A TERRIFYING Fate | The Barnacle | FULL Half-Life Lore

[@Skyrionn]

Look Gordon! Ropes! A shorter video this week while I work on the next timeline. Like, comment, subscribe and you won't get eaten by a barnacle.

[@Sprinklekit_KP_98]

I thought I was the only one who knew this reference!

[@spacecolonyalliances.c.a1234]

What if I eat the barnacle first?

[@GordonFreman1]

Strangle ropes......

[@zac9181]

@@Sprinklekit_KP_98 Gordon if you beat the Staff-Ghost in this race you unlock Gold HEV Suit.

[@tylerrusnak7736]

There's a world in your dreams and I NEED TO GO THERE!

[@samuelantoniocastillomeza5034]

The barnacles traumatized me as a kid to the point if a cable or any thread from a ceiling touched me, I would scream. Black Mesa introducing the aquatic ones is a new fear.

[@Skyrionn]

Oh the aquatic ones were amazing. I wish the sand ones were used too. Hopefully if we get another HL game, we'll see them

[@slothslothslothslothslothsloth]

the first time i encountered the aquatic barnacles i immediately quit due to the purest form of terror i have ever felt

[@MaxLib]

Same.

[@itsmegoodbye9227]

Look gordon, ropes!

[@sammytheseaslug-]

@@Skyrionn Maybe if HLX becomes a new Half-Life game we'll see them! That would be cool

[@zac9181]

Look Gordon! Ropes! We can use-HELP ME GORDON!

[@hunterwolf5482]

we can use them to traverse big pits!

[@Clown_the_Clown]

🤢🤮

[@Heavygunner_rky]

A few episodes later So it was all ropes? Allways has been.

[@BlondieYouTube]

Gordon! So good you're here. The soldiers aren't here to help us and will shoot us on sight, worse yet, they've cloned another Gordon that has been going around killing both us and the soldiers!

[@zac9181]

@@BlondieKZbin Good.

[@SnowblindOtter]

According to an interview I read a while ago, the Barnacle was inspired by _arachnocampa luminosa,_ a species of Glowworm native to New Zealand, which use a similar method of hunting. They dangle a bioluminescent thread of silk covered in sticky mucous from the ceiling of a cave, and reel in bugs attracted to the light and caught in the silk to be eaten.

[@RandomBlackBox]

Don’t tell the science team about that

[@somepixelynerd]

That immediately makes much more sense than the Half-Life barnacle, because it has _bait_

[@Mizelei2012]

To answer your question at the end; the worst fate truly has to be the headcrab; the unending torment seems just awful.

[@EagleEye517]

While being fully aware of everything happening to you, but being totally helpless to it.

[@yosefyonin6824]

i donnu, being transformed into a stalker still seems worse

[@Mizelei2012]

@@yosefyonin6824 Yes, it seems terrible, but you at least have the option of ending your own life. The fact is that there are many stalkers walking around. But, most of the Headcrab Zombies are begging to be killed (at least in Alyx) and unable to end it.

[@friedspyder4571]

Worst fate is Mr. Friendly.

[@yosefyonin6824]

@@friedspyder4571 who???

[@arekrekas213]

one thing i'll say about the fate of getting caught by a barnacle: after the combine invasion is over, it'll be very unlikely that you'll venture out unprepared. You'd be quite lucky to find out that all it takes for a barnacle to die is one melee hit with a sharp object. Stuff like crowbars and axes might potentially help you survive for much longer than you would normally, even if you might end up with a pair of broken legs afterwards

[@LogisticPeach]

I’m sure even a pointy stick would work.

[@arekrekas213]

@@LogisticPeach i guess it'd work in a pinch, and if you were lucky enough

[@Tuberuser187]

@@LogisticPeach Problem with that is the stomach acid will splash all over you if you stab it while its dragging you up, that might actually be even worse than getting eaten. The Barnacles teeth are pretty large and it chomps quite forcefully, it wouldn't surprise me if it has Crocodilian levels of biteforce. I don't think a victim would live long, especially if dragged up head first. Smashing to the ground covered in acid would be worse, you are probably going to die over the next few mins if lucky. Blinded, in horrific pain and with broken bones. If you're unlucky? You lose enough skin to make long term survival impossible, like a extensive 3rd degree burn victim and without the mercy of destroyed nerves because chemical/corrosive burns don't destroy the nerves around the dissolved tissue. The medical infrastructure to treat those injuries like skin grafts and isolation chambers doesn't exist anymore, infection is another problem and if you end up in the wilderness with say, 40% 3rd degree chemical burns and no help? Your last few hours are going to be head crab levels of suffering.

[@LogisticPeach]

@@Tuberuser187 Neither the HEV suit never or any character saved from a barnacle mentions acid damage from a dead barnacle. It’s probably saliva or weak acid. Just cover your eyes with your arms and the clothing will absorb most of it. Maybe if they detect an inedible spear instead of you, they’ll let go

[@classarank7youtubeherokeyb63]

@@Tuberuser187 It's been a long time since I played but was that a thing in game? Even the strongest real world stomach acids won't melt you like alien blood. It looks like they rely on killing their prey with their powerful jaws and then digest at their leisure. Although being suspended by whatever part of you touched the barnacle is probably still going to hurt.

[@JedHill-m4p]

Now whenever I walk into a room with ropes I look at the ceiling from force of habit.

[@Skyrionn]

Basic survival

[@Anomalocringe]

how often are you walking into rooms with ropes ranging from the ceiling bro

[@JedHill-m4p]

more often then you'd think

[@JordanMontgomery-y6j]

​@@JedHill-m4pthey ain't real barnacles will never be real

[@Anomalocringe]

@@JordanMontgomery-y6j he said before entering the barnacle room

[@LLNightrider22]

I remember playing half life with the invincible cheat on. Getting mauled by a barnacle that can't kill you is really creepy

[@LenYiFanboy]

Please make: "The Deadliest mistake |The Casserole| FULL Half Life LORE "

[@Omega-jg4oq]

I remember having nightmares about the barnacles while playing HL when I was a kid, the thought being a victim of that freaking thing is just terrifying

[@wyslanniknewworldorder9525]

Imagine a scientiest shock seeing that thing grapping You.

[@Skyrionn]

they literally are a nightmare

[@danielbedrossian5986]

Somehow the Assassines grew actual fear in my hearth as a child, not the barnicles or the otherwise nightmereish head humpers. Speaking of headhumpers, the Alien, Planet's name Death gave years of fear from dark areas, even at home.

[@Mizelei2012]

Well, to be honest, being grabbed by a barnacle is a pretty painless death, right? I believe it snaps your neck and then eats you head-first. I think only a Headcrab is a "fate worse than death"

[@grindcoreninja6527]

Yeah, insane fever due to your lymphatic system going into overdrive while your calcium is used to make your ribcage explode as your finger bones break your skin? No thanks man.

[@BlitzInkling]

Well as we seen in Half-Life Alyx that one dude got grabbed on his ankles. Imagine if he wasn't able to grab onto something and Alyx not able to rescue him.

[@Mizelei2012]

@@BlitzInkling Yeah, I guess the head-first part is not guaranteed. I still believe that it is better than to be taken over by a headcrab.

[@AngryShooter]

@@BlitzInkling it would have eaten part of his leg and lose its grip on him, he'd lose his leg, potentially die from the fall or bleed to death, but there's a small chance he could survive

[@classarank7youtubeherokeyb63]

Even ankle first isn't that out there for predators. They don't always bother to execute their prey before digging in. It would be terrifying for a few moments and horrifically painful for a few more, but blood loss will end your suffering very quickly.

[@Menagerie_OS]

I wonder if anyone ever tried feeding a barnacle a barnacle

[@Neometalll]

that's how you get black holes

[@Wojtek_Ch]

"here barny, barny!"

[@filanfyretracker]

like someone using a long stick to push one tongue against another.

[@TheOneZytel]

I tried it in Opposing Force. :D

[@BrodieMurphy-bl9zb]

​@@TheOneZytel what happened?

[@wolfgangvan-uber6515]

Barnacles, to this day, frighten me more than headcrabs, zombies and other monster from the Half-Life universe. Cause they’re so disgusting they gross me out.

[@Skyrionn]

100%

[@WeazelGamingHI]

Not to mention that they can grow anywhere!

[@happymark1668]

“Look Gordon! ROPES! We can use them for big pits” - Dr. Coomer

[@zacharybrazeau9218]

Not sure if this is ever mentioned in any game but I always assume the reason why people and other creatures can’t fight back when they’re caught is because the barnacle has a venom that paralyzes the prey. The only reason why Gordon isn’t is because he’s wearing the HEV suit. Might just be my head canon.

[@ffwast]

It's the only explanation that makes sense really.

[@fallatiuso]

I seem to recall the same being thing mentioned in the game somewhere too. they've got some kinda neurotoxin/paralytic in/on their tongue that they use to secure their prey. Why most things just goes limp once caught.

[@Peter_Turbo4]

Nah, they just snap your neck when they grab you.

[@E.V.A.N-COProductions]

@@fallatiuso If that is true, wouldn't the HEV suit still detect that minimal neurotoxin? Considering the cut voice line in the original Half-Life detecting such.

[@fallatiuso]

@@E.V.A.N-COProductions Possible, though it may only count if the neurotoxin gets _in_ the body, and not when the suit blocks it. 🤔

[@AustrianDeathMachine9]

getting puked on by a barnacle in vr is a wierd experience man

[@InvisibleSquids]

hey dude, I'm sure that's someone's kink. Not saying it isn't weird, but there's probably some degenerate out there that went "Aw yessss, puke on me ceiling flesh ball"

[@Wojtek_Ch]

It's also terribly sexy

[@DarkCatfish]

@Wojtek_Ch 😂

[@sock_investment]

@@Wojtek_Ch 🤮

[@joannanawrothenormie910]

I remember in the underground section of anticitezn one, there's was a moment, where a combine soldier jumpscareed me, but he died to a perfectly placed barnacle after he jumpscareed me, he didn't even fire once, poor guy...

[@BaronPraxis8492]

I can only imagine how many poor cats met their end trying to bat at one of those hanging tongues...

[@Founder6087]

Blame the science team, lel

[@BeckyNosferatu]

oh that hurts. That hurts a LOT.

[@Noobcookiemonster]

Why u give me goosebumps

[@b-17theflyingfortress]

Vertical enemies are probably the kind of enemies that always give every players nightmares....

[@Founder6087]

Because players never look up?

[@InvisibleSquids]

@@Founder6087 Because players never look up ⭕

[@Wojtek_Ch]

I'm more worried about black enemies myself. I'm always worried they'll steal something from me.

[@nachalnik5738]

I'm always getting jumpscared by leeches in DRG, so that's true lmao

[@mahockey3]

​@@Wojtek_Ch I'm more worried about white enemies myself. I'm always worried they'll steal my land and give me a disease.

[@SUB-IN-SUPER]

I remember playing half life for the first time as a kid, (the first half life) and I saw the barnacles, and they terrified me. I didn't run into them or die by them or anyway, my mind just imagined what the tounge and the mouth in the roof would do to you. Many years later, grown adult and all, played all Half Life games, including Alyx. And seeing then, in VR, made me honestly shiver whenever I encountered them. Just looking up in pure fear and dread, the once pixelated creature I saw many years ago, had turned into something vile, horrifying and pure nightmare fuel, which whenever I came close, I began to sweat prefously, hoping that my arm or leg did not get caught in it's horrid trap. Good lord, the fact some simple creature that you don't encounter much in the game managed to absolutely terrify me is astounding.

[@conqueeftador3726]

there really isn’t a limit to the amount of lore the half life universe has

[@Skyrionn]

there's so much

[@spinnykirbo6139]

You can make a video about watching grass grow and the way you tell the story and the way you speak will allow me to watch it at least twice.

[@Skyrionn]

April fools video maybe haha. I appreciate you

[@MacaqueStinx]

Babe wake up, Skyrionn HL2 Barnacle analysis just dropped

[@Skyrionn]

welcome welcome

[@Wojtek_Ch]

She run away with a milkman two years ago, don't you remember?

[@MacaqueStinx]

@@Wojtek_Ch no i Have balzheimer's, its like Alzheimer's but it mainly affects the balls

[@MacaqueStinx]

@@Wojtek_Ch i also have cerebral balsy

[@MacaqueStinx]

@@Wojtek_Ch i also have short term and long term memory (b)l(a)o(ll)ss

[@Chip_124]

I’ve died at least 100 times to a barnacle even tho it literally can’t see, walk, or even attack other than you walking into it.

[@silverhawkscape2677]

How? You'll likely die from fall Damage from killing a Barnacle while being pulled up high than the damage.

[@Chip_124]

Skill

[@emersonp.machado5258]

Bro it's just a joke. Nobody would ever die more than 100 times to a barnacle... right?

[@samuelantoniocastillomeza5034]

There's a barnacle in Anticitizen One when you are about to exit the sewers that can pull you very high and the fall will be most likely fatal. Sometimes it's model won't even load up and practically be invisible.

[@x_hibernia]

Funnily enough unless someone helps you on Sven your lunch for them.

[@AlexKurilovMusic]

One of the few channels that I watch immediately when I see a new upload.

[@nryn6023]

You have a soothing voice so i use ur videos to fall asleep to when i wanna listen to something interesting while i go to bed. Thank you mr valve lore guy

[@reeceemms1643]

I do still want to see a video on the cut Half Life 2 enemies and what they potentially would have done. I feel like the Crab Synth was probably a meant to be a siege weapon of sorts. And I believe the Mortar Synth was probably a mobile artillery. Also something else that shows just how good Half-Life is. I got a mod for Gmod that adds an enemy known as a Combine Scarab and it actually feels like something that would have been in Half-Life.

[@Skyrionn]

They would be cool topics to explore. One day. There's still a lot more to look into!

[@reeceemms1643]

@@Skyrionn yeah

[@Troglodyted]

They scared the hell out of me the first time I met them in HL1.

[@denifnaf5874]

They used to be more op in early development By that i mean they'd only lower their tounges when the victom is bellow them

[@Troglodyted]

@@denifnaf5874 dam

[@PelemusMcSoy]

When you play Half Life Alyx, you become accustomed to the barnacle's subtle breathing sounds, so you generally are aware of their presence. When you play Half Life 2 VR, they're silent. If you're not paying attention or your flashlight dies at the wrong moment, say good night.

[@Korben-c5x]

Skyrionn, you should start making videos of the Metro and STALKER series, both are extremely good post-apocalyptic masterpieces

[@MoreMask7421]

Yo! I made the Barnacle model in the thumbnail, I watch you all the time so it made my day when I saw that on my feed. Have a good one, and good luck on that timeline video 👍

[@Skyrionn]

Nice - your design looks amazing! I'm assuming you made it on Blender or something like that? My thumbnail guy is the one who finds these things.

[@MoreMask7421]

@@Skyrionn Thanks, glad you like it! I sculpted it in blender like 5 years ago and ported it to black mesa, I want to revamp it sometime cause it can be way better now lmao

[@MrBags3737]

Did he already do the beneathacle? It's a underwater barnacle

[@pathaze4299]

I grew up up playing the HL series and in my mind I always thought there were guts/organs embedded above whatever surface they were attached to..Cause a human sized body they eat would have to go somewhere.. The anatomy is weird.. Where does the caca go? Would make sense in the game if there was a pile of bones and rotting soil-like mass beneath it... Cause in HL2 when you kill them they usually spit out a few bones...

[@bluegum6438]

I think they should be like the tentacles, I agree. A main body embedded in a solid object with the mouthparts poking out. They're clearly not like that, since sometimes they're stuck in nonsensical locations like onto gratings, but they don't make much sense as an animal this way.

[@mikerowave1986]

Fascinating video, as usual. I was thinking, and I think the closest thing resembling to the barnacle in nature is probably the Portuguese Man'O War. They are a kind of jellyfish (or something close to them), they are floating on the surface of sea, and lurking their long tentacles in the deeper water armed with stinging nematocysts. If a fish touches those tentacles, they paralyses the victim and stick to it, and then the jellyfish pull it up and digest it alive.

[@Skyrionn]

I've just looked them up and they are nightmare fuel

[@Tristtix]

Pretty neat

[@removefromme]

@@Skyrionn Some dude around here in the Florida Gulf Coast saw one wash up on shore and picked it up. Then complained about his hand hurting the next day.

[@ΠανοςΚ-υ6λ]

The Triage at dawn music in the end of every HL video is !GOLD!

[@CrimeLord6099]

Only Skyrionn can make a video about such a small enemy into a 14 minute video. (Fire video, keep up the good work!)

[@bushlord1519]

Your content is amazing, so addicting to binge watch. You incapsulate the terrifying aspect of half life so well with your videos.

[@eigenmishi_in_3d]

The footage and editing is so perfect, wonderful documentary. I love your channel!

[@dina_solaire]

Ive always wondered how tf do barnacles get up in the ceiling of things since they dont seem to move much 🤔

[@Sirpushyou]

I wish you could’ve manipulated the tongue with the gravity gun so you can shoot it at enemies or objects.

[@Memealytis]

Skyrionn your videos are so damn good, keep cooking. KZbinrs that keep my attention for hours on end are few and far between, and I’m glad you’re one of them.

[@Skyrionn]

I appreciate you

[@AdanSolas]

Can someone please let me know the font used for those small chapter titles in the bottom-left corner? Bit of an odd question, but I’d like to know.

[@foxinbox8489]

Am i like the only one, who wasn't traumatized by barnacles, even though i played hl2 when i was like 11? I even found it amusing to feed them things

[@starboy-s3m]

My Guy you earned a follower. Tremendous Lore & Fine work with the art there . Had to hop into the vid

[@Wojtek_Ch]

A follower? Like in some kind of cult? You're going to stab people on his demand now?

[@fakenails]

Not on quite that scale or size, but the Arachnocampa luminosa (aka cave glow worms, larva stage of cave flies) deploy sticky string stuff to catch pray.

[@delete2638]

12:23 I mean, barnacles exist, but they aren’t very much of a problem unless you a microbe organism or jellyfish babies

[@DaddyPhantae]

I've always wondered if you could just cut the barnacle tongue with a knife or something

[@ParaNoid816]

My ghost would be FURIOUS if an alien creature ate me, and humans proceeded to name the creature after me.

[@green_lettuce]

I just noticed that Gordon Freeman himself is a Patron/Channel Member.

[@flashmusicarchive]

it's always been fun for me to make zombies follow me only to be eaten by the barnacle or push headcrabs with the gravity gun towards them as well.

[@MatthewBester]

4:00 The good doctor accepted his fate. No arm flailing or struggling.

[@yingjiazhu4014]

I am literally still paying attention to ceilings of unfamiliar spaces and even during a night toilet rush from my bed to my toilet steps away in real life due to my encounter of HL2 barnacles as a child. A pure nightmare fuel and an absolute childhood trauma. Well done GabeN... by creating an all-time favoured franchise and a nightmare-fueling creature at the same time.

[@don-valley-parkway]

These guys always get me, every time I think I can just about squeeze past and every time I'm proven wrong

[@Minecraftguns]

3:50 "Look Gordon, ropes! We can use these for getting across large pits!"

[@Raist474]

Does the Barnacle hide parts of it's body in the surface it attaches it too? Because just off the part we see they aren't big enough to swallow a entire humanoid. Guess it's just game mechanics, although holding onto it's prey for a time to slowly eat it would be an interesting adaptation, the body parts that fall to the ground as it eats could attract other prey.

[@MikeB-us5cg]

One thing I disliked about this part of Half Life's backstory is that this environmental contamination and danger was shown to go only one way. I mean, I know Earth doesn't have scores of horrors like headcrabs overwhelming entire towns and cities, but we have some equally as nasty shxt at all levels. For example, horsehair worms finding new hosts in headcrabs would be hilarious, and various types of Earth plants, bacteria, and fungi infecting and killing Xen wildlife would've been interesting to see, let alone Earth fauna adapting and preying on alien life.

[@hadiakbari1171]

i really appreciate the effort you put into these videos.

[@OneFreeMan17]

The barnacle was freaky. I remember playing Half-Life: Uplink for the first time, hearing that “HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH” sound 😬

[@potatomining4806]

Gotta be my favorite lore channel out there

[@yeenmachine206]

I didn't think people would find barnacles scary. I always saw them as a pain in the ass more than anything. With the exception of the screams of headcrab zombies, I didn't find Half Life to be all that scary

[@botep5529]

Xen was so awesome in black mesa

[@steveylovesdrumming531]

I am always be glad that there are still content creators upload videos about Half Life (my favorite top1 game) even theres no latest update about Halflife❤

[@CrysisYaDig]

half life 3 leaks and skyrion lore video issa good week 😇

[@Skyrionn]

all back on the hl3 hype train!

[@PaulWiley-vr9mt]

If you wanted to eat a species in Half-Life, what would it be and how would you think it would taste?

[@denifnaf5874]

Leech

[@i_am_theguy12]

if i could, chumtoad or headcrab but honestly i couldn't imagine how they taste

[@Skyrionn]

I think maybe the headcrab, but only if they were cooked by a vort

[@nguyenquyetthang1326]

@@i_am_theguy12 doesn't taste like crab, apparently

[@spaghettimkay5795]

I feel like houndeyes would be a delicacy

[@gorasul12]

When is was younger I did not see them as much, simple and easy, but that was because I only saw them through the eyes of a kid playing the main character, when I started to think about them and other creature through a more inuniverse perspective then I get why they are so scary.

[@Gabronthe]

Ive always had the image of a powered soldier grabbing the tongue of the barnicle and pulling it inside out.

[@SysOpQueen]

Great video as always! Every time i see your name, I think of long-form Zelda videos.... even though you don't make them xP

[@Skyrionn]

Zelda would be cool to explore. Not sure if there would be a big audience for it though in my viewer base

[@nuip7936]

barnacles grow in huge numbers in that antlion hive level from one of the episodes, its safe to say barnacles prey primarily on antlions and not humans or other lifeforms as antlions are blind and cannot see the barnacle's tongue

[@AmyraCarter]

If one could figure out how to force the tongue of the barnacle to alter its' adhesive state on demand, they'd make viable rope swings. As is, such a venture would require cutting the tongue off after use. Worst fate in Half-Life? Losing the crowbar.

[@TheMrsmartass13]

I love in Half Life 2 it feels like life and ecosytem of Xen is taking over earth, the ant lion colony reminds me of the caves of zen. It's so interesting seeing an alien invasive species

[@johnstamper664]

Xen

[@TheMrsmartass13]

@@johnstamper664 lol sorry ill fix that

[@Itsgotahemi]

Always something informative! Thank you Skyrioon!

[@Skyrionn]

Thanks!

[@Mr.Bonuts]

They should have used barnicals more, in both games they teach you what they do, and they also appear quite often early on. Then I guess they just forgot to include barnacles? I mean, they are a cool enemy but they get used an amount of times I could cound on 2 hands. Especially in Hl2 where I could not name ONE spot they appear in past water hazard

[@SammyWhiteley]

One of my proudest moments in life was when my friends and I were obsessively quoting HLVRAI, and when i got the one friend in the group who wasn't into half life to play Half Life Alyx, she went the entire session calling the barnacles "ropes", having no frame of reference for them outside of LOOK GORDON A ROPE WE CAN USE THESE T- HELP ME GORDON

[@warmachinesdrawn4310]

Terrifying indeed. IIRC there was a cut enemy from some design sketches of early HL2 that was called 'Horizontal Barnacle'. If i'm not mistaken, it was meant to inhabit in desertic regions of the earth. Good thing they took them out. On the other hand, in Black Mesa we got the underwater barnacles, which are equally (or even more) creepy.

[@delivererofdarknessshoguno1133]

I'd say that calling it "a fate worse than death" when it is literally just death and when headcrabs exist is just plain stupid. Like being grabbed by a barnacle is in the end not too different from being grabbed by a crocodile. Painful, yes, but also pretty damn lethal.

[@justafriendlycryptid]

Off the top of my head the closest I can think of irl is an actual Barnacle- They grow on everything and anything. Even on humans if theyre unlucky.

[@childofcascadia]

I always thought it was odd earths environment was so perfect for xen creatures that they just exploded population all over. I mean, i get it for the game to have cool aliens they have to be all over. But the odds of that is so low. I mean, xen is an *alien planet* . Even if for some reason it has an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere thats marginally breathable, its not remotely like earth. The temperature microbiology chemical makeup of everything would be wildly different. Gordon has his HEV suit so he can go, but an unprotected human going to xen or a xen being coming to earth unprotected, the microlife alone would cause some massive immune cascade nevermind differences in chemical composition gravity temperature and so on.

[@thorveim1174]

for the illness thing, to be fair most diseases would flat out not be able to infect an alien organism (same reason why many diseases that can infect a given animal specie is harmless to humans, and the other way around), so aliens may be OK on that front for basically forever. However... what are they gonna eat? unless the xen creatures infestation is high enought that they can just eat eachother, their bodies wouldnt really be able to process much of anything that earth has to offer

[@emojothejojo]

Barnacles are so popular that enemies like them appear in so many games nowadays

[@Vampire_EGirl]

There MAY be a use for these things, that being disposing of corpses. They’ll definitely eat almost anything organic, and spit out the bones. It’s definitely possible after the combine falls, humanity would use them for this purpose.

[@BraulioRivera-m1y]

I think after the G-man puts Alyx in stasis her new assignment was to find Doug Ratman. Gordon and Eli recruited Chell to be part of the resistance and head to Antarctica and find Judith and the borealis as they find a way to destroy the combine. Collete green was sent by the G-man to Barney to defeat the advisors at a different resistance base. Chell, Gordon, Eli, and Judith's plan: use the borealis and destroy the combine. Doug Ratman and Alyx's plan: go through the test chambers and defeat glados. Barney and Collette's plan: defeat the advisors.

[@AluVixapede]

Yeah, those things freaked me out. Like, cool design! But also "AAAA Dx" (being able to feed them barrels though .. LOL)

[@Skyrionn]

Feed them all the explosive barrels and poison headcrabs

[@coondogtheman]

When i first played Black Mesa when Xen was finished and i encountered the aquatic barnacle plants I pumped so many smg grenades into the water to get rid of them. Yes I know you only get 3 grenades i edited the max ammo values of all the weapons to get 99 SMG grenades as well as max ammo for all weapons.

[@nightbane2889]

Fun fact, we do have something like a barnacle. There called jellyfish. Fish get caught up in it's sticky tentacles and is lunched. there not active predators there just a blob of flesh drifting with the currents

[@CristySFM1234]

Have you did one on the gargantuan?

[@1000mjf]

barnicole id put them in places where seagulls populated

[@miinyoo]

That was a good line. "If we do, please do not tell me."

[@Sesshoumaru888]

The original barnacles in HL1 had this whispering sound as they were lifting you up, which made it even more terrifying

[@OnyeNacho]

That video editor you've been using... Is it Davinci Resolve by any chance?

[@GordonFreman1]

Barnacles are fascinating and personally i'd not mind having one as a pet. Keep it fed. It would be cool.

[@1000mjf]

Id put them in places were seagulls flew.

[@Troglodyted]

You put them above the front door.

[@Skyrionn]

It'd be the same as owning a snake. I'd be terrified it would eat me

[@SuperLedouze]

if i was forced to choose my half life death, i'd choose either the barnacle or the antlion.

[@Greenhead24]

I love the voice,i love the pauses,the pronunciations. Some people just have the voice and delivery for youtube. People say anyone can be a KZbinr But i don’t believe that. No one is gonna listen to an annoying voice every day millions of times.

[@WolfyStudio115]

I wonder if the resistance used it as a disposable garbage can

[@kryskiller666]

Barnacles have always felt like the smaller cousin of the Sarlacc pit.

[@SerpentNight]

Seems to me the Combine employs Barnacles as impromptu security measure to spare itself the trouble of deploying resources to remote or difficult to reach areas so it may not be entirely outside the conflict.

[@Hyper-active-studios]

They can never make me hate you Skyrionn

[@DavidGlendaleArdenaso]

Patrick: [with 9 tongues in his mouth] Does this look dangerous?

[@gamiezion]

last time i saw a barney it tried to get me a beer, insisting he owed me.

[@nazarostrovsky_]

Fun fact we do have something like barnacle in real life, they are called fungus gnat glowworm larvae

[@lb7643]

The razzoners cascade? That is some magical pronunciation lol

[@christianmogol960]

I know you said to not say any real life counterparts but the bobbit worm is the closest example to a barnicle (albeit they do it from the ground)