Most of the action is going over on Reddit.  981 comments so far (and people keep giving me things, dammit, I'm going broke giving things away! )

Purchased:  

Portal 2
Assassin's Creed Revelations Gold
Alan Wake Collection
Sam & Max Collection
Mount & Blade Napoleonic Wars
one piece of 49 cent Magicka DLC (I didn't have it)
Prince of Persia collection
Some Europa Universalis III sprite packs.
F3AR
Thief Gold
Sins of a Solar Empire Trinity
Fortune Summoners
Hacker Evolution Duality
Red Faction Armageddon Complete

Gifted through the Reddit Pay it Forward thing (even though I told 'em I didn't need any games and then I had to buy ones to give away afterward!)

Sega Genesis Classics Volume 5
Binding of Isaac DLC
Drakensang: The River of Time
Alice: Madness Returns
Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition
Ys: Oath of Felgana
Thief 2
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Avernum 4
Avernum 5
Avernum 6
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
Serious Sam 3

So yes, because of the Steam Summer Sale, it's time to Pay It Forward.  So, here's your challenge, folks:

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/wgc15/steam_summer_sale_pay_it_forward/

Where is the details on the sale?  I mean, we're saying tomorrow, where's the proof?

Just sold one of my leveling items (low-mid 40s item with a lot of int) for $5.70 ($3.99 after Paypal/Blizz Fees).  Yay free(ish) moniez!

Who loves you, and who do you love indeed.

RIP Richard.

Let's see.

Change the name of the city, the name of the girlfriend (sorta), invent a (living) mother and sister, make a best friend out of what /may/ be his arch-nemesis (for now, that is)....oh, and drop the 'Green'. 

yeah, this looks like a /quality/ show. 

You can search for stats, but you can't search for suffix/prefix.

Tell me what you guys think about this:

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5271597119#1

(Oh, and reply /there/, not here)

The secret level has been unveiled.  It's...hilarious.  (SPOILER WARNING)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeQzJC-vS40

Not easily, no, and it's a huge failure on the Blizzard side of things, IMO.

You have to choose the class, the item type, blah blah blah, and then hope someone has something similar up.

Was playing with someone and got disconnected, and now can't connect back in.

While we're waiting...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZI0gM3PN-F4

What do you guys think are the chances that I'll be able to land the CE at best buy tomorrow?

Best Bet:  Fry's tonight at Midnight.  Or Wal-Mart, same time.

Amazon still says 'shipping soon'.  Grr.  GIMME DAMMIT. -.-

The Fry's in Austin didn't start taking preorders until a week or so back, and said they were getting 150 CEs.

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I am about to begin my re-read of the Wheel of Time to end with A Memory of Light (book 14, estimated to have an August 2012 release).

yeah, I have a feeling Wheel of Time will take up a lot of my reading time for 2012.  I cannot think of anything else I'm really looking forward to, but I also have the Malazan series waiting to be read also.

LOL, looked at Brian Sanderson's blog and found this.

Spoiler for Hiden:

first draft apparently.

[edit] according to a post on Dragonmount, he was listening to this song while doing the final scene; potential spoiler material there (I'm not familiar with the game it's from so I don't know what happened when it played).

Spoiler for Hiden:

Well, since it's long been debated that Rand is the Jesus-figure of the story and there's prophecy about his dying (and comments about Nynaeve never being satisfied until she's Healed someone three days dead), a good guess is that Rand dies to win, but is raised from the dead afterward.  Only relation I can think of from FFX is that the main male character (Tidus) was a dream of a dead civilization.

Uplink is on Steam and is on sale periodically, btw

What it means is that no matter what you chose, Conrad Verner will think you pulled a gun on him in ME1 and the Asari Consort will be disgraced.  So you want to edit the ME1 save file before importing to ME2.

Oddly enough, I didn't even find Conrad in ME2, and I got a letter from the Asari Consort thanking me.  So I'm not sure if this is still an issue.

It's the banners you can drop in-game with 'F' (or 'G', I forget).  I don't know if they do anything else.

[Spoiler]

Well, it's fairly apparent even early on that

Spoiler for Hiden:

she's the daughter of Adria and the hero from Diablo/Diablo 2.  Y'know...who becomes Diablo again?

I just hope Amazon gets the CEs out the day before (like they did with Star Wars)

Question is, is it going to be about Pym, or the new 'Irredeemable' Ant Man (who is amusing as hell, really)?

I'm going to be restarting my playthrough in a few weeks.

A preview of how gorgeous I got this thing to look:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSH9mBGsyww&feature=plcp

And the Auction House system is outlined here:  http://us.battle.net/d3/en/services/auction-house/how-to

In a nutshell:

$1 fee for equipment.
15% fee for commodities
15% fee for cashing out to Paypal, as well as the 3.9% or whatever Paypal charges.

I'm not replacingr anything right now.  Well I need to talk to ASUS about replacing my motherboard....again....because the freaking USB ports keep cutting out. 

Outside of that, I'm going to get a SSD when Windows 8 rolls out.  My CPU is an Intel i5 (2500k) and my GPU is Geforce 460 GTX, so I'm fairly solid there.

You'll level 1-8 before you see the Skeleton King.  Probably to 9, maybe 10 if you do the side quests and such.   So yeah, first 10 levels are cake.  I figure as long as you're moving forward you'll probably be doing fine for a while after that also.  Figure level 30ish by the end of main game?

Yeah, I already have it preordered.  CE from Amazon~

Overachiever GET.

The achievements get you banner options which carry over to the main  game, yes.  I'll only have played Act 1 up to the Skeleton King, so it's not like I"m spoiling huge chunks of the game.

Yup.  I'm gonna be on most of the weekend grinding.  Here's what I've got left:

Raise Blacksmith to level 4:  Very Easy
Raise Monk to Level 13 (from 9):  Easy
Create Barbarian, Beat Game, Become Level 13:  Somewhat Easy and time-consuming.
Create Demon Hunter, Beat Game, Become Level 13:  Somewhat Easy and time-consuming.
Raise 5 classes from the dead:  Easy but insanely time-consuming (finding someone to do it, after all).

I'm doing hardcore runs the rest of the week, so look me up

Will do.  Is there a point to doing hardcore, btw?  I haven't tried yet.

Got Jar of Souls.  Just need to get the other now, then level 3 chars to max.

If anyone is still in the closed beta, I need people for 2 things.

1)  Jar of Souls:  I can't find anyone that's doing part 3 publicly.

2)  Rez people:  Again, can't find people for this achievement.

Coop is fucking insane.  WAVES of monsters, so there's a lot less tendency to 'run around and see what you find' and more 'holy shit stay close so we don't DIE'.

Shinino#1565

Loving it.  Texans get 2 Sunday night, 2 Monday nights and a Thanksgiving game.  Woot!

[Spoiler]

The one thing that's confusing me is the changes to Shae, although it makes sense if

Spoiler for Hiden:

you want to make it more obvious as far as why Shae betrays Tyrion in the end

Is there a list somewhere of all of them in (world) chronological order?

this might be what you're looking for.  it's got them by author, release date, series, title or chronological order in Realm years which also breaks it down into when a particular novel starts and ends (if it spans several years) and when short stories take place.

Thanks.  I'm almost done with the Netherim trilogy right now.

I'll give that point.  I hate hate hate hate HATED Pinnacle Station.  What a complete waste of money DLC that was.