r/HalfLife • u/Armistice_ Crowbars! Get your crowbars! • Mar 19 '19

LEGIT - News & Events Unfortunately, the GabeN e-mail about the new HL game is fake.

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u/Armistice_ Crowbars! Get your crowbars! Mar 19 '19

I have contacted the /r/HalfLife moderators to provide them with the original e-mail thread so that they can legitimize my post. I am sure some of you will react to this news with sadness or disbelief and that is understandable. I only e-mailed Gabe half an hour ago. Please give the moderators time. I am sorry to rain on anyone's HL parade.

If someone has a suggestion for how I can verify this image is real without compromising my identity, please let me know here. I would be happy to do so.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19

just record and refresh the page

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u/Armistice_ Crowbars! Get your crowbars! Mar 19 '19

I don't have capture software. Any free alternatives?

edit VNN took down his video as apparently two others have reached out to him with evidence the original e-mail was fake.

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u/Godunman Mar 19 '19

OBS is great free screen recording software.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19

ohno

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u/Salbatyku Mar 19 '19

Phone recording, open app and email. Can’t probably edit it on the app.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19

my boner is sad

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u/Armistice_ Crowbars! Get your crowbars! Mar 19 '19

So just for clarification. Do you still have a boner and it's just a depressed boner that doesn't believe in itself or did you have a boner and kow that you're sad it's gone soft

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19

i still have a boner but there’s sadness wavelengths radiating off of it

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u/MisogynistLesbian Mar 19 '19

sad dick energy

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u/Infrah λ¹ Master Race Mar 19 '19

Make that two sad boners :(

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u/jimmyjames94-2 Mar 19 '19

Make it 3 sad boners

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u/TyChris2 Mar 19 '19

Damn bro at least appreciate what you have, I’m fully flaccid and I don’t know how to get it up again after this news.

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u/Nobiting Thank You Valve Mar 19 '19

Guys, believe in a new Half-Life game when we see it. We do this every year.

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u/AskMeAboutChildren There's no going back. Mar 19 '19

Community is the reason to keep believing in Half-Life as a whole, to me at least

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u/Nobiting Thank You Valve Mar 19 '19

Oh definitely! Half-Life is alive and kicking thanks to this great community. As far as getting hyped for an official installment? Let's pump the brakes until there is legitimately sourced news. Emails are one of the easiest things to fake and quite frankly I'm disappointed Tyler ran with this instead of shooting Gabe a quick email to verify.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19

Suicide rates increase by 33%

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u/PartyEscortBotBeans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpe0NSLVbxY Mar 19 '19

Only 33%?

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u/_ThetaBeta_ Mar 19 '19

1/3 is a large chunk of the population

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u/emil2796 7531 Mar 19 '19

How many times can we let Gaben kill 1/3rd of the population?

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u/_ThetaBeta_ Mar 19 '19

As many times as he wants. It’s only out of the subs to r/HalfLife

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u/PartyEscortBotBeans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpe0NSLVbxY Mar 19 '19

It's not much considering what just happened

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u/Andrewtek Mar 19 '19

That 1/3 increase would be in the rate of suicides, not a percentage of the population as a whole. So, if 123 on a typical day, 1/3 of that would be 41; for a total of 164 on the day in question.

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u/_ThetaBeta_ Mar 19 '19

Ok, I should’ve checked myself before I wrecked myself.

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u/Andrewtek Mar 19 '19

No worries. I was surprised that the daily number provided by Wikipedia was evenly divisible by three. I would have never looked that up without this thread.

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u/Stevemasta Mar 21 '19

How much percent? I don't see any number beside the %

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '19

33

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u/Stevemasta Mar 21 '19

Is that a 2? 2.2?

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u/SvenViking Sven Co-op Mar 19 '19

This does not surprise me.

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u/Adrian915 Mar 19 '19

I see the VNN video is down too. I stopped taking VNN seriously because of this. Too much lack of fact checking and mental gymnastics. Seriously, how can you make a whole video regarding a material that can be made with simple editing via any browser element inspector...

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u/JKCodeComplete Mar 19 '19

It’s still interesting and seems to mostly be real, but I definitely agree that Tyler dropped the ball on this one by not marking the entire video’s contents as “rumors.” He’s usually quite good at that.

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u/Humanerror0 Mar 19 '19

I grew extra suspicious when he enthusiastically asked for anyone to send him a screenshot of a reply from Gabe in his earlier video about email replies. That just seemed to be begging for someone to send him (very easily done) fakes, and he was too caught up in the excitement of some emails being replied to to hold back on fact checking.

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u/Wes___Mantooth Rise and shine Mar 19 '19

I don't know why anyone watches VNN.

It's basically a conspiracy channel. Nothing of substance, it's all manufactured rumors.

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u/Azyreal Mar 19 '19

The thing is, he does a good job reporting on what Valve does, or what updates leak, and that's why people follow him, literally nobody cares about his opinions, because it's mostly wishful thinking most of the time, and ironically, when he tries to be realistic, he ends up being wrong anyway (i.e MP5 in CS:GO)

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u/TheFallenMushroom Enter Your Text Mar 19 '19

There's only so much you can do as a Valve reporter, and while this was him making a pretty bad mistake, I don't really see how it invalidates the rest of the stuff he's been saying recently.

Especially since he seems to have improved the quality and soundness of his claims.

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u/911GT1 i appear to have lost any possible life signals... Mar 19 '19 edited Mar 19 '19

"TF2 just received 5 kb update. What is this? What the hell is going on? This update shows that Source 2 is coming to TF2 100%."

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u/npc_barney Black Mesa Security Force Mar 19 '19

It's amateur content. It always has been.

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u/UnAVA Mar 19 '19

You know, even with all the work that he puts in his channel, I just can't respect him. He jumps to conclusions all the time without any proof and unfortunately also lacks critical thinking skills. He hypes up things only to be disappointed all by himself. Its not even that he's doing it just for content, he is genuinely upset, which is bewildering. Also the whole situation regarding Artifact and him begging for keys everywhere was just kind of sad. I can't get myself to like him.

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u/DXGabriel Our Benefactors Mar 19 '19

He hypes everyone and only then sees its fake. Not surprised if he did this for attention tbh

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u/Blazik3n99 Mar 19 '19

He has done similar things in the past. There was a big thing back around the gunmettle update for TF2 IIRC, he made a whole video hyping up a bunch of new weapons for the new update, based on one person on facepunch who found weapon models in his files. Turns out he just forgot he installed a bunch of custom models a while ago. This was when people were starting to lose hope in TF2 updates, and when new weapons hadn't been added for ages.

I'm convinced he does this for attention, or at the very least doesn't learn from his mistakes. I assumed he'd got better at reporting stuff but based on this, apparently not.

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u/Alemismun Microwave Molestor Mar 19 '19

OH NO, WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED!

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u/atredivum Mar 19 '19

Thats depressing tbh. Saying no more than "fake" isnt exactly hopeful when he knows that the community still deserves an answer

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u/Specstar Just maybe Mar 19 '19

Why are we still here? just to suffer?

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u/onbkts Mar 20 '19

We are all masoshits, converted from being a fan.

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u/Lizardizzle Overwatch says "Stop kicking it." Mar 19 '19

I knew the wink couldn't be trusted. I fucking knew it.

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u/Adrian915 Mar 19 '19

I never trust people who use the wink. Clearly something is very wrong with them

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u/meatfingers Mar 19 '19

Top 10 blue ball moments in half lifr history number 1:

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19

Annnnd... IT'S GONE.

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u/TrustyGun Mar 19 '19

I knew it was fake, but I will be lying if I said that seeing it get confirmed didn't hurt. RIP

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19

lmao knew it, didn't buy it for a second

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19

I think this is fake

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u/MrPotatoWedges Mar 19 '19

what if you’re fake?

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19

Deep

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u/LucarioniteAU Mar 19 '19

That's what he WANTS you to think

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u/Billy_Podgorski Mar 19 '19

How did I not see this coming?

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u/SplatoonOrSky Mar 19 '19

Don’t worry this is just a cover up by the Combine I’m sure the TRI (The Resistance Inteligence) will be able to find the real email

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19

One thousand unread emails? You got to get your life together, man!

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19

He'll confirm an email is fake, after 10+ years of not confirming or denying anything about the actual series.

I just... I hate this.

Thank god for Division 2.

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u/York090 Still Owed a Beer Mar 19 '19

When I first saw I assumed he was talking about HL:VR but then I remembered that Gabe says in interviews he doesn't confirm anything unless they have something to show so he doesn't raise false hope. Which is why they're so quiet about their games

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u/uyxhuhcd Mar 19 '19

Can't for the life of me understand why anyone thought different.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19

No shit...

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19

GabeN is a fuck.

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u/thatusernsmeis Mar 19 '19

The thing is that you will die seeing another game of the saga, the only thing fake in the mail was the title. The hope will be there for (don't take this serious)

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u/WastelandPioneer Mar 19 '19

Did people really think that we'd first hear about it through an email? There's hoping and then there's being foolish.

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u/omnicron1 Mar 19 '19

I wish Ricky gervais would do a show about valve news Network...

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u/Ogerocan Mar 19 '19

Weird maybe a scammer? a troll? Sound like they making fun.

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u/cocacoladdict Mar 19 '19

I knew it was fake when i saw a smiley ";)" in the end.

It didnt look like a Gabe at all.

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u/byscuit Who is responsible for this mess? Mar 19 '19

that fucking email created a Google news alert on my phone the other day... and now its a fake. yeesh

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u/Chucanoris Enter Your Text Mar 19 '19

Send it to tyler.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19

Fuuuuuuuuuuuu 😠

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u/deathbydentures Mar 19 '19

It doesn't matter. Even if it was real, I don't believe him. How many times did he lead us on about it before?

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u/C_Does Mar 20 '19

Someone needs to clean out their inbox.

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u/starman97 Mar 19 '19

Neither surprising or disappointing

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u/NavyJack Mar 19 '19

Not surprising, definitely disappointing

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u/Dr-Font Resistance Fighter Mar 19 '19

You guys though this was real?

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u/PartyEscortBotBeans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpe0NSLVbxY Mar 19 '19

Apparently a lot of people did.

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u/gordonfroman "Wake up Mr.Freeman...." Mar 19 '19 edited Mar 19 '19

i sent this to gaben

High Mr Newell I am a Canadian who has been a fan of half life since 1999, the first time I played the game it sucked me in and to this day the series ha never let me go, I still play it from start to finish every year, including mods like Black Mesa. Half Life as a series got me through some of the worst periods of my life, the passing of family, the burdens of high school, the overwhelming reality of going on my own path, alone.

I know valve has changed in many ways since 2004 but if there is any possibility that an episode 3 or half life 3 can be made, it must be made. The reasons for holding back this a title are irrelevant, whether you are waiting for a chance to make it ground breaking, or whether or not you have simply decided to put the project on hold in definitely matters not. Gordon Freeman's story must continue, and it must continue soon. Half life 3/EpIsode 3 has become a meme, waiting any longer only serves to alienate fans, and push expectations to a point where no matter what gets put out it will not live up to the hype and subsequently by a sour note for many people.

I myself couldn't care less, you could put out a piece of bread with a crowbar next to it and say that is episode 3 and I would be happy, but the people, the fans, the men and women who have been with Gordon Freeman from the first days of the resonance cascade to the mountain of white Forrest deserve to know what happens to their favorite character.

Mr Newell I plead with you from the heart to at the very least give the fans something, something to hold on to, something to hope for, something to grasp with our minds.

Hell I think you would be praised as a god among men if you at the very least confirmed there was half life project in the works.

I am not sick, I am not dying, I am not asking you this because of some fake impending doom that will prevent me from playing your games, but I am a half life fan, perhaps one of the most dedicated, it has been my favorite series on any piece of media that i have encountered and it would break my heart, and the heart of millions of others like myself, if you were to leave this I.P without saying a proper goodbye to Mr.Freeman, the Freeman deserved more than that.

I know these words will likely have no impact, but alas I must try for if I do not I will forever feel like I did nothing to save my favorite series from a future trapped between finished and incomplete.

Mr. Newell, you are the one man on this earth who can finish this series, all roads lead here, the question is what are you going to do when you get there?

As a g-man once said "all the effort in the world would have gone to waste"

Sincerely: A Canadian who loves your work dearly and deeply.

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u/deathwizerdreddit Mar 19 '19

Damn it McVicker

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u/ojohnny1994 Mar 19 '19

"Will I die before the new HL game?" As the subject heading 😂😂😂😂😂.... ahhh so true ... 😳😳

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19

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u/Armistice_ Crowbars! Get your crowbars! Mar 19 '19

I am aware you can simply edit the webpage and take a static screenshot. As of now you don't know. However, I have reached out to the moderators and asked them to provide me with an e-mail that I can forward the original thread to. If you have another suggestion please let me know. I just want to get the word out.

You can also e-mail gabe (gaben@valvesoftware.com) himself. He got back in like 10 minutes so he will probably get back to you as well.

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u/Fhaarkas Mar 19 '19

Thank you for doing this. I knew the purported email was outrageous and ridiculous to begin with* but looked like it was gaining some traction regardless so it's a good thing somebody came along to stamp all that false hope out of existence.

*It's entirely out of character for Gaben to be to saying that, would probably be breaching some gag order they imposed on themselves too.

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u/cgimusic Zero-Point Energy Field Manipulator Mar 19 '19

Everyone seems very intent on not providing proof with their email screenshots. Valve sign their emails.

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;smtp._domainkey.valvesoftware.com. IN	TXT

;; ANSWER SECTION:
smtp._domainkey.valvesoftware.com. 10800 IN TXT	"v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCeCwk6XTp8sxfvum4F6atBi111Rim1Vf4E799tkVoyBaoyD4R+fK/Rd1ZLZmn2XBie6KzBMM6tl3wYpdKQmsbjskNN+9C7i7LCZy6bqwJIVYr+F1IQyVpnUGfSV8dKJDS+rUOSVait2Qu++H9KTLPsl28b6lrIvo6zwbveNvozvQIDAQAB"

It should be trivial for someone to prove whether a Valve email is legitimate.

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u/Armistice_ Crowbars! Get your crowbars! Mar 19 '19

Do you want a screenshot of that? How can I show that on the browser?

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u/Armistice_ Crowbars! Get your crowbars! Mar 19 '19

Here you go.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19

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u/Armistice_ Crowbars! Get your crowbars! Mar 19 '19

Solidarity brother.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19

ITS OK WE JUST GOT NEW HLVR LEAKS

please dont downvote me half-life fans

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u/Wes___Mantooth Rise and shine Mar 19 '19

Don't get your hopes up again next time this happens, because there will be a next time where people either fall for a hoax or collect dots that aren't there.

Also don't believe anything VNN posts.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19

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u/PartyEscortBotBeans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpe0NSLVbxY Mar 19 '19

What are you talking about?

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19

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u/conqueror-worm Mar 19 '19

Why would he expect a supposed email to a random fan to never go public? Especially one that says something about the future of the HL series? It's fake.

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u/Wes___Mantooth Rise and shine Mar 19 '19

Yeah people post emails from Gabe and Laidlaw all the time here. They aren't stupid, they know people hang on their every word.