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Marc Laidlaw unironically inspired me to become a writer myself. He has such a tight grip on deep existantial themes that you won't find in any other game or movie. It would be an unforgiveable shame if Valve were to disregard the lore Marc original wrote for the Half Life/Portal universe.

This is one of top 5 half life videos for sure. Unrelated rant, but on the matter of common complaints i hear from different people about HLA...valve already retconned HL2 with Episode 1/Aftermath. It would have been nice if a short episode three tied up the HL2 arc with some of epistle 3's ideas (remember, Laidlaw himself said it was a hodge podge of ep3 draft ideas and metacritique of his industry experience, not cut and dry canon), but its been made pretty clear this year by valve devs that the decade+ of radio silence on half life was because they were trying perfect Source 2 because theyre envisioning an experience as radical and fresh as HL1 was.

This is excellent! Will anymore news-style Half-Life videos be coming?

Its so cool when games takes real event figures and then make it to their games event history

This is what I think of the combine: 🖕

Come back to watch this often and absolutely love it ! Really great work !

can i use a few of your half life videos? I wont forget to credit you.

11:25 i like to think that the parasite *THEY* modified was the sack tick from the beta

So basically everytime breen is transformed to other host body he's losing some of his memories and he's gaining some new. Sounds like brainwashing process to slowly change his personality so that breens main focus is to obtain more knowledge and power, there's no more breen, who was that?

About the description, I think Marc pushed valve into what we got at the end of HL:A. They had to change everything, if marc havent released epistle 3 then valve would probably just change some details without changing story too much.

The vortigaunts have some explaining to do.

No mention of Adrian Shepherd

Even with this not being real, Gore's words hurt to hear, know both the fate of humanity and that this would have been the one and only time our species united as one unilateral force, if not for the Resistance 20 years later.

I'm kind of confused. What is Breen Grub? Is it his "host body" that he talks to the Advisor about?

1:01-1:04 - You can see the man sitting to the right of the President who was probably the G-Man's employer. All makes sense now.

Is that real

the thought parasite is brain rot

Even through such an unimaginable existential nightmare Breen's scientific nature of inquiry, deconstruction, and theory persists. A wonderful detail that shows the depth of his brilliance, flawed as he may have been. Most any other human's mind would have broken under such stress.

This song is great! I love the horns

Wtf BLACK MASA WAS REAL WTFFFF

Australia wildlife jokes are not and never have been funny.

"Composers of intricate art forms?" "Builders of unseen worlds?" Able to control their physical form? Are the Shu'ulathoi basically GMod players? Gamers, even?

¿Why i feel i was there?

What are we, some kinda Half-Life (1998)?

Fantastic Work! Love it!

Ahh yes where it mostly sends you to synergy where you'll see other half life'd despot's scavenging for lambda locators and murdering everything for them like a drug that's never satisfied.

Half Life community is so malnourished from any attention or updates they've started slaughtering unicorns for their blood, a sad but eventual reality.

Is it just me?, or is the someone at the beginning sounds like Issac Kleiner?.

Spoiler: Snape kills Eli Vance

New stuff from Macdrown? It’s more likely than you think. open.spotify.com/album/16P2kuiUlZ79axRq2mrum9?si=Mya5d9PlS4KDlCyTV6-gYw

Gordon doesn't need to hear all this; he's a highly trained professional.

Rise and shine, Mister Freeman... Rise and, shine...

HELLO GORDON

I wonder what are they upto nowadays

Adding some glitches like fast forward for a second and then slowing down the video would make it more believable

Perhaps in a last bid to survive, G-man, and his peers and employers, decided to refine and shape the parasitic thoughts dormant within them all to emerge from his pupal form as entities that could use psychic abilities and dreams to bring merely even a fraction of their dreamy, metaphysical power into the real world, to escape the confines of the Combine invaders.

If the grubs are just verisons of people that can copied over snd over again,that means it may be possible to bring laszlo back and reunite him with sandy and the rebels.if breen grub styas,im praying we get to reverse the grub and get true lazslo back,hell maybe even see winston again if he lived after those gun wounds

the urge to put this in a vhs and place it in a store is insane

Ai will never beat actual voice acting

Sending condolences for the people who lost their lives during the incident

The Half-Life universe is a lot larger than merely the Combine or even G-Man

Judging by what he says of "them" it's likely that whatever the true combine species is, isn't even a physical species. More like a strange metaphysical lifeform

these ytps are autistic kid heroin

Incredible concept. A species of creature that uses telepathy and cognitive symbiosis during their incubation period to prepare them for adulthood. But their shared imagination can create worlds, realities, all at whim. It's like an analogy for dreamers, creators. Video game makers.

will isn't this quite a disturbing message

"Now, for an interview with a survivor of the Black Mesa incident. Sir, would you like to tell us about your experiences?" "Galunga!"

This reminds me in a way of the story All Tomorrows

While this is cool, I feel like it's mildly childish to just pretend like Half Life Alyx isn't canon simply because you don't like it

Nobody gives Breen enough credit; he LITERALLY PREVENTED humanity’s extinction

I hope something like this (with the ai voice) is used in infinite finality or interlude. Really encapsulates the idea of a trapped sentience.