It's on! Steam Summer Sale 2020

[airboy]

I "lost" since I bought nothing but cardboard this month.

Cardboard buying was expensive:
Labyrinth: The War on Terror (new)
Axis Empires: Dai Senso (new - birthday present)
Fury in the West - used
Viva Espana  - used (not arrived yet)

and Mr. Toonces was kind to give me his copy of Paths of Glory.

[SirAndrewD]

"It was all sort of hazy."

Sir Andrew - were you drunk Steam Sale buying again? :)

More like drunk ON Steam Sale buying!

[CJReich46]

I passed on a lot this sale.

I guess I don't want to increase the pile.

[Bardolph]

Only thing I bought on Steam during the Summer sale wasn't on sale. I might be doing it wrong.

[Toonces]

^ Ummmm....yeah.

[Toonces]

I only bought Global Mobilization for ARMA 3, and for that matter, I haven't even installed it yet.

I've got tons of stuff on my wishlist that were on sale, but...you know...I just don't really need any more games right now.

[Toonces]

I did buy two new watches, though.   ::)

8)

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

(It's the same watch Matt Hooper wears in Jaws)

I'm such a nerd.   

[WYBaugh]

I've never heard of Alsta but I love the cushion case!  But 40mm is too small for my old eyes.   I try to stick to 44mm if I can.

[Toonces]

Yeah, this is my first cushion case watch.  The watch is really small, 39mm!  It's quite the adjustment from my bigger divers. 

But...I couldn't resist.  I mean c'mon, it's Jaws!   And Hooper! 

I just got it last night and sized the bracelet and put it on today and I couldn't be happier.  It was pricey, but I'm totally stoked on this watch.

Anyway, back to the Steam sale...

[Toonces]

Alsta was a generic brand back in the 70's that made sports watches.  The Alsta that Hooper wears was more or less in keeping with the times; it was a rugged diver that someone like him would wear (although, honestly, Hooper in Jaws is supposed to be wealthy so he'd probably wear a Rolex Sub, but anyway).

Alsta went out of business with the quartz crisis in the 80's.  Then the actor who plays The Bruce in Braveheart bought the company a couple of years ago and they made the Hooper watch.  The first version didn't look much like the Jaws Hooper.  But then last year they made a faithful 1:1 recreation albeit slightly bigger at 39mm vice the original's 36mm.  It's a limited, numbered edition (316 of 1975, the year the movie came out), and it has the Jaws shark on the caseback and the bracelet clasp.  Too cool.  Overpriced for what it is, but I don't care I had to have it.

I've got quite the thread going on a watch forum, where I hang out when I'm not here...  NERD!   :-[

[WYBaugh]

Are you on WUS?

I recently picked up a Seiko SRPE07 King Turtle and love it.  About time they went with sapphire and blue lume!

[al_infierno]

Ha, my dad might be lurking that very watch forum you're posting on :P

Very cool, Toonces!

[Toonces]

Heh.  Yes, I'm Toonces on WUS.   8)

[Toonces]

Funny, and totally not about this thread subject (but that's cool, this is Grogheads after all), I had a friend that I modded Falcon4 with on the Freefalcon team for years.  Then the team broke up and I hadn't heard from him in years.

So don't you know, I'm on this watch forum, and only because he was the last post in that particular subject forum (A. Lange), I saw his username.  It's unique, like Toonces, so I sent him a PM: Of all the websites in all the world, you had to choose this one...

Crazy, small world we live in sometimes.

[SirAndrewD]

To boast more.  One of my clients says that if his book does well enough my bonus will be a Franck Muller watch.