LOL - im a gimp, take out the word "online" frmo the end of that post, that's what happens when you are msn'ing with a colleague while trying to post from work..

Ok, well, maybe I was exagerating Fine, I'd have a NIC in the machines, but only to work on a completely isolated network between DEV machines online..

Valve re-invested most of the cash from half-life sales back into the creation of HL2, and have spent the last 5 years working on this game. that makes me feel bad for the potential losses coming their way. Too bad they didn't spend some of that dough on a firewall. If it were me, any machine that had source, or even bits of source on it would never even have a network card in it.

Selfish prick who stole this code, now making demands of Valve to "stop lying to the public" or whatever about release dates... reality check: It's their product, their work, their money and *their decisions*, asshole. If they want to delay the game another week or 2 years, that's *their* decision, not yours. The game does not belong to you or anyone else. Valve, makes a good product, some of you sneer at that saying: "yah, only one product" have maybe forgotten that, it was *the best fuckin' game* that most of us have ever played. I like the company, they seem to have good values and we know they can make kick ass product, so stop hating. I think the efforts they made to bring us the first half life and the waves it created in the gaming world in general, and then having the dedication to channel all of their resources into creating "the next big thing" in the gaming industry means that everyone and their fuckin dog should buy this game when it comes out so that everyone that works at Valve can retire as millionaires.