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  1. Avoidist

    The Great Steam Treasure Hunt Begins! [UPDATE- 16th-17th Tasks]

    Probably bad use of the word draw on my part. Replace it with "winners". Like that the New Vegas one doesn't have an associated special with it. Makes me glad I preordered way back when and potentially decreases the pool size.
  2. Avoidist

    The Great Steam Treasure Hunt Begins! [UPDATE- 16th-17th Tasks]

    What Otto said. The language at the top is suggestive of [3], while the terms & conditions seem to imply [2]. Also it's four objectives, with five draws per objective :cheese:.
  3. Avoidist

    The Great Steam Treasure Hunt Begins! [UPDATE- 16th-17th Tasks]

    Good point, it would probably take me all the remaining time just to download it. I'll be interested to see tomorrow's competitions. Edit: the language they use within the upper portion of the competition page seems to refer to a single collective drawing in contradiction to the previous line I...
  4. Avoidist

    The Great Steam Treasure Hunt Begins! [UPDATE- 16th-17th Tasks]

    Oooh, a technicality I had not spotted previously that makes this whole deal much more interesting: Sponsor will select five (5) winners by random drawing for each Treasure Hunt objective for each 48-hour period within 24 hours from the end of the period. In other words, only those that have...
  5. Avoidist

    The Great Steam Treasure Hunt Begins! [UPDATE- 16th-17th Tasks]

    I like that I have three times more chance than your average joe this round, but there's the problem of everyone who has an avatar already has an in. And I'm not buying ruse just for a bit more infinitesimally small odds and a hat I won't be able to get in the long run without buying every game...
  6. Avoidist

    Hate Emails by the fireplace with Richard Dawkins

    "Your destiny is all ****ed up!" Yeah, this needs to be a series. Or printed in fortune cookies.
  7. Avoidist

    Steam "Give & Get" Sale Begins

    Not really following... is it because of the huge userbase and hence low odds? Because a very small chance is larger than no chance at all, and all it costs you is telling them what games you would like for their own mass marketing statistics - a fair trade in my opinion.
  8. Avoidist

    Scientists see what came before Big Bang

    I never thought I would see the day when that website would be posted on a video game forum. Worlds just collided and as a result my brain has spiraled out of control.
  9. Avoidist

    "You never accepted Jesus." - 'Ugly Betty' actor kills mother with samurai sword

    Stabbed through the heart, and he's to blame! Giving religion a bad name. Whaaaaoooo whoooaaaooo aaaooo...
  10. Avoidist

    North and South Korean Tension

    And now the Spectres are responding... no, wait... they're just sitting around doing drugs. Huh.
  11. Avoidist

    You Guessed It...Portal 2 Delayed till April [UPDATED]

    Errgghhbllll.
  12. Avoidist

    Bioware announces announcement

    Well ok, it's an oversimplification of the model, but you get the general idea.
  13. Avoidist

    CERN: Proof of Extra Dimensions Possible Next Year

    Well yeah, sorta. Only that would violate causality, so the equations were re-examined to remove that little problem. If memory serves me correctly, Dirac did it. 'Course, my memory's pretty much dead at this point but don't let that stop you believing me.
  14. Avoidist

    Bioware announces announcement

    Always happens. Game company makes decent game, good critical reception, poor initial sales. Makes second game, critically acclaimed, profit flies through the roof temporarily. Company gets used to income, appeals to lowest common denominator with upcoming products to generate revenue. New...
  15. Avoidist

    The Lion King in 27 languages

    I don't appreciate being called nothing :(
  16. Avoidist

    Bioware announces announcement

    Why announce a new game so close to the release of DA2?
  17. Avoidist

    CERN: Proof of Extra Dimensions Possible Next Year

    Ugh, I know. I sound like a post-doc.
  18. Avoidist

    CERN: Proof of Extra Dimensions Possible Next Year

    Yeah, the way they even describe the 4 dimensions of space and time is complete bull as well, curvature is intrinsic property of the 4 dimensions, rather than representing a deformed surface in 5. Though I'm not sure if string theory has anything more to say about that, since M theory suggests...
  19. Avoidist

    CERN: Proof of Extra Dimensions Possible Next Year

    The interactions they're doing have been ridiculously surpassed by cosmic rays interacting with the atmosphere which happens incredibly frequently at their energies of 500TeV (5*10^14 eV). The Pierre-Auger Observatory alone has detected 30 particles with energies above 50EeV (5*10^19 eV), that's...
  20. Avoidist

    IGN - Portal 2 Video Preview

    Who commissioned this rubbish video? Absolutely nothing we didn't know 4 months ago.
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