#valve company

[parmesantries]

I need Tumblr to know that as an ADHD nonbinary person who grew up only playing supermario galaxy and valve games... Engineer TF2 is my transition goals. Engi-tr*nny. Engi-Qu*er. Censored for your reading pleasure

[permanentsteelpipe]

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[girlwiththegreenhat]

team fortress 2 finally getting rid of the bots after 5 years

work on the team fortress 2 comic continuing after 7+ years

half life 3 development looking more likely than ever with legitimate code, file, and voicework leaks referencing a new non-VR single-player game from valve featuring a HEV suit wearing protagonist and Xen creatures and concepts

shoutout to the valve fan that found the genie lamp. you a real one

[follow-freeman]

The mystery of the Half Life babies.

Original post here!

Info under the cut !!

I got a lot of comments on my last post about old half life advertisements asking what the hell is up with the three separate posters including scary babies and children with lambda symbols burned into their eyes. I didn't really think much of it at first but in hindsight, yeah, that is really weird.

I decided if I wanted to keep my self-made title of "Black Mesa's Historian" I should go digging.

After searching and searching I've found...... nothing.

Old reddit threads and forums theorize it's supposed to represent the Nihilanth, the only baby-like creature in the game (ignoring the photo in Gordon's locker.)

In the Half Life 2 book Raising The Bar, Gabe Newell states the Nihilanth's design was heavily influenced "by the horror aspects of pregnancy and childbirth, to which Valve turned after being inspired by the birth of Gray Newell, Gabe Newell's son."

The Nihilanth's wiki entry.

BUT this doesn't really answer much. Because these ads were NOT made by Valve. They were made by Sierra, a European publishing company responsible for publishing the Half Life series. After going through their games history I've discovered a crucial detail.

They had no idea how to advertise this game.

Police Quest (1987), Leisure Suit Larry (1987), Quest for Glory (1989)

You see, these were the games Sierra was making. 2d point and click adventures. How they somehow managed to get their hands on Half Life is beyond me, and for another post.

All I can assume is Sierra didn't know how to advertise this 3D survival horror FPS made by rowdy Americans to their European audience.

Postal (1997), Resident Evil (1996), Doom (1995)

Remember, this was the 90s. Gaming was the next big hobby for boys. Advertising wasn't meant to show you gameplay, characters, and story. It was meant to be rough, scary, gorey, and awesome. Sierra probably took inspiration from the dozens of other dark shooters around at the time and based their campaign around that. Why they picked babies with evil eyes.. I don't know.

In the end, we may never know the true thought process behind the evil Half Life babies, it doesn't stop me from trying though.

[witchofthesouls]

I approve of Getaway getting whiskey dicked and valve plowed by Swerve

Couldn't happen to a better mech. Getaway thought he could rock Swerve's world, but it's his own valve that got first-class seats to Primus on a spike worthy to be featured in a pleasure magazine.

Swerve's dick-game is actually A++, and he's just a little annoyed that no one pays his valve any attention. Because, unlike his spike, where he onlined with all the extra bells and whistles in that particular appendage, he put in all the shanix into upgrading his valve for an amazing time. Getaway was the only mech to show real interest and had clever fingers, but the overdrinking between Getaway, Skids, and Rodimus locked down the mech's spike.

[fortloser]

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[andnowrotfront]

i hope exactly one more tf2 update comes out and it shuts down every valve server and uninstalls the game from everyones pc

[scummrevisited]

LIKE I DUNNO IM TOYING WITH MICROSOFT SAMS PITCH AND SPEED BUT IM REALLY STARTING TO THINK HL1 VOX IS JUST A HEAVILY EDITED SAM

[fooligandan]

oh so whatever's going on in skibiditoilet land is a shitshow

[permanentsteelpipe]

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[nonbinarynightcrawler]

now I know things aren't going to go this way, because tech is one of the many many fucked up industries on this precious green earth, but I really hope this Crowdstrike thing works as a cautionary tale

[tedochan57]

Vete a la versh!!!! Estamos influyendo!!!!

[therealstarpalette]

THESE ARE LIKE MY FAVORITE GAMES RIGHT NOW. I HAVE SOOO MANY HOURS IN ALL OF THEM

[shalegas34]

accidentally uncovered a fuck up in my boss’s project where they ordered instrument air positioners for two new flow control valves instead of instrument gas. Lol. i was talking to the supplier about an unrelated issue and bro casually dropped this tidbit in conversation. i was just like

don’t let anyone trick you into believing engineers know what they’re doing..

[superdoggie5000]

gamers know nothing about the actual problems with buying games these days, theyll see a studio release a game with exclusivity to some alternate AAA storefront and moan about "not wanting to support bad companies" and keep funneling valve their money, the company that created Every Single Problem they are complaining about

[andnowrotfront]

i hope this doesn't come across as rude but why are people surprised that valve dmca'd a project that is literally just porting team fortress 2 to source 2. like it's using all of valves assets and is open source what did people expect...?