My editor, earlier tonight: “I really like that Valve can just do whatever the fuck they want.” And that was before this:

Or this:

And this:

I can’t believe these character movies are getting better. The facial animation reflects the voice and mentality in all of them so exquisitely, and never more so than in this one. It just makes me melt. And I love that he’s playing guitar with giant rubber gloves.

They’re planning to do all nine eventually, and retrofit them into the game as character bios in class selection. I’m sort of dreading the Sniper, because he’s my favourite class but a (knowing) travesty of an Australian. But I can’t wait for the Pyro. Everything he does is inherently funny, even burning people to death.

As for me, I like that the most professional company in the industry can be so wildly unprofessional when they feel like it, or just when it’s funny.