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Gabe Newell writes a Haiku, revealing when EP3 ships

Gomu Gomu said:
I predict a Carnival of Stupid level of insanity in this thread. It's already started.
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That is the best picture I have ever seen.
 
123rl said:
Were you and I the only people to notice? lol Gaf I love you sometimes.
What are you talking about? Gabe's Haiku is the one with 6 syllables in the end.

e
pi
sode
3
ships
in

that's 6
 
Don't you guys get it? It's 576 hours from now. 24 days confirmed!

More like 576 days from now.
 
People aren't seriously mixing up gabe and the email sender right ;p The people that did, thought Gabe said episode 3 soon? You poor things must've gotten quite a scare!
 
Feep said:
Gabe probably said to himself, in 2004,

"This was the worst experience of my life. I hereby solemnly swear that NO ONE outside of this fucking company knows anything about Half-Life 3 until it is feature complete and six months away from release."

He's a man of his word.

I'm hoping its done, and Valve are just going to drop it on Steam like a boss.........
 
Speaking of release dates, guess what it is tomorrow? Autumn, so today is the last day the Portal 2 DLC can release if Gabe isn't full of shit.
 
StuBurns said:
Speaking of release dates, guess what it is tomorrow? Autumn, so today is the last day the Portal 2 DLC can release if Gabe isn't full of shit.
Gabe isn't full of shit, you just have to convert it to Valve time first.
 
StuBurns said:
Speaking of release dates, guess what it is tomorrow? Autumn, so today is the last day the Portal 2 DLC can release if Gabe isn't full of shit.
So you're saying there's a countdown for the Portal 2 DLC?

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StuBurns said:
Speaking of release dates, guess what it is tomorrow? Autumn, so today is the last day the Portal 2 DLC can release if Gabe isn't full of shit.
I thought we were already in Autumn. Have I been living a lie?
 
Grinchy said:
The missing syllable is the month that it ships.

So we know it is coming in a month with 1 syllable.

Ok I don't know why I thought a haiku was 5-7-7. I must have forgotten 4th grade English class.
 
Half Life 3/epsiode 3 will release in 2012 without a shadow of doubt in my mind. I'd stake my soul on it.
 
Episode 3 doesn't have a release date ("when it's ready"), and is therefore not analogous to haikus, which according to Gabe, "have a rigid structure" that he didn't adhere to in his non-haiku reply.
 
JaseC said:
It's because such jokes are essentially personal insults.
Fat people choose to be fat though so it comes with the territory. It's not like racist or sexist jokes.

Also with HL3 I suspect they're waiting until next-gen to start. They probably want to release it on PC, PS4 and the next XBOX at the same time. That sucks that we have to wait so long but the good thing is that might mean they won't dumb down the PC version and it'll still push tech forward like HL2 did.
 
I think its awesome that the man took the time to respond to such a stupid email. Proving yet again why Gabe is the best person in gaming.
 
Angry Fork said:
Fat people choose to be fat though so it comes with the territory. It's not like racist or sexist jokes.

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"I don't make the rules, I just think them up and write them down."

Also with HL3 I suspect they're waiting until next-gen to start. They probably want to release it on PC, PS4 and the next XBOX at the same time. That sucks that we have to wait so long but the good thing is that might mean they won't dumb down the PC version and it'll still push tech forward like HL2 did.

I'm a member of the "Half-Life 3 will be unveiled in 2012" club.
 
JaseC said:
Gabe fat jokes (and perhaps fat jokes in general) have always been bannable.

And yet, someone gets himself or herself banned or almost banned in nearly every single Valve and or Episode 3 related thread. It's been this way since I started lurking years ago.

Angry Fork said:
Fat people choose to be fat though so it comes with the territory. It's not like racist or sexist jokes.

So, how familiar are you with genetics?

Prophet Steve said:
I believe he tries to reply to every email, or in any case read them all.

I wonder how much time he actually spends on answering mails. Considering he made his mail address pretty much available to everyone, continuously encourages people to write him about their games and seems to respond to almost everything, it must be an insane amount work.
 
Does he have a twitter account? I want to ask him something. :3
 
Has anybody checked the Mayan calendar yet?
 
Dinosaur Tamer said:
So, how familiar are you with genetics?
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Not very familiar, I know some but not enough to debate about how much effect it has on weight loss. Doesn't matter though, unless you have some kind of disability or breathing problem or something everyone is able to lose weight and blaming it on genetics or slow metabolism is a cop out.

Besides I don't consider Gabe to be obese, he's just fat. Obese people (the ones that can't even get out of bed) I feel sympathy for because they're past the point of no return and I'm sure they feel hopeless about it. Fat people can lose the weight before it gets bad though and he should have by now. He's a really nice, cool guy and I hope nothing happens to him because of his weight. Eat right and workout an hour a day it's not rocket science people make it much more complicated than it has to be.

Anyway sorry for somewhat derailing this into a weight discussion that wasn't my intention =P
 
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