[Steam] Thread XVII: /sm_rename "Steam Thread": da]mexitt hr[a vise

[Winthur]

Yup.

Three. Not bad, but somewhat disappointing.

Wyrd Sisters, Soul Music, Hogfather, Colour of Magic - that's four. The first two are animated adaptations.

[Thrawn183]

...i honestly hope you were joking...

Well, I got one a while back, around when I only about 30 hours logged, but accidentally crafted it for scrap. OVER 70 HOURS OF GAMEPLAY LATER I STILL DIDN'T HAVE ONE. I think someone at valve may have intentionally messed with the drop thingy for me. All I get are skullcutters and jarates.

So, yeah, I'll trade a hat for a weapon I don't have. Especially the newer ones. New sniper rifle/melee, axetinguisher that sort of thing.

[Scuzzball]

Well, I got one a while back, around when I only about 30 hours logged, but accidentally crafted it for scrap. OVER 70 HOURS OF GAMEPLAY LATER I STILL DIDN'T HAVE ONE. I think someone at valve may have intentionally messed with the drop thingy for me. All I get are skullcutters and jarates.

So, yeah, I'll trade a hat for a weapon I don't have. Especially the newer ones. New sniper rifle/melee, axetinguisher that sort of thing.

I will trade you the new sniper rifle/melee.
Friend Scuzzball555, and wait for tomorrow. Maybe.


Also, Djinn. Can we have party mode tonight if I can get on? I couldn't find you yesterday, and it was my birthday yesterday.

[Fawkes]

I've got a spare Battalion's Backup. I don't know your Steam name, but click the Steam logo in my sig and send me a message if you're interested.

I also have a spare backburner and ubersaw if you need those.

[Dispozition]

Also, Djinn. Can we have party mode tonight if I can get on? I couldn't find you yesterday, and it was my birthday yesterday.

I can do it too >:

Although I wouldn't have been much help since I wasn't on yesterday either.

[Jahkaivah]

Wyrd Sisters, Soul Music, Hogfather, Colour of Magic - that's four. The first two are animated adaptations.

Five if you count those, there is also a live-action adaption of Going Postal.

[shadow_archmagi]

Also, as many as fourteen of the novels have been adapted as plays.


EDIT: Forget that Mumble-based campaign that's never going to be started

Let's all start looking forward to playing this campaign which we'll never actually run

[Valaqil]

Crosspost from the server thread. Want to make sure people can see it. TL;DR : I'm hosting a 16-player server that runs nothing but Manor. Share gifts, have fun. Happy Halloween.

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So, in response to NeoVid, Doomus, and a couple of others, I'm hosting a 16-player TF2 server. It's going to be strictly temporary, only for farming the gifts and achievements on Manor. With any luck, I'll take it down in the next couple of days and we won't see it again until the next holiday event. There will be a password so that our regulars can get in. That's the whole point of this.

Server info is: 76.73.218.179:27015, password is just "gitp". Win and time limits are set _very_ high, so changing maps shouldn't be an issue. I'd add mods, but the console doesn't recognize sm commands. As a result, we're sort of "mod-less", but I'm sure I can figure out how to kick/ban if someone gets out of line.

Otherwise, go nuts. Have fun. Don't do anything you wouldn't with Djinn watching over your shoulder. Oh, and I may take it down if player count gets low or I need extra RAM. Fair warning.

[NeoVid]

I don't actually have much stuff left for trading that I think people would be interested in as I have had to make pretty lucrative offers to get people to pay attention on servers. Lemme check what I've got right now...
- Paint: color 216-190-216 (I'm partially color-blind so I won't claim to know exactly what color that is), some kind of pink-ish...thingy?
- Paint: Australium Gold
- Darwin's Danger Shield
- Alien Parasite Hat
- L'etranger
- Bombing Run Hat
- Tokens: Demoman (1), melee (1), secondary (1), I used to have more but I crafted them or somethign?
- Assorted spare weapons for crafting of scrap metal.

I'm looking to get the new weapons. Just friend me on steam and send me a message when you see me on TF2.

If you still have any of these left by the next time I'm on, I have a Degreaser and a couple other new weapons I can trade. I'm assuming you're Thrawny on Steam.

[Jibar]

OOoooooohhhhhhh Aaaaaaatheeeeeeeiiiissstt

[Jahkaivah]

OOoooooohhhhhhh Aaaaaaatheeeeeeeiiiissstt

Heard about this earlier today

Now wondering if I could manage a work placement at Crytek UK Free Radical for my third year

[Fawkes]

NEW TIMESPLITTERS?!?!?!?


yesssssssssssssssss

[ShortOne]

So, yeah, I'll trade a hat for a weapon I don't have. Especially the newer ones. New sniper rifle/melee, axetinguisher that sort of thing.

I have an extra axtinguisher that I'd be thrilled to trade you. Friend ModernLittleRaven on Steam, and we'll work that out.

[Sammiches]

New ChHa event: Four Horseless Horsemen of the apocalypse.
Oh yes, its happening. Tell everyone.
...Now then...WHEN should it happen?

[Silverraptor]

So, I recently got TF2 and feel that I want to get in with the Gitp community with that game as well as the ones in LoL. I even may get L4D2 as well.

So, anything I need to know about?

[Jahkaivah]

So, I recently got TF2 and feel that I want to get in with the Gitp community with that game as well as the ones in LoL. I even may get L4D2 as well.

So, anything I need to know about?

Everything is an in-joke.

Even this.

[chiasaur11]

Everything is an in-joke.

Even this.

Especially this.

[blackfox]

So, anything I need to know about?

Entire server is ghost.
Or entire server is Jibar, depending.

[Dispozition]

Entire server is ghost.
Or entire server is Jibar, depending.

Or entire server is admin abuse. Really depends.

[Cogwheel]

So, I played and finished X-COM: Enforcer.

It's a terrible, terrible game. It's also nothing like X-COM. I'm not sure what they were thinking.

At the same time, it was also a lot of fun. Somewhat tempted to play it again, just with different weapons or something.

Am I going to get lynched now?

[chiasaur11]

So, I played and finished X-COM: Enforcer.

It's a terrible, terrible game. It's also nothing like X-COM. I'm not sure what they were thinking.

At the same time, it was also a lot of fun. Somewhat tempted to play it again, just with different weapons or something.

Am I going to get lynched now?

No.

Just forced to play TFTD.

You may wistfully think back to the happy option of lynching, mind...

Don't worry. I beat it twice. Once on easy, once on normal. Lot of fun weapons.

[Phase]

Entire server is ghost.
Or entire server is Jibar, depending.

Note that in the event of either of these scenarios, you can call either Jibar or myself. We are both licensed Ghost Hunters, as well as licensed Jibar hunters.

[Cogwheel]

No.

Just forced to play TFTD.

You may wistfully think back to the happy option of lynching, mind...

Don't worry. I beat it twice. Once on easy, once on normal. Lot of fun weapons.

Mass Driver. Weapon of the gods.


Also, I was considering playing TFTD anyway. After UFO Defense, Apoc is boring, mostly because real-time is glitchy (I'll just crouch and stand here for half an hour over and over, or refuse to shoot in spite of orders), and turn-based is just broken. 12 hits in one turn from a single multiworm? No thanks. Having played it before into the late game, I can't quite muster the will to replay from the start and finish it this time.

So... is Interceptor like Enforcer, or is it terrible in a way that's not even fun to play?

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Update on the translation: It exists. Japanese UFO Defense, for the PS1. It is, however, rare, murder on the load times (load time for starting a mission or ending it is about 2~3 minutes, while screen switches take slightly less long. Also it crashes often.

The PC "translated" version is just a ripoff. It's the English game with a Japanese manual, and about double the price.

Got one response from 2K so far, telling me who I should contact. Have yet to receive a reply from them. I think I'll go ahead with this anyway, mostly for the benefit of... approximately three people I know who own the game and would like to have it in Japanese (what with the whole not-speaking-English thing). Shouldn't be too hard.


The files, though, present a problem. English.dat and English2.dat, I think it was. Doesn't seem to include soldier names. May be missing some other stuff too.

[Silverraptor]

Everything is an in-joke.

Even this.

Especially this.

Entire server is ghost.
Or entire server is Jibar, depending.

Or entire server is admin abuse. Really depends.

Great! I'll take all this in-joke comments to heart until I can figure out what they really mean deep down.

[chiasaur11]

Great! I'll take all this in-joke comments to heart until I can figure out what they really mean deep down.

It's all based on old The Clash at Demonhead singles, mainly.

Just remember, you were a fan back in the Kid Chameleon days.

[Silverraptor]

It's all based on old The Clash at Demonhead singles, mainly.

Just remember, you were a fan back in the Kid Chameleon days.

Uhhh... sure. Lets go with that.

[MoelVermillion]

So I crafted the Saxton Hale mask and didn't get the achievement, that little achievement section on the menu says I unlocked it as my most recent achievement but my list of Halloween achievements has it as uncompleted. Is this a common thing?

[shadow_archmagi]

Werewolves are fire
Everyone is jibar
Phase is the moon
Djinn is an angry tank
Djinn is also a ninja heavy
Byrnbot is a polite assassin droid
Dogmantra hates anything other people like, but is ultimately not a bad person
Sigs is a crazy creeper but we love her
Blackfox is so angry
Kpenguin is a mod now and an IRC zealot
Don't ever invade small countries

The Space Brindle games are owned only by me and my brothers (also jimmy brindle) but honestly they're really good and no I won't send you a copy.

[Cogwheel]

So. More translation update.

Turns out that everything I translated comes up either as a blob (shown in the spoiler below, look for the bit that should say "right hand"), or as a mess of characters that have no place in any language I know of (does anyone know a language where X gets an umlaut?)

Two possible issues, here. My Japanese laptop that can type in Japanese is pretending it can't read Japanese (it has done this many times before) or the whole thing needs to be decompiled, translated and recompiled.

Either way, unless there's some brilliant solution, I give up.

[Mtg_player_zach]

Werewolves are fire
Everyone is jibar
Phase is the moon
Djinn is an angry tank
Djinn is also a ninja heavy
Byrnbot is a polite assassin droid
Dogmantra hates anything other people like, but is ultimately not a bad person
Sigs is a crazy creeper but we love her
Blackfox is so angry
Kpenguin is a mod now and an IRC zealot
Don't ever invade small countries

The Space Brindle games are owned only by me and my brothers (also jimmy brindle) but honestly they're really good and no I won't send you a copy.

You can probably fit me in with dogmantra too, we're married after all.