Why didn't Barney just pull Gordon back up and take him

he saw what happened to that cat

>>388922286
Barney is a double agent.

>>388922759
I still don't get this.

>>388922286
Plot device.

>>388922286
I think it's because the combine were searching for you now

>>388922804
What is there not to get
A cat was used to test the teleporter and it's implied something went wrong and killed it

>>388922286
>everyone in the resistance appears to know and trust barney on sight even tho he wears a combine metrocop suit

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>>388922286

>you now notice those copy pasted window textures on the right

>>388922286
He'd been spotted and the camera drones were everywhere. Barney was taking a massive risk running out there after Gordon.

>>388924506
Everything in HL2 is copy-pasted textures. It's a fucking gen 6 game.

Look at the repeating vines on the walls, the walls themselves, everything. It's the way games were back then. The only game that didn't do that extensively was SH games.

>>388924506
Part of the reason that Half-Life 2 was a gig and not 10 gigs.

>>388923334
raising the bar says the cat was turned inside out alive.
no wonder barney has nightmares about it

>>388924506
Well if you think that's bad, wait until you notice the disturbing lack of ferns.

Gordon was a research associate in Black Mesa, they used him to push and pull crystals, he didn't know jack about the technology they used,

I want to hug a vortigaunt.

>>388925470
Speaking of which, isn't Gordon a little young for a PHd?

BADA BIM BADA BOOM
ASHES

>>388925390
OH MY GOD

>>388925889
yeah, it's a giant plothole nobody bothered to fix. Gordon was at black mesa for like a month, and yet in HL2 they imply he was best buds with the entire facility.

It would take too much time to fix the teleporter.

>>388926004
The only thing implied is that he knew the Anomalous Materials research team, which he was part of, and Barney Calhoun.

>>388926004
He was a chad scientist

>>388925390
Unforgivable. Someone get Germany on the phone, stat.

>>388926004
>yeah, it's a giant plothole nobody bothered to fix.
What is Gordon's exact age, Mr. Plotholes?

>>388924506
Every texture of every part of every map in HL2 and Source games are just copy-pasted squares with sometimes other squares layered on top

>>388926228
27

>>388926159
>the virgin portal gun
>the chad resonance cascade

>>388926119
>oh look it's Gordon Freeman
>hey Gordon Freeman, let me go with you
>This way, Dr. Freeman
>Gordon Freeman!

>>388925916
THIS SAYS "WITH FERNS"
>you like ferns
I LIKE THE ONE WITH "SOME FERNS", NOT THIS MUCH

>>388926228
it flashes on the screen during the hl1 tramride, he is 27. it's also very obvious that he is the youngest scientist there.

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>JACKASS

>>388925889
>>388926004
A bachelors in normal time plus five years of grad school is young? He was "best buds" (mere friendly acquaintances get elevated by the apocalypse) with the people he interacted with regularly in his team, who happened to be the ones to survive because of him.

>>388925889
it also was never explained how a nerd with glasses could handle guns including these from alien worlds better than any spec op operative
the man is an enigma

>>388926414
Butane tennis ball cannons require great skill to use effectively. It's the best training one could hope for.

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>>388926396
Ya, that is fairly young. I'm not saying it's impossible but it's pretty uncommon to find a 27 year old with a PhD in theoretical physics.

>>388926310
He reached messianic status because he was part of causing the resonance cascade, he killed the nihilanth and saved a bunch of people after the incident, then disappeared until the events of Half-Life 2.
The resistance members don't know him personally, you retard.

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>>388924506
>No megatexturing

>>388926414
They train HEV users with firearms. Fairly certain that was part of the tutorial level.

It's to prep them for Xen, whether they know that or not.

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>>388926414
One thing I really liked about Alan Wake is that in the flashback scenes that take place in his house, you can see he has a marksmanship trophy on his bookshelf.

>>388922286
He was too busy cloning himself.

>>388924506
Fuck off Carmack you fucking hack

>>388926414
You never know, he could be a /k/ommando at home.

I mean it's basic action hero syndrome though, they're in a crisis and they learn how to use guns on the fly.

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>>388926361
>PIECE OF SHIT

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>>388926414
>American citizen
>Not familiar with the operation of a firearm

>>388926414

You do the training course which covers their useage. As for the alien guns, they aim themselves.

Plus it's not that Gordan handles guns better than a spec op operative. It's that he's wearing a suit that protects him. The Marines and assassins you go up against regularly have no issues landing shots on Gordan; the issue is actually bringing him down since he's wearing effectively the best possible armour on the planet.

>>388926686
Not to mention Black Mesa was in Arizona, right? Vegas has some of the most famous gun ranges in the country. I don't think it's bad writing to not explain a skill that it's very likely someone has from their background, like that episode of ATLA where Sokka gets hired by a fishing boat even though it's never explicitly stated that he's much of a fisherman.

>>388926538
On what do you base that claim?

>>388926538
>austria
nani?

>>388926851
He was living in Austria at the time.
Not that the letter is canon anyway.

>>388926826
Gordon had just gotten there after residing in Europe, with Massachusetts before.

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>>388926686
BOOM BIG REVEAL
I TURNED MYSELF INTO AN ADVISOR

>>388926906
This was known BEFORE laidlaw faggot.

>>388926903
Ah, my mistake. That does make things a little harder to explain thanks to MA's famous liberal hate of guns. I had to write a letter to the police sergeant of my town asking why I deserve to get my CC license.

>>388926826
Black Mesa was in New Mexico

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>Gordon Freemans thesis was titled "Observation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement on Supraquantum Structures by Induction Through Nonlinear Transuranic Crystal of Extremely Long Wavelength (ELW) Pulse from Mode-Locked Source Array."

What did he mean by this?

>>388927212
shoot laser through crystal to maek portal

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>>388926906

>>388927212
poot ctystal in laser

>>388927212
>OEPRESSITNTCELWPMLSA
>PRESSIT
is this loar

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>>388922286
a better question is why did barney hold onto a particular crowbar for almost 20 fucking years

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>>388926906

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>>388925889
I don't think he had a PHd, my guess is that Gordon was just an intent getting the shittiest jobs possible in Black Mesa. Just think about it, the whole process before the resonance cascade happened could've been fully automated, but they force Gordon to push the cart with the Xen crystal to the lazer beam anyway.

>>388927571
Because heroes weapons tend to be valuable and sentimental.

The better question is how did he find Freemans crowbar? One was confiscated by the HECU before they threw Gordon in the trash compactor, and the replacement for that one was taken by the Gman.

>>388927690
You can see his degree in his locker.

Why didn't Gordan just fly the eagles to Ravenholm?

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>>388925889
>>388926004

>>388927749
Yeah, along with a picture of his wife's son.

>>388927714
sentimental is pushing it. its a weird object for a combine cop to carry that would be hard to explain, regardless of how he even found it, and to have it with him, at "work" the SINGLE day in almost 7300 days gordon magically shows up? hes got the crowbar, but the beer he owes you? nowhere

>>388927507
>press Q to resonance cascade

>>388926310
>>388926567
this, the suit, goatee and glasses are likely symbolic to the resistance.

>>388927571
It's just a crowbar. You find one in Episode 2 just lodged in some rusty gears because Valve would rather pander to fanboys than just make some other melee weapon.

>>388927749
>>388927690
its worth pointing out this is a world where aperture science existed. these two companies were competing and aperture didnt even give a single fuck and was doing vastly more crazy shit. id start accepting riskier employees if my job was to match up with a dude who built an empire and literal multi dimension travel from shower curtains since so far i hadnt even manage to make a viable portal myself. that and your benefactor showing up and telling you you gotta make some progress asap?

>>388927714
I can think of a few ways. One involves Deus Ex Man literally giving it to Barney and telling him to hold onto it, and I wouldn't put that past Valve writers.

Otherwise, it depends a lot on what happened immediately after Black Mesa. Was there any down time? Maybe the HECU gave Gordon's shit to security to hold onto for his next of kin to pick up. And you know soldiers. One of the HECU guys could have thought something like "Jesus christ, that bastard killed ten aliens with this fucking crowbar. I'm holding onto it." and then it found its way to Barney during the war.

>>388927856
Why would he have to carry it every day? Couldn't it just be stored in Kleiner's lab to be used as a crowbar and Barney decides it'd be a good gift or something?

>>388927974
then why does barney say that? hell, how does barney even remember that, or care about that...AND have a crowbar? id accept its some random crowbar, but its kinda a non-standard item for the mindless forces of the combine to just carry around coincidentally

>>388928000
the best answer, honestly, but kinda weird that during the commotion barney just saw a crowbar and decided to take it, just incase...he saw gordon over a ledge? youd think there would be a gun in their, somewhere, and that would be a priority.

>>388925365
Can something survive being inside out?

>>388928102
>then why does barney say that
meme Valve writing

>>388928102
Couple that with the first part of my post. Lucky charm, especially if it's the original he got back from the soldiers during the war or something. And I'm sure guns are pretty strictly controlled by the combine. They don't want to jeopardize the lab by storing firearms in it. If the lab gets discovered, they miiiiiight be able to explain it away, or they might just need to start over when things get destroyed. But add guns and it immediately becomes a resistance base and everyone there is executed on the spot.

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I want to protect his smile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqRUjjuUl7U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1SvvagUGuU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UrmKXkWyBc

>>388928137

Not likely, considering the inside parts aren't meant to be exposed to the elements, and would dry out, whereas the outside parts that are now inside, and wouldn't be able to handle things like stomach acid, feces, etc etc. You wouldn't be absorbing anything on the inside, and the outside would be drying out and dying.

Your nervous system would also be outside, which would be incredibly painful.

>>388928290
But how do you know if he's smiling?

>>388928102
>id accept its some random crowbar, but its kinda a non-standard item for the mindless forces of the combine to just carry around coincidentally

It's not uncommon at all for modern cops to keep crowbars in their trunks next to the first aid kits, fire extinguishers, and teddy bears. For a police force as intrusive as the Combine Metropolice I'd assume having a crowbar handy would be useful.

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>>388927571

>>388925889
>>388926004
For me the weird thing about half life is Alyx introduction. So she's supposed to be Eli Vance daughter, and Gordon freeman supposedly meet her a long time ago back in black mesa when she was 5 during the incident with her mother
and now he want gordon to fuck her.. when at this point he's a 40 year old man normally that hasn't aged

>>388928284
>If the lab gets discovered, they miiiiiight be able to explain it away
oh get real, guns or not theres no way combine isnt going to look at that shit and not say shut it down. come on man.

>>388928476
we never see one ever use or hold one, but sure

>>388928526
take what you can get at that point, man. the dudes a legend at this stage, and even if hes supposed to be 47 he looks 27 and physically capable of going toe to toe with the combine. shits gotta be good genes if you dont think some time shit happened

You guys remember that infinite Barney thread? I enjoyed that.

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>>388922286
>tfw Gordon's child is almost as old as him during the events of Half Life 2

>>388927714
The even better question is, how the fuck did he survive Black Mesa getting nuked.

>>388928698
Maybe it's his nephew

>>388928719
barney drove away with dr. rosenburg and some weirdos hours before the nuke went off, potentially a day.

>>388928698

looks more like a picture of a young alyx

>>388927571
Did he? In EP1 he just gives you another one, says some shit like "I haven't got many more of these". Black Mesa probably had a warehouse full of these fuckin' things.

>>388928341
you can tell from the eyes

those are smiling eyes

>inb4 you cant see his eyes either!

yeah sure but his relaxed but alert posture indicates that he has smiling eyes

>>388928341
How could one not whilst killing xenos?

>>388927283
you know what annoys me about pickle rick is how there's not enough energy in an AA to make that laser beam even if it was perfectly efficient.
it's funny though because he totally could've made a more concentrated laser beam that did the job still. it just wouldn't have been as "epic".

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>>388928303
These are fucking solid gold. How have I not seen this before?

>>388926594
i always thought it's a max payne easter egg

>>388928858
Those videos you posted are garbage.

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>>388928782
>Vance is 100% black
>Alyx is clearly mixed race
>Gordon has Alyx picture in his locker

Are you implying some cuckoldry going on here?

>>388928858
woah! now that you've replied to your own post, I'm SURE to watch those videos!

>>388928984
http://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Azian_Vance

>>388928876
It's both that and a way of explaining why this podunk writer knows how to use guns so well. Stephen King famously dislikes guns in real life, and Wake is based in part on him, so it's a good inclusion to explain it.

>>388928794
Well when you take into consideration the ammount of crates there were scattered around black mesa...

>>388928794
You can find lots of crowbars in black mesa
You can't do anything about them because you already have a crowbar when you find the other ones

>>388927571
Was I the only one who assumed it was just a random crowbar and Barney was just cracking a joke that wasn't meant to be taken as it being the same literal crowbar.

>>388928698
>Baby pictures? A poncho?
>Where's all my stuff?
>WHERE'S MY STASH?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoZfbxQudZE

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>>388930232
PHYSICS!

>>388928137
For a few agonizing minutes, probably.

>>388928336
you're a big guy

>>388922286

The scanner had photographed you. They couldn't risk revealing their lab to the Combine.

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>tfw no gluon gun or portable tau cannon
>tfw no semi auto battle rifle that felt like a beast and was an alternative to the crossbow
>tfw no portable strider cannon
>tfw no cool combine sci fi weapons

Why did they do this?

>>388931021
CUT
CONTENT

>>388922804

Have you seen the fly? I always assumed the cat met the same fate as the monkey.

>>388931021

The AR-2 is cool IMO and that's combine tech.

I wish they had kept the cremators and given you their weapon.

>>388930820
U
>>388930820
U

how would fucking scanners seeing you risk the lab?
whether you're in the lab or not the scanner already saw you in that area, the combine are going to search that area
Seeing as how you go through the whole game and the lab was never found, you could have just hidden there

>>388928698
It looks like it's his wife's son.

>>388931021
>Portable Strider cannon

Shit would send you backwards through a wall when you fired it. Not to mention that it would fill up your entire screen with the glowy effect, and I don't want any part of a strider cannon without that space warping glow effect.

>>388930232
I dont remember enough, but I wonder if the outright skips and out-of-bounds were necessary to bypass unskippable jumps. I don't see how anything could be unskippable at that point, so why break the game?

>>388929875
It had to be, Freeman's first crowbar was taken by the marines and the second by the G-Man

>>388931021
https://tcrf.net/Proto:Half-Life_2_(Windows)/Cut_Weapons
Because they were cut.

>>388931328

Wow, you're hilariously fucking retarded.

>See criminal in area
>Criminal disappears
>Search area

OR

>Criminal in area
>Criminal keeps a high profile, runs around the entire city causing chaos
>Don't want to search area or have the time to search area since you already know the criminal is not fucking there and he is currently killing officers all over the city.

Using your FUCKING brain you FUCKING nonce. Jesus FUCKING Christ, where you fucking whacked in the head with a 2-ton steel beam as a fucking kid? HOW FUCKING STUPID CAN YOU FUCKING BE? DO YOU TYPE WITH YOUR FUCKING ARSE? THIS IS HILARIOUSLY FUCKING DUMB. YOU ARE LITERALLY SO FUCKING RETARDED THAT I CANNOT FIND WORDS TO ACCURATELY DESCRIBE HOW LITTLE YOUR SHIT FUCKING LIFE IS WORTH. FUCKING KILL YOURSELF IMMEDIATELY TO SPARE THE WORLD OF YOUR MOUTHBREATHING FUCKING ASS.

Did you even think before posting your shit-fucking-post? Did you even take the time of day to imagine the scenario, or are you just ridiculously uneducated about how logic and police enforcement works? If you were here right now I would bludgeon you to fucking death with whatever object is at hands and then take my punishment. If possible I'd also fucking beat the everliving fucking shit out of your retard crackaddict parents for raising such a retarded inbred piece of shit. FUCK YOU.

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The moment you drop out a pair of scanners spot you. Pulling you back up and into their secret hideout would be kind of retarded.

>>388925889
How old is he? He looks like he is in his early 30s. That is doable

>>388927571
>I can't understand a joke lol

>>388931964
See
>>388926304

>>388932047
That is short notice, although I am on my way to have my phd at 28

>>388929990
didn't he start half life 2 now?

>>388931787
You mean the criminal that has been teleporting around?

>>388931787
You were being chased by cops when Alyx fucking murdered them and left their bodies right next to the elevator to the lab.

>>388926538
No it isn't.