Half-Life """""Speedrun"""""
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2021
- I'd like to give a shoutout to a few people that helped me to research stuff for this video, firstly the SourceRuns Discord and TH-cam channels for giving me some help learning about Half-Life speedrunning strats... here are the links if you're curious yourself!
SourceRuns Discord: / discord
SourceRuns TH-cam: / sourceruns
I've also been really addicted to the TH-cam channels MarphitimusBlackimus, Leadhead and
lymphoid, all of whom make some kind of Half-Life-related content. Most of the information in this video is gleaned from them and there's lots of really interesting stuff to find there that I didn't come close to covering.
MarphitimusBlackimus: / marphitimusblackimus
Leadhead: / @leadhead
lymphoid: / lymphoid
One final dorky Half-Life related thing, and I meant to mention this in the stream because it was so cool but I never got around to it, is the video "Black-Mesa Disaster on one map". Basically someone made a video mapping out the movements and locations of all 3 protagonists of Half-Life, Half-Life: Opposing Force, and Half-Life: Blue Shift in relation to one another; the video's incredibly well-edited with lots of great use of in-game voice lines, sound effects and ambient music, and it's pretty insanely comprehensive in its detail as well. It's really eerie and unsettling and it occupied my thoughts for the better part of a week. It may be the sort of thing that will only have that effect on you if you've already played all 3 of those games... but regardless, check it out!
Black-Mesa Disaster on one map: • Black-Mesa Disaster on...
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When gray said "half life and portal arent in the same universe" i could hear the angry typing of millions of lore nerds
I immediately went to the comments when I heard that and sure enough most of them are about mr fruit being wrong about lore again
Yeeeeaaa, im at fault too
Completely offtopic but
Nitw wtf /pos
@@polocatfan no it definitely was a bit and I think he even talked about it in the vod. He was a brave man for putting it in without context
GladOS literally name drops Black Mesa in Portal 1's credit sequence. How could they not be related?
"That's a little too game theory for me."
**The part in HL2 where they literally call Aperature Science by name when finding the Aurora Borealis**
the aurora borealis? at this time of year? localized entirely inside of an iceberg?
@@grayfruit yes
there is also the part in portal where they talk about Black Mesa Stealing Aperature Science technology
**the part in portal 2 where they literally call Black Mesa by name**
"Cave Johnson, new owner and CEO of Black Mesa. That's right, you've been bought. First order of business, we're renaming you under the Aperture brand. I'm leaning towards Blappeture Mesa. Marketing boys think something else. So: Blappeture it is. Next, they tell me you people are conducting some anomalous materials research that could result in a resonance cascade. So I'm shutting that down before you idiots end the world. A resonance cascade! You're supposed to be scientists. Use some common sense." - Cave Johnson whenever.
14:13 I remember my first playthrough I didn't know how to kill the gargantua so I just rammed the tram straight into him, dragging him all the way into the barrier in the most glorious explosion ever. To this day I'm not quite sure if that was intended as a viable solution.
That's so lovely the game is still a bit challenging, yet has enough flexibility for weird but not that impossible solutions to a problem. 😌👌🏻
I killed him in a stupid way too but I just use all my ammo on him and he luckily died on my last grenade
i did that as well just playing the game a few days ago for the first time aha
it's worth mentioning that the rpg controlling the tank rockets isn't jank and rather an intended feature, rockets check who fired the rocket in order for laser sights to not go wacky in deathmatch, and so you can control other players' rockets who don't have their laser sight on, and the tank specifically has code overwriting the user to allow you to control them yourself, and it's the best thing ever
Valve: Making shit more fun since 1996
it got patched in the anniversary update, maybe their code wasn't working correctly? or valve corrected their decision 25 years later
@@rm_steeletried yesterday, still works
The barney's make the little beep boop sounds for the doors cause black mesa couldn't afford button noises, and it just makes the 10,000 barney clones happy
lmao
Maybe if they weren’t so busy cloning the Barney’s then they would be able to afford the noises.🙄
@@CreepyboomGamer well who other then barney would want to work there?
In Half-Life Opposing Force, there is a security guard character named Otis, so probably him.
He didn’t have time to ask for a passport
Gman froze up cause he really likes your streams and wanted to get his briefcase signed
Rise and shine, Mr. Fruitman...I gave you a tier 3 subscription...why didn’t you read my message on stream?
"Oh, my... God. It's Gra... y Fruit. I n... need to get my suit... case autographed by himmm."
I feel like it's more because he said, "Wait this idiot is just going to shoot me on sight? Maybe he's not worth saving then, I'm just going to stare at him until he goes away and then leave him to die."
Given the end of Alyx and the questionable canon of quicksaves this is my headcanon.
Ante up, graydon fruitman....
@@ThePCguy17 "oh my.... god... are you.. f..ucking kiddin-g, m..e..."
19:29 G-man is like "Well, shit. I forgot to use my extraterrestrial teleportation capabilities. Perhaps, if I do not move, he will not see me."
"You've been subjected to a grayfruit bit" is severely underrated.
Dan-da-danaa!
At 28:01 you can HEAR the absolute fear, yet excitement in his voice when he discovers jank he has never seen before
It's goddamn beautiful
I always knew that because the deagle laser from opposing force fucks with missiles as well
@@Xenomorthian and your last name is Adrian? Fitting.
Guiding rockets gave a lot of fun in HL multiplayer. It's a feature, not a bug.
@@vlc-cosplayer my guess is that unguided rockets and guided rockets are the exact same projectile with the only difference being the laser dot entity itself altering behaviour hence why the deagle which uses the same entity can alter rpgs and be altered by rpg dots the Bradley merely fires unguided projectiles however bring a dot into the equation and its time to get funky
The monotone man-fruit speedruns the earth’s demise, commits genocide of an unknown species of aliens, and breaks the fabric of reality. Truly a sight to behold.
Well monotone until the Gman appears and grayfruit sounds like he's going apeshit.
The monotone monochrome man
Also becomes an unkillable god
And falls head-over-heels for a character you don't see often
14:04
10:56 Lmao I didn't know that was a common experience. I always thought my computer just sucked.
that is the most Source Engine thing like ever
10:58 made my stomach hurt so bad man I haven't laughed this good in a while
He somehow managed to hit the exact sounds that it makes!!!
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I wish every game ended with just Grayfruit going "OH IT'S THE G-MAAAAAAN" from off screen and then it cuts to black
I don't know why you specified "off screen', he doesn't have a facecam, all his lines are from off screen.
@@PlayerZeroStart That was the most dad joke in the history of dad jokes. Kudos.
Along with the best part of “nuclear mission jam”
My favourite speedrun stat is stopping the tram so I can sit and look at the cool helicopter
it saves frames later in the game
Potemkin
Saves frames for later
“Saves frames for later” yeah we know that’s a side effect of getting to see the cool helicopter
36:06 Here I thought Once he returned to his spot he'd erupt into blood and ragdoll once all that damage kicked in, instead he went gentle XD
the pure amount of boston packed into "IT'S THE GMAAAAAAAAAA-" at 42:10 is the best
Why isn’t he playing Black Mesa?
*“This game is so funny, you guys are gonna see.”*
Ah of course, jank.
Why would he even play Black Mesa instead of the original? A fan remake doesn't replace the existence of one of the highest accoladed games of all time.
@@arkaua he already streamed hl1 in non-"""""speedrun""""" form so it could be fun to see him run through black mesa
because black mesa is not better than half life unless you are too stupid to play half life
@@boringdude1626 they're both good, but black mesa is more accessible to newer players
@@nottheboc1498 what do you mean? half life is just as accessible as black mesa
There's no word powerful enough to express how much I enjoyed this video. As a big half-life fan, I learned a ton of new stuff and your commentary was really fun
And it’s always a good day when the jank levels are through the roof
this exact same comment but in spanish
Scrungular.
@@samimbecil I know french, does that count?
@@sugoha_2548 no
34:24 I wonder how much damage does the barnacle bite actually do (or how it works) in order to reduce Gordon's HP from "Practically infinite" to... 15
37:40 I also love how inmortal gordon takes suit energy just in case
barnacle damage increases over time while ur being eaten by it, i think. so huge. it would probably require a lot of math. or maybe it even shows how it adds more damage. idk how to calculate that. not good at math but ill just go on a whim and say it like multiples by 50 or some shit, sound like good number, in incredible fast speed like 3 seconds at least.
@@isaiahsimmons5776 Maybe barnacles chewing directly on you takes a percentage of your health, 90% to 99%, sometimes up to the full lethal 100%? I will guess based on how long he let the glitch sit, it was ~100,000 health he accumulated?!?? 🤷🏻♂️
things i found about infinity in garry's mod. in garry's mod if put too much 999999999999999999999999999999999999s in it, it will make 3838485+inf or some shit. this actually doesnt anything, it instead just uses previous amount u put it on before 999999999999999999999999999s. so infinity in this way does not in fact add to more, it just in in fact exist after a certain huge amount. there's also another in garry's mod which is like 38374745 which is like +inf in garry's mod. depends on the same previous source. so barnacle probably just ignores the +inf if that logic makes sense.
Grayfruit randomly screaming is the best part of his commentary, and it is made even funnier by the fact he will literally mute every other loud noise possible
The photo in Gordon's locker is infact one of the developer's children. In canon, it's said to be Gordon's niece or nephew
Thats a bit sus tbh
that kid is now dead thanks to the 7 years war
@@HolHorseGaming probably, not confirmed but possible
@@perrypougins379 not possible actually, since Gordon was put in stasis the kid had to have grown up, besides that kid was probably a generic rebel that dies at the start of the game
This implies that gordon freeman does have a brother/sister, which means the existence of john freeman is perfectly possible
I've reached a point where I can't play source engine or goldsrc games without bhoping all the time, it's so ingrained in my muscle memory that I try to bhop in games that don't have it.
Oh yeah, fun fact Titanfall 2 is based on a heavily modified version of Source, so you can b hop in it
Same.
@@Soulraven2735 not quite bhopping, but you can use the slide mechanic to achieve something similar. In black mesa, the half life remake, you can also crouch slide and just scoot around by airstrafing.
If you want to break the habit, try the console ports of these games. 🥴
that is so me
36:06 caught me off guard, that impression was too good
28:12 Lmao, he timed it so well.
Intentional
And the trumpets of the cherubim sounded, in auspicious announcement of the Herald of the Fruit; and lo, in his Gray splendor he did walk the halls of the Black Mesa
Crowbar in hand, dawning his Orange suit of Hazardous Environmental Protection
He ran the game so fast that Half Life became Quarter Life
Wouldn't quarter life technically mean it was 2 times as long as a regular playthrough?
@@thepastaprogenitor851 I'm pretty sure it means it was half of the half life, since, you know, one quarter is half of an half. If it was two times the playtime it would just be a life, and we have none of that here.
@@Rogeryoo nah. A half-life is when an object loses half of a certain element in it's composition due to radiative depreciation (don't quote me on that). That means that two half-lives would be a quarter life, which was the joke
@@thepastaprogenitor851 oh right, that kind of half life. I never connected those two together, and always thought of half life (as in a person's life), in this case. But still, if it's half of an half life, doesn't it mean it has MORE radiation, still? Not the 100% I said, but if it didn't reach a full half life, it should be around the 3/4 of the radioactive atoms on it.
@@Rogeryoo the half-life reaction slows the 2nd time as there's less elements to react to create the product (I think). So each half-life loses mass in the same timing even if there's less of it (if it takes 5 years for one half-life, it should take 10 years for two, not 7.5 years)
10:20 as someone that has played hl2, i can fully agree. there is a HUGE difference between playing half life and watching half life.
Mr. Fruit has omega balls for leaving in the “Half-Life and Portal aren’t in the same universe” clip
I relate strongly to the Barneys making the sounds with their mouths. I keep saying "Boop" out loud whenever i tap my debit card.
16:40 I love the Master Cheif's suit jacks him off rumor because it's a real, actual Dril tweet and some people thought that a DRIL TWEET was accurate.
It's in the novels. The model of Spartan armour that Master Chief uses and the others like him used relieves the soldiers so that they have less downtime and less distractions
@@exzyyd392 it's not. The meme came from an edited screenshot of one of the first three novels, pretty sure it was The Fall of Reach specifically. The internet just took it and ran with it because that's what the internet does. I'm pretty sure there have been little in-canon nods from various authors after the joke became popular, but I could be wrong about that.
@@maxwelleichman6825 I've been lied to my whole life
Half life fun fact: in the Nilahanth fight if you shoot the hornets at it’s teleportation projectiles it just negates it and deleted it out of existence
25:20 Dude, I _love_ doing that. I remember in one of my first playthroughs of the game, I saw that slope and was like "I wonder if I can... Yep, I can."
There's also part in Gonarch's Lair, where you can go out of bounds into ridiculously tall water, but there are invisible walls, so you can't skip anything.
13:48 Grayfruit finally loses all of his sanity
literally how does he do that
Nah, that's the beginning of the descent, 19:18 is the true fall of his sanity.
I watched this live and when he jammed himself in the door to give himself ridiculous amounts of health my jaw dropped.
That happened to me once but accidentally and it was an hecu soldier getting a trillion health
Also nice amount of likes
8:17 as someone from Washington state, that whole thing about dry falls being one of the skyboxes really surprised me. I have been to dry falls and have no idea how I didn't recognize it while playing.
The cart in On A Rail is also made entirely out of brushes, meaning the rocket launcher can never hit you if you just crouch
I'm fairly new to Hammer and don't use it for half life but I know a couple general terms. So you're saying that the cart is technically world geometry?
Y'know it's a good day when Grayfruit uploads a new """speedrun""" video AND it's Half-Life related
Ah yes
Heck yeah
So true bestie
He didnt even use funny tricks like the freezer skip.
If you save the scientist running from the bullsquid, you can bring him back to the door and shoot him, causing him to run away and open it.
@@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413 Well the word speedrun isn't in big quotation marks for nothin'
Freaking out whenever big G enters the room is so funny
10:52
That nostalgia hit me like a bullet to the brain
Ive had a pretty good amount of experience with the mapping program Hammer for source games and most of the jank you show off in the environment is just caused by doing very simple things in very roundabout or slapdash way and that honestly makes it more hilarious.
In their defence, no-one had ever used the engine befpre; they ported HL to find out what it was like to use their new engine.
Gray fruit you should do a """""""speedrun"""""" of human fall flat, its pretty fun when you do the speed strats
except for dark
@@LiamLimeLarm nah dark is still fun
Just not fast
Shoutout to the construction level for having *the* strat
Isn't the speed strat for that game just flying around?
He should coop the game with Lark, that would make for a funny stream
Honestly- there a few fruit bits dearer to my heart than the “portal is not in the half life universe” bit.
The laser designator on the rpg stealing control of the tank's missiles is a cool touch if it's not unintentional.
It's the exact same projectile you fire, probably due to budget they didn't recode the rockets fired from the Hamilton tank and other players in deathmatch with their lasers off.
@@TheEmeraldSword04 ah I bet that budget went to smell ai
@@redpanda7297 and the cockroach behavior!
It is intended. The laser sight code checks the shooter of it so you wouldn't be able to control other player's rockets in Deathmatch, otherwise rockets would go crazy if you both had your laser sights on.
However, there's code that "bypasses" this check with the tank, allowing you to control them as if they were yours.
HL is full of goddamn small details many people would never experience in a single playthrough, makes you appreciate the game even more!
This whole video felt like a fever dream. Glad to have discovered this content creator ❤️
“Why, I don’t even think there’ll be a 9/11 scale disaster!”
-Jacob “speedrun” grayfruit, 2021
He's right.
it's way way worse than 9/11.
Gray "sequence breaker" Fruit, 2021
As a former HL speedrunner and HL veteran, this video had me rolling, good shit
Around at the speed of sound?
@@A_Toaster yeah I got places to go so gotta follow my rainbow
Would you happen to know why there are multiple loading zones at the end of the tram ride?
I CAN'T FIND ANY INFO ON THIS TOPIC ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET AND IT PISSES ME OFF SO MUCH
Thank you for your service
Watching grayfruit get genuinely giddy at game glitches is adorable.
One of the few games I feel grayfruit actually could legit speedrun
I say this every time and will say it again: your ability to sing random songs or tunes is ludicrous and I love it every single time you do it.
Reminded of this at 6:59
There's not enough Half-Life playthroughs on TH-cam that aren't "no deaths no commentary" and such. I wish I could just watch someone experience the game for the first time. It's an absolute masterpiece.
@@selloutguylol Black Mesa is a disgrace to Half-Life, and HLAIVR isn't a playthrough; it's a show.
@@toxic_shr00m >disgrace
bruh
@@toxic_shr00m lmao "thing new=bad"
@@toxic_shr00m The only concession I will make in terms of Black Mesa being worse than Half-Life is that the soldier AI is too strong, and is kinda unfair to fight compared to HL. Everything else is a matter of preference, and let me tell ya, I vastly prefer both On A Rail and Xen not being hell-holes. Seriously, any argument that HL Xen is better than BM Xen is complete bullshit, especially considering the HL devs themselves admit that Xen was rushed and unpolished.
@@toxic_shr00m I'm what way is black mesa a "disgrace"
i think "grayfruit being way too knowledgable about the current game" is my favorite type of content
He's got this thing where he'll know a million extremely obscure details that you'd never find out about in your entire life while also not knowing about something super well known
He'll show you a single floating spike in a part of the Nihilanth arena but has no idea that Half Life and Portal take place in the same universe even though it's mentioned multiple times in Half Life 2 and the Portal games themselves lmao
My favorite fun fact about Half-Life 1 is that the dripping water effect is the exact same one used in the Gem Hunt in Webkinz
it actually makes perfect sense that your laser rocket guidance system, stolen from the US military, affects other laser-guided rockets that the US military uses
that having been said, that tank looks like the Bradley IFV, and I believe the Bradley IFV's missiles are actually "fly by wire"--they literally have a spool of wire attached to the back of the rocket, that hooks into a set of contacts in the launcher, which in turn allows the launcher to direct the rocket. So while it would totally make sense _assuming their rockets are also laser-guided,_ it's still jank
Wait, what? Literal wires trailing out from supersonic, many-kilometer-ranged missiles? With rocket engines that burn in excess of 800C? You can't be serious.
Edit: Holy shit. I legitimately thought that fly-by-wire was simply replacing hydraulics in planes with electrical systems.
Apparently, the Germans made the first of these in 1944. AND made the missiles spin for that sweet gyroscopic. Woah. No wonder why there's such a Wunderwaffen mythos around Nazi tech.
@@op8288 yeah it's a thing
it sounds goofy as hell, but it's more reliable than radio control and less expensive than guidance mounted on the rocket itself
just wait until you hear about the missiles with swords instead of explosives, though
What? Really?! :D
This is actually an intended game mechanic... for the multiplayer. Any rocket fired by any player can be guided by any laser. Since the tank fires the same rocket entity as the player, it makes sense that you can guide those too.
@@Johncw87 i dont think it was even intentional for multiplayer. it just simple jank and memory shortcuts.
14:47 - funniest death I've seen in a while
I lost it there, it was the last thing I possible expected to happen.
19:18 Me at the end of Half-Life Alyx
42:10 ITS THE G-MAAAAA-
13:54 this part floored me for no reason
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK HAPPENED!?
I wish i knew
mr gray "grayfruit" fruit subjected the chat to one of his classic "Grayfruit Bits™" in which he baited them into mansplaining him by saying portal and half life don't take place in the same universe
@@autonomousanonymous6310 yeah but why did he ascend this plain of existence after making a toy story quote out of nowhere?
@@Gooboo_ unfortunately i couldn't tell you that, the fruit works in mysterious ways i suppose
After a while of watching Gray Fruit's videos I noticed something, he has a very similar style to Jerma. The jokes, the interaction with chat. Even the style of video and their thumbnails. It all reminds me of Jerma. Just something I took note of though.
jerma fruit
He’s store brand jerma, but like store brand cereal, is unique enough to carry his own merit.
Gray actually discovered and then got into Jerma because people kept comparing them
Jerma but instead of having high-production bits he plays games well enough to not get insulted by his chat
I think he ripped Vinesauce somewhat
0:16 Oh boy ! I'd say we are FAR beyond the scale of 9/11 now, doctor!
14:01
are you ok buddy?
😆 I think he was doing a decent vocal impression of Michael Jackson. 🥴
He gone fucking mentally insane
One of these days it's going to be a crossover with DeSinc, and it will be marvelous
You can tell when Lark makes the thumbnail for one of your videos. His style of thumbnail is just very distinct.
The scientist slowly fading away after being absolutely pummeled is the most graceful thing I’ve ever seen
24:22 i just wanted to say that i loved what you called those little guys
[Does some deranged thing that breaks game in very specific way] "Good game, good game"
The grand daddy of all story based shooters, and still a shining pillar of it. It real got me re-interested in it when the fruit decided to play them and i played along with him. Either way have a nice day and keep up the good work.
29:05 I love how that moan sounded like it echoed lmfao
Right! The beginning tone of the music made that transition weirdly seamless, and does create that audible illusion.
1:50 “It’s the G-Man!”
* Bodily reaction *
I’d like to see you go into the gman death room with the inf hp glitch just to see what would happen
the screen just blacks out, you get killzoned so no matter the amount of health
You can only look around in that room. There's mods that let you move around and fight eldritch abominations, but base game it's not great.
19:42
I did this in HL2 by accident and it was really creepy
Edit: Oh my god open the silo door! They’re coming for us! Oh my god we’re doomed! *explodes*
25:48 as someone with submechanophobia that did spook the shit out of me, but im gald that someone knows about it considering how rare it is.
I don't think it scares or conceptually terrifies me enough to be a phobia, but I did get strangely disturbed by that interesting...uh, "inverse" example of submechanophobia? 🥴😌👌🏻
The first time I played Half Life, I yeeted that cart right into the laser at 04:20 it scared the ever loving shit out of me as a kid.
19:31 I actually did this on my first playthrough and I was very confused
these glitch-fests and “””speedruns””” are my favorite type of grayfruit vid
The youtube algorithm has delivered me another banger of a video. I have never played half life but with this video I feel like I have enjoyed it more than I ever would have if I had played it by myself. Absolute gem of a video, the commentary and the editing is top notch.
17:21
T H E R E ' S N O T H I N G T H E R E .
-Dr. Coomer
Portal and half life have literally appeared in eachother
Edit: *it appears I am the clown*
Also didnt the storyboard for the end of the series involve Gordon flying the Borealis to a Dyson Sphere that allowed the Combine to reach the Solar System?
Now I ain't a lore nerd.. but *didn't he play half-life 2?*
@@RatTailSoup4 oh in the vods he said he knew and was just joking around, but he left that out of this video to piss off the comment section.
Yeah. But when valve made Half life 1 in 1998 portal was not on their mind. Not to mention that valve hired some college grads to make portal in 2008, so Mark laidlaw's writing had to be altered to include Aperture science in the half life universe.
@@TheDefender123Plays im more referring to the later games
I have a feeling Gfruit hasn't seen Half Life VR but the AI is self aware and I hope that changes soon
10:58 I was not expecting grayfruit to pluck a memory from my mind tonight, but here we are
1:00 I always thought it was winding down, when you see a helicopter land the rotors will still spin for several minutes.
17:55 hey, I have a screenshot from Half-Life source of that, and the title is about speedrunning.
Glad you didn't have to vomit into the air for this one.
I've watched this video in 144p/240p and this game looks litterally the same at normal resolutions
Man, I love your laugh. It's so different from your normal voice that it's contagious
32:35 can't believe after all these years i'm still hearing about new half-life jank
dont worry guys, the immortal scientist didnt die, he just took a super mario 64 warp out
33:50 THAT'S A SKIP???? I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT IT WAS THE NORMAL WAY TO DO IT
That can be an amazing topic or video essay, compilation, playlist, research folder...when we do something that seems intended or normal, not a glitch, cheat, or something that developers did not intend, but we don't know it's actually unique or at least rare, unintended to be a solution.
Thankfully, though to a point it can make a game too easy, having that level of flexibility and choices in how to approach a problem, not even dialogue or story, necessarily, just, like, which weapons you choose and how they're saved or used in a scenario in this game, for example, is *usually* good.
Would love to see you complete the episodes, and possibly even expansions. Keep up the amazing work dude!
6 minutes in and already I'm loving it. I love all the little trivia and the commentary. Keep it up.
Absolutely superb video for an absolutely superb game! Thank you, Grayfruit.
13:35 mates never beat episode 2
I super appreciate the fan gushing you do here, but is presented in such a way most anybody can enjoy and absorb. You, being one of many fairly informed and experienced fans such as myself, know a lot of direct game lore, but also the slightly lesser known glitch, bug, fandom, and speed running histories, while actually demonstrating as well as explaining them coherently enough to be accessible, even to a point that refreshes as well as intrigues and inserts still fresh new information to regulars like me.
19:50 I had that happen once in HL2, the one where Gman is talking with Odessa Cubbage the rocket guy. They just both stared at me like "do you mind?"
9:59 YOOOO... I never knew you could launch off the cart like that, whenever I stayed on it would just kill me?
I’m surprised he didn’t know about the bit at 27:56
6:59 not only is this the best-timed sonic reference I've ever seen, but you sang it perfectly in pitch with the original. I checked. Good shit mate.
grey's mother:my child is fine.
the child: 14:02
1:19 "I got all fucking day"
A speedrunner
watched this entire thing, laughed my ass off, and learned a lot of new stuff about a game i love
my favorite part was "alright space baby, it's time to eat shit"
Ur a walking soundboard dude your impressions? are so fucken spot on.
I love this game and its jank & some parts of this were a real treat. I was just as excited as you were when you showed that you could hijack the enemy tank's rockets, actually surprised that I'd somehow never stumbled on that personally or even seen anyone else discuss it either!