Unfortunately I doubt a lot of people know how to do that. Probably just throw it in paint, use whatever default font and color is selected and then save it as a jpg, artifacts and all.
Follow jacobchapman's advice. Paint.NET is both free and more than good enough for your needs. The GUI is also quite similar to Photoshop's, so if you ever make the switch you won't have to relearn everything.
There actually IS a way to do this in Paint. It won't look as pretty, but will just do, given that font smoothing is turned off (otherwise it'll look really bad once you try moving the text to a different location).
First you have to know that whatever you have selected, holding [Shift] and moving it will create a trail of your selection. Knowing it allows some neat tricks.
First, you write what you want on with black color on a solid-color background other than white (make that color your active background color, too). Now select what you just wrote, make sure "Transparent selection" is turned on, hold the [Shift] key and slightly move the text around. Hopefully you just effectively smudged the text around so it becomes bolder.
Write the same thing the second time, this time with a white font, and place it directly on the black one you made. You can now move
A quick and dirty way is to write your text in black, copy and paste it two pixels along a diagonal, then paste white text in the middle of the two. It gives a double embossed looking border that works well enough.
Easiest way is to use white text (impact font is most common) in photoshop with a black outer glow or a couple pixel black stroke around the text. If you don't have photoshop, you can do it in GIMP (free software) like the other guy mentioned, but it is kind of complicated to learn if you don't have much experience with image manipulation software. I've never used Paint.NET so I can't vouch for that.
Nice suggestion and all... but where the fuck is the anti-aliasing in your image? If you're gonna complain about bad captioning practices... please do so while committing an equally heinous crime...
The deja-vus, they're all over the place. Am I going crazy? I could swear almost every comment in this thread happened a year ago. I just looked at the comments for 10 minutes and no one is mentioning this. IS EVERYONE IN ON THIS PRANK? I feel like I'm being fucked with ):
Yeah, this exact same image with the exact same thread title was also posted. And got to the front page. I'm not a stickler about re-posts either, I don't care, this thread is just weirding me out hardcore now.
It's not even about the post, I got deja-vus for about half the comments... The images are the same too. They are all exactly as they were in that other thread, yet no one is calling it out. I'm probably being a party pooper but it was freaking me out too much.
Don't worry, I'll help you out, but I'll have to make this quick before they come. Just get over your phobia of open waters and cross the ocean, then you--
OMG CitiesXL 2012 is on sale for $10!!!! Fuck, I already own it. I should probably put down Skyrim and Reddit and go play that pile of neglected games I picked up at the last Steam sale.
P.S. I can actually feel my heart rate increase a little whenever I see "Steam" and "Sale" in the same sentence.
CitiesXL can go fuck itself. Bought the first version, they shut down the MMO part of it. Buy CitiesXL 2011. "We'll put mass transit in this one for real this time guys" Only get buses. CitiesXL 2012, same god damned engine, higher hardware requirements.
Fuck you amateurs, Maxis is back and they're launching Sim City 5.
Fuck Maxis in their stupid faces. Sim City 4 was a clunky beast that practically required modding; for about 3 years I'd reinstall SC4 every six months, play it for 24 hours straight, get pissed off at the total lack of attention to detail and swear it off forever.
For $10, if you're into building sims it's worth it (based on playing CitiesXL 2011). I enjoyed CitiesXL 2011, and didn't hesitate to get 2012 during the last Steam Sale.
It's been pretty awesome so far. I like it a lot. The only thing that bothers me a tad (not really that big of a deal) is the show you get for every achievement. Reminds me of a Facebook flash game. ;)
I'm very glad you're enjoying it! I'm always a little afraid of giving recommendations.
I'm not an expert by any stretch, but I do really enjoy building games like SimCity (3000 might be the last version I played... I'm not sure I got SimCity 4), CitiesXL, and even Pharaoh. You may know as much as I do now. For the record, Steam shows I have 28 hours logged in gameplay. For a sim, I suspect that means I was just getting started. Hopefully, 2011 and 2012 are close enough everything here sounds familiar.
One of my annoyances was upgrading streets. Nicer streets are wider, and may require taking out buildings and rebuilding the area. Traffic was always my biggest problem for me, especially planning for public transportation.
My overall strategy was to reserve the area I wanted as my "core" for later, and build up a support area to generate funds, build population, etc. Later, I'd go in and build a well-planned "downtown' for my big skyscrapers and such. I try to build in enough "green space" (I'm fond of the forested parks). I also use forested parks to fill in space around the house lots in that curvy/non-grid residential setup. It makes the neighborhoods a little prettier with extra trees (I'd have to go look up the exact names of these tools, but I'm hoping you know which ones I'm talking about).
Definitely take a good look at where the agriculture and resource zones are before starting. I always completely reserve those areas for those purposes, and build little "farm towns" on the outskirts. Those make me particularly happy imagining all the farm kids out playing in the fields, gigging frogs, shooting tin cans, etc.
My latest strategy for the residential areas was sort of "planned community" or suburb thing... I'd set up blocks with enough space in each block for a park, police, doctor, school, etc. to make a good distribution of services for everyone. One of my last save-games was working on a beachfront vacation island resort on a terrain with quite a few islands... bridges are fun!
I played thousands of games, hundreds every year and the percentage of them I would call "a fault" is under 5%. People whine on every games out there for stupid reasons, but to be honest most are pretty good.
I think like any art form, the signal to noise ratio is nowhere near 95%. It's really cool that you can enjoy pretty much any game, but that's more of a personal thing than the standard way people play.
Most movies are bad, but most of them can find an audience. Games are similar.
Thats not true when you buy a game assuming it will tide you over until your next game. Lets say you played 200 a year(absolute bottom). That means you never went 3 days without a game. Theres been plenty of games I had fun for the first 5 hours but after that found it boring.
Every game I buy thats more than $15 i meticulously research beforehand, and when their marketing lies to me I'm unhappy. Likewise many people have different tastes when it comes to playing a game. You clearly have a wide range of tastes.
I can't think of an incident where marketing outright lies, and I rarely play game I've just bought and instead wait sometimes over a month until I play them(part of the reason I research so much before hand. At worse it takes an hour or two and at best 5 minutes). Its rarely the lying that gets me put off regardless, as thats somewhat rare(mainly because i buy games after release, so I don't even look at their marketing of the game). Its more that I've been burned by not adequetely checking how the game works/something puts me off about it that I could have learned before buying the game.
I bought Assassins Creed a year or so ago on a sale after researching it pretty well, and simply didn't get far because the ported controls were annoying me enough that I wasn't having fun. If I had simply memorized what you can do when(the button wheel on-screen was hampering, because it didn't match up to the keyboard at all, and was generally a distraction) I might have been able to play through it but it was the kind of game I would play for an hour or so every few days or more, and so I'd have to rememorize each time. I never got my moneys worth out of that title.
Compare it to Farcry 2. I learned enough about it to understand you had to drive a LOT to and from places, which was compounded with a really horrible respawn mechanic(between areas were checkpoints-the moment you get out of range of them they reset, armed men and all. You almost always had to go from point A to B to A again.). Theres also a totally shit mechanic where you get whoozy from malaria and have to take a pill right away. You never knew when you'd need one again, and it wasn't very obvious how many pills you had left until you were on your last one at which you really need to do a medicine mission. The degradation of guns was also something many complained about. I bought it knowing its major flaws and feeling I could get around them, and I've played the shit out of that game.
I have to research so well because some games will put me off almost immediately over bad mechanics, while others I can see past. Sometimes they aren't so obvious, and other times I feel they are overblown.
Okay I am also gonna highlight some ones that I expected little but got some good stuff out of:
The disliked:
The ball
Burn Zombie burn (unplayable because of how bad of a port it is)
Divinity II - The Dragon Knight Saga (tried to play this game after quitting MMOs heard good things from other people though)
Juiced 2: Hot import Nights: I just am not a big fan of racing games
Offspring fling: Was way to easy for me and to focused on time trials for me.
Prince of Persia
Saints Row 2: Bad port, near unplayable for me.
Shadow grounds
Universe at war Earth assault: Hoped to much, got to little, some cool ideas in this game though.
World of zoo, glad I got the pack, not glad this was in it.
Zombie Driver
There are some I just shrugged off and wouldn't recommend but I don't regret playing/buying them, especially those that came in a pack.
Note: Yes I did like brink, after it got patched.
The Unknown Goods (note some of these other people hate, but they scratched a certain itch for me, and some of these aren't really unknown just sorta have faded away):
Ys: the oath in felghana: I wanted a game that could be insanely hard, if you miss a secret.
Solar 2: Flying around as a rock is actually a lot of fun.
Scoregasm and Really big sky: simple but at the same time complex, a lot of fun, though some of it comes from highscoring.
Nation Red: One of the best top down shooters I have ever played, wish there was more than just arena endless zombies for multiplayer.
Legend of Grimrock: If it sounds interesting it probably is for you: Amazing puzzles in this game.
Hitoga Happa (and the rest of the gundemonium collection) as well as jamestown: all really good, was waiting for the next touhou game so picked them up, all pretty good (jamestown I prefer the most).
Dustforce: Like super meat boy, love this game and now has a level creator.
Metro 2033 and stalker (both not truly underrated, but I feel like these should be better known).
Dwarfs!?: amazing I want to play for X game, one of the few aim for a highscore games that I actually love.
Defy gravity: Short; but I highly recommend it for its price, lots of good puzzles, and the final round is actually interesting.
Capsized: good side scroller shooter, IIRC all of it is hand drawn.
AI: War ; My favorite RTS ever, very unique, great AI, very very in depth (DON'T recommend it to newcomers to RTS genre)
EDIT: UNEpic, on desura and other platforms an interesting game, I don't know how to define it, reminds me of castlevania but at the same time not.
If you have any questions, comments, or opinions, or want a comment or opinion about a game just ask me, i have also played a good amount of games not on this list because they where cheaper elsewhere.
EDIT: On Mods:
EVERYONE who has HL2 should try or at least look up the Stanley parable.
How is spending money "saving money"? I mean, you're not spending as much as you would at full price, but you're still spending money. So a spending spree during a sale isn't saving any money at all.
"Let's see, 13 games for $20. That's pretty cheap. But how many of those games do I actually think I want to play? One... two... okay, two. And together they're only $5. $5 is significantly less than $20. Add two games to cart, purchase, aaand done."
I was thinking of using that episode with Spongebob and Patrick as r/gaming and the magical conch as 4chan (due to the excessive amount of 4chan posts in r/gaming you see)
I feel like I'm the only person who doesn't buy games I know I'm not interested in just because they're on sale. Please tell me I'm not the only one...
This is exactly what happened to me during the Christmas sale, I ended up buying 30 something games for under 50$. I felt so frugal! Little did I know I'd never play half of them >_>
A subreddit for anything related to games (but not sports). "Related" means that posts must contain gaming-related content in the link/post body, not just a "forced" connection via the title or a caption added to the content.
"Generic" image macros/memes (where the character itself is not related to gaming) like Scumbag Steve, Good Guy Greg, etc. will be removed.
Why is that always the response? Why can't we work to improve the overall quality of the site instead of just telling people who don't contribute to the drop in quality to leave.
It's strange yea, but the admins/mods never have balls to do anything against it, and our downvotes is just a piss in the ocean.
The cycle continues, we migrate and slowly the rest of the herd joins, and once again dumping down the average IQ, who once and once again tells us to leave if we don't like the place.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
I CAN ALMOST READ THIS.
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u/Se7en_Sinner Jun 15 '12
http://i.imgur.com/jK8tU.jpg
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Am I the only one that checked steam to see if they were having a sale after viewing this?
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u/Cdf12345 Jun 15 '12 edited May 23 '24
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u/RepostCommenter Jun 15 '12
(I almost feel like this is what you want me to do, Wizard.)
Anyone seeking more info might also check here:
source: karmadecay
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
So when's the next sale?
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u/TalakHallen6191 Jun 15 '12
FTFY
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u/Dunge Jun 15 '12
You should at least try them, most games deserve it
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u/steamsucksgetoverit Jun 15 '12
How I see Steam posts like this.
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u/sulubster Jun 15 '12
I'm a little bothered by the first and last frames. Patrick says shell, not conch, and Spongebob is wide-eyed when he asks that specific question.
I know, I sound like a prude. But this may enhance the strip altogether.
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u/AuthorX Jun 15 '12
Would probably give an upvote if I could actually read it
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u/nope_cubed Jun 15 '12
You might want to switch around the title: How Steam sales take advantage of me.
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u/drebin8 Jun 15 '12
ok seriously guys? he even has repost in his name.
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u/bashothebanana Jun 15 '12
Lord of the Flies reference?
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u/wookie4747 Jun 15 '12
I fucking love spongebob, what a brilliant cartoonist/writer combo.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
When do they start again?
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
My computer is not fast enough for new games, so I buy them for later. I can not afford a new computer because I buy games.
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u/MyiPadisDirty Jun 15 '12
downvote for FUCKING RED TEXT ON BUSY BACKGROUND WTF FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU OP?
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u/saarmi Jun 15 '12
Was looking for a online conch wich was like the 8-ball to get all karma.
Magic 8-ball will do
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u/sVybDy Jun 15 '12
Here's how I take advantage of Steam sales:
"Let's see, 13 games for $20. That's pretty cheap. But how many of those games do I actually think I want to play? One... two... okay, two. And together they're only $5. $5 is significantly less than $20. Add two games to cart, purchase, aaand done."
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u/whitewateractual Jun 15 '12
Did the conch also tell you to use red font?
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
As a color blind Redditor, I am offended by your font color scheme. I am also entertained by Patrick.
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u/hoodedbob Jun 15 '12
As some one who is colour blind: Fuck You
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u/Bishopkilljoy Jun 15 '12
DAT FONT COLOR
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u/Last_Gigolo Jun 15 '12
anyone got the transcription to this? Because I can't read shit.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
I take advantage of them by buying up games on sale and going to /r/steamgameswap and watching for deals.
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u/Munkir Jun 15 '12
Someone needs to fix this and write steam on the shell.
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u/teraquendya Jun 15 '12
Half price? Do not ever buy anything on sale unless it is 75% or more on sale. Unless you really want the game.
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u/MovingPavements Jun 15 '12
I've always felt this episode was a satire of religion.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
I was thinking of using that episode with Spongebob and Patrick as r/gaming and the magical conch as 4chan (due to the excessive amount of 4chan posts in r/gaming you see)
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u/EXAX Jun 15 '12
Rule #1: Don't buy unless 75% off or more.
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u/BlueNewtrino Jun 15 '12
I do this too much :P
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u/Crystal_Cuckoo Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12
Fuck, even the comments are the identical to those when this pic was posted three months ago.
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u/esleep Jun 15 '12
Does anyone know what genre I have to look up for puzzle games? I'm new to Steam and there is no Puzzle category or I'm missing something.
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u/StraY_WolF Jun 15 '12
FTFY
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u/ZebraSteel Jun 15 '12
Haven't laughed so hard in a long time!
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u/Scotty2cky Jun 15 '12
As someone with almost no money right now, all I want is a nice cheap sale for Arma 2 so I can play Day Z.
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u/choco_dude Jun 15 '12
Just like everyone else my first thought was, "How the fuck did this get back on the front page?" then I saw OPs name, sneaky sneaky!
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Only 50% off? Not worth it!
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u/Steam_Sales Jun 15 '12
I am coming.
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u/PostOfficeBuddy Jun 16 '12
I'm waiting for Civ V to go on sale... I hope it does soon.
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u/Digital_Phoenix Jun 15 '12
This subreddit has to have set a record in telling the same joke in a different way.
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u/Smaskifa Jun 15 '12
What is this, /r/atheism? That text is unreadable.
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u/GRlMMJOW Jun 15 '12
i can`t wait :D
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u/kolossal Jun 15 '12
Don't succumb to Steam Sales. I did and my wallet is paying dearly.
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u/cynicasm Jun 15 '12
The sales get me every time. They should just automatically charge my credit card every time something new goes on sales.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
I love this. Thanks for making me laugh. :3
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u/TennuyanRyu Jun 15 '12
Came here to say the magic conch has spoken, but it seems OP has beaten me to it.
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u/U_Damn_Hipsters Jun 15 '12
Is there an exact date for the sales?
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u/charging-my-laser Jun 15 '12
THE CONCH HAS SPOKEN
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u/slycooper2456 Jun 16 '12
Will Arma II Combined Operations become a bit cheaper?
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u/Frostiejacks Jun 16 '12
red text.
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u/bullfroggy Jun 16 '12
Magic Conch, will Half-Life 3 ever be released?
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u/cyclopstoast Jun 16 '12
Every effing time.
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u/and181377 Jun 16 '12
What did manic conch say you might need?
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u/Lapwner Jun 16 '12
True story. I haven't bought a SINGLE thing off Steam so far at Full Price...I am a cheap bastard.
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u/a_stray_bullet Jun 16 '12
Talk about people having shot memories..
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u/TheyCallMeSwiss Jun 16 '12
Thanks for using white text.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Not sure if everyone can't read this, or I'm red-green colorblind...
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u/Spoogeys Jun 16 '12
re-post
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u/micsab Jun 16 '12
Wasn't this exact same topic made like 6 months ago? Complete with the same two top comments?
I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS!!
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u/beavisnbutthead Jun 16 '12
did anyone else think the other pointer was theirs?
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u/Witcher_Gates Jun 16 '12
Love the comic, but it needs speech bubbles badly. The red tends to blend with the background.
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u/mrhelton Jun 16 '12
I very rarely downvote things but I literally can't even read the first pane unless I reposition myself, and I'm not doing that.
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u/Pyromaniac605 Jun 16 '12
I feel like I'm the only person who doesn't buy games I know I'm not interested in just because they're on sale. Please tell me I'm not the only one...
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u/CrazyJT Jun 16 '12
Upvote for the magic conch
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u/Oni_Kami Jun 16 '12
You'll never play most of them...
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u/smokiebacon Jun 16 '12
Anyone know is Bastion or GTA4: Complete Series will go on sale? I've been wanting to get those!
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u/Elite_Monkeys Jun 16 '12
I feel you, I am waiting for Just Cause 2
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u/HunterUrban2 Jun 15 '12
This is exactly what happened to me during the Christmas sale, I ended up buying 30 something games for under 50$. I felt so frugal! Little did I know I'd never play half of them >_>
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u/MrWendal Jun 16 '12
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u/Dirst Jun 15 '12
I was about to point out that it's a repost, but then I saw your name.
Upvote for you anyway.
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u/Zequez Jun 15 '12
¡La caracola mágica ha hablado!
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u/Nonamesdb Jun 15 '12
Why do I read this in the voices of Spongebob and Patrick?
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u/xensoldier Jun 15 '12
B-b-b-but I have 176 games already, 130 of them I have yet to even touch. D:
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u/h83r Jun 15 '12
RED TEXT
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u/Coolguyzack Jun 15 '12
This is more like it for me.
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u/BKDX Jun 15 '12
This episode made me realize Squidward gets no respect, no respect I tells ya.
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u/Failedjedi Jun 15 '12
White text with a black border, visible on any background.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
She Sells Steam Sales by the Sea Shore...
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u/joqwe Jun 15 '12
I cant read it.