As the story goes, Political Gamer was able to sit down with Valve's own Gabe Newell for a tick, and while the topics of conversation were obviously varied, one point in particular piqued our interest.

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The Blow Out Preventer is off the well which is being controlled by a down hole safety valve.

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And it could start Valve down the road that ends in a console.

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If EA or Valve can shut down our Origin or Steam accounts, what happens to our catalog of titles?

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Valve is apparently planning on including a handful of controllers with Steambox prototypes in its upcoming beta, so that users can give feedback for each and Valve can break down how players are using them.

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Without this safety valve, generators would overload and begin shutting down to avoid damage, risking a domino effect of a region-wide outage.

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The air was held in a reservoir and when the pressure reached 100 PSI, a modified irrigation valve was triggered to launch a tennis ball that had been stuffed down the barrel.

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First of all, the relief valve is the final and most assured final step -- that would be to essentially drill down the 19, 000 feet to where the formation is and to block off the well that is now open.

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