I sent an email to a corporate Steam email address, asking whether I’d be allowed to post a screenshot from half-life in a computer graphics shading thesis. End

I sent an email to a corporate Steam email address, asking whether I’d be allowed to post a screenshot from half-life in a computer graphics shading thesis. Ended up with a response from Gabe Newell, CEO, shortly after, and another engineer who invented skeletal animation, all excited to talk about it with some random kid