[ray243]

I think he just got drowned by facepunch's emails.

[octavio]

Lost Hybrid posted:

Dear Mr. Newell,

To get straight to the point since I bet you're probably doing something 'important,' I'm working on a canon-based "Half Life 2 Alpha/Beta Leak" roleplaying community for GMod 10. As of right now, everyone believes that the official currency within Half Life 2 is "tokens", I don't know where they got it from but, if you could please confirm it or deny it for me, it would be great

Also if you'd be alright, I've wanted to just ask a few more questions so I can get it right for once, I've always hated people using their own concepts and titling it "canon".

Anyhow, as a community leader, I understand how much of a pain it is to respond to emails, it's probably a thousand times worse for you but I want to say thank you very much for being involved with your fan-base, I have to say, your team is the only development studio I can actually respect.


Thank you for your time.
--------------------------------


Marc Laidlaw



It’s a fair question. I don’t recall coming down hard on an answer in the game itself, so I don’t want to make something up now. If you don’t hear specific reference to tokens in conversation, then it’s hard to justify their existence. There may well be token slots on vending machines, etc…but in fact if you push the button for a can of Breen’s Private Reserve, it appears to be free of charge. Citizens are given or issued basic standard clothing and food, so it seems like the Combine don’t encourage currency in their dealings with humans, and among citizens there may be something more like a barter economy. For your roleplay, you should come up with whatever generates interesting gameplay. I don’t see any egregious conflict with the game.

No care about the leak. Interesting.

[dryer-lint]

Valve fucking owned me.

email posted:

josh -snip-
to gaben

show details Oct 2 (1 day ago)


Reply


Nobody at Valve has ever responded to one of my emails. This can only
be attributed to racism. Please rate the Valve company's average RUPP
(racism units per person) score on a scale of 75-100, 75 being
generally racist person and 100 being person who has committed hate
crimes.

Thank you in advance.

email posted:

Gabe Newell
to me

show details 10:01 PM (23 hours ago)


Reply


I think we hate you in particular, not your race. That would be our JHUPP score.

email posted:

josh -snip-
to Gabe

show details 10:47 PM (22 hours ago)


Reply


JHUPP?

email posted:

from Gabe Newell <-snip->
to josh -snip- <-snip->
date Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:09 AM
subject RE: Valve's R.U.P.P?
mailed-by valvesoftware.com

hide details 4:09 AM (17 hours ago)


Reply



Josh Hating Units Per Person

Who the fuck at valve has time to insult me at 4-fucking-AM anyways?:argh:

[SpasticPinoy]

I wonder who he think is more awesome, Chuck Norris or Bruce Lee...

[Ouendanation]

dryer-lint posted:

Who the fuck at valve has time to insult me at 4-fucking-AM anyways?:argh:

Gabe, apparently.

[slt-awesome]

dryer-lint posted:

Valve fucking owned me.









Who the fuck at valve has time to insult me at 4-fucking-AM anyways?:argh:

:excited: Ahhaha, OWNED!

Gabe is awesome.

Edit:

Loush posted:

Your slettet is getting crowded!

[Teh_Cheese]

ray243 posted:

I think he just got drowned by facepunch's emails.

Oh noes. :(
I feel sorry for him

[mystic34]

Binladen34 posted:

I emailed valve and by accident i sent it through my hot mail account (Binladenh4xr@hotmail.com NO RELATION TO THE 2003 HACKER!) and the cops came to my house and too my computer and yelled at me for having too much hentai and not enough porn.

Oh yea and i never got a reply

The police have no reason to come to your house, take your computer, look through your porn, all because you have a funny looking email. They need evidence that links you to something.

Unless.... there's something you're not telling us, hmmm

Conspiracy!!

[Smirnoff Joe]

There cannot be a conspiracy without JC Denton.

[Eleventeen]

I think the answer involves either Bears, or Ninjas.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jookia [mailto:166291@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 7:29 AM
To: Gabe Newell
Subject: Technology Conflicts

In Team Fortress 2, it's obviously set before the 1990 era, but how do you explain that the spy can cloak and that there are intel computers?

Would greatly love some clear up on this, Jookia

[Mikkelbikkel]

i think i made him angry :(

[Fanboydude]

I sent him an email 2 days ago, still no reply :(

[war_man333]

Mikkelbikkel posted:

i think i made him angry :(

I laughed
I laughed at what he said, not what you said.

[slt-awesome]

war_man333 posted:

I laughed
I laughed at what he said, not what you said.

I just laughed at the whole god damn thing. It was all so childish

[E1025]

Mikkelbikkel posted:

i think i made him angry :(

Thanks that's another two weeks added to the countdown.

[slt-awesome]

And someone in this thread called him fat before Gabe said that people from valve come here occasionally. So another two weeks.

[lazyV]

[ray243]

lazyV posted:

How does a box give him the idea of gravity gun?

[Ragish]

ray243 posted:

How does a box give him the idea of gravity gun?

the idea was in the box doo doo head.

[lazyV]

Ragish posted:

the idea was in the box doo doo head.

I asked him what else what hiding in the box. :q:

[Crazy]

Bet it's just a secretary posting under Gabe's name.

[dannass]

Someone ask him if they made the scout after this guy

[TheTalon]

ray243 posted:

How does a box give him the idea of gravity gun?

He's talking about the companion cube! Oh I know how things roll over there at Valve, everybody is in on 'it' Companion Cube exists, you thought you threw it down the incinerator, WRONG

[Ragish]

lazyV posted:

I asked him what else what hiding in the box. :q:

OH NO US ss

[ray243]

I wonder how he feels reading all these messages.

[TheTalon]

ray243 posted:

I wonder how he feels reading all these messages.

By the looks of this thread alone, he probably goes through so many he doesn't remember any of them after 10 minutes, except for the one where gabe said the guy smelled bad and had no friends... Fantastic

I sent him a message just now asking a question, and He better not answer Chuck Norris :(

[TheLinxV3]

I bet he's reading this thread right now and is giggling over our reactions.

[TheTalon]

Isn't it 7:10 AM where he lives? and Saturday? Wish I was where he is... Asleep (It's 9:10 AM Central)

[Binladen34]

mystic34 posted:

The police have no reason to come to your house, take your computer, look through your porn, all because you have a funny looking email. They need evidence that links you to something.

Unless.... there's something you're not telling us, hmmm

Conspiracy!!

You know too much...

[ss1234]

[Stickmoose]

ss1234 posted:

That was great

[Liber]

ss1234 posted:

Do you feel the burning sensation now?

[cornndog]

isnt valve in seattle

[venn177]

cornndog posted:

isnt valve in seattle

"Headquarters Bellevue, Washington, USA"

From wikipedia.

[cornndog]

sweet im in the same time zone as gabe so i am superior to all of you

[venn177]

Gabe's so fat, he takes your oxygen to breathe. You are inferior.

[danharibo]

cornndog posted:

sweet im in the same time zone as gabe so i am superior to all of you

you still can't spell

[TheTalon]

Love when Gabe insults people, What other CEO adds that personal touch? I know they do over at EA but that's indirect

[BRAWLmilk]

dannass posted:

someone ask him if they made the scout after this guy

I was honestly thinking the same thing.

[Vedicardi]

venn177 posted:

Gabe's so fat, he takes your oxygen to breathe. You are inferior.

God dammit that's another 2 week delay