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This post may contain cake*
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*a lying cake
Portal 2's been on pre-order for a short while, and it's current bonus is a free copy of Portal. Therefore I've currently got a free copy to gift. So, who here still hasn't acquired a copy of Portal yet? 
Ooooh, me, me!
Assuming of course that it's for the PC, as I have no dedicated game systems. -- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. 
it's on steam, it's for the pc.
-Terry ----- "so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today" TF2: Spy
And ja, you must have Steam on board for it to work. Portal's now also Mac (OS-X) compatible too. So Bob do ya have a Steam account?
Nope, and don't want one. Thanks anyway, and I'll step aside to let the next person in line jump up and down and say "me, me!"
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. 
I've already got one!
Seriously, though, if nobody steps up and asks for this, you should gift it to somebody you want to get into Steam. Portal is a good gateway game. My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours. I've been writing a bit.
Well, of my current Steam friends, one's a Work acquaintance who only plays Super Meat Boy ?!?, one's a extended family friend, another's some dude I've played TF2 with & against. The rest (two) are from here. So my pool of gifting is slim.
Thread necro: I pre-ordered Portal 2, and thus have myself a free copy of Portal to give. Any takers?
Requires Steam, I presume?
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
Yea, it'll require steam...
Steam is good. Use Steam  There is no coincidence, only necessity.... - Clow Reed 
The game industry will be saved by the power of Steam!
(No, I don't have a Steam account. Like Miyuki in Lucky Star, I play both computer games - Solitaire and Minesweeper.) -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 
I adore Steam. Of course, the fact they charge American prices, which can be up to $50 less then Australian prices, certainly explains my bias
I'll give it a try. How exactly does Steam work?
how steam works, the short version:
you download the steam client (it's free, here) create an account (also free, here) you buy games (not free, but often cheaper than retail*) the client downloads the games to your local computer. You can now play those games regardless if you are online or not (This may vary from game to game (Dragon age 2 anyone?), but there is no defacto requirement that you validate a game every time you want to play it). * If you're patient you can get games for 75% off. They have sales frequently, and sometimes they have other promotions like the portal 2 one: Pre-order Portal 2 (at 10% off) and you get a copy of portal 1, if you already own a copy, you can give the new copy to someone else fair warning: you will find yourself tempted to buy lots of games. Today's promotion is Grand Theft Auto IV ($5), GTA: episodes from liberty City ($7.50), or both for $10. I have bought games I own on other platforms simply because it easier to play them through steam than to go scrounge up the disk for my ps3. -Terry ----- "so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today" TF2: Spy
And once you're up and running with a Steam installation, and a group of people who also use Steam, it gets interesting, like this.
User A purchases 'Borderlands', via Steam, and downloads all 6gb of it. Over the next six months, Steam automatically keeps it updated through patch revision 1.14, and in addition, handles the installation of the DLC packages, which the user has purchased. User B purchases 'Borderlands Game of the Year Edition', which includes all the DLC, hops in the truck, cruises over to User A's house, and copies the game folder (%SteamDir%SteamAppsCommonBorderlands, I think) onto removable media, to the tune of 12gb. After dinner, User B returns home, plugs in the media, and copies the directory onto his machine. Steam is then started, the 'download' begins, and at around 75% of Disk I/O speed, Steam validates the copied file, then gives it's OK. User B now has a fully patched DLC enabled version of the game, with ~4mb of data transferred. I'm User B. Later on, I threw my laptop onto my LAN, installed Steam on it, and copied the Borderlands folder over - worked just the same. Steam authenticates on startup (of the Steam client - lots of people have it run on windows start, I do not), and from then on it is very unobtrusive. Handy chat and friend interface, and it mediates voice comms. As DRM frameworks go, Steam is possibly the Least Worst available. "No can brain today. Want cheezeburger." From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
Some freinds bugged me into getting steam, so got it, then bought a copy of TF2 then did what Wire did.
it's fun, simple and amzingly cheep. (steam that is, TF2 is anything but simple  )
I find I also have a spare copy of Portal 1, so if anybody still needs it, let me know.
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours. I've been writing a bit.
Whoever wants my copy, whenever you get Steam set up do a friend search using my handle over there on the left. If you end up using a name different than what you use here, let me know.
Okay, I has steam now, and I eagerly anticipate playing Portal and having some nice cake.
My steam ID is, unsurprisingly, "Mark Skarr." If you do a search for me, I think I'm the only Mark Skarr, but if not, I'm the one using Gir as my avatar, and my name is Bill Briggs.
I'll be on later tonight. For now... Taxes. *uuuuggggghhhhh...*
I don't even get home until 0230 MDST. What is it with waiting until the last moment to file taxes? I did mine first week in February.
Well Portal 2 is live and contains a teaser for the movie Super 8. Cubes are apparently the link.
Gah. Stuck. Can't invite anyone to be my friend on Steam without having purchased and activated a game. I'd gladly buy Portal 2 and be done with it, 'cept I'm broke for now. User name there is also blackaeronaut if anyone wants to help.
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