Valve Boycott L4D Campaign, Fly Gabe Newell to Brisbane

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Re: Valve Boycott L4D Campaign, Fly Gabe Newell to Brisbane

Postby vcool on Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:41 pm

He's clever.
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Re: Valve Boycott L4D Campaign, Fly Gabe Newell to Brisbane

Postby F0xHunter on Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:43 pm

In which way?
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Re: Valve Boycott L4D Campaign, Fly Gabe Newell to Brisbane

Postby Dionysos on Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:52 pm

F0xHunter wrote:In which way?


Tricking people into giving him 950 dollars.
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Re: Valve Boycott L4D Campaign, Fly Gabe Newell to Brisbane

Postby Jman on Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:57 pm

Shotgun sunrise is good for the comedy value, it lacks incredibly in design but I enjoy it regardless. I don't think the mapping on the campaign is good enough though for him to make any deal at all about it.

dont know if troll though
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Re: Valve Boycott L4D Campaign, Fly Gabe Newell to Brisbane

Postby ThePain on Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:59 pm

I'm amazed at Interlopers right now as every single one of you has not GOTTEN THE POINT!

Seriously, ALL OF YOU DON'T GET IT?!?!?!

The E-mail to Gabe was tongue and cheek. He wasn't serious and never expected a response.

Gabe responded jokingly that the reason why was that they were boycotting what he made. (har har see what they're doing?)

He asked if he should Fly Gabe over jokingly. Gabe said yes, but to include ErikJ as well.

The guy created a BS paypall account to "raise" money jokingly after this became internet famous to drum up some support for both his map and to keep this fame going a bit longer.

People for some reason took it serious and donated.
And called him a douchebag for not getting the MIND-BLOWINGLY OBVIOUS humor of the situation.

The guy isn't a douche, he's "Gradual Report" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSCghV0cDk funny.

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Re: Valve Boycott L4D Campaign, Fly Gabe Newell to Brisbane

Postby vcool on Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:04 pm

ThePain wrote:I'm amazed at Interlopers right now as every single one of you has not GOTTEN THE POINT!

Seriously, ALL OF YOU DON'T GET IT?!?!?!

The E-mail to Gabe was tongue and cheek. He wasn't serious and never expected a response.

Gabe responded jokingly that the reason why was that they were boycotting what he made. (har har see what they're doing?)

He asked if he should Fly Gabe over jokingly. Gabe said yes, but to include ErikJ as well.

The guy created a BS paypall account to "raise" money jokingly after this became internet famous to drum up some support for both his map and to keep this fame going a bit longer.

People for some reason took it serious and donated.
And called him a douchebag for not getting the MIND-BLOWINGLY OBVIOUS humor of the situation.


And that is why he is clever. I really doubt he set up the account jokingly, because if he expected it to become famous he should have imagined that there would always be a dunce who would donate.

The guy may not have wanted this originally, but he is a clever opportunist. So chillax people, the guy made 950 bucks on the spot in today's crisis.
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Re: Valve Boycott L4D Campaign, Fly Gabe Newell to Brisbane

Postby F0xHunter on Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:04 pm

Well, I understood the joke ages ago! *Proud*
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Re: Valve Boycott L4D Campaign, Fly Gabe Newell to Brisbane

Postby Armageddon on Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:38 pm

Why would someone ask VALVe to fly him out and see his L4D1 campaign? Is VALVe buying campaigns or something? If so how can I get in on this!?!? :P

Also that so called "Zombie mod" is about gay cowboys... And could this be that German that hacked HL2s source code and leaked it out, back from prison to get revenge on gabe?
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Re: Valve Boycott L4D Campaign, Fly Gabe Newell to Brisbane

Postby Dionysos on Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:41 pm

I thought everyone got it...?

Also ThePain, is that by any chance Gaunt?
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Re: Valve Boycott L4D Campaign, Fly Gabe Newell to Brisbane

Postby ghost12332 on Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:59 pm

I sure as hell hope everyone got that it was a joke....
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Re: Valve Boycott L4D Campaign, Fly Gabe Newell to Brisbane

Postby ThePain on Fri Sep 11, 2009 11:01 pm

Dionysos wrote:I thought everyone got it...?

Also ThePain, is that by any chance Gaunt?


I am probably a fool and ironically missed that everyone else was being sarcastic when I myself said they missed the humor. Wouldn't be the first time I've made an ass of myself :-D

And NO! That is no cowardly creeping little Ghost! THAT is the HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!



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Re: Valve Boycott L4D Campaign, Fly Gabe Newell to Brisbane

Postby dark_veil on Fri Sep 11, 2009 11:13 pm

im just damn surprised at how ppl donated to it!
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Re: Valve Boycott L4D Campaign, Fly Gabe Newell to Brisbane

Postby Mess on Fri Sep 11, 2009 11:23 pm

Everyone please do make sure you check the RPS Article as there you can see the original correspondence and hopefully see that this is all very tongue-in-cheek.
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Re: Valve Boycott L4D Campaign, Fly Gabe Newell to Brisbane

Postby mrfranswa on Sat Sep 12, 2009 12:12 am

What the flip? I'm trying to do the exact same thing with my campaign Cold Case, but instead I'm just trying to get a job!

What the hell? You actually receive emails from Gabe? I have yet to receive one!
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Re: Valve Boycott L4D Campaign, Fly Gabe Newell to Brisbane

Postby ThePain on Sat Sep 12, 2009 12:17 am

mrfranswa wrote:What the hell? You actually receive emails from Gabe? I have yet to receive one!

Really? I sent him a "Check out this link of pretty pictures of the arctic, might be useful for EP3 and he replied "Thanks, we'll check them out" within a few hours.
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