The HORRIFIC CONSEQUENCES of the XEN INFECTION | Half Life Alyx Explained
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- The cross contamination events that take place after Earth was conquered are absolutely PLENTIFUL. But one such infection if no contained, could spell the end of Humanity. One person, part of a containment effort, would be infected by something beyond what appears to be the norm. As he was altered and changed into something not quite human we have to ask how far this infection could spread and what are the ultimate end points of it.
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You feeling okay mr roanoke? did your sodium spike or something?
What's giving you the migraine? I advise you drink water, maybe eat some sugar for blood pressure, and lay down.
Future biologist here. Well your rant on symbiotisk is simi true as a symbiotic relation just mean they are living together. But i Will say the all the fungus you mention are parasitic symbiotic as the loss of consiousness and other side effects will decrease host’s fitness to reproduce.
I kinda wish they made a non vr version of this game, I feel this was a poor business decision.
I have quite a few movies as suggestions for you. Do I list them here or elsewhere?
Dude those aura migraines are no joke, I have to sleep them off for six hours before I can do anything.
Fucking mood.
I'm about due for one so I'm just bidding my time and hopping it doesn't happen at work
Do you vape ?
@@davidcooper8892 no, it's genetic.
Some of my migraines I have the choice of passing out or throwing up, and rarely I don't even get the choice. Not fun considering I seem to have a stomach of scrap iron and rarely ever throw up. 😅
Oh, sweet, horrors beyond mortal comprehension
So, any average Roanoke video 😂 or are there anglerfish? I'm still recovering from the manglerfish one lol
Remain silly brother
Don't sell yourself short. I'm sure you could comprehend it if you want to
This should have more likes
I agree, hunt down the freeman should never have been released
"what if trees were predatory"
HDG.
With Space Marine 2 dropping soon, I think it is a good time to visit the beginning antagonists of the first game. Our favorite green fungus, the orkz
I remember being a teenage bum working a dead-end job at the front desk of a hotel when I first saw Roanoke's videos on the Necromorphs from Dead Space. That was almost five years ago! How time flies.
I won the genetic lottery of not getting the intense pain light sensitivity migraines from my mom (a win as I sure got plenty of other negatives from her) in only getting the ocular migraines rarely. Annoying on how sometimes one eye cant see anything past the Bismuth crystal like shimmering shape slowly getting larger across my field of vision.
10:30
Damnit, Roanoke!!!
Jeff suffering unimaginable pain and suffering
Everyone else: “oh that’s just Jeff, that’s kinda what he does”
That's the life of all Jeffs, unimaginable pain and suffering.
@@StarkeRealm"my name's Jeff"
I’ve got a chronic pain disorder and that’s basically how people treat you
Fun fact for 1:20 lion fish are invasive in the Caribbean however divers are trying to teach reef sharks the proper way to hunt them and last I checked were having W results
That's pretty cool. Last I was aware some divers were straight up coming them with pistols.
Teaching another fish to eat them is a more elegant solution.
After opening the door and being confronted by Jeff I completely forgot he couldn't see and spent the next 15-20 minutes trying to avoid him even looking at me; encountering him up close for the first time really threw me off guard.
Given that there was only one Jeff, I agree with your take that despite being extra-dimensional, the mold/fungus could only affect those who have a depleted immune system.
While HIV or other autoimmune diseases are the go to, I would still avoid those spaces if I had any sort or respiratory infection, be it a bronchitis, pneumonia, or COVID.
I can just see Jeff's infamous last words: "it's just a cold . . ."
Makes me wonder the story about him too, what happened down there? we see other dead combine cleanup workers, was that jeffs doing?
came here faster than my dad went to get milk
Is that in km or miles?
Just came in general
Uf 😅
@@MrFakefall km
Came 🎉
Dear roanoke i encourage u to do a deep dive on the falmer transfer from snow elves to what we see in Skyrim thx (DAY:5)
I support
This does actually sound interesting, but he did basically cover that in a past video about a movie with devolved humans that were basically just the Falmer. No clue what the movie was called.
That was "The Descent"
Boring already done
Day 795 of reminding Roanoke to finish The Strain and give a lore and morphology of the Strigori.
I wonder what scientific explanation can explain what the Strigori are afflicted with
Literally back4blood infection
@@murderlesson101 Before Back4Blood and better than Back4Blood
@@tirefish oh i know but that kid on that show sucked completely… the ridden are damn near to a tee and the worms are definitely based on the strain.
You've commented that everyday for more than two years? 🤨
That's commitment if true 😂
10:29 that was a dick move bro
Still not as horrific as those pesky anglerfish!
0:28 ok, I’m 33, but it was confirmed Costco steak did it
one of those places just opened down here
I'm 33 as well and I've dodged that bullet a couple times now luckily
The first 30 seconds were a haze, never been so lost in my life
Every time I think about Half-Life 2 I think about when I played a little of it and the start where you throw the can at the guard or in the trashcan.
In a shot I couldn't reproduce if my life depended on it, I bounced the can off the guy's head and it landed in the trash. He started to get really mad, took a step forward, and then thanked me or whatever and resumed his post.
The second thing I think about is Half-Life 2: Full Life Consequences
Best fanfic in the history of fanfics.
Parasitism is a type of symbiosis but not all symbiosis is mutualism. There's actually like 9 different types of symbiosis and only one is mutualistic. Most parasites don't result in the death of the host. Parasites that "have no problem sucking the host dry" are known as parasitoids. So while you're right when you say the last of us is an example of symbiosis, the type of symbiosis is parasitism.
Interesting, makes sense that there's subcategories though and I've wondered how much parasitism and symbiosis can or does overlap given how... It's pretty likely imo that parasites came first and some eventually learned to not kill their hosts and the ones that learned to be nice to their hosts eventually started being rewarded for being better neighbors and sooner or lately spawned fully mutualistic symbiotes, but irdk, probably a bit of a chicken or the egg sutuation, but still interesting to think about. Also, as someone passively interested in speculative biology and definitely interested in any real world biology that might effect pets I own/have owned/plan to own, interested if you have any suggestions for interesting stuff to look up? Just anything but parasitic worms, I've already met one really bad one that ate one of my fish... Yeah I'll take black grubs over that any day, even though I believe they're parasitic flatworms, but at least they're small and usually only affect the tail just under the skin, unlike gut or muscle parasites who are just rude imo
@@discordiacreates6669for speculative bio look up human bot flies and the phoresy they do, as well as new world screw worm. Unless you live in South America I wouldn’t be worried about either of those infesting your pets tho. Parasitoid wasps that lay their eggs in aphids are cool too.
That all makes sense, but he also said that Headcrabs are parasites when the body is still alive? The body even adapts to be better at hunting.
@@yeetyote4791 thanks, and hey, I've actually heard of human botflies, super creepy and I find it very weird that at least one human has willingly been infested by them, although it does pose some interesting questions. I mean, botflies are parasites and my only personal experience with them is them wiping out my late mother's show rabbits, think we were both especially upset about the rexs, but it is pretty interesting nonetheless that they actually only become dangerous if stressed or rng put them in a bad position for both parties. Creepily enough, I could see one species in that group trying for symbiosis in their own way, though that seems more fitting for an alien planet ngl. Have to look up screw worms though, but wasps that use aphids as hosts? I've personally met a species that uses caterpillars and have a love/hate relationship with those ruby red beauties, absolutely gorgeous and was a very calm and peaceful creature so I just had to let them fly free, but I was still a bit mortified when one of the only two swallowtail chrysalis I've found outside and fostered for a short time, didn't hatch into a butterfly. Can't truly hate butterfly wasps though, they're just too passive toward humans, pretty, and I've raised a few caterpillars from eggs before so I know they play a vital role as caterpillars are naturally gluttons and will eat themselves to extinction without some limitor... So I guess at least some parasites are truly essential creatures and shouldn't be shunned or ignored, I'll definitely have to give them a bit more love when I'm designing concepts for speculative ecosystems. Thanks!
@@SSpencer726 um... I'm not sure I'd classify that as alive, otherwise how do you define a fresh corpse? Sure, not instantly dead in every cell, but I'm pretty sure having your skull ripped open and brain lanced like that is pretty much an instant KO, although I think they'd be more in line with decomposers if they did allow the body itself to drop when the brain is severed, though they do probably fall under some more extreme subcategory of parasites since the way they do it is... Well, not entirely unheard of in the animal kingdom on Earth, it's just primarily an insect thing to replace the brain of a creature with one's own self
Literally in the field right now for military operations watching this lmfao
My units about to be on one tommorow haha
Haha nobody asked, lemme guess ur marines by the way you're flexing
I wish I knew about roanoke while I was still serving, his videos would have been a welcome reprieve in the field
I wish I had this tech when I was in the army doing field exercises. All I had was a a ps2 and FFVII
@@SaraSara-oe6il no I’m saying this is more important than the military for me what are you talking about
A high percentage of people usually click off these videos when the speaker stops narrating and starts explaining something, but I have a hard time clicking off in general, and I really enjoy the whole bunch you make:)
Roanoke Gaming, great content dude
My family all get horrible migraines also. My mom gets them so bad she gets Botox in her scalp for them every 3 months..
Our saving grace though has been Diclofenec Sodium topical gel! It's an over the counter anti-inflammatory arthritis cream that's been a life saver for any pain you can imagine, but you rub a little of that on your forehead, neck, I do my scalp even if it's really bad, and it's the only thing my mom finds relief in anymore besides the shots! We buy the stuff in bulk even, because we use it for all sorts of aches and pains every day, it's seriously the closest thing to a cure-all I've ever experienced.
I had salmonella from a restaurant burger. 1/10 would not recommend.
I got food poisoning from listeria contaminated hummus. Put me in the hospital for a week and begging to be put out of my misery.
@ReikaLady yikes. I didn't go to the hospital. I should have and I'm lucky I didn't die. My body was releasing things which I won't name for 3 days straight.
@thetacticalpuertorican I went to the ER because I couldn't keep water down. Otherwise I probably would have tried to ride it out at home.
And yeah what came out belonged in a horror movie.
@ReikaLady well, I'm glad you made it out the other side! I just saw on the news the listeria cases that killed at least 9.
How much did you get from the lawsuit?
Never had the chance to play this because of the whole VR thing. This was very intriguing as all your content is. Thank you papa Roanoke!
there's a flat panel mod out there. it's not the same thing but it's better than not playing at all. i would personally recommend waiting if you think you might be able get a vr headset at some point
@@aarontrupiano9328 The only type VR tech I want is SAO, Fallout, the danger room from Xmen not something that is basically a phone strapped to your face.
@@johnnormington1311 that's fantasy stuff that doesn't even make sense if you think about it critically
@@Acefreezies Don't care they are much better than some crappy electronic swimming goggles.
@@johnnormington1311 They don't and won't exist
2:42 That looks somehow stupidly hilarious, idk
"Beware of the blob"
Roanoke, a question! Speaking of Jeff's head splitting in half, what are your thoughts on dividing the brain into independent halves a la the Twins from that one Russia game? People have survived severe head trauma with an entire hemisphere of the brain removed but then what happens if the removed half is maintained on its own?
Not 100% sure if this answers the question but from what I've read the other hemisphere just starts making up shit for why stuff is happening. I remember I read a study a while back about some people, I think it might have been TBI patients who had both hemispheres but without the inter-hemisphere connection. What happened was they would have the left side pick something up and then ask what was going on, and the right side would make up something about doing something or other. I don't remember exactly.
Shout out to all the macrophages punching spores in our lungs
Great vid with Hazardous Environments playing in the background, chefs kiss
Pro life tip, if you're concerned about salmonella or a reptile to build resistance over years. Or, go to culinary school, they don't know how to cook yet and you'll gain immunity pretty quick.
Smallpox isnt Gone?
@@slevinchannel7589 salmonella, it's a different disease. Bacterial infection, not viral.
... But you can't...
I don't know why, but i would love to see a cross-over of Roanoke and Zefrank to do an infection/animal whatever commentary video together.
Roanoke can you examine the vampires and pillar men from jjba?
We have a *worse* fate than qssimilating into combined synths headcrabs and even waiting for a new half life game!
Kung-flu 2: Electric Boogaloo
I found that a lot funnier than I should of 😂😂
Roanoke I’m allergic to penicillin, am I screwed?
Would you let bacteria win or go down due to penicillin denying it a W?
Be a man!
No, bacteria is slowly becoming resistant to penicillin.
We're all screwed.
9:35 me taking deep breaths to prove human superiority over everything in the air only to get lightheaded, pass out, fall and put my name on a headstone
I think that while for the moment it won't be bad but things evolve, and like one of characters from Jurassic Park said "Life finds a way." and life will find a way there.
8:41 Flesh Light Growths? Man, that is a messed up fungus.
I like how vaccines are just putting a bookmark in your body's tactical search engine.
Jeff seems like a ... fungi.... Alright, before I see myself out, can symbiotic worms keep you alive forever? I won't stop plugging Blade of the Immortal until you review it. Besides, it's good for engagement right?
Oy! Pilipins! Pilipins! Seriously though I'm surprised you only covered Jeff now but better late than never!
Could you please make a video about "cell"?
It's a movie about mobile phones zombifying ppl trough a shriek after they pick up a call.
Roanoko Zoro is my favorite One Piece character
That E.coli bit with the tossing of salad had me in stitches lol, please do The langoliers
I did not expect an overview lecture on the Mechanisms of Adaptive Immunity at the start of this video. The traumas of immunology class are coming back to haunt me
Day 4 of asking Roanoke to face his fears and cover subnautica.
Jeff seems like a real "fun guy"... I'll see myself out.
Day 4 asking for creature 1998 review
My Pavlovian training kicked in when the outro music and I instinctively liked the video at the ~4:00 mark
In the early CDC investigations of what was called GRID (AIDS), the pathologists, who had had seen the worst diseases imaginable, had to leave the room to throw up. What they saw during autopsy was bodies being digested from the inside out by fungal infections. Pretty gruesome.
Early notification gang where you at?!
I'd actually argue it's still parasitic, though since parasitic is a type of symbiotic relationship, its still okay to call them symbiotic, but everything else you said makes me think you mean a beneficial symbiosis. But considering it completely prevents the host from completing the Main Quest all living organisms have while benefiting from the resources of the host, its definitely parasitic
Oh! But the technical classification for this would probably be an obligatory conjuctive (or maybe endosymbiotic) parasistic relationship!
A great series of videos to go along with this is the ones where a global breakdown of humanity post combine invasion and post black mesa incident is shown.
By the time Freeman arrives humanity is >1 billion humans.
Commenting this to say I think you would love sons of the forest and it’s odd creatures. The mix between religion and mutation could make a good topic
You need a compilation video of every time you said, "You are now breathing manually." XD
Could you do an video over the monsters from Alice: Madness Returns? If it's not to much to ask.
9:56 That made me laugh so hard i fell off my chair because i always picture the immune systeme to be like that with absolutly everything it encounter
Alternatively, Jeff found out why you dont take a "Head"crab to the bonezone.
That thumbnail Roanoke 🤔 looks like those hats those screaming women were wearing a few years back😅
Pls do a review of The Titan doing experiments on a group to send them to a moon
[While drinking] "Since we're talking about lungs, you are now manually breathing." [Gargled screams]
So I recently discovered your channel, and holy shit you have become the channel I listern to when I'm off work gaming/ relaxing or do chores. Humor on point, movie break downs are solid, and the science is just on point. 10/10
U made me want to be an epidemiologist so if that dream hits the fan im blaming u jk not really jk
Can you PLEASE expand on your warhammer 40k vid
10:29 this has no effect on people that already do it, HAH!
love the vid and hate the angler fish
(i have not even watched it yet)
How the fungus managed to infect jeff: HIV
haha Philippines represent! lol didn't know that your editor is pinoy haha
Oy Philippines 🗣
Valve did a great job designing the Quarantine Zone to be revolting. The entire time I was in the Northern Star, I didn't want to touch anything because I felt like I'd get sick.
Ronoake I know you did alien but can you do alien resurrection
UY PHILIPPINES! LET'S GOOOOOO
Naur the random Philippine mention 😂
0:27 🤔
Me last night: 🍴🍑💩
My macrophage serve with duty, as only in death does duty end. FOR THE IMMUNE SYSTEM!
Lung damage caused by scar tissue or pneumonia will also let pockets of fungus grow in your lungs, and once it takes root it is really hard to remove it without surgery.
"Oh hey you got a little bit of polio in there"
Lol
I'm so early it's a crime.
Imma be a cool guy and say if examples like Jeff are not prevalent throughout the game (never played it, still too shook from Alien Isolation) I would say this is super rare and probably RG is right in saying it had to have been a rare set of conditions that had to play out to get this result. Also WHY THE FUCK IS THERE ALWAYS SOMETHING JUMPING AT YOUR HEAD IN THESE UNIVERSES????
Roanoke: Also since we're talking about the lungs so much,
Me: No. Don't you do it.
Roanoke: You are now manually breathing.
Me. SON OF A BI- *pauses to breathe*
I have chronic migraines (MIDAS score 63) and got my first Botox injections last week. I’ll return for more every 12 weeks. I’m hoping that helps.
Man, ocular migraine SUCKS. I had couple bouts in the past, first time seriously scared me when my vision got impaired, luckily it's only temporary.
Been a long time since then, hopefully it doesn't return. Still get migraines sometimes, but it's usually my fault for spending so much time on computer, especially playing something polluted with VFX and rapid movement
As a person who ended up in the ICU on a ventilator for 6 days because of breathing in an unknown bacteria while I was clearing and pulling up vines from an old fence in preparation of having a new fence put in the breathing in spores hit close to home. And, my public service announcement: if you are ever doing work with wet soil or mold use a 3M respirator - which are cheap and can be bought at home depot.
While unintentional, something tells me my upstanding, impeccably moral colonizing European ancestors would have only given away MORE blankets had they understood microbiology.
Could you maybe start with the story or what your talking about before you start deep diving science? Love your episodes but I’m completely lost on this one and I’ve watched the first 5 mins 3 times or more. What’s this about?
Roanoke: Talking about eating cooked chicken
Me eating it rn: how did he know?
Also roanoke: puking your guts out and dehydrated, congratulations you now have salmonella
Me: Excuse me WHA-
Roanoke can you make a video about fever dreams? Lately I've been thinking about when I had a bad fever, like almost 40°Celsius... I was in bed, awaking, sleeping and not knowing what was real or not... I have weird memories from that event...
We made the lion fish extinct in the caribbean
Unlikely. Last year I was still hearing diving trips to take them out
Hey could you cover the Flood from Doctor who? Or maybe the Sun Infection also from doctor who
(Flood are from the episode "Waters of Mars" and The Sun infection is from "42". Personally I think the flood has more meat on its bones for a video.)
Hey Roanoke, I got a interesting game for you to cover with your amazing super cool knowledge, it’s called URGE and it’s about piss
At this point im convinced that I either am just digesting salmonella and other foodborne illnesses or I am literally rolling nat 20s every time I eat out, because the amount of places that end with my friends puking their guts out over the sandwich we shared is incredible. With the horrible luck I have with dice (I last rolled over a 10 sometime in may of 2018) I'm legitimately wondering if I just have stronger stomach acid that is managing to kill the bacteria
Day 16 of asking for SCORNs weird humans and how it's basically a all male race with mpreg cuz I just learned about the game and how self fun time is a natural pain blocker
So genuine question in regard to the fungus being symbiotic over parasitic, how does reproduction factor in? Looking back at the last of us, no infected host (that we know of at least) propagates their own species after infection. Wouldn’t the denial of a host species’ reproduction suggest parasitism? From a science perspective, I understand the ego not being a factor, but the denial of the base goal of all life on Earth seems like the species responsible would be a parasite due to that alone. When compared to something like the disease in The Girl With All the Gifts where the disease begins to co-exist with the humans as they reproduce and move forward, even if their society regresses immensely, I can still see it as symbiotic.
You're the smartest person I'm subscribed to, yet for some reason you can't get "If not contained..." right. Foreshame.
P.S. I love your videos.
I don't think the fungus enhances Jeff's fitness, though. And so I'm not sure this is a symbiotic relationship.Assuming Jeff had an enhanced chance to spread his genes, then maybe. But the fungus just seems to be using Jeff, not enhancing his evolutionary fitness (his number of successful offspring). Considering this likely hinders Jeff's fitness, it is more likely a parasitic relationship
Well Jeff’s infection vs Alex’s immunity could be down to something as simple as duration. Jeff from what we can tell was a hazard worker not a factory worker hence him and most of the bodies wearing hazmat suits. If Jeff’s suit was damaged and he went to work it may have just hit a sweet spot where he as inhaling enough spore to become infected but not exposed to enough raw fungal growth to be broken down for food.
I hate ocular migraines so much! Have you tried botox yet? Got rid of about 95% of my migraines 😮💨🤕
Hey Roanoke! Will you do a analysis on Ted's transformed form from I have no mouth and I must scream? I would like to see a video about what AM exactly did to ensure Ted never ever died. Took away the arms,legs and his mouth.