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Re: Whatever |
Nov 23, 2004, 22:33 |
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I don't get what sTeam is supposed to symbolize. I mean, what does the capital T mean instead of a capital S?
I don't know, it started out as a typeo but the more I looked at it, the more sinister sTeam looked and, um, the artist in me just went with it.
Sometimes I see it as a big iron cross upon which the Walking Man, Gabe Newell, will crucify all who don't join up with him in his sinister crusade for world domination.
Sometimes I see it as a huge vampire holding its cape menacingly over the other, non-capitalized letters. Keeping them in docile submission while it drains their life energies and will.
I may or may not be delusional. I doubt you have anyway of knowing through a message board. I do know that Valve drew first blood when they sold me a software distribution system instead of the game I thought I was paying for.
After I verified my key and got the rest of the game they withheld from the CD's, I should just be able to run H-L2 w/o steam always lurking there. Like a vampire or an iron cross.
I don't really see why you people put so much trust in Valve. They tell lie on top of lie, they made one great game in 1998 and now they expect we'll eat a crap sandwich to get their second game?
Seems like they're asking an awful lot for $55. Maybe they're the delusional ones?
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Re: Here's how it will play out... |
Nov 23, 2004, 22:16 |
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I don't think they will, simply because there's so much more money to be made by playing nice and keeping people happy.
I think the whole sTeam in a Box thing isn't playing nice. I could care less about multi-player.
And, for your information, I don't see black helicopters but mostly red and white helicopters. That's because I live in Madison WI which is where the Bavarian Illuminati relocated to after being surpressed/disbanded in Bavaria.
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Re: Whatever |
Nov 23, 2004, 22:06 |
MapleBob |
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No one outside of their small group cares.
I kind of care a little. I'd liked to be playing h-l2 w/o sTeam nanny sitting on my PC.
One of the liars from Valve posted in the sTeam forum that they couldn't get rid of sTeam because it was so integrated into everything.
Well, obviously not.
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Re: AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH... |
Nov 23, 2004, 19:19 |
MapleBob |
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What I didn't realize was that there were 20,000 people that not only pirated HL2, but used Valve's own bandwidth to download the game!
Actually, they didn't all pirate the game. Most just tried to. Still a violation of the eula.
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Re: Here's how it will play out... |
Nov 23, 2004, 19:13 |
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Hmm, am I the only one that can care less if steam is abused and HL2 is "stolen"?
Nope, I hate sTeam with a passion.
But it is an interesting stufy in the rise of a police state.
1. Have some sort of out-of-control anti-social criminal behaviour.
2. Declare marshell law.
3. Flex your muscle every so often i.e. crack some heads.
Valve cracked 20,000 heads last night much to the hurrahs of the indoctrinated. They'll keep hurrahing for a while. Until they begin to notice their friends and neighbhors dissappearing.
Then they'll beging to feel a sickness in the pit of their stomach. A cold dread. And the hurrahs will keep coming, but now out of fear that they could be next.
I don't have any love of theives but, in this case, I need a program to tell who they are.
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Re: Have You Noticed? |
Nov 19, 2004, 23:41 |
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The worst I've heard about H-L2 so far is that it is average.
IMO, it is so so so far above average that the only other game that comes close to it is the original Half-Life.
Deus Ex was great too.
Of the games I've played recently, Tron 2.0 was really good but nowhere near the first few levels of H-L2.
Marrying such a great a beautiful game to something like Steam would be like marrying Linda O'Neil to a garden slug.
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Re: Keep it up! |
Nov 19, 2004, 01:09 |
MapleBob |
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I thought Doom 3 looked pretty good on those Voodoo2 shots. I mean, you could see stuff.
It is funny how id makes these great graphics engines then makes games that are all set in the dark!
They should try making Smurf game that takes place mostly in daylight.
Still and all, I liked Doom 3, well, as much of it as I played. Comparing Doom 3 to half-life 2, the game, not steam, is like comparing it to Half-Life.
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Re: Pirated_Warez_Version_Info |
Nov 18, 2004, 18:05 |
MapleBob |
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Well, rock, if you hadn't of damaged it watching too much MTV and taking all that ecstacy at those raves, you're imagination would have been excited by that quote.
If it wasn't the esctscy at the raves then maybe it was the Ritalin in grade school.
Either way, having an impaired imagination is like be dead but alive. Or maybe alive but dead.
In anycase, your own cliche "smoking" comment should have inspired a yawn in me, but I am not you, I live, you sleep. As evidenced by your own attempt at insulting me. Which you can't do anyway.
And so, my mind became active and having become active, it searched. This is key to your education, but I don't hold your potential in high regard and thus, only expect another yawn-type attempt at a response in return.
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Re: Pirated_Warez_Version_Info |
Nov 18, 2004, 16:51 |
MapleBob |
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Well, this thread will not reach 500. A derek Smart thread just opened up sucking up all the negetive vibes and complaints
Well then let me take a break from my usual negative, totally justified, anti-Gabe Newell rant and say something about the game:
I'm still not that far, but god, what a game! I love the little devices that keep me moving forward. I love the little things I think of later, after I've exited an area and I think: I'll remember this for next time.
Minor spoiler I love feeding those exploding cans to the tentacle things, the first time I did it, I was like cool! Then I was chased into an area where I exploded the cans right away because I just had the cops dump a whole bunch of them on me so I'll remember that for next time
I love the whole atmosphere of the game. I loved playing on the spinning playground ride but I was pissed the slide was broken, there's probably another Steam conspiracy in there somewhere, like if you let Gabe Newell download all your porn Steam will unlock the slide.
I know, if Steam and Gabe "goddamn him to hell" Newell let me, I will be playing this game at least two more times.
The best game since Half-Life and the first game I know I will replay since Deus Ex Classic. (Luckily, I never bought Invisible War or else I would have spent all this great invective on that, well probably not, I would have probably just been disappointed, since Ion Storm wasn't Anexxing my hard drive).
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Re: Pirated_Warez_Version_Info |
Nov 18, 2004, 15:44 |
MapleBob |
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Maple,
I want some of what you are smoking.
It is so sad to me that people think they need to smoke something to unleash their imaginations:
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowlege. Knowlege is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
--Albert Einstein
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Re: Pirated_Warez_Version_Info |
Nov 18, 2004, 14:55 |
MapleBob |
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I think it will only encourage more and more people to be pirates. I used to believe in supporting the companies who made the entertainment I enjoyed but now I feel totally betrayed.
Considering Steam and the fact they can't run a message board, I'm beginning to think H-L2 was pirated from someone with talent and a sense of timing.
When UGO says Valve spent $40 million developing H-L2, well, first considering Valve's track record and all the Kool-Aid drinkers out here, I don't see any reason to believe that number. But if it is true, most of that money probably went to hit men to silence the real people who developed H-L2 and their families.
Probably, there were too many unburied bodies back in 9/2003 so they had to delay the game.
If CBS news or Michael Moore is reading this, I have the faked documents to prove all of my wild imaginings, or, at least I will once I finish faking them.
Everytime the lambda shows up in the game, that's a clue to where the body of one of the REAL developers of H-L2 is burried.
If you map the game map onto a 3-D model of Mandlebrot set 14-b you'll see it translates to a globe of the earth and the lambdas match the sites of newly constructed buildings within the last 2 years.
BTW, I just made all this crap up but its the zeitgeist, conspiracy theories are everywhere these days.
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Re: No subject |
Nov 17, 2004, 22:59 |
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I'm one of the few people that like to soak up every bit of the game. In the first level, I explored a little and saw one of those 5 story high spiders walking around. I talked to people just to watch their faces. The list goes on and on.
I like to do that too. My first time I was able to get in, I kept throwing stuff at that (mild spoiler) one guard who makes you pick up the can and pretending he was Gabe Newell.
The game reminded me of Unreal the first time you step off the ship, the first time I was out in the square.
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Steam Forums |
Nov 17, 2004, 21:57 |
MapleBob |
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Well, I'd about run out of steam bitching about Steam here so I thought I'd try the offical Steam forums, now, these idiots can't even keep a message board going and I'm supposed to trust I'll be able to play my game via their crap DIVX-like NAZI-thing?
I guess hate can start to approach infinity too.
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Re: Ebgames.com kicks ass |
Nov 17, 2004, 19:03 |
MapleBob |
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Enemy AI. I really have to say that I'm impressed with the enemy AI.
Me too, for as far as I am. I also like the way the game propels the player forward instead of like Doom where if you move forward, you get a monster pop out at you, but if you just want to stay in one place, you pretty much can.
I still hate Vavle, Gabe Newell, Steam, and the forum brownshirts, but the game is pretty good so far.
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Re: Ebgames.com kicks ass |
Nov 17, 2004, 18:59 |
MapleBob |
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I thought it was common knowledge that no matter how you got the game, you'd be using Steam.
Well, it wasn't.
Not all of us are of the Party. Or get the Offical Valve Party newsletter.
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Re: 6 years for this! |
Nov 17, 2004, 17:05 |
MapleBob |
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Those of you who did have problems with steam have to realize that this technology is inevitable. Steam has a some bugs, just like any other software out there. It will mature, especially after this massive load test (selling HL2 and the back catalog) Valve just put on it. Stop friggin whining and join us all in modern times
Just like the Austrians realized that annexation was inevetable and didn't put up a fight?
They're not charging me $55 to tell me where and when I can play my game. They are not annexing my hard drive without some form of resistance from me.
No one will even tell me what the fuck steam is or why I need to for a single player game. I don't play multi-player much anyway. Diablo II a bit but mostly at lan parties.
I am severely distrustful of this technology and a bunch of brownshirts threatening me, telling me to look the other way only makes me hate this whole situation more.
GABE NEWELL IS THE ANTI-CHRIST OF GAMING!
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