Ben_H

Not taking the risk. I can wait 6 hours. Instead I'm going to do all the homework I had scheduled for tomorrow and then marathon it from 1PM (when I get home, Tuesday is my short day), until like 2 or 3AM, leaving an hour or two for working out, eating supper and doing my placement matches for season 4 in SC2.

Nope, didn't work. Said I have to wait until the 25th.  The email said the Physical Warfare pack is unlocked for the 24th for me, which is contrary to what the OP says though.

Yeah I just got this email. I'm firing up my desktop now and will let you know if I can.

@Three0neFive said:

@Swoxx said:

@DarkGamerOO7 said:

Origin is not evil or bad as people make it out to be. It has its flaws, yes, but nothing major and the product is still in BETA. I purchased, and pre-loaded Battlefield 3 on Origin without any issues and have not had any major issues in using it over the past few weeks.

Pretty much my thoughts on it. People so quickly forget how hated steam was when it first launched.

Seriously, the Origin hate-bandwagon is ridiculous. Have had absolutely no problems thus far, and was able to pre-load BF3 in the span of an hour at almost 3 MB/s. If anything people should be directing their scrutiny towards Battlelog - but even then, during the beta it worked relatively well.

Indeed, I hated Origin at first but it seems just fine. I have BF3 pre-loaded and everything and it was smooth and the download was faster than Steam typically is.

Battlelog we will have to see. It seemed like a bit of a pain but not that bad in the beta.

It depends, last year my whole English class was reading based so for the midterm I just reread everything and any notes I took. I got like an 85% or something and I studied for around an hour. If there's grammar, then study that thoroughly but otherwise in lower year English classes, being remotely familiar with the material gives you an easy pass, and actually reading it again gets you an even better mark.

Remember kids, BSing your way through an English test is a viable strategy. Don't write what you think, write what they want to hear. Automatic 80% easily.

This year I don't get a midterm but 2 stupid essays instead. :(

@RYNO9881 said:

Forget this, who saw the gsl grand finals?

SO GOOD

The more discussion I read about the Oracle and Replicant, the less I can see them actually making it into the final game, especially the Replicant. The Oracle will replace the carrier as the unit Protoss has that is absolutely useless except in certain situations, since it is so expensive for what it does.

@tunaburn said:

yes but this is video!

It should have been posted in the HOTS forum with everything else. Heck, you could have posted that exact link in the thread that discusses the new units.

I just pre-ordered it so no email yet. Hopefully I can get start pre-loading soon.

Oh wow that Binding of Isaac game looks neat.  I'm so getting that.   You can already get Braid.  Also, Machinarium
 
I run Super Meat Boy using a WINE program that emulates Windows Steam, then I install the Windows versions of games on my Mac.  It only works for some things and is kinda shaky though.  The maps with fire on SMB sometimes mess up and crash the game.

Total games: 153 
Played games: 71 (46.41%)
Unplayed games: 82 (53.59%) 
Total hours: 335.9 
 
The hours played is waaaaaay off though. It seems it reset my times for a number of my games.  I had around 75 hours of TF2 and now it says 4 hours. I beat Half-Life 2 a long time ago, 98 minutes played. I beat HL2:Episode 2 and even have the achievements for it, 0 time played.  I'm on the third city of the original AC, 2 hours played.  7 hours of BC2, is about an eighth of what I've played of BC2:Vietnam alone. CS:S had 12 hours on it a while back, now its 3. Fallout 3 with all the DLC shows 21 hours on Steam but more than double that in game, same with New Vegas. Peggle Nights shows a last played date yet says I have no time logged. 
 
CivIV is off by a ton but I play that primarily when I'm in offline mode at the lake, so it would have like 150 hours played. Same with Plants Vs. Zombies, I've beaten it 3 or 4 times but have no achievements because it is always in offline mode.
 
Also, I own the Sims 3? I was unaware of that. Same with Sid Meier's Pirates!  I'm so going to play that, so much fun.  This has also reminded me that I need to play Dead Rising 2, Empire: Total War (it didn't work when I bought it because that game is busted when ran with multi-GPU setups, which I have a single 6950 now), Mass Effect (yep, I'm one of those people that never played it), Supreme Commander 2 (RTS WOOOOOOOOO), Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, Double Agent an Conviction, Majesty 2 (awesome game, I've only played the first few missions), The Maw, Bioshock 1 and 2, and when I eventually get time, Hearts of Iron III.  I have way too much to play and no time. And BF3 and Skyrim come out soon so it will be a while before this backlog goes away.  I don't have work anymore so I can work on my backlog for Christmas break now. More likely I'll just play SC2 all day like always.