Previously on Fly Gabe Newell:

In June 2009, a Steam group was created to boycott Valve Software's upcoming sequel, Left 4 Dead 2. In September 2009, the leaders of the group were invited to Valve's headquarters to play the game for themselves, whereupon they decided it was awesome after all. Although I personally have been privileged enough to have conversed with Valve's CEO, Gabe Newell, many times by email, and even to have been sent a signed, cardboard X800XT from him (he's a pretty awesome dude), I have not once - not one time - been flown to Valve to play their games early! I therefore sent him an email. For context, I have recently been working on a Left 4 Dead 1 campaign.

It is clear from the above that Gabe Newell and Erik Johnson will not fly me to Valve's headquarters, and would prefer instead to be flown here, to remote Brisbane, Australia, in order to playtest my campaign and call off their boycott. However, I am a man of slender means. Here's where you come in!

Some people seem to have gotten the idea that I'm actually upset at Valve or Gabe, this is not the case, they're awesome dudes