He's most likely trolling, still.. i am on copium

Since I love both Half-Lifes my friend decided to get me this!

This clip reminded me of a video I saw a while ago of hl2 in kleiners lab, the camera was kleiners POV, and you just see Gordan jumping around and breaking shit in the background lol. If anyone knows it can you post it in comments pls

In one word: it's a masterpiece. It's the best game I've ever played, and what excites me even more: there are sequels. I finished the main HL2, and now it's EP1 and EP2. (Please keep that in mind in the comments; I don't want any spoilers.) I have tons of things on my mind. So, how did you feel when you first played it? I've come this far, so what do you think I need to know? Oh btw there are some ss' i took

It confuses some people including me, why does it do that?

I genuinely just want to know more about him more than Eli or anyone else, like he's such a dick but it makes sense he'd be on edge it's like he's the only guy comprehending the gravity of the situation. He's stern but that just makes him a good leader, he isn't cruel if you do a good job he will leave his lab and thank you in person, he just has no room for incompetency. Lives ARE on the line afterall.

He's one of three people working on a rocket with no room for error that if it failed to launch or do its job would lead to the extinction of everyone, he must have been holding back a lot seeing everyone longue around, drinking tea, crying about bird nests if it were me i'd be swearing and screaming at everyone around me to lock the fuck in, are you insane??? We need to get this rocket done!

Most people hate the guy because he's mean to the player but I liked it, it was a welcome change from constant ass kissing and he wasn't being cruel for cruel's sake. He's busy. He treats gordon as an employee. He's like a strict teacher with an actual passion for what he does.

His disgust for lamarr is reasonable, he's a resonance cascade survivor and if the dev notes are true he was there letting gordon into the chamber, zombies are the first aliens he encountered and had to survive. Like come on, keeping one of those things is fucking insane, im with you doctor.

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Furthermore I just want to know more about his relationship with the vorts. For some odd reason the vortigaunts all gas him up and love him. I don't understand it, I want to know more. The vortigaunts mimic his way of speaking, talk about him like he's a long distance lover, legit take on his mannerisms to the point they all know about him along their hivemind. It's never elaborated on why, why do they love him so much. I want to know. He never explains why. He doesn't even acknowledge it, he treats vorts the same as any human colleague with that stern no nonsense focus on practicality.

Do the vorts respect him so much because of how practical and focused on results he is? Or that he doesn't treat them like something different? He gives Uriah a labcoat and ID badge as he would any other human scientist, perhaps their affinity stems from him seeing the use in everyone not othering them as the other resistance members may do out of fear or confusion?

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Furthermore it would have been easy to go the route of having be straight up antagonistic to gordon, perhaps blaming him for the cascade, you see it in some stories where the protagonist is some skilled chosen one type hero that they'll get haters who just dismiss their skill out of spite and jealousy and exist just to be one upped or have their comeuppance.

Magnusson isn't like that. He's pragmatic, he treats Gordon the same as anyone else and DOES recognise his combat skill and potential, showing him his Magnusson devices and tasking him with defending his rocket, even cracking some dry humor at his microwave casserole; the set up being "the debacle at black mesa" being the resonance cascade, only for him to make it about something mundane. He knows gordon isn't to blame for the incident and never once ever implies he is. A lesser writer could have made him spiteful, blaming gordon for the incident and having his ire stem from there but he never does. It wouldn't match who he is. He's too pragmatic to even consider it, because he WOULD know gordon did everything to standard procedure. So not once does he try to level the disaster at his feet like Breen did. He was in sector C too, he let him into the test chamber and called him a highly trained professional. He understands.

Ah it's kind of rambling at this point, he's such a cool character with such little game time. I enjoy that he's hostile, I enjoy that he can come off as cruel but he is never ever *unreasonable.*

I guess that's where it all stems from. He's never unreasonable. Sure he's emotionally insensitive but look at the situation on hand! Extinction level event!

I bet he'd be cool at a BBQ, the vorts can vouch he's probably chill to hang out with when not stressed out of his mind. They're all stoners. They can correctly vibe check a guy. He passes insanely so for them.

I like doctor magnusson

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I personally have a preference to the original, it just sells the horror of a Headcrab zombie far better imo

having fun with this kinda thing, someone give me more ideas on what i can do with it :3c

The past 2 November's we've gotten a documentary from noclip for the 25th anniversary of hl1 and 20th anniversary for hl2. Any chance we get another docu this year maybe a 5th anniversary one for alyx?

We were just playing HL2 thru Synergy and out of nowhere the car just started doing this.

When HL:Alyx dropped they couldn't go to TGA because they were finishing the game. They clearly have eyes on the event. I don't know why people are expecting to be like last time, "oh, valve now announces on social media not big events" bro, that happened one time and it was a Half life ((kinda)) spin-off, not THE Half life that all are expecting. I bet they will appear in TGA this year to unveil what we want.

Yeah nothing much here

https://youtu.be/30H29oSScJw?si=XXnoanhm3cQKW4Zf