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  • GarthorGarthor Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Man, you know what's a funny coincidence with the treasure hunt goals for today and tomorrow?

    Today's my birthday.

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  • rndmherorndmhero Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I own both Black Ops and L4D2, and I don't understand what those challenges are.

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  • carmofincarmofin Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    as the last four days have been unbearable with the crap games it had to offer i had to pick up shatter... it said to be fun and i need to win more treasures!!

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  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Okay! Who wants a copy of Half Life 2?

    If no one says anything, I would just cruise the thread and your friends list to see who doesn't have it. That's what I did last thread, and the giftee was pretty pleased.

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  • DarlanDarlan Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    rndmhero wrote: »
    I own both Black Ops and L4D2, and I don't understand what those challenges are.
    They're just achievements that were always there. I think the L4D2 one is "kill every type of zombie" and the Black Ops one is basically just "complete the first mission" if I recall right.

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  • seasleepyseasleepy Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I feel much better about myself; after completely failing at Mash Face Against Mountain (the best I can do is 3 stars), I got today's bonus mode score (exactly!) on my second try. On the other hand, I've never played Aaaa!! before, and I've gotten a fair amout of time into Shatter.

    PS: Can I get invites to the Steam group? http://steamcommunity.com/id/seasleepy
    ETA PPS: Thanks!

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  • emp123emp123 Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Either Steam has lost one of my copies of HL2 or I have gifted a game and Im not getting credit...

    Unless I have to have the game installed to see that I own 2 copies of it.

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  • Bruce ForsythBruce Forsyth Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Today is the first day where I already had an achievement. Hooray.

    I enjoy shatter muchly. I should play it more, but getting the last achievements for endless and time attack are not easy.

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  • Lord YodLord Yod Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Got the shatter achievement. That shit was hard. Really fun game though.

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  • IdolNinjaIdolNinja Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Alegis wrote: »
    did you gift that friend L4D2

    if so rejoice together in some zombie killing

    actually i gifted him mass effect 2, and he gifted me L4D2

    so this mod is pretty much the best mix evar

    sup friend :lol:

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  • HitsuraptorHitsuraptor Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    rndmhero wrote: »
    I own both Black Ops and L4D2, and I don't understand what those challenges are.

    L4D2 one is basically just play through the campaigns "There are five types of Uncommon Infected, one type per campaign. Simply kill one of each for Crass Menagerie: CEDA (Hazmat) zombie, Clown zombie, Mudman (hard to pick out in a crowd, but the brownest and nakedest looking one), Construction Worker zombie and the SWAT zombie."

    If you've got the Aussie censored version though it's only 4 types of uncommon infected since there's no SWAT zombie in the censored version.

    And the Black ops one is simply finish the first level in campaign mode on any difficulty

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  • NoughtNought Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Does the gift have to be received for the objective to be marked as completed? Or do I just need more patience?

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  • emp123emp123 Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Oh wow, found it, apparently I never gifted my extra copy of HL2.

    Who wants it? Everybody I know either already has it or doesnt want it...

    If I gift it to someone who already has it, will that count? If it does, couldnt they just gift it back to me that way we would both have the achievement?

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Holy cow, Shatter is hard. I can't even unlock the bonus mode D:

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  • NoughtNought Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Found someone that doesn't have Shatter. Getting my objective done by cursing him with trying to get the achievement.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Hahaha, I was totally hoping that one of the objectives during this would be to gift a game to someone.

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  • CentipeedCentipeed Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    If you've got the Aussie censored version though it's only 4 types of uncommon infected since there's no SWAT zombie in the censored version.

    Lucky Aussies. The SWAT zombie is the most annoying of all zombies.

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Centipeed wrote: »
    If you've got the Aussie censored version though it's only 4 types of uncommon infected since there's no SWAT zombie in the censored version.

    Lucky Aussies. The SWAT zombie is the most annoying of all zombies.

    I've been downloading the darn game for hours now and it still ain't even halfway. I really don't want to start with Shatter again, it's too bloomin' hard. :(

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  • DrovekDrovek Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I hope there's a VVVVVV achievement somewhere, I really want to buy that one (yeah, it's only $5, but a discount wouldn't hurt :P)

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Heck if anyone wants to toss a copy of HL2 or any episodes or whatnot, I have none of them. Steam ID same as forum name.

    Also, all this talk about shatter being difficult has motivated me to get it and try. Difficulty, ho!

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Drovek wrote: »
    I hope there's a VVVVVV achievement somewhere, I really want to buy that one (yeah, it's only $5, but a discount wouldn't hurt :P)

    VVVVVV has no achievements or leaderboards, so it is unlikely.

    Super Meat Boy is possible however!

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  • jakobaggerjakobagger LO THY DREAD EMPIRE CHAOS IS RESTORED Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Nought wrote: »
    Found someone that doesn't have Shatter. Getting my objective done by cursing him with trying to get the achievement.

    Heh yeah, I'd actually decided to hold off on that, reading people's frustration in the thread. My reflexes aren't that good. But Fate has decided. To battle!

    Also, you're a great human being (see what I did there), when you're not playing Chaos at least.

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  • AntithesisAntithesis Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Would anyone be interested in gifting me a copy of Shatter? (And possibly Killing Floor if I really really hope it gets a sale later on?) I can paypal, and all that.

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  • TeeManTeeMan BrainSpoon Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Shatter is an awesome. I am going to gift it to one luck son-of-a-gun :)

    Just a quick competition to determine the winner;

    What's the most expensive thing you've ever broken? I mean, SHATTERED, completely unable to be repaired and now useless

    I'll look at the first 5 stories and notify a winner :)

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  • emp123emp123 Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Heck if anyone wants to toss a copy of HL2 or any episodes or whatnot, I have none of them. Steam ID same as forum name.

    Also, all this talk about shatter being difficult has motivated me to get it and try. Difficulty, ho!

    Accept my friend request and HL2 is yours.

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  • PheacePheace Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    >.>

    It's not exactly 'Shattered' but damned close to it.

    When I was little I used to play with marbles (naturally)... and me and a friend were playing in our backyard. Now obviously just marbles isn't enough so we had to bounce them off something and then get them in the hole or close to it. So we picked a wall to do it. And being the silly kids that we were, we chose the small piece of wall under the massive window covering the back of our house. I think you can pretty much figure what happened from then on. I wanted to win and cupped the marble and let her rip ...

    Clanged off the window. Didn't exactly shatter but left a deep enough hole that it needed to be replaced... not the happiest moment of my childhood >.<

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  • HiT BiTHiT BiT 🍒 Fresh, straight from Pac-man's Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    TeeMan wrote: »
    Shatter is an awesome. I am going to gift it to one luck son-of-a-gun :)

    Just a quick competition to determine the winner;

    What's the most expensive thing you've ever broken? I mean, SHATTERED, completely unable to be repaired and now useless

    I'll look at the first 5 stories and notify a winner :)

    The laser micro-machining equipment we had at work. It was worth around 300000€ (yes, three hundred thousand €) and had been at the company for just 6 months. I came back from summer holidays and while I was reinitialising it I forgot to open the refrigeration water supply. More than half of the refrigerated optics burned because the alert system didn't work correctly (that at least wasn't my fault) and didn't shut down the system. The burned optics could not be repaired and buying new ones was the same as buying a whole new machining system (perhaps it would have been even more expensive). Luckily for me the system was insured and since the alert system failed I was not to blame and (surprisingly) I wasn't fired. That was 4 years ago during my first year at the company.

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I broke my bedroom window when I was 7. Basically, the window is right next to my bed. We sometimes put medicines and stuff on the window. I was a safe child in that sense, I knew what medicine was and to avoid it. In any case, the meds were in a small bottle on the sill. In the morning I woke up with the hole where the window should have been and no medicine. I later found out that that I'd picked up the medicine bottle and punched through the window. That's right, I punched the goddamn window with a medicine bottle in my hand. I then dropped the bottle of meds and lay back down.

    My dad, who I had to share the bedroom with as we had guests over, was pretty freaked out by it and just let me sleep til the morning. I had absolutely no recollection of the FALCON-PUNCH!!! and to this day I swear they're lying but there's that niggling feeling that I did do that.


    Also, I already have the game so I nominate Antithesis get it should I win.

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  • ebotasticebotastic Going Gonzo In People's HeartsRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    TeeMan wrote: »
    Shatter is an awesome. I am going to gift it to one luck son-of-a-gun :)

    Just a quick competition to determine the winner;

    What's the most expensive thing you've ever broken? I mean, SHATTERED, completely unable to be repaired and now useless

    I'll look at the first 5 stories and notify a winner :)

    I'm generally a careful person. Well, now I am.

    I was young, probably 10 or 11, and my mom had gotten me a bottle of chocolate milk. In my youthful excitement I was shaking it a lot more than it needed to be. The method of shaking it I was using, however, was the problem. I was sitting on the couch tossing the bottle up in the air and catching it repeatedly. Only I didn't catch it and it bounced off my arm and took out the glass, you know the cylinder with the half-sphere on top, over a Hummel figurine of my mother's.

    The funny thing was I used the "but it's replaceable" phrase my parents would've used on me had I been younger and noticeably upset about breaking something. It didn't work. :oops:

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  • jakobaggerjakobagger LO THY DREAD EMPIRE CHAOS IS RESTORED Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Holy shit I suck at Shatter.

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  • MorkathMorkath Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2010
    TeeMan wrote: »
    Shatter is an awesome. I am going to gift it to one luck son-of-a-gun :)

    Just a quick competition to determine the winner;

    What's the most expensive thing you've ever broken? I mean, SHATTERED, completely unable to be repaired and now useless

    I'll look at the first 5 stories and notify a winner :)

    The engine of a 69 stingray, it was my first car, that I got for cheap. My stepdad said he was going to put antifreeze in the engine for me for the winter but never did, so when I went to start it up that spring the block cracked and totaled the engine.

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  • JintorJintor Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Shatter's bonus mode can go suck a dick. The main game is awesome. Bonus mode is an exercise in pounding nails through my eyes. I'm getting quite badly motionsick.

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  • mtsmts Dr. Robot King Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    hmm either the swat zombie doesn't count or somehow i managed to get the aussie version of L4D2. I had tried booting it up on my macbook to check teh achievement. it only had 4 zombie types listed

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    HiT BiT wrote: »
    TeeMan wrote: »
    Shatter is an awesome. I am going to gift it to one luck son-of-a-gun :)

    Just a quick competition to determine the winner;

    What's the most expensive thing you've ever broken? I mean, SHATTERED, completely unable to be repaired and now useless

    I'll look at the first 5 stories and notify a winner :)

    The laser micro-machining equipment we had at work. It was worth around 300000€ (yes, three hundred thousand €) and had been at the company for just 6 months. I came back from summer holidays and while I was reinitialising it I forgot to open the refrigeration water supply. More than half of the refrigerated optics burned because the alert system didn't work correctly (that at least wasn't my fault) and didn't shut down the system. The burned optics could not be repaired and buying new ones was the same as buying a whole new machining system (perhaps it would have been even more expensive). Luckily for me the system was insured and since the alert system failed I was not to blame and (surprisingly) I wasn't fired. That was 4 years ago during my first year at the company.

    Well fuck. Guys, I don't think anyone else can top this, pack it up and go home. Your pathetic stories of broken windows and such just won't cut it. :P

    edit: also, trying to think of stuff that I've broken and the list is pretty small. Pencils, pens, a glass of milk, some toys, and a Linux install. That's it, no windows, no engines, no three hundred thousand Euro machines, not even any broken bones. I must be a very careful person. :D

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  • LaCabraLaCabra MelbourneRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    ...does a baby chicken count

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  • AntithesisAntithesis Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    TeeMan wrote: »
    Shatter is an awesome. I am going to gift it to one luck son-of-a-gun :)

    Just a quick competition to determine the winner;

    What's the most expensive thing you've ever broken? I mean, SHATTERED, completely unable to be repaired and now useless

    I'll look at the first 5 stories and notify a winner :)

    I made root beer a ways back. It was with a little kit that came with yeast and the root beer flavoring- you added a few pounds of sugar to this massive mix and poured it into bottles, let them sit for a few months to ferment. More specifically, all of these older bottles with resealable caps my dad had lying around from when he would brew actual beer. We threw the ingredients all together, poured them in, sealed the bottles, and left them in a nice, cool, dry spot in the basement, awaiting pure, sugary delight.

    Three weeks later, I decided to test out a bottle to see how things were going. It turns out we added about four times the recommended amount of yeast. I was expecting a slight pop as I pulled up on the clamp that held the cap into place. What I first noticed was the clamp exhibiting a significant amount of resistance. What I noticed next was the deafening gunshot as the entire cap, a blur, rocketed skyward inches from my face, hitting the ceiling with a crash and tumbling to the floor before me. I did not so much next notice as feel a flood of yeast-flavored sugary doom forcibly eject itself from the bottle with the haste of a thousand escaping death-eaters. The stream shot up past my head, soaking my hair and shirt, before briefly hitting our kitchen ceiling and crashing to the floor. Flecks of brown tainted the walls as a few remaining drops of soda dripped from the pots hanging above my head.

    I stood there in utter shock for several moments as a stream of lightly effervescing foam continued to leak out of the bottle's tip and flop onto the ground in a slowly building pile at my feet, the semi-liquid's urge for escape sated but far from exhausted by that initial, terrifying spurt. I cleaned up, took four bottles with me to give to friends, and avoided thinking about the threat now lurking in our basement.

    Three months later, the glass bottles began exploding in our basement. I heard about this from my parents, who had heard about the bottles rather directly. I had expected it to have been a couple of burst caps. Noooooooo. Thirty of them had violently shattered, the bases remaining somewhat intact as if remnants from some bizarre reverse-shanking. A pool of foam remained all around the area where the bottles had lain, slowly being encroached upon by a wave of mold. The remaining bottles poised menacingly, unexploded bombs that I would later have to fearfully handle and open well away from the house in improvised protective gear.

    I prefer juice now.

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  • AnakinOUAnakinOU Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I've never played a L4D game before, so how long will it take me to get the achievement?

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  • EuphoriacEuphoriac Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    So this might be beating a dead horse but re: Amnesia
    I'm in the storage area. So far i've never had to face the 'thing' properly yet. Closest i've seen him was in that long opulent hall, I turn around and he's wandering out through a side door, far away and not altogether clear.

    I open a door just now and there it is, right in front of me! Gah!

    Best game that doesn't involve shooting things.

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  • DrakeDrake Edgelord Trash Below the ecliptic plane.Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    That is a fabulous story Antithesis.

    I rofled.

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  • SightTDWSightTDW Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Why am I on the fence for Shatter? I have $2.50 sitting on my desk in change.

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