I've gotten in the habit of of copying my posts before I hit send on any post bigger than a line or two. It's saved me a few times, because if something happens to my internet or the website I'm posting on I can just paste it on Word until I can post without issue.

Also, Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series is amazing. I definitely suggest anyone who enjoys humor, noir, or urban fantasy to check them out. Books 1-3 are solid Bs and the rest of the series thus far is A all the way.

Finally, check out Hugh Laurie's The Gun Seller. It's the funniest action book I've ever read. There is more than a hint of military to it.

oh thank God

Using a VPN is against the Steam Subscriber Agreement. Thus far Valve have only punished people who have used a VPN to engage in fraudulent activities, but people are taking a small risk if they choose to use one.

With Steam calls, just receiving the call exposes the IP; you don't even have to accept it. Be careful about accepting friend requests, especially near matchtime.

Cramped seating, very pricy for what it is, food is on the good side of average. The cheesecakes are made well.

I'd only suggest it for special occasions or people who really love cheesecake. You can walk in and just buy cheesecake slices, which is nice.

Basically, you'll probably have a good night but won't want to go back for at least a few months.

That could be what's happening. When my old video card was on its way out, TF2 would sometimes suddenly have a midlife crisis and try to remake itself. Usually the game would freeze and make a odd noise just before my world went crazy. Is that happening at all to your friend?

Also, if anyone is interested, here are a few of the best screenshots from when it happened:

50 Shades of Double Cross
Blue days
The floor is lava
Coding gibberish makes for interesting wallpaper
Screenshots as hats
Backpack = work of art

And as a bonus, here are two times my failing graphics card made L4D2 actually horrifying:

The walls are watching
What little Boomers are made of

Isn't that what I said?

Reflections are also ruined if you're clipping with a friendly building.

Reflects have mini-crit the Pyro since Valve tried to fix reflects correctly counting towards stranges and killstreaks in February of 2014. They fixed rockets in June, but they have not fixed pills (and maybe not Sentry rockets either). That a Pyro takes more damage from a reflected pill than if it hadn't been reflected is insane. As the airblast "takes ownership" of what it reflects, the Pyro should gain the self-damage reduction—including the not taking crit/mini-crit self-damage.

Stage name at the Stripper Diner.

This is my second season playing HL with Split. He's a multi-talented player who will do what is needed without complaint. He'd be a perfect fit for team looking for players eager to put in time and effort without giving up their enjoyment of the game.

He's skilled, he's kind, and he's dedicated—and he's not a scammer. I'd know ;)

Did you get the original scam e-mail though?

I'm going to ignore the rest of your insane, whiny rant and focus on one thing.

"If this thread hadnt been made, money could have been raised for charity, we could have had a fun stream, and hats would have been given away ON STREAM AS PLANNED."

You seem to be missing the fact that a fun stream is occurring, money is being raised for charity, people have done generous giveaways, the innocents who contributed to FTC are currently participating...and none of it has been tainted by obnoxious, self-entitled scammers.

Also, less than two months ago you created a Steam Group solely to make a tribute for your just-then trade-banned Steam alt. Stop trying to present it as though your scamming days are ancient history.

You and Snoven had the same choice to make when confronted with your past, and you both could have manned-up and come out from this stronger than ever. Instead, you both decided to act as though you were the victims and to lash out at the community in retaliation.

What happened over the last 24 hours is the result of the choices you and (especially) Snoven made. I suggest you both learn from it and move on. The rest of us already are.

Ha.

I'm glad people are pulling this up from the ashes and that Child's Play won't suffer. Very awesome of all the people who are saving the day.

Personally, though, I'm interested in knowing whose Paypal account the donations from imraising.tv are going to. If it is going directly to Child's Play's Paypal, then I'd like to see proof of that please. If not, then I'd ask that we are shown the receipts after for the transfer of funds.

Shame that we need to be so careful, but I'm sure you guys understand. Thanks again for doing this!

I don't think that link can be tampered with, nor do I think the event keeps any profit from it.

It's the other Paypal account which goes directly to Flares that Care which needs to be scrutinized.

Also, he's removed the remaining unsold items from the Steam Market. Maybe he'll surprise us and return them to the people who donated them. It would help remove some of the bitter taste this event has left in our mouths.

Some of the items are still on the Market as of this post.

It was Plotchy's account. I tracked it down. When asked about it, B_Red told me Plotchy had named an alt after him to tease him about something. I was satisfied by that response and the others B_Red gave me when I friended him last night when I was working on my post I'd realized he had left FTC.

Just to let people to keep people informed, Snoven is currently selling the donated items on the Steam Market (for incredibly cheap prices). For instance, here's a Collector's Backburner which was donated to FTC, and here's a screenshot of it currently on the Market, and here's what Snoven's avatar is right now. Please note that even the name of the item is the same.

He could have owned up to his past and been transparent about his current actions. He'd have come out of this just fine. Unfortunately, he's chosen to view himself as a victim who has deserves to keep the donations. He currently has a Twitch chat going on. Here are a few highlights:

Snoven: @Redditjohnny yeah, and i was, then digresser wanted to shitpost on me before anything happened
Pachupach: "Everyone was mean to me about being a scammer, so I'm gonna keep all the items."
Snoven: @Pachupach exactly
Snoven: @Pachupach they were going to be used for top 3, but now im using them to fund my new account due to the shitposts about me trying to do something honestly good