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Heya guys! So right now I feel quite like wasting hours of my life on something. So I've decided to right (probably wrong and overly detailed) of the Half Life games and expansions. But first I'll have to clarify some things: Black Mesa will be the starting point, as I personally feel like Black Mesa's worldbuilding and minor details could help me alot to make my text longer than it has to be. I'll be leaving the text in the description (or whats of it right now) so yeah buy imma drink some pepsi.

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Dr. Isaac Kleiner
Sep 21
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I have a particularly strong head canon. I believe that Combine soldiers think just as much as you and me, but their memories are consistently wiped. Some of the Combine soldier lines from HLA supports this, promoting the idea that they're still "human" in there, but at any sign of questioning orders - "cognitive dissonance" - their memories are wiped, crushing any resistance they may have had. Imagine being in that scenario - you need to be completely compliant, both physically and mentally, because any rebellious thought you have leads to a significant wipe in memories. Maybe you still have some of your human memories left? Maybe they purposely left some intact to give you something to protect? You'll make sure to quell any rebellious thoughts you have in the future to make sure you get to hold onto any vestiges of humanity you might have, but it's difficult to control your thoughts. Time after time, your memories are ebbed away. Each passing day, you keeping forgetting things that were once meaningful to you. Your friends? You knew you had them, and they meant a lot, but you can't remember their names or faces now. Your family? Just a hole in your mind where you knew they once filled. Slowly, you manage to stop thinking for yourself. You comply, fall into line, perform atrocities against your own race; none of it matters to you now. All that matters is keeping what you have left intact.

I have a particularly strong head canon. I believe that Combine soldiers think just as much as you and me, but their memories are consistently wiped. Some of the Combine soldier lines from HLA supports this, promoting the idea that they're still "human" in there, but at any sign of questioning orders - "cognitive dissonance" - their memories are wiped, crushing any resistance they may have had. Imagine being in that scenario - you need to be completely compliant, both physically and mentally,…

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Mr. Hast
Sep 19
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Greetings Half-Life fans. I have a proposal for a reimagining of Half-Life: Return to Ravenholm if it ever gets a release. Wouldn't it be more logical to make Larry the main villain of this story instead of Grigori? After all, Grigori is a priest, not a geneticist. Judge for yourself. By the looks of it, he is clearly a brainy guy and has a good understanding of Jeff's actions, as if he influenced his creation. And in the end, how does he know his name? They were clearly colleagues, and he, in search of a means to calmly tolerate Xen flora, decided to test his serum on his friend, as a result of which a similar monster turned out. Then you can make a twist that it was because of him that the surviving inhabitants of Ravenholm turned into mindless zombies, and then he began to test the serum on himself. You could even make a boss fight where Larry turned into a more terrifying version of Jeff and began to summon other infected. The hospital can make a reference to CEDA.

Greetings Half-Life fans. I have a proposal for a reimagining of Half-Life: Return to Ravenholm if it ever gets a release. Wouldn't it be more logical to make Larry the main villain of this story instead of Grigori? After all, Grigori is a priest, not a geneticist. Judge for yourself. By the looks of it, he is clearly a brainy guy and has a good understanding of Jeff's actions, as if he influenced his creation. And in the end, how does he know his name? They were clearly colleagues, and he, in s…

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BreenGrub
Sep 17
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During the Water Hazard chapter, you pass by plenty of industrial areas, and in Ravenholm and Episode 2 you thoroughly explore the Victory Mines as well as the mines of Ravenholm, but what exactly is being produced and mined? I checked the Overwiki and it didn't have any answers, so what do y'all think?

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Half-Combined
Sep 14
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Does the Combine have holograms, like in Star Wars. I mean in HL:A you can unlock a holographic reflex sight.

Does the Combine have holograms, like in Star Wars. I mean in HL:A you can unlock a holographic reflex sight.

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taticus
Sep 22
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I don't know if I'm missing something here, but this doesn't make any sense: what am I talking about? well I'm talking about the HEV suit that Dr. Gorgues Freeman wears. Ahem* In the beginning of Half-Life 1 we ride a 5 minute tram through Black mesa, we see barney, also our Colleagues and do some trolling by destroying a Casserole and such. Soon we enter the Locker Room and move to the back of the room, we'll see 3 slots that holds the HEV suits but only 1 remains. After suiting up and fucking up an experiment and then go through hell. Later we're at the point where we go to the border world, but before we do, we'll see another set of HEV capsules in the room next the Border transporter but they are empty as well (this is taking forever so I'll just get to the point) after going to the border world we'll see dead scientist wearing the HEV suits, yadada blah blah more dead idiots, etc. we finally meet G-man and he congrats us on our un-fucking black mesa business, after a long talk he …

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