Just because it isn't apparent what it does, doesn't mean we can't find out what it does. You could use a Packetsniffer and check for any traffic, and it would take a rocket scientist to find out what it sends.
Also updates can't be rolled out automatically, you need to restart steam.
Also...
If you restart steam while having the game set as "Update automatically" then it will update after you restarted.
Also if it's not to "Update automatically" then it will download it when you start the game.
Of course they can prosecute him, in the court in belgium. And it shouldn't be hard to figure out that if it's legal he will not be penalized by belgian law?
I'm not being an idiot Chris_D said that Valve could attempt to prosecute him(He did NOT say they would win, or that it would be...
Sure, how can this be a surprise to people?
The "non-steam" release is basically a emulated steam, which is why you do not use any other resources other than what the game need to run.
Whereas with the steam copy there will be more program code to slow the game down. However there is of...
Shouldn't come as a surprise that some stupid gangsta rap show gives SA GOTY :P
And yeah it's probably rigged, it was possible to vote on the same vote all the time :D
It's just a spoofed email. Some bott probably found your email on a Half-Life related site and gave you emails from Gabe.(You can see by the name he's using "Gaben".(i.e it's just taking the name from the email address)
That or a friend of yours has a worm, and then it could be spoofing one...
just use -console in launch options and it should appear as a keyboard shortcut, then just change it to F1.
Or manually change it in the config to bind "\" toggleconsole and then it should be on the ½ button.
Just the power of the physics that is making you jump like that.
You can also jump up to the no-draw areas on top of that map. Weird they didn't cap the map, maybe for rpg's to be more useful?
Obviously because if it autoupdated they could have a potential of all users updating at the same time.
The restart is a nessecary part of the proces, regardless if automatic or manual.
Loading the savegame should give you the chapters back.
Offline mode had a bug where you had to setup...