#Black Mesa

[bearanium]

they are my best friends

#half life #gordon freeman #hl #alyx vance #hl2 #gordon half life #gordon freeman half life #not hlvrai #alyx vance half life #alyx half life #barney calhoun #barney half life #barney calhoun half life #halflife #blackmesa #black mesa

[reddy-64]

dedication and sleep deprivation

#half life #gordon freeman #black mesa #freeman's mind #retro anime style

[eat-applez]

Fictional universe: And there was this COMPANY,,,,

Me: Oh they did some messed up shit didn’t they

EDIT: anyone who says “also in real life!!” or smth like that just know it’s been done 700 times.

#portal #aperture science #half life #black mesa #team fortress 2 #mann co #resident evil #umbrella corporation #scp foundation #fnaf #fazbear entertainment #detroit become human #Cyberlife

[follow-freeman]

Collection of my favorite renders from the Half Life PS2 manual

#half life #gordon freeman #source engine #valve #valve games #black mesa #jump Gordon jump #barney calhoun

[zombiekitty33]

half life fanartist late to half life anniversary millions dead

#half life #half life 1 #gordon freeman #black mesa #cry of fear #afraid of monsters #gorgeous freeman #hlvrai #freemans mind #the stanley parable #entropy zero #me at my computer trying my absolute hardest to make the freemans mind logo have more than 2 colors #it STILL looks out of place but its A Very Important Part of Half Life Culture

[moffeen]

forgot to post this one!!

#half life #black mesa #half life 2 #gordon freeman #barney calhoun #gman #half life gman #nihilanth #if anybody notices #i like this version better

[hev-mark-iv]

#half life #gordon freeman #black mesa #sonic #sonic the hedgehog #sourceposting

[deltoidlover]

absolutely. truely. positively. zonked.

#gordon freeman #half life #fanart #my art #eepy boy #redraw #pinterest #black mesa

[gladosluver]

they should set their differences aside and work together. imagine the horrors they could create

#(for science. you monster) #new k-class scenerio just dropped #portal 2 #portal #aperture science #scp #scp foundation #black mesa #half life #chaos insurgency #async #backrooms #the backrooms #my worst idea #“with the power of friendship!!” ass post #elements of disharmony

[zigzagxen]

Snark friend

Here is a 360° view of a Snark I made (P.S. his eyes and antenna glow in the dark)

#black mesa #Snark #half life #half life alyx #half life fanart #gordon freeman #hl

[internetskiff]

The most powerful ability exclusive to humanity in the Half Life/Portal shared universe is our ability to just throw bullshit at the wall and see what sticks. Aperture "OSHA are the devil" Science have managed to create completely safe interconnected points in space. The same company that turns people's blood into gasoline and shoves lions and humans into the same enclosed space for the vague concept of "Science". Meanwhile Black Mesa still has to use Xen as a crossing and their teleportation device requires an entire reactor with a village's worth of staff constantly maintaining it, just to end up having most of said staff abducted by onion-headed aliens. Even the resistance hasn't managed to create completely stable teleporters with a compressed Xen relay, meanwhile Aperture just went "oh dude let's shove a black hole into a non-waterproof gun" and have just created a teleportation method that just removes Xen from the equation entirely. Doesn't change the fact they bullshat so bad they basically got themselves gassed to death, but still.

The Resistance are a good example of this too. The Combine seem to have a complete set-in-stone thought process and understanding of science which meant they didn't even begin to explore local teleportation via Xen, meanwhile a group of random human mechanics and scientists have managed to cobble together at least two semi-functional local teleporters out of scrap metal and stolen Combine tech, to the point the All-Consuming Interdimensional Empire had to straight up copy their homework. And that isn't even the only time they seem to be taking human shit to just copy the blueprints.

They 100% just yoinked the entire damn car out of that garage just to take a crack at reverse-engineering the Tau Cannon attached to it. Even Resistance weaponry somehow manages to rival or at least stand equal to Combine tech - and we're talking improvised crossbows that shoot superheated rods of rebar at the target compared to high-tech rifles that can discharge orbs of pure dark energy. The collapse of the entire Citadel is basically set into motion as a result of a cobbled together Rebel device placed into extremely capable hands.

The events of the Portal games are a case of extremely elaborate machinelike planning versus pure human improvisation, with Chell's entire escape in the first game involving her simply weaseling her way through small cracks that GLaDOS missed while setting up her ambushes, eventually turning her own rocket turret against her to destroy her.

I suppose you could argue this falls flat in Portal 2 with Wheatley, but it's important to remember he's designed to be an utter idiot, so it's safe to say he wouldn't obsess over the larger picture like GLaDOS to the point where he fails to see the cracks. Yes, he's the one that breaks Chell out of the test chambers again, and yes, he's the one that came up with the sabotage plot - but it's important to note while he knows what to target in the sabotage, when we actually get there he doesn't quite know how to sabotage it, leaving Chell to figure it out on her own. She botches the Turret Quality Control Line with some minor guidance, but it's basically completely up to her to figure out how to cut off the Neurotoxin Supply. It's through her improvisation that Wheatley even manages to get into GLaDOS' chamber, tumbling through her neurotoxin vent and shattering the glass cage she trapped Chell inside of. It's through Chell's improvisation that the Core Transfer even occurs in the first place.

The script is flipped specifically when Wheatley takes charge, because oops - turns out a mind capable of focusing on the bigger picture might be pretty important when it comes to running an entire facility powered by it's own Reactor. Wheatley just completely zeroes in on his own personal pleasure, hacking up test chambers and the objects within them to try and figure out the easiest way to get his solution euphoria as quick as possible.

Still, something that's pretty interesting is that only Wheatley has ever managed to create a trap that's impossible to foresee and avoid, something GLaDOS has repeatedly failed to do to the point she ends up commending him. I believe this is because his way of thinking is a lot closer to Chell's compared to GLaDOS'. He puts up way more of a fight as the two run through the facility trying to get to him, seemingly improvising on the spot just like Chell has been over the course of the two games. Even his lair would be impossible to survive if it weren't for a single Conversion Gel pipe he somehow failed to notice and remove.

Whether in a laboratory deep beneath the soil or an alien tower tall enough to split the clouds, the ingenuity of even a single person is enough to topple a tower or destroy a supercomputer 3 times over.

Marc Laidlaw put what I'm trying to say into a single sentence when writing for the BreenGrub twitter account:

"The superstructure is riddled with cracks."

#portal #portal 2 #half life #half life 2 #hl #hl2 #aperture science #black mesa #the combine #GLaDOS #Wheatley #Chell #rambling #i think this is what happens when you've been having thoughts about a game franchise like . since birth

[crowdeer]

Listen, I love working at Black Mesa, but they're really making me do some stupid anomalous materials report THE DAY BEFORE I go on vacation :/ Worse still, the experiment hasn't even finished yet, so I have to wait for them to get it done to even start writing most of it :p Well, at least it's May and not December - less to be stressed about than if they were to do this to me then LOL

#half life #black mesa #hl1

[demilypyro]

RAWKET LAWNCHAIR

#half life #black mesa #indie vtuber #vtuber #twitch #demilypyro #stream highlight #demily #demily pyro

[n1ghtw1ng-scp]

#best way to describe me #this image #scp foundation #aperture #black mesa #federal bureau of control

[djsodabot]

idea by my friend @carddelpapel

#memes #portal #portal franchise #half life #aperture science #black mesa

[dash-n-draw]

@demilypyro sloshing through slop in her Black Mesa playthrough unbothered. moisturized. flourishing.

#slop gang #demilypyro #vtubers #black mesa #demilyart #half-life #dashingposts #dashingdraws #digital art #2023 #50+ #100+ #200+ #500+ #dashingwatches #dashingwatches: twitch