Not so far as I know, but I might suck at online games, so there's a trade-off.

How do people find Steam friends? I rarely play multiplayer but it'd be fun to do it with people from Kotaku if I did; I hate just gaming with random strangers.

For a long time I avoided games like Civ5 because I'm terrible at RTS games and these have a similar mindset, but then I played Football Manager and dumped about 3,000 hours over three years into those games (according to Steam's stats, at least; a lot of that was downtime where the game was on but I was doing other…

Yeah, we did a "Financial Peace" course (which, honestly, we found to be really helpful; it's not for everyone, but if you're looking at how to get money under control in a broad sense I'd really recommend it) and talked a lot about the need to "assign" money when we budget, which is kind of the opposite of how we…

Wasn't Daryl Gates the consultant for the SWAT games?

So is it kind of like a more robust version of Mint? I've been looking for something easy to use, since my wife (who also does our checkbook) is good with the checkbook management aspect but not that good with tech stuff, and Mint is a pain in the ass when it comes to interfacing with our credit union account.

I really want Shadowrun: Returns to be good, but given the backlog I'm currently looking at I think I'm gonna wait for the winter sale on that one (same thing with the Civ5 expansion, especially considering I have yet to spend any meaningful time playing the Civ5 bundle I bought LAST winter sale).

I saw "You Need a Budget" and almost picked it up simply for irony's sake. Have you done anything with it yet? It's one of those programs that I waver on, it's either something that'd be really useful or something that I'm already doing with a spreadsheet, and I can't tell which one.

The first one was really hard to get into, but once I got there I liked it a lot; the DLCs, though, kinda lost me. I'm starting up the second one now, can't decide which class to be yet (started as a hunter then restarted as a soldier and now wondering if maybe I was right the first time).

That's the thing, I'm not even playing them right now, they were just so cheap and I knew I'd want them eventually. Somehow Borderlands (the first one) was sucking up all my time, and now I'm about to get into Borderlands 2.

I pretty much always buy the DLC for these games when I buy the game; I figure, worst case, you buy the game heavily discounted and hate it, you're still way cheaper than otherwise. Best case, you save yourself a bunch of money now.

See, I just got a new video card, so I'm using it to get caught up on top-tier titles from the last several years that my computer wasn't up to playing (or, more precisely, that I wasn't SURE if my computer was up to playing). I kind of have a personal policy that I won't spend more than $10 (not including DLC, which…

I agree when it comes to my X-Box, but I kind of prefer wired controllers for my PC. I also prefer wired mice and keyboards, though.

Going to my friend's house for a sleepover and playing Tetris until like 2 in the morning when I was maybe 8, then remembering that we didn't even start on The Karate Kid game we'd wanted to try. I still think of that basement whenever I hear "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies".

So we're several days in now; what's everyone picked up? I've grabbed (this far; I may grab Dishonored, and then I'm probably done):

I agree with Shane, the X-Box 360 controller is pretty well-supported, especially by recent games. I used to have an old Dual-Shock 2 controller with a USB converter that worked really well after I tweaked everything, but the 360 controller eliminated the need for a lot of that tweaking.

Kinda irritated that this isn't part of the first AB:SW game, but whatever. I guess it makes sense to have a new game, it's just vaguely irritating to have to re-buy the thing, and then play ten levels of "tutorial" all over again.

X-Wing taught me how to create .bat files in DOS; I found where the pilot file was and wrote a batch file so that every time I launched the game, it also backup up my pilot file so I wouldn't lose every single thing I ever got. It didn't matter, though, I don't think I ever finished it anyways.

Yeah, there was that one sniper rifle (the silenced carbine) that had minimal sway and was silent, which was always preferable to the "default" sniper rifle they tried to give you that had less bullets per clip, more sway, and was noisy; I basically used that gun, the silenced pistol, and the silenced SMG for…

Okay, so I jumped on the X-Com deal ($12 or whatever for that and the DLC is one of the three things I wanted from the sale, and since I got Dragonborn yesterday I'm mostly just waiting for Dishonored at this point), and I'm pretty sure I bought it, but I haven't actually gotten a confirming e-mail and I'm not at home…