I love Valve‘s Steam network. No wait — I hate it! I feel like ranting: The last three hours I was working hard to get a Maya model exported, textured and imported into the game. And figuring out how the exporter handles textures was nearly half the deal.

And it even worked! But I was getting drowsy and just wanted to check on my sophisticated texturing work with normal maps, specular information and even Phong exponent values. And I wanted to check in order to sleep well without worrying whether it will work.

After the VTF shell extension sent my Windows Explorer to eternal rest I had to reboot. And to log into Steam again. And now it feels like updating without ever getting finished. At about 39% it says something like “Steam is temporarily unavailable. Please try later”. I don’t want to compile my model later, I wanna compile it now — I am an inpatient grouch! And thanks to overprotective Valve Software, Inc. I can’t without that piece of crap always running in the background! Gaah!

Oh great! This time Steam closed even without the error message… And I can’t start that thing in offline mode because for that you have to switch it when you’re online with Steam in the first place. Who comes up with that kinda bullshit anyway?

Well.

I must go to sleep. I am getting way too angry when I am sleepy. Hopefully Steam will work tomorrow or else…