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Just noticed the "or a friend" part. Friends would be very nice to have. Bonus if they each had the 1 million dollars.

I'd first buy a good tax attorney, to figure out how much of I can keep. Then I'd buy a good financial advisor and invest in something that is not as volatile as the stock market and won't depreciate in value (even if it stays the same, thats good enough especially in this economy). And after several years, maybe I'd buy a small hot dog stand.

The process is the same for both. It simply dumps you on the manufacturer's page unless it can't figure it out. If so, it will tell you to click the link below and not provide the link. The help>System Information box can be useful if steam's graphics driver update doesn't work(dump you on nvidia's site).

The steam store has an advanced search. If only it was more obvious. You can limit by a bunch of factors, one of them is price. (but also check if the game has monthly fees).
Also people forget to check that their computer can run it before buying and then want their money back. Valve will NOT allow this. Buy carefully.

Thats the dragon claw... ah yes, the red bone dragon in the sand place (with the awesome rock music). Your pal Tristam picks up the "Dragon Claw" and says cool, then leaves you. You get it yourself later.
Phoebe becomes your pal (bow, arrows, lighting spells) for the ice quests.

Back to the original off topic (to be on topic for the off topic group)...
I'm not visiting. This post doesn't exist. I was never here...
Can you spare three fiddy?

Oh, could it be Dragon Warrior?

Secret of Mana? You start in the woods, fall off a tree, find a sword, hack through the woods, find a girl who rescues you. There were a few dragon bosses, but the first boss was some kind of plant. You power up your sword by collecting orbs from bosses.
Do you remember... Cannon Travel?

I usually like smileys. (I wonder if they were sentient, how they would percieve of us?).

Not a fan of the SexyTruck, girl outline, bro-fist(with and without finger) and other varieties of that nonsense although the artist is clearly very creative..

I recently saw 0rz and some of its variants. (look it up on know your meme's website)

Also,
(\/) ii (|)
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This lil hermit crab says hi.

ß^Þ
(instead of B or 8... I'm wearing "cool" shades... AND sticking my tongue out. Deal with it.)

Your situation is not normal. Perhaps you installed mods and its detecting them, trying to fix, but failing. From within steam, delete TF2, then exit steam and delete the TF2 folder. Start steam again, downlaod TF2 again (long process). After this you have a clean version and it shouldn't keep validating, ever again. Once is fine unless you notice it misbehaving. If this clean version is still doing that check any other game to see if that also validates every time. If so, time to reinstall steam. If after all that it still does it, your computer has a virus or is extremely misconfigured.
Good luck.