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SamuraiMegas wrote:As horse walks into a bar. The bartender says "why the long face?". The horse, incapable of human speech, promptly shits on the floor and leaves.
That actually made me chuckle a bit.

Here you go:

There are three couples who are seeking to become members of a very conservative congregation: an eldery couple, a middle-aged couple, and a young couple. The pastor says to them, "To become members of this congregation, you must each refrain from sexual intercourse for one month." The three couples leave, and one month later they are reunited at the church. The pastor asks them, "How did you do?" The elderly couple says: "We're older now and don't have sex as much a we used to, so this really wasn't too hard for us. We made it." The pastor says, "Congratulations. You are now members of this church." The middle-aged couple says, "We aren't as young as we used to be; so, while it was at times trying, we also made it." The pastor says, "Congratulations. You are also members of this church." He then moves on to the young couple, "Well. How about you?" The young man replies, "Honestly...we didn't do too well." The pastor says, "What happened?" and the young man says, "Well...we were doing pretty well for about a week, but then it got really hard to think about anything else. One morning, Jenny here dropped a can of beans, and when she bent over to pick it up, well...nature just kind of ran its course." The pastor replied, "Young man, I am very disappointed in you, and I must ask you to leave and never return." The young man says, "That's funny. They said the exact same thing to us at the grocery store."
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Ack wrote:
Niode wrote:
Ack wrote:From what I've read, it's apparently tied in to how many friends I can connect to on Steam. I dislike the thought that, while this may merely be Beta, this system may someday become mandatory for me to be able to communicate effectively with friends whom I just wish to play games with.
How so?
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/05 ... xp-system/
Rock, Paper, Shotgun wrote:Badges, meanwhile, enter the picture once you’ve completed a card set, and they’ll pop, loot-pinata-like, into a glittering mess of emoticons, profile backgrounds, Steam level XP, and the chance to get a coupon for another game or pertinent DLC. All of that culminates in a level-up, which basically does nothing except make a number increase. Oh, also, it lets you add more friends to your friends list, which seems like kind of a not-great feature to arbitrarily limit.
If this is true, I'm a bit worried about the long term consequences. Now, it may not be a concern whatsoever. After all, this is only Beta. But for the time being, I'm wary.
I honestly can't understand how they can implement this. I have hundreds of 'friends' on my friendslist. What happens if there is a limit? What happens if all of a sudden, say 'level 10 accounts' can only have 50 friends. What do I do then? Do I -all of a sudden- have to delete a bunch of friends?
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Niode wrote:[What happens if all of a sudden, say 'level 10 accounts' can only have 50 friends. What do I do then? Do I -all of a sudden- have to delete a bunch of friends?

Choose wisely!

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Still not trying just felt like posting another joke.
A guy goes out with his friends to watch the super bowl but promises his wife that he won't drink. Well their team wins the big game and he's so happy that he forgets his promise to his wife and has a few drinks, a few drinks become 10. Next thing he knows its bar close and remembers that he wasn't supposed to drink.

So he's trying to get his friends to help him come up with an excuse to tell his wife why he stinks of booze. They all brainstorm and come up with an idea, if she's up when he gets home just have twenty dollars in hand and say that someone spilled a drink on you and gave you the twenty to get your shirt dry cleaned. Great idea he thinks and buys all his friends a rounds of shots at last call.

So he takes off in a cab, gets home and of course his wife is up and furious. Well as anyone who's drank heavily knows that a shot after a long night of drinking usually ends badly. This was no exception, he's incredibly drunk. As soon as he opens the door his wife is in his face screaming about how he smells like beer. He tries his best to come across as sober and shows her the twenty then tells her the story about the some guy spilling a drink on him. She somehow believes him and he would have gotten away with it but he pulled out another twenty and said "and this one is from the guy that shit in my pants."
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Niode wrote:I honestly can't understand how they can implement this. I have hundreds of 'friends' on my friendslist. What happens if there is a limit? What happens if all of a sudden, say 'level 10 accounts' can only have 50 friends. What do I do then? Do I -all of a sudden- have to delete a bunch of friends?
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Niode wrote:So tell me a joke, the funniest jokes get invites.
(came up with this one while chatting with Ack. It's game related so it should get bonus points):


What are three reasons Sonic is Greek?

He's blue, he's the first one to reach home after work is done, and he goes bankrupt every time he gets hit.
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A man walks into a bar. His alcoholism is slowly tearing his family apart.


I don't want the trading cards and that's not really a joke.
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John Kerry walks into a bar. The bartender says, "Hey, why the long face?"
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So these are coming out of Beta tomorrow apparently. I'm a bit disturbed by them, as that friend list thing is specifically mentioned in the FAQ. Apparently we will have to play games to acquire cards, then use them to craft badges of some kind, and then...I don't know. I don't really understand what the purpose of this is beyond adding some kind of entertaining interactivity to something that was meant to serve as a communication tool, store, security device, and storehouse for things that were designed to be interactive entertainment.

Maybe this is Valve playing an elaborate joke on us. We must now play a game to randomly earn a chance to play a game which will allow us to make friends to play other games. Did I get that right?
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Steam Cards = $$$$

I am ashame to say that I fell for this. I am addicted. And I am sorry. :oops:
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