Valve Teases Upcoming Half-Life Release for Mac

After laughing at the idea, when Espgaluda came out on iPhone and I considered dropping £500 on one. I'm so weak.

Mostly server network stuff for an IT consulting company.

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Mostly server network stuff for an IT consulting company.

programmer or admin?

mostly admin but I do scripting when necessary

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I bought an iphone so I could play enviro-bear 2000 on it, true story

Probably the best game ever made.

As for my comment, I wasn't saying I have any problem with Macs in general, I enjoy their attitude to usability and form over function etc. I just personally have no problem with PCs; everything I need is on PC, so I have no _need_ to buy a Mac. I own an iPod and bought it because it was a nifty little piece of tech that was perfect for what I needed it for. However I am the kind of guy who is happy to have a 30 euro phone that barely makes calls and texting possible. I have no need to browse the net or land helicopters while I am on the go; I'd rather read a book.

As for PC being more versatile than a Mac, I see your point. My mother worked for years in the printing industry and Macs were well ahead of the curve for her work. Macs have their uses. I did not mean that a PC is superior in every way - otherwise Macs would not exist. It's just that when you mention "my Mac can run XP" I have to think "why do you need to boot into XP if your Mac is so fantastic?".

Oh and from a purely personal point of view I can't take something seriously that removes a mouse button, and then pretty much moves it to the keyboard. That to me never sat right.

meanwhile

Apple fanboys do more to turn me off macs than anything Apple ever did. I work alongside quite a few Mac/iPhone/iPad zealots and their conversations make my eyes glaze over... zzz

I'm sure Apple products do a great job in certain areas, but fuck, it's just a computer/phone/tablet, not a way of living. Give it a fucking rest, fanboys!

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Apple fanboys do more to turn me off macs than anything Apple ever did. I work alongside quite a few Mac/iPhone/iPad zealots and their conversations make my eyes glaze over... zzzI'm sure Apple products do a great job in certain areas, but fuck, it's just a computer/phone/tablet, not a way of living. Give it a fucking rest, fanboys!

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Charlie Brooker":3sumtu7j]I just hope buying a MacBook won't turn me into an iPrick. I want a machine that essentially makes itself invisible, not a rectangular bragging stone. If, 10 minutes after buying it, I start burbling on about how it's left me more fulfilled as a human being, or find myself perched at a tiny Starbucks table stroking its glowing Apple with one hand while demonstratively tapping away with the other in the hope that passersby will assume I'm working on a screenplay, it's going straight in the bin.

Judging by your posts today, I'm thinking that you've recently discovered the wonder that is Charlie Brooker?

Brooker is ace, and that's exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about. I should point out that there's quite a few mac users who aren't tossers and who don't advertise the fact that they love macs, but the moment Steve Jobs scratches his arse or some largely meaningless "lifestyle accessory" or other is announced, the most vocal apple fans turn into massive jabbering arseholes. They all droned on about the iPad for the best part of a month prior to release and I've yet to see one. It's vital, though. Right? Guys?

It reminds me of Anime extroverts who wear leather trenchcoats and won't be silenced. They're in the same bracket of dreary twats who need to shut the fuck up and stop trying to stamp their tastes on other people.

Can you tell this irks me?

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Judging by your posts today, I'm thinking that you've recently discovered the wonder that is Charlie Brooker?

Nah, I've known about him since the first series of Screenwipe. Though he's probably fresh in my mind because, while my folks have been down, I did a kind of Charlie Brooker Marathon.

He did a gaming episode of screenwipe (gameswipe) and used to write for PC Zone, too.

I find it really weird that you guys have such a crazy mac culture in Europe. Not that there's any reason why you wouldn't but I guess it always felt like a US phenomenon....more specifically a Brooklyn phenomenon.

But then that just be my ethnocentrism showing!

New media developers are the worst :ssj:

Possibly even worse than them are people in new media who don't have any practical skills. "Guys we need something explosive, something that's going to change the game, shift that paradigm you know? It's gotta have the brand quality of facebook, innovation of twitter but promote social mobility like chatroulette. But more important than any of that it needs a great name. Something that sounds like a noise a 3 year old child would make or a play on an already existing word like FROOGLE or CUIL. Three months from now our product is going to be the verb on everyone's tongue. 'LOOK WHAT SCOTT JUST NEWPRODUCT'D!' IS WHAT THEY'LL SAY."

I was going to stop after one sentence but it was too easy and fun I couldn't help it :\

EPIC LOL i gotta save this somewhere and dish it out every once in a while when some "good for nothing" producer pushes everyone to make a committee decision or something

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He did a gaming episode of screenwipe (gameswipe) and used to write for PC Zone, too.

Yeah, I remember posting Gameswipe here when it first went out. I think I like Newswipe the best though, mainly because of the more contrasting moments like

cheers, i miss a lot of his stuff because of tv being generally too shit to warrant watching.

time for some INTENSE *wipe

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cheers, i miss a lot of his stuff because of tv being generally too shit to warrant watching.time for some INTENSE *wipe

german tv especially the way they dub everything...

german tv should be covered in the geneva convention

I bet Germans even dub farts, just because...