ToasterToastin'

I wonder if my old Kickstarter copy will still be valid. I mean, I fell off the Homestuck wagon years ago - still haven't actually bothered reading/watching the ending, or most of... Act 6? 7? I can't even remember where I left off - but I'd be interested in at least trying it out.

My conspiracy theory that old men are running the world (a new era) is validated!

I see their use, but I grew up with chronological style so anything that isn't the forum experience I'm having right now is to be shunned.

Woah, I totally missed that. Maybe there's hope yet. And maybe I'm the King of France.

So, Bethesda's "Paid Mods, but we're gonna pretend the first attempt didn't fail" released today for Fallout 4. Past mods are ineligible for the compensation package, and Bethesda's ensuring cross-mod QA so they shouldn't conflict. That last point makes me laugh the hardest, since Bethesda is the one in charge of the QA.

Yeah, I haven't quite figured out why people expect a response. Maybe, maybe Old Valve might have, but even then Valve's never been known to possess great communication skills. New Valve definitely won't, just like EA hasn't responded at all after being named "Worst Company Ever" a few times (above the likes of BP and several banks, no less). It's all user-generated rage, which means diddly. Money talks waaaay louder than complaints, and as much as we'd all like to delude ourselves that we have an input... we don't.

Related to Steamcharts: It's interesting to see how Laidlaw's post affected the various Half Life games. It always seems to grab a few extra players on the weekends, but even moreso than normal this time.

Getting really tired of not having hot water in this house. I've mentioned it to my roommate/landlord a number of times but since it was during the summer he just kind of shrugged and said "it's summer." Now, however, the overnight heat has broken, especially these last couple of days, and a shower with no hot water is damn icy, even at 12 noon. I just went to try and fix it myself but the pilot light will not come on. I've darkened the room entirely (since his first answer when I asked about the pilot light's apparent disappearance was "it's just really hard to see") and there was indeed no pilot, so I tried restarting it to nothing. We have gas in the house - the gas stove lights with no issue - so it's not a supply issue. Problem is, I hate confrontation and quite honestly I'm terrified of him (and everyone in general) so I don't want to bring it up a fourth time. But I'm so tired of freezing my ass off and not feeling clean.

Valve actually never finishing Ep.3 was supposed to be a joke, not something that actually comes true with a script release. Also, that song playing on /v/ is terribly synergistic with the news and the mood and it's awful. However, there is still good news to come out of this. Now that we have an official "unofficial" script from a close source, the modders (aka the Black Mesa team) can whip up their own version. A tiny, tiny sliver of silver lining on the bleakest of clouds. EDIT: I'm guessing the sloppy writing/misspelling is due to Marc getting absolutely toasted. Maybe an NDA expired, or someone still internal let him know his stuff was canned?

I only saw a trailer around E3, then totally forgot about it until this post. I can't even remember what was in the trailer beyond some anti-grav stuff. So that marketing strategy didn't really play well for them.

Which Station? This is important.

I can't wait to play Badwater Basin.

I'm actually really sad about this. Not sad that EA's already shitty reputation is further sullied, but that they managed to kill one of my favorite franchises.

Bad publicity is still publicity, so Valve can't even milk Artifact for vitriol-infused interest. That's a pretty big blow.

That's when you get creative and mold your own heads when they inevitably hit the bargain bin. Also I know I should hate them but I'm probably still gonna get the turret.

Thanks, Telltale.

I want to like the game, and I really do want to do better. But the only way to do that is to keep sucking and there's just no real gauge where you can say "oh hey, now I'm good" so the goal is nebulous as best, so it saps the fun out of it... even though I want it to be fun. Being anxious in general doesn't help. I lost interest in TF2 for pretty much the same reason, so I guess multiplayer games are just not my thing. At least it's mildly rewarding; I'm finding more and more that I mostly playing Overwatch for the loot boxes so... yay digital crack? Regarding the meta, I wonder how much different Overwatch would play if matches were 8v8. The maps seem large enough to support it, but I guess you'd also end up with 3 tank meta without downsides.

This, and I'm also probably working during it so I'm gonna end up missing it.

Sorry, but that's not particularly creative. I feel like you've read it in a book or something. Granted, the entirety of this response is also unoriginal and sourced from the same text, so I guess originality was preemptively considered by the very source from whence it came.

I wish I could tell if I'm the trash player that keeps dragging everyone down or if I just get matched with terrible teams. I am absolutely terrified of playing Comp (or even Quickplay, really) because I usually blame myself for losing and don't want to pass that on to the other 5 hapless players who are burdened with me. (granted, this comes off of a loss with a Reaper on our team that wouldn't target tanks and then, at the end, claimed "you guys take this game too seriously" when called out on it, so that example probably wasn't me)

Huh. I thought this was about a TF2 update, actually, so I went to check what dropped and found that there was a TF2 update on August 2nd that I totally missed. Then I realized that it was a Mannpower update, and had to remember what Mannpower was in the first place. So ultimately, a big whomping nothing. I'd noticed YouTube has looked a bit different but because it only really looks like they dropped formatting and borders I figured it was browser incompatibility and it doesn't look too bad. (Hell, I actually like it because it fits on a 1280x1024 monitor wonderfully with no black bars around it) I wish it'd just keep my Theater viewing preferences though.

Now that I'm at my desktop, I can confirm it was my craptop.

Huh is right. Says it was added 2 years ago, so maybe plans fell through?