• Myrmidon (unregistered) in reply to Swedish tard

    Ahhh, American! Looting words from foriegn languages since 1776.

  • Andrew (unregistered)

    One can only assume that the developers responsible for Valve's stunning games are not the same developers who pinch out the Steam client. Given the many, many WTF's I've seen, TDWTF would likely have centuries of material if Valve ever released their source.

  • Steven Seagal's ponytail (unregistered)

    Hah, the complainers clearly did not have to use Steam when it was a beta over a decade ago. For years, even after it was officially "released," the thing was so buggy it was completely unusable most of the time. Everyone wanted to go back to WON.

    Kids nowadays just have no idea. /me shakes head

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Opponent_Network

  • Spewin Coffee (unregistered)

    TRWTF is:

    http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/10/steam-vulnerability-can-lead-to-remote-insertion-of-malicious-code/

  • redwall_hp (unregistered) in reply to TheSHEEEP

    Except for using the mysql_ functions in PHP instead of mysqli_ or PDO...

  • Kwpolska (unregistered)
    "I use steam from a Finnish installation sometimes," writes Matt, "and when trying to launch Rochard, Steam displayed this message. The message and dates are in English, except they've been 'bent' as if they were Finnish - 'Aprilta' and 'Juneta'.

    Windows problem. Steam formats all the dates according to the Windows locale settings. And it always should. And Matt’s locale settings are to render all dates in Finnish, so he gets those. Again: not Steam’s fault.

  • SomeSignGuy (unregistered) in reply to notme
    notme:
    I've recently had the displeasure of using EA's Origin, because that's what you have to use if you want to play Battlefield 3. I now have a new found appreciation for Steam.

    Origin wasn't so bad for ME3, but I vastly prefer Steam.

  • (cs) in reply to SomeSignGuy
    SomeSignGuy:
    notme:
    I've recently had the displeasure of using EA's Origin, because that's what you have to use if you want to play Battlefield 3. I now have a new found appreciation for Steam.

    Origin wasn't so bad for ME3, but I vastly prefer Steam.

    I would prefer to not be presumed to be a thief and not have to deal with either of them.

  • (cs)

    Just be glad you don't want to install Steam Steam Steam Steam Steam Eggs and Steam. That would use over 500,000 GB!

  • (cs)

    I was espacially confused by the dialog that said "Steam and Steam will require (lots of space)".

    WTF is "Steam and Steam"???

  • Anony-freaking-mous (unregistered) in reply to Yankee
    Yankee:
    Swedish tard:
    them merkins calling it smoergosbord when it's supposed to be smörgåsbord.
    Hey! We don't need no stinkin' condoms over our letters. If 26 ASCII characters were enough to write the Bible, 26 ASCII characters are enough for me.

    If you are referring to the King James version of the Bible, then when you are reading the bible, do you not notice it contains punctuation, special characters for some words, etc? 26 characters is not all it contains :P Which Bible do you read? Or do you mean the front page where all it has is "THE BIBLE" in which case there are only 6 distinct characters?

  • (cs) in reply to Anony-freaking-mous
    Anony-freaking-mous:
    Yankee:
    Swedish tard:
    them merkins calling it smoergosbord when it's supposed to be smörgåsbord.
    Hey! We don't need no stinkin' condoms over our letters. If 26 ASCII characters were enough to write the Bible, 26 ASCII characters are enough for me.

    If you are referring to the King James version of the Bible, then when you are reading the bible, do you not notice it contains punctuation, special characters for some words, etc? 26 characters is not all it contains :P Which Bible do you read? Or do you mean the front page where all it has is "THE BIBLE" in which case there are only 6 distinct characters?

    Don't confuse the Yankee.

  • Captcha:venio (unregistered) in reply to DWalker59
    DWalker59:
    I was espacially confused by the dialog that said "Steam and Steam will require (lots of space)".

    WTF is "Steam and Steam"???

    Isn't it obvious? Now that Steam is incorporating non-game apps, they decided to make Steam a Steam product, to make it easier to update and manage. Unfortunately this means you also need Steam to install Steam to install Steam, and you'll also need to install Steam before that if you didn't have it already. Thus it takes a bit more space, but it's totally worth it!

  • (cs)

    Steam's okay, I guess... I have no real complaints.

    But, when I end my game, and then go to shut down my computer, steam will often block the shutdown, and show an advert... behind the "shutdown blocked" dialog. Ugh.

    Well at least it goes away by itself.

    As I said, no 'real' complaints.

  • jay (unregistered) in reply to macmac
    macmac:
    It's the prime example of why "always on" DRM is the ultimate evil.

    I think I'd put things like murder, torture, and rape as worse evils than always-on DRM. But I'm sure people have many different opinions on such subjects.

  • jay (unregistered) in reply to Anony-freaking-mous
    Anony-freaking-mous:
    Yankee:
    Swedish tard:
    them merkins calling it smoergosbord when it's supposed to be smörgåsbord.
    Hey! We don't need no stinkin' condoms over our letters. If 26 ASCII characters were enough to write the Bible, 26 ASCII characters are enough for me.

    If you are referring to the King James version of the Bible, then when you are reading the bible, do you not notice it contains punctuation, special characters for some words, etc? 26 characters is not all it contains :P Which Bible do you read? Or do you mean the front page where all it has is "THE BIBLE" in which case there are only 6 distinct characters?

    ASCII didn't even exist until 1960. The King James Bible could not have originally been written with ASCII.

    It must have used EBCDIC.

  • Tom (unregistered) in reply to jay
    jay:
    I think I'd put things like murder, torture, and rape as worse evils than always-on DRM.
    Well unless it was legitimate rape, she was probably asking for it. And even then, maybe. So, not as bad as DRM.
  • Another Anon (unregistered)

    "Failed to find Steam."

    It just means your app got too tired. It ran out of steam.

  • Deadfast (unregistered) in reply to Captcha:luctus (also yes I'm that guy)
    Captcha:luctus (also yes I'm that guy):
    I once tried to start Steam after losing my internet connection: [image] No WTFs yet

    Now that's where you're mistaken. Try clicking on Network troubleshooting tips. You'll find it opens a web site. On the Internet. To help you troubleshoot your inability to connect to the Internet.

  • Aargle Zymurgy (unregistered) in reply to Myrmidon
    Myrmidon:
    Ahhh, American! Looting words from foriegn languages since 1776.

    WTF? The Engish started it first: "What", O.E. borrowed from the Dutch ca. 900. "The".. more Dutch from the same time. And circa 1500 more from those Dutch Fokkers.

    But then, everyone in the whole world borrowed "OK" from us 'mericans.

  • Bill C. (unregistered)

    The steam is all windowed up. Someone must be getting fucked.

  • Craig (unregistered)

    Even Mark Russinovich has had problems with Steam that have taken him some time to solve. If you don't know who Mark is, he's a top MS developer, the author of many of the extremely useful Sysinternals tools, and the author of two okay novels...

    Here's the story of his problems with Steam and how they were resolved:

    http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2011/08/02/3442328.aspx

  • Darren (unregistered)

    How is the first one a WTF? Is this what this site is becoming, a rant site for people to complain about? Please show me some real WTFs.

  • undefined (unregistered)

    http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey — at beginning of every month this page becomes completely broken because somebody at Valve must manually upload xml file with new statistic. Sometimes wrong statistic is uploaded and only after few days corrected.

  • Meep (unregistered) in reply to Tom
    Tom:
    jay:
    I think I'd put things like murder, torture, and rape as worse evils than always-on DRM.
    Well unless it was legitimate rape, she was probably asking for it. And even then, maybe. So, not as bad as DRM.

    So there's no such thing as when a fully capable 17 year old woman has consensual sex with an 18 year old man, where she is only considered by the legal system to be unable to consent by an arbitrary statute, hence the term "statutory rape"?

  • Veldan (unregistered)

    For the whole "must be online to go offline" crowd, you need to log onto steam before you can go offline, it does not mean you need to be online however.

    To clarify, I have two machines (desktop and laptop) if I log into my desktop (thus logging off my laptop) then try to go offline with my laptop, it won't let me.

    If I log on with my laptop, then go somewhere without internet and attempt to "go offline" it works.

    You need to have been logged in before you go offline or it just won't work...

    This does admittedly suck if your internet goes down and you weren't logged in. That's what mobile phones with wireless hot spots are for ;)

  • (cs) in reply to AtWorkWithNoWork
    AtWorkWithNoWork:
    There IS an option for that - "Offline Mode". I'm not sure why you're not okay with it. You run Offline Mode once while you're online so it generates an authentication token on your local machine, and from then on you can switch to offline mode and play without Steam authenticating to online servers on that machine. It would be nice if Steam did this automatically, rather than requiring the user to initiate the process.

    Steam does a piss-poor job of explaining that, though. The mechanisms are in place to make the experience virtually painless for honest customers, the documentation simply sucks.

    True. But you can't install steam or any game on steam offline. This is really annoying if you want to install the games on a PC not connected to the internet. Basically they force you to open your PC to the internet just to play games that dn't require internet access. WTF is with that. Why should I be required to connect to the internet for that?

  • Captcha:transverbero (unregistered) in reply to Jochen
    Jochen:
    Why should I be required to connect to the internet for that?
    Because you didn't buy it on GOG.com.
  • Wim (unregistered)

    Ah, MB means milli-byte. In that way the download rate looks ok.

  • Shinobu (unregistered)

    <off-topic>I just read that (according to Lonely Planet) Hyderabad is the third best city to visit in the world, just after Frisco and A'dam.</off-topic>

  • (cs) in reply to Warren

    Would someone tell me what "Steam" is, other than overly hot water?

    This gd forum is full of arrogant database "programmers" who never explain anything...expecially if they include code snippets with their lame comments. Won't even tell us what language the code is written in. Then they don't explain the code they've inserted.

    I'm about ready to quit this damned forum and its database "programmers".

  • Matt (unregistered) in reply to Swedish tard

    This would be a good excuse... sadly, my first language is English - I deserve zero points. Up till this shameful incident, I've never been able to remember the word 'inflection', and with my Finnish teachers always saying "bent" I picked up on the habit... Whoops.

  • Sai (unregistered) in reply to Matt

    That'd be because we use the word "bend" in Finnish for what we do to the words. Not your fault, therefore, but perfectly logical - if you happen to be Finnish. You practically are, anyway.

    Each to their language~

  • (cs) in reply to ekolis
    ekolis:
    Just be glad you don't want to install Steam Steam Steam Steam Steam Eggs and Steam. That would use over 500,000 GB!

    nice Monty Python reference

  • Gruntbuggly (unregistered)

    On the blank agreement, I think it's great.

    You are officially agreeing to absolutely nothing.

  • Sam I am (unregistered) in reply to Jeremy French
    Jeremy French:
    Is Steam especially buggy, or are TDWTF readers a bunch of lazy layabouts who spend all day playing games?

    I'd expect that the latter would also be true, but yes, Steam is especially buggy.

  • 4 cents? It has been worse... (unregistered)

    At one time the Crysis+Expansion bundle was actually MORE EXPENSIVE than buying the two items separately...

    Even worse, this scenario seems to have been anticipated by the developers because the "Your savings:" was completely hidden.

  • Anon (unregistered)

    The first one is not a WTF. I already saw a bundle cost MORE than the individual items.

  • A Finn (unregistered)

    The Finnish month name thing is easy, really. Steam is trying to say "of [month]", like 6th of June. In Finnish to say "of month" you just add "ta" to the end of the month name. "of June" is "kesäkuuta". Same goes for every month name.

    Learn Finnish, it's fun. This probably one of the few rules where it works for every single instance (there's only 12, lol).

  • AndyB (unregistered) in reply to Swedish tard
    Swedish tard:
    Being finnish, I bet inflection is called bending in his native language. I know it is in swedish, and we've had a fair bit of time to influence the finnish. :D Calling it "bend" with quotation marks is on the same level of them merkins calling it smoergosbord when it's supposed to be smörgåsbord. Damn retards.
    Being American, but in spite of that fluent in English, I know that "inflection" means "bending" in English also.
    Oxford English Dictionary:
    inflected: 1. Bent or curved; bent inwards. 2. Grammar. Of a word: Varied in the terminations to express varied grammatical relations

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