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[RedKing]

Oh, wait...those were Njerpez? Man, fuck those guys and pass the barbecue sauce.

[Gunner-Chan]

I assume redking does his fucking with barbecue sauce now.

And so do all of you.

[Johuotar]

Wait.. Redking you speak finnish?!

[Jervill]

RedKing speaks every language known to man.

[Bauglir]

Steam Summer Sale. That is all.

So, speaking of these. Do already-discounted sales tend to get better as the sale goes on? I'm wondering if I should buy Skyrim now, or wait another week.

[Aklyon]

The sales come and go, with a higher tendancy than usual for people who go for the early deal to have paid some more than they might've. Or the sale doesn't come back and they are successful grabber of cheap game.

[penguinofhonor]

Steam Summer Sale. That is all.

So, speaking of these. Do already-discounted sales tend to get better as the sale goes on? I'm wondering if I should buy Skyrim now, or wait another week.

Some do. Skyrim likely will, as well as Modern Warfare 3 (as far as hugely popular mainstream games go). They're going to sell a ton right now from people who just go "It's on sale! I want it!" and then when they put it on a day sale they'll get even more.

There's a chance they won't if they're getting enough sales just from the discount now. I remember Modern Warfare 2 didn't go on sale at all during the 2010 steam Christmas sale, and it was still in the top 5 selling games for the duration of the entire thing.

[Lectorog]

Steam Summer Sale. That is all.

So, speaking of these. Do already-discounted sales tend to get better as the sale goes on? I'm wondering if I should buy Skyrim now, or wait another week.

I'd wait. There's a chance it could go down, and it certainly won't go up in price during the sale. Unless the joy of having it now outweighs the $10-20 you could save if its sale improved.

[Bauglir]

Steam Summer Sale. That is all.

So, speaking of these. Do already-discounted sales tend to get better as the sale goes on? I'm wondering if I should buy Skyrim now, or wait another week.

I'd wait. There's a chance it could go down, and it certainly won't go up in price during the sale. Unless the joy of having it now outweighs the $10-20 you could save if its sale improved.

Considering I'll be cutting all luxury foods out of my diet to make the purchase, something I'm willing to do, I think I can wait a few days if it means I get to keep eating cheese, and vegetables other than spinach and broccoli, for the rest of the month.

[userpay]

Yesssss...

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[Aklyon]

Yesssss...

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Ammy had slightly more red marking than that. But otherwise Yesssss indeed.

[Nilik]

Went to a sci-fi themed pub quiz on Saturday. It. Was Awesome. We won everything, but even if we hadn't it was just amazing being in the company of so many like-minded people. Team names included "The Higg's Bosons", "The Flux Capacitors", "Hoverboards don't work on water", "Anthony Stewart's head" (Buffy fans) and "We're in our bunk" (Firefly fans).

Crowning moment of awesome for us was the "music" round. Everyone's immediate thought was "Sci-fi music? Wha?", but it turned out it was mostly theme tunes to things, almost all of which I got. I was in my element; years of being a huge nerd had prepared me for this day. They had in sequence:

- Opening theme from Cowboy Bebop
- Opening theme from Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Opening theme from Thunderbirds
- Opening theme from Stingray
- Opening theme from Mass Effect
- Opening theme from Halo

Its like they tailored the round specifically to me. And then the bonus "question" was to sing the captain planet theme tune. Our team didn't win. That was because our "volunteer" sang it normally and the team that won had a guy perform a William-Shatner spoken word version. We won the music round anyway on points (turns out we got 100%), and our prize was several books of star-wars recorder music, and a melody-pop each to play it on. Someone on our table managed a pretty damn good rendition of the imperial march to much applause.

It was an interesting evening, I guess is what I'm trying to say.

[Itnetlolor]

When it comes to fancier games, I would wait for Flash Sales (and voting) to come along to squeeze out a few more %'s value. Did that with at least Saint's Row 3 and Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Similar for certain indie games too, since they add Indie bundles per-day, if you're willing to wait it out a bit for them to get just a little cheaper in a bundle-package.

Oh, and this shouldn't hurt. Already mentioned it in the Steam Sales thread:
Hidden Gems of Summer Sale 2012

[Zaerosz]

I just bought Fallout 3 GOTY and Bioshock. I am a happy man indeed.

[Lagslayer]

Started playing LoL today. It's like DoTA, but with fewer bad memories, better balance, and more variety of play. I find myself using Teemo most of the time.

Now i have something else to play when D3 is starting to piss me off. Huzzah!