Their engine is called source.
The collection of libraries valve release to use steam (the piping, if you will), is called steamworks.
How is ‘source’ part of the metaphor?
Source and sink (source and drain) are commonly used to describe the movement of fluids / electricity.
It’s where water comes from :)
Would have been cooler if they named their engine Vapor instead
Yeah but then it would be vaporware
HL3 confirmed.
Thats the joke
it was 3/4 of a joke at best, it was missing that final umph.
⅔ of a joke, if you will
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.
Also Steam Boxes should have been called Boilers. Maybe then they would have succeeded.
They should make a single home stambox like a console version of the Deck, and call it the Engine
The code name of the first Steam Box, before it was released, was Piston, which fits the theme pretty well. e.g. https://www.polygon.com/2013/1/7/3849284/piston-valve-steam-box-xi3
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.
The day I tried installing HL2 is still the worst gaming experience in my life.
And game saves are saved to steam cloud
Clouds form when there’s vapor 🤷
That’s not why it’s called that. The real reason is that they didn’t bother ever giving it a name. When they needed a stable fork so they could further develop the engine without interfering with the development of Half-Life, they referred to the two source codes “GoldSrc” and “Src” and the name stuck.
Sure, but the pun still works.
boooo
Damn, an actual meme, actually used properly, actually saying something new, not re-hashing old content. Damn, I miss the good ol days.
New? Where have you been?
Was staying away from meme communities for a while
My face when I realize the dude in this meme is probably mid-40s these days.
he probably has a kid who looks like that though
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.
I hope hes doimg ok
OK explain why the bald man has a red valve on the back of his head?
cause it was too gruesome on his eye so he moved it
Thats John Valve, and its quite rude to ask
Cuz that’s the name of the company. Did I do good?
You did
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.
He got Valve on the brain
Don’t need an explanation, but who here shit their pants the moment that motherfucker turned around?
The red symbolizes Steam.
Cus that’s what games do, they open the valve of your imagination
The toolset they use to run their containerlike system wrapping the games is called “pressure vessel”.
How deep does it go!!?
Their Linux containers are called scout for v1, soldier for v2 and sniper for v3.
By version 7, they will need new classes. TF3 confirmed!
But there are 9 classes?
Scout, Sniper, Soldier, Pyro, Heavy, Medic, Engineer, Spy, Demoman
Oh idk, I don’t play a lot of TF2 so I could only think of 6 off the top of my head.
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.
And where are the nuclear wessels?
Across the bay. In Alameda.
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.
Yes, it’s true, she was a passer-by and Nichelle and Walter adlibed.
*nucular. It’s (pronounced) nucular :D
- stares attentively *
further auto-defecation shall follow when you realise a “passport” is just a document to let you “pass” the “port”…
And we trans-port from one to another!
Obligatory reference: talkies are movies with talking, movies are pictures which move
We’re so fucking back
y’all genuinely don’t have the lights on upstairs do ya
Goes to show what you know! I don’t even have an upstairs! Because I live in a single story! So take that! 🧏
Why do you care, you don’t pay my electricity bill!?
Seymour, close the door! Is that sass I hear?
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
And their runtime uses pressure-vessel to put games into controlled containers
Mind blown
lol I never noticed that
Me neither xd
Why you gotta make me feel dumb for? I did nothing to you!
I genuinely didn’t know this, holy fuck lol
E.L. Fudge
… it spells ELF, guys. That took me decades, too, while we’re confessing.
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.
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.
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.
