Girls don't wan't to grow up to be an engineer or a programmer They watch TV and want to be like that little troll Snooky. Sad but true.
I would like to think it's in reference to globalization and that it will vastly expand upon how the late game is played. Right now, the game's over by renaissance / industrial era and the last 100 or so turns are a bore.
The new Half-Life will be Virtual Reality and place you in Gordon Freeman's office doing complex physics problems.
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