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by Jerry Whorebach 07/25/2011, 12:18pm PDT |
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Let me tell you the story of my one and only experience with Steam. The year was 2003 (here we go... -Ed) and I was humming along, minding my own business, playing Counter-Strike at 640x480 on my overclocked Celeron with 128 megs of RAM and fuckin' Voodoo graphics, not a care in the world. WHEN SUDDENLY Valve decides that from now on I was going to need to go through Steam to play a game that I already paid for with some negligible amount of my own money (or maybe I got it for free, I don't remember). Overnight, the system requirements went from the Pentium I with 32 megs of RAM printed on the box to a Pentium III with 256, cleaving two ENTIRE GENERATIONS of Pentium in one fell swoop. I couldn't even get the client to load! It would get half way and stall out while the hard drive thrashed like a drowning man gasping for Counter-Strike. As far as I was concerned, Valve robbed me just as sure as if they'd broken into my mom's house where I lived and made off with the CD. So for all I care Steam could be better than sex (how would I even know?), but I'll be cold in the ground before I ever support that sort of thing.
Also, my de facto monopoly cable provider has me on an (admittedly generous, compared to some) bandwidth cap, so re-downloading everything on my hard drive after the yearly reinstall would add approximately three months to the process. I'm sorry, but I don't play computer games for the DELAYED gratification! |
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Louis CK unintentionally sums up my feelings about Steam by Mischief Maker 07/10/2011, 9:41pm PDT 
GooglePlus by col.schickn 07/24/2011, 11:52am PDT
Re: GooglePlus by Lizard_King 07/26/2011, 7:37pm PDT
Except you don't have to access Steam to play your games, just to download them by WITTGENSTEIN 07/24/2011, 3:36pm PDT
Oh no, you did NOT just diss my harware! by Mischief Maker 07/24/2011, 5:57pm PDT
It's almost like people have different preferences! NT by WoaaaaaaAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH 07/24/2011, 6:23pm PDT
Take that faggot shit to poe. by Mischief Maker 07/24/2011, 7:00pm PDT
Re: Oh no, you did NOT just diss my harware! by WITTGENSTEIN 07/24/2011, 7:01pm PDT
I don't have a dog in this fight, but I'm going to jump in anyway. by Jerry Whorebach 07/24/2011, 7:55pm PDT
Ah yes, R-Type and the OpenROM movement. by Fussbett 07/25/2011, 11:23am PDT
Believe me, I'm not worried about Steam AT ALL. by Jerry Whorebach 07/25/2011, 12:18pm PDT
I think you can still download and play CS 1.5 all you want without Steam. NT by Fussbett 07/26/2011, 8:03am PDT
Well that's good news, if a little late in coming. Cheers to the Dutch(?) NT by hackers who made it possible. 07/26/2011, 11:30am PDT
Here's the real reason by Fullofkittens 07/24/2011, 9:09pm PDT
This by Rafiki 07/25/2011, 6:29am PDT
I forgot about this one, too. by WITTGENSTEIN 07/25/2011, 2:56pm PDT
I was trying to make it 103. by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/26/2011, 7:03pm PDT
So were you cited for stalking Gabe Newell? I thought it was a traffic ticket NT by WITTGENSTEIN 07/26/2011, 7:16pm PDT
Looks like somebody discovered court record websites. by Mischief Maker 07/26/2011, 10:35pm PDT
No, I tweeted about it earlier. by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/26/2011, 11:21pm PDT
As Jonesy pointed out, you are an incredibly stupid cocksucker NT by WITTGENSTEIN 07/27/2011, 5:32am PDT
That is not what I was pointing out. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/27/2011, 7:12am PDT
Re: As Jonesy pointed out, you are an incredibly stupid cocksucker by Mischief Maker 07/27/2011, 8:34am PDT
Come on, everybody loves hearing ICJ relate stories from his personal life. by Bert Raccoon 07/27/2011, 9:22am PDT
I can't endorse this either because I also like WITTG'R by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/27/2011, 11:11am PDT
Re: I can't endorse this either because I also like WITTG'R by Mischief Maker 07/28/2011, 12:57am PDT
So Steam is like buying a Dell and DRM-free is like building your own computer. by Mischief Maker 07/28/2011, 12:19am PDT
Lamer than Wittgensteins' porn jab NT by laudablepuss 07/28/2011, 1:00pm PDT
The former 2 dont support Linux? NT by Steam wins 07/28/2011, 2:13pm PDT
PRO: Steam friends list makes it easy to multiplay with pals. NT by Last 07/25/2011, 5:05am PDT
It's like you don't EVEN care if someone knows you're playing a game. NT by Fussbett 07/25/2011, 11:24am PDT
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