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Mentioned in the article, but the source is the excellent YouTube documentary Valve released for Half-Life 2's 20th Anniversary [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCjNT9qGjh4

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There were so many excellent touches and insights in the documentary. And I got goosebumps in a couple of places.

Also the Half-Life documentary they released last year was one hour long. The Half-Life 2 documentary is two hours long. I sure doesn't feel like 2 hours.

Highly recommended. (There are manual English subtitles included that seem perfect too, if you need them.)

These documentaries are nice but I feel they're missing something by being commissioned. Obviously they don't contain any criticism about Valve, but is it still documentary or just marketing material?

In this era of marketing and polish, honesty I don't really take anything from big companies or 'big people' at face value. Everything is scripted and wordsmithed within an inch of its life.

Even if something was genuine...it's hard to tell.

At what timestamp in the documentary do they talk about ?

1:38:00 - 1:44:00

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