Stolen Pixels #211: This is Not Funny

[shirin238]

Sigh, I envy you Shamus, classmates started screaming that I should shave since I was 10.

 

[duchaked]

well there's always MS Paint...

lol it's okay, I can't grow facial hair either (well, I can...it's just like watching a glacier move). it just means our manliness was redirected to other bodily functions (rawrr)

 

[Angus565]

I was experiencing similar trouble, the soultion, as it turns out is to scarfice a goat in the name of Newell, that should get things running. Oh, also, you cannot eat sushi on a friday anymore.

I am not sacrificing anymore goats in the name of Newell,
I can only spare so many goats! And I love sushi Fridays!

 

[Lemon Of Life]

I think a full beard would suit you even, better. Give that some thought.

 

[ShoopDaToaster]

I am Gabe Newell,and I thought this was not funny,who do I blame now?

 

[AvsJoe]

Let's blame it on Bobby Kotick!

I'm with you brudda!

Don't worry, facial hair is only a necessity if you're a hockey player in the playoffs.

Hahaha... I always love watching post-game interviews in the playoffs. They always seem to interview the same 3 guys and 1 always looks out of place:

Gritty Veteran with epic beard
Team Captain with forest for a beard
Hotshot Rookie with hairless face

 

[Cody211282]

I find it humorous that almost every comic relating to valve is unfunny, like they sap the joy out of everything they touch.
Except Gabe Newell fat jokes. Those will never get old.

*don't make fat gamer joke, don't make fat gamer joke, don't make fat gamer joke*



Well it could be worse Shamus, I can grow facial hair but it looks horrible, so I don't get a cool mustache and still have to shave.

 

[CINN4M0N]

Yo Shamus, when Steam gets it's shit together, will you make the comic you were going to make?

I'd really like to see it..

 

[commasplice]

Spoiler: Facial hair is overrated, anyway.

 

[Nukeforyou]

i usually just restart steam when that happens

 

[Sir Kemper]

That's a great 'stach Shamus, looking forward to seeing the epic conclusion about it.



Okay, in all seriousness, Steam can be rather... irritating, mostly when it decides to stop working for no apparent reason.

 

[Mr. Grey]

This is the largest problem I have with Steam, when it decides not to work it slaps your hand and tells you "Feck off!".

I mean, they don't even apologize for it. Humph!

Very posh 'stache. Now all you need is a top hat, monocle and cane! It's worked for other Escapist members:


See?

My, my! Who's that handsome user?

 

[SandroTheMaster]

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I favor Impulse whenever I'm buying digitally downloaded games. Did you know Impulse actually lets you play offline? It also lets you play the same copy of a game in two computers in LAN with one another.

...

Buy Impulse!

 

[Miral]

Steam usually lets you play things offline. But I think its roots as a server-matching program for multiplayer games show (and badly) in some areas; one of those is when it packs a total sad if a game is in the middle of an update.

There really should be no technical reason why it doesn't let you play a game while it's updating (assuming that you had a fully-working version beforehand), nor why it doesn't let you play it offline if it has started downloading an update for it. But sadly that's just how it works right now.

And its error messages usually suck pretty hard. (I had one the other day that was waffling on about failed updates due to permissions, when really the problem was that it had been started with the wrong working folder.)

 

[Urthman]

This is why I only buy a game on Steam when it is, rounded to the nearest significant digit, free. Getting locked out of my game occasionally is much less likely to make my head explode with rage if the game was essentially free.

Thank/Curse You, Steam Holiday Sales!

 

[Blackout62]

Shame on you Shamus. As someone who has made Gmod comics before and used the very same excuse you have here I'm incredibly disappointed.

 

[Anarchemitis]

No facial hair, eh?
Ennhh, you aren't missing much.