By John Walker on December 23rd, 2007 at 12:39 pm.
How can we not post this?
Merry Thankmas, Gametrailers
Did they get a choir to sing it, or is it magical digital music? I’m too inept to know. What matters is that they bothered.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Seasons Greetings From Valve
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- MadMatty : “haters gonna hate” on The Sunday Papers
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Super.
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Magical digital music.
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god almighty i want to work at Valve!!
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It would be hard to overstate my satisfaction at this video.
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And GlaDOS bless us! Every one!
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That was
<WORDS CONVEYING AFFECTIONATE APPRECIATION HERE>._report
That did just make my day. Christy! I hate flu.
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They’ll just keep on trying until they run out of cake.
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You should watch it on valves Aperturescience.com and watch it 3 times, something will have changed in the movie.
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I hadn’t noticed the first few times I’d been linked to that, but the decorations on the tree are the TF2 characters in taunt poses. Awesome.
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Can someone confirm that Zygorator isn’t yanking everyones chain? I’ve watched the bloody thing ten times in a row and can’t find anything that changes.
That could of course just be me being blind so you don’t need to tell me what changes – as we lack spoiler tags, just that something changes.
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Ah! just checked again, and it seems to happen randomly.
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didn’t find any changes
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Once again we get awesome fan service from Valve that somehow TOTALLY avoids being ass-kissy. Gods among men.
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well, it somehow didnt work in my browser (just stopped looping after ca 20 times), but you are supposed to see this:
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/6781/portalpr0.jpg
I was totally expecting G-man, though…
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Zygorator: it’s random, 1 chance in 15 of happening.
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Adorable on so many levels, from the Santa sign, to the gnome, to, well, everything really.
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Valve is great!
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I literally JUST finished Portal (Blasphemy, I know, but I just borrowed the Orange Box off a friend… I’m poor.)
Now I understand everything you were all saying!
That … song!
Must… fight … urge … to replay!
So many other games!
Genius.
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:/
Meh?
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Yeah.. ugh. Kind of them, but pretty effortless.
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I find that pretty neat, and considering what with everyone whining about everything in TF2 and who knows what else, I appreciate their effort for the small gesture.
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Love the gnome. Fly, my pretty one!
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I was looking for the TF2 content in the scene, because I saw one of the stockings had its logo.
I then realized the characters were all the ornaments on the tree.
Yay Valve!
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Why are there [Supply] crates in this portal video unless this is some kind of non-time paradox clue?
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I -love- the turret tucked behind the crates in the darkness watching over bait… the cake is a lie!
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Most overrated shit. Evar.
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