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BLOGGING ABOUT HALFED LIFE ON WEBBED SITE, MORE TO COME. ART BLOG: NUCLEARNERVES

[phillip-bankss]

[big-bad-r0n]

"Heavenly Sword blahblahblah..."

WHAT THE-!?!?!?!!!!????

[nnebuchadnezzar]

[boppinbobby]

laughed

[glazeliights]

☝️ what if they were animals

[dark--specter]

He's perfect and I love him.

[callmepelos]

Tricking this guy is so easy........

Strangers appear and offer him supplies.

accepts the supplies even though they're leading him to an abandoned building (they exclusively want him to go first).

He's knocked out, captured, and forced into a Saw-style game.

IT'S LIKE THOSE VIDEOS WHERE SOMEONE CAPTURES PIGEONS IN OBVIOUS TRAPS!!!!!!!!!

[sourcengine-moved]

small detail, but according to a halflife2.net interview from 2004, gordon weighs 85 kg or 187 pounds (suit included) 

[shitty17]

GORDON WEIGHS FUCKING NOTHING

[maxkillertart]

i think it means like. in the source engine they had to program gravity and they had to give the player a weight that would feel realistic when they fell or interacted with physics objects.

so if they gave the player too heavy a weight to account for the HEV, it would feel odd to the player, especially since physics that yiu could interact with was something pretty new, so they just chose an average weight (or did some math idk)

[jpivblog]

half life canon is fake and not real*, but according to the seesaw physics puzzle in the retail game, gordon weighs roughly the same amount as 8 cinder blocks. that’s with his suit, a crowbar, and a pistol.

[sucrefemme]

Cinder blocks are about 40lbs, x8 = 320lbs

crowbar = 15ish = 305lbs

Pistol: 1-2 lbs = 304lbs

A standard bodysuit for a 6’2 man would require about 3yd x 42” of fabric. Most of the HEV isn’t a full bodysuit + that doesn’t account for cutting things down so I’ll round that down to 3sq yards.

1sq yards of carbon fiber/epoxy composite (my best guess for the outermost shell) at 6-10mm thick is approx. 15lbs, times 3 is 45 lbs =259

The HEV has some bulletproofing. I’m lazy I’m gonna say it’s Kevlar. It’s hard to buy Kevlar in the correct thickness wholesale, but it’s about 4-5lbs/sq yd, x3 = 15 lbs =244

I feel like the fabric-looking parts of the suit are something like Dyneema, which is like 2 lbs for 3sq yd at the correct thickness. =243

The suit has a bunch of dumb stuff I don’t want to Google and tally up. I’ll say the speaker systems, nerve detection tech, morphine, the HEV batteries, and everything else I forgot are probably an extra 15lbs. =228lbs

Which puts Gordon at a pretty normal weight for a 6’2 man.

However! If all together he really is 187lbs, and the suit is 76 (based on the estimating I did), then mr. Freeman is 111lbs! You can and will snap him in half with minimal effort!

[noelclaiire]

[bluehawk54]

Guess what turns 10 today

[bluehawk54]

Happy 20th Birthday John Freeman

[hawfstuff]

[gordon-freeman-phd]

Seeing Red

[uh-oh-nope]

GIANT hlvrai doodles from the past months DAYS, pt.5

(Yes, I was inspired by Anatomy for this one lol. I truly think those types of stories, like House of Leaves, intertwines with hlvrai so well.)

(Edit: just added another doodle)

[tbhaze]

anybody else adore alyx vance bc i do. shes goofy she tells bad jokes and does stupid pranks shes an incredibly competent engineer and hacker shes a great shot she loves her dad and the rest of her ragtag family. shes the best and she deserves everything good in the world i love her so much

[antontello]

throws this at you

This is very quick and messy!! Apologies!

[seventeendeer]

HL2VRAI is really, really good

had to animate the little dance party at the end of act 1. this took way longer than it should have but I'm happy it now exists 👌

[astroadonis]

Let’s sail!

Act 2 was such a blast, thank you to the rtvs crew for putting on an awesome show despite some of them still feeling sick, they are true heroes for that ❤️‍🩹

[crossfalconx5]

These two have endeared themselves to me exponentially. I can’t wait until I learn the other ones name.