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  • Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
    Antoshka wrote: »
    So, I went away to my happy sporting event, after having some nice talks with people. And I was safe, because the game they were talking about was region locked by some bizarre account system. I know this, because it was refunded in the dale for precisely this reason.

    And now it turns out you can gift steam wallet money. And there was a traitor, in my own hemisphere.

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    Thanks to Viking, for Final Fantasy XIV, where I must now check out the tail animations, once it finishes downloading. I suspect the other, "Pixelated Pixie" is behind this breakdown of trans-tasman peace.

    I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about at all. None. Consequently, this was just plain uncalled-for:

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    And do you really want to make this all international and stuff? That shit gets ugly fast.

    Also, thanks! <3

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    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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  • ZavianZavian universal peace sounds better than forever war Registered User regular
    Grats @Zetx ! (sent to your e-mail!)
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  • ZetxZetx 🐧 Registered User regular
    edited June 2015
    Zavian wrote: »
    Grats @Zetx ! (sent to your e-mail!)
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    Awesome, thank you! Hopefully I will get some time to try it out tonight. Some heavy rain passed through and the water came in through the walls. Talk about uninvited guests x_x

    [e] Gonna take this time to plug my giveaway again. Less than 48 hours left!

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  • KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    I know I'm fighting a losing battle but still...
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  • CorriganXCorriganX Jacksonville, FLRegistered User regular
    FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT @KoopahTroopah BRING DOWN THE TYRANNY OF RIK!


    BETTER DEAD THAN RE.. RIK?

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  • VikingViking Registered User regular
    massive thanks to @Antoshka for Star Wars: Knights of the old Republic which is one of my favoritest games everer

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  • Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
    I know I'm fighting a losing battle but still...
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    Look at it this way, @KoopahTroopah ... even though you'll shortly be crushed into dust by @rikdaly and your score made to look like the fumbling efforts of a small child playing for the first time... You'll always have that screenshot. And no one can take that away from you.

    Maybe you could print it out and frame it?

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    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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  • TeeManTeeMan BrainSpoon Registered User regular
    edited June 2015
    Fantastic. I don't remember my GFWL password and when I select 'Forgot Password?' and prompts me that it's going to open a new window, it crashes. Such a piece of shit. Let me Bulletstorm goddamnit! This is probably why I never got around to playing it in the first place

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  • ZetxZetx 🐧 Registered User regular
    Zavian wrote: »
    Grats @Zetx ! (sent to your e-mail!)
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    Thanks again, Zavian! I gave it a go and found very fun. Some interesting design choices and power-ups.
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    Boss health bar is built "into" the level, so if you move too far down, you won't be able to see it.

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    Going up means you choose the "hard" level this go-around (you can choose again after the boss). I guess it's denoted by the skull, but my first two was something like "Dungeon" and "Cellar" and I took the latter to mean something about a basement :lol:

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  • Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
    TeeMan wrote: »
    Fantastic. I don't remember my GFWL password and when I select 'Forgot Password?' and prompts me that it's going to open a new window, it crashes. Such a piece of shit. Let me Bulletstorm goddamnit! This is probably why I never got around to playing it in the first place

    I thought Bulletstorm got de-GFWL'd?

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    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
  • destroyah87destroyah87 They/Them She/HerRegistered User regular
    TeeMan wrote: »
    Fantastic. I don't remember my GFWL password and when I select 'Forgot Password?' and prompts me that it's going to open a new window, it crashes. Such a piece of shit. Let me Bulletstorm goddamnit! This is probably why I never got around to playing it in the first place

    I thought Bulletstorm got de-GFWL'd?

    think again.

    Still as assbutts as ever.

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  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    TeeMan wrote: »
    Fantastic. I don't remember my GFWL password and when I select 'Forgot Password?' and prompts me that it's going to open a new window, it crashes. Such a piece of shit. Let me Bulletstorm goddamnit! This is probably why I never got around to playing it in the first place

    I thought Bulletstorm got de-GFWL'd?
    What? You think EA gave a shit about it? Nah.

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  • Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
    Huh. Well that's a thing.

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    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
  • KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    I mentioned that I wanted more tables in Pinball since I saw all the cool ones, @chocobolicious decided I needed some Venom.

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  • Sir CarcassSir Carcass I have been shown the end of my world Round Rock, TXRegistered User regular
  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Some massive silly goose in the webcomic spoiled the entire ending resolution of Freak Angels as I was still working my way through the second or third chapter. Then someone else spoiled the twist of that anime.....gangantua....Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet just last week.

    Fuck geese that ruin other people's fun by recklessly flapping their toothed tongues.
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    Convoy is like a car with poor alignment. Its not the best thing, and you can't take hands off the wheel, but it gets the job done when it needs to. Ramming people out of the path of your convoy so they don't hit it with their wreck when they die, buying abilities for your convoy, and experimenting with positioning and weapons is fun. Overall, it feels like FTL light, information needs to be conveyed better and I have no idea what setting it was that I turned off but once I did, I actually had a fucking clue what was going on.

    Good Idea: Finding an A.I.D. unit, slapping it on your highest ranked vehicle, and upgrading that MoFo like Immortal Joe was steering it himself

    Bad Idea: Letting that treaded beast you stole from the enemy drive right into an electrical tower.

    Horrible Idea: Disabling that repeating transmission, you're a monster.

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  • DaimarDaimar A Million Feet Tall of Awesome Registered User regular
    I'm possibly missing the function or area, but is there a list you can view that updates when games come off early access and go live?

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  • KalnaurKalnaur I See Rain . . . Centralia, WARegistered User regular
    The best way I've found is to follow EA games, which give pop-up announcements when they're going full release, among other updates.

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  • HeatwaveHeatwave Come, now, and walk the path of explosions with me!Registered User regular
    @Berylline That was a good stream. I don't have a twitch account so I couldn't post, but I managed to watch most of it I think. Portal 2 coop looks a lot harder than the single player :P

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  • BeryllineBerylline One Tiara to rule them all Registered User regular
    edited June 2015
    Thanks @Heatwave! And thanks to everyone that stopped by the stream! And thanks to everyone that donated to the charity drive! <3

    Thanks also to @Mercutio87 for joining me in Portal co-op!

    Here is another picture of Benji from just before the stream (and just before he tore off the costume):
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  • ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
    CorriganX wrote: »
    1. Bulletstorm (FPS) (demo Available)
    2. Pinball FX (Pinball) (free table)
    3. Monaco (Heistin' Arcadeish)
    4. One-Way Heroics (RPG)
    5. Bejeweled 2 Deluxe (Match 3) (demo Available)
    6. Audiosurf (Music)
    7. Spelunky (2d puzzleish Platformer)
    8. Trackmania Nations Forever (Racing) (Free Game)

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand done.
    1. Bulletstorm:
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    2. Pinball FX
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    3. Monaco
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    4. One-Way Heroics
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    5. Bejeweled 2
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    6. Audiosurf
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    7. Spelunky
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    8. Trackmania
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    That was fun! My strongest games were definitely One Way Heroics (which I'd played very, very briefly before - like, got stuck on a wall in the starting castle briefly), and Trackmania. For Trackmania, I'd played the muscle car version before (Trackmania: Canyon), so it was mostly a matter of seeing how the car performed a little differently. Silver medal on the first run's not too shabby.* :D Hope my nonstandard screenshot counts.

    Bulletstorm was hard at first because the game kept telling me to sprint using LShift. The actual keybinding is spacebar. I am waaaaay out of practice in Bejeweled, and I haven't actually played pinball in something like 20 years until this contest.

    * Okay, it was actually my second** run, though my first complete run, because partway through the first run, I accidentally hit the right bumper on my controller. This is, apparently, bound to "Reset the run." I was beating the gold guy at the time, too! :( (Though, honestly, he was probably about to pass me near the last sharp turn.)

    ** Okay, I actually accidentally hit that button a lot, right at the first big turn. I usually bind brakes to it, so I don't have to move my thumb off the accelerator too much when I need to do a drift turn, and muscle memory is hard to erase. I kinda swore at the screen a bit, there. Not sure why I didn't just rebind the damn thing. But, yeah - I basically completed the course ~twice, but played through the first 100m about a dozen times. :)

    @Iolo @CorriganX

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  • CorsiniCorsini Registered User regular
    I just "finished" The Secret World again. That was a good Tokyo expansion. I liked the way they incorporate MMO mechanics into their storyline, like the callback to the tutorial
    Sarah, the character who you used when you relived her memories of the subway to teach you how to fight, is still alive. She is alive and forced to re-experience the tutorial every time a new TSW character is created.

    Or the fight you have with other Bee-powered "player character" NPCs
    who respawn and charge back into battle, because you can't stop a Bee agent by just killing them.

    But my favourite part is their handling of the long delay between Issue 8 (added repeatable VR training scenarios) and Issue 9 (actually getting to Tokyo).
    The VR training process has been compromised by the Phoenicians, and the whole thing is red tape to stop you getting to Tokyo. The bad guys were plotting to delay the expansion.

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited June 2015
    Convoy on easy down, that final boss was.....interesting, poorly timed clicking brought me down to one vehicle, who was continually driving in circles, thankful for high level shields and armor, while my convoy's two weapons (thank god I brought two) helped a little.

    That was.....some old school combat shit, with squad based strategy. Like something from the NES days had a baby with XCOM....I liked it.

    I was about to clear convoy from my hard drive.....It has workshop content. Soundpacks and a few models so far. This may be troublesome in the future.

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    So, a free Portal 2 mod got released, Portal Stories: Mel. It's a free stand-alone game, but you need to at least own Portal 2 to play it.
    http://store.steampowered.com/app/317400/

    I'll let you know how it is after it finishes downloading.

    Just finished this.

    Man was this thing hard. In a good way though; I really had to wrack my brain to think of every single thing I could accomplish with the tools at hand. Got stuck in quite a few spots (though occasionally it's because I missed something) but I was able to beat every single one without cheating. It's one of the few games I've played recent where I'd get stuck, take a break, and then 15 minutes later get excited to go back in and try to figure out the puzzle again!

    The story was surpisingly good for a mod; though the voice acting was a little off in spots. Overall, the presentation was near Valve-level in some areas, though ultimately it has some rough edges. I occasionally got stuck on scenery. For a free mod, it is SUPER high quality; one of the better ones I've played. If you liked Portal or Portal 2 and want a challenge, I totally recommend this.

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  • SmokeStacksSmokeStacks Registered User regular
    Now that the sale stuff has blown over and the thread has slowed back down and it won't get washed away in the current of generosity that flows through this thread, I want to make a post to thank my perennial favorite human being @Berylline for hooking me up with Hexells Infinite, Dirt Rally, and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood a few days ago.

    She knows my love for driving cars on dirt roads, and she knew my anguish when I wasn't able to grab a copy of The Old Blood on the day of the encore sale because that day essentially consisted of nothing more than an awful/long shift at work and immediate sleep when I got home, and she knows that puzzle games might as well be a ditch with the way I dig them.

    Thank you Bery, you're the best. Now sleep off that hangover!

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  • rikdalyrikdaly Registered User regular
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    I know I'm fighting a losing battle but still...
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    Look at it this way, KoopahTroopah ... even though you'll shortly be crushed into dust by rikdaly and your score made to look like the fumbling efforts of a small child playing for the first time... You'll always have that screenshot. And no one can take that away from you.

    Maybe you could print it out and frame it?

    it's probably safe for a while, I can never manage to do any of the missions on the walking dead table. nice score @KoopahTroopah

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  • JazzJazz Registered User regular
    TeeMan wrote: »
    Fantastic. I don't remember my GFWL password and when I select 'Forgot Password?' and prompts me that it's going to open a new window, it crashes. Such a piece of shit. Let me Bulletstorm goddamnit! This is probably why I never got around to playing it in the first place

    I thought Bulletstorm got de-GFWL'd?

    Were you mayhaps thinking of Borderlands?

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  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    Jazz wrote: »
    TeeMan wrote: »
    Fantastic. I don't remember my GFWL password and when I select 'Forgot Password?' and prompts me that it's going to open a new window, it crashes. Such a piece of shit. Let me Bulletstorm goddamnit! This is probably why I never got around to playing it in the first place

    I thought Bulletstorm got de-GFWL'd?

    Were you mayhaps thinking of Borderlands?

    Except for the dick jokes, is there a difference?

  • IoloIolo iolo Registered User regular
    Jazz wrote: »
    TeeMan wrote: »
    Fantastic. I don't remember my GFWL password and when I select 'Forgot Password?' and prompts me that it's going to open a new window, it crashes. Such a piece of shit. Let me Bulletstorm goddamnit! This is probably why I never got around to playing it in the first place

    I thought Bulletstorm got de-GFWL'd?

    Were you mayhaps thinking of Borderlands?

    That was Gamespy. Borderlands never had GFWL, thank the Maker.

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  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    Iolo wrote: »
    Jazz wrote: »
    TeeMan wrote: »
    Fantastic. I don't remember my GFWL password and when I select 'Forgot Password?' and prompts me that it's going to open a new window, it crashes. Such a piece of shit. Let me Bulletstorm goddamnit! This is probably why I never got around to playing it in the first place

    I thought Bulletstorm got de-GFWL'd?

    Were you mayhaps thinking of Borderlands?

    That was Gamespy. Borderlands never had GFWL, thank the Maker.
    Also securom for some of the DLC. That too has been patched out, I believe.

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  • JazzJazz Registered User regular
    Iolo wrote: »
    Jazz wrote: »
    TeeMan wrote: »
    Fantastic. I don't remember my GFWL password and when I select 'Forgot Password?' and prompts me that it's going to open a new window, it crashes. Such a piece of shit. Let me Bulletstorm goddamnit! This is probably why I never got around to playing it in the first place

    I thought Bulletstorm got de-GFWL'd?

    Were you mayhaps thinking of Borderlands?

    That was Gamespy. Borderlands never had GFWL, thank the Maker.

    Ah yes. My mistake.

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    Iolo wrote: »
    Jazz wrote: »
    TeeMan wrote: »
    Fantastic. I don't remember my GFWL password and when I select 'Forgot Password?' and prompts me that it's going to open a new window, it crashes. Such a piece of shit. Let me Bulletstorm goddamnit! This is probably why I never got around to playing it in the first place

    I thought Bulletstorm got de-GFWL'd?

    Were you mayhaps thinking of Borderlands?

    That was Gamespy. Borderlands never had GFWL, thank the Maker.
    Also securom for some of the DLC. That too has been patched out, I believe.

    Yup.

  • DrakeDrake Edgelord Trash Below the ecliptic plane.Registered User regular
    Jazz wrote: »
    TeeMan wrote: »
    Fantastic. I don't remember my GFWL password and when I select 'Forgot Password?' and prompts me that it's going to open a new window, it crashes. Such a piece of shit. Let me Bulletstorm goddamnit! This is probably why I never got around to playing it in the first place

    I thought Bulletstorm got de-GFWL'd?

    Were you mayhaps thinking of Borderlands?

    Except for the dick jokes, is there a difference?

    Bulletstorm features shooting that is actually fun? :rotate:

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    Drake wrote: »
    Jazz wrote: »
    TeeMan wrote: »
    Fantastic. I don't remember my GFWL password and when I select 'Forgot Password?' and prompts me that it's going to open a new window, it crashes. Such a piece of shit. Let me Bulletstorm goddamnit! This is probably why I never got around to playing it in the first place

    I thought Bulletstorm got de-GFWL'd?

    Were you mayhaps thinking of Borderlands?

    Except for the dick jokes, is there a difference?

    Bulletstorm features shooting that is actually fun? :rotate:

    I wish we still had the *SNAP* reaction.

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    :snap:

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  • KalnaurKalnaur I See Rain . . . Centralia, WARegistered User regular
    . . . I liked the shooting in Borderlands.

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  • DrakeDrake Edgelord Trash Below the ecliptic plane.Registered User regular
    Eh, I'm touchy about my moving and shooting in first person shooters. I'd by lying if I said I didn't have fun with Borderlands at one time. That initial playthrough with Lilith was a blast. Attempts at subsequent plays suffered big time until I reached a point where I had a difficult time remembering what I ever enjoyed about the game. The magic was definitely gone.

  • Sir CarcassSir Carcass I have been shown the end of my world Round Rock, TXRegistered User regular
    Drake wrote: »
    Jazz wrote: »
    TeeMan wrote: »
    Fantastic. I don't remember my GFWL password and when I select 'Forgot Password?' and prompts me that it's going to open a new window, it crashes. Such a piece of shit. Let me Bulletstorm goddamnit! This is probably why I never got around to playing it in the first place

    I thought Bulletstorm got de-GFWL'd?

    Were you mayhaps thinking of Borderlands?

    Except for the dick jokes, is there a difference?

    Bulletstorm features shooting that is actually fun? :rotate:

    :-1:

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  • destroyah87destroyah87 They/Them She/HerRegistered User regular
    Kalnaur wrote: »
    . . . I liked the shooting in Borderlands.

    Me too. I also like the shooting in Bulletstorm. I think both games are fine shooty wise.

    To put it simply, I think Borderlands feels more like Halo style, while Bulletstorm feels more like CoD style. Both is good. Different. But Good.

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  • LehmanLehman Registered User regular
    I have a download code for the new Batman Arkham Knight that I'm not going to use. Would anyone be interested in trading me something for it? Would really like Massive Chalice. If so just reply or PM me, I'll give you the Arkham Knight code first to make sure it redeems ok

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  • bloodatonementbloodatonement Registered User regular
    Drake wrote: »
    Eh, I'm touchy about my moving and shooting in first person shooters. I'd by lying if I said I didn't have fun with Borderlands at one time. That initial playthrough with Lilith was a blast. Attempts at subsequent plays suffered big time until I reached a point where I had a difficult time remembering what I ever enjoyed about the game. The magic was definitely gone.

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