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Was hoping Monaco would have won the voting for the next community sale, but it fell short. But then visited the dev's website and they're selling the four-pack for $30 which would have matched the $7.50 price it would have been on Steam had it won the vote. But then their website failed under load. So I guess I'll come back later.

Received an e-mail from the Torment KS to register a shipping address for the delivery of the Numenera rulebooks. I kind of thought it looked like a phishing e-mail, heh - and I guess it still might be (though I've since found that the sparkworkz URL it links to is indeed owned by inXile): went direct to the website instead of following the links to register an address.

Just missed the daily sale for it - though I suspect it'll be back. It's included in the Season Pass if it works out a better deal for you that way.

I haven't even created a Steam Community ID, so I haven't even got that far....

If one of the female agents in Syndicate tried to seduce me I'd be bloody terrified.

Well having to manually remove all the silly item pack DLC was annoying, but that's not really a reason not to buy it.

It seems kind of arbitrary what Steam's new not-quite-offline mode can do: it won't grant you cards while playing, but will now save achievements. It won't update games, but will update itself. It won't take screenshots but will show the store homepage. Paranoid perhaps, but it makes me wonder what other data they're slurping while I'm nominally offline. Aside, wacky EA pricing: The Sims 3 by itself: $39.99. The Sims 3 + the Pets expansion pack: $44.99. The Sims 3 + the University Life expansion pack: $19.99. Oookay.

And by brown you mean something like an off-white or ivory. Or bright pink.

I'm awful at texting, it takes me a good few minutes just to compose a short one. But I've communicated to (in person, natch) most people with reason to contact me to not expect responses unless it's something that specifically requires an answer. I'm also limited to 100 messages every six months anyway due to my minimalist prepaid phone account ($30 per six months) - but then I probably only do one or two a month anyway.

If that works, I'm going to go play New Vegas again, for the heat. ...almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

No one can doubt my surgery skills now!

26°C? People in normal countries set their air conditioner thermostats to cool to 26°C!

I assumed it was meant to be dry British humour, but then I see articles that call that weather hot unironically. http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/hot-weekend-for-london-birming/15188283

Even after the umpteenth time you get captured in a cutscene?

I have an answering machine built into my phone (which I have mostly as an afterthought), I've maybe checked it twice in five years since the landline is really only there for DSL and no one important ever calls me on that number. I haven't changed the stock message so the caller has no way of knowing who they've reached. It was awkward when I found one of the ancient messages was a wrong number from a hospital trying to tell someone that a relative of theirs was terminal. :|

While I don't even slightly doubt it'll come back again before the sale is through, if it doesn't pan out, or if you just want it earlier, I have a couple copies I can lend or trade. Either to a Gamersgate account if you have one, or I can just PM the Steam code, I think. Ironically BL2 is one of those games with regional pricing making it uneconomical for me to buy on Steam directly, heh.

She takes her children corpse-hunting. Now that's a family-bonding activity right there.

The brain transplant is the easiest one by some margin, despite being the last in each category. The game has an XCOM-like inverse difficulty curve, though I suspect the similarities end there. Apparently my next jobs are just doing the same thing over again, but in a moving ambulance instead of an operating theatre, but I'm saving that for another day. At any rate, already got my three bucks worth out of it.

And now Surgeon Simulator 2013. Surprisingly perhaps, the controls aren't *that* unintuitive - only had one failure in the three basic surgeries. It is sort of unbalanced though, the dremel and a scalpel solve all the problems a little too easily... It's just that now, after almost an hour messing around with it, my desktop suddenly feels like it's the one that controls unnaturally.

Trying the demo of Euro Truck Simulator 2 for a couple hours - of which about 30 minutes of which was spent driving, and the balance on parking (or attempting to do so). The experience is passable with a gamepad, but I wouldn't say particularly engaging. I had a wheel about a decade ago, but being a gameport device it's sadly obsoleted, and I'm not about to buy another one, so I'm not sure the game is worth a purchase just yet. Will ponder it until it comes up on the flash sale again I guess. Not sure how much my total absence of driving experience in real life helps or hinders here.... never driven a car in my life.

Oh I'm not saying it would, I'm just saying I'd pay Obsidian for some Skyrim in space Would probably end up with Battlespire in space.

On the other hand, the real pilots might be grateful for the partial suppression of their identities.

Finally, first purchase of the sale: Surgeon Simulator.

So, uh, back to random news: Deus Ex iOS deliberately crippled if run on a jailbroken device. Still happy to take your money though.

What do you mean by "won't work"? I assume your wireless dongle is just a wi-fi thing and not one of those mobile broadband modems, so if Steam is the only thing not working, it might have to do with port forwarding. It's not something I've ever needed to do with Steam, so it's unusual, but they do provide instructions so it's evidently required sometimes. Required ports