The Armchair Empire's Voice and Spectator Q&A catches up with Valve Software's Erik Johnson to ask about the much ballyhooed voice communication and multicast spectator features from the forthcoming Half-Life / Counter-Strike patch. The conversation covers how trash talkers can be dealt with since online trash typing can be such a problem, whether voice communication will revolutionize gaming, whether computer games should be considered sports, how usable these new features will be for modem users, technical problems that had to be overcome in implementation, and more.