Training:

I was expecting some lame mathematical formula at the end which would yield yet another "Half-Life 3 confirmed!"

Thank you for disappointing me!

community as a *hole*

Yes.

As much as I love FFVII, this is going to be terrible.

Spare a few clock cycles for anti-aliasing?

Steam DID say they were getting into the hardware market ;)

I'll be sure to pick it up for six bucks during the winter steam sale.

You're very lucky!

I heard about a young man who posted some trolly/too-soon comments in the area-chat and he was banned for four months without an appeal. Some anonymous player bought him a new account though.

^That's what I would post if I reddited.

This is what I'm trying to say. Possible? Sure. Prone to faults with some particular games that aren't optimized for custom Steam directories? Absolutely.

I run all my steam games from a secondary hard drive as well. My argument is that you will not be able to plug that into another machine and have it work flawlessly.

I'm beginning to think that many of you are saying you'd be able to move this from machine to machine without actually trying it. What about the registries that steam adds when it installs? What about games that default to saving to a non-steamapps folder? You would definitely run into issues.

You'd have to manually assign drive letters, make sure the client never opens while your drive isn't plugged in, and (of course) have to bring your storage media with you to each computer. In the long run, isn't it just more convenient to actually install the games on the machine?

The speed of the memory chips themselves is very similar. It's limited by USB technology. Yes, I agree that in practice, it's not as fast. But technically, it is very close in speed. What's wrong with that statement?

I work at a library. Please...PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!

The speed is actually more comparable than you'd think. USB technology is the funnel that the storage speed has to travel, through. That's where the biggest difference lies.

You would be able to run the games from the computer they were installed upon. But you wouldn't be able to bring it around to "any machine that has steam".

I only mean to try and prevent you from making a mis-directed purchase here by saying: unfortunately you couldn't.

Finally, a legitimate reason to play this lame-ass game.