Well, when a boy headcrab-or what ever has the wiener-meets a girl headcrab...<insert bizarre mating ritual here>
Eventually, the mating ritual ends in the female headcrab killing the male, in quite a gruesome exchange of fluids.
Oh my god, this post made my day (especially the "third but not least" section). Sounds like the makings of a touching Disney movie, where Lamarr would fall in love, and...you know what I'm getting at.
What does it matter how long in months the game has been out? The point is that many people have already beaten the game (the game doesn't take a month to beat), and thirst for a resolution to the cliffhanger ending of the second installment of our beloved trilogy.
How does the game run better? Wouldn't it need to be optimized for 64 bit mode? When I read the Microsoft FAQ, it said that users would experience better game performance on the normal 32 bit OS, 'cause it hardly any games are optimized for 64bit yet.
"I guess a sweet payback would be to distribute future games over file sharing."
Wow, you're cool.
I respect your opinion regarding VALVe, but I disagree with your statement about the updates, as mine worked properly. Maybe you should stop blaming the guys who worked for six years on...
In contrast, I think there are some threads that talk about people setting their clocks to 2010, with Steam offline still working. For the time being however, offline mode should be fine for a while.