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steam's 20th anniversary celebration is going on right now and there's a bunch of art on the front page of characters doing memes from different years of game releases. and the 2020 one.
#hl#hla#hl:a#half life alyx#half-life alyx#half-life: alyx#half life: alyx#half-life#gman#g-man#g man#shitpost#meme#half life
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"Why, Faraday here is completely harmless! He's got just enough static electricity to make your hair stand on end."
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FOLLOW FREEMAN.
#half-life#hl1#half-life 2#hl2#half-life alyx#hl:a#hl#gordon freeman#g-man#black mesa#fanart#digital art#art#my art#art of the day#i draw stuff
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Half Life 1 is an interestin' game (and the themes go to the entire series, so, uh, spoilers for all of it).
It's a game where there's a certain inevitability to things. Gordon will have to push that crystal into the anti-mass spectrometer. The second he got on the Black Mesa Transit System it became inevitable. Hence why the first time we see G-Man is on that journey.
But, even if it wasn't Gordon, it'd've been someone else. Breen was pushing for it, G-Man was involved in it and his "Employers" were counting on it and who knows what other forces were involved too.
Half Life 1, and Half Life overall, is a linear game series. Most linear games are, when you think about it, inevitable stories. Tram rides. Half Life subtly alludes to this fact. Even the final "choice", also done on a tram, isn't really a choice at all "Do as I say or die".
In Half Life 2 G-Man just outright says it, "Rather than offer you the illusion of free choice, I will take the liberty of choosing for you...", even that illusion was something he was no longer bothered with.
Even with G-Man's is partially impeded by the Vortigaunts, he finds the perfect moment to get to Freeman and to taunt Eli. Unforeseen consequences.
The Vortigaunts blocked G-Man from Freeman, so he went into the past and took Alyx. "A previous hire has been unable — or unwilling — to perform the tasks laid before him. We have struggled to find a suitable replacement. Until now." even linear time cannot stop G-Man from getting his way. Alyx may've been around in 2 and the episodes, but she was already doomed to be the next 'hire'.
The capture was also an 'illusion of choice'. He offered Alyx a "choice", asked her a question "What would you want nudged, Ms Vance?", but he already knew what he would do "What if I could offer you something you don't know you want?".
Though, there's another part right before that line that I cut out "Too large [a nudge], given the interests of my employers.", G-Man is the most powerful singular thing we ever get to see. He's still working under something else.
And, who knows, maybe they're working under something else too.
Gordon got on that tram before he was even playable. G-Man got on his tram offscreen. Whatever is beyond him... must've gotten on a tram too.
An isotope doesn't choose its half-life. The rules of reality dictate it. A half-life character doesn't choose its existence, either. It is dictated for them.
Hmm, a little off-topic conclusion aside: it's really no bloody wonder The Stanley Parable started as a Half-Life 2 mod, is it?
#half life#half life 1#gordon freeman#g man#g-man#half life 2#wait you can also spell 'half life' with a hyphen#I should do that too#half-life#half-life 1#half-life 2#half life alyx#half-life alyx#eli vance#alyx vance
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Today in "funnier in light of a (sort of) prequel": Doctor Breen's "highest bidder" line in Half-Life 2. Given how Half-Life Alyx reveals that the G-Man had been the prisoner of the Combine for a while, we've got three possibilities here:
the G-Man used time travel shenanigans to undo his capture (and thus a supermajority of the plot of Half-Life Alyx), and Doctor Breen was unwittingly implying that the possibility had existed that the Combine could have done business with a guy who'd been their prisoner;
the G-Man left the events of HLA largely unchanged, and Doctor Breen was knowingly going "Hey, Gordon, did you know that if things had gone differently, we could have been the ones to hire you from that guy we stuffed in a box that was powered by vortigaunts in order to try to contain him?"; or
regardless of which of 1 or 2 is the case, the G-Man didn't consider his imprisonment to be sufficient reason not to do business with the Combine
and all three of these possibilities are objectively hilarious.
#shenanigans#half-life#half life#half-life 2#half life 2#half-life alyx#half life alyx#half-life alyx spoilers#half life alyx spoilers#doctor breen#wallace breen#g-man#g man#gordon freeman
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Half-Life: Alyx Soundtrack Covers
1. Entanglement
2. The Quarantine Zone
3. Is Or Will Be
4. Superweapon
5. The Northern Star
6. Arms Race
7. Jeff
8. Captivity
9. Revelations
10. Breaking & Entering
11. Point Extraction
#don't mind me i've just been staring at these for the past week#they look so good. eating them#also yay it only took valve 232340 years to finish uploading the last chapter of the soundtrack#business as usual#half-life#half-life alyx#half life
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I realized I never uploaded this here, so!! these're some headcrab and lightning dog studies i did in Procreate back in like, june 2021 while watching @goosterbold & @friendlyfrankenstein stream Half-Life: Alyx! (including some doodles of Da Bug) was a lot of fun, especially getting to digitally mimic charcoal sketchin'. i should do studies more often....
i might upload some of my backlog, but hope this suffices for now (since I never post any dang art!!! sorry folks!!!)
#cosmic arternity#headcrab#lightning dog#half-life#half-life alyx#horror#body horror#ask to tag#just in case i mightve missed anything with the tags here!#half-life alyx spoilers#also that just in case oops#poison headcrab#to me headcrabs are just like raw chickens walking around and they delight me to no end#if i were in half-life 2 i would also have a pet headcrab like kleiner he has the right idea yknow#teeth#creepy
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practising digital art rn, did a draw of demoman tf2, combine grunt hla, and master chief's boobs torso piece
#happy with this stuff so far :)#digital portrait#halo#half-life#halflife#half-life alyx#hl alyx#combine#master chief#tf2#demoman#also spent ages trying to figure out what kind of beanie demo had for lighting reasons#ignore the Lighting Ball it was earliest in the drawings lmao#practice#lighting#my art
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In Half-Life: Alyx, there’s a tiger skull in an abandoned zoo, it’s red and appears to still be wet. Contrast this to the giraffe skeleton which it totally dry and white, and it suggests the tiger was alive much more recently. In an antlion infested zoo, there’s really only one food source to be had: the antlions
Drew the Half-Life 2 antlion because it was easier to draw, at least compared to the Half-Life Alyx antlion
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We've got work to do.
#half life#half-life#half life alyx#gordon freeman#alyx vance#eli vance#gman#hla#hl:a#half-life alyx#half life: alyx#g-man#g man#hl#sfm#s2fm#sourcefilmmaker#source filmmaker
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made a crossover fanfic. i may be cringe but i am free
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Half-Life Alyx: LEVITATION - Gameplay Trailer
#half-life alyx levitation#half-life alyx#fmpone#corey laddo#adventure games#sci-fi games#vr games#trailer
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Oh hey I'm live! Trying out Half-Life Alyx! Come say hi! c:
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So much for medical supplies.
If there was ever a character I would never stop wanting to draw, it would be Alyx Vance from Half-Life series. So here she is the bowls of City 17, navigating a run down and crab-head zombie infested old hospital. Trying to reach the evacuation trains out of the soon to be doomed city, while being hounded by the Combine for the information she’s trying to get to her father at white forest. Well, at least she’s found a shotgun, which should make getting out easier.
#alyx vance#alyx vance fanart#half-life#half-life 2#half-life alyx#half-life fanart#valve#city 17#video games#Video game characters#video games fanart#illustration#pen and ink drawing#caricature#cartoon#fanart
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Alyx: (uses her multitool to open a Combine lock. BZZT-BZZT)
Gordon: That's a nice ... gizmo you've got there.
Alyx: I know, right? It's had lots of improvements over the years. Just five years ago, I would've had to do a whole 3D minigame if I wanted to open a door like this!
#shenanigans#half-life 2#half life 2#half-life alyx#half life alyx#half-life: alyx#half life: alyx#alxy vance#gordon freeman#microfiction#my stuff#my writing#my fanfiction#half-life#half life
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