[Phantom Hoover]

This would be the leaked mailing list which showed that nobody had posted anything about HL3 in years?

[An4ximandros]

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse#announcements/detail/2145128928746175450

GPU: some units with NVidia Titan, some GTX780, some GTX760, and some GTX660
CPU: some boxes with Intel : i7-4770, some i5-4570, and some i3
RAM: 16GB DDR3-1600 (CPU), 3GB DDR5 (GPU)
Storage: 1TB/8GB Hybrid SSHD
Power Supply: Internal 450w 80Plus Gold
Dimensions: approx. 12 x 12.4 x 2.9 in high

Aside from the PSU...

 
 

[FlamingCobra]

hot damnnn

[pecenipicek]

To be fair, getting Optimus to work properly was a bit of a nightmare. A bit of a nightmare, to set up open-source, unofficial drivers, for something which isn't really necessary unless you're gaming, on a distro notorious for its total disregard for user-friendliness.

Optimus and "works properly" do not belong in the same sentence. You cannot tell me that a wrapper using virtualgl can do anything similar to what a proper gpu without it (bumblebee) can.

also, if you do not mean gentoo and friends, you are a soddin liar

[Phantom Hoover]

Arch, actually. And yes, by 'works properly' I do mean 'runs at all'.

[pecenipicek]

Arch, actually. And yes, by 'works properly' I do mean 'runs at all'.

okay, you count

any yes -.-

i eventually gave up on linux on that particular laptop i had the joy of briefly using. whilst i could play some games somewhat on windows, on linux it was just a bloody pain to get them to even run properly on the nvidia.


but, all in all i welcome the change this ought to bring into linux overall. maybe, just maybe i'll be able to use my lovely nvidia with open source drivers and reasonable actual use


also, as a side note on "distro notorious for its total disregard for user-friendliness"

these are most likely to be fixable after twiddling and breaking something. cause most likely you've set up the config files yourself, or at least rummaged through them and have a rough understanding what and where might have broken.


compared to my experience with running ubuntu derivatives... sheesh. who'd think that you could break a distro 5 minutes after installing it.


eh, its funtoo with kde on the home pc for me and kubuntu at work, since i'm not being paid to wait around for compiling

[An4ximandros]

I Pr0, I kn3w: http://www.valvetime.net/threads/fake-european-half-life-3-portal-3-trademarks-filed.243962/

[Aardwolf]

@FlamingMamba: Why, when you make a post saying a trademark for HL3 has been filed and I ask for a link, do you post an irrelevant image? Dislike.

@An4ximandros: So it's fake, then? Dislike.

[Luis Dias]

I Pr0, I kn3w: http://www.valvetime.net/threads/fake-european-half-life-3-portal-3-trademarks-filed.243962/

UNFOLLOWED. BLOCKED.

[Ghostavo]

A Message from Gabe Newell

[Phantom Hoover]

This seems to be written based on the misconceptions that a) Valve are an innovative company and b) Half-Life is a series of innovative games.

[Nuke]

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse#announcements/detail/2145128928746175450

GPU: some units with NVidia Titan, some GTX780, some GTX760, and some GTX660
CPU: some boxes with Intel : i7-4770, some i5-4570, and some i3
RAM: 16GB DDR3-1600 (CPU), 3GB DDR5 (GPU)
Storage: 1TB/8GB Hybrid SSHD
Power Supply: Internal 450w 80Plus Gold
Dimensions: approx. 12 x 12.4 x 2.9 in high

Aside from the PSU...

 
 

sounds like a mini itx box with some awesome sauce on top.

[haloboy100]

A Message from Gabe Newell

So basically:

"We're not going to make Half-Life 3 because we're not creative enough to make it satisfy our own [inflated] standards of what is novel/interesting/innovative."

In other words:

"We're lazy."

Any remaining hope in Half-Life 3=gone. Looks like it's in the same realm as Freespace 3 now.

[Mongoose]

You, uh, may want to get your satire detector checked out.

[An4ximandros]

A Message from Gabe Newell

So basically:

"We're not going to make Half-Life 3 because we're not creative enough to make it satisfy our own [inflated] standards of what is novel/interesting/innovative."

In other words:

"We're lazy."

Any remaining hope in Half-Life 3=gone. Looks like it's in the same realm as Freespace 3 now.

The user's intelligence unfolds... This was NOT written by Gabe Newell, for feck's sake! It's a satire written by some gaming website! I though HLP was over this...

[Polpolion]

A Message from Gabe Newell

So basically:

"We're not going to make Half-Life 3 because we're not creative enough to make it satisfy our own [inflated] standards of what is novel/interesting/innovative."

In other words:

"We're lazy."

Any remaining hope in Half-Life 3=gone. Looks like it's in the same realm as Freespace 3 now.

Nothing about that article strikes you as even remotely strange?

edit: derp, sniped. At any rate, it's obvious that 2+2/3rds games don't make a franchise stale per se. I also don't see what's particularly innovative about putting a computer in the living room. I appreciate the risk they're taking but god damnit I just want to play games.

[Lorric]

I though HLP was over this...

Whatever made you think that?

[haloboy100]

*shrug* Gaben is a fat, wealthy, dorky company director. I don't see any reason why that wouldn't sound like him.

As far as I'm concerned, that's his actual attitude toward the ****ing game at this point.  So my verdict on him still rests either way.

[Phantom Hoover]

*shrug* Gaben is a fat, wealthy, dorky company director. I don't see any reason why that wouldn't sound like him.

As far as I'm concerned, that's his actual attitude toward the ****ing game at this point.  So my verdict on him still rests either way.

Never go full Kazan.

[haloboy100]

Hey, I never ask you to take me seriously, even when I do so to myself.

I mean, after seeing the blatent immaturity that is Derek Smart (you're going to tell me he's just a silly troll now, too?) in the gaming industry, I'm fully prepared to accept that even ValvE isn't incapable of the same arrogance.

I'd rather have my cynicism fooled than my optimism.