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[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 167 points 2 months ago

Their engine is called source.

The collection of libraries valve release to use steam (the piping, if you will), is called steamworks.

[-] cholesterol@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago

How is 'source' part of the metaphor?

[-] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 58 points 2 months ago

Source and sink (source and drain) are commonly used to describe the movement of fluids / electricity.

[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 months ago

It's where water comes from :)

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

Would have been cooler if they named their engine Vapor instead

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 66 points 2 months ago

Yeah but then it would be vaporware

[-] w2tpmf@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 months ago

HL3 confirmed.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Instead the story is that the source engine was located in the "Src" directory in their Visual Source Safe. And the Half Life 1 engine was in a separate branch named GoldSrc because it was about to ship real soon, and they needed to keep changes to a minimum.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Also Steam Boxes should have been called Boilers. Maybe then they would have succeeded.

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[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

You make me feel old for realising people younger than me have not ever realised this. But it makes sense now I type it... out loud(?)

Back in my day the Steam UI was army green and you'd use it to play all the LAN games your mate had by copying their entire Steam folder over to yours a couple hours before the LAN started. And that was it. That was the "install". You had Steam and all the HL mods like DoD and CS. Primed and ready to get noise complaints from the neighbours.

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[-] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 144 points 2 months ago

Damn, an actual meme, actually used properly, actually saying something new, not re-hashing old content. Damn, I miss the good ol days.

[-] Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago
[-] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Was staying away from meme communities for a while

[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 79 points 2 months ago

My face when I realize the dude in this meme is probably mid-40s these days.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

he probably has a kid who looks like that though

[-] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

I'm in my mid 40s and when I was that age let's say in the mid 90s there were hardly any digital cameras and the image doesn't look like a scan... So it's day here is in his mid thirties. Know your memes says the picture is from 2009, so that roughly matches.

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[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 52 points 2 months ago

OK explain why the bald man has a red valve on the back of his head?

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

Thats John Valve, and its quite rude to ask

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

cause it was too gruesome on his eye so he moved it

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Cuz that's the name of the company. Did I do good?

[-] FireTower@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago
[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 months ago

In industry, there would be a valve tag there indicating what kind of fluid was being piped through, which are color coded. The color of the handle doesn't mean anything normally, but some companies will use red to denote it is a FC (fail close) valve etc.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 11 points 2 months ago

He got Valve on the brain

[-] OtherPetard@feddit.nl 10 points 2 months ago

Don't need an explanation, but who here shit their pants the moment that motherfucker turned around?

[-] FireTower@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

The red symbolizes Steam.

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[-] chillhelm@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago

The toolset they use to run their containerlike system wrapping the games is called "pressure vessel".

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago
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[-] Donebrach@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months ago

You’re gonna shit yourself when you realize an airport is a port for air-vessels in the same way that a seaport is a port for sea- vessels.

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 19 points 2 months ago

And where are the nuclear wessels?

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Across the bay. In Alameda.

[-] Donebrach@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I heard a tale that that woman was not an actor but in fact some local resident who was waylaid by the filming of that scene so she was compensated by getting to deliver that line. No idea of the validity but an interesting tidbit if true.

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[-] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

further auto-defecation shall follow when you realise a "passport" is just a document to let you "pass" the "port"...

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[-] TJDetweiler@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 months ago

We're so fucking back

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 36 points 2 months ago

y'all genuinely don't have the lights on upstairs do ya

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

Goes to show what you know! I don’t even have an upstairs! Because I live in a single story! So take that! 🧏

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Why do you care, you don't pay my electricity bill!?

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[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Look bro, someone just explained that source->steamworks->valve->steam.

I just thought it was all related to water not the system flow of their business

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[-] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 25 points 2 months ago
[-] stoly@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago
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[-] Good_fighter_guy@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Why you gotta make me feel dumb for? I did nothing to you!

[-] sunglocto@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 months ago

I genuinely didn't know this, holy fuck lol

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

E.L. Fudge

... it spells ELF, guys. That took me decades, too, while we're confessing.

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 months ago

I started my Steam account in 2004(?) because it was required to do so even though I bought the DVD-ROM version of HL2. Imagine my rage when it also forced me to update -- I was on dial-up at the time.

[-] irish_link@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Ohh man, i am right there with you. It was the same for me with CS however I already had it installed. I wanted to update to 1.6 but I had steam installed and it forced me to update steam before I could update CS. I know they had a lot of growing pains but they eventually did it right due to our struggle.

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 11 points 2 months ago

I'm shocked people didn't realize this. Maybe it was obvious to me because I was playing valve games before steam came out? I think the game Blood 2 even made a joke about it on a sign on the museum level.

[-] StephenTallentyre@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

This is amazing.

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