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noffles

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I don't know how you guys can bother with pictures of yourself as avatars. I get great pleasure from having people associate me with a frog getting force fed up the harris.
 

Jackben

bitch I'm taking calls.
Looks like Valve is going bankrupt guys. Gabe's blind ambition for steambox destroyed the company.

If only he had just delivered HL3 like we all wanted :(
 

f0rk

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Looks like Valve is going bankrupt guys. Gabe's blind ambition for steambox destroyed the company.

If only he had just delivered HL3 like we all wanted :(

They can talk about hypothetical situations and the future for days but when something actually happens we don't know shit
 

Suairyu

Banned
Looks like Valve is going bankrupt guys. Gabe's blind ambition for steambox destroyed the company.

If only he had just delivered HL3 like we all wanted :(
The amount of money they make, I seriously doubt this is a bankruptcy issue.

Likely just a shift in direction for the company.

Also, what is it with people thinking Valve have done almost nothing this gen?

Is it simply because they confuse a lack of HL3 as a lack of Valve games?

HL2: Ep 1
HL2: Ep 2
Team Fortress 2 (+numerous additions/alterations)
Portal
Left4Dead
Left4Dead 2
Portal 2
CS: GO
Dota 2

They've been a pretty fucking consistent development house, all things considered. Lack of HL2: Ep 3 is a sore point, but Gabe already confirmed that's because it's now HL3 and will launch with the next internal engine they develop (Source 2/whatever)

edit - goddamnit, Hystzen
 

Hystzen

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Maybe they notice they don't need make games anymore just Steam sales. Not like they been making games themselves for years so why not just stop
 

Hystzen

Member
Portal 2 came out in 2011 and technically Dota 2 isn't even out yet...

Portal 2 was mainly developed by the mod team who created Portal , Valve just bought the mod team to do the work for them. Think that's same for Dota2 no idea not being paying attention to that game
 

Jackben

bitch I'm taking calls.
Are you a yank jack? I feel like you may be an ammuuuurican
Yes.

And I don't think Valve is going bankrupt people are just freaking out and trolling. Myself included in terms of troll. Valve makes lots of games. But sometimes it's more fun to be like 'lol hats' than try to argue for reality.
 
Portal 2 was mainly developed by the mod team who created Portal , Valve just bought the mod team to do the work for them. Think that's same for Dota2 no idea not being paying attention to that game

What? No, completely wrong. Valve hired the students that made Narbacular Drop at Digipen and those students worked at Valve, presumably alongside existing employees of Valve, to make Portal. Likewise for Portal 2. Dota 2 has one guy who was behind the original Defence of the Ancients WarCraft III mod, and the rest are existing Valve employees. More importantly, the studio culture and experience is what allows games like Portal to happen- that "mod team" couldn't have made Portal or Portal 2 by themselves. Those people are Valve.
 

f0rk

Member
Didn't the main Portal chick leave and make some puzzle game that wasn't Portal but not very good? I think the success of Portal 2 in particular was down to the writers that came from Valve not the students they bought on originally.

The TF2 art lead might have left which is funny because they just got the community to make the hats now so he's not needed.
 

Suairyu

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I've never had an avatar that wasn't my own face. I like people to know who they're conversing with.

It's about time for a new one though. Back to one including a beer, I reckon.
The loss of animated avatars was most keenly felt with the loss of your swanky pint swankering :(
 
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NinjaFridge

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I've never had an avatar that wasn't my own face. I like people to know who they're conversing with.

It's about time for a new one though. Back to one including a beer, I reckon.

How's the effort to quit the fags going?
 

noffles

Banned
Naw, man, it's pretty clean. You see a lot worse on GAF.

Ask BGBW to take you under his moe wing.

Last time someone took me under their moe wing I ended up becoming an anime elitist without actually watching that much anime. I'm not sure I want that happening again.
 

8bit

Knows the Score
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via: https://twitter.com/GlasgaeLauraLee/status/301823092269916160/photo/1
 

noffles

Banned
Black Mirror is taking years to buffer on 4oD and my housemates have made the kitchen a place that's impossible to make food in.

Yay.
 

SmokyDave

Member
Someone 'shop Dave's face onto a can.
Yes!

If I can be arsed to put a battery in my mouse, I'll do it. My swanky media keyboard / trackpad is shite for photoshop.

How's the effort to quit the fags going?
Shit. I've started chuffing occasionally again. Not back to 20 a day but it still feels like a kick in the bollocks after 6 clean months :(

I don't smoke weed any more outside of parties though, so that's something I guess.
 

Salvadora

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You were smoke free so 6 months Dave? I've been off them about 2 months and it seems pretty grand except for the occasional urge. I just have to stay away from alcohol as well,my willpower goes down to 0 for pretty much everything while I'm drunk.
 

SmokyDave

Member
You were smoke free so 6 months Dave? I've been off them about 2 months and it seems pretty grand except for the occasional urge. I just have to stay away from alcohol as well,my willpower goes down to 0 for pretty much everything while I'm drunk.
It just took a couple of chunks of bad news to get me to try one again. It was horrible. So I smoked another. Now I have a pack of 10 in the house 'just in case'. It's been replaced 4 or 5 times. Bollocks.

Have you tried those e-cigs?
I haven't personally. They just don't appeal to me in concept or execution.
 

Suairyu

Banned
FUCK rogue piece of viagra spam mail through LiveJournal reminded me that when I was 16-18 I had a LJ account. I just read it.

UURUHRUHUHUGHhghghghghghghgh

Painful reading.

It just took a couple of chunks of bad news to get me to try one again. It was horrible. So I smoked another. Now I have a pack of 10 in the house 'just in case'. It's been replaced 4 or 5 times. Bollocks.
Last time a friend relapsed I forced myself into their garments and retrieved the cigs. I then chucked them. They never bought another one (or so they say) and seem clean now.

Just throw them out, man. Right now. Quitting is always harder the second time so just get it over with.
 

noffles

Banned
i am discussing videogames over the internet with people who have no idea what they're on about while sipping on a can of cidre

this is my life
 
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