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popular flanderized HLVRAI characterizations: Bubby is tsundere, Benrey uses modern gamer lingo

my personal HLVRAI flanderization: gman always gets the title of movies he likes just slightly wrong. Like small enough that it's not worth correcting him. It's not on purpose

#hlvrai #g-man coolatta #from the commentary stream where he says he saw Babe 2 Pig in the Big City

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#BIRTHDAY BOY!!

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my benrey from hlvrai fanart

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Last time he checked he has two. Technically he needs at least one of them but this is Alyx Vance we're talking about, she can have them

when Alyx made that stupid "zombine" comment? that was when Gordon decided if he was ever asked to take a chunk of his soul to use as a band-aid for hers he wouldn't even ask any questions

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" Feel the rush! "

Gamer's Republic Magazine n14 - July, 1999.

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I'm fine I'm fine I'm fine I don't have daddy issues, I didn't sob internally any time Eli was nice to me in HL2 I swear

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alyx: [covered in sewer water] got room for two in that hazard suit? lmao

later

vortigaunts: the free man has been awfully quiet about this ritual. yet his commitment is strong.

gordon, internally: does she need a kidney too i can spare a couple

when Alyx made that stupid "zombine" comment? that was when Gordon decided if he was ever asked to take a chunk of his soul to use as a band-aid for hers he wouldn't even ask any questions

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Relatable gamer moments

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Poor Scorpy the game just crashed....

Scorpy is so good at Half Life that he caused a second Resonance Cascade and turned the Black Mesa research facility into Shrek the Third. This is a new speedrun category

#how did he manage to do that by accident. the disk swapping i mean #he's so good at making it unclear if anything hes doing at any time is a bit. #unfortunately i did go to bed shortly after the crash bc I don't like to go to bed late on worknights

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i saw you commenting in scorpys stream and had to do a double take. then remembered it's literally your natural habitat

i GOTTA do my research, right? :P

scorpy playing half life is making me lose my mind. he doesn't even need to try to be the funniest man alive

#the version may be different but this is still doing my RFYL homework #but nah fr i'm just a big rtvs fan. i watch a lot of scorpy

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i dont go into the hlvrai tag anymore for personal mental health so i have no idea how overdone these memes are already sorry.

anyway happy hlvrai anniversary again part 2 the squeakquel 🎉🎉

(i already posted this drawing ☝️ on the first hlvrai anniversary this year but i'll do it again because i still like it ok)

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Normal video game characters! Not sentient at all

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BLUE SHIFT

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4 years ago.... something amazing happened. I had a really great meal of fish & chips after going for a walk with my roommates. Then I went home and opened my shitty Alienware laptop that didn't work unless it was plugged in and launched gmod and eventually HLVRAI was made..

I've never actually played Half-Life 1.. and I found this Playstation 2 copy of the game years ago. So I figured for the 4 year anniversay of HLVRAI I would check out HALF-LIFE 1 ON PS2. The box says it has UNPARALLELED AI (lol) and EXTRAORDINARY REALISM. I think also from what I've heard this version is kinda weird and different (like me LOL 🤪 ahaaaa)

Let's go to Xenu and defeat the aliens causing chaos in black mesa! (approximation of plot)

7PM EST @ https://www.twitch.tv/socpens

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Headcanon: Vortigaunts are stereotyped as incorrigible gossips.

To be fair, it's got merit with their collective telepathy. One of them picks up on some tea and you know that information is going right into the metaphysical groupchat that binds all

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@scarletfire03 made a very interesting rant about headcrabs and walking on bare claws and how thats uh. probably not very good. so i present...retractable headcrab claws...kinda. the claw doesnt move the flesh does

#im just mentally unpacking the stalker who has been given a warm jacket