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I've never played TF, but am I right in thinking that that guy has a no damage mod on? I would have thought planting a rocket at your feet that many times would have resulted in some gibbage...

Yeah, that level of Rocket Jumping would end you in a real match but there are items that make that style of play more useful like the "rocketjumper" which deals no damage to anyone.

It's become it's own thing though, there's a whole time-trial thing where people race circuits and stuff.

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If anyone is in Seattle in early 2014, you can go to Valve's new event:

http://www.steamdevdays.com/

Steam Dev Days is a two-day game developer’s conference where professionals can meet in a relaxed, off the record environment. Developers will share their design and industry expertise, participate in roundtable discussions and attend lectures by industry veterans on topics ranging from game economies to VR, Linux/OpenGL, user-generated content and more. Developers will also have direct access to Valve’s Steam Team, and will be given a chance to test-drive and provide feedback on Steam OS, prototype Steam Machines and Steam Controllers.

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Reading feedback on GAF there seems to be concerns from the mouse/k brigade that especially in the Civ 5 steam controller demo there is a lot of thumb lifting to get to opposing ends. The counter to this would be to increase sensitivity but then surely aiming may become unwieldy. Wonder if the answer to this would be to configure the outer part to be high sensitivity and the middle to be lower to unable more smaller precise movements. Would that work or can the trackpad even be carved up into different sections like this or only by quadrants?

The track pad on my work laptop uses acceleration to get over this, make a quick movement and it moves the mouse a lot, make a small movement and it moves a short way. This controller look incredible though. Any indication on price yet?

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How Surgeon Simulator accidentally launched a Half Life 3 ARG

"The day after we released the first piece of the puzzle," says Surgeon Simulator 2013 co-creator Luke Williams, "we had to put our foot down and say, look, this isn't Half-Life 3. But people wouldn't believe us! They'd say things like, 'well of course you would say that, wouldn't you'. We were damned if we did and damned if we didn't."

The rampant speculation about a Half-Life 3 announcement was exacerbated by the initial clue's coincidental appearance in a Team Fortress 2 themed update to Surgeon Simulator 2013, as well as its use of the Korean language, which coincided with the addition of a Korean language pack to Half-Life 2.

But what of the mistaken assumptions made along the way? Across forums and community hubs, players were making serious logical backflips to arrive at insane theories about Summer Sales and Half-Lives. At one point, the sticker that began the clue hunt was even believed to be a map of North Korea.

"They edited the levels in Photoshop and sure enough, it looked a lot like the coastline of North Korea," laughs Jackson. "It was just some weird texture compression, a total fluke, but it was hilarious how people would come up with these convoluted theories. The answer to that sticker was simply '29', the number of years it takes Saturn to orbit the sun and first two digits of the keycode, but people ran with it.

"Saturn is linked to Saturday, they theorised, and the first two letters are 'SA'. The first two letters of 'sale' are also 'SA', so they reckoned that the Steam Summer Sale would start on Saturday, June 29th. We had none of these ideas in our head when we came up with this puzzle, we were just hinting at a keycode!"

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"They edited the levels in Photoshop and sure enough, it looked a lot like the coastline of North Korea," laughs Jackson. "It was just some weird texture compression, a total fluke, but it was hilarious how people would come up with these convoluted theories. The answer to that sticker was simply '29', the number of years it takes Saturn to orbit the sun and first two digits of the keycode, but people ran with it.

"Saturn is linked to Saturday, they theorised, and the first two letters are 'SA'. The first two letters of 'sale' are also 'SA', so they reckoned that the Steam Summer Sale would start on Saturday, June 29th. We had none of these ideas in our head when we came up with this puzzle, we were just hinting at a keycode!"

Well, it sounds kind of crazy when they put it like that.

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It sums up the psychosis involved in being rabidly expectant. It's totally insane.

A bit like real religion.



One day our crazy will be rewarded. One day.

That would be nice.

This is the calm bit in the HL3 delusion cycle.

I think we've got a couple of months more of this dip, then the bubble will grow rapidly and deflate all over again.

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