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Wolfy
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Sat May 15, 2010 4:52 am

just in case anyone was wondering - tbh i'm surprised nobody mentioned it earlier (maybe on irc..?)

The game is not a lie. (it's a promo event for steam now supporting macs)
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Sat May 15, 2010 7:24 am

So it's only for steam users. Bah humbug.
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Sat May 15, 2010 12:19 pm

well accounts are free as well; so it's really just the cost of being inconvenienced to sign up and download the steam client.
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Sat May 15, 2010 3:21 pm

Yeah, but Steam is a background process. Portal's old enough it might run on my computer, but I don't need another background process.
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Sat May 15, 2010 5:53 pm

Ah, I see. I just leave it off when it's not needed.
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Sat May 15, 2010 7:43 pm

periculi now playing portal

*all 3.8 GB worth*
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Sat May 15, 2010 8:13 pm

Sweet, but who doesn't already have portal? :D
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Sun May 16, 2010 12:10 am

mac users, people who played it on their cousin's computer *cough*
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Workstations & Render machines: Threadripper 2990WX, 32GB, 2x 1080ti | Xeon Platinum 8173M, 48GB, 1070ti | R9 3900X, 16GB, Vega64 | 2x E5 2430L v2, 24GB, 970
Office Systems: 2x Xeon Silver 4116, 96GB, 2x 1080ti | i7 3770, 16GB, some old quadro | i5 3210m, 8GB | some i7 macbook
Misc Systems: R5 3500U, 20GB | R5 2400G, 16GB | i5 7640X, 16GB, Vega56 | E5 2620, 8GB, R5 260 | P4 1.8ghz, 0.75GB, Voodoo 5 5500 | Athlon 64 x2 4400+, 1.5GB, FX 5800 Ultra | Pentium D 3.2ghz, 4GB, 7600gt | Celeron g460, 8GB, 730gt | 2x Athlon FX 74, 8GB, 8800gts 512 | FX 9590, 16GB, R9 295x2 | E350, 8GB | Phenom X4 2.6ghz, 16GB, 8800gt | random core2 duo/atom/i5/i7 laptops
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