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Offline Nakura

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Steam vs GOG (vs Origin)
The Descent thread is getting derailed, so by all means, discuss how much better Steam is than GOG, or vice versa, here.

 

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Re: Steam vs GOG (vs Origin)
You decided to make a topic to continue a discussion that other people were done with without actually having something to contribute to the discussion yourself?

Also: Snuffleupugus.
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Re: Steam vs GOG (vs Origin)
You decided to make a topic to continue a discussion that other people were done with without actually having something to contribute to the discussion yourself?

Also: Snuffleupugus.

I only read to page 10, but I'm glad they stopped derailing the thread. If Zacam wants to close this or just merge all of the Steam vs GOG posts into this thread, that'd be fine.

 

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Re: Steam vs GOG (vs Origin)
... ?

And so, to what at that end, you spuriously undertook to try and manage an issue preemptively even knowing that the origin of it all could easily have been split about anyway?

This doesn't make any sense.
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Re: Steam vs GOG (vs Origin)
And you know what?

No.

A: there should be no "vs." involved, that's just inviting trouble.

B: It's already been exampled that very strong opinions on the matter leads to problems that are better avoided.

C: If people ACTUALLY want to have this discussion, than the actual involved parties can start it themselves, but frankly, it's still going to turn into a mess at some point.
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[08/01 16:53:11] <sigtau> EveningTea: I have decided that I am a 32-bit registerkin.  Pronouns are eax, ebx, ecx, edx.
[08/01 16:53:31] <EveningTea> dhauidahh
[08/01 16:53:32] <EveningTea> sak
[08/01 16:53:40] * EveningTea froths at the mouth
[08/01 16:53:40] <sigtau> i broke him, boys