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Half Life 2 Available, Delays Not Valve's Fault
Evil Avatar has the word that even Best Buy is selling Half-Life 2 boxes at this point. If you're planning on picking this one up it should be available pretty much anywhere. Voodoo Extreme has news from Steam that in no uncertain terms are the delays in opening the game to customers their fault. From the article: "This is not Valve's choice. Vivendi is insisting that the game has not yet been released, and has threatened that Valve would be in violation of its contract if we activate the Half-Life 2 Steam authentication servers at this time."
Everquest 2... check
Doom3... check
Half-life 2... check
Duke Nukem Forever... hmmm
Lets talk about Jon Carmack. Jon is the legendary programmer of such classic PC games as Wolfenstein, Doom, Duke nukem 3d, Quake 1, 2, and 3, unreal, and the upcoming doom3. Jon has single handedly created the genre known as the first-person-shooter. He has also popularized the OpenGL 3d format over Microsoft's competing Direct3d format, as well as caused public interest in 3d cards when he first released accelerated quake for the s3 virge chipset. Jon carmack has redefined gaming on PC's.
Now stop for a moment and think, What would have happened if Albert Einstein had worked creating amazing pinball games instead of creating the theory of relativity? Humanity would suffer! Jon carmack is unfortunately doing JUST THIS, using his gifts at computer coding to create games instead of furthering the knowledge of humanity. Carmack could have been working for NASA or the US military, but instead he simply sits around coding violent computer games.
Is this a waste of a special and rare talent? Sadly, the answer is yes.
Unfortunately, it doesn't stop there. Not only is Jon carmack not contributing to society, he is causing it's downfall. What was the main reason for the mass murder of dozens of people in columbine? Doom. It's always the same story: Troubled youth plays doom or quake, he arms himself to the teeth, he kills his classmates. This has happened hundreds of times in the US alone. Carmack is not only wasting his talents and intelligence; he is single-handedly causing the deaths of many young men and women. How does he sleep at night?
Carmack is a classic example of a very talented and intelligent human being that is bent on total world destruction. Incredibly, he has made millions of dollars getting people hooked on psychotic games where they compete on the internet to see who can dismember the most people. I believe there is something morally wrong when millions of people have computerized murder fantasies, and we have Jon Carmack to thank. Carmack has used his superior intellect to create mayhem in society. Many people play games such as quake so much that their minds are permanently warped. A cousin of mine has been in therapy for 6 months after he lost a 'death match' and became catatonic.
It is unfortunate that most people do not realize how much this man has damaged all the things we have worked hard for in America. Jon has wasted his intelligence, caused the deaths of innocent children, and warped this country forever. To top it off, he got rich in the process and is revered by millions of computer users worldwide. Perhaps one day the US government will see the light and confine Jon Carmack somewhere with no computers so he can no longer use his intelligence to wreak havoc on society.
Yeah your XL only T-shirt, makes me think they hit the nail on the head in consumer research.
Precisely. It's called STEAM.
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Eh, the crack will be out faster than you can say 'Vivendi take the wang'. I wouldn't worry.
Audio of someone calling Gabe from valve: http://www.users.qwest.net/~amerrill/nirv-gabe_new ell.wav
You aren't Gabe Newell by any chance?
I don't know if everyone see's the same advertisement as I do... but the one to the right of the story says Half Life 2 "In stores 11.16.04" :)
I found it kind of ironic hehe
Technology, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems.
If those authentication servers get clogged up on tuesday there will be hell to pay. Hell.
Will DNF come out when GWB is still president, or will it be Hillary or Arnold by then?
I bet you could make a fortune selling that game on ebay right now and just wait for your preload to kick in.
It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
...I found out earlier today (saturday evening) that if you happen to mention to a best buy employee that the game in your hand isnt supposed to be out for another 3 days, they happen to flip the fuck out....
"Good night, good work, sleep well, I'll most likely kill you in the morning." - Dread Pirate Roberts
your peenar, seenyor, she is so teeny.
Put that away before you embarass yourself with it, son.
I shelled out the money for my gold package. My gear arrived on Friday. I'm sitting here in my HL2 t-shirt, HL2 hat, reading my HL2 strat guide, listening to my HL2 OST (boy does it suck), and I have a massive viagra prolonged erection. Come on Valve/VU, how much longer do I have to wait?!?! I don't want to blow until I'm one of the first to log into the server and play!
If I pop one more purple pill to hold hard, I may OD and my augmented wang may spring forth through my skull, killing me. I don't think anyone wants to clean up after that headshot.
You're not gonna play Half-Life 2 on a laptop, and certainly not on a laptop so old that it's not got a CD drive.
But what do I know of your expectations. Maybe you're planning to watch "Half-Life 2: The Slideshow" in 320x256?
But you can drool over the box and wear your T-shirt until then!!
Does it say I bought Half-Life 2, but all I can do is wear this stinking T-Shirt! ?
No, really. I'm not. On top of that, I won't play it, not at Joe's house, nor on a LAN. I will not play it, Sam I Am.