I'd hate to be sysadmin at Valve now...

[Baggins]

Just think about it. Just how many mails do you suppose is either sent or will be sent to Valve today? Allthough Valve probably have quite a beefy internet connection, I think that it will be absolutely swamped with all the mails going to Gabe.

The reason I thought of this is that I'm a sysadmin myself, so I pity the poor guy over at Valve.

Please, think of the sysadmin. Don't e-mail Gabe.

 

[poseyjmac]

i sent an email eariler today from an address at iraqmail.com

i pretended to be a US solider in iraq and i asked about the release date hoping for an exclusive answer. he still hasn't got back to me. me and my squad are still waiting

 

[Gunner]

Never have sent an email to Valve, and I never will : )

 

[kawada]

Originally posted by poseyjmac
i sent an email eariler today from an address at iraqmail.com

i pretended to be a US solider in iraq and i asked about the release date hoping for an exclusive answer. he still hasn't got back to me. me and my squad are still waiting

LOL

 

[Feath]

I was going to send words of encouragement but I'll wait.

 

[SPCDixon]

poseyjmac you are a turd. Being in the Army myself I think posing as a soldier in IRAQ of all places is really pathetic. Maybe you should join the military and then see how much you think about Half-Life 2 while the Iraqis are shooting RPGs at you. Btw, iraqmail.com is the furthest thing from what a soldeirs email would be.

 

[poseyjmac]

hey calm down. if it fools gabe thats all that matters. i chose iraq so that he would have some sympathy and respect for what the soldiers are doing. if anything i have fueled gabes patriotism!

 

[Baggins]

I just can't believe you Americans from time to time...

What's so damn patriotic about fighting a war in a country that poses NO THREAT WHATSOEVER to the safety of the US? In fact, Saddam posed no threat to ANYONE AT ALL except for the Iraqi civilians.

Patriotism, schmatriotism! All Dubya wanted was to get his hands on the Iraqi oil, and to prove he could be as good as his "daddy"...

And if this get me banned from this forum, then so be it! The current administration in the US is nothing but warmongering idiots!

Let the flames begin!

 

[ripkord]

um, im not american but I do believe it is an american citizens right to be concerned about a war involving its own army & the general welfare and wellbeing of the troops, patriotism isnt one way, all worship your counrty type thing, its the very fabric that holds armies together.

 

[Baggins]

It was not about that. It was about the point of going to Iraq and starting a war in the first place...

 

[SPCDixon]

I won't flame you, because I know you say that just to rile people up. I just hope you aren't writing your post from the U.S. If you are, please leave.

 

[STAFFp18]

Originally posted by Baggins
I just can't believe you Americans from time to time...

What's so damn patriotic about fighting a war in a country that poses NO THREAT WHATSOEVER to the safety of the US? In fact, Saddam posed no threat to ANYONE AT ALL except for the Iraqi civilians.

Patriotism, schmatriotism! All Dubya wanted was to get his hands on the Iraqi oil, and to prove he could be as good as his "daddy"...

And if this get me banned from this forum, then so be it! The current administration in the US is nothing but warmongering idiots!

Let the flames begin!

it's people like Saddam that took down our World Trade Center towers...

 

[Ares]

Well, I'm with Bush. I'm glad we went in there. I'm proud of our troops. If you don't like it, tuff shit. I can be proud of my country. If you aren't proud of yours, don't take it out on me

(Please note: This was a rather condensed version of what I would have initially replied however due to how offtopic it would be, I'll only limit it to how I feel most simply.)

*cries for HL2's delay*

 

[Baggins]

Nope. Not in the US. I'm Norwegian, and not at all proud of the fact that our government seemed to condone the actions taken in Iraq.

Why does no one have the guts to stand up to the US? It's gone too f-ing far! The United States of America does NOT have the right to do whatever they want!

And I'm not saying this "just to rile people up". It's a fact that very few outside the US and the UK approve of the war in Iraq. Hell, I believe that even quite a few Americans and Brits are against the war too.

 

[Ares]

If you don't wish to rile people up then you should shut up about it cause.. hehe, you are.

 

[Baggins]

Oh, and Saddam had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks of the WTC. It was a deranged lunatic that felt the US had gone too far.

It was a sad day indeed, but that does not in itself justify a war in Iraq!

Note that I'm NOT pulling religion into this. The fact that the terrorists were muslims has nothing to do with this!

 

[STAFFp18]

Originally posted by Baggins
Oh, and Saddam had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks of the WTC. It was a deranged lunatic that felt the US had gone too far.

It was a sad day indeed, but that does not in itself justify a war in Iraq!

Note that I'm NOT pulling religion into this. The fact that the terrorists were muslims has nothing to do with this!

How about America throws you into a communist country, that can hardly handle a stable economy, and let's see how much you'll be begging for a miracle to happen; to get rid of the dictator.

World Peace is a possibility

 

[Adam]

Originally posted by Baggins
Nope. Not in the US. I'm Norwegian, and not at all proud of the fact that our government seemed to condone the actions taken in Iraq.

Why does no one have the guts to stand up to the US? It's gone too f-ing far! The United States of America does NOT have the right to do whatever they want!

And I'm not saying this "just to rile people up". It's a fact that very few outside the US and the UK approve of the war in Iraq. Hell, I believe that even quite a few Americans and Brits are against the war too.

Please stop your rambling unless you have something to contribute to the topic at hand. This is about mass emailing Valve, not wars with other countries and wether they were justifyed or not.

Post your views on current events in the off topic section.

 

[Baggins]

Originally posted by STAFFp18
How about America throws you into a communist country, that can hardly handle a stable economy, and let's see how much you'll be begging for a miracle to happen; to get rid of the dictator.

World Peace is a possibility

Peace here signifying that all countries do whatever the US want them to do??


Right, I'm leaving this topic now...

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You can tell Americans by the way they spell D-E-F-E-N-C-E. They spell it A-T-T-A-C-K.

 

[Gunner]

QUIET ALL OF YOU. If you want to debate politics like five year olds go on Yahoo message boards. THIS IS HL2 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.

 

[Ares]

Politica discussions are a really bad idea. They are always worse than any standard flame war or offtopic thread because they are sensitive and powerful. This thread should be closed.

 

[TripleDES]

I played around on both of their SMTP servers via telnet, they're both functional. Email problems my ass. Also that guy that reported it on Shacknews is called Steve Gibson. I don't trust anyone called Steve Gibson, because they're probably all as stupid as the Steve Gibson from grc.com, aka attention whores.

 

[Ares]

It's the same person?

[joke, yet secretly hopeful mode] Wow, I wonder if he's just being an attention whore and he created the email to get attention as well as create a stir![/mode]