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Portal 2. Reboot GLaDOS for earlier release!
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Quiet you.
Tofu wrote: Here be Littleboots, destroyer of threads and master of drunkposting.
If it's still up for grabs I'll totally snag audiosurf off your hands for the cause!
Moar potato.
Steam ID : http://steamcommunity.com/id/renholder
That's tomorrow?
I'm canceling all my plans.
Edit: Don't forget that Companion cubes, while blocking chains, will net you 5,000 points IF THEY HIT THE BOTTOM OF THE GRID. Try to avoid color paints that change everything to a color unless you have all 21 spots full.
And have your grid clear at the end of the map - the medal icon will show you your progress including every modifier you've earned except the clean ending 5%, and that's what gave me the extra 10k I needed to get my potato.
Awwwww yeeeeeeeeah. Thanks a lot man!
Now for some whiskey and Audiosurf.
What a wonderful Saturday!
EDIT: Noted!
Steam ID is mentallyunsownd
EDIT: Totally beat'd, and Sir Platypus has showed off his classy gentility far more than I have.
I tip my hat at you, good sir, for the compliment.
My gentlemen's hat, that is.
"QuestTracker.exe" likes to have critical errors after I finish a track and I'm headed to the results screen.
Yes. Granted, I only have 101 minutes of playtime so far, but it's been crashing a lot.
It also doesn't like Don't Stop Believin', apparently. This makes me sad.
What are they wanting me to do here besides buy the games?
Beat the games? Achievements? What?
I already own Amnesia. Do they want me to just... play it again or something?
You just play to make the bars go up. And play, and play, and play. And then, after half a day or so, the progress bar MIGHT have noticeably moved.
People can only handle that game in small doses.
They never gave explicit instructions, but here's the best we've gathered:
The giant bar at the top is the average of all the individual bars. When all the individual bars are filled, Portal 2 will be released.
Alternatively, it will be released when the timer reaches zero. Every individual bar we complete reduces the timer by an hour or less. So far one game has reduced by 50 minutes, one by 40, and one by 60.
The bars seem to be filled by having lots of people playing that game. It has not been confirmed one way or the other if idiling in the game counts, or if you have to be actively playing it. Additionally, the bars seem to be filling faster every time we complete a bar.
Valve has also hinted that the potato count at the bottom will help boost the rate at which the bars fill.
Since you own Amnesia, you can help out by 1. Playing Amnesia (or at least keeping it open in another window) as much as possible, and 2. Getting three potatoes.
Potatoes:
1. Join this steam group
2. Create a profile in Amnesia named "Casbah". This is case sensitive. A login screen will appear, enter "troubled memories".
3. When you launch Amnesia from Steam, the launcher with all the options appears before the game. There is a button on the bottom right that says "Justine". This is a new DLC episode. If you get 100% on it (which is kind of hard without a walkthrough), you will get another potato. No password necessary for this one.
edit: fixed, had the wrong password for potato 2.
By the way, Bit.Trip Beat has an ogg file for the music used in the <TEST> level which is pretty easily converted to an mp3 or whatever.
This one.
EDIT:
This actually kind of works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7D_Dt-nvlw
this is something that everybody, all people, need to do
Just means The Newell's plan is working.
Interesting.
It did that to me to. Chances are that's one of my missing potatoes.
Edit: I really hope there's a way to track down which potatoes you got from where. Otherwise, I'm pretty screwed.
This
Think about it, lots of potatoes.. I think it'll play a part of the story. Just me guessing though. It's ridiculous enough that it's plausible.
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Shoot m to BITS (hold Y) [hard] C109-0000-014D-4E09
P-POWER Switch Palace 3838-0000-0122-9359
Raiding the Serpents Tomb 1A04-0000-0098-C11E
I like to move it, move it FCE2-0000-00D7-9048
See my profile here!
My Backloggery
I've personally only watched the first 10 minutes on youtube, don't want to spoil the puzzles and story.
No idea if I'm correct, it fits the weird logic of Portal.
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
It was great in concept, but ultimately has backfired. That said, it would have been incredibly easy to make it a success -- If they had started this whole process a week ago, made it both more transparent and achievable for the community to have some appreciable reward, this might go down as one of the most successful marketing ploys of all time.
However, that means they would have had to concede to the retail impact of actually releasing a game substantially (couple days) early, which it seems now they had no stomach for. They tried to have their cake and eat it too, and I think the community will now be substantially more jaded to them as marketers as a result.