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Reading stuff about this on other sites and forums (NeoGAF included), and then coming here an reading this thread, makes me realize how much of an oasis in a shit-desert this place is. Thanks for being awesome, guys.

I went ham on Twitter over this. The "journalist" in question is the biggest fucking hack in the world. This shit makes me mad.

So I talked to one of the two guys making this game on Twitter, and I'm gonna be interviewing him tomorrow morning! Once the interview/article is up, I'll post a link here.

I've never seen Valve as a dodgy-looking company, though. They're pretty transparent about their objectives as a company, and they've managed to make some of the best PC games of the last couple decades to boot.

I don't get what all the fuss is about with Valve adding all the meaningless incentivization into Steam. Trading cards, cheeves, whatever - if you don't like it, don't worry about it! It's all completely optional, and if you have no interest in participating in any of it, you can still buy the same games for the same (deeply discounted) prices as everyone else! Hell, you can get games for cheaper, by selling off all your cards instead of crafting badges. It just seems ridiculous to me to get so upset over a completely voluntary addition to a service that is otherwise fantastic for it's main purpose (that of digital distribution of games).

That carnival game is seriously fucking ridiculous. I think I've only managed like 4/8.

Apparently the ACNL trading economy has been completely fucked due to an item duping bug. http://animalcrossing.quora.com/The-Collapse-of-the-Animal-Crossing-Economy-and-the-Rise-of-Villager-Trading

This looks absolutely bonkers, and I really want it to become a real thing. Looks like their campaign is doing okay, but not great, so hopefully it makes it.

The cast said to say something in the steam group chat if we wanted to join the guild, but that shit is always empty, so I figured I'd just ask here. If anyone sees this, I would like to join the guild. My steam name is the same as my username here.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 is fucking awesome. I've played like 30 hours of it.

Roger that. Is it like the DS was, where you have to put a different pain in the ass friend code in for every game, or do you have one universal friend code now?

Oh yeah, I bought the following during the sale: Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Explosion Pack DLC Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Tactical Pack DLC Deus Ex Human Revolution: The Missing Link DLC Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Standard Edition System Shock 2 FEZ Euro Truck Simulator 2 Starseed Pilgrim Cart Life Receiver

Oh man, you're in for some good times. Hotline Miami is one of my favourite games of the last couple years.

So I just bought one of these things. So far I've just been playing Animal Crossing, which is pretty much the reason I bought it. Really enjoying it so far, and super intrigued by the whole streetpass thing, as it seems really cool. Probably gonna pick up Fire Emblem soon....any other titles I need to own? Also, who wants to be Animal Crossing friends?

That's the demon that hangs out on the ramparts near the beginning of Dark Souls, right? Looks fantastic.

I upvoted you on greenlight as well. Looking good dude.

Everyone on the Idle Thumbs forum is secretly an amazing artist, apparently. Wtf guys. I can't even draw stick men properly.

Tegan, if you end up doing a big fancy version of that, I will strongly consider getting it tattooed on my body.

Holy shit, Euro Truck 2 is on the flash sale for ten bucks! Everyone should seriously buy the fuck out of that. Those games NEVER go on sale.

20% off right now, because summer sale.

Tegan, your art is super rad.

I can tell you have points in Haggle because Charon doesn't take all your gold at the beginning. I can tell you have points in bonus gold because you're getting 14 per drop, rather than the usual 10. And your health max is 186, which is relatively low. I guess you could be playing miner, though, and be getting the bonus gold and health reduction from that. Anyways, yeah. That's actually an interesting strategy, getting all the expensive stuff first. I wonder how that works out in the long run, as far as efficiency goes. I definitely felt like getting enough damage to one-shot the early monsters was a huge efficiency boost, because I can run the first few rooms and get a bunch of gold very quickly.

Your upgrade choices are really weird, toblix. You have points in expensive-ass shit like Haggle, and the one that gets you more gold, but you have hardly any health!

I don't know if anyone has already mentioned this, but I thought this was interesting: While we're all berating Valve for trying to make money off of this, it looks like the majority of the marketplace fees for selling these cards are actually going to the developers. If I'm reading this right, it looks like a two thirds of the fees being charged are going to the developers/publishers, while only the remaining third of the fees is going to Valve.

Yeah, I'm listening to the bombcast right now. It is really fantastic.