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Half-Life 2 Preloading from Steam

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the chomping-at-the-bit dept.

Nos. writes "For those of us using Valve Software's Steam platform, we can now begin 'preloading' Half-Life 2. The article explains that this will download an encrypted version of the game that you can unlock when you purchase it. They only say that purchase options will be available soon."

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  1. YOU FLAIR IT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    To be the first post, you've got to beat the first post! WHOOOOOOOO!

  2. Re:FP by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Looking at all of those pie charts proves nothing. Linux is 1% on EVERY one of those pie charts. How is that a loss? The only thing it proves is that linux has been steady at 1% This post is useless and off topic.

  3. Re:FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    WHAT jackie chan fan you do not understand (in japan, man) that lunix is DYXXORING, red ink flows like a river of blood, another failed corpse turned over to the charnel-house you SUN OF A BITCH MOTHER FUCKR

    EAT A BAG OF HELL

  4. Re:FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Google probably rounded the numbers up a bit to give Lunix a little bit of help.

  5. OK, I'll take the karma hit by Lord+Kano · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This really pisses me off. Normally my submissions wait for 5 or 6 days before they reject them. THIS TIME, I submitted the story 1 hour and 18 minutes before it was posted on the main page and it was immediately rejected in favor of someone else's submission.

    I haven't gotten mod points in over a year and a half and all of my submissions are rejected, even when I scoop someone else.

    This is really starting to piss me off.

    LK

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    1. Re:OK, I'll take the karma hit by chromatic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The editors usually schedule stories in advance for Slash to publish later.

      Someone scooped you. It happens.

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  6. Try... by kcb93x · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...meta-moderating. Seriously. I have mod points like every day, I can't seem to get rid of them fast enough. When the 'meta moderate' button is at the top - CLICK IT.

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    1. Re:Try... by Lord+Kano · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I was the victim of a karma bomb a couple of years back. I pissed off someone in a discussion, and as a result this person or persons used multiple accounts to mod down every post I made for several months. I went from excellent karma to being unable to post. After the karma bomb, I have been unable to get mod points.

      LK

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  7. Re:FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WHAT

    Starting off the routine with a bang, we can all see why the AC is in medal contention.

    jackie chan fan

    This post's difficulty score will be an impressive 9.8-due to Jackie Chan's coolness, flaming his fans isn't like picking on Taco. ha, ha

    you do not understand (in japan, man)

    A suprise Late "in Japan" joke with modified execution wows the judges!

    that lunix is DYXXORING,

    I don't know whether he's talking about dicks, dykes, or dying, but that's an olympic class word.

    red ink flows like a river of blood,

    Followed up with a standard but worthy technique from the BSD school of trolling.

    another failed corpse turned over to the charnel-house

    What style! This stadium is ready to turn into a charnel-house.

    you SUN OF A BITCH MOTHER FUCKR

    Oh, but the judge from Grammar Nazia slaps him with a 1/10th of a point deduction for misspelling FUCKR! That cancels out the benefits of an insult in bold that compares your target to the astronomical body that provides light and heat to a female dog that mates with its mother.

    EAT A BAG OF HELL

    And he sticks the landing with a new classic! A bag of hell, pure brilliance! It's bold in both meanings of the word! We'll be hearing this one endlessly repeated on slashdot for the next four years.

  8. Friends of Bush... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Lets play with the friends of bush forums!
    Fun fun!

  9. Re:Don't bother trying by Patrick+Mannion · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, I'm a member of HL2Fallout.com, so Gabe pretty informed us first, then it was relayed to a bunch of sites. So I was on the first ones to get it.

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