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Why Did Valve Call It The Potato Pack?

Posted on Friday, April 15 @ 14:28:48 Eastern by Nicholas Tan

Earlier, Daniel reported on the 13 mini-game Potato Pack that, if purchased and played, apparently makes the countdown clock for the Portal 2 release run faster. Everyone who's playing the Portal 2 ARG, however, is skeptical of everything Valve puts out and are desperate to see Half-Life 3 in every corner and kilobyte. But this one definitely takes the cake (if it isn't a lie).

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Rinnon
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Apr 15th, 2011 at 4:02 pm
Hahahaha, man if that's not reading into it I don't know what is.

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Squiggy
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Apr 15th, 2011 at 8:07 pm
No, THIS is what I call 'reading too much into it':

The missing letters are R, L, and W. If you re-order the L and W, you get the onomatopoeia that Blizzard uses to describe the sound of a Murloc, 'rwlrwlrwlrwlrwlrwl!!" UH GUYZ THAT MEENS VALVE IS OWND BY BLIZZARD NOW OH NOES

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213EDD
Joined: Sep 2007

Posted: Apr 15th, 2011 at 9:13 pm
gotta rely on Squiggy for the conspiracy theories

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mrallamericanboy
Joined: Jun 2006

Posted: Apr 16th, 2011 at 1:26 pm
the squiggly is simply representative of the imagination and insight the rest of us lack...

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Squiggy
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Apr 17th, 2011 at 2:35 am
AND IT ALL MAYKS SENCE SINCE VALVE IS MAKING DOTA 2 THEY WUDNT CALL IT DOTA 2 IF IT WASNT A SECWIL TO DOTA FROM WARCRAFT 3

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Ravnik
Joined: May 2011

Posted: May 4th, 2011 at 7:12 am
Valve will continue the half-life series eventually. Right now it's too important to focus on the other products of theirs.

And potato sack is referencing Portal 2's use of energy generated by potatos, which is 1.3v, which is enough to sustain the AIs that Aperture Science developed.

So, in short, you're full of ****. Only over-analyzing illogical people would find this a compelling argument.

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