[gav618]

lol. That was awesome on gabe's part. A good way to answer ep 3 questions.

[trunk_slamchest]

GIVE THEM STICKERS AND SIGNATURES AND RESPOND TO THEIR EMAILS.


THAT WAY, THEY WILL FORGET ABOUT HALF LIFE 3 AND LOVE US NO MATTER WHAT WE DO.

[Raijin]

pretty much

[DMK95921]

A little late, but still funny

[Deremix]

DMK95921 posted:

A little late, but still funny

My name's Derek and I've talked to him about writing techniques...

...I wonder if I'm one of his favorite Dereks.

PS: Emailed Valve about a signed Christmas present after buying the Valve Complete Pack.

Edited:

Oh my god. o.o:

Valve is epic. Thank you Valve, and thank you Joel! I am very happy. He replied literally two minutes after I sent it.

I am in love with this company. And Joel. (Possibly homo.)

[Chaotic Lord]

Deremix posted:

Valve is epic. Thank you Valve, and thank you Joel! I am very happy. He replied literally two minutes after I sent it.

Joel is best FrontDesk@ValveSoftware.com

[Deremix]

Chaotic Lord posted:

Joel is best FrontDesk@ValveSoftware.com

Joel is a god among men.

[Chaotic Lord]

Here's High-Res scannings of the signatures I have (Open them in new window or tab). Feel free to try to ID some of the signatures.

Emailed Mr. Joel Hatfield asking for aide in ID'ing some of them.

[Deremix]

Chaotic Lord posted:

Here's High-Res scannings of the signatures I have (Open them in new window or tab). Feel free to try to ID some of the signatures.


Emailed Mr. Joel Hatfield asking for aide in ID'ing some of them.

Very nice. :D

EDIT: Woah, just noticed I messed up at first. xD

[Deremix]

Chaotic Lord posted:

Here's High-Res scannings of the signatures I have (Open them in new window or tab). Feel free to try to ID some of the signatures.


Emailed Mr. Joel Hatfield asking for aide in ID'ing some of them.

Question: does this kind of stuff from Valve usually come from a delivery service like Fed-Ex or UPS, or does it come by mail?

[VenomousBeetle]

Deremix posted:

My name's Derek and I've talked to him about writing techniques...

...I wonder if I'm one of his favorite Dereks.

PS: Emailed Valve about a signed Christmas present after buying the Valve Complete Pack.

Edited:

Oh my god. o.o:


Valve is epic. Thank you Valve, and thank you Joel! I am very happy. He replied literally two minutes after I sent it.

I am in love with this company. And Joel. (Possibly homo.)

:(

I need to ask for stuff, I've bought a lot from them and supported them through every wrong thing they've done, I've never asked for anything from them

Edited:

I've been too frightened to do it how do you guys just say it and get stuff

Edited:

FlamingSpaz posted:

No, he only replies to Gmail.

Now I feel bad of thinking they ignored me on purpose when I asked questions to clear up something about an upcoming TF2 update through yahoo

Edit:

Like, what kind of things do you ask for? If I asked for a signed iPhone cover would that be too much? Would they be okay if I paid them for it?

Who do you ask?

I should just try to buy their products and go to VALVe and have them sign it then say I emailed them for it

[Raijin]

Why do people think he only replies to Gmail? He replied to my hotmail once.

[JumJum]

gav618 posted:

lol. That was awesome on gabe's part. A good way to answer ep 3 questions.

I just asked him about it, and this is what he said.

[Chaotic Lord]

Deremix posted:

Question: does this kind of stuff from Valve usually come from a delivery service like Fed-Ex or UPS, or does it come by mail?

Regular mail.

Edited:

VenomousBeetle posted:

:(

I need to ask for stuff, I've bought a lot from them and supported them through every wrong thing they've done, I've never asked for anything from them

Edited:

I've been too frightened to do it how do you guys just say it and get stuff

Edited:



Now I feel bad of thinking they ignored me on purpose when I asked questions to clear up something about an upcoming TF2 update through yahoo

Edit:

Like, what kind of things do you ask for? If I asked for a signed iPhone cover would that be too much? Would they be okay if I paid them for it?

Who do you ask?

I should just try to buy their products and go to VALVe and have them sign it then say I emailed them for it

I've heard you can put in a request for it to be signed when you buy stuff (Like posters). I've not bought anything from the Valve Store so I can't confirm nor deny this.

[Jericho_Rus]

Chaotic Lord posted:

Regular mail.

Edited:



I've heard you can put in a request for it to be signed when you buy stuff (Like posters). I've not bought anything from the Valve Store so I can't confirm nor deny this.

I just asked frontdesk@valvesoftware.com if they could sign the posters I'm buying. He said yes but they're being shipped from an offsite location therefore I needed to send them the posters. It's been two months since the posters got there and they're not here yet and they aren't responding to my emails. :(

[Meatpuppet]

JumJum posted:

I just asked him about it, and this is what he said.

I'm calling fake.

[Chaotic Lord]

Jericho_Rus posted:

I just asked frontdesk@valvesoftware.com if they could sign the posters I'm buying. He said yes but they're being shipped from an offsite location therefore I needed to send them the posters. It's been two months since the posters got there and they're not here yet and they aren't responding to my emails. :(

Wait another month.

3 months seems to be the magic number.

[En Ex]

A couple of conversations I had with Mike Morasky.

This is a reply to a question I had about the different versions of "Reconstructing Science":

Hello.

I've been comparing "Reconstructing More Science" from Volume 3 to the original Portal 2 trailer, the E3 2010 fan-recorded loop of "Reconstructing Science" on Youtube, and the "Micro Mix" of "Reconstructing Science" released prior to Portal 2's release, and to my ears, it sounds like there's two different mixes of this track.

"Reconstructing More Science" sounds like an extended/complete version of the Portal 2 teaser audio, while the "Micro Mix" and E3 2010 recording sound like a sped-up, higher tempo looping version with certain sections downplayed or mixed differently than what's on Volume 3.

Does this, in fact, mean that there are two different, similar but distinct, versions of this song floating around? If so, would you be willing to release the faster-tempo version?

The game's text files also indicate "Reconstructing Science" was supposed to be one of the ending tracks, fitting in somewhere around "Want You Gone." Was this any particular version?

Thank you for your time, and for releasing a stand-alone version of the Portal 2 soundtrack.

Hi [En Ex],
Very observant.
I believe that there are currently actually 4 publicly "available" versions total and 1 that's not been publicly released.
- original e3 (nano) mix
- e3 booth mix (micro), yes faster, sparser
- special mix for portal2 ARG version of "audio surf"
- volume 3 "more" version
- there were 2 "audio surf arg" versions from which they selected 1, so there's another one somewhere that's unreleased.

Yes, originally the credits went longer than "want you gone" so we had a short version of "reconstructing" following it (in a filmic fashion) but decided that the callback video worked better if we sped up the credits and went straight to the video instead. I don't believe it was a unique version of "reconstructing".

If it makes some sort of sense to release all the versions at some point, I don't see why we wouldn't. No promises though.

If we come up with an excuse

This reply answers a question I had about "Archimedes." Just to clarify, Mike got me confused with someone else in this email. I did not actually visit Valve.

Hello.

Thanks for putting "Archimedes" in TF2. My question is, is it a remix of "A Little Heart to Heart" you decided to make for fun, or was it an alternate version of "A Little Heart to Heart" that went unused for Meet the Medic?

Thanks for your time.

Hi [En Ex],

I'm glad you liked it. I wasn't able to be there for your visit so I thought I'd contribute in my own way.

The piece was actually a combination of the two. I originally planned to have the opening music to "A Little Heart to Heart" be a bit more involved like in "Archimedes", so I did some versions with all the extra improvisation and more complex lines at the same time I did the simple versions. I liked the way the players were working together so I worked with them to come up with a scheme to do a much longer version of just that section to potentially put in the menu (which I now try to do with every piece if I have the time). I ended up using a simple version for the video and I had forgotten I had that longer more complex version until I heard you were visiting and that you were a big TF2 fan. I then went and dug it out.. edited it a little bit and voila, there you go.

So yes, it's a long version of the unused alternate opening to "A Little Heart to Heart" that I did for fun.

thanks for writing,

mike

[sWiftyious]

I asked Gabe 3 - 4 months ago, if they can send me an autograph. They replied real fast asking about my adress, but i still haven't got anything.

How long does it take? Maybe it takes so long, because i live in germany. Should I ask about it?

[Region]

I already got gabe's signature, should i ask for moar? :O i dont want to seem like a needy fuck to them.

[ewitwins]

Region posted:

I already got gabe's signature, should i ask for moar? :O i dont want to seem like a needy fuck to them.

I think asking once is enough, they might think you're greedy ;)


Also, once I get my engineering firm up and running, I'm totally making a life-size hunter for them (animatronic of course).

[Region]

ewitwins posted:

I think asking once is enough, they might think you're greedy ;)


Also, once I get my engineering firm up and running, I'm totally making a life-size hunter for them (animatronic of course).

Yah that's what i thought. I don't want to piss them off. One signature is enough.

[Chaotic Lord]

Waiting for my signed snack bar item...

I hope they didn't forget about me.

I'll give them another 3 months.

[leveraged]

En Ex posted:

A couple of conversations I had with Mike Morasky.

-snip-

I just want to point out something that impressed me about Mike's replies to you. He said:

"I ended up using a simple version for the video and I had forgotten I had that longer more complex version until I heard you were visiting and that you were a big TF2 fan. I then went and dug it out.. edited it a little bit and voila, there you go."

That's just plain awesome that he'd do that for just one fan. Total Respect!

[.FLAP.JACK.DAN.]

Chaotic Lord posted:

Waiting for my signed snack bar item...

I hope they didn't forget about me.

I'll give them another 3 months.

The food is gonna be stale by the time it gets to you...

[LuigiBlood]

So... I sent a mail to Valve. 19 hours later: An answer. ^^

(There's some spoilers in this mail!)
http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k...ValveMail1.png (My mail)
http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k...ValveMail2.png (Mike's Answer)

This made my day.

[Chaotic Lord]

.FLAP.JACK.DAN. posted:

The food is gonna be stale by the time it gets to you...

I don't plan on eating it!

[Deremix]

Check the mail today. Sees package with my name on it.

Instant orgasm.

I got an awesome Portal Battlemat (giant gaming mousepad) with their signatures! It's got the wall mural of the "Angel took the cube away." on it. =D

Funny thing is, I've actually needed a mouse pad for a while. Thanks Joel and Valve!

Edited:

Joel just identified two of the Signatures, I could identify most, including his. The two of them he identified are Gabe (EEEEEEEEEE) and Christina Engel. :D

[Sokrates]

Deremix posted:

Check the mail today. Sees package with my name on it.

Instant orgasm.

I got an awesome Portal Battlemat (giant gaming mousepad) with their signatures! It's got the wall mural of the "Angel took the cube away." on it. =D

Funny thing is, I've actually needed a mouse pad for a while. Thanks Joel and Valve!

Edited:

Joel just identified two of the Signatures, I could identify most, including his. The two of them he identified are Gabe (EEEEEEEEEE) and Christina Engel. :D

Could you post a picture!

[Deremix]

Sokrates posted:

Could you post a picture!

I'll try to, but I don't have a scanner or camera. I'll try and get a scanner though.

[Sirdubdub]

"
-----Original Message-----
From: **********************
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 4:55 PM
To: Gabe Newell
Subject: [Contact Form] Valve's Stance on SOPA and PIPA


Dear Mr. Newell

As I am sure you may know, the United States Congress is to debate the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) on January 24th, 2012.

Most of the entertainment industry has supported these bills, including numerous large games companies, and we know Valve has experienced piracy of their content before, but given Gabe’s recent statements about online piracy in video games it leads to a sense of uncertainty as to the company’s official position.

Does Valve support SOPA and PIPA?

Sincerely
-A Concerned Citizen


Message sent via contact form at http://www.valvesoftware.com/email.php
Senders IP address: ***************************


Gabe Newell gaben@valvesoftware.com
10:19 PM (1 hour ago)

Nope.
"

So that's a relief.

[tostopagaben]

I love how he replies with one word and a fullstop.

[Sirdubdub]

tostopagaben posted:

I love how he replies with one word and a fullstop.

I was half expecting "nope.avi"

[Spacewolf]

So how many emails do you think they reply to out of the tons they get? I have a slight concern I'd like to ask someone about but I'm unsure of how to get my foot in the door with all the other people trying at the same time.

[Raijin]

I'd say roughly 1/50 that get past the spam/retard filter.

[Wii60]

not my email but for people wondering about valve's stance on sopa

[Spacewolf]

Raijin posted:

I'd say roughly 1/50 that get past the spam/retard filter.

That's not good... My "concern" must sound really dumb to anyone other than me as well, so I don't have high hopes now.

:(

[En Ex]

Spacewolf posted:

That's not good... My "concern" must sound really dumb to anyone other than me as well, so I don't have high hopes now.

:(

Who you email depends on your concern. If it's music, for example, Mike Morasky is your best bet. If it's Half-Life, Marc Laidlaw. And if it's knives...

[Spacewolf]

It's TF2 related.

[Chaotic Lord]

My guess would be to email Robin Walker.