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[PinkCrayon]

Thanks for Ittle Dew jshackles!

 

[Parsnip]

I didn't think Guacamelee was all that difficult.

 

[EdmondD]

For Battlepaths, install the game through the Desura client. When it's done installing, click to play and it'll spit out your Steam key.

Thanks. I did not have it installed which was the issue.

 

[Ryne]

Looks like I got this already:

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Metal Slug 3 -- MB-6C6AB9DC5DE877DC - Taken by Pakkidis

 

[Authority]

Pffft. Here's the real scoop (on second thought don't click and give them hits)

Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is

Found a NeoGaffer!

DocSeuss

Um.

What?

No.

Today, I crawled out of bed at noon, moaning in agony. I suffer from an illness that results in, among other things, chronic pain and fatigue. My entire life, for the past half-decade or so, has been defined by my illness. I have had doctors tell me that it's a miracle I made it out of bed to get in to see them for an appointment. One told me that I was the sickest patient she's ever seen. My family has gone into significant debt trying to deal with my illness. Every waking moment of my life is agony.

Next week, I will go into work. My boss (a woman, before you ask, just like every boss I've ever had), is going to ask me to do things I've told her I can't do—mostly, the kind of things that she's prefaced before with "this is pretty heavy, so can you..." Then she'll get down on me, and, like nearly everyone I've met (including, for the first several years of my illness, my parents) throughout my life, she'll start telling me how I'm a big strong guy and how I should be able to blah blah blah and how I'm just lazy and so on and so forth.

I should mention that I'm the only worker she does this to. In part, it's because I'm the only white male in the office. She feels... for lack of a better word, safe. She can't do that to the black guy. Other co-workers have expressed confusion at the way she acts to me. I am, for all intents and purposes, her punching bag. She does not believe my physical limitations exist.

Throughout my entire life, I've had people say things along the lines of "yeah, I know it's more than what's expected of most people, but you're a white dude. You'll be fine!"

A few years ago, I was denied financial aid, despite desperately needing it, because, "well, you're obviously not female, and you've marked on your sheet that you're caucasian... so there's really nothing I can do for you. We give this aid to people who really need it, and, to be honest, white guys get by just fine without it."

Another incident saw me being rear-ended by a woman in a predominantly black neighborhood. The black female cop decided to give me the ticket (those of you who know about driving know that in a rear-ending case, it's always the fault of the person who did the rear-ending), refused to speak with me beyond "here, fill out this form," and spent her entire time talking with/joking with the other driver about me. When my dad, who was rather incredulous about the story, called the police department, the officer refused to speak with him and hung up.

I have been in so many situations where I'm expected to go above and beyond what is expected of me because I'm a white guy. I'll be asked to move heavy loads to someone's car or other menial work, even though it's not in my purview, because, hey, I'm the white guy, so somehow I'm supposed to be able to do it, even though I've expressly stated my physical limitations before.

I have been denied jobs because "well, we have enough guys right now; we really need to hire more minorities."

There's a sensitivity that protects women and minorities. There's a worry about being offensive, or about seeming improper. People aren't afraid to tread on the toes of white guys, because of this fucking myth that somehow, white guys have life easier, so giving them more work will somehow make their lives harder.

What, do you think minorities are the only people who feel unsafe walking outside at night? I've had a police chopper follow me with a searchlight before. I've had... other things happen that I don't care to talk about.

I hear white dudes get more money—well, that's bullshit. Many of my white friends were, and are, dirt poor. Always have been. One of my friends happens to be quite good at robbing people, because when he was a kid, that was what he had to do to survive in his abusive household.

Again and again, we get back to this oft-repeated refrain: "well, you're white, so life's easier for you, so it's okay for us to be harder."

One of the most inspiring teachers I ever had, a former cop, later lawyer, once told me how, at a family barbecue, he was approached by several family members and asked why he worked for such a racist university.

(at this point, I should mention he was black)

His reply to them was simple: "because I was the only one of you who tried to go to college. Ya'll just sit around and expect life to give you something, but me, and all those white teachers I work with? We went to school and we got our doctorates in our respective programs; they're not going to hire people with your GEDs or high school diplomas—they want the best. Don't you dare ever call them racist—the simple fact is that none of you gave a damn and tried.

"We did."

My father grew up on a farm and had severe learning difficulties. His parents both had to work, his dad working for the power company and his mom at the local feed store. He grew up in a three bedroom house with four other siblings. He worked his ass off through fourteen years of schooling, and finally got his doctorate. As a result, he's made a decent amount of money—though not enough to take care of my family. He grew up in a town where most of the kids ended up dying or went to jail. He became a far greater man than anyone expected, despite the derision for his learning difficulties and opposition from his teachers (one planned to flunk my father just before he presented his doctoral thesis, but another teacher, who had discovered the plan, told my dad one day with the other professor standing there).

Many of us have hard lives. The amount of melanin in our skin doesn't determine how easy or hard life is for us—in fact, as I've said, repeatedly, many people put excess expectations on white guys simply because of this foolish, preconceived notion that being white makes life easier.

I know no one right now with a life harder than mine. I'm in more pain than most of you can imagine. I'm incredibly exhausted all the time. I take around thirty pills a day to stay alive, and chances are that I'll still only live out a portion of a normal life. In a few weeks, I will be homeless, because my dad's boss doesn't want my dad's lab to compete with his, despite the money it makes for the company. My current job, the only one I've been able to find after more than a year of searching (and being turned down 'cause lol they needed to hire more women/minorities), doesn't pay enough to make rent, and I've got to deal with a boss who jumps from hating me to being my best friend every few weeks. The last time she blew up, she nearly fired me mid-conversation.

I fight for everything I get. I watch others just coast by, getting jobs or financial aid or promotions or not being yelled at or getting lucky breaks whatever just because... well, they're not white. Somehow, their life is harder.

I'm the white guy, so life's good! No obstacles here! It's all smooth sailing.

Yeah, right. Where's my lucky break? Where's all this money I'm supposed to have for being a white guy? When do people act nicer to me just because of the color of my skin? How am I going to be able to afford a house, much less a decent school? When do things go right for me?

They fucking don't. I can't even remember the last good day I had.

You stupid fucks. Learn to see people based on who they are and the unique situations surrounding them. As soon as you start generalizing people based on the color of the skin, who they want to fuck, or just what is between their legs, you become a racist, sexist, and whateverelse cunt. Learn to be a good human. Treat the people you come across as individuals, not as members of some homogenized group with expectations. Humanity is beautiful, and it will surprise you.

Whoever approved this article should be ashamed. I needn't say how Scalzi should feel.

 

[DaBargainHunta]

For Battlepaths, install the game through the Desura client. When it's done installing, click to play and it'll spit out your Steam key.

I hate it when games distribute keys in such a non-intuitive, ass-backward manner like this.

 

[Salsa]

I didn't think Guacamelee was all that difficult.

I got every achievement too but in 16 hours. It's not that challenging at all, but its fun

 

[Stallion Free]

I got every achievement too but in 16 hours. It's not that challenging at all, but its fun

I got every achievement too but in 4 hours. It's not challenging or fun.

A gang of African Americans is a major character and are as stereotypical in that cliche as you can imagine.

It's horribly cringe worthy but coupled with the fact that, if memory serves me, is that they are the only african american characters in the plot makes it even more damning.

edit: a quick google shows I probably am not the only one who felt this way.

http://www.inquisitr.com/1271031/wa...-character-stereotypes-bemoaned-by-reviewers/

I'm pretty sure the mayor is African American.

 

[Zeliard]

I'd argue that the Infierno challenge consisting in throwing a motherfucking chicken around is one of the hardest (and frustrating) things I've ever tried in a videogame. Never got that gold medal, still have nightmare about it, goddammit. :'(

I loved that challenge; it was devilish. All the Infierno stuff itself was good times, along with the Tree Tops challenge and the invisible platforming one.

The latter by the way was the hardest thing in the game for me, where most others seem to go with Tree Tops or one of the Infierno gold challenges.

 

[Majukun]

You need all the optional stuff for the good ending.

While the treetops bit is a pretty rough step up in difficulty, in no way is Guacamelee harder than Super Meat Boy. There are light world levels in SMB that are harder than anything in Guacamelee.

i finished super meat boy (on 360),and had less problems than with some parts of guacamelee...

probably because in SMB if you go top speed every jump fits perfectly with the other,so that you are always in the right position to make the next move..in guacamelee you often have to adjust your position at some point,or calibrate how far you want to jump,while at the same time managing the light/dark switch,2 jumps and all the abilities that have some purpose during platform..or maybe i'm just tired after trying that party so many times

 

[Salsa]

I got every achievement too but in 4 hours. It's not challenging or fun.

I lied I did it in 3

 

[ArynCrinn]

IMO, every Desura game that is Greenlit on Steam ought to just be sent to Desura directly to get your key, way easier and quicker that way imo... Otherwise, for lots of bundle sites your waiting for lame ass bundle staff to receive keys then add them.

 

[Casimir]

I got every achievement too but in 4 hours. It's not challenging or fun.



I'm pretty sure the mayor is African American.

Yeah but he is corrupt, so it doesn't count or something. But to be fair to him, a Chicago Mayor being corrupt is about as profound as water being wet.

 

[Stallion Free]

I lied I did it in 3

I was just kidding it took me 5 minutes.

I used SAM and misclicked a couple times which added to the total time. Could get it down to 30 sec with practice.

 

[Salsa]

I loved that challenge; it was devilish. All the Infierno stuff itself was good times, along with the Tree Tops challenge and the invisible platforming one.

The latter by the way was the hardest thing in the game for me, where most others seem to go with Tree Tops or one of the Infierno gold challenges.

yeah, invisible platforming thing wasnt necesarelly super hard but it was harder than the tree tops for sure

 

[Salsa]

I was just kidding it took me 5 minutes.

I used SAM and misclicked a couple times.

I edited the text file, 20 seconds

 

[Majukun]

I didn't think Guacamelee was all that difficult.

all in all is not a difficult game..it's just some platforming that i find really frustrating

 

[r3n4ud]

I hate it when games distribute keys in such a non-intuitive, ass-backward manner like this.

For sure. Such a strange method to chose. I believe it was Rhaknar who mentioned this method the other day. Good thing, otherwise I would have never known.

 

[Nabs]

Steam Client Beta Update - June 3
We've just published a new beta which includes the following changes.

General

• Fixed regression causing certain games to crash on startup
• Fixed downloading games in development
• Fixed some cases where Steam wasn't asking the user if they wanted to let the game update when re-launching after a game crash

Mac OS X

• Fixed a crash affecting some users running OS X Mavericks

Big Picture

• Decreased sensitivity of trigger buttons for fast paging in library all games view
• Decreased sensitivity of analog triggers for mode switches in daisywheel text input
• Fixed hotkeys involving ctrl/alt/shift modifies not functioning in the in-game overlay as intended
• Windows: Ensure that we try to forcefully take window focus back on game exit, which deals with some cases where games with launchers could lead windows to restore focus to a random non-Steam window
• Windows: Performance improvements for the in-game overlay in D3D9ex, D3D10, D3D10.1, and D3D11 games

In-Home Streaming

• Fixed regression causing a crash using Alt-Enter with the performance stats visible

 

[Parsnip]

I idled guacamelee cards for at least 24 hours.

 

[Pachimari]

Which bundle have The Longest Journey in it this week?

 

[spindoctor]

Which bundle have The Longest Journey in it this week?

http://groupees.com/bm13

 

[Pachimari]

http://groupees.com/bm13

Thank you sir.

 

[Cth]

Today is the worst day of my life.

No drama intended, just hoping for some cheerful recommendations or something.

Sorry.

 

[Salsa]

Today is the worst day of my life.

No drama intended

good job

hey tomorrow could be worse

 

[Caerith]

Today is the worst day of my life.

No drama intended, just hoping for some cheerful recommendations or something.

Sorry.

Long Live the Queen. It's a cheery little game that lets you eat chocolate.

 

[Zeliard]

"Games can be preloaded to any available Steam Library folder"

gasp

 

[Salsa]

you should play Rayman Origins, the fact that it's a Ubisoft game without Uplay/Launcher will cheer you up

 

[Armoured Priest]

Extra Legend of Dungeon key from groupees bundle:

first come first serve.

Instructions for participants:
I am giving away a Steam key. To enter this giveaway, send a PM to ModBot with any subject line. In the body, copy and paste the entire line below containing the key.

Rules for this Giveaway:
- Do not trade keys you win off-site to enrich yourself. Don't try to claim games you have no interest in collecting or playing. Don't claim games to give them to friends off-site.
- If the key is already taken you will not receive a reply. Replies may take a minute or two:


Legend of Dungeon -- MB-16A42484C46FA150 - Taken by Exuro

 

[Salsa]

big picture is such a drag man

I wanna love it, but it's so slow and clunky. As much as i'd like a whole steam client redesign I really hope SteamOS and the machines make them rework the whole BPM thing

to be fair, half the time it's the devs fault for making games work like shit with it


there's so many instances where the whole thing just kinda screws up and you end up with the taskbar showing and can do NOTHING with the controller

 

[Pachimari]

Today is the worst day of my life.

No drama intended, just hoping for some cheerful recommendations or something.

Sorry.

You and me both.

 

[Exuro]

Extra Legend of Dungeon key from groupees bundle:

first come first serve.

yay thanks.

 

[ArynCrinn]

Please stop.

I think my highest was 700 and I was mighty proud of that.

Btw, Protips:

The skills I used for both my scores were:
-Deflect Color
-Grey Out
-Deep Impact
-Heal
-Iron Fist

So, what you wanna do early on is try to really master the Light Sword/Nunchuku stages in Survival, and try to go into them with at least 1 or 2 health missing as they'll move slower starting out. Then try to rack up as many kills as you can before you get hit too many times. I averaged about 400-500+ kills in those stages every time I hit them, hence my scores.

The problems is, as you get more and more kills everything obviously gets faster, so just keep trying to go into these stages with health missing to slow them down at first, rack up as many after your full, and then just try to make to it the next Light Sword/Nunchuku round. That's the gist of how I did it, Survival Mode really doesn't throw too many difficult pattern enemies at you very often, the worst is the 4-dodge Dark Green guy, and he's easy to get down pat. Sometimes they'll throw in a hot Pink dude but he's rare. So just try to manage the speeds and make it to the "health rounds" and rack up them kills.

That's my strategy anyway, and as you can see it works. ;p

 

[inm8num2]

all in all is not a difficult game..it's just some platforming that i find really frustrating

I found a few parts a little frustrating, probably made worse with a keyboard instead of a controller. Many of the timed climb / jump / punch / glide combo sequences took quite a few tries to finally get them right!

 

[DaBargainHunta]

Today is the worst day of my life.

No drama intended, just hoping for some cheerful recommendations or something.

Sorry.

You and me both.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Recommendation: Gunman Clive is inexpensive, fun, and GAF-made.

 

[Armoured Priest]

yay thanks.

Don't mention it.

 

[Seraphis Cain]

Bought a bundle specifically to give away to friends.

Feels good, man.

 

[ArjanN]

I'd argue that the Infierno challenge consisting in throwing a motherfucking chicken around is one of the hardest (and frustrating) things I've ever tried in a videogame. Never got that gold medal, still have nightmare about it, goddammit. :'(

Several of the the Inferno challenges are clearly based around the outfits that came with it.
You're meant to the use the soccer player costume for that specific challenge, because that makes you better at throwing stuff.

yeah, invisible platforming thing wasnt necesarelly super hard but it was harder than the tree tops for sure

Nah. The inivisible platforming is only hard until you realize how it works, the treetops bit is definitely more demanding.

 

[Ruruja]

Btw, Protips:

The skills I used for both my scores were:
-Deflect Color
-Grey Out
-Deep Impact
-Heal
-Iron Fist

So, what you wanna do early on is try to really master the Light Sword/Nunchuku stages in Survival, and try to go into them with at least 1 or 2 health missing as they'll move slower starting out. Then try to rack up as many kills as you can before you get hit too many times. I averaged about 400-500+ kills in those stages every time I hit them, hence my scores.

The problems is, as you get more and more kills everything obviously gets faster, so just keep trying to go into these stages with health missing to slow them down at first, rack up as many after your full, and then just try to make to it the next Light Sword/Nunchuku round. That's the gist of how I did it, Survival Mode really doesn't throw too many difficult pattern enemies at you very often, the worst is the 4-dodge Dark Green guy, and he's easy to get down pat. Sometimes they'll throw in a hot Pink dude but he's rare. So just try to manage the speeds and make it to the "health rounds" and rack up them kills.

That's my strategy anyway, and as you can see it works. ;p

Thanks for the tips, I'll try again soon.

 

[BinaryPork2737]

I've heard that Go! Go! Nippon is supposed to be pretty cheerful.

 

[Armoured Priest]

They're not on Steam, but the Kirby games (particularly Epic yarn) always put a smile on my face.

otherwise...don't worry about continues, and just play through Typing of the Dead: Overkill. Its pretty hilarious.

 

[Deleted member 102362]

While it has its dark moments and bad guys, Botanicula is a wonderful little gem from Amanita Design, the same team that made Machinarium. It's a stylish, beautiful puzzle-solving game starring a bunch of insects trying to save their home from some unpleasant spiders. I'd highly recommend it.

 

[Cth]

Thanks, going to give Botanicula a try.

 

[Dio Brando]

for some reason, valve hates me and isn't letting me send two gifts at the same time. Trying to giveaway two games here, using the send to the email trick, but it's like i can only send one at a time. Am i doing something wrong, or that's normal?

 

[Lain]

Surely already asked, maybe answered, but is there a way to stop humble from asking for a code every time?

 

[zkylon]

I got every achievement too but in 16 hours. It's not that challenging at all, but its fun

i don't think it was much fun either

 

[Grief.exe]

for some reason, valve hates me and isn't letting me send two gifts at the same time. Trying to giveaway two games here, using the send to the email trick, but it's like i can only send one at a time. Am i doing something wrong, or that's normal?

Use a period in different places for your email address.

Grief.exe@gmail.com
Gr.iefexe@gmail.com

 

[Dio Brando]

Use a period in different places for your email address.

Grief.exe@gmail.com
Gr.iefexe@gmail.com

already tried using 2 different emails(mine and a 10 minute mail), still cant receive it. only the 10 minute email worked.

Valve hates people who put dogs in furnaces, Dio.

Which is totally understandable, now that i think about it. Well, that dog was a pain in the ass(lol).

 

[Miguel81]

Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed Hard mode is damn Hard, the AI just goes full force on the player. Switching it to Normal, though, makes it too easy. That's one heck of a jump from one mode to the other.

I've gotten some of the World Circuit done, but am just wondering how much more difficult it gets later on.

 

[Adnor]

for some reason, valve hates me and isn't letting me send two gifts at the same time. Trying to giveaway two games here, using the send to the email trick, but it's like i can only send one at a time. Am i doing something wrong, or that's normal?

Valve hates people who put dogs in furnaces, Dio.