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Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

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Re: Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

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Why not make a new account? Valve is giving this out for free, partially to get people to use their program more. Why not support them in that small way at least?

You're trying to reason with a person who can't even complete a captcha.

In his defense, the best way to solve a captcha is by pretending you are partially blind. If you actually select all the relevant squares, Google just says “nope lol go again!”.

Re: Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

#122

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Why not make a new account? Valve is giving this out for free, partially to get people to use their program more. Why not support them in that small way at least?

You're trying to reason with a person who can't even complete a captcha.

They may be on VPN. Google recaptcha has dynamic risk-based friction and is prone to serving effectively impossible challenges to users on VPN.

Re: Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

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Because Valve does whatever it feels like doing and honestly, I love them for it. I wish more companies would follow in their footsteps (e.g. not going public), but few have the luxury of being founded by someone who was already set for life financially at the time.

Valve isn't beholden to any external shareholders, and Steam is as close to a money-printing machine a private company can have. Combine that with the fact that Gabe and company seem to have pretty decent values in line with their customers' interests, and you get nice outcomes like this.

I like Valve / Gabe / Steam, but let’s not be false and pretend that they weren’t coasting before the build-up to the Deck release. Steam had gone without significant updates for almost half a decade.

Re: Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

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Are you sure? Portal 2 had no issues on my M1. Half Life 2 also runs well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4NESG_fXgo

Yes, Portal 2 and Half-Life 2 are both more playable because they don't use x87 to the same extent. It's only HL that uses it heavily enough that it becomes unplayable. Side note, I think HL2 does for physics, or something; fast moving objects and explosions cause drastic frame drops via Rosetta. I haven't been able to look into it in detail to confirm the cause. Edit: The best "official" way to play Half-Life on an…

The 25th anniversary release is a major update to the engine and may be compiled for newer CPUs. Worth a try.

Re: Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

#129

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Why not make a new account? Valve is giving this out for free, partially to get people to use their program more. Why not support them in that small way at least?

You're trying to reason with a person who can't even complete a captcha.

Captchas can be an endless hellhole if you are on a network that the captcha provider happens to dislike. No fault of your own.

I’ve had situations in the past where I tried 10-20 times to complete captcha and it just kept throwing one after the other at me. Whereas when I am at home and not using VPN I always complete every captcha in like one or two attempts.

Re: Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

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Valve isn't beholden to any external shareholders, and Steam is as close to a money-printing machine a private company can have. Combine that with the fact that Gabe and company seem to have pretty decent values in line with their customers' interests, and you get nice outcomes like this.

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Some people are to invested in fictional content.
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