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[–] [email protected] 167 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Their engine is called source.

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

[–] cholesterol 50 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How is 'source' part of the metaphor?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

It's where water comes from :)

[–] RightHandOfIkaros 35 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Would have been cooler if they named their engine Vapor instead

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah but then it would be vaporware

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

HL3 confirmed.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] mkwt 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 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] IzzyJ 4 points 2 months ago

They should make a single home stambox like a console version of the Deck, and call it the Engine

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[–] saltesc 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 144 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Tier1BuildABear 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Was staying away from meme communities for a while

[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

he probably has a kid who looks like that though

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (8 children)

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

[–] Agent641 27 points 2 months ago

Thats John Valve, and its quite rude to ask

[–] pyre 26 points 2 months ago

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

[–] ivanafterall 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] FireTower 10 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

He got Valve on the brain

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

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

[–] FireTower 6 points 2 months ago

The red symbolizes Steam.

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[–] chillhelm 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Speculater 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)
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[–] Donebrach 43 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

And where are the nuclear wessels?

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Across the bay. In Alameda.

[–] Donebrach 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] raspberriesareyummy 4 points 2 months ago

*nucular. It's (pronounced) nucular :D

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[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts 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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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago

We're so fucking back

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] dohpaz42 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 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] peopleproblems 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] stoly 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Good_fighter_guy 21 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

I genuinely didn't know this, holy fuck lol

[–] ivanafterall 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 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.

[–] [email protected] 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 7 points 2 months ago

This is amazing.

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