"Half-Life 3 confirmed" and "Summer Sale started!" threads aren't funny.

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They're played out, unoriginal, obnoxious, unfunny. Just stop.

You're welcome for Skyrim.

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Actually, Half-Life 3 is ready since 2008 but Valve is trolling us with one day delay every time they read a joke about them and how they don't know how to count to three. True Story.

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Herpulese

Thanks for..... DAMMIT!

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ProfessorBread

Hodor

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Zebulan

Oh, my knee!

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DavidSarif

Is that a personal opinion or an official announcement ? I mean does this mean that such threads are now forbidden or something ?

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Dainius

SG in a nutshell.

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logan5

"Portal 3 announced!"

How about that one?

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etze

true story

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ReevoXFR

You, bad boy.

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Mew2

s 3!

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waskaxo

Bump for solved, lol.

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JoeyBeanz

I agree. Ban them all.

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IgotElbows

Same shit happened last year.

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Raiden

Bumping this before I start handing out warnings.

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vidmavidma

Suspend em all.

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Pretendah

There will be always people who are going to do this. I think as some huge event draws near it is followed by some sort of hype and overwhelming amount of spam, mostly posted by some folks in need of attention or publicity.

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Phoenixio7

Plus the fact that the forum isn't very... ordered. It's just a huge pile of threads with no form of classification whatsoever. You actually have to know that the search bar, usually for giveaways, turns into a search bar for threads. And well, sometimes it IS useful to create new threads as new information gets out: it's not like that many people go through the bazillions of trolling comments made on a given topic either.

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Pretendah

Exactly.

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DavidSarif

http://strawpoll.me/150287/r

Seems that's right. 35% of voters say so.

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Raiden

I'm not surprised you'd contribute to a perpetuating notion with the hl3 thread. I agree the jokes were funny a long time ago but honestly it does get old and has now become the new thing to post when there's nothing else to think of in posting a new thread. It's effectively the new way to just rub the users in an annoying way little by little.

While not as annoying as ppl making threads of their personal dramas like yesterday it can still be annoying none the less.

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DavidSarif

I understand. That was intended to be a critic about how people took that original email (saying sales start tomorrow) at face value and called it a "proof".

That was more about that than the HL3 trend, but the most dumb and unbelievable the fake, the more people might get to think twice before believing things like that.

The funniest part is that some people added me to ask infos about my "early access" or congratulate me. That wasn't my intention, I'm as frustrated as anyone else about HL3.

But I got it now, no more HL3 jokes until it gets funny again !

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Raiden

Well, you don't wanna start threads that can lead to ppl flaming you because of something that builds up with small annoyances. That's what my whole point leads up to.

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DavidSarif

I know, I know, that's why I edited my OP a while ago to explain the aim of the topic :-)

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thenevernow

Do you mean there are people who first come up with the plan to start a new thread, then try to find a topic for it and finally pick HL3 for lack of better ideas? That's just beautiful.

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ButtsCallhoun

OMG, you really weren't kidding! THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR SKYRIM!!!

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BassEffect

well, yeah...

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