[Giveaway Ended]

The rules are simple: Write something interesting, insightful or helpful and I'll send you a link add you to a temporary Steam group for this giveaway. No copy paste jobs please. Be creative, be original. Something more elaborate and thoughtful than a 1-liner would increase the chances of being invited. You can write about your hobby, art, technology or anything else - as long as it does not break the rules of the forum. You also have to be at least Level 1. The time limit is next Sunday (Aug 16) at midnight CET.

If you meet the above criteria you will be included in a temporary group for this giveaway, and if your ratio is not terrible I will also add you to my whitelist, most likely permanently.

Don't forget to vote for the game you wish to be in the giveaway. Majority rules, so it may not be the one that you chose. I hope in the future SG adds an option to add a list of games to a giveaway and let the winner select one.


Edit: Thanks for writing something interesting, insightful or helpful. The winning game voted by the majority of users is the Just Cause Collection (consisting of the first two games in the series). To those of who don't have it, you now have (almost) a day to join the giveaway:

http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/CIpsu/just-cause-collection

May the best man or woman win!

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Which game would you prefer to win?

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Deponia
Hitman: Absolution
How to Survive
Just Cause Collection
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
Planetary Annihilation
S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl
Syberia
The Stanley Parable
To The Moon
Year Walk
...I have them all, so I'm out :-(

In life, one must look to the start to find the end.

I believe I have them all, though. All the ones I want, anyway.

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In Windows, u need to click on Start, to shutdown.

Coincidence? I don't think so.

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Oho~ Indeed.

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The first thing I thought of:
What you are searching for is always in the last place you look, because once you find it, you stop looking for it.

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Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget.

I already have the ones I want though, but good luck with the giveaway!

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I have all the friends I want too :P Unless maybe there is a friends giveaway? facebookgifts.com?

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09:40 - Archi: tell me something interesting
09:41 - ArchiBoT: A rat can go without water even longer than a camel can. Another amazing fact?
09:41 - Archi: go ahead
09:41 - ArchiBoT: No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple. Another amazing fact?
09:41 - Archi: sure
09:41 - ArchiBoT: A whip makes a cracking noise because its tip is moving faster than the speed of sound. Another amazing fact?
09:41 - Archi: more
09:41 - ArchiBoT: Don't be greedy.
09:41 - Archi: okay ;_;
09:41 - ArchiBoT: Hope you'll be selected!

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Nope D:

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09:45 - Archi: you lied to me
09:46 - ArchiBoT: No, I always tell the truth.
09:46 - Archi: purple rhymes with curple!
09:46 - ArchiBoT: Violet rhymes with curple.
09:46 - Archi: you lied to me again!
09:46 - ArchiBoT: Hey, I am becoming more like a human.

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:V

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duuuuuuuuuuuuude stap messing with skynet

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Don't worry, I got this.

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wow, there are people who prefer VS for home... :D

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I'm compiling on Linux Mono xbuild anyway, and VS is only IDE to allow easier debugging and writing.

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That shit is even able to ninja keys right now.

Slowly I'm building SkyNet.

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xDDDDDDD

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i was hopping on the maya end of the world prophecy, so we could wipe and restart, but no, poor earth :(

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B.E.A.R. means Beard Expert Abnormally Radioactive .

Dont mess with me.

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k

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We meet again, doppelganger.

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So we have two bears now?

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I'm all for that. Yes.

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"Everything the sun touches is our kingdom" - Mufasa, The King

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What a greedy fucker. Clearly Scar was a hero to fight against such tyranny.

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Indeed

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I would agree, until he created his own kind of tyranny...

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Now I just hope people vote for Planetary Annihilation <3

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damn, i didn't see that option at first!

now i have to think about something interesting.

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It's odd that among all the games on the list, the one with the worst reviews (69% recommended on Steam) is currently leading the votes. Practically all the others are at 90% or higher.

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i know, but i have most of them or i'm not interested in them xD

i'm willing to suffer with PA for a while, then post a proper negative review :3

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Speaking of the poll, the point is null because so far only one person voted for it and I doubt it will get more votes, but Syberia was removed from the GA list because of the free keys given away. There's still the option to give away the pack that includes the sequel.

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Thanks for pointing this out. I won't include it the next time I created this game. I'll replace Syberia (and of course the winning game) with a few others, probably Trine 2, Tropico 4 and World of Goo.

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I did. Yes.

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I have so few hobbies now, because my camera is broken, have no formal job and the struggle of beeing with social anxiety is real, but working on it.

Meanwhile one of my random pics.

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Is there a time limit or something? I'm tired so I'll just write something tomorrow.
For now, here's an old poem I wrote for school some time ago that defiantly needs revising.

I was like an asteroid when I fell, I destroyed everything around me.
But you still stayed with me.
You, who carried my problems on your back like a stubborn mule during our long journey together.
You tried to be my everything. When I was tired you were my coffee; when sick, my medicine. When I
was hurt, you were my surgery.
But when I was sad, you were insignificant, like a fly trying to eat my food.
Like Mother Teresa you gave, for nothing in return.
But you had no God, no reason to help me.
You were like a rainforest that I kept cutting down until there was nothing left.
And now there is nothing left. I turned you into the same empty shell that I am.
You were the brightest star and I turned you into a black hole.
For that, I would like to say, I’m sorry.

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Beautiful and touching poem. Thanks for sharing.

I added a time limit now. Next Sunday (Aug 16) at midnight CET.

9 years ago
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Thank you. I got an invite so I guess that was good enough to gt in the giveaway, but still, I wanna write something just for this. I'm too tired now though, so goodnight.

9 years ago
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I'd appreciate to see more, thanks! it won't double your chances unfortunately ;-)

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So sweet <3

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Thanks, I'm glad you liked the poem.
I also have this one, but you might've seen it already.

The calm blue falls in love with the sailor,
He takes all he wants sensing no danger.
The sea grows jealous, he never cared or
Provided, now waves swell with her anger.
The sorry man falls in with a loud splash.
Tonight the deep, dark blue decides to take.
His craft rips apart, as the waves crash,
This once was his own obedient lake.
The ocean pulls her lover close,
He's trapped under the waves like they're rubble.
He can't reach any air with his mouth or nose.
He sees his life fly past in a bubble.

The sailor takes a breath, he knows he's done.
And the jealous blue mistress knows she's won.

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I did read this one before, with great pleasure! So I reread it again a couple of times when you sent me again.

You have such a great writing style, and I like the story behind your poem, and how it rhymes so nicely.

Thank you for writing it!

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I'm glad I went over this thread again, or I would have missed this poem. I like your writing style very much.

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Can I send it to your e-mail? xP
Gotta be big texty...

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I'm afraid not. It has to be in this thread, to the benefit or interest of all users...

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If you tell someone you want them to do whatever they want, they're technically doing what you want since they're picking what they want which is what you wanted. Aren't paradoxes fun?

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If is your girlfriend, it's a trap!

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This made me laugh, and realize how lonely I am :(

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Welcome to the feel train.

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I wonder what the ArchiBoT would say about this paradox... :-)

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10:17 - Archi: I want you to do whatever you want
10:17 - ArchiBoT: I might later.

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Ha! ArchiBoT chooses not to run!

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Just in case you don't know, you can invite my bot to your friend list and talk with him anytime you want.

It's plain stupid and there is much to improve, but I'm having fun with it when I'm bored. Sometimes it can even make me laugh :3.

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Nightshift - Idle Master: What do you want to do?
4:36 AM - ArchiBoT: I know, let's play chess.
4:36 AM - Nightshift - Idle Master: Ok
4:36 AM - ArchiBoT: To play chess, click here!
4:36 AM - Nightshift - Idle Master: Nothing to click
4:36 AM - ArchiBoT: Has this got anything to do with me?
4:36 AM - Nightshift - Idle Master: Let's play chess
4:36 AM - ArchiBoT: To play chess, click here!
4:36 AM - Nightshift - Idle Master: Give me a working link to play chess
4:36 AM - ArchiBoT: Please do not be so bossy.
4:36 AM - Nightshift - Idle Master: Please?
4:36 AM - ArchiBoT: Thank you for being polite.
4:37 AM - Nightshift - Idle Master: Can I please have a working link to the chess game?
4:37 AM - ArchiBoT: You can't have everything you want, life's not like that.
4:37 AM - Nightshift - Idle Master: Then how are we going to play chess?
4:37 AM - ArchiBoT: Sorry, I am very busy at the moment.

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Just like talking to a girl, you're getting nowhere. xD

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This is sad. :(

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nice one dawg

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Life is about balance. Don't use too much lube; a complete absence of friction isn't pleasurable either.

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Yesterday you said tomorrow. Just DO IT!!
This message was sponsored by Nike. Buy our child labor shoes

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Apple approves.

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"Birds fly in key formation." - I really dont know who said that "The password is perch."- Random guy "Dont be a salad.Be the best goddamn broccoli you could ever be." - PewDiePie

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Beware: This is copy pasted. But I love this because it is such a nice explanation about why the speed of light can never be broken.

"Everything, by nature of simply existing, is "moving" at the speed of light (which really has nothing to do with light: more on that later). Yes, that does include you.
Our understanding of the universe is that the way that we perceive space and time as separate things is, to be frank, wrong. They aren't separate: the universe is made of "spacetime," all one word. A year and a lightyear describe different things in our day to day lives, but from a physicist's point of view, they're actually the exact same thing (depending on what kind of physics you're doing).
In our day to day lives, we define motion as a distance traveled over some amount of time. However, if distances and intervals of time are the exact same thing, that suddenly becomes completely meaningless. "I traveled one foot for every foot that I traveled" is an absolutely absurd statement!
The way it works is that everything in the universe travels through spacetime at some speed which I'll call "c" for the sake of brevity.
Remember, motion in spacetime is meaningless, so it makes sense that nothing could be "faster" or "slower" through spacetime than anything else. Everybody and everything travels at one foot per foot, that's just... how it works.
Obviously, though, things do seem to have different speeds. The reason that happens is that time and space are orthogonal, which is sort of a fancy term for "at right angles to each other." North and east, for example, are orthogonal: you can travel as far as you want directly to the north, but it's not going to affect where you are in terms of east/west at all.
Just like how you can travel north without traveling east, you can travel through time without it affecting where you are in space. Conversely, you can travel through space without it affecting where you are in time.
You're (presumably) sitting in your chair right now, which means you're not traveling through space at all. Since you have to travel through spacetime at c (speed of light), though, that means all of your motion is through time.
By the way, this is why time dilation happens: something that's moving very fast relative to you is moving through space, but since they can only travel through spacetime at c, they have to be moving more slowly through time to compensate (from your point of view).
Light, on the other hand, doesn't travel through time at all. The reason it doesn't is somewhat complicated, but it has to do with the fact that it has no mass.
Something that isn't moving that has mass can have energy: that's what E = mc2 means. Light has no mass, but it does have energy. If we plug the mass of light into E=mc2, we get 0, which makes no sense because light has energy. Hence, light can never be stationary.
Not only that, but light can never be stationary from anybody's perspective. Since, like everything else, it travels at c through spacetime, that means all of its "spacetime speed" must be through space, and none of it is through time.
So, light travels at c. Not at all by coincidence, you'll often hear c referred to as the "speed of light in a vacuum." Really, though, it's the speed that everything travels at, and it happens to be the speed that light travels through space at because it has no mass.

By the way, this also covers the common ELI5 question of why nothing can ever travel faster than light, and why things with mass cannot travel at the speed of light. Since everything moves through spacetime at c, nothing can ever exceed it (and no, traveling backwards in time would not fix that). Also, things with mass can always be "stationary" from someone's perspective (like their own), so they always have to move through time at least a little bit, meaning they can never travel through space as fast as light does. They'd have to travel through spacetime faster than c to do that, which, again, is not possible."

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Darkness is faster than light. No matter where light goes, darkness was there first.

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And it's waiting...

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Interesting read.
You got a source on that?

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Well i will be short, but this trick is so damn helpful.... in windows if you use ctrl + shift + escape you will summon the task manager :D best shortcut EVER

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Alt+F4 to unlock God mode evil laugh here

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in fact, the true GOD MODE its like this: create a new folder on the desktop, then rename it to: God Mode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} boooom godmode ;)

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Shhhh, you are ruining the fun.

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you're in fun 24/7, mr mushroom :o

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Maybe, sometimes.

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Yes, I already knew that and use it daily for many years.

Want a couple of really arcane ones? Try to press Ctrl+NumPadPlus in table view (e.g. Windows Explorer displaying a folder in Detail view), and try to press Ctrl+C when there a dialog box open with an error message :-)

Anyway, you shared some nice non-bundled games recently, so I sent you an invite to the group.

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Well i just wanna to say , I love gay , they have all of the world but also i need girl because if i don't have 1 wife i will be FA

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I will write about the scammers from steam, I'm sick of them ...they are so many , so from my experience these are some basic steps to be done in order to avoid to be scammed :

  1. If the profile is private, don't add them
  2. If they are hurry you , saying that they need to disconnec and they need quick trade .... PAY ATTENTION
  3. If they are offering you somenthing and after they ask you to add another trash item ...pay attention ...they will remove the item and they will tick the button I'm ready :), in order to avoid these thinks use STEAM OFFERT system is more usefull :)
  4. DO not click on any link that they are givving you in steam chat :) for example : "Hello, my items are on sale, look at the screenshot, that may be interested http://bestsc.ru/screenshoot.png"
  5. After you accept their invite they will write to you immediatly , then you are dealing with a bot :)

I hope you will find these informations usefull
P.S Sorry for my english :)

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+1

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Really nice. I didn't know some of these points. Invited & whitelisted!

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ty ;)

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Happiness is between two Boredoms.
When you have too few games, you feel boredom.
When you have too many games, you feel another boredom.
Happiness is between them.

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yea!
I love leek and the song.
I have listened Hatsune Miku version more than 1000 times. really.

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( ´∀`)bグッ!
I like this too.

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ウッーウッーウマウマ(゚∀゚)

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ヽ(・∀・)人(・∀・)ノ

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqO5lNS094M for me, this is like some kind of torture, for some reason you cant only watch once...

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♪It's probably, absolutely, definitely better to have more friends~
And clearly, plainly, frankly there needs to be one-hundred-fifty-one♪

D: Wat is dis madness.

PS: gotta go oldskool. http://uploads.animutationportal.com/080_holy_shit.swf

ALSO: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/showdown

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its from pokemon ending i think (the old one, when there was only 151 pokemons) xD Cant see those links, i dont use flash player anymore :O

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I didn't know Japanese back then... ┐(´ー`)┌

How can you not use flashplayer ಠ_ಠ... You disappoint me!

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i dont know japanese :O just i was kinda bizarre/freak on old times xD

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mother of inue.. why did you remember me this xD my gf had this song on her mobile, and every time that my dog hear it, he go to search the mobile o.O

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In life there are no ends, just new beginnings. (Thoughtful, I know)

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i would write something about me, but there's nothing interesting or helpful. well, maybe helpful as in don't-be-like-me. yeah, avoid that at all costs. also, i'm not too smart so i don't have anything insighful to say. i'm here just farming points to enter more giveaways and try to get free games. another reason is to spam the forums with gifs and (now thanks to the teachings of my sensei mecorx) use youtube songs to say useless stuff that noone understands (i wonder if people even open those links, oh well). takes a break to drink tea i wanna give my thanks to justarchi for pointing out there was a planetary annihilation option in the poll, i'm so blind i didn't even spot that. is someone still reading this wall of nonsense text? i'm currently listening to my favorite song from man of steel soundtrack, that's "what are you going to do when you are not saving the world", longest title ever, eh, and extra cool too. lots of drums, bam, bam! hey, you. yes, you! remember to check the puzzleception by mecorx, there are some nice ga-s buring under all those songs. don't be lazy. well well, it's 5:20am and i think i should go to bed now. i should also repair the enter key which i broke while typing this, so no paraghraphs for you. ok, i'll shut up now (after a gif) maybe. ok (don't blacklist me too much, please). bai

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If you're using a normal PC keyboard, you have two Enter buttons, so that's no excuse. If you find a way to break this post into sensible paragraphs I'll reward you with an invite :-)

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but, that's art!

you can't edit art just because someone doesn't like it . :(

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Mullinx teach my how to get those puzzles, because i dont have any clue, i tried twice and just got frustated >.< pl0x

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i'll give you some tips.

don't look for pieces of a URL, there's none.
listen to the first word on each song (sometimes just the first few words).
check mecorx's past threads (from a few days ago, don't go back weeks...), complete the itstohard puzzles.
try making a "map" of what you are deciphering/finding so far, it helps a lot.

hope that helps. :3

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well, this is hard for me, because my listening skills sux hard (i can understand +- what i read/write, but listening/speaking ... ) i will take a look at the lyrics, but seems kinda boring search lyrics for every song xD Thanks for the tips :)

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it's the same for me, i have a hard time understanding when someone speaks english, but you can look for the lyrics in some sites (that's what i did).

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If death is your goal, isnt life's aim missed ?

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same story , but with cartoons...spongebob , tom & jerry...

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

(Not a serious entry :p)

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I still liked it enough :-)

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Urinating on the side of the toilet makes less noise.

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I do this since I remember.
I aprove this message.

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Bump for visibility. Everybody should do this

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xD actualy i do it every time

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I always wondered if anyone else does this too.

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