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Valve boss Gabe Newell has a history of replying directly to emails from the public, so there’s a good chance this exchange with an impatient Half-Life fan is for real.
Either way, there’s a definite chance that it’s great.
If anyone else wants to give it a show, maybe try a sonnet. Or an epic poem. The latter would leave enough room for a release date and system specs.
Maybe the 6 syllables is intentional and the last word is a 1 syllable month name. March? May?
Stuff episode 3, now everyone wants to know whether Gabe says “Episode” or “Ep’sode” 😉 (don’t take that seriously though valve! In truth we really want to know BOTH ;))
Clearly what happened here was Gabe ate one of the syllables and didn’t tell anyone. So in his mind it was 5.
With the syllables thing: in Japanese it is not 5-7-5 syllables. It’s actually 5-7-5 morae, which is a concept which is not in English, so we just think of it as syllables.
Episode is actually 2 morae, epi-sode.
If anyone is reading this then i am calling it. They are going to release Half-life ep3 bundled with Dota2 and CounterStrike:GO
I recon it would be something like a OrangeBox 2.
Or maybe with the insane amount of work he gets he just responded to this email very quickly and hence does not care or did not have time to proof read. My point, we are over thinking nothing.
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