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All kidding aside, Half-Life 2 is still a great game. You should probably play it if you haven't already. Feel free to share your favorite story about Half-Life 2. Maybe tell everyone how you were in college and stayed up stupidly late just so you could play Half-Life 2 on the new Steam platform, wearing headphones and turning the monitor away so that the brightness didn't bother your roommate. Then tell everyone how it took forever to actually be released and then when it was, the decrypting took forever, and even then it was fairly buggy once you finally loaded into the game.
I mean, it's not like any of us actually did that! Ha... Yeah.
And now I feel sorry for those using outdated computers. Due to the Linux compiling of the game, some code snuck into the Windows version that unintentionally requires CPUs with SSE2 instructions to work (basically anything newer than Athlon XP). Kind of like the two Steam client updates in May and September (and fixed twice). I don't know if Half-Life 2's issue is fixed yet, and the store page has yet to show any change in minimum requirements. It's also odd for old games to suddenly require newer technology, so the idea of old computers being shunned from playing old games isn't something I agree with.