[edit] Poll/giveaway is over! [/edit]

So... I hit 20k rep points today*

I've got 3 copies of L4D2 and 2 copies of Arma 2 (including expansions) that have been sitting in my Steam inventory, so to celebrate, I'm giving them away

Simply vote on the poll if you're interested in those two games, and this time tomorrow I'll put the names into a hat and PM the winners for their steam name or email so I can gift them to you.

*Technically this is a thread about the rating system so I should get voted down for mentioning it, but it's in the lounge, suckers!

Right on my birthday haha.

Anyways, congratulations. I wonder how long have you been a member of this site? Your profile says you joined in 2007. But from your performance it looks like you've been here for much longer.

I wonder how long have you been a member of this site? Your profile says you joined in 2007. But from your performance it looks like you've been here for much longer.

Hodgman recently revealed that he was previously banned from the site with an older account!

Congrats Hodgman. We all have a rep score to reach for! :)

Gratz on your 20k!

You certainly didn't get those points from me - I use every opportunity possible to sabotage your rating and besmirch your name to give jbadams and myself a fighting chance.

Normally, people *get* gifts when they have something to celebrate, not give them away. Maybe its just one of those weird southern-hemisphere things, like how toilets drain anticlockwise, and how people say "anticlockwise" instead of "counter-clockwise" :)

But seriously, thanks for all the help you've given everyone over the years, I'll never catch up, but its something to aspire to.

Hodgman, if I may ask, what is it you do exactly when you're not disseminating wisdom, knowledge and gifts amongst the masses?

Right on my birthday haha.
Anyways, congratulations. I wonder how long have you been a member of this site? Your profile says you joined in 2007.

Happy birthday
Yeah I joined in 07, had another account in 06, and lurked for years before that.

Normally, people *get* gifts when they have something to celebrate, not give them away. Maybe its just one of those weird southern-hemisphere things, like how toilets drain anticlockwise, and how people say "anticlockwise" instead of "counter-clockwise"

Well I can't exactly start a thread demanding to be showered in gifts now, can I?
Or can I....

Hodgman, if I may ask, what is it you do exactly when you're not disseminating wisdom, knowledge and gifts amongst the masses?

There's links in my sig \/

I do contract work on other people's engines/games, and I'm trying to get my own indie studio off the ground with our own game and engine.