people are saying valvetime also put this up on their twitter earlier but quickly removed it. not 100% sure about the situation itself but the tweets alone and their quick deletion but forget it at this point i'm not sure how much weirder it gets than laidlaw posting the entire plot to the series
managed to nab a screencap from the thread they were mentioned in

ValveTime doesn't know stuff.
they're all up their ass over half life 1 beta because Barnz is a junkie who stuffs out watered down versions of tiny scraps of beta content, February 2013 is not "the date when the real valve died"
They're handicaps, don't watch their stuffty content
He's covering his ass.
He was supposedly manning a Twitter account named 'BreenGrub' back in 2012, so this obviously isn't something he just came up in the past year. This is a plotline that's been there for years and VALVe never made a game from it.
He's not covering his ass, there was enough internet traffic to take down his website.
Everyone clicking at once over "EPISODE 3!!!!!!!!" you would think would cause enough of a blast to take down his site
thing's probably running on some small laptop
His NDA with episode 3 is up, so thats why hes posting the story
however Half-Life 3 is yet to be talked about since that was being worked on later throughout 2011-2016