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
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
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
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
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.
*nucular. It's (pronounced) nucular :D
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!
The toolset they use to run their containerlike system wrapping the games is called "pressure vessel".
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
We're so fucking back
Mind blown
Why you gotta make me feel dumb for? I did nothing to you!
E.L. Fudge
... it spells ELF, guys. That took me decades, too, while we're confessing.
I genuinely didn't know this, holy fuck lol
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.
I just realized its valve and not vulva.
It's okay I had a friend who called it "Stream" for years and never realized.
I knew someone who insisted nvidia was "nvida"
This is amazing.
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