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Not to be a butt, but this is the exact opposite of what they've said in the past. When the Ambassador program was announced, they specifically said that they had no intention of bringing 3DS GBA games to non-ambassadors, and GBA games on Wii U VC was a confirmed feature very early on.

It is. My mother emails me now and then, and for the past year or so she's been essentially trying to bribe me into meeting up with her by saying that she has phony savings bond money for me. Honestly, I've been feeling really lousy lately. I'm really worried about finances and my sleep schedule is all whacked up.

I think the joke was that making joke tags for Steam games is kind of unhelpful vandalism and interferes with the actual purpose of game tagging. ...Not that the Steam tag system hasn't already been vandalized to heck and back. Don't read the tags on Gone Home 'cause they will make you depreeeeeessed.

I keep having nightmares about my family, and I'm getting emails from them again. Ugh.

About damn time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0hInTz88xM8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YbNmL6hSNKw

So this has been bugging me: what's wrong with your font?

who are all these people oh god Foster's is nearly a decade old

It's based on the way tumblr image thumbnails work, so if you post it on tumblr it looks neat.

This worked! I think Steam's usual greenish grey look is pretty ugly, so I replaced it with a black Metro theme immediately.

You don't want an... Alien Resurrection? edit: wait shit you said Allen damnit

Reskin the Spelunker as Chris and the damsel as Patrick Klepek. (it'll make juicing the damsel feel better)

Nope; wired.

Dang. A small price to pay. Unrelated thing: neither Spiral Knights nor Saints Row the Third recognize that I have a 360 controller plugged in for seemingly no reason.

Famous hedgehog now has scarf.

VERY VERY NSFW:

This is a weirdly specific complaint, but for some reason Steam shortens the names of certain games in my library, but only if they're so short that they would never ever require it. Here's a comparison: I have no idea why it does it, but does anyone know how to fix it?

A game where the actual game portion is some throwaway platformer or something with really easy to collect achievements. Every time you unlock an achievement, you get a slightly more grandiose effect (icon in the corner, icon plus achievement name in the corner, icon plus achievement name in the corner plus a "ding" sound) until it reaches its logical endpoint and the last achievement triggers a half-hour cutscene in which the player has to sit through an award ceremony.

I'm on the cutting edge of modern gaming right now, having just played Portal 2. I went through the entire thing in one sitting, having just finished my commentary replay of Portal this morning, so I really got a chance to see how it compares to its predecessor. I'm sure it's been talked to death over the past three years, so I only have a few things to say about it. it's neat that Ellen McLain finally got to perform an opera song in this one. She mentioned in the Portal 1 commentary that she was an opera singer, so that was fresh in my mind. I'm still not used to having a good graphics card, so it was bonkers to play such a pretty gamed and constantly have to remind myself that stuff like this wasn't prerendered. I didn't get motion sickness this time! Yaaaay! there's only a few things I really disliked. Wheatley's tests drag on a lot longer than I'd like and get really obtuse really fast; and a lot of the time, progressing boils down to "find the barely visible white spot in this room" using the gaming keypad SecretAsianMan sent me made a massive difference this time. I mapped WASD to the thumbstick and jump, use, and crouch to the three most easily accessible buttons. I'm never going back to the keyboard. The humour pretty much always works. "The part where he kills you" was fantastic.

so pain much injury

Poor Cabot. I hope he comes out okay. I just played a bunch of Portal to test this gaming keypad I got, and remembered why I don't usually play first-person games. I feel so dizzy and woozy.

Sno linked me to a really great interview Patrick Klepek did about how Tales of Phantasia was actively, deliberately ruined to make it free-to-play.

The Star Citizen cockpit is covered in Pokéwalkers.