I hope that you can install the applications anywhere instead of only under the Steam directory without having to resort to symlinks like you do now if you want to split up your SteamApps directory to different locations.

The problem with XKCD style passwords is the more characters in a password, the more likely I am to make a typo while entering it. I mistype a typical 8 character password a couple times a day. I can imagine what it would be like with a 25 character password.

I spent a lot of time wandering around that spaceship in World's Chat. I thought it was a pretty amazing program to have an online virtual world in 1995 when I was still on dialup. I quit using it when they started wanting you to pay. I loaded up the next one, Alpha Worlds a couple times, but it never had the appeal to me that Worlds Chat did.

I see these recent wave of kickstarts as the ultimate pre-order. As a backer, I get a lower price and maybe some extras for my investment, and the knowledge that I am helping with the creation of a game that I want to play but wouldn't have got backing otherwise. As a developer, you get your funding in advance, and anything sold after the release is profit since your expenses have already been covered.

I backed Wasteland 2. I would love to see another post apocalyptic turn based RPG, since Fallout 3 went in a completely different direction in regards to game play as it's predecessors.

Eventually one of these projects will fail, or not live up to expectations, but I hope that is the rare exception.

While I would prefer the quality of Blu-Ray or the convenience of streaming, many movies are not available on those formats. Before dropping the Netflix streaming when the price increased last year, I looked at my 100+ title DVD queue and there were only 3 that I could stream, while every title in my instant queue was available as DVD.

A new game in the style of Dungeon Master will be out soon. The Legend of Grimrock just reached release candidate status. I am really looking forward to it since I haven't played a similar game since EOB3.

From what I remember of most boot sector viruses, they would load themselves into memory then infect any other disc inserted afterwards. I had one on an Amiga game like that. You couldn't clean it without making the disc unbootable, instead you just had to remember to power down afterwards to prevent it from spreading. This was back in the days when many people commonly booted from floppy rather than a hard disc. Michelangelo was significant since it went after the hard drive boot sector, not just a floppy.

I remember seeing one bit of advice back then to just leave your computer off on March 6th, or at the least to change your system clock, since that was when the virus would be triggered. I don't know how many followed that advice, but I am guessing that many people did. I guess many could do that in 1992, unlike today where you can't accomplish anything if the computer is down.

I am comparing to the PS3 or XBox for instance which would be the competition if they are trying to get into the console business. If I buy a game for those, be it digital distribution or retail, every account on the console can play it, not just the account that bought it. That's why I said they would have to make some changes to their SSA if they do make a Steam Console.

What if I want to play a game on my Steam account on the PC and the kids want to play a different game at the same time on the Steam Console? Since the majority of my gaming is done on Steam on the PC these days, we would never be able to play different games on two devices at the same time since Steam only allows a single active login.

What about multiple players on the same console? They are going to have to come up with a family setting, because if it is just a single login allowed then my kids will be complaining about who gets the achievements and such, and I am not going to buy multiple versions of the same game for each account on the console.

We purchased a 3D TV since it was just slightly more costly than the non-3D model and it came with 2 pairs of active shutter glasses for free. In the year that we have had it, we have only watched two movies in 3D, mostly because Netflix and Redbox only have the 2D versions.

Gaming has been the primary use of the 3D technology for us - Uncharted 3, Wipeout HD, Killzone 3, Resistance 3, The Sly Collection, Hustle Kings, and just last night I tried the remastered Jak & Daxter HD Collection. I think gaming is where 3D shows the most promise; you could almost say it adds another dimension to the experience ;)

Not necessarily an upgrade, but what I would like to see is standard parts that are easily user replaceable. The PS3 hard drive is a standard 2.5" drive is easily replaced, while the Xbox doesn't allow for a standard drive to be used as a replacement. I had the DVD drive quit reading on my PS2. I was able to clean and adjust the laser lens, but eventually it got to where it wouldn't work. I bought a new PS2 since the repair bill would have been nearly as much. If I had just been able to pop in a standard DVD drive it would have been a cheap fix. From what I have seen other than overheating, the hard drive and optical drives are the two most common failures, so I would like to see those use off the shelf components that are easily replaced.

WV has been the 2 letter designation for West Virginia since the post office went to 2 letter state abbreviations in 1963.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_abbreviations

in Saint Albans. That entire Charleston area is full of chemical plants - the nickname for the area is the Chemical Valley. Dow, Dupont, FMC, Bayer, Rhone Poluenc, and many others to name some present and past companies that have been there. The biggest was Union Carbide with several locations - the Institute plant was where MIC was produced in the US, the gas involved in the Bhopal tragedy.

I knew a lot of people that had or developed cancer that lived in the area and I remember seeing a study showing the rate was noticeably higher than the national norm.

The problem with these type of content locks are that once activated they are tied to the profile of whoever activated it. In my case I have two sons that play games along with myself. We just went through this with Batman Arkham City. Once one had activated the extra Catwoman content, then the rest of us couldn't play the same content on our profiles without having to buy it again. We could play Catwoman under the profile that activated it, but then any achievements would be earned under that profile only.