CBS 2001.9.6 Incident at Black Mesa Research Facility | Half Life

[@Epentibi]

Join our discord to stay up to date on future videos! (as well as make suggestions) discord.gg/Aw8gyMrh5g - The camo is off I know it, thanks to everyone for pointing it out. Unfortunately it's really hard to find the exact footage in the right context (location and time wise). BUT, I do have some AI stuff that might be able to swap out cloth / camouflage. Will pay more attention to this next time! - Microsoft logo is incorrect, I got that thank you - Some people ask if the date here "contradicts" the actual date of the incident, but really there isn't a canon date for the incident, even the original creators contradict with some other Valve devs, so I just picked a random time (or not so random) given the likely span when it occurred.

[@toddfraser7009]

Also, the Microsoft logo you used is the modern version and not the one they were using back in 2001.

[@eduardog3000]

Minor one: when he’s supposed to say “$10 billion” he actually just says “10 billion”. Probably better to write it out as “10 billion dollars”.

[@liftfork]

Do you mean the camo that the soldier speaking to the camera is wearing? Personally I don't see anything wrong with it.

[@snaiper195]

In game thier camo is difrent.​@@liftfork

[@tungngominh746]

​The multicam camo doesn't get issue during 2001 yet

[@BlandYoutubeUser]

Sept. 6, 2001: I hope this week doesn't get any worse...

[@dubuyajay9964]

The 11th was at the start of the week. The 6th should be the week prior.

[@RainbowsClone]

pretty sure it's the 9th of June. Which is also wrong because the BM incident happened may 16th (And the next few days) Unless this is meant to be a report from a few weeks after it all went down, idk.

[@AlottaBoulchit]

​@RainbowsClone In the report the message from NM authorities is dated September 6, 2001.

[@saltiestsiren]

What could possibly be worse? A terrorist attack that kills thousands? What are the odds of THAT happening?

[@UncleTotinos]

@@AlottaBoulchitnot every country writes dates the same, people in the UK write Year/Month/Day

[@mikdan8813]

Gordon doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly trained professional.

[@Cam_88]

Why was the Army dude wearing multicam? Oh sh!t...did I just get hoodwinked 😂

[@Archimedes177]

-famous last words

[@MarkHennessyBarrett]

@@Cam_88 I mean, the F35 overhead was a *bit* temporally incongruous...

[@JI_Jokey]

ahahahahahahah

[@flameguy3416]

Nothing happened to the Aperture Science Laboratories Computer-Aided Enrichment Center.

[@WillMarkert]

Almost no one knows who they are.

[@nathanchapin8445]

this sounds ominous as hell lmao

[@___-qj2lx]

1984

[@hcolider2817]

@@nathanchapin8445 If we're to go off of what's said in the games and such, the lab was simply locked down, and nobody knew why. Nobody ever came in or out from that point on, and it can be assumed that there wasn't enough time for authorities to actually investigate until the portal storms hit, leaving these sort of things unanswered and probably entirely forgotten in the setting

[@FreemanicParacusia]

I remember before Portal 2 came out I speculated that Chel was part of a HECU squad sent into the Aperture facility after the nerve gas was deployed to find out what had happened there, and that she was captured and made into a test subject.

[@torrtoise]

the AI is noticeable, but it's scary good. imagine when it stops being noticeable, damn.

[@GLUBNOIR]

I don't even wanna think about that 😰

[@tomcat7928]

its noticable because it was made with consumer hardware and software,i want you to imagine what super computer with thousands of gpus in a secret military resaerch facility can do!

[@damienblackburn5459]

@@tomcat7928 "Super computers" aren't needed. The issue is the models can't be trained reliably on human figures and non-standard patterns. That's why hands and text are almost always the big things to look for for AI generated models -- it doesn't understand the concept of fingers, or how many a hand should have, even if you tell it. That's why I think it will never amount to anything significant as it is now. It would have to be fundamentally redesigned to be anything useful.

[@sinisterisrandom8537]

It won't. Gonna be a long time till that occurs and even then would be limited.

[@GLUBNOIR]

@@sinisterisrandom8537 Let's hope so

[@calimantis]

2:52 "Well... um... as you know, with some accidents, there-" "...are unforeseen consequences..."

[@FlankerPVT]

DUDE IT NEEDS A PERFECT CUT WITH GMAN INTERRUPTING IT

[@ELAF_Real]

Rise and shine, Mister @calimantis

[@orblenorble3275]

*Hazardous environments starts playing*

[@sarahjrandomnumbers]

"Cave Johnson, CEO of Aperture Science, was approached for his thoughts about the Black Mesa disaster, but he started throwing what appeared to be incendiary lemons at us."

[@oxydator]

"I've been thinking. If life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade.."

[@Lee.Willcox]

🤣😎

[@hellcat9405]

@@oxydator "Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these!?"

[@DST.73]

"I'm the guy who's going to burn your house down...with the lemons!"

[@benjovernow]

"Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's going to burn your house down - with the lemons! I'm going to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!" -Cave Johnson

[@TheSuperiorQuickscoper]

Nice to see the first 90s-2000s U.S. newscast on this channel. Dan Rather sounds a bit off, but I am legitimately blown away by how accurate Rumsfeld's cadences and speech mannerisms are. One small critique: the Microsoft logo at 0:17 is from 2012, it should be the famous Helvetica wordmark from the 90s instead.

[@Epentibi]

Thank you for catching that

[@WindowsXPMapping1]

Was also gonna point that out, but hey, already done, so thanks chap

[@killerkirbydude]

@@Epentibi You should also do your homework on military equipment and uniforms. The fighter jet is an F-22, which entered service in 2005; the uniforms are OCP/Multicam, not adopted until the 2010s; and the "tanks" on the railcars are actually M88 Hercules ARVs, basically giant tow trucks. If you need to consult with someone you should do so- I and many others can assist you with this sort of stuff.

[@Bold_Burnett_35]

Also it’s would have been M81 camouflage not multi cam

[@ndhart3213]

@@Epentibi also I recommend using cars made from the early 2000s and below

[@lilwyvern4]

This AI stuff is getting spooky. 5 years ago this would have genuinely alarmed a lot of people. Really only the monotonous voices, especially the one of the off-screen reporter in the news conference, are the major giveaways.

[@CastleHassall]

the voices are very realistic for that type of broadcast

[@härjaren]

Looking at the lips give it away

[@frenchynoob]

wym, the off-screen reporter is the _most_ convincing one

[@christoffesedao3579]

99% of people would not know this is fake. Most people are not paying attention.

[@lilwyvern4]

@@christoffesedao3579 With everything as hopeless as it is now, why would you want to?

[@optionalcoast7478]

just a note the plane at 0:42 is a F-35 which did not enter service until 2015

[@AiOinc1]

And the 2019 Honda Accord, and the brand new Windows logo next to just the plain word "Microsoft" instead of their actual logo from the era?

[@gatsu8634]

Dang so you're saying this video isn't real?! Damn...you think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell LIES?!

[@marineduard6901]

Nah nah nah. That wasn't an f35. It was an x35, aka the prototype of the f35. Black mesa secretly had some operational to test them for the usaf back then. Here ya go immersion

[@chefmike8177]

what's funny is that they could've just used footage of the F22 which arguably has a more futuristic silhouette and had been manufactured since 1996 (though only revealed in 1997 and then introduced in 2005)

[@foobar83]

boy i sure hope someone got fired for that blunder

[@snart2195]

It's so unbelievably uncanny to see Donald Rumsfeld say "Black Mesa Research Facility"

[@or_gluzman561Peace_IL_PS]

they're waiting for you gordon in the test chamber

[@real-lacey]

in the tesstt chamburrrrr

[@Papapsoso]

Gordun freemen in the fleshh, or rathr in the hazerdd suit 🤵‍♂️🧳

[@djinn_tseng]

gordon, are you not hearing me?! climb up and start the rotors!!

[@sergentjohncaptain2557]

Gordon doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly trained professional.

[@exodeus7959]

The girls never came. The girls never came.

[@missk1697]

If there ever is some supposed "accident" that brings heavy military response and the officials will be twisting their tongue and sweating trying to downplay it - Ya know it's time to get the hell out of there.

[@federalinvestigationbureau5814]

very realistic answer for any government, even democracies, because considering that the installation does research with materials and alien life and then an incident of this type happens and threatens national security (especially considering that the government sent military forces and then black ops agents ( CIA SAD) to eliminate the evidence and witnesses that would tarnish the government's image and are also facing aliens) and to avoid causing panic and perhaps rebellions and an insurrection against the government, it is not unrealistic for the US government to have done this, whatever country would do this

[@iusemyrealnamebefore]

But in the end we will be invaded by the most powerful empire in the entire universe (I think) in under 7 hours.

[@xdas11]

Not a universal. It's a multi universal empire!​@@iusemyrealnamebefore

[@dr.cheeze5382]

​@@iusemyrealnamebefore entire multiverse, but that was only months after the cascade

[@fdk7014]

It's already too late then

[@clonecommandermike332]

My buddy used to work at Black Mesa as a security guard. He quit before the incident, thankfully, but he told me about some weird stuff going down there.

[@TpoJioJio47]

lucker :)

[@apexone5502]

Like what? What did he witness?

[@JustinTK416]

He ever meet that Barney guy who went crazy and posted that video where he claimed to have fought aliens and zombies during a power outage or something?

[@clonecommandermike332]

@@apexone5502 The usual government stuff. He used to guard top secret shipments in the rail yard. He saw this one government guy with a suit on a lot.

[@clonecommandermike332]

@@JustinTK416 I know he used to go out for beers with a guy named Barney Callahan or something like that.

[@Davemon115]

Fun fact, the incident opened up a wormhole in time as well as space, which is why this broadcast has a Microsoft logo that didn't exist until 2012

[@nacieton1651]

It actually existed way before 2012, the same logo was used in a Windows 95 commercial in the 90's.

[@someidiot4311]

@@nacieton1651 but it wasnt their logo

[@TheMightyKinkle]

0:19 I like how Microsoft were using their current logo all the way back then 😉😅

[@kozekistudio]

windows 95 ads during the 90s were the first to have the "current" microsoft logo. there's a few commercials out there from 1995.

[@Guags]

The TNO stuff is already great, but this makes me realize that this format has pretty much endless potential.

[@prospekt921]

i think you mean "limitlesssss potentiallll"

[@pman56789]

Now Half-Life? Fuck yeah!

[@redbrick146]

Imagine making a Wallace Breen's speech

[@AkumuNyaaaa]

That's lore

[@federalinvestigationbureau5814]

Yeah baby

[@KingLich451]

half life 3 full life 1.5

[@ieatbugs45]

incredible pfp

[@nathanseper8738]

I love you combining 2000s news broadcasts with things like Half-Life. Throwing in real-life public officials like Rumsfeld adds authenticity.

[@gregtronica3569]

COMBINEing haha

[@anonymous_preferred7737]

I remember hearing about this incident. Unfortunately by the following Tuesday, it was completely forgotten about.

[@moisander8858]

1:00 Also note, Stryker APCs nor Multicam camo was not in use yet in 2001

[@arthurcrosnier7516]

Also the F-35A flying overhead at 0:40

[@sweetsourorange]

@@arthurcrosnier7516Is that an f-22 or f-35? It’s a bit blurry for me to tell

[@bryo4321]

The cars in the state police footage are also too new.

[@arthurcrosnier7516]

@@sweetsourorange It's an F-35, you can get a pretty good look at it if you pause at 0:42 while the plane is at the right of the image. Look at the shape of the stabilators and the recessed engine, it's one of the biggest physical differences between the F-22 and F-35.. You can also somehow make out the shape of the F-35's divertless supersonic intakes at the front. EDIT : It's also pretty hard to know what exact variant it is, It's not the C because the wings are too small, but it could be an A or B bacause they look pretty similar, especially from the bottom. However the A is way more common so i'd be confident to say it's that variant.

[@SpyBOGod]

1:04 They're showing soldiers, not Marines, and they're using the wrong uniform. This is MultiCam for U.S. soldiers, but Marines should be using woodland camouflage. In the late 1990s, the U.S. Marine Corps used woodland camouflage, while the U.S. Army primarily used the BDU (Battle Dress Uniform) with woodland camouflage as well.

[@GermanPeter]

That's insanely well made, holy hell. Genuinely believable.

[@btm9099]

Damn didn’t expect you here

[@mathewvanostin7118]

Bro is true half life event really happened? Or its just a joke?

[@jaf5281]

@@mathewvanostin7118Yes, it really happened

[@mathewvanostin7118]

@@jaf5281 wow so they made video game out of the event so nice

[@MarkHennessyBarrett]

@@mathewvanostin7118 kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2XVqJStqNyEpq8

[@FourthDerivative]

People watching this on 9/6/2001: "Man, can this month get ANY worse?!"

[@a-s-greig]

I dunno, I'm looking forward to that new Japanese turn-based strategy game getting released... should be interesting. :)

[@oreodualshock5005]

September 11 attacks

[@ferdinand5223]

​@@oreodualshock5005nothing compared to what happens in September 12.

[@unflexian]

what happened in fucking june 2001

[@robeez-l3o]

​@@oreodualshock5005 Congrats genius, that was the whole joke! You can go home now

[@leonel1982]

I'm certainly put at ease by the words of Reliable Rumsfeld.

[@Epentibi]

He will lead us to total victory against the combine! Sun Tzu reborn

[@Huron2010A]

"The Black Mesa facility is located somewhere north, south, east or west of Taos" IYKYK

[@noremacmada]

Rofl

[@enginerdy]

@@Epentibimeanwhile attempting to broker a side deal with the combine

[@falamensia-3454]

San Tazu, whose that guy?! 🇸🇲🇸🇲🇸🇲🩵🩵

[@thesteellegionnaire4570]

One anachronism I can point out is the Major in Multicam. In 2001, he’d be wearing M81 Woodland. Outside of that, phenomenal work.

[@alias6149]

Now we need a broadcast on the 7 Hour War

[@Alfredo12]

"And so, without anyone from the national and international audience knowing that just at that moment an inter-dimensional alien invasion was happening in Black Mesa, it would only be the beginning of something much, much worse."

[@alba5962]

This feels like a new type of horror where you just look at the hyper realistic news reports about upcoming end of the world. Good job/

[@ChainikVlad]

Eh, don't think it's new - Local 58 was a thing before, but this with the help of AI (or VO in general) feels more natural

[@RootVegetabIe]

​​@@ChainikVladNatural? It looks fucking uncanny. The mouth movement is bizarre. The ai voices are wooden. Never mind that it's written like shit.

[@Patman2077]

"Unforeseen consequences"

[@AzysAnimzimr]

Yeah, sadly John Pugh stop making that and yeah I knew because of father death but still I wanna see his version some day

[@haybail7618]

half life 3 when ??? 😭

[@TemmieContingenC]

this scratches my itch for Black Mesa vhs/eas content thank you I also dig the usage of army footage as I think whilst the USMC were the door kickers, there was still a sizeable presence of national guardsmen handling the whole evacuation thing as well ad giving the HECU air assets to work with. I guess it’s possible to write off them being in OCP since they were being phased in and replacing the old UCP during the late 2000s, but I know it's mostly due to a lack of footage, which is okay

[@abramsullivan7764]

Interesting while all this happened a man in a HEV suit at the age of 27 is running around with an inventory of weapons running around trying to think, live, and survive.

[@NexusApollo]

One of the last broadcasts before the Combine arrive. Chilling.

[@LAMC_2012]

And Before... Uhh... Some Towers And a Pentagon-Form Building...

[@Bludijin]

I was in the 8th grade when 9/11 happened. I watched the second plane hit the tower live as my mom was yelling at me to stop watching TV and brush my teeth. Seeing Donald Rumsfeld give press conference about Black Mesa took me right back to being 12 in a weird, not so great way...

[@ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky]

I never saw 9/11 but I saw the news report of Osama Bin Laden getting killed tho.

[@ConeFlower-gx2qk]

It’s weird the stuff you remember. My earliest memories of real world events on television were 9/11 and Dale Earnhardt dying

[@Estrofe_]

Goddamn 09/11 happening and your mom was worried about you not brushing your teeth lmao

[@Sacmack]

This is just the peak of alternate history footage Holy gone-golly you guys got me to 1k likes

[@aturchomicz821]

No you just have low expectations?

[@Sacmack]

@@aturchomicz821 talk to the 260 likes

[@EMan-xj5cz]

@@aturchomicz821no it’s just really well made (you have high standards)

[@aturchomicz821]

@@EMan-xj5cz Yeah I agree its _really good_ , but its absolutley not "the peak". Youre just setting yourself up for worse media afterwards if you think like this

[@EMan-xj5cz]

@@aturchomicz821 yeah obviously it’s not “peak” (in a literal sense) usually peak nowadays just means really good

[@canlinzhang4863]

Nice choice of stock footage in 1:21. I think it's the Titan Missile Museum near Tucson, AZ.

[@Booyaka9000]

This is really quite good given that it's AI, but that F-35 0:39 in is about 16 years too early.

[@do.notdisturb]

Also the modern Microsoft logo

[@pope2552]

and they interviewed an Army guy when it was a Marine operation

[@Clarence_13x]

It’s cool how the 2019 Honda accord made its debut in 2001, and still looks great.

[@Icemansvid]

Concept car

[@AlottaBoulchit]

It was truly ahead of it's time

[@a-s-greig]

Stock footage of a time traveller.

[@chiimumango3979]

F-35 at 0:40 and a soldier wearing OCP multicam uniform at 1:03

[@jacobleukus6930]

Along with the modern Army uniform on what should be a Marine. But meh I can let it slide this is sick

[@pyroshilov8474]

Epentibi touching on Half Life content is a huge and welcome suprise. from looking at other content creators trying the same thing (and succeeding), news reports of the Incident, Xen invasion, 7 Hour war and aftermath would be incredible you never fail to deliver

[@Nalrats]

I love how you included the in-universe Northern Petrol into the new newscast. Very well done!

[@TimRobertsen]

I didn't even know about Northern Petrol. But that 5 second segment gave me sneaking suspicion that something was up.

[@falox5136]

0:42 an F35 in 2001 🤔 interesting

[@aidanniblock6186]

"hey man we're getting a week off school cause of some stupid scientists" 20 years later and I wish it was just a week

[@SpeedyHOI4]

If this is happening 5 days before September 11th, wouldnt that imply 9/11 was a cover up operation for the Black Mesa Incident?

[@shinsenshogun900]

Or an adequate distraction of an issue

[@liftfork]

Maybe Bin Laden saw the aliens and was like "damn, lets give the americans a break"

[@shinsenshogun900]

@@liftfork as if the AQ are to be spared from G-Man's plans

[@federalinvestigationbureau5814]

the incident must have occurred on December 5, 2000 and the seven hour war on February 2, 2001 based on the two videos of that guy who made the situation in the world after the black mesa incident and its consequences at national level (USA) and global level

[@liftfork]

@@shinsenshogun900 “Time, Mr. Bin Laden? Is it really that time again?”

[@aidanr.c.2604]

Should have used the early 2000s era Microsoft logo at the beginning instead of the current one

[@jacksoncremean1664]

I didn't even notice that

[@duon44]

Ah that's what felt odd about it

[@IRB1881]

If Dr. Coomer doesn't make an appearance, I'm not watching

[@sirtitanic7882]

*HELLO GORDON!*

[@puppyfoxgirliepop]

wheres your passport

[@EnclaveSoldier2201]

Rope! We can use this to traverse large pi- Hello, Gordon!

[@Willindor]

Sadly he was at a Canadian university giving a lecture with his colleague Dr. Gooner when all of this happened

[@EnclaveSoldier2201]

@@Willindor You have lost 12 play coins for this comment.

[@TrollfaceGaming-ye9xv]

Unrealistic, the goverment wouldn't tell civilians about the Black Mesa Incident, but its pretty cool ig!

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

I'll never forget playing Half-Life Alyx for the first time and rotating that globe at the beginning and seeing the entire western hemisphere completely levelled. Dr. Breen doesn't get enough hate in the fandom for being such an evil and insidious character.

[@DarkLink1996.]

Pretty sure a lot of that happened during the 7-Hour War. Breen's surrender really was the only option. It was the things he did with the power he was later given that are the problem.

[@primarchvulkan4013]

Tbf western hemisphere has been hit the hardest during the portal storms eruptions. It was storms who did most the damage, The Combine just merely swooped in when the humanity was at it's lowest moment, already exhausted from the portal storms and damage they caused

[@hatcrab4923]

Probably where most of the Xen Fauna is located now. I really doubt, the combine could squash the entirety of the invading Xen residents that teleported to earth

[@-._Radixerus_.-]

2:00 WOW. You're going for the DEEP CUTS, man!

[@PikaWarrior1222]

what's the deep cut? i forgot a lot of the lore.

[@Arc_5]

@@PikaWarrior1222 on dock 137 the containers and some of the warehouses have the northern petrol logo and the name, and they also used to own the dock

[@-._Radixerus_.-]

@@PikaWarrior1222Northern Petrol is a real company in Half-life that you can see on shipping containers

[@snark894]

​@@PikaWarrior1222Northern Petrol is a brand seen in half life very prominently, on many many cargo crates and fuel tanks

[@PublicEnemy442]

Am I the only one that noticed the Black Mesa incident takes place only 5 days before 9/11?

[@Ayeohx]

Yeah I remember this. What a week.

[@federalinvestigationbureau5814]

but didn't the incident occur on December 5, 2000? and the seven hour war at the beginning of 2001?

[@thecommunistloli1042]

Poor Osama the interdimensional aliens took the spotlight from his big bad evil plan :(

[@TheSpellingErrrror]

@@federalinvestigationbureau5814 people say it happened in the 1990s 2003 or 2000 but I personally believe it happened in December of 2000 never heard someone say right before 9/11

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

Yeah, the black mesa stuff got overshadowed completely. I still remember being a kid back then and some people were talking about some "Free man" with a crowbar, probably another terrorist.

[@freundschaft870]

Soldier wearing the camo from the future, they used woodland in 2001 not the OCP

[@ebrimajallow9631]

Don’t worry about little details it ruins it

[@warweasel2832]

They also showed Struker vehicles that didn’t begin production until 2002, but there’s a level of suspension of disbelief there I guess.

[@federalinvestigationbureau5814]

Striker that is the correct name of the vehicle but you are right the US army was still testing the striker and it had not entered service and mass production in 2001 (and the black mesa incident did not occur on December 5, 2000? and Did the Seven Hours War happen at the beginning of February 2001?)​@@warweasel2832

[@thecommunistloli1042]

On this guys's defence there's an interdimensional alien invasion going on caused by human experiments and the black mesa research facility has developed stuff like the TAU cannon and the displacer cannon so maybe they developed that other stuff sooner

[@thatpersonwithamlpiconwhos2861]

The games also had VTOL aircraft that were only in experimental phases at that time. Half life is not a series that worries about realism lol​@@warweasel2832

[@Derkson]

Geez it seems like only yesterday when we were watching this happen. Hard to believe it's been over 20 years.

[@MasonischillRoot-gz6sr]

1:03 ya totally a drill

[@EkiBeki.]

He is a nugent

[@Michael-yu2yk]

one note: your Army uniforms are not correct for the time period, they should be wearing an earlier one like desert “chocolate chip” or woodland BDUs

[@ForFucsSakeWhyDidYTchangmyName]

Matter of fact, it wasn't the army who responded, it was the marines

[@andystegall7407]

DBDU was discontinued in 1995. You're thinking of DCU or the three color "coffee stain" camo

[@SethiKinsGaming]

@@andystegall7407 man, those are some wild names for camouflage. "Chocolate chip?" "Coffee stain?" sounds more like a café menu than the U.S. military lol

[@Powbro1985]

​@@SethiKinsGamingmeh we used to call the navy Blue camos blue berries

[@coolguy05190]

@@andystegall7407 thank you solid snake

[@KilroyIsWhere]

They also mentioned Northern Petrol. Cool attention to detail.

[@rocketman3863]

I can feel the half life inside me

[@LeonidasF2P]

I feel half of my life ripping out of me

[@Mikewee777]

Half is love , love is life ; 3 confirmed.

[@the10ofdiamondscard]

Friend inside me

[@budnrobots2968]

My uncle was in the army and he was stationed at black mesa for a couple years. Really an adjacent compound but ‘everyone called it Black Mesa anyway’ according to him. He passed before i really got to ask him anything about what he did, but i do remember him telling my family about strange noises and the extreme formality all his higher ups had about the situation. I wish i could’ve asked him things, it’s so interesting to imagine what he may have seen. God rest his soul.

[@mrdarkshoe]

My uncle used to work security at Black Mesa as a civilian contractor. I would always ask him if he had any cool stories but he told me the most exciting thing he’d ever seen happen was a scientist slip on a puddle of coffee!

[@budnrobots2968]

@@mrdarkshoe Similar experience. LOL!

[@sonomancer]

So well done and very convincing. I can see people being genuinely freaked out by this. Glad you have the disclaimer!

[@theformerkaiser9391]

I like how you quoted part of the EAS announcement from Black Mesa

[@qboxer]

This is unbelievable good - especially the Rumsfeld briefing. I have no idea how you did this, but you are a master. Well done.

[@militustoica]

Only thing that threw me off was a US soldier wearing OCP when we were still in BDUs back then

[@BJSavage-v2y]

Yeah I was like wait a minute...that wasn't issued yet...lol.

[@EmperorSteele]

I forget the exact time-line, but I'm pretty sure that at various points in the game, evacuation orders were called in an expanding radius, and at one point, the army even requested anyone with firearms training to stay behind to help (all of this is overheard on radios). Pretty sure the news networks would have caught on to that. Also, That contradicts the "stay at home" order. Regardless, this was chillingly convincing; great job!

[@Troubl3_Actual]

Well made sir, well made. One point i'd like to add for historical correctness: MultiCam which is the camouflage pattern used by officer NUGENT in the video was not developed/designed/unveiled until 2002 and started being used by units around 2004. It was mainly used by different special units during GWoT era. The widely adopted OCP/Scorpion W2 which is the US Army version of Cryes MultiCam was rolled out summer 2015.

[@randomyankee8923]

This is pretty good and im watching live, you should make a Seven Hour War news broadcast

[@whiteelephant3673]

That would be based

[@federalinvestigationbureau5814]

no, first he has to do it about the destructive meteorological events and disposition of alien life on earth, then about the joint committee of both the Democratic and Republican parties on the incident and the testimony of the former administrator of the black mesa research facility and the employees survivors, then the chaotic situation in the world and then the detection by the United Nations and multiple space agencies of the arrival of the Combines and then the Seven Hours War and the unconditional surrender of all UN members

[@whiteelephant3673]

There's part two. We are truly blessed 🙏

[@bokunogentoo4420]

0:17 that's the wrong Microsoft logo for 2001 ☝️🤓

[@spong1348]

Noticed it immediately. Literally unwatchable 😤

[@olympian3]

Everything is so perfect except for the Microsoft logo 😢

[@Neukend]

The military stuff is also entirely wrong for the time period.

[@Callaghan552]

The English is janky, like it was scripted by someone who doesn't speak natively.

[@ashdjones]

Nothing holds back Gillian Gates (Sliders) !!!

[@AWSOMEPOSSUM16]

This is really cool. The blurry VHS video really helps with the mind accepting the mouth movements; definitely wouldn’t have worked in HD.

[@Nihilistic-Mystic]

depending on how long it took before portal storms appeared, the black mesa incident mightve singlehandedly prevented 9/11

[@whiteelephant3673]

This has come out of a blue, Epentibi. Thank you, from a bottom of my heart, as a HL fan. And thank you for all your great work.

[@SamuelHasTakenTheLifeOfAMan]

Holy shit he did a Half-Life one

[@GarlicPudding]

Now we need a TF2 one.

[@thatrandomcrit5823]

This is terryfying, why is this so well made

[@MarkHennessyBarrett]

Because *can*.

[@Doodleshep14]

this is genuinely good work, subbing for part 2!

[@chrislaezur730]

This is awesome, hope you expand on it at some point. I especially enjoy believable content like this, imagine spooking someone into looking it up online, lol.

[@C.A._Old]

same!

[@ardentfire3956]

The interview with the soldier is a bit of a mistake. He's wearing the modern OCP uniform while back in 2001 they would be wearing BDUs with either M81 woodland or tri color "coffee stain" desert camo.

[@OnxGrid]

I know it's sounds dumb, but maybe the HECU were testing out new gear for the military, before they send the new gear to troops in Afghanistan and Iraq they decided to use this incident for "trials on the field" stuff.

[@federalinvestigationbureau5814]

​@@OnxGrid"Afghanistan and Iraq" bro the black mesa incident occurred even before the September 11 attacks, so there is no invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq

[@OnxGrid]

@@federalinvestigationbureau5814 but still though, the US are planning to modernize their equipment by late 90s- early 2000s even before the 9/11 happen

[@manformerlypigbukkit]

I mean, the HECU wears urban camo under olive drab vests and helmets, so maybe this is fine to let slide

[@KingLich451]

🤓👆

[@FlyAwayN0w]

quite a few years too early for an f35

[@jasziegl8983]

OFFICIALLY

[@federalinvestigationbureau5814]

and the f-22 and the ifv striker however much they were being tested at the time of the incident

[@edmundliankalang5925]

The army guy was also wearing Multicam instead of HECU Camo

[@ashdjones]

Nuhuh not for classified ops, a Vortigon set up the news com. Tinto dataum, take the gun off me Ming let my uncle live for the love of christ can you see hes not darth vadar he's done nothing wrong he runs a leukemia charity we know nothing about jets, bang, I"ll tell them Luv did it my Ace Rimmer snogging hand knows the answer - hi i am crazy positive, as weirder science lisa i proclaimers it is true so fk my god right up my asshat heh heh heh Bedevil eh, I'll be a lesbian one day dad.

[@Coldsteak]

@@jasziegl8983i dont think they'd let a news cast capture b-roll of their classified jet

[@r00dfr00t]

Oh my god we need more of this Half LIfe stuff. It'd be interesting if you could try to incorporate the EAS broadcast messages from Black Mesa into the second part as I think it would add more to the immersion.

[@electricjellyfish375]

I remember playing the original Half Life when it came out. I grew up in New Mexico and lived by Los Alamos. There is literally a Black Mesa by where I live. It is great to imagine some of the top-secret stuff that goes on out here, and trust me some does. I love playing this game.

[@daliilars3350]

This is horrifying.

[@MagmaSloth64]

This is literally the coolest thing ever, after having just watched this documentary from 2008 called Wake Up Call - New World Order, this footage just blends seamlessly with that perfect early 2000s conspiracy unfolding vibe. As an environment artist working on the opposing force and blue shift remake, Operation: Black Mesa, I almost wish it were possible to include something like this as an Easter egg. I'm not sure if it is though due to source engine limitations, but this really does feel like a slice of half life bleeding into the real world. Excellent use of footage, I particularly like that you included the shot from inside the Titan II missile silo. I'm curious what was that subterranean water reservoir that resembled the half life 1 sewer system/lower canal?

[@Colddirector]

Just think - while that press conference is happening, there is a man in an orange hazard suit running around murking soldiers to the tune of Modern Major General.

[@Jolis_Parsec]

I noticed that you used VHS cassette glitching and artifacting in order to help mask the tweaks to people’s mouths when getting their lips to sync up with the dialogue for the video. Definitely helps that the video is grainy as well. I’m impressed, good job! 😊

[@FranRoscelli]

I need the complete coverage 24/7 from this point to the 7 hour war, non stop. This is the best I've seen in the Half life lore probably

[@akkodha]

Awesome edit 🔥

[@hukg4988]

Was really interested in TNO stuff even despite not playing hoi4 all that much, but this just sold me. Keep up the good work, these videos are really cool. If you are going to continue with half-life universe after that, I would be pretty interested to look at the news report regarding aperture science senate hearings about missing astronauts if possible.

[@Epentibi]

good idea

[@flashybangy]

ABSOLUTE CINEMA

[@shrekk14]

a emergency special report detecting a certain universal union heading for earth would be so cool

[@Luka2000_]

I saw this today and man AI is really fascinating. Imagine seeing this 10 years ago

[@EstratosVarios]

Tuned in for Part II, thanks.

[@rootin222]

1:09 the camo is off everyone wore the trash ucp

[@JHRTV1]

2001, they wore M81 Woodland or DCU Desert Camo.

[@Christerray]

More than likely he would be in woodland for something like this, they didn't have deserts just ready to go at a moments notice. Especially for media relations guys.

[@rootin222]

@@JHRTV1 exactly

[@jackp.richardson6415]

No at this time it was the M81 camo. The only difference was it was black & white instead of green, brown and black

[@themccains6182]

​@jackp.richardson6415 The H.E.C.U Used an Urban camo pattern, aswell as their M81 woodland gear. You can see in-game that they are wearing M81 Woodland PASGT helmets and Olive Alice belts on top of their combat vest.

[@Descriptor413]

Easily the worst thing to happen in September of that year.

[@Mikewee777]

A second tower fell onto the freeman.

[@Alex_Doscious]

the resonance cascade did not happen in september 2001, it was may 2003

[@uranium_enjoyerOfficial]

​@@Alex_Doscious its still unknown what exact year resonance cascade happened, it could be any year from 2000 to 2009

[@olzhas1one755]

1:31 The vehicles in that video are anachronistic for this time period, there's clearly car models from the 2010s ans 2020s. It would've been better to use an excerpt from a different news broadcast from the 2000s/1990s.

[@LilyTheCuteKitty432]

This is genuinely cool to watch, even if it isn't real It would be awesome to have this in a Portal game to make the player realise that they're completely trapped

[@all3ykat79]

Thank you for the description. It helps.

[@halvarmc671]

3:37 If you're going to make this half believable, in 2001, the Army was not using those ruck sacks. Those didn't come in until 2006 and those particular ones came more than a few years after 2008.

[@Chevalert]

Like without looking

[@SneedFeedAndSeed]

>new windows logo you tried

[@gehenna14]

Iirc Microsoft used that square logo in some old windows 95 commercials but yeah it does look out of place. Still, scarily realistic. If you were just listening to this rather than watching it could fool the untrained eye

[@austinrichard8046]

Awesome video Thanks for archiving this footage I know a lot of news coverage from 2001 was really wild

[@wausjackbauer128]

This is absolutely amazing, love it.

[@arutemisemtrai9769]

0:32 Did they sample it from Mike Tyson or something? "Black maytha retherch facthilty"

[@badpiggies988]

Now do one for the TF2 senate hearing 3:15 Famous last words

[@JagerLange]

"They're waiting for you, Donald... in the Press chamber..."

[@EricFalch]

Remember how united our country was after the Black Mesa Incident?