Children, we must tell ye of a tale.
Saxton Hale, the smartest (and ruggest) man alive, hates hippies. Hippies, who in their lust for total domination of the world's pot mines, plants lottery tickets in every computer. These aren't normal lottery tickets, if you win, you win
death!. So, Saxton Hale uses his own, magnificent, chiseled abs to destroy each and every hippie, until he found out that each computer was tainted with Hippie scent. So... He went on the phone and asked Valve to release a new update to get rid of the Hippieness.
Sad story, yes, but it distracted you while servers are down. Let's hope Mr. Hale asks for Half Life 2:Episode 3 while he's at it.
EDIT: Shame the Demoman thingy wasn't nerfed.
