato Pack business. Stuff that you'd probably have to pay for as DLC if these were EA games, for example.
The only real losers out of the Potato games I've played are both, sadly, from Dejobaan Games. I do like AAAAaaAaAAaA!!!, but The Wonderful End of the World is pretty boring from what I've played, and 123 Kick It is basically just AAAaaaaAaAaAA all over again, but this time they generate the levels from music.
That's one thing that I think we're kind of skipping over in the whole riot about how lame the last stage of the ARG ended up being - some of these games got some really good extra content out of this whole Potato Pack business. Stuff that you'd probably have to pay for as DLC if these were EA games, for example.
The only real losers out of the Potato games I've played are both, sadly, from Dejobaan Games. I do like AAAAaaAaAAaA!!!, but The Wonderful End of the World is pretty boring from what I've played, and 123 Kick It is basically just AAAaaaaAaAaAA all over again, but this time they generate the levels from music.
Lostconfused
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Speaking of which, linking that garlic mashed potatoes recipe was great. I made some and they taste really good, there will even be some left for tomorrow.Blizzard said:I got dinner tonight in honor of Portal 2's potential release.
That's before the extra bucket of chives I dumped on it, of course.
BobTheFork
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We need a five inches, fully loaded joke STAT!Fox318 said:
I had to give some sense of the size! That's the "half"/"light" order of that potato by the way. The full one is enough to feed a horse.Fox318 said:
Haha, thanks for being a guinea pig! It was just one of the top search results and I probably hadn't actually tried it myself. *bookmarked*Lostconfused said:
ShallNoiseUpon
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I haven't had a baked potato like that in forever. Maybe I'll find one tomorrow.
Lostconfused
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You sir need to acquaint your self with one Alton BrownBlizzard said:
Edit: Also its kind of hard to screw up mashed potatoes.
Baked potatoes are ridiculously easy to make and cheap to buy.Blizzard said:I got dinner tonight in honor of Portal 2's potential release.
That's before the extra bucket of chives I dumped on it, of course.
1. Wash potato with sponge.
2. Stab a bunch of holes in it with a fork all over.
3. Put potato on microwavable plate and microwave potato for 5 minutes on 100% HIGH. Flip the potato over and do it again.
4. Cut open and add butter, onions, chives, sour cream, cheese, or whatever you like on potatoes.
5. Enjoy.
Htown said:
Did you play the Amnesia DLC? Only content that tops the Ball levels in my opinion. Chilling stuff.
AAAAaaa and Kick It control pretty differently which changes them up quite a bit once you get past the basics. Training myself not to use WASD in Kick It was pretty tricky.
ShallNoiseUpon
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Dance In My Blood said:
They are, however, delicious.
Discotheque
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What's...what's taters?
For those who do you inconsiderate bastard!JaseC said:Why are you explaining to somebody who made a baked potato how to make a baked potato?
I hate how people still call the Microwave the Nuker, or refer to things Microwaved as nuked. There is no radiation, it is radio waves that cause water to vibrate!
Original-Blue
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OMG its gonna un lock while I'm at work. I got out of work 1.5 hours early but its gonna happen in the next hour and a half I think.
2.75 hours until I can leave work.
So excite!
So as I expected my hype has come back.
2.75 hours until I can leave work.
So excite!
So as I expected my hype has come back.
ShallNoiseUpon
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Discotheque said:
BobTheFork
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The hardly cheap when you have to buy a container or cheese, sour cream and bacon just to use a tiny bit of it on one potato. Otherwise you have to eat a bunch of them.
CF_Fighter
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Dance In My Blood said:
sure the carbs are bad, but as with everything moderation is key. Potatoes, and their skins, have a lot of good stuff in them.
Wisegeek says:
The potato, as well as the skin, is a great source of vitamin C, vitamin B6, copper, potassium, manganese, and dietary fiber. Potatoes and potato skins contain 18% of the recommended daily allowance of iron and 7.5 grams of protein, which is rarely found in vegetables in such high concentrations. Potato skins also contain a variety of phytonutrients, which are a natural source of antioxidants that help to prevent cellular deterioration of the body. The phytonutrients found in potatoes include carotenoids, flavonoids, and caffeic acid.
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