Gyokuyoutama

To be fair, even with Pinkerton on staff we'd still have to wait two years to say for sure that the comic isn't coming out.

That's without getting into how much money they make simply by distributing games on Steam. All they really have to do for that is keep the servers running. They certainly aren't doing support work and they're barely doing quality control. I mean, remember that Christmas where they screwed up so badly that you could get automatically logged into someone else's account? And yet even after that people still trust them.

Now we'll never know how it could make sense for their canonically only to be one of each class.

Now that big SPUF is dead for reals, are majer and owels finally going to get on here?

There's actually a forum I've posted at for longer than SPUF, but the mods became so bad and the community became so toxic that literally the only thing I do there anymore is try to get people banned.

I'll say this: at least Valve actually has an alternative forum, even if it's a horrible one. When Wizards shut down their forums (which were far more active than SPUF at the time they were killed), they didn't have any plans whatsoever for having an alternative community site. The official line was that everyone used facebook and twitter so that message boards were pointless. But "better than Wizards" is not a high bar to clear these days.

In memoriam, let's recall who got some important post milestones:

I'm pretty sure there was another thread after the screenshot, but all I have for pages are "Forum Database Error" so it's not like I have proof.

Someone linked to a video right before the end, but I never got the post to load before the redirect. Also props to Toaster I guess for getting the real last random crits thread.

NOW, it's really dead for really real.

Reminds me how in Alpha Protocol I did one run as a super sneaky spy who was never seen, but my death count was through the roof because of the number of people I shot in the head with a silenced pistol. Then I did a run where I just ran into every room with a shotgun. This was almost a nonlethal run, since I would shoot people in their kneecaps and then beat them into unconsciousness when they stumbled to the ground.

Wait, was that the Beethoven who flipped out because I posted a joke thread about Shenmue 3?

The fact that about half of the active threads are new user introductions is either a very good thing or a very bad thing when considering the longterm longevity of this forum.

At least you can still buy it. Better than Beamdog's policy of updating an old game (mainly either adding unwanted features or adding things that were already available with mods) and then making sure that the original version can't be obtained individually anywhere on the internet.

Speaking of Paradox, here's an interesting article from 2010 from them (well really from Gamersgate, which was part of paradox until shortly before this article.) The best parts are when Berquist says that Steam is a bad platform because Valve can't be trusted to be impartial when they release their next AAA game, and the general theme that Steam can't "win," while since that point Paradox Interactive has done pretty much everything on Steam, even removing all of their games from Gamersgate without any prior warning.

Ditch the Timmy dragon cards, put Taigam into a deck with a bunch of dumb removal, card draw, and time walk variants.

I started watching the pony show again at season 5. I'm legitimately curious to see whether anyone has watched season 5 or beyond. It seemed like all pony threads suddenly and mysteriously died right when season 4 ended.

They banned it four days after the normal round of bans. I've understood "emergency ban" to mean any ban that occurs outside the normal review schedule. Of course, the timing shows that they really could have banned it on time if they had been thinking ahead, so maybe it doesn't count for that reason, but if anything that makes things worse. I kind of want to dig through the archives to find their articles from Mirrodin standard, both with the skullclamp ban and with the later "affinity is dead this time for sure" set of bans. I'm guessing that there will be a lot of promises that explain how they check and double check things now so that this can never happen again. It's still amazing to me though that they let the combo get printed in the first place, given how obvious it was, and even more so that they didn't realize how combo-friendly an environment with poor instant speed removal and poor counterspells is.

Has there been an emergency ban for standard since Memory Jar? While searching for the answer I found this rather amusing article. I especially like this part:

Why would anyone preorder anything. Just the fact that everything is downloadable now defeats most of the purpose, even without getting into how many companies treat the official release as a public beta.

Team fortress is still wining 21 to 20 though, so it's okay.

I was going to wait until the last second to join up (i.e. when SPUF had actually officially died) but it's almost impossible to post anything with those database errors.