Humanity was only ready to fight back when they had nothing left to lose.

I think the theory would be more complete and ironic if it were concluded with Chell being the only sentient being of intellect. From my understanding, she is mute because her tongue was severed as a test subject. You forgot to mention Ratman, who has arguments on both sides for being a character with enough significance or not to be judged along the others. But that is okay because I mostly agree with your video essay and gave it a like. Solid work man

Maybe one day KZbinrs will learn to talk instead of yap

*when a casual player finds out how speedrunners approach the game*

sometimes you messy lesbians need to just break up and move far away from each other. refresh the pond

i played the game this year and i actually knew nothing except the portal gun about it. I loved it cause i was so confused when i got to the cake

Hal was way too smart in a creepy way! Lol

It gives a lot of the same energy as that horror movie series Cube.

I don't trust your worldview nor judgements.

Bleh

"What does the Combine give the CPs?" Headcrab curry night.

What you are doing and experiencing is important and you sharing your experience is important. Thank you.

great

I know this is a year old now, but where did you get the idea that Gordon is trapped on an alien world at the end. The last paragraph of the text opens with "And here we are. I spoke of my return to this shore. It has been a circuitous path to lands I once knew." He is clearly back on Earth, and goes on to detail that he is still in contact with members of the Resistance, but he no longer personally knows them. The notion I got was that the Vortiguants deposit Freeman back on Earth far in the future.

Makes me realize just how bad the civilian's hatred is. They're literally willing to give up their lives for some guy that they don't even know, all in hope that this "Freeman" saves them all.

Great video!

The story is pretty good to keep you invested in the characters, setting, & making the gameplay much more enjoyable.

i only recently played half life and whenever i died it always felt like my fault. i slowed down, tried to be more careful in my approach. and while i wasnt as perhaps as methodical as you, when i eventually go back and do a playthrough on hard mode ill try to be. you really captured the essence of what i really enjoyed about this game that i couldnt quite put into words

14:26 2007 chris chan but if it was 1987

You leave Cave alone. The man was smitten. Men in that position do dumb shit.

The Portal Gun feels like a First Functional and Safe-ish model. The PortalGun itself has 0 practical uses. 1. It only works on white surfaces, not a big deal, many places have white walls, as a fist model, this would be glorious and you could work from there (but they dont) 2A. You can only have two portals. In the real world this might be great if you wanna reach to the fridge from your bedroom, but getting anywhere in daily life means having to walk somewhere to replace a portal and then having to consistently walk and re-place the portal somewhere else. Highly impractical. 2b. You cant close and open them at will, meaning anyone or anything can just walk through them and get to places youd rather not be followed to, such as home. You could always just re place that portal into your home, but reffering back to 2A, you now have the inconvenience of having to actually go places to place that portal. The Portal gun seems like an amazing proof of Concept that shouldve been tsken to investor's. Theyd get money that would fund reseach into better models and making it work in better ways and theyd get the green light to produce more portal guns for the masses. This is the 50s and 60s, no body is going to try to regulate these in that era. So theyd have more cashflow for more research But no, Cave Johnson would rather see what homeless test subjects do with them and literally anything other than getting his patents to investors. Would this be unethical absolutely. None of these people care about ethic and would 100% put out the portal gun as is if they weren't morons They couldve been the Wright Brothers of Portals, but they are all morons

I came from a dysfunctional family but overall it was good and we're there for eachother and help eachother when we need to at the end of the day no matter what. It may not have been perfect or normal by any means but despite everything and its unconventional points it did its job. My mom though was the only wholesome normal part. Despite the fact she split off after divorcing my dad was always a part of me and my sisters life and despite not living with her she really raised me. Im glad i never have to think about or psychologically profile her because she just loved me, supported me, and at 29 is still my best friend. We can talk about movies we watch together like my dinner with andre or brazil, total recall, the thing, or whatever movie she showed me when i was a kid and revisit or listen to my drunken rants on society or my recent hyper fixation and have a thoughtful philisophical conversation about almost anything. One of my best memories is we'd backpack around the mountains in new mexico when we got the chance and one year i didnt tell her but i dropped 2 hits of acid and we just talked about the nature of life from being an animal to the parts of what it means to exist as you develop conciusness that opens up another teir of wants and needs and i felt so comfortable and happy she didnt know i was tripping till i told her and didnt care natrually. I hope you csn mske your found family happy and give them a good life with nothing in return except knowing you bettered someones life amd helped them grow

Lemme know how that "found family" worked out in 5 years...

Girl, I don't know what you are talking about but that bark is so real omg

I love how you ask if they are robots and the new game from Team Ico is a post apocalyptic robot game possibly set in the same universe.

It is worth noting that the final twist is that the AI isn’t literally an AI in the traditional scifi sense. It’s a literalization of a meme that only reveals itself as such when the physical AI is corrupted and destroyed. I typically feel that any interpretation that positions a real world example of a ”GW-ism” as being comprehensible within a larger narrative misses the mark. The idea that it was a real world GW that incited Jan6 isn’t quite right to my mind, I’d sooner say that GW is the knowledge of the whistleblower, or (from the subjective pov of whoever the current interpreter is) whatever meta-narrative was disseminated to you culturally. Your own interpretations aren’t necessarily part of GW, but there is no public source of information - much less one believed by a dunbar’s number of people - that doesn’t count as an aspect of GW. Like, in discussions surround misinformation on social media recently there has been a lot of talk about how "the left and the right live in completely different realities" referring to the makeup of their newsfeeds, and it's very easy to pin GW as the thing that constructed one or both of those sides, but I'd much sooner say that GW is the fact that both of those sides exist at the same time. GW says that the two isolated forums stew in their own cess and only leak their preferred narratives into a larger society. The antidote to this was supposed to be context created by the "AI" (read: cultural memetics) that helped you cohesively interpret those narratives, decidedly without controlling content. The idea that both sides live in different worlds and that social media is built to facilitate such a divide, IS such a context. That doesn't mean it's not true - as far as I know it is true - and I don't see why GW would abstain from being truthful if it stumbled on a truth that fit the narrative. It would also not hesitate to abandon that truth, but in order to interpret an entity which represents the concept of human sense-making I believe we kinda have to indulge the idea that it can and will actually make sense from the perspective of a human. That's arguably the thing that differeentiates it from the spellcheckers and chatbots we have come to call "AI" in the current year. GW isn’t a thing that can be understood, GW is whatever is telling you how to understand. You can’t outsmart it by putting it in a larger context, because the rules by which the smarting game is played are contained within GW. You could almost interpret it as being even further ahead of its time than previously believed, being a potential criticism to a possible solution to our current situation. (makes sense, since every 3-5 years gamers turn around and say MGS2 ”predicted” a new thing in culture. It just kinda has it’s finger on the pulse of what allows modern society to corrupt in the ways it does)

@Leadhead resisted lmfao rest in piss

coming back to this video about 8 months after ive seen it the first time and now Ive just started e.

what part of abbey road do you sync new years up with, leadhead?

7:01 knowing what we know with her now, lmao

Great takes my man. Only thing I would add is that you didn't mention the power of prayer when dealing with evil. It's the only way to defeat the final boss.

This is the callout I needed VERY desperately. I recently went through that 'moment' of letting my 'therian bullshit' get the better of my humanity and sense of self, and the way you described the thought process as 'this is just the way of the animal kingdom' was like a flashbang. I felt and feel the exact same way about what happened to me and I've never felt so understood or motivated to really dissect and improve that line of thinking, to realise where puppyhood should end and where girlhood (and unfortunately, my humanity) begins. Think I need to lie down for a bit. Thank you 🐾 P.S the barking tutorial was life changing

The Last of Us?

G-man represents the hidden branch of the government that actually runs things and isn't accountable to all the other. It's like when in Russia they had entire cities that were working on various advanced projects and they were only known to the most secretive parts of the state. I would imagine he's like the US equivalent of the KGB.

my god, g-man is the copy of Cancer man from X-Files. He's a spook from the deep state there to keep account of what you're doing as you're useful to them.

I had no idea old Greg was a KZbinr

There's one moron you forgot: you, the author of the video

Nihilanth is Dr. Breen from the future in his new body.

search up "will it run after 59 years 1953 plymouth cranbrook" its oddly facinating, like seeing a corp,se managing to mumble out a few words

Good God that background noise is awful I want to watch the video but I keep having to breaks😵‍💫

please stop abbreviating civil protection i beg of you

5 days later this feels very powerful and important. Thanks for everything, it matters

Id praise this game of it would download properly and let me actually play it. Like i bought it a week after it came out on the XBOX store. I downloaded it a month after beating it, got to the home screen annnd nothing was playable. Every episode and every DLC is grey. Game itsekf is downloaded but its the levels thay its saying arent even though you check the files and they are all there

I think they're pretty bad ngl

18:06 If I used that in a conscious objector I would actually feel more like a target.

i never found the game particularly difficult, and i'm pretty sure i did play on hard. with any hard segment, i eventually pushed through with enough trial and error. overall, i found the game to be fairly chill.

I was hoping you’d talk about the part where Wheatley proved he was smart by listening to classical music and reading Machiavelli

Wow, this was a really well thought out video!

23:39 I guess you didn't have options

The best thing for me was how little it punished death, so i could try any stupid idea or spam the biggest guns like a maniac just to by trial and error and naturally getting better as i progressed it felt strangely easy, its so forgiving that i could try anything that came to mind and I'll be back in seconds to where i was