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**Captain Forever** · 2nd December 2008

Someone email him this picture that I made.

**ZomBuster** · 2nd December 2008

Saxon posted:

Emailed Gabe at 3:55 AM and got a response in about 10 minutes

what the hell is a grranimals

oh granimals

wearing the same color shirt as your pants, without anything in between.

**Take_Opal** · 2nd December 2008

LEEAAVE GABE AAALOOONE!! LEAVE HIM ALONE!

Edramtab · 2nd December 2008

Sent an email this weekend and received this.

Me posted:

Is it in your plans to release community maps/movies like you did in Team Fortress 2 with Turbine, Fastlane and Steel ?

Gabe posted:

If there are good ones.

Teh_Cheese · 3rd December 2008

nice bump guys.
still haven't gotten a response :(

**Hybrid 4F** · 3rd December 2008

I can answer that one. NCF files have low-compress system, which means game/engine can load files faster.

Teh_Cheese · 3rd December 2008

Hybrid 4F posted:

I can answer that one. NCF files have low-compress system, which means game/engine can load files faster.

What about the common folder? ;)

**DogGunn** · 30th January 2009

I know this is a bump, but the replies from Gabe always make me laugh. Anyone got more emails from him?

**KillerTele** · 30th January 2009

yeah i want more too! they are so awesome...

**Sibilantjoe** · 30th January 2009

My email:

I posted:

Dear Mr. Newell,

I just thought I would take the time to thank you for making that historic deal with one Garry Newman, turning him into a millionaire, 5 bucks at a time. Just think-- if the man had to WORK for his money (other than coding, of course), we might never see an update again! So thanks for making my hero a millionaire. Also, do you play Garry's Mod from time to time? If so, what do you like to do most?

Thanks for reading,
**Like hell I'd give you my name, FP**

I got this back from Erik Johnson:

"Erik Johnson posted:

Thanks for the mail *my name goes here,*

There isn’t a lot of credit we can share for what Garry has done with, we just offered to put it in front of a bunch of people for him. He’s been really smart with how he builds a community around his game, and he’s been rewarded for it. I think you’d be surprised my how much work (and stress) goes into doing what Garry does.

Erik

This is from a couple months back.

**TheTalon** · 30th January 2009

Fanboydude posted:

Not much of a fan of Halo or Red vs Blue but that Caboose guy is hilarious

Ryan2406 · 17th February 2009

Sibilantjoe posted:

My email:

I got this back from Erik Johnson:

This is from a couple months back.

Jonathan's your name

**Fussy!** · 17th February 2009

TheTalon posted:

Not much of a fan of Halo or Red vs Blue but that Caboose guy is hilarious

Bleep bloop!

kaskade007 · 17th February 2009

confinedUser posted:

it's copying the 360's achievement system practicly they renamed it as a trophy system

The 360 didn't invent trophys.
Also why is it a bad thing that more gamers can have some extra fun?

I hate fanboys.

SeanTucker · 17th February 2009

I sent Gabe an email pointing out the similarity between the Combine soldier's design and the Panzer Cops from Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, and asking if there are any other influences on HL2 that people may not catch at first glance. Will screenshot and post reply when it comes.

Maloof? posted:

I guess Valve just made their achievement system blindly and hoped nobody else had a similar idea.

Valve put achievements in the PC versions of TOB and L4D so they could keep them roughly the same as the 360 versions, from what I can tell. I may have to ask GabeN about that.

.0isin · 18th February 2009

Heres mine

Hey Gabe, this is *name here*, a LONG time fan of VAVLe and all of the games you make.
This might sound like a letter to santa (or satan, whichever) but
Do you like the alienware computers, or would it be better for me to just build my own.

Gabe Newell posted:

I build my own and also have some Alienware computers for my personal use (most recently an M17 laptop). I've been quite happy with the Alienware systems.

I think the most iinteresting decision is how to manage your uprade cycles (I think I should buy slightly less bleeding edge and upgrade more often than I do).