>It was the strong belief of his brave daughter, the feisty

>>388431615
Most of this board is barely literate, you're wasting your time.

>>388431615
>>388431748
Us contrarians amirite?

>>388431615
It was written as an inner monologue by a professional writer.

We weren't going to get anything BUT goofy, overly verbose turn of phrase, that's just how writers are, they excel at being exceptionally good at going overboard on the clever. Hell it's exactly what I just did with my previous sentence, but done over ten fold

>>388432451
>it's so good that it's supposed to look bad

Cool horseshoe effect.

>>388432451
Pretty much this.
Reading it seriously without any sense of irony is a fool's errand.

>>388432730
The opposite of that, actually,

We try to make it look good by tossing in enough five dollar words to make a thesaurus blush, inject a few similes, metaphors a hefty amount of colourful adjectives....and eventually we have a work that WE think looks good, but in reality just looks as if it is trying to hard

>>388431615
>>388432451
Mm, you are reading it from the point of view of gordon freeman.

While that is literally true, in setting, gordon himself is more of a mouthpiece for laidlaw to tell the story

>>388431615
I'll get you back, evil boss!

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>>388433639
JOHN FREEMAN! OVER HERE!

>>388434067
So John Freeman went there to where Gordon Freeman was FIGHTING

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>>388434223
>>388433639

>>388432730
you are a finger in the cornhole of time

>>388433639
John Freeman had to go faster like the speed of sound and got there fast because Gordon needed him where he was.