Half-Life protest takes on Steam

Emboldened by the recent success of internet whinging, viz. the forestalling of SOPA and PIPA, something like 30,000 Half-Lifers are gathering to protest the vortex of mystery that seems to have swallowed Half-Life 3.  Their plan:  to play Half-Life 2.  All at the same time.  They appear to be following Gandhi’s playbook here, protesting a lack of one thing by consuming a lot of something else.  Gandhi probably wouldn’t have chosen a game about shooting anonymous quislings in the face as the venue for one of his protests, but this Half-Life thing is actually quite similar to his celebrated salt march.  You know, the one where he gathered together thousands of Indians to protest the Salt Act and then sent everyone home to drink a lot of water.  Time will tell if Valve is as unshakable as the British Raj.