Unfortunately Valve -- for whatever reason -- refused to own up to the fact that HL2 was going to be delayed. Gabe made that ridiculous "First time I've heard about this" response, and other sites overreacted and****umed that this meant that Vivendi's announcement was a mistake. This situation was further complicated by Vivendi's backtracking: after Valve essentially refused to confirm the delay news, Vivendi was forced to (kind of) retract their original delay announcement. So tons of people incorrectly****umed this meant HL2 was still coming out on time. At this point, I was stuck: I knew HL2 was going to be delayed, and instead of backing down and keeping my mouth shut, I kept (loudly) proclaiming that HL2 was going to miss 9/30 while other sites kept reporting the exact opposite, This was very frustrating, and if you were around during this period of time, you'll recall that I was acting like a real jerk. And to be fair to these other sites, they were being fed rather misleading information