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Well played, Valve. Well played.

FTC is Federal Trade Commission, I'm assuming. more importantly wtf is metalgate edit: thanks ben edit edit: oh so it's just tortorlborskort on the rampage again edit edit edit: i read the whole thing and... yeah that sounds about right

...So uh does anyone want to start playing Starbound semi-regularly? Because I'd be down for that. It's a Terraria-like! EDIT: Actually I'd also be down for Terraria. But Starbound is newer and I haven't played it as much as its predecessor so.

I got my gift in the mail today! I'll open it on ECKSMAS MORNING AS IS APPROPRIATE. I'll be shipping mine on Monday. I HOPE IT'S COOL.

You guys are crazy. I'm normally all about the dumb events because I like collecting dumb things, but even I'm not participating in this!

Real Americans humans use the format 2014-12-13.

I became leader of some galactic empire of space slugs. They all loved me or respected me if they didn't love me. I didn't want to lead them, but I begrudgingly accepted. They kept trying to convince me to eat their food but they're space slugs dangit. I'm a human! There was one guy-slug on the HIGH COUNCIL or whatever in particular who didn't-love-but-respected me and was mostly just sad/angry that he didn't seem to Need to Exist anymore. We were always at odds because he was trying to stay relevant in this new human-led space-slug empire. But then there was a threat to the human race! Some sort of evil force was attacking and destroying humans! I assigned the Slug at Odds to investigate and solve this problem and he started crying because he was so happy and I was like "OF COURSE I NEED YOU!" Then I was in a space-future human-colony-building and helping Slug at Odds investigate/deal with a situation on this particular colony. We found a bunch of surviving humans and a bunch of dead mutilated humans and we got all the living humans in the same room. But then AHHH half the humans turned into evil possessed humans with crazy gross creatures coming out of their heads! A fight broke out and a few of us Regular Humans were on one side of a table. One Possessed Human was on the other side of the table. Possessed Human tried to attack, but ran into the table and ended up accidentally kissing his pal from earlier when he wasn't possessed and they both backed off, freaking out at the accidental kiss. Then Possessed Human screams and bent over at the waist and gross crazy creature came out of his head. I grabbed a pair of scissors and tried to cut its head off but only managed to clip its mouth and slice that a little bit. But then I STABBED IT IN THE LONG NECK THING and started pulling it out of the possessed dude and possessed dude started screaming NO STOP PLEASE NO. Then I woke up. I don't understand where this dream came from. But I'm glad I'm remembering my weird-ass dreams again because this was fucking weird. Also after waking up it struck me that the space slugs and the evil force were the same race, but the space slugs I was ruling over were Good Space Slugs and the evil force were Bad Space Slugs. And also that Slug at Odds was inside me and we were working together. Like those rebel Yeerks in Animorphs. Listen I don't know. This was a weird dream.

Agreed, I said elsewhere that if they get him, I'm 100% in.

I honestly think that's intentional, because they already have sorting readily available in their store, and it can't be that difficult to add it to the auction thing. I'm not sure what they're trying to accomplish. Make it harder to get to the games in the middle, so the games on either end of the list are higher in price and you craft more gems to bid on the easier-to-find items, thus clearing out more "space" in the market? I don't know. It's weird.

I'm of the opinion that this auction thing is an attempt by valve to clear out the Steam Market of a bunch of junk that's just been sitting there. I dunno if it'll work, and the fact that you can also trade gems for booster packs (to get more cards!) means that there's a bit of a cycle going on, but at any rate... that's what I think this is for.

That's incorrect Merus. Only one game is up for auction at a time. The first auction ends Monday morning at... some time? Then each auction after that lasts 45 minutes.

Sad trumpet noise. Also they're making a Mario movie! Or are they? http://kotaku.com/report-sony-making-super-mario-bros-cartoon-1670192558

um no i don't think so i was just being silly dang ):

Dota 2's map changed very recently, actually, in seemingly small ways that are actually quite drastic for anyone deep in the game. It is rare, though, and also this doesn't really ruin your point or anything, but I JUST HAD TO CLARIFY.

That reminds me! I'd love to see Jackie Chan as a Jedi!

My new life goal is to make an awful game, but somehow get IGN, Gamespot, etc. to review it, and I'll cherry-pick a single word that implies something good, and put it on the box or store page or whatever, and I'll make millions.

Hmm hmmmm I could see it, but I don't know! It could just as easily be attributed to "dumb easy joke" territory.

The gems are supplies! Geez don't you believe in magic?! I've had seemingly regular occurrences of the website switching languages on me over the years, usually during a busy sale or whatever. At this point I've just gotten used to it and I know where the drop-down menu is in the upper-right to change the language back to English.

It says in the comic! They use gems to make more gifts! Bjorn: I'm not seeing it, but I don't know what specifically you're talking about.

yeah but nobody plays dumb alliance anyway

I just watched Snowpiercer and that movie's great 'cause it's like that hallway murder scene in Oldboy combined with Bioshock on a train without superpowers except for the one who does have a superpower and also way less subtle about its social commentary.

I dunno people seem pretty upset over the super rad awesome two handed laser broadsword!

It's possible it wasn't planned this way, and possible it wasn't possible to plan another way, but I feel like this latest episode would've made much more sense earlier on. Or split up and inserted elsewhere. "Hey here's some more stuff humanizing Adnan!" Hmm. Dunno!

Next week's the final episode and it's gearing up to be probably nothing spectacular!!!!

I dunno, early bits are fairly reminiscent of Mad Max as I remember it from the first time I watched all three movies a few years ago. And then at about thirty seconds that cartoon psycho kamikaze blows up a car with two spears. And then I genuinely laughed out loud at the car flying up in the air in the sandstorm and then exploding and. That's maybe a little over the top compared to what I remember, but I don't care. Whenever I laugh at ridiculous action movie bullshit, I'm in. Yeah I'm in. Of course there's always the chance all the best bits are already in that trailer. Eh, it's a risk I'm willing to take!