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STEAM | November II 2014 - Autumn Sale starts the 26th

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Asgaro

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... and never come back

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zkylon

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TBH he would be less of an annoyance if YouTube didn't try to recommend him almost every time I watch something game-related. Although this is minor and probably out of his control.
Also Minecraft letsplayers. Do I have to send an official letter of complaints to Google or what?

no pewdiepie for me, youtube just recommends me terrible league of legends stuff and seems hell bent on me liking lana del rey

at some point i gave in and now own a lana del rey cd

Seriously. You need a 2000$ PC and have to sit in front of a PC like a caveman.

still doing it right?

this is no longer insulting to me since i mostly play with a controller laying in bed lol
 
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jblank83

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Ultimate General: Gettysburg is *fantastic.* I don't really like strategy games but I found myself entranced by it; the interface is so intuitive that it makes everything better.

For years I've been trying to tell people about Sid Meier's Gettysburg, which UGG is basically a remake of. I'm glad someone out there remembered it, and not just remembered it but made what is essentially a spiritual successor.

I'd buy it right now, but I have so many games to finish that I might as well wait and see what happens in the sale.
 

Kagemusha

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ModBot said:
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Asgaro

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where do you guys find all these gifs? i wonder who is the best gif-er in gaf? some people just have to right gif at the right time.

I don't really want to "ruin the art" by telling secrets, but anyway, here are my personal sources:

https://reactiongifsarchive.imgur.com/
It's like a database of reaction gifs.
Personally don't use that site so much anymore since:
- most gifs are quite "old" from the viewpoint of someone who follows the "gif scene" a bit, lol. I try to find something fresh.
- they don't seem to update it anymore

https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs and https://www.reddit.com/r/reactiongifs
Here the magic happens: lots of activity; lots of new stuff.
I browsed Reddit daily till about half a year again.
But then I realised Reddit is too much of a MONSTER THAT CONSUMES TIME so I competely stopped reading it.
Maybe I'll get into that site again, just for the sake of reading this gif related subreddits.


And then I also have a bookmarks folder with stored gif URLs that I came across anywhere else across the internet.
It's something I recently started but it's steadily growing.


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some people just have to right gif at the right time.

That's true.

But sometimes... I just have a gif laying around I WANT to post, and then I just wait for that perfect comment to pop up where it applies perfectly.
Thinking out of the box m8.

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Now again, I hope not too many people read this post.
it ruins the mystique you guys...
 

Asgaro

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But where did you find the skyrim schlong gif? :p

Holy shit!
I was literally thinking about bringing this gif up again in my post here above.
Because that was actually a gif I had laying around for a long time but I never dared to post it. But then a comment/situation arised where the gif would be perfect. And well, the rest is history.

Yeah, that gif appeared I think on the /r/gaming subreddit. I saved it in the mentioned bookmarks folder so I can't tell for sure but think it was there.

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Hilarious that you remember it was me haha. Seems that gif and my user name have been carved in some people's minds from that very moment.
 

Asgaro

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But seriously, use GIFCAM.

Noice. Never heard of it honestly! But I never also ventured in creating gifs myself; more applying them.

I hope this works with Youtube videos since I recently wanted to make a gif from a hilarious Saint's Row 3 segment but the conversion site didn't work.
 

CheesecakeRecipe

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Hello, lovers <3

I am back, reeking of Sake, Yamazaki whiskey and 19 hour car rides but I am glad to be back home among the SteamBros. Fuck hotels that don't have Wifi and insist on charging you for using the single Ethernet adapter in the room.
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/tradingcards#announcements/detail/163582965920702191

All new games purchased as a gift and placed in the purchaser's inventory will be untradable for 30 days. The gift may still be gifted at any time. The only change is to trading.

We've made this change to make trading gifts a better experience for those receiving the gifts. We're hoping this lowers the number of people who trade for a game only to have the game revoked later due to issues with the purchaser's payment method.

Welp...
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Well, that's not something nice to come home to.

It makes sense - I see people getting duped all the time trading for games purchased by credit card scammers. This should prevent games being traded away and later revoked which (although it never happened to me personally) I guess is a real hassle for a lot of people. This is just another "we have to do this to protect people from themselves" for those users who think you really can get that copy of Day Z for 2 keys.

It'll be interesting to see what effect this has on TF2 key trading.
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
It had to end sometime.

If I had to guess, I'd say that these situations were probably pretty common and were also a huge support nightmare (manually reversing trades, etc). With any luck this new system will work as intended and hopefully alleviate some key support personnel and free up their time to work on other important support issues.
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Traders will be unable to price match during sales, and they would need to stockpile while games are on sale.

Yep. It also means that games with short pre-order windows won't be available from cross-region traders on a game's release date, although ACRTAG being enabled by default pretty much already shattered that dream.
 

Turfster

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If I had to guess, I'd say that these situations were probably pretty common and were also a huge support nightmare (manually reversing trades, etc). With any luck this new system will work as intended and hopefully alleviate some key support personnel and free up their time to work on other important support issues.
Yeah, I think this is partially protecting people from themselves, and partially protecting support from their stupid tickets ;)

Still, this hasn't done anything to plug the reliable russian connections you just paypal money to... or scammers that ask for keys to be sent first, and then don't actually gift the game afterwards.
 
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