Steam Winter Sale ARG?

They are playing with us:

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yeah pretty sure there's something in the background, but I'm to n00b to figure out what. Just raised brightness/contrast on this one.
 
I always thought those three guys in X-files that would help Mulder find clues were unrealistic, but there totally are people out there ready to delve into mad detective work for a hobby.
 
Well, what would be the point of an ARG if they spoiled the surprise prematurely? I'm not getting hyped yet, but I want to believe.

I think I see it, three dots behind the word miracle...

Oh fuck, this is fucking it. That's just not any 3 dots, it's an Ellipsis, which itself is a greek word. Know what else is greek? The Lambda sign.
 
Yes, one of the Valve guys would just reveal what the hell the ARG thing was about because someone asked.

But I'm still on the side of that this won't lead to anything interesting.
 
man, every single time one of these things happens someone just simply emails someone from valve and they kill all the buzz.

no fucking fun allowed I guess.

the alternative is people thinking Half-Life 3 or Portal 3 is gonna be announced when it was nothing.

and then everyone bitches and complains.
 
I mean, all the Half-Life hints lead to.... the red herring badge. And yall know what a red herring is.

Seems kinda obvious to me that it's just them fucking around with ppl, like they always do.

Still, even though I think itsnothing.gif I don't know what to think about that email - honestly. "That doesn't look like anything to me, nor should it." What? lol There are obvious Half-Life clues, even if it's just the Steam Store team trolling around that shit does not somehow happen by accident. So I don't know why he's playing dumb lol
 
I'm very curious to see where this is leading, I don't believe they're going to announce Half Life 3 like this, but I also don't think they will do a potato sack deal and give out free games since there's so many people posting the solutions online and it currently doesn't require you to have bought anything to participate. I think there's going to be a lot of disappointed people if this is just leading to another badge.
 
Saddly this arg has the same amount of happening that every other
supposedly arg before, so I dont have my hopes high.

I WANT TO BILIB
 
And red herrings are common in crime yarns. It's just a pun, not Half Life 3.

I know that.
Communism was just a red herring.
My point is that the reference is probably going to wrap around to having meaning in the comic or ARG, for what it's worth. The badge is a literal picture of a red herring. The antagonists in the comic are penguins.

Didn't say it was HL3.
 
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