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5:00 PM
It's probably the only game I actively dislike of all six
 
Mission ends in 60 seconds.
 
@badp You and your Professor Speks that Juan gave you. >:|
 
@badp Which?
 
@ArdaXi Bit.Trip Runner.
 
@Powerlord Free?
 
5:01 PM
I do find it amusing that the game makes quite a few references to Pitfall (the graphics in advertisements, the gold bars, etc...)
 
@ArdaXi No, Alien Breed 2.
It's available for three tickets, and those prizes can change.
 
Ah.
 
@ArdaXi Oh, I should check which message you're replying to. Whoops.
 
Well, no matter, Steam is offline atm.
 
I'd rather not start in the middle of a series.
Besides, the Alien Breed trilogy, in USD, is $1.25 more than buying just #1 and #3.
 
5:03 PM
@Powerlord Didn't you say you never played TFC?
Only one ticket?
 
@ArdaXi I only played TFC a few times.
 
Only CS:S today it seems.
 
tfc was great, esp with dialup and 200 ping.
those were the days.
 
Wait, no, I've never played TFC, only TF (quake mod).
I've also never played FF, because the damn thing didn't want to connect last time I tried.
 
Steam homepage is back to non-summer sale now.
 
5:05 PM
@Mana You haven't heard WU LYF yet?
 
New announcement from the relevant Steam group
 
@ArdaXi Give it 5 minutes. I noticed during the Treasure Hunt sale that Steam tends to revert if they haven't gotten the next day's stuff set up.
 
WE BROOOOOOS WE BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS.
 
I hadn't
but now I know that we bros
 
SHOGUN 2
Call of Duty: Black Ops
GTA Classics
Star Wars: (KOTOR, Force Unleashed 2, Battlefront II, Empire at War)
The Heroes Pack
Dungeons
Devil May Cry 4
Just Cause 1 & 2
Railworks
Braid
SpaceChem
Hamilton's Great Adventure
 
5:05 PM
Ooh, Dungeons.
 
dungeons is terrible!
 
Oooooh, Braid. I can get one today.
 
TERRIBLE
 
aaand Steam store is 503 for me
 
@Loktar So, go to GOG and get Dungeon Keeper instead?
 
5:06 PM
I have all those games except two :?
Its nothing like Dungeon Keeper
 
Steam is 503 for me too.
 
nothing at all
 
ooho Spacechem
 
Also, Whar is Civ 5! I was told Civ 5 sale was coming dammit!
 
Spacechem didn't really interest me.
 
5:06 PM
It was such a huge disapointment :(
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Where'd you hear that?
 
I like SpaceChem.
 
and the 3 and 4 images are still broken for me o_O
 
What are today's achievement games?
 
@Powerlord Rumor floating around.
 
5:07 PM
tf2, dwarfs
shogun 2
 
oooh the Prize Booth doesn't change, yay!
 
Hamilton's Great Adventure
spacechem
 
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alienbreed impact
those are the games for the achievments
 
tf2 achieve will be easy, don't have any of the others listed so far. >:|
 
5:08 PM
So why did I see a CS:S ticket achievement?
 
Find your friends - Link your Facebook Profile in Steam <-dammit I don't want to do that :( Can you unlink?
 
@FallenAngelEyes I already have. I'll have a look
 
I have to get hamiltons great adventure apparently
 
Thanks much
 
only one i need for the achievment list
 
5:08 PM
I'll create a new, fake Facebook profile for it if I need to.
 
Oh, that's an idea...
 
So, if you see a Nancy Arfenbark on Facebook, that'll be me.
 
Oh, a TF2 achievement too.
 
You can obviously unlink it from Facebook itself.
 
> Escape the Heat - Jump into a pool of refreshing water while on fire
 
5:09 PM
> Bottom line — never hesitate to ask and answer your own question on any Stack Exchange site.
Huh. Well, cool!
 
And a lame achievement: "Find your friends - Link your Facebook Profile in Steam"
 
@badp I thought there was already an achievement for that.
 
@Powerlord It's worth a ticket anyway.
Oh, and no Braid ticket :/
 
@Mana This seems to encourage asking and immediately self-answering.
I disagree with that.
 
Yeah but Braid is great
 
5:11 PM
@Powerlord Fairly sure there wasn't.
 
everyone should own it
 
Hamilton's Great Adventure - Beach 2011 - Complete the "Up, up and away" extra level in the Amazon Jungle
SpaceChem - Science is an Indoor Activity - Beat 3 published ResearchNet assignments
Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Summer Son - Your daimyo wins 3 consecutive land battles during the summer season
Alien Breed: Impact - Time to Party! - Complete 3 Co-op Assault multi-player games
Team Fortress 2 - Escape the Heat - Jump into a pool of refreshing water while on fire
Dwarfs!? - Sharpshooter - Score 2500 in the Carnival minigame
 
@Loktar I own it, but have not the patience to finish it.
 
Shogun 2 might be difficult, ill just make a new campaiign on easy
 
Besides, I know how it ends anyway.
 
5:11 PM
Hamiltons Great Adventure doesnt interest me at all.. but oh well
ill try for it regardless
 
So, TF2 is going to update while I'm at work? Great...
Then again, this is exactly what Portable PuTTY is for.
 
Gah, I've already done that SpaceChem achievement. Fine, I'll do it again.
@Powerlord This is what crontabs are for.
 
@ArdaXi How will that help exactly? The update won't take effect until the server is restarted, and I'm not going to restart it randomly via cron.
No, that's what nemrun is for, but I've never gotten around to setting it up.
 
user30
Error 503 Service Unavailable
 
user30
±_±
 
5:14 PM
I think I may break 500 games on steam with this sale
 
user30
Ooh, GTA is on offer again
 
yeah im getting that too
 
user30
I might pick it up this time
 
just got the alien breed pack
 
user30
everything else looks meh
 
user30
5:15 PM
Already have Spacechem & Just Cause 2
 
@Loktar 500? I thought my 100 were much.
 
yeah im at like 480 I think right now
i collect pc games, boxed ones as well
 
I'm going to buy 0 of today's sale games.
 
I'm at €1000 right now.
 
Also, why Alien Breed: Impact and not Alien Swarm?
 
5:16 PM
My steam calculator worth jumped to 5k last night
 
user30
Meh, Steam calculator means shit-all
 
@Powerlord yeah I was wondering that too
pretty random
 
@Powerlord Because they don't make money off Alien Swarm.
 
posted on July 01, 2011 by M'vy

On June 17th, Dungeon Siege was released in European countries. I began playing it the following day! So after playing one week of dungeon siege, what do I think of it. At the beginning At the very first of the game, you are presented four characters. From this list you have to choose which to [...]

 
I have over 200 games on my Steam account, I don't really need more.
 
5:16 PM
yeah @ThomasMcDonald I havent paid that much for sure
I get alot during the sales
 
user30
I think at last check (through my account info) I was at about £500
 
user30
Yay 3 tickets
 
I'll just quickly get that SpaceChem one
Then TF2 when it finishes updating.
 
user30
Can I get previous tickets?
 
And then I'll have every ticket I can get for free.
 
5:17 PM
Before I paid my credit card bill yesterday, I had $2200 in my bank account. It's now significantly less than that.
 
@ThomasMcDonald Yes.
 
user30
I presume not oh
 
> You campers did great with yesterday's camp activities so we have added a bunch more to the list. And remember yesterday's are still available if you were not able to finish them up.
 
@ArdaXi Which is the same as the Treasure Hunt thing.
 
yeah they always leave these open fortunatly
otherwise i wouldnt leave my room some days
 
5:19 PM
And there we go.
Easiest achievement ever.
 
Are the prize drawings for the grand prize held daily?
 
All I had to do was click Play.
> We’ll draw the winners at the conclusion of the Steam Summer Camp Sale.
 
@ArdaXi So, in that respect it is different than the Treasure Hunt.
 
If you say so.
 
user30
Well, I still only have £6 in my current account, so GTA would be the only purchase over this weekend
 
5:20 PM
"Age of Conan has officially been re-launched as a free to play game" - F2P, where AAA MMO's go to die.
 
The Treasure Hunt had drawings every other day, which is why it was important to do achievements during the time window they were first available.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz s/MMO's/games/
 
user30
Ooh, Terraria also has some money off. A whole £1.50
 
0
Q: [MINECRAFT] I cant spawn on my bed!

cramscoolio9My bed is elevated one block, my house is 4 blocks tall with a roof and whenever i die it says my bed is missing or obstructed. Thank you. maybe the elevation is the problem?

 
5:28 PM
@LessPop_MoreFizz Yah, like that World of Battlecraft or whatever that started being F2P. ;-)
 
@bwarner It is now Free to Play up to level 20!
 
That was my point
Clearly it is dead
 
And a quartet of convenient not so micro transactions will increase your level cap to 60, 70, 80, and 85 respectively!
@bwarner It is dead to me!
(though my reasons have nothing to do with the New And Improved Trial or RAF upgrades or w/e)
 
I played during the first year or two, haven't played since
 
@bwarner I played from Vanilla through to 2 months ago, eventually raiding with a US top 10 guild for 2 years.
Think our World rank peaked in the high 20's? Damn euros.
 
5:30 PM
How do they determine guild "rank"?
 
@bwarner Order of first kills on new raid content.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz trio to 70, 80, and 85 you mean.
 
@Powerlord No, it's F2P up to level 20 now.
 
Burning Crusade is no longer a separate product.
 
@Powerlord Wat. I missed that.
 
5:34 PM
@LessPop_MoreFizz Yes, you did. It was announced at the same time as the f2p to level 20 thing.
 
@Powerlord I just read headlines these days!
 
Is that because the new locations it created were destroyed by Cataclysm anyway?
 
Everyone with just the base game was upgraded to Burning Crusade for free.
and basically, the Battle Chest has replaced standalone WoW in stores or something
 
@Powerlord And boy was that guy happy
 
I wonder if we'll see a new BattleChest with Wrath in it now... or maybe even one with Wrath and Cata.
 
5:35 PM
And that's all my camping for today.
 
@bwarner One of the important points of Cataclysm was that the old 1-60 world was completely redone, even if you didn't buy Cataclysm.
 
@bwarner Nah, the new terrain from BC is a seperate continent, so totally untouched.
 
Gaijin Games are sadistic bastards :|
2
 
So, you could buy the base game and still get an up to date playing experience, just not any of the high level content.
I heard a rumor that Blizzard wants to go redo Outlands too (the 60-70 area), but given how long the old world took, I have a feeling their bosses will say no.
Well, OK, it was an interview, not a rumor, but still, I think Activision will nix that plan, simply because Cataclysm fell somewhat short of expectations.
 
Anyone played Heroes of Might & Magic 5? Is the $5 Heroes Pack a good deal?
 
5:39 PM
@Powerlord A more likely solution in my mind would be bumping the XP gain in the high level old world zones to carry it up to ~65, and bumping Borean Tundra down to 65-68, combined with an Outland Revamp as an 85-90 zone for a new Burning Legion themed xpack
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz That'd require them to restructure how leveling works in the Old World again, which again would be too much effort.
Basically, the old world now has zones divided into 5-level ranges, with only two level 55-60 zones: Blasted Lands and Silithus.
 
@Powerlord Wouldn't require restructuring at all. There's already more zones than there are levels in the old world, including a notable level 58-60 zone that was not touched by the revamp.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz I assume you mean Silithus there.
 
Silithus was never revamped. It could easily be made a 60-65 zone. And the XP ranges in Blasted Lands can be adjusted to make it a 55-62 without much trouble.
You don't need to restructure, just change the XP/Level and XP gain rates to allow for a different pace of character growth in the same content.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Blizzard appears to be against having a single zone for a level range.
 
5:42 PM
@Powerlord Not totally - See: Deepholm.
You're right that they don't consider it ideal though.
A lot of that has to do with issues of traffic control around launches though.
i.e. Howling Fjord/Borean Tundra and Vashj'ir/Hyjal are basically solutions to The Hellfire Penninsula Problem.
Which isn't as big of one for what amounts to a 'mid level' zone that you don't dash into on launch day.
 
Oh look TF2 update?
Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
Fixed a case where servers would accumulate ghost players
Fixed bug with SourceTV and Replay causing player count to be off by one.

Team Fortress 2
Added lots of new Summer items, including the Refreshing Summer Cooler Key
Added a new achievement: Escape the Heat
Fixed a case where the client-side voting dialog would have an incorrect list of items
Fixed a bug where some items would not update their team colors correctly
Fixed a client backpack crash
Of all hats, the Lo-Fi Longwave hat had to become paintable? Lame.
 
"Fixed bug with SourceTV and Replay causing player count to be off by one. " FINALUCKINGLY
That means I need to update my server.cfg on all servers to stop lying about the slot count.
Note: This bug has existed since 2009 or earlier, likely 2008ish.
Anyway, I started my server updater.
 
Also selecting items in the store makes noise.
Also, Mann Co. store sale
Name tag at €1.49 (-60%)
 
Hallelujah, my server shows as 24/24 with sv_maxvisibleplayers commented out.
Also, my server filled up hella fast after reboot.
 
Yeah, the polycount hats are also on sale.
 
5:54 PM
and now it shows 22/25. So much for that fix. Thanks Valve!
 
Well, the spy one is, the soldier one is, the pyro one is.
 
Can anyone else check red.ocrtf2.com in the server browser and tell me what it shows for player numbers?
 
22/25
(Ocremix TF2 Red)
 
Damn it, Valve lied about fixing it.
It showed 24/24 for a bit, then changed to /25
 
As for the new stuff there's six limited items
One's the summer key
One's the pack of the rest
A scout misc, flip flops
A scout misc, lucky no. 42 (it's... um... a bag)
A global hat, Summer Hat.
A noisemaker - fireworks, 25 uses.
 
6:08 PM
0
Q: How can I break locks in Two Worlds II?

Tamás SzeleiI know about picking and auto-picking. The game shows "break lock: 50% damage weapon: 0%" when I approach a lock with my weapons drawn. How can I try and break them? If I attack, nothing happens.

 
@Powerlord the ATF server just updated and suddenly started lagging like hell, at least 90ms extra for everybody
 
With all the talk about the Toki Tori Summer Sale, we almost forgot. RUSH is also on sale on Steam. Grab it for 75% off: http://t.co/ooQyyLT
^ I also downloaded that one as Wiiware a year or two ago. It's excellent. You should check it out.
 
argh all I need to do is beat the boss and I can get the Endure achievement but the timing for avoiding the UFOs is so narrow >_<
 
6:23 PM
@GnomeSlice I already have RUSH... it was part of the Potato Sack Pack.
AKA the Portal 2 promo pack.
 
@Powerlord Would you have gotten it if it HADN'T been part of whatever that is?
 
@GnomeSlice I had it on my Steam wishlist before that.
 
@Powerlord =]
 
ENDURE GET!
passes out
 
@badp Summer key?
 
6:33 PM
ok, food time, stupid game argh
 
6:44 PM
Does anybody know if I can get tickets in the steam summer camp for the previous days?
or do they have to be completed on the day the activities come out?
 
@JuanManuel You can
 
cool
 
there's a link to the previous day right there on the prize/activities list page
 
yes, but I didn't know if they counted it
 
@ArdaXi For summer crates
 
6:52 PM
1 hour ago, by Arda Xi
> You campers did great with yesterday's camp activities so we have added a bunch more to the list. And remember yesterday's are still available if you were not able to finish them up.
 
7:04 PM
Bah, I knew I was missing something.
When a player casts a vote, I need to fire the vote_cast event.
 
0
Q: Why is the Starcraft 2 Minimap not a rectangle?

SamNathan Why is the minimap in Starcraft 2 shaped like a Trapezoid. Why does it change shape as it moves, with one side becoming elongated, etc. On what game mechanics / mathematics is the shape and state based?

 
Would anyone like to join a Spleef tournament on my Minecraft server? A bunch of the entrants never showed up, but we could continue with one more player.
 
Sure, I'll spleef. :D
 
Whoo!
mc.treepunch.ca
 
I haven't booted up Minecraft in ages...
 
7:10 PM
It was updated yesterday
 
Yeah I saw the piston questions. :P
I'll be there in about 2 minutes.
 
Oh, by the way, if anyone needs a spare copy of TF2, I still have a giftable one. Why do I even bother?
 
People who owned prioer to F2P don't get anything special, neh?
 
@FallenAngelEyes They got... oh, come on, it's TF2. You should be able to guess this one.
 
7:19 PM
:)
I can finally understand all the jokes about hats
 
Spoiler :(
 
lol
 
is in awe of how much time @badp has spent on TF2.
 
@Macha Not even me?
Well, most of my time has been before Steam started tracking it.
 
@Macha I leave it in background
 
7:21 PM
70/700 hours or thereabout in the last two weeks.
 
so the number you really want to see is '237.53', not 580
 
580 hours?
What.
 
Seriously though guys, if you enjoyed Arkam Asylum, and even if you haven't played that you should, you should really check this trailer out. Wow.
 
@Macha I've spent over 2000 hours in TF2, 600 as one class alone, and you don't comment on that?
 
@Powerlord Have I added you on Steam? @badp had the largest on my friend's list when I looked.
 
7:22 PM
@Macha Probably not.
 
Oh, that reminds me, I may need to leave the face Facebook account I'm going to create linked to my Steam account just so I can increase my friends list size.
 
@Powerlord Tsk, you don't even have the TF2 ticket yet.
 
@ArdaXi I'm at work.
 
7:24 PM
@Powerlord Excuses.
 
@ArdaXi A very good one since they likely block port 27015 here, even if I was able to connect my laptop (which is at home) to the network here.
 
@Powerlord So set up an SSH tunnel.
Heh, TF2 over SSH. I wonder how much that would lag.
 
Hmm, my Steam Guard email hasn't arrived.
 
Steam Guard needs to hurry up and implement TOTP.
 
Dammit @KevinY, as if you beat me in the preliminaries.
 
7:28 PM
@GnomeSlice ...
 
TOTP?
 
@ArdaXi Que?
 
Time-based HMAC-based One Time Password Algorithm.
 
Google Auth uses it.
 
7:32 PM
@GnomeSlice :D
 
7:55 PM
Space chem is pretty crazy actually
not at all what I was expecting
 
I think this is finally finished. \o/
Now, I just need to write a plugin to test it.
 
SpaceChem has taught me that if I'd ever do science, it would be theoretical.
 
lol
yeah this achievement is going to be difficult.
 
Research levels are so much easier than the production ones.
@Loktar Which?
 
the space chem one, unless the research levels are pretty easy
still going through the space chem tut
on unbonding now
 
8:04 PM
That one is easy.
The research levels are user-submitted.
Just wait until you get to fusion.
 
yeah Im going to look for some really simple user levels then
 
This is the one I got the achievement for.
 
wow..
 
It's really, really simple if you think about it.
The TF2 ones are really easy too.
 
yeah TF2 one I plan on getting later when I do my normal TF2 play time
Just got the Dwarfs one
 
8:07 PM
If you want to see one where you have no idea what the hell's going on.
 
lol
yeah that game looks like it can get quite in depth
 
It's frustrating alright.
The research levels are relatively easy. But then you have to work with multiple factories.
 
@Arda didn't you mention at some point recommending to buy SpaceChem from the devs rather than Steam cuz you get a key from them?
 
@FallenAngelEyes Yeah.
 
I got a key when buying from Steam.
had to enter it in before I could play it
 
8:15 PM
@Loktar Yeah, I know, but that's not the reason I recommended buying from the devs.
 
But its always better to buy directly from the devs
 
If you buy it from them, you get to download it for Linux as well.
 
they get more $$ that way
ah nice
 
That too. Steam takes like 50%.
 
wow, 50? really?
 
8:18 PM
Yep.
That's the cut they take from Garry, anyway.
 
Garry?
 
Garry Newman, of Garry's Mod fame.
 
ah I intially thought that, but thought maybe there was a reg Garry in the chat here
who had a game on steam
 
@GnomeSlice Better luck next time
 
It's just simple baconomics.
 
8:31 PM
I don't own most of the games you can get DLC prizes for, so there's little motivation to buy games I don't own.
 
- Gave the Atomizer the Sandman taunt.
- Added new items: Big Steel Jaw of Summer Fun, Copper's Hard Top, Security Shades, Tam O' Shanter,
Stately Steel Toe, Nessie's Nine Iron, Rogue's Col Roule, Prairie Heel Biters, Postal Pummeler.
- The Sticky Jumper no longer prevents self-damage from explosions made with the Ullapool Caber, Grenade Launcher or Loch-n-Load.
- The Rocket Jumper no longer prevents self-damage from the Kamikaze kill-taunt.
↑ undocumented changes from today
Prairie Heel Biters ? ?
Big Steel Jaw of Summer Fun ? ?
Stately Steel Toe ? ?
Copper's Hard Top ? ?
Stately Steel Boot ? ?
Rogue's Col Roule ? ?
Tam O'Shanter ? ?
 
0
Q: Do slimes attack on peaceful mode? (Minecraft)

Nikolas MooreI was cavediving for iron (on peaceful mode, obviously), when I found a large Slime. I ran out as fast as I could. I really need to know if they attack on peaceful or not

 
↑ what's in the cooler crate
 
I know that as soon as I can, I'm dropping my Axetinguisher for a Mailbox on a Stick Axtinguisher.
I wonder if the 9-iron has the wrong stats.
It's got the eyelander penalties without the eyelander head-stealing htings
Hey @badp - when a game is downloading an update from steam, how do you view the patch notes?
"View Details" and "View News" seem to do the exact same thing for me.
 
View News is usually the link
but non-Valve games don't always have patch notes
 
8:38 PM
@RavenDreamer There's TF2.
 
@RavenDreamer You can get a new game entirely
 
@ArdaXi - I already have the Sunglasses. Got them with the Toki Tori achievement this mornin.
 
€5 complimentary of Valve.
 
@RavenDreamer Oh?
@RavenDreamer The sunbathing one?
 
Yeah.
My Toki Tori data got reset somehow, so I had to beat the first 12 levels again...
 
8:40 PM
Hm. I hadn't launched TF2 since getting it.
 
@bwarner - If you're interested in the Heroes V, you only need to purchase Tribes of the East. It's got all the factions, so you're only missing out on some campaigns.
 
I don't appear to have received any items for Get A Tan.
 
You didn't get a Ticket?
That's what I meant earlier - I got my 3rd ticket from that achievement, and then bought the summer shades
 
Oh.
I did get the ticket.
I have 7 tickets, no idea what to spend them on.
 
alright got the space chem one
 
8:48 PM
I'm going to equip them when I play Sniper so that my shades can have a pair of shades.
 
@RavenDreamer It'd make more sense for the Pyro.
Yes, I use the professor speks for the pyro too. Looks oddly feminine.
@RavenDreamer do the STNO servers have map downloading off or is it just me failing?
 
Just you failing.
Though there might be something wrong with their servers too
Every time I connect, I have to redownload a ton of stuff, so I'd not rule out some sort of problem.
Okay! Fake Facebook profile linked to Steam Account.
 
I fail to download them, so. Connects to Italy for a change
 
Prize, please!
Man. I wish I had the money to buy a 3DS for Bit.Trip Saga
 
I'm just gonna get the Wii version
 
8:57 PM
 

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