By John Walker on May 29th, 2008 at 9:09 pm.
Hello the internet. This is an early warning that at approximately 10.15pm UK time (2.15pm Pacific) we’ll be performing some abortive version of live blogging from within the golden walls of Valve HQ. What’s it about? Steamworks of course. But for more exciting details you’ll have to tune in.
And by “tune in” we of course mean, “refresh the site to see if changed every minute or so because we’re about as technically competent as fingerless cavemen.” You know, that’s unless we can’t get online at the last minute, or if Gabe Newell confiscates my Eee. It should at least be an entertaining mess.
29/05/2008 at 21:20 TychoCelchuuu says:
Fifty five minutes!
29/05/2008 at 21:28 Lake says:
Get a headcrab hat
29/05/2008 at 21:29 Jack Monahan says:
Hooray! Looking forward to this.
29/05/2008 at 21:34 Noc says:
Fourty two minutes!
29/05/2008 at 21:34 Theory says:
Get us headcrab hats!
29/05/2008 at 21:38 Dan Forever says:
I want a headcrab hat tooooooooo!
…that was the real purpose of the trip yeah?
29/05/2008 at 21:42 Pace says:
I’ll take a Portal t-shirt please!
29/05/2008 at 21:43 Stijn says:
29 minutes!
29/05/2008 at 21:46 Ging says:
If you’re filling requests, I’ll take a job! :D
29/05/2008 at 21:51 Kieron Gillen says:
I have every belief this will be RPS at its finest. Go John!
KG
29/05/2008 at 21:56 nabeel says:
F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5
Oh, it hasn’t started yet?
nabeel
29/05/2008 at 21:59 Mark says:
Kieron / John, have you got twitter accounts? It’s used a lot for live-blogging these days, especially amongst you fingerless cavemen.
29/05/2008 at 22:00 TychoCelchuuu says:
It just occured to me that I live 5 minutes away from Valve. I should go over there and stare in the window.
They’re on the 20th floor or something though so I’ll need a footstool.
29/05/2008 at 22:02 Kieron Gillen says:
Mark: With the way Twitter is right now, I wouldn’t trust the thing.
KG
29/05/2008 at 22:03 rupert says:
ask when we get css beta !!! :D:D
29/05/2008 at 22:05 Ging says:
Tycho, surely, just print out some quickly thrown together press credentials and walk in. In fact, they might not even need press credentials if you ask nicely enough! :D
29/05/2008 at 22:11 TychoCelchuuu says:
“Uh, yes, I’m the writer for Rock Paper Shotgun. The man you have here… is an imposter! Quite all right, I would have been fooled too.”
Unfortunately I’m 18 so I don’t exactly look the part.
29/05/2008 at 22:12 Matt says:
Confirm that their big plan for Episode 3 is to have the entire game take place from a headcrab’s perspective (Lamarr).
29/05/2008 at 22:13 grey_painter says:
Just walk in with a clipboard like you own the place. No one would ask you for credentials if you already have a clipboard.
29/05/2008 at 22:15 TychoCelchuuu says:
How am I supposed to liveblog with a clipboard?
29/05/2008 at 22:17 Rosti says:
Perhaps clip a little PDA-type thing to it? Or simply grab one of those tablet thingies that the folks who produce Stargate seem so fond of and pretend that it’s a clipboard.
29/05/2008 at 22:18 TychoCelchuuu says:
I don’t have any of this! I guess I could text furiously on a cell phone.
29/05/2008 at 22:20 Ging says:
you don’t even need to liveblog it – if you’re 18, say you’re writing a piece for the local universities computing departments online news system that’s going to come online in a couple of weeks.
sorted! :D
29/05/2008 at 22:22 Chris Livingston says:
Just FYI: We don’t care about Steamworks. We want TF2 newz, L4D news, Ep 3 newz, and Portal 2 newz.
29/05/2008 at 22:23 TychoCelchuuu says:
I don’t know if lying to the people in charge of my Steam account is such a great idea. And I care about Steamworks!
29/05/2008 at 22:24 grey_painter says:
Just don’t introduce yourself by your steam name and you should be fine. Now get in there boy!
29/05/2008 at 22:26 TychoCelchuuu says:
But I got my SteamID tattooed on my forehead! I was very drunk.
29/05/2008 at 22:30 Rosti says:
A surreptitious bandanna may be called for, I reckon…
29/05/2008 at 22:33 grey_painter says:
Or steal a headcrab hat on the way in and use that.
29/05/2008 at 23:42 Chris R says:
I lol’d at these comments.
30/05/2008 at 00:35 Ryan says:
Awesome Gabe. Headcrab and Dog please!
Ryan
lessons in brevity: http://www.mofata.com
30/05/2008 at 12:00 Crispy says:
If you caught this late, this is the link you need, readers.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=1834
30/05/2008 at 13:19 zima says:
Nobody else would want plush weighted companion cube?… :/ (the reason I plan to be in a stable relationship during coming christmas)