wow, it really helps me for now....juz use it and my steam can connect now  ...tis is d 2nd time im unable to connect to steam >.<
i wonder y im unable to connect without the hotspot shield

It's our ISP that's been having period with the rest of the world.

waiting alien swarm to available short of game to stay in touch

i have much time to play but lack of games to play 

For some reason, I have to redownload the entire Alien Swarm game yet again.

Damn Steam.

wth? non-stop updates.. all these games are being updated, how to lepak and play games like this???

HL2
HL2:EP1
HL2:EP2
Portal
L4D2
L4D2 Addon support
TF2  <-- 2GB
Alien Swarm <-- 2GB

Had to update a few games this morning at one shot.

Sometimes that slows Steam down to some extent.

Steam stops downloading the updates if you start any games.

you can choose if you want the game to update automatically or manually mah.
can also pause the update mah.

You can choose not to update Steam games option in the game's settings tab.

At last! This feature is inevitable since the other DDs such as BioWare & others have implemented this feature long ago. I'm curious though, where do you get this news? I checked the Steam News section but found nothing about it... or perhaps I didn't backtrack long enough.

EDIT: Read about it in the Steam forum.

As raised in the forum itself, what is the security feature that will protect those funds? I'm sensing more phishing websites coming up soon. Either that or more scammers will be prowling us with fake links & stuff.

Err... no. They're doing it through the Steam chat. Deimos has been contacted once & I believe he screenshot'ed the conversation & pasted it in LYN.

Still, it doesn't give us any excuse to click on any links, be it coming via emails, Steam chat or any other mediums.

Magic the Gathering (including expansions pack and what not) is 50% off this weekend.

50% off all of them seems to be a good deal.

I'll pass because I just bought Borderland's DLC and Civilization 5.

just buy the main game and expansion 1 and 2, the rest dlc you can ignore

you only need the main game, expansion 1 and expansion 2.

for the rest, you can unlock them as you play naturally.

more fun to unlock the deck by yourself, yes?

yes you can duel with your friends online or strangers, online.

gogo2 add me deimos_telarin if you have not add already.

we duel magic jom.

CS:S is a must get for me. i have a group of friend playing and i been playing for 3 years and never get boring of it lulz. i get 20-30ping at sg server 
as for worms i played the demo and not bad. i might read the review before buying
i like music game so i will get beat hazard. tried the demo and i kinda like the style

the deal is really pulling my heart. i just downloaded Steam but i failed to update it. when i run Steam and it a small windows appear and show "Steam is updating" few minutes later its close it down itself, nothing happened at all. I run Steam again and it goes the same thing.

Oh. So I just backup L4D2, then keep the backup file in a thumbdrive and my friend just put it into his steamapps?