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tl;dr?Once more, nope. Violating our posting guidelines can now have forum-wide consequences. You need to read this OP (all of it!) if you want to post here.
Welcome to the PC Gaming Thread IV!I'm Gabe Newell, and I hope it's been
worth the weight.
Posting GuidelinesThe PCGT III melted down in true alpha nerd style. I hope this easy to digest bullet-pointed list of posting regulations will help us to avoid a similar occurance in this PCGT IV.
- This is a thread for people who, by and large, enjoy PC gaming. Console supremacy arguments should take place elsewhere.
- Intelligent discussion is fine, insults aren't. Ad hominem attacks will not be tolerated.
- To clarify, intelligent discussion is fine. Arguing without even attempting to appeal to evidence or reason, especially the "I had fun" fallacy, will be considered flamebaiting.
- Hardware help or guidance is not on topic in this thread. Please take off topic discussions to their appropriate threads.
- Publically calling out violaters of these rules puts yourself at risk of punishment. Report idiots rather than engaging in thread-ruining arguments with them.
Those are more or less forum rules anyway and as such will be punishable with a warning, or a temp ban on repeat offenses, as per usual. Moving on, here's the big change, which I hope will make PCGT IV a better place for everyone:
- At least some modicum of effort should be taken over every post. No more gooseberry fool posting.
gooseberry fool posting is defined as stupid low-effort single image or sentence posts, dumb "ironic" humour or moronic StayDead defence fodder.
But Karl, sometimes those posts can be funny! If a post is considered funny, at the staff's
sole discretion, then it will not be deemed a gooseberry fool post.
But how can you expect us to be held to such a subjective and totalitarian regulation? If you can't deal with it,
don't make idiotic gooseberry fool posts in this thread.
The punishment for violating this rule will be either a forum warning or a 24 hour ban, again at the staff's
sole discretion.
What We PlayYou can find the vast majority of us PC gamers on Steam. Steam is a shop, community event management system, chat program, anti-cheat client and server browser rolled into one all-knowing platform, maintained by Valve Software. It has amazing sales, is very stable and convinient, and has some of the least-obnoxious DLC in the industry. Download it, install it, join us.
We play a vast array of games, including Battlefield, Civilization, Counter-Strike, Day Z, Killing Floor, Left 4 Dead, Minecraft, Modern Warfare, Starcraft and Street Fighter. We usually start playing at some point between 1930 and 2030. Beyond that, feel free to post in the thread or join Mumble and ask, as you can find players of almost every PC game amongst us.
LinksFor PC hardware help, please use exclusively:
Here are the other main threads on GRcade:
Other websites we use:
Mumble Quick GuideMumble is an integral part of our community. The full low-down is the thread linked above, but here are the connection details again as an easy to find reference:
GRcade mumble
grcade.co.uk
64738
YourUsername
Please set up push-to-talk before joining (or you'll be kicked), and you're also advised to turn off the in-game overlay as it can cause problems in some games.
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Worth the weight. Worth the weight. Worth the weight.