Reading about Half-Life: Uplink made me remember one of the most retarded online discussions I've had about HL ever. I was in an online voice chat related to an online game (sometime in 2011 IIRC) and some pompous ass was talking about how Half-Life 2: Ep 3 would never be released because Valve never released more than 2 expansion packs to their games, as exemplified by Half-Life 1 only having two expansion packs.
So I joined in.
Me: "Three. Half-Life 1 has three expansion packs."
Him: "Whut?"
Me. There's Opposing Force, Blue Shift and Decay."
Him: "No no, you're wrong...there were only two released."
Me: "One green, one blue, one red."
Him: Given that I am the absolute online authority on all things Half-Life, you simply can't be anything else but wrong."
Me: "Google "Half-Life Decay and see what you get."
Him: "I don't have to, I know I'm right."
Me: "Fine, anyone else wanna Google it?"
3rd Man: "I already have - it's real XXXX (pompous ass name withheld)."
Him: "...that can't be."
Me. "It has an emphasis on co-op play and features Dr. Mossman."
Him: "No! He's trolling! He's lying!"
Me: "Then how come [3rd Man] is claiming it's real?"
Him: "Because you're both in on it! You're just fucking trolling me!"
From there we started throwing links into the chat window so him (and everyone else) could see that it's real. He wouldn't give, he kept making the claim that this was all an elaborate hoax. I remember asking him if I was the kind of guy that would spend considerable time creating fake images (and a YouTube video) of a HL expansion, just to mess with one guy on the internet I barely know. Guess the response.