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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

Fair enough then. Guess they let an overenthusiastic marketing drone do all the copy:

Not on a machine with it installed at the moment, but just repeating earlier recommendations for a mod that makes animals - both your horses and miscellaneous critters - less suicidal; and one for fast travel to/from the Thieves' Guild (though on second thought, I recommend instead skipping that horrible, horrible questline). A question of my own: the sales blurb for the Legendary Edition claims various extra features besides the DLC, such as mounted combat. Am I to understand that these are exclusive features and that therefore the only way to get them is for previous owners of Skyrim to buy the whole game again? Granted, buying the LE is cheaper than buying all the DLC assuming only owning the base game, but still, the principle kinda stinks there.

I'm only mad at Fargo because of no T-shirt add-on option. The options only came up a week ago and are quite nice (as opposed to the MS Paint mockup), but on the other hand, I want the other mutually exclusive options too (but not so much that I'd pledge $500 or 2x$150....).

Yes, there are, err, some locales on the interwebs where you can, ahem, trade-in your refusenik executables for operational ones. Lucky the drive still works, as it's difficult to download a new DVD drive.

Nope, but I've seen some footage/commentary of it and it's about as far removed from World of Goo as is possible.

My Half Life 2 was the standard double DVD size cardboard box as well. Half Life 2 was 2004 and I know at the very least I was buying the smaller boxes a year earlier with KotOR. I still have all my old large format boxes flattened in the closet, but I'd have to go root through them in order to figure out what the most recent one was. Might have been something like Throne of Bhaal. The newest 'big' box game I can think of is Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic, which had a smaller box in it, which had a DVD case in it (I think). Covers all three bases... It was a 2H 2003 release so the timing would match the general phasing out of that wonderful, wonderful cardboard. Sad days. Different regions carried different box sizes though - I bought an imported IWD2 which was a small box, but the local Australian release still came in a big box. Looking at a list of some other 2H 2003 games, Large box titles include Age of Mythology, Max Payne 2, Broken Sword 3, Republic: The Revolution, Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna, and some expansions for The Sims. Looking at a list of 2004 releases, I can't think of any I own that came in a large box.

The worst part about it is that there might be a Deep Silver logo on my boxed copies. Other than that, eh.

My total experience with the 3D GTAs: played San Andreas until the very early segment where you have to escape on a bicycle. Felt like I was playing a less entertaining version of QWOP. Have never been back.

The Intel push-pin HSF mounting system is excreable, I don't know why they've stuck with it so long. I wouldn't mount an Intel HSF in-place on the motherboard without being able to inspect the back side of the mounting holes. AMD's current stock mounting system is infinitely better.

An Oglaf game would be this exactly - heck the exact system proposed is shown in the strip from a couple weeks ago (Gifted 2). And I'd totally buy it. Totally, utterly, passionately, buy it.

Was starting to get a bit antsy over it, but finally received my Star Citizen goodies - both T-shirts and the upgraded metal card. Everything was shipped directly from China so no one really had a clue about the status of any deliveries, which have apparently been coming in irregularly for some months now.

$17.49 on Amazon for the next three days, if you're a Yankee. I assume it's for a Steam download. Open to non-Yanks too, provided they're happy to put in an - ahem - 'temporary' US billing address. It's been even cheaper on GMG in the last month or so - $13.60 - so expect low prices from various online shops. It's a game that's been included with various AMD video cards, so redemption codes for it are also readily available from people on-selling the bundle codes.

You might even have enough funds left to contract Prosper to make the game afterwards.

Never owned a tablet, but during my tentative research in the past I probably would have taken the conservative route and gotten one with a dock, such as the Asus Transformer series. Ultimately decided against a conventional tablet since I decided I wanted a Windows fallback (I'm an MS slave, I know), though I may still opt for a convertible ultraportable such as the presumably upcoming Lenovo X240t (current model is X230t).

My first build was one of those bare-die Athlons. If I'd forgotten to attach the fan I'd probably have seen blue smoke pouring out from my case within those two seconds. Also used a shim because I was terrified of crushing the core during heatsink installation. Still, I'd rather that now than Intel's playing silly buggers with their poorly coupled heatspreaders since Ivy Bridge. And yeah, I'm still down to 4GB of RAM due to a faulty stick and really ought to get some more, but these post-spike prices, eugh.