To be honest, I figure the Half-Life series has gone on for long enough. It's been nearly ten years since I first played the game and we haven't had a conclusion yet to the saga. Sure, Valve likes to take their time and all but I'm an adult now, I have little time to care much about the universe...
There were so many micro-updates, additions/replacements and things happening to the content files through the day/night that it's not surprising for many people's game files to be stuffed. Ah well.
Same way as with every single Source game in history:
Right click game in Steam -> Properties...
Launch options, enter the following: +map none
Run, yay
But wouldn't that kill the protester as well? Or at least blow up his balls? I'm sure the... ehm... "stuff" is conductive enough.
NOW CUM GIVE US THE DAMN BETA!!!
I bet you a masturbation the purpose of the beta was simply to measure the load on the Steam servers and not to actually give us something to play.
/fap
/squirt
Ah hell I'm out!