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    Half-Life I've just finished the Half-Life series and I loved it!

    August 13, 2021

    Half-Life I've just finished the Half-Life series and I loved it!

    I've just finished the Half-Life series and I loved it!

    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 09:45 AM PDT

    You guys asked, I answer. Here is Happy-Life

    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 03:02 PM PDT

    Stop attacking!

    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 05:30 PM PDT

    Are you ready for tomorrow?

    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 12:06 PM PDT

    Chapter 10 of the HL:A soundtrack dropped today

    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 01:22 PM PDT

    Half Life 3 enemy teaser

    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 01:33 AM PDT

    whos waiting to play half life alyx still cuz they cant afford vr?

    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 11:03 AM PDT

    It kinda grinds my gears thats i cant play this game yet after waiting over ten years. Its not that i cant afford it but i cant justify buying all thay vr stuff for just one game.

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    Half-Life Alyx Soundtack Chapter 10 has been released on Steam

    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 01:09 PM PDT

    AI generated half life picture

    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 06:09 PM PDT

    AI generated half life picture

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    https://preview.redd.it/8apch3kc48h71.jpg?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b78b81f653e37631f5a86747b1a6a4c6ed207072

    The discord server of the AI powered writing tool NovelAI has a "bob ross" channel where you give inputs to the bot and it creates pictures based on that.

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    Out off my large rotating wallpaper collection, these 2 paired up to make a magic desktop.

    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 05:49 PM PDT

    Let's settle this

    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 12:36 PM PDT

    Does Gordon Freeman wear a helmet?

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    Houndeye art made by kodakatTwitch.

    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 04:29 AM PDT

    [SFM] Is that all?

    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 07:26 PM PDT

    How should I feel about valve

    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 07:15 PM PDT

    I bought the final hours of half life alyx to see all the cool details and what not and looked around the headquarters it was cool until I saw the office area, it felt like the workers were trapped. I saw clothes hanging and trash under and around desks I understand that games take a lot of work to make and I enjoy the games but it just felt off.

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    Ah hello Gordon Freeman!

    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 10:48 PM PDT

    Is he going to make it?

    Posted: 12 Aug 2021 10:57 PM PDT

    More games like HalfLife?

    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 07:45 PM PDT

    I played HalfLife a while ago, and really enjoyed it. I'm wondering if there are any recommendations for games that are similar in playstyle? The suspense, action, and puzzle-solving were all really great!

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    Valve as the G-Man's employers

    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 04:45 AM PDT

    While nobody knows who the G-Man's "employers" are, after playing Half-Life: Alyx, I'm guessing that his employers are the Valve staff themselves. I've tried searching for a full post on this, but i only found this and this.

    Anyway, before discussing employers, I want to say that G-Man's mysteriousness and abilities imply that he exists somewhat outside of the in game universe. He can teleport between dimensions. He can bend the rules of physical space. He can even shift the speed and direction of time.

    But there's a small detail that really made me think of meta explanations for G-Man's character. At the end of Half-Life: Alyx, after killing the Advisor and saving Eli Vance, the G-Man says, "As a consequence of your action, this entity will continue, and this entity will not." Despite all of G-Man's weirdness, he uses fairly common vocabulary, so his use of the word "entity" really surprised me. Google defines "entity" to mean "thing with distinct and independent existence." I would expect G-Man to collectively refer to Eli and the Advisor as something along the lines of "organism," but his usage of the word "entity" (a word so broad in its definition) implies that he views both Eli, the Advisor, and likely everything else from an extremely abstract level. Additionally, the only time I've heard "entity" refer to a person and an alien is... in a programming context. In fact, in GoldSrc and Source Engines 1 and 2, entities refer to any object which is not a part of "the world" and provides interactive behavior in the game, which includes NPCs such as Eli and the Advisor. Given that fact and G-Man's god-like powers, it wouldn't surprise me if G-Man could read and write to the game's programming directly. However, there's one hole in this part of the theory that I'm having trouble reconciling, but for now, let's just assume this is the case.

    So, assuming that G-Man is aware that Half-Life is a game and can manipulate the code, this opens up possibilities for Half-Life lore to interact with the real world. This makes Valve a near perfect candidate for G-Man's employers. As a company, Valve's interest is to sell games. Half-Life is their narrative based IP for innovation in PC gaming, and as an ambassador for Valve, the intentions behind G-Mans actions become very clear.

    • He gifts the Lambda Core sample GG-3883 in order to give Valve a narrative for Half-Life 1.
    • He both saves and traps Adrian Shepherd in Opposing Force in order to keep the story going. Later, he blows up Black Mesa to bring the Combine to Earth and start the events of Half-Life 2.
    • He saves Gordon Freeman in both main Half-Life games so that Valve can continue making sequels.
    • In Episode 2 and Alyx, he mentions needing to abide by "certain restrictions" as agreed upon by his employers (such as only monitoring Gordon Freeman's progress and refusing to remove the Combine from Earth) so that players have an actual game to play.
    • In Alyx, he allows Alyx to save her father in order to open up possibilities for, dare I say it, Half-Life 3.

    Essentially, every "nudge" made by the G-Man is done with the sole purpose of giving Valve more opportunities to develop Half-Life games.

    There are some other details too that make more sense which are not directly related to G-Man's actions.

    • In Half-Life 2, Dr. Breen tells Gordon Freeman that his contract was open to the highest bidder. Bidders could literally be Valve employees deciding which games they would put Freeman in.
    • In Alyx, Gordon Freeman being "unable or unwilling to fulfill the tasks at hand" is literally just Valve not being able to finish Half-Life games.
    • In all Half-Life games, Valve relays their intentions through the G-Man and remains hidden from the plot, because it doesn't make sense for Valve to directly interact with their own game.

    The lists are obviously non-exhaustive, but overall that's the main part of the theory. Now, about the hole in the theory: the vortigaunts. They're shown to impede the G-Man in both Episode 1 and Alyx. If G-Man is a code reading creature, then explaining the vortigaunts is difficult. There are multiple possibilities. Maybe the vortigaunts themselves can also read the game code, although at a much less coherent level, and the theory still somewhat works. Alternatively, the G-Man is just a creature from Xen with unfathomable power, and any link from the game to the outside world vanishes. Or maybe G-Man is a creature from Xen and all creatures from Xen can read code (after all, they do call Xen the "border world.")

    Whatever it may be, I'm not sure how to handle the vortigaunts, but I think the G-Man's powers and the clarity given to his actions with Valve-as-employers are enough to make this theory, at the very least, interesting.

    Bonus: If G-Man can read code and controls the Half-Life games according to Valve's will, then his name might not mean "government-man," but instead "game-man" much like DnD's GM or "game master."

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    Covid variant named Lambda scares the hell out of me.... "I've just confirmed the sample is ready for you gordon, it should be coming up at any moment. Look to the delivery vehicle for your specimin"

    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 04:15 AM PDT

    Which version of Half-Life do you think is the best for modding?

    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 03:45 AM PDT

    The hype for tomorrow is real

    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 04:48 PM PDT

    House of the Dev Podcast with HL2 Art Director Viktor Antonov [OT]

    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 01:19 PM PDT

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    Posted: 13 Aug 2021 07:28 PM PDT
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