The Aftermath of the Black Mesa Incident

On the morning of Tuesday, December the 5th, 2000, one of the world's most secretive and well-funded research facilities was the scene of the world's first ever catastrophic resonance cascade, a quantum event that, upon its initiation, would unleash a series of unstoppable events that would lead to the inevitable deaths of millions.
The quantum event that was unleashed at the Black Mesa Research Facility tore through the fabric of a dimensional rift that sent forth an unstoppable force of hostile and invasive creatures that turned one of the most reliable research institutions in the United States to a devastating war zone between the hostile and invasive creatures, the American government, and remaining Black Mesa personnel.
In the days and weeks after the disaster, the tragic events that unfolded that Tuesday morning devastated not only Black Mesa, but the world, after the resonance cascade expanded in severity and unleashed deadly "portal" storms that would kill millions worldwide.
The global "portal" storm that erupted as a direct consequence of the resonance cascade, initially declared by climatologists worldwide as a unforeseen catastrophic meteorological event, brought a series of species of hostile creatures from the border world Xen to Earth, forcing the United Nations and the world's governments to provide protection to the surviving global population in the world's major cities.
This video explores the events from the catastrophe at Black Mesa to the Seven Hour War, and all global developments in between these two events, including a deadly global meteorological phenomenon that would come to be known as the onset of a "portal" storm that devastated nations worldwide in the aftermath of the resonance cascade.
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What follows is the soundtrack of this video, listed in chronological order:
01. DEFCON Official Soundtrack - Alistair Lindsey and Michael Maidment (2006)
02. Half-Life Official Soundtrack - Space Ocean - Kelly Bailey (1998)
03. Half-Life Official Soundtrack - Vague Voices - Kelly Bailey (1998)
04. Portal Official Soundtrack - Self Esteem Fund - Kelly Bailey (2007)
05. Black Mesa Official Soundtrack - Resonance - Joel Nielsen (2020)
06. Black Mesa Official Soundtrack - Blast Pit 1 - Joel Nielsen (2012)
07. Portal Official Soundtrack - Party Escort - Kelly Bailey (2007)
08. Half-Life Official Soundtrack - Electric Guitar Ambience - Kelly Bailey (1998)
09. Sounds of Saturn - NASA Voyager Recording - NASA (1977-)
10. Sounds of Mars - NASA Voyager Recording - NASA (1977-)
11. Sounds of Jupiter - NASA Voyager Recording - NASA (1977-)
12. Half-Life Official Soundtrack - Cavern Ambience - Kelly Bailey (1998)
13. Half-Life Official Soundtrack - Hurricane Strings - Kelly Bailey (1998)
14. Half-Life Official Soundtrack - Sirens in the Distance - Kelly Bailey (1998)
15. Half-Life Official Soundtrack - Steam in the Pipes - Kelly Bailey (1998)
16. Sounds of Neptune - NASA Voyager Recording - NASA - (1977-)
17. Portal Official Soundtrack - Taste of Blood - Kelly Bailey (2007)
18. Black Mesa Official Soundtrack - Respite - Joel Nielsen (2020)
19. Half-Life 2: Episode Two Official Soundtrack - Extinction Event Horizon - Kelly Bailey (2007)
20. Portal Official Soundtrack - Android Hell - Kelly Bailey (2007)
21. Half-Life 2 Official Soundtrack - Probably Not a Problem - Kelly Bailey (2004)
22. Portal Official Soundtrack - Procedural Jiggle Bone - Kelly Bailey (2007)
23. Black Mesa Official Soundtrack - Catalyst - Joel Nielsen (2020)
24. Half-Life 2 Official Soundtrack - Radio - Kelly Bailey (2004)
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The map that was used in this video to relay information was developed using the website historicalmapchart.net/.
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Thanks for watching!

[@Neinfeld]

An updated version of this video featuring higher resolution and more detailed events can be found here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3WVkqSNn8uCrs0 The Aftermath of the Black Mesa Incident: Definitive Edition Additionally, if there are any questions about this video, please post them as a reply to this comment, and I will try to provide an answer as detailed as possible. Thanks.

[@blueknight3261]

ok

[@condescendingonlineman2136]

>As the United Nations reject Iraq’s claims that December oil prices are too low, Iraq, representing 5% of of global oil exports, have halted, causing oil prices to fall below 30$ a barrel, their lowest level since August. How do oil prices drop when there is less of a supply due to the halting of exporting oil?

[@ilovepandas1246]

Any chance we can get a clearer version of the EAS broadcasts?

[@Eric-yi1px]

Do a Covid one plz

[@thedreamchasers7252]

I'd love to see this music selection as a Playlist for haunting atmosphere, it's a good mix

[@claysanford915]

You know it’s bad when the radio station says “if you know how to shoot a gun please contact the local military”

[@matiasfpm]

Yup. And USA lives 4th of july erry day, heh

[@mizzar4929]

Yes...

[@yoshkotoshko4773]

Woow i must first it started with the black mesa map, now the fricking earth. Yes this is what gman has in his briefcase too with other stuff

[@Ycekhold]

@@charlie4christ536 Kindly take your preaching back to your local place of worship, where it belongs.

[@jesseallen3109]

@@charlie4christ536 b.. bruh... you do realize this is a fictional time line of the horro of the half-life VIDEO GAME's universe where a resonance cascade had unleashed hell on earth via many interdimensional beings that were extremely deadly to humanity? edit: forgot to add It's for that reason along.. F*CK OFF with that religious preaching sheet.

[@Panzerfaust26]

“A disaster of unknown type”. God help you if you actually hear your state government using that terminology.

[@Sasasala386]

The only thing worst is the "unknown hostile force"...shits scary, could be a dragon with lasers or x ray vision zombie jesus

[@Schultz3]

That would be some spooky shit. Even spookier to know we could hear this one day.

[@AtemiRaven]

If I ever hear that, I am just taking off to Greenland.

[@Dorraj]

Something about "meteoroligal disasters" sounds creepy as hell to me too

[@Nyx9]

@@Dorraj especially given that we heard Dr. Breen use the term "vast meteorological intelligences" in HL2.

[@ianbradley1772]

"Big day today Freeman"

[@venomasmark154]

MY GOD MAN, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!

[@Ribbons0121R121]

"we need to end the world today freeman or the administrator will be very unhappy"

[@argentin2306]

The Combine: Indeed

[@Ianbrad65]

Gordon doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly trained professional! We've assured the Administrator that nothing will go WRONG.

[@bredrick.]

Looks like you're in the barrel today.

[@zed6234]

If anything, this makes the fact Barney survived Blue Shift and The 7 Hour War without G-Man's assistance even more incredible.

[@jibronigibironi8959]

Not really, you'll survive if the script writers want you to, no matter how "unlikely", just like any movie.

[@Vomer0]

@@jibronigibironi8959 how do you enjoy anything with that mindset? Suspension of disbelief is a big part of enjoying a lot of art. Obviously it's all made up but that shouldn't detract from thinking about in-universe explanations for things.

[@jibronigibironi8959]

@@Vomer0 Well, I did in fact immerse myself in the universe. These types of videos help bring the horrific nature of the lore to life, with nothing but a highlighted map and text. It leaves much of it up to your imagination to produce the imagery for it, making it even more horrific. LOL

[@rabbitinc.5601]

@@jibronigibironi8959 but you did the exact opposite of what you said you were doing.

[@jibronigibironi8959]

@@rabbitinc.5601 Huh???

[@Rocketchu]

2 minutes in and im thinking "Oh god you're gonna wish it was a nuclear accident."

[@jexom]

I think this was referring to nuking the facility

[@paradox2702]

We only saw black mesa nuked at OpFor( i think, so it may not happened). They probably call it nuclear for the cover up

[@sheikhspeare6637]

@@paradox2702 Yeah Gman reactivated the nuke.

[@pedronicolas7491]

@@jexom They covered the Resonance Cascade with a minor nuclear accident

[@fyreblazters]

@@paradox2702 marc laidlaw said that Black Mesa getting nuked it's cannon

[@freemanwithoutthephd639]

and I'm still wondering why the scientists had to wear those ridiculous ties.

[@itzagame6424]

I can hear this comment

[@wadzie2750]

itzagame64 single greatest thing ive ever heard

[@Leg8]

aren't you supposed to be in the test chamber half an hour ago?

[@YouuuuuuTosserrrr]

Yeah, they're waiting for you, Gordon.

[@YouuuuuuTosserrrr]

In the test chamberr.

[@adolfovegavaldes4255]

-millions dead, humanity faces extinction, begging for mercy -Australia: y'know maybe we should stop maritime trade with China

[@EvilParagon4]

_Specifically_ China. Classic Australia.

[@loomhigh]

It's pretty accurate. Our Prime Minister at the time was John Howard. His entire prime ministers hip was hell bent on doing as little as possible.

[@lunardogs2416]

trust me, its accurate.

[@SpenceCr0codilian]

@@loomhigh sounds like our current round of liberal leaders...scottyfrommarketing/koalakiller

[@loomhigh]

Well Scotty is just a knockoff version of howard. All the major problems in this millennium were caused by him. He was the Reagan of Australia. There is a really good comedy show by Jordan Shanks on why he really sucks ass. It costs 10 dollars bymemory but if you got the time and want to laugh it might be up your alley.

[@treman722]

"I have an infinite capacity for knowledge, and even I'm not sure what's going on outside." - GLaDOS

[@missswan6622]

And even I‘m not sure what’s going on outside*

[@bigblue9996]

"Take me with you, I'm the one man who knows everything!"

[@Sebtuseb_el_zorro_con_traje]

The valveverse?

[@Actinide5013]

@@Sebtuseb_el_zorro_con_traje Valverse

[@xylonus]

@@Sebtuseb_el_zorro_con_traje Valve Expanded Universe, VEU

[@heatonashworth5105]

I'm glad someone is looking at what the Governments were doing during Black Mesa, because the HECU didn't send themselves and America was just a portion of the aftermath at Black Mesa.

[@christianemmanjacaba9510]

@Ellis stories even the alien don't care about you 🤣

[@heatonashworth5105]

@Ellis stories Well if you ever feel useless just so you know Mongolia (south of Russia and north of China) has a navy

[@MxArgent]

@Ellis stories To be fair, the coffee's top notch.

[@elvladiskov6174]

@@heatonashworth5105 we have a similar joke about bolivia.

[@elvladiskov6174]

@Ellis stories like in almost dissaster and alien invasion movie where all the shit storm only happens in the usa...

[@HalTheBot]

It went from a ‘minor accident’ to alien takeover.

[@mocruz1200]

It should have just ended with the death of the nilaranth, but the combine detected the portal and kept it open

[@Repulse96]

@@mocruz1200 Nihilanth

[@Armin2012]

The combine didnt really detect it until it had gotten worldwide. With the Nihilanth having died and black mesa destroyed by a nuke, it meant you had a destabilized rift that no one could control until the combine showed up

[@royliber3824]

I wonder if Ardian killing the X Race worm had any effect on this plot... Gordon beating the Nihilanth most likely gave the Combines the motivation and the knowledge they needed to advance on earth and Adrian killing the worm probably made Xen creatures even more weak and destroying completely X race creatures.

[@mocruz1200]

@@royliber3824 the nihilanth kept the rift open during hl1. The x-race is a grey area in the Canon, since they're never mentioned again. Once the nuke went off, the combine detected the giant unstable rift in space time and took advantage of it

[@BlAcKSaDooo]

"Earth is literally getting destroyed by aliens" Boss: Your still coming to work though, right????

[@naglismalisauskas1779]

So true

[@seatoad951]

Get back in cagie, wagie.

[@Jack_Donovan]

Time is money Mr Squidward, Time is money

[@kovacsnovak6745]

'Earth is then further subjugated by an alien force known as the combine' Boss, now a CP: Pickup that can and you're still coming to work, right??????

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

I'm glad that this only happens in fiction, right ? *RIGHT ?*

[@denverbeek]

All because one guy put a crystal into a spinny laser.

[@XeonGame]

Let’s say Gordon accidentally slipped and hurt his ankle, he wouldn’t have been able to arrive. The scientists would have ultimately cancelled the test due to all their equipment malfunctioning, and Breen would have rejected anymore tests regarding Xen. Or, let’s say the containment system worked, and the scientists had a developed backup plan. Maybe the HECU worked with the scientists to close the portals as they did in Episode 2, except at a faster rate with all the great minds available in Black Mesa. Had the scientists not died, they possibly could’ve figured out a solution.

[@ClassifiedGamez]

@@XeonGame also one way to prevent the resonance cascade was to NOT put the anti-mass spectrometer at 105% and fix all the server problems

[@Kelpflakes]

@@ClassifiedGamez if gordon just had a working watch and arrived on time the power would not have gone up dangerously

[@unfortunately_fortunate2000]

@@ClassifiedGamez I always thought the server issues was the G-mans doing, seeing as he is the guy that gave everyone everything needed for the tests. plus, Gordon and G-Man look very similar, are we sure that G-Man didnt get some woman pregnant so that he would have the perfect pawn to play in all his universal games?

[@pietervanderzwaan4295]

@@unfortunately_fortunate2000 gman gave the crystal to the scientists in his plan to destroy the combine but sacrifice humanity

[@vitalixy3578]

This is genuinely terrifying because of how realistic it looks. Just simply imagine the chaos and confusion all over the world while all of this happened.

[@Janfon1]

And leaders of the world trying to sweep it all under the rug to avoid mass panic, just causing everyone to be equally as unprepared as Black Mesa

[@kononichan7039]

@@Janfon1 What? How?

[@vrabo3026]

@@Janfon1 I love how they keep referring to the attacks as just "meteorological events". I'd Imagine social media would quickly expose what was going on if it was as developed like today back in 2001. It's not until the Combine show up and start slaughtering a billion people by the hour that the government is ready to say "okay yeah they're alien."

[@kristianstrm2375]

@@vrabo3026 It would be pretty correct for them to call it that, though... I don't see why not? Combine only showed up at the very end. Until then earth 'just' dealt with the xhilanth forces and race x early on, and then just xen fauna leaking through. The combine just swooped in at the end and destroyed any chance at fighting back effectively.

[@nagasus5773]

Where's mY HEV

[@bullcheese2236]

Wait, if the Resonance Cascade happens in the year 2000 and Gordon wakes up 20 years later then... *oh no*

[@foxprazision1695]

I thought it was 10 years

[@sonicdash9652]

Don't you mean 10 years later?

[@hunterketch989]

FoxGaming570 no?

[@somebodystolemytoast5885]

@@foxprazision1695 You are talking about the beta version of half life but in retail it was around 18-20 years.

[@foxprazision1695]

@@somebodystolemytoast5885 oh ok

[@brandocks3763]

Reminder: Aperture Science is buried miles below the earth somewhere during all of this.

[@CaribouGutSludge]

"Things have changed since the last time you left the building. What's going on out there is going to make you wish you were back in here"

[@circleinforthecube5170]

its somewhere near Marquette, Michigan

[@average7557]

"hey can you guys up here turn it down a bit im testing"

[@chroma_ky]

rattman was _relatively_ safe there after he used chell to defeat glados. too bad he got shot by a turret and possibly died from that wound

[@rocket-rakun8133]

Im pretty sure Chell woke up in the first portal during the seven hour war

[@imapseudonym6198]

I get the feeling that if portal storms started dropping headcrabs, houndeyes, and tentacles all over Australia, the local ecosystem would just send a polite thank-you letter to Xen for the free meal.

[@generalgrievous2202]

Yeah, dingos eating headcrabs, parenties killing houndeyes, snakes biting vortigaunts.

[@Chuked]

Lmao nothing has shit on Australian wildlife

[@theaccountofalltime1]

They’d just think its just something that was already there before the Black Mesa Incident

[@TheSkypetube]

You forgot about Antlions, Australian's wildlife ain't got nothing on territorial expanding, pack hunting, sand burrowing giant spiders

[@moistjohn]

@@TheSkypetube Australia might already have those, not sure

[@shortfuse9443]

It’s videos like these that help bring out the true horror of the half life universe. Keep it up

[@OK-zo3cq]

Apocalyptic scenario

[@Cscuile]

It brings to scale the Unforeseen Consequences of Black Mesa

[@MrCris2021]

@A smug little bab You should checo vídeos and lore about half life 2, old sound files, artworks may imply that half life 2 was going to be a lot lot darker, there was even going to be sections about factorys with child labor if I am not wrong. Kinda sad they didnt go with that route but reading a lot of things like the water making people sterile and keeping them from remembering things or re-locating people yo different cities from time to time so they dont create bonds and make plans, things like that really add when you are playing those games again

[@EagleEye517]

@@MrCris2021 Is there any YT channel specialised in such content? Been a fan of the series for 12 years now so I'd love to read nore about the lore.

[@MrCris2021]

@@EagleEye517 Rescoez is a youtube channel that analyzes AI dialogues Like chats between civilians and background things like the communications between civil protection and radio transmitions, things that you dont pay much attention while playing, he also shows some clips that werent included in the game. But for sound files or lore that werent included in the game you are gonna have to look on the internet. You can look on youtube for creepy sounds from the half life 2 beta or in google look for original half life 2 concept or darker original half life 2 or stuff like that and you should find some formus where fans talk about how the game was supposed to be.

[@whitewolf8878]

The Black Mesa Incident videos were scary, but as for seeing the world get torn apart in a matter of a few weeks by the Portal Storms, Xen aliens, and the Combine; it's absolutely terrifying on a whole new level entirely, because no one wants to see our world, safety, and everything we stand for collapse so suddenly.

[@rawk2058]

Im actually seeing that what's happening in 2020 but without the gman controlling all and without aliens and species

[@SPYDER04162]

Not to mention that even if they could get the combine off, the world is irrevocably fucked. Tons of resources have been stripped away, including ocean water and what seems like most livestock, and new wildlife from Xen is now roaming the world with some creatures (like the headcrabs) that would make you wish you got eaten by a grizzly bear when you got lost in the woods instead like back in the old days.

[@whitewolf8878]

@@rawk2058 The Pandemic and the Black Mesa Incident Aftermath are similar, but I feel as though if people are actually doing something to try putting an end to it; the people in the Half-Life couldn't do anything ,but helplessly watch the chaos unfold around them and soon have their freedom wrenched away from them. The world had lost hope of escaping the strict and unfair control of the Combine... and then Freeman came back.

[@himedo1512]

@@SPYDER04162 the combine took the water. That wasn't the portal storms

[@SPYDER04162]

@@himedo1512 I never said the portal storms did it, just adding to how much the world changed after the resonance cascade.

[@devledogg6159]

And just like plague Inc, it's Greenland that fell the last.

[@Profile_Snail]

I'm honestly surprised at how long the British Isles went by unscathed, though.

[@memelord97-99]

Probably the Combine were arrested for not having a fishing licence and not drinking tea properly.

[@Graymenn]

@@memelord97-99 fishing loicence

[@sci_pain3409]

Memelord97 - the combine needed to get a colonisation license from britain

[@Enderguy059]

I just think it's because bugger-all people actually live there

[@TheMugHoarder]

I would honestly love to see a Chernobyl style series where the survivors of Black Mesa testify before Congress and explain what happened from their view.

[@OsnoloVrach]

only if they were alive

[@bryngg]

@@OsnoloVrach Kleiner is alive, Eli is alive Barney is alive and a couple of scientists too (probably)

[@OsnoloVrach]

@@bryngg wait, doesnt the government want them dead? they will ask the questions, then they will kill em after they answer?

[@bryngg]

@@OsnoloVrach Yes that's why they're hiding.

[@abysswalker2594]

Maybe so military personnel that survived Gordon vans the aliens

[@Aw-ev1mv]

Dec. 5th, 2000. British person: ah yes, the stock exchange has decided to drop Sema Group as the Anglo-French Technology consultant for bla bla bla bla bla newcastle bla bla bla bla pastry bla bla bla bla london bla bla I say who is that fellow with that one big red eye and the tiny little mouth New Mexico scientist: FREEMAN YOU FOOL! AGH! NO! DARGH! STAHP! AGH! DARGH! Greetings. AGH

[@antalgergo2699]

This made my day lmao

[@denji437]

LMAO

[@laatma985]

Freeman: ...

[@Enderguy059]

Brit met a Panthereye, I gather?

[@kritische3959]

One big red eye and a tiny little mouth, combine elites?

[@EatitHarvey]

Reminder: Gordon Freeman has to live with the fact that he's responsible for all those casualties. Though unintentional and sure, they could have hired any other lab rat to push that cart, yet he was the one who pushed it. Unforeseen consequences indeed.

[@AmplifiedGamerEXTRA]

but it was the other peoples falt for bringing the crystal

[@BoaDaSnakeMan]

@@AmplifiedGamerEXTRA The G-Man, I'm pretty sure gave Eli Vance the crystal and it was then transferred to Gordon.

[@lurgee1706]

@@BoaDaSnakeMan Yep, he mentions it himself in his final speech in the ending of Half-Life 2. Tbh I think it's those people who authorized the experiment and were responsible for all the arrangements who would feel the guilt. Gordon, on the other hand, just popped in and pushed the cart a couple of meters. He's as much to blame as the taxi driver who drove him to the airport or anyone else indirectly involved into the events that led to the experiment. Edit: typo

[@MMMMMMMMM2]

it was still Gordon's fault for not bringing his passport.

[@nader50752]

@@MMMMMMMMM2I know right? If only he had some sort of ID

[@jockeyfield1954]

you never even really get to see this in game the entire US is panicked over an unknown disaster meanwhile, you're trying to fight your way out of ground zero

[@xdman347]

In Adrian Shepard’s journal from half life opposing force, there is a line where it mentions that the military was prepared for “it” to happen. So technically the US government would have known, but there would still be questions that would be unsolved. Now that the combine invaded Earth, I guess they won’t be able to solve the unsolved questions!!

[@okarowarrior]

@@xdman347 APASSING FARCE'S NAT CANAN, BRAH. NAT CANAN

[@haou8436]

@@okarowarrior i like how you are copying fans who keep debating on the canons

[@jockeyfield1954]

@@xdman347 judging by the fact that you can see G-Man talk to one of the higher ups in opposing force, G-Man probably warned them just like they warned Eli, and even then, they probably didn't know how bad it would get as there's some dialogue spoken about the disaster of the situation (idk if it was in the original or just exclusive to Black Mesa, but i do recall hearing a soldier speak this in Black Mesa) "There's no front lines with these things!" and right off the bat, Adrian's chopper, and many more are shot down almost immediately, they expected to roll in, shoot up some monsters and scientists, before leaving, but instead, they had to pull out and abandon all soldiers that hadn't made it to evac if they were indeed properly prepared for the situation, they'd proceed with extreme caution, but they were most likely only given a small warning before everything went to shit

[@kodexeighteighteight]

Half-life is like a horror game that doesn't even feel like a horror game because of my epic jumping speed powers.

[@tatotaytoman5934]

_Crowbar proficiency_

[@kooshikomeiji4989]

Speed run be like

[@shonthacreator6146]

Also quake looking graphics and guns

[@Vaprous]

But then has levels like Ravenholm that remind you that it is in fact, a horror game.

[@whitygoose]

after HL : alyx, i convinced the other way.

[@6thsavage]

Government: “...minor nuclear accident...” Me: “I for one welcome our insect overlords!...”

[@AdvanceAU]

"People of Earth, we come to you in the spirit of hostility and menace!"

[@ghuttsmckenzie4269]

@@AdvanceAU "Looks like 2020 is starting to look a little more hopeful!"

[@douglasaranda2010]

Time to grab my crowbar then...

[@YitocukKilic]

Aperture Science Mantis Men.

[@sirdorkster]

@@ghuttsmckenzie4269 You are 20 years too late, my friend.

[@Kobaford]

Imagine if someone made a HBO Chernobyl style miniseries about the aftermath of the resonance cascade. I would definitely pay for that

[@unnoticed4571]

I'd certainly be interesting, to say the least.

[@limsagen]

if it was done well and had no gordon freeman fanservice shit and assumed viewers knew nothing about half life it could be insane

[@unknown_karma12334]

Do you know that an HBO Chernobyl series was done, right?

[@Koykoykoy]

i like to watch this, but for those who dont know halflife, tell them its like avengers but theres only one hero and the whole series is endgame.

[@limsagen]

@@Koykoykoy ...seriously? avengers fans are on par with harry potter fans at this point - not everything is as cringey and hollywood as avengers & half life is nothing like it.

[@dunc_n_fr]

Combine: * Literally enslave humanity * Some scientist with a crowbar: "Allow me to introduce myself."

[@fartpluswetone8077]

Thankfully Valve doesn't know how to count to 3, except Project Borealis exists.

[@powerpulser5701]

Bad meme

[@raulcabezas6244]

@@powerpulser5701 you too buddy

[@shorg984]

@@fartpluswetone8077 when the hl3 release date is yes

[@raulcabezas6244]

@@labadaba5088 Indeed

[@alexlean5762]

The number of deaths is close to a billion Earth enslaved Meanwhile, an ordinary security guard who miraculously escaped from the Mesa "This is all happening because of you scientists!"

[@MK-rw1on]

if you played half life you would know that the death rate is even higher. the entire human civilsation collapsed, which means that atleast another 5 billion died in the next months.

[@TheSkypetube]

In Half Life 2, humanity is nearly extinct. No children were born while combine were in control and most remaining humans either turn to combine or starve

[@aperturelaboratoriesmybeloved]

@@MK-rw1on Are they wrong tho? it did happen because of Breen. Who I'm pretty damn sure is a scientist.

[@MK-rw1on]

@@aperturelaboratoriesmybeloved it happend bc earth life didnt stood a chance against xen life

[@Lawnmower737]

@@MK-rw1on In Earth’s militaries defense, the global militaries we’re not made aware of this coordinated invasion from an intelligent species until after widespread devastation and by that point there was too much chaos. If the US in this timeline had jumped to it immediately and called the nations of the world to come together to stop the invasion before it got any worse then I believe they would’ve faired a bit better.

[@Mel-0n]

what if you wanted to go to heaven but god said "A series of catastrophic meteorological conditions has been reported in New Mexico"

[@hemprope4326]

So basically he's letting you go to heaven

[@TeslasTacos]

Hemp Rope LMAO

[@khanaratsadon]

Phew! I made it in time.

[@gero3015]

@@hemprope4326 200 IQ play

[@akunlama89]

Meteorological Events is a the portal right?

[@dimcord]

meanwhile Gordon Freeman : "Saving the world from devastation Speedrun (WR 69:69:000)"

[@ynog0978]

Mute man in special suit saves the entire continent in the world with a crowbar

[@Ribbons0121R121]

more like freeman:"oohhh yeah this morphine is greeaaat"

[@CaptainResident]

@@Ribbons0121R121 more like... Freeman:

[@rhipeinik9375]

World record

[@sirdorkster]

@@CaptainResident Another Zoomer who is not familiar with the Freeman's Mind series. Look it up.

[@TheCornDog.]

Everyone: *Literally Dying* Aperture Science: *Eating popcorn*

[@mu556]

Also Aperture Science: [Gets horribly murdered and tested on by an AI in the future]

[@jacobrogers9623]

*munches deadly Neurotoxins*

[@CWINDOWSsystem32]

@@mu556 Don't the events of Portal 1 predate the Seven Hour War?

[@raulcabezas6244]

@@LokekoL well that means no half life x portal colaboration

[@kylefinn5301]

LokekoL no, at max P2 will have to Occur 20 years after P1. If you look at the other Relaxation vaults in the courtesy call, it says the max amount of years it can keep someone alive is 20. Plus if you look at Chernobyl it practically is overgrown as Aperture in P2

[@gooby8953]

THIS WILL EFFECT THE ECONOMY SEVERELY!

[@victuz]

No need to worry about the economy when it basically becomes a global war effort.

[@frankiesflower2638]

mf the worlds in shambles with millions upon millions dead, and you're worried about the fucking economy. absolute chad

[@jockeyfield1954]

@@frankiesflower2638 "oh no, the combine are invading. how will this affect my paycheck?"

[@lobaandrade7172]

I’m disappointed that I’m the only one who got the joke

[@trekot7791]

oh no this is gonna be bad for the bitcoin

[@Profile_Snail]

This pandemic doesn't seem so bad anymore.

[@amine.aityounes]

Yup

[@btfo420]

Remember, it could have been worst.

[@WarJackalGaming]

@Jamjar Mail I would have welcomed our new alien overlords.

[@WarJackalGaming]

@Jamjar Mail 😯

[@Blackbird357]

@@WarJackalGaming All hail the benefactors.

[@weedsmoke8776]

"Are you trying to escape? Things have changed since the last time you left the building. What's going on out there will make you wish you were back in here. I have an infinite capacity for knowledge, and even I'm not sure what's going on outside. All I know is I'm the only thing standing between us and them. Well, I was."-GLaDOS

[@vic-20personalcomputer80]

Yeah, Portal and Half-Life are in the same universe, right?

[@average7557]

@@vic-20personalcomputer80 correct

[@showtheshow3397]

This has terrifying implications that glados was originally built to deal with either XEN or an alien threat.

[@stuartsemail3625]

@@showtheshow3397 GLaDOS was built before the combine invasion although portal 1 takes place a few years after it

[@raulcabezas6244]

@@vic-20personalcomputer80 i can confirm that

[@MrKilledRanger]

The human population of earth in 2000 was 6,143,493,823 Global casualties to the point of the earth's surrender was 735,864,368 In the span of four weeks, 8% of the human population was wiped off the map

[@MrKilledRanger]

Mike-613 it would be safe to bet at least 40% of the human population pre black Mesa incident would be killed But that is a vastly conservative estimate I imagine

[@hazzmati]

Food production would have been affected as well. Seeing how most of the countryside would have been uninhabitable because of the Xen creatures and most of the livestock dying off. There would have been less food to go around meaning even more people died.

[@MrKilledRanger]

(in my opinion) factoring in the lack of food and combine interference, it would be closer to 70-95% of the human population pre-Black Mesa Incident that were killed leaving about 1,843,048,147 to only 307,174,692 people left by the time of the events of Half-Life 2 (math might be rough but I tried)

[@Ribbons0121R121]

litteraly wiped off with the portal storms, like a giant wave went w i p e and they were gone with everything else

[@Gordon_Freeman_PhD]

That's 12%... not 8.

[@gasmaskguy244]

Combine: "Earth is ours!" Some dude with a crowbar: *"DON'T FUCK WITH THE SCIENCE TEAM!"*

[@CertifiedGoonerMan]

Some old dude with a floppy disk: Don't mind me, just watching some por- I mean information on the filthy combine

[@haseenabadshah5381]

"Don't*

[@TheMemester1]

Dr C O O M E R P O W E R S A C T I V A T E

[@jockeyfield1954]

the world was theirs for 20 years and when freeman attacked, it was on the best day possible to attack

[@ЯрославКрусь]

M o r p h i n e A d m i n i s t r e d

[@protix9880]

i never thought a video showcasing the world map with texts added to it including music in the background would be so terrifying

[@falcongamer58]

Because it makes you imagine, it's immersive

[@sovietunion7643]

​@@falcongamer58 just like defcon (btw they used some of the defcon game soundtrack in this) they only give you the number of dead in a city on a black and orange outline of the world, but let you imagine the destruction and death caused by the nuclear war. defcon is a game that is scary simply because it gives a terrifying scenario with no detail or emotion, basically "here is a nuclear war scenario, play it"

[@falcongamer58]

@@sovietunion7643 that's what I wanted to say, thank you!

[@t65bx25]

soviet union Plague Inc. has a similar effect, although unlike DEFCON you are just causing mayhem because you can, not trying to defend your homeland.

[@ChellyBean]

There was a video showing all the nuclear tests carried out in the 50s in a very similar fashion. It's equally haunting, even moreso since its real

[@bigmeme8464]

So the 7 hour war? this is hell, it's so horrorific.

[@mocruz1200]

The time line here is much longer than 7 hours, but yes, this is what would have immediately happened after the nilaranth was defeated

[@rawk2058]

When i listen to the radio (in the video) I feel like i want to cover my head so no headcrab can get my head lol I know this is strange

[@ryska2830]

@@mocruz1200 the 7 hours war start at 59:00

[@DylanDrinksWater]

If the world was prepared it could have been the 10 hour war

[@Gogglesofkrome]

there are some details regarding the situation in Valve's book 'half life - raising the bar.' Basically there was at least some time between the end of the first half life and the 7 hour war, but it mostly consisted of people fleeing into cities, everyone starving to death and militaries being deployed everywhere.

[@terrypennington2519]

USA: *Currently fighting aliens* Norway: _Hey so about those workers_

[@loomhigh]

Norway has strong unions I guess...

[@SmokeyEdits]

Considering the USA was already airstriking Black Mesa, I'd wager they're a little less than ok.

[@really-shouldnt-be-here]

It wasn't officially confirmed they were aliens, and any naton's top priority should be the safety of its citizens. Disclosure of additional info about the incident was also requested. I think Norway's action was approriate and adequate.

[@NecroMancer88]

@@really-shouldnt-be-here Oh shit we got an ambassador

[@MrPoporucha]

@@NecroMancer88 And HE REALLY SHOULDN'T BE HERE...for some reason...

[@itsclemtime2357]

Imagine hearing an immortal A.I say that she doesn’t know what’s going on outside, now that. That is pure horror, imagine if Chell wasn’t dragged back into Aperture to sleep through the Combine’s rise and inevitable collapse.

[@Chuked]

Wait so portal and half life are the same universe?

[@shadowxxe]

@@Chuked Yes! thats why in the portal song still alive mentions black mesa. Cave Johnson also mentions them in one of his speeches.

[@samsonguy10k]

@@Chuked Half Life 2 Episode 2 ended with Alyx and Gordon prepping to go to the Borealis, a ship owned by Aperture that was found on some cliffside. In Portal 2, and I ain't going to say where, you can actually see in person where the Borealis was originally before it appeared elsewhere.

[@Chuked]

@@samsonguy10k bro shut up I haven’t finished it

[@samsonguy10k]

@@Chuked Hey, the statute of limitations for spoilers is long since expired. I am still being considerate, though.

[@michaelbatashov2468]

Alternate name: mankind has a really crappy christmas, and an unhappy new year. Followed by invasion and subjugation of earth by some completely different aliens

[@Dare88]

December is gonna be fun!

[@sagnost]

@NotDrCoomer please, please don't

[@JiordanoAsya]

@NotDrCoomer well... shit.... I don't want this kind of future...

[@elvladiskov6174]

@NotDrCoomer nah, dicember will be of the zombie invation.

[@ghuttsmckenzie4269]

"Looks like my Birthday cake is just gonna be a rat I find on the floor." My birthday is Dec. 26

[@NoahK71]

This was probably the most perfect thing ive seen about the Black Mesa incident. Your work is brilliant my guy

[@riseabovehate9476]

@@Neinfeld seriously man, this felt like some novel shit, I was imagining everything in ma head

[@riseabovehate9476]

A series of games should be made on the aftermath

[@2n974]

Another good video is the Black mesa disaster in one map kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHrYZXqOiq2Zi5I

[@CFox_]

It was fun to watch the world get invaded by Xen aliens over a period of a month, and then seeing the death toll increase to the hundreds of millions when the Combine appear in the last hours.

[@daltonroller2998]

Other than the dates being egregiously wrong. It happened in May, not December. Other than that, good video

[@p1tz0n16]

They might have been able to stop the "portal storms" had they not killed all the scientists who might be smart enough to come up with a solution.

[@ryderwilson7955]

true... but governments don't like when their secrets are told to the world so... HUMAN DEAD.

[@ronaldmcdonaldtrump4446]

Humanity shooting themselves in the foot since we invented fire

[@RsRj-qd2cg]

They could've pulled off the ending to episode 2 before the Seven Hour war could begin.

[@Sasasala386]

It's classic science 101, just send a nuke through the portal! Duhhh

[@sharpfang]

No, I'm sure closing borders earlier would suffice. And stopping trade with China.

[@alexmcgraynor1247]

As a British Citizen I can only imaginewhat it must be like to have a Government that responds rapidly and efficiently to an unexpected crisis. You can tell this is a work of fiction.

[@officiallefishe]

im pretty sure i might be wrong on this one but im pretty sure thats a recording (or at least a fabrication) of a parliamentary response to 9/11

[@badlaamaurukehu]

Whatever you do, do not go down the 'smoke alarm' rabbit hole.

[@Tmccreight25Gaming]

Cave Johnson is laughing his ass off from beyond the grave right now

[@Crystal-dl9ks]

"Cave Johnson, new owner and CEO of Black Mesa. That's right, you've been bought. First order of business, we're renaming you under the Aperture brand. I'm leaning towards Blappeture Mesa. Marketing boys think something else. So: Blappeture it is. Next, they tell me you people are conducting some anomalous materials research that could result in a resonance cascade. So I'm shutting that down before you idiots end the world. A resonance cascade! You're supposed to be scientists. Use some common sense."

[@Jaann1919]

@@Crystal-dl9ks jolly?

[@tuff_lover]

@@Jaann1919 he aint jolly no more you know this

[@bullhuss]

@@Crystal-dl9ks the good ending

[@juango500]

@@bullhuss Aperture wins and Cave Johnson commercializes portal guns and sells them

[@JamesTrifolium]

Now I’m sick of the sentence “The Black Mesa Research Facility in southeastern New Mexico”

[@LordPhobos6502]

Well, if you nuke it BEFORE the cascade, you will never see that phrase on the news.

[@nureyevhaas1299]

It's slowly killing me

[@psygnale]

"Now I’m sick of the sentence “The Black Mesa Research Facility in southeastern New Mexico”" Agreed, only I'm sick of it because that's NOT where the real Black Mesa actually is. It's actually between Taos and SantaFe, the North Central part of the state. ...and yes, I actually went out of my way to visit the reservation there on an RV trip.

[@vemanjadhav]

The part where many international leaders inquired about their citizens who worked in Black Mesa is scary. The US Govt cannot tell the fact that everyone were assassinated by the HECU and the Black Ops.

[@Joshulties]

"Are our citizens alright? Have they escaped the facility before the accident?" _"Yes"_ *sweats profusely*

[@OniLinkBrazil1993]

They could blame the Xen Aliens. And that the HECU were trying to protect them, but failed.

[@Joshulties]

​@@OniLinkBrazil1993 Then that would've revealed that they had a secret facility that dealt with inter-dimensional physics that was the sole reason that Earth had almost been decimated.

[@yapflipthegrunt4687]

@@OniLinkBrazil1993 HECU were trying to contain the incident *and* hide all evidence of the disaster, which includes killing everyone at black mesa.

[@vemanjadhav]

@@Joshulties they could. But here's the bad part. Even if they successfully contain the Xen infestation, other countries might also try building a teleport similar to the one used by Freeman. It might end up creating another resonance cascade or military skirmishes.

[@peterpumpkineater6979]

when you think about it, the half life universe is despressing as hell. when you first play the games you just think, Oh thats alot of aliens, Oh thats alot of combine time to kill but if you really think about what humanity went through during the seven hour war or the portal storms. its really sad

[@oliverb.8995]

This video has sound which makes it more realistic and scarier.

[@whsprLenYT]

bro in hl2 when i saw the rebels getting headcrab drops and getting zombified it hit hard, not gonna talk about the corpses inside the city 17 sewer. When i played HalfLife it felt like an fps, when i played Half Life 2 it felt like a huge ass psychological sci fi horror

[@samsonguy10k]

@@whsprLenYT Seeing the new headcrab zombies really hit it home, when it really made it clear there was a person under there. And especially frustrating when you take down the zombie but failed to kill the headcrab itself.

[@krel3358]

I think its nuts in the sense in Half life 2 you dont see much of the combines power because humanity already lost and what you are seeing is an occupying/security force. I mean I was wondering what the fuck the combine had to just completely beat the worlds militaries in 7 hours, then i played Black Mesa and finally beat Nihilanth today. I would imagine fighting the Combine in an invasion would be like dealing with the Borg+the Zerg/Tyranids while some of them have jedi powers. Im like yeah that would beat our militaries in 7 hours. I mean I could not even imagine the logistics of trying to plan a military defense around an enemy that might be superior in all ways plus constantly using teleporters. I mean If I was an officer dealing with that I would tell my men to flee to the fucking hills and hide.

[@samsonguy10k]

@@krel3358 One way to look at it is this. You don't need as many troops for an occupation as you do an invasion. Imagine the assault of the courtyard of the suppressor with Striders and what it took to get through that. Now imagine going through that with a thousandfold Striders, Combine Gunships, and a million headcrabs falling out of the sky to turn anybody they can get their beaks onto into your enemy. And that's just the forces we know of that was kept around after the surrender. All of that around the United Nations building. I think the only reason it took seven hours was because they were holding off attacking the building itself because of their inside man working his magic bullshit on the national leaders and representatives. The battle was already won for the Combine. It took that long to iron out the surrender.

[@SheathEntertainment]

I like it! There’s a lot of material that is not source material accurate, namely a big one with dates and the time before the Seven Hour War. But I love the intricate attention to detail about how world governments and the economy reacted to an alien apocalypse.

[@Descending.]

What dates are not accurate? Genuinely curious about what the actual dates are compared to the ones here

[@SheathEntertainment]

Descending well namely the December date is not accurate, it’s been commonly accepted as May 16th from multiple sources. The only reason why it was chosen for this video, is because a few calendars found in Half Life say December on them which is probably where the creator took their inspiration from. 2000 is okay for right now, since 200x is all we were given and everything was still leftover from the 90’s in that year. The other problem is that this entire timeline happens in about a month when the Xen infestation spreads before the Combine came along...which is incorrect. I personally emailed Marc Laidlaw about the time frame of when the Seven Hour War began after Black Mesa was destroyed, and he said within days. So technically, things accelerated a whole lot faster than what we saw here in I want to say, a week at best. If anything, I’m thinking Independence Day length when the world was destroyed and taken over in around 48-72 hours.

[@Descending.]

@@SheathEntertainment That was really informative, thank you

[@sypeiterra7613]

@@SheathEntertainment thank you. That was actually pretty helpful explaining some things

[@priz2495]

@@SheathEntertainment Thanks for the information, just realised you made, reinstated, pretty cool, stay cool, :)

[@jacobsarmiento3051]

Something I forgot was the fact that Black Mesa employed people from different countries. And then the marines killed them

[@phong208]

Like any nation with a powerful army. Cover ups will occur.

[@aaaaaahhh9537]

just like real life!

[@SomeUsernameSomeoneElseTookIt]

@@aaaaaahhh9537 prove it

[@epicpieho]

@@SomeUsernameSomeoneElseTookIt common sense.

[@SomeUsernameSomeoneElseTookIt]

@@epicpieho that isn't proof

[@soadfan1022]

Bill Clinton wasn't president during the events of Half-Life, Daniel Keem was.

[@DeadNelo]

Omg your right!

[@melgibson5029]

The Unnamed Outcast Uh... Keemstar?

[@amanassi7346]

@@melgibson5029 Keemstar voiced the president in Hunt Down the Freeman

[@henrymckean8248]

HAH

[@headlesshunter8435]

My fellow americans

[@Covolsky]

I have an hour long of evidence of why "prepare for unforseen consiquences" is the most terrifying statement in all of Half-Life

[@Dr_Doctor_Lee]

2020: me(softly): dont

[@danielaguilera9089]

I just looked up at the calendar in case there’s a Tuesday, 5th December 2020... there’s one in 2023

[@Dr_Doctor_Lee]

@@danielaguilera9089 WELL. we are fuckt

[@Guplk]

don't need to worry you just need a crowbar

[@xyz8460]

@@Guplk and a HEV suit, and don't forget the Ph. D. in Theoretical physics

[@sci_pain3409]

XYZ and glasses

[@Happy_Fun_Ball]

Could you imagine if freeman was so late that the science team just canceled the experiment?

[@anth0nybalb0a]

Nah cause I'm sure they'll pick a last minute replacement

[@anth0nybalb0a]

hola i guess so huh?

[@RodinRaskol]

Hola yes no one can stop his plan tho

[@supernintendozack-snz7493]

Meanwhile: *Russel downloads the entire internet*

[@yrui6395]

that's a lot of Porn

[@Plzbanme]

@@yrui6395 This is the year 2000. There is porn but it isn't like today.

[@yrui6395]

@@Plzbanme but it's still a lot of porn

[@piperplimmyplymouth]

@@Plzbanme You underestimate the internet

[@squidyy2k]

90% of 90s internet was porn

[@AlecMader]

Greenland: "Can't suffer millions of casualties if you only have thousands of people!"

[@WonkyTonkBotty]

*Laughs in Plague Inc*

[@arkle519]

they learnt from plague inc

[@sirbirbton]

Yeah I wish they color coded it based on percentage of the population killed.

[@Darkspace.]

Greenland would be one of the safest places honestly

[@Man_Aslume]

Combine: invades earth Me and the plague Inc players: *We go to greenland*

[@-Reliaks-]

Us in November: God at least 2020 is almost over, right? What's the worst it could throw at us? December 2020:

[@_Devil]

At least let me have a seizure and die in my sleep so i dont have to live through the downfall of everything i know

[@sirdorkster]

That's a dumb zoomer meme.

[@loomhigh]

You got the dates wrong. Half life 1 happened in 2000. Half life 2 happened 20 years after that...

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

@@loomhigh I think we all know, the joke is that 2020 is so shit, a similiar incident happens 20 years to the day of the fictional black mesa incident. and honestly? I wouldn't be surprised.

[@neonturtle9626]

loomhigh super sketchy lol

[@theguyforbrawlz1961]

The Nihilanth: Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals. The Combine: And a happy New Year.

[@TheJoazzz]

@@MysticRuined I didn't know people still said this. Takes me back.

[@Masonicon]

Nihilanth are actually hunted to extinction by the Combine

[@RSK412]

G Man: and keep the change ya filthy animals.

[@dominic0900]

yo this just made my day

[@yaz2928]

@@Masonicon Anyone who played Half Life knows that...

[@SkulltagLegion]

30:30 : "leading economists criticized the move to close the panama canal" meanwhile 450k dead or injured. yeah, sounds consistent with what we've got today.

[@b-chroniumproductions3177]

The Panama canal is a pretty important military asset

[@damastor918]

No, it's not. Please keep these coronapathic comments out of entertainment.

[@kingalphawerewolf]

@@damastor918 Lol. He was referring to the way most current politicians, and more importantly, the general atmosphere of the political climate, is currently. Not any fucking virus panic 😂

[@amish-ish]

@It's Nietzsche, Bietzsche! If the countless other comments down here, which either explicitly or implicitly draw parallels from this video to the present pandemic, aren't enough of a proof for you then nothing can be.

[@rOCKINxsOCKIN]

@It's Nietzsche, Bietzsche! Open your cocking eyes and read, hahah

[@churrodead7191]

I find it interesting how the government tried to cover up the black mesa incident as a "minor nuclear accident". Its totally how I would imagine an incident like this to be covered up. Also, it's no wonder the 7 hour war lasted only 7 hours, there wasn't much left to take over after the portal storms and the xen wild life teleporting in.

[@TehGlerk]

no wonder the combine won within 7 hours, the portal storms did most of the work for them.

[@chaosmiles07]

Meanwhile, Covid nowadays...

[@psychedeliccarrie5921]

I think that's one of the bigger reasons they surrendered, perhaps Breen convinced the human leaders that the Combine could fix the portal storms and destroy the Xenian Fauna, which they did but at the cost of humanity's freedom and humanity in general. Or perhaps the portal storms would've subsided eventually anyways, but the Citadel's destruction restarted the cycle.

[@knuckle1493]

"most of the work" bruh, the combine kill a hundred million people an hour when the storms take about 100 million total over a few weeks. Nihilanth was just murder hornets man, the combine are the reptillian overlords causing nuclear death- i mean what?

[@nobodywins129]

considering that all military forces on earth are probably fully mobilized at the time of invasion and yet still faced a bitter defeat, i don't think humans ever had the chance of winning even without portal storms.

[@TehGlerk]

@@knuckle1493 i'm mostly referring to the infrastructural and economic damage from the portal storms more than the human fatalities.

[@pyroshilov8474]

"the whole world went to hell that day" Underrated and brilliant work. so much detail added in to an overlooked moment in HL lore

[@thewhitelynx8492]

The sad thing is that, if humans would dip into portal and dimensional science, we either would be the first species that found it, and used it like the combine did, or we would find that a species found it long before us, and could take us out like the combine did.

[@alibouk227]

I suppose that's alot like what nature does all the time.

[@Elfnetdesigns]

Multiverse theory is a thing

[@alibouk227]

@@Elfnetdesigns ya know it feels a little odd because, if there were infinite universes with aliens that can invade us, wouldn't we have been invaded already, then again, there are infinite universes of our type, and then again we might have it coming. And then again, I'm no expert.

[@happyguardsman8510]

@@alibouk227 its a rabbit hole that you honestly are better off not thinking about. Hey if aliens come to rape us, we'll be boned anyway, so why worry about it?

[@alibouk227]

@@happyguardsman8510 I hope they atleast take us in as local genetically modified supersoldiers, honestly that'll happen to us whether they or we do it.

[@Spitfire__1944]

International Space Station: "Yo tf they doin over there?"

[@Ulysses_S_Grant1870]

LOL

[@Spitfire__1944]

@@scarfacecs Astronauts: "Guess I'll die" (loads handgun)

[@Armin2012]

Sincerely hope some one, or perhaps even a group of people in the half life community, could make a movie/documentary type disaster film following the black mesa incident. Perhaps a good title would be “the unforeseen consequences “

[@laatma985]

Then i already know it is gonna be a hunt down the freeman

[@somebodystolemytoast5885]

I absolutely agree

[@SuperBoo]

If someone spent the time I bet it could be a little better than hunt down the freeman

[@Armin2012]

Indeed, it is certainly there. And it’s pretty great too. Something like that, but with more portal storm anomalies and perhaps xen infestation like in HL:A would be phenomenal

[@FloatingQuaker]

I'd be down for that idea. Though since we're lockdown, maybe the project becomes an audio-only found footage thing. It would be like someone deciding to look into the Black Mesa incident, and investigating tapes to hear how the world was reacting at the time.

[@Calhoun3]

THIS IS NOT OUR FAULT ITS THE SCIENCE TEAM

[@ZackMathissa]

*THIS IS BECAUSE YOU, SCIENTIST*

[@hazzmati]

Can't wait to get my hands on the guy responsible for this mess

[@originalbits1807]

Ah,hello gordon

[@daviddifr]

Cath you later, i'll buy you a beer

[@antalgergo2699]

Hey, catch me later, I'll buy you a beer

[@mocruz1200]

Aliens: invade earth Economists : THINK OF THE ECONOMY

[@Handhandme]

@Davi Rossi · 189 years ago It's ok, 90% of ancaps are 15 year olds who regularly post and upvote shit on politicalcompassmemes anyways

[@laatma985]

Oh no the economy

[@powerofthec5908]

@Davi Rossi · 189 years ago The recreational nukes are pointed at the Black Mesa research facility.

[@juanmanuelc6644]

I mean, as long as humanity is not utterly destroyed; economy is a pretty important thing.

[@asscheeks3212]

Rollface that sounds like a very pro boomer thing to say.

[@TheChanga14]

Not knowing anything about Half-Life, I honestly thought this was some real event for the first 25 minutes. Goes to show how well made this video is.

[@DrynSarcastic360]

You thought that aliens had invaded New Mexico in 2000?

[@XeonGame]

@@DrynSarcastic360 lol it doesn’t mention aliens at all for the first 10-25 minutes

[@Grey11s]

You thought that nearly 90,000,000 people died in a 7 hour war in 2001

[@ianscheurer]

Tardo tardo

[@noahfessenden6478]

Sooooo...did you play Half Life yet?

[@KowitaG]

You gotta tag this video as a spoiler, most people don't want to know how December is going to turn out yet!!

[@sirdorkster]

Wat?

[@sonicfon]

@@sirdorkster well to explain. Resonance Cascade happend 5 December, 2000, and Gordon slept around 20 years. Sooo: See ya maaan.

[@V-95K]

SonicFon actually Black Mesa accident happened on Friday 16 may 2003 according to Laidlaw

[@sirdorkster]

@@sonicfon You are telling me common knowledge. What was your point?

[@FirstnameLastname-bv8ke]

@@sirdorkster This comment is making a joke about how 2020 has been a terrible year so far and that events similar to the ones in this video may as well take-place the coming December. Because of this, they are asking the creator of the video to mark it as a spoiler for December 2020 in a jovial manner.

[@maplebrownsgr]

you don’t still think this is a drill, do ya?

[@eroticclonetrooper334]

It's just standard testing procedures.

[@imvictorhugs]

I have a baaad feeling about this..

[@antalgergo2699]

WHAT is that smell?

[@cocowarrior211]

Who ate all the donuts?

[@antalgergo2699]

Why do we all have to wear these ridiculous ties?

[@samhayzen]

some american facility: explodes literally every country: "so uhh, how are my guys 👀"

[@maxypoopoo]

I know right

[@Handhandme]

Boston: Is trying to survive an alien invasion and dealing with a portal storm inflicting massive casualties Also Boston: yup Civil War arsenal museum is closed today sorry guys

[@nightlust]

Norway at the same time: Can you guess who was blown into pieces pls, they're from this country play

[@daviddifr]

It was in Mexico

[@jarnk5181]

@@daviddifr New Mexico, United States

[@Knowth1ng]

the fact that you hypothetically could have just slept through the whole war since its 7 hours long just says how hopeless of a effort it even was

[@dextynlabelle9326]

goodnight world! * sleeps * Goodbye world! * dies *

[@declandude25]

greatest sleep ever

[@RTDragonCommando]

The only problem with this is that Gordon's whole reason for killing the Nihilanth was to stop exactly this from happening. When you kill the Nihilanth it closes the dimensional rift, preventing further portals from opening entirely. It's actually explained at some point in HL2 or the episodes (I can't remember where right now) that the Combine only noticed humanity because of the resonance cascade, and their assault on earth has nothing to do with a continued high energy event.

[@Votable00x]

Actually, portal storms still happened even after the Nihilanth was slain.

[@TheIrishTexan]

@@Votable00x Yep. Episode 2 even lets you experience the events of one going unstable after the Citadel collapsed.

[@gug4023]

Killing nihilanth stops the *xenian* military from entering, as it cripples them seeing as they needed nilhilanth to accurately teleport somewhere, the nuclear warhead seen in Opposing Force just made things worse and caused everything to go to hell as unstable rifts spread across the world.

[@BrunoEggert]

Gordon took out Nihilanth which was the master of Xen. The combine were something else in the universe that noticed that earth existed because of the resonance apparently

[@neonsolace2748]

So that means the only way to erase the xen wildlife on earth is to kill them until the last one alive

[@ianbradley1772]

Imagine if one of the messages you missed because the system had a crash was "ABORT EXPERIMENT"

[@dikkejos]

Cause GMan made the system crash

[@spongedog0013]

on top of that black mesa source had a detail on the ams control board that said "emergency shut down" and below that button written on a paper "needs fixing asap"

[@Ianbrad65]

@@spongedog0013 I noticed that when I played through Black Mesa again :)

[@andrewsalyer9658]

@@spongedog0013 in most (key word most) institutions that utilise potentially dangerous equipment, they tend to shut down any and all use of said equipment if the safety equipment doesn't work due to OSHA. Though let's assume black mesa is still a massive OSHA violation due to radioactive material

[@doctornsilver3882]

Meanwhile in aperture science: *...I'm doing SCIENCE and im STILL ALIVE...*

[@anth0nybalb0a]

Actually I think that Chell could be in perma-cryostasis and Glados is destroyed so I think that Aperture is kind of dormant for the moment.

[@HueManatee]

publicc_property was chell not released at the end of portal 2?

[@anth0nybalb0a]

Hue Manatee dawg that was like 10,000 years after Portal 1

[@charlie4christ536]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5LXeq2nrKdlmqM Christ died for your sins and rose on the third day, showing that anyone who trusts in him for salvation, will have everlasting life. (John 11:25-26) "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?" (John 3:16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[@Mointuspointus]

Charlie4Christ what?

[@MamaAki]

"Get that satelite into orbit so that we may clean up this mess" That... uh, that didn't work too well....

[@theaccountofalltime1]

It probably would have worked if they didnt think “hey what if we shot humanity in the foot and killed everyone that could have ended this”

[@samsonguy10k]

I always figured that satellite aided the Lambda team establish a new connection with Xen. So at the least it did aid in getting the Nihilanth destroyed. What was unseen was that there was another, much bigger faction waiting in the shadows for the ugly baby to be removed. In the end Earth got destroyed by the order of dibs.

[@heftymagic4814]

Humanity: struggles with the catastrophic events of an alien invasion Other, completely different aliens: allow us to introduce ourselves

[@happyprotogen8552]

Mialisus kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmHYo3RmfL-NoKs

[@Medicalguy]

The only problem about this is the death toll. 80 percent of the present population died during the 7 hours war. So that's roughly 5 or 6 billion people.

[@hemprope4326]

How do I make the combine invade irl?

[@AdrianRO1918]

@@hemprope4326 lmao

[@judgejudys3xdungeon94]

@@hemprope4326 microwave a fork

[@hemprope4326]

@@judgejudys3xdungeon94 Sal's microwave exploded because he left a fork in it, making him tonight's big loser.

[@HonsHon]

Also 40% of the video featuring countries asking about the 50-100 people from their country who were in Black Mesa (padding)

[@bionictwin4736]

Imagine explaining to the leader of an allied country that your troops killed their scientists over something they had nothing to do with

[@hunterketch989]

Ha. But seriously, considering they were still debating if black Mesa caused the portal storms, and the USA knew damn well it is, it seems they never told anyone

[@ianmacdonald8585]

The trick is to either not explain it or simply deny it.

[@TheJas20]

All covert operations.

[@Temmoie]

Actually, they had something to do with. Remember questionable ethic labs? They even had a captured Xen Grunt, stripped off armor and hornet arm, being locked inside a test chamber that can either be gassed, electrified, and set on fire. Also, before Resonance Cascade, they already had ventured into Xen, with HEV being Mark IV when Freeman was hired, and HEV being modified and improved to have sophisticated combat systems and such. So, I'd say they already angered locals and subsequently would get hard retaliation for what the science team had done. But at least they wanted to mend it up by having Freeman to kill Nihilanth to stop the nightmare once and for all.

[@loomhigh]

Yeah. The Vietnam war was a weird time.

[@jeremydiaz9642]

Imagine being born in the Half-Life universe after the Seven Hour War.

[@gentianjoca565]

Now that's unlikely

[@lapapa2019]

That is LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE because of the camp force that covers most of the planet

[@TyrannoWright]

Scary to think about it since I would of been about Alyx's age by HL2. That is if the creatures of Xen and the Seven Hour War didn't get to young me first.

[@markdillon5494]

Imagine being born just before it

[@asteriusblack]

@@markdillon5494 alyx

[@hibiskus828]

Britain: *being invaded by innumerable legions of aliens from another dimension* "Right then, suppose we should get on with suspending the Antarctic Research Programme"

[@ChellyBean]

"Roight, lets shut it down, lad"

[@lordrosemount]

Ay, a better plan might have been to relocate there.

[@alexxandros168]

Argentina: how it feels boludo!?

[@addust]

Oi lad, can't we just use the [DATA EXPUNGED] abilities of the queen?

[@samsonguy10k]

Makes me think, as it has been a while since I last played HL2E2. Where was the Borealis found? Always got the impression it had the potential to be a super weapon against the Combine. If it was in Antarctica and was missed being found by mere hours....

[@Lazerblast3]

Amazing content! Really puts into perspective how badly Cave Johnson did not want Black Mesa toying around with anomalous materials and causing a resonance cascade; as said in the Portal Timeline, he knew it would end the world.

[@DeadNelo]

Wait he did?

[@JFJD]

True, but on the other hand he decided to call the place “Blaperture Mesa”, so it’s six of one, half-dozen of the other, really.

[@Gordon_Freeman_PhD]

@@JFJD That's an alternate universe Cave Johnson from the Portal initiative DLC. I don't think he cared. He just wanted to profit from them. He used asbestos in his testing domes ffs.

[@Armin2012]

Cave johnson might’ve been a crazy corporate, but he had some good points here and there

[@yuudii]

@@Gordon_Freeman_PhD The asbestos was needed though, to keep the rats out.

[@CyrusEpion]

Good luck out there everyone.

[@pipborden]

Be prepared too and get some supplies.

[@Nihilyth]

@@pipborden get your HEV and Crowbars ready boys.

[@pipborden]

Yup

[@kritische3959]

Meet your local E-Man and get ready to live a Half Life.

[@FoxInkling]

What if I said I got gmod

[@fiosimofio]

Outside: Massive catastrophic environmental conditions Local Gov: yo close the subway

[@robbo8309]

For anybody wondering like I was: The Seven Hour War (Combine invasion of Earth) starts at 59:40 in this video at 10:00AM, January 2nd

[@kablooey60]

Are there any other sources in the lore that give more detail into the Combine Invasion? Seeing the casualties increase by 100,000,000 every hour makes me wonder how they killed so many so fast.

[@kablooey60]

@@morningfeatherheart7340 They are displayed, though it is extremely dim.

[@robbo8309]

@@kablooey60 The video on the Combine made by the Templin Institute might help you.

[@s0ulshot]

@@kablooey60 We could probably kill that many in the coming world war if there were no rules and laws on place.

[@yurialexandre2037]

@@kablooey60 probably the storms did most of the work, after some time in the last parts of the video, the death counter starts to go less and less with the numbers, but compared to what we see in game, the number of dead is probably around the billion mark

[@adamsfusion]

I really really really liked this. It was creepy in a way that didn't need spooks and jumps to get you going. It's a slow burn into increasing tension. That's perfect. I also really loved the attention to detail on nations that had different populations. Like of course China would suffer greatly quicker while Greenland took forever to change color. I also also loved the view that this came from headlines from a news station or paper. It's such a great way to capture the zeitgeist of the event unfolding. I have some notes if you ever changed it though as a person who's a big policy buff and really fun at parties because of it (read: not fun at parties because of it): - Most governments would have declared a state of emergency soon after the US did. State of emergencies are typically declared not when the danger is in your house, but when it's waiting at your doorstep. - Financial collapse of the stock markets would have started potentially the day after the initial event. Stock markets have historically had their fragility tied to big events. The stock market dipped hard after 9/11. It dipped hard very quickly after the initial explosion of cases of COVID. It takes very little to spook the market. Keep it ongoing and you have a recipe for disaster fast. December is usually a hugely strong time for the stock market, play on that. A market that is performing the same in December as it did in October would be seen as a weak December. Anything less is alarming. - Whatever happened with all those "entities" that the portal deposited? They're mentioned in articles shown, and I assume they're being fought, but it also sounds like "Bob is going to work tomorrow still" kinda deal. It'd be cool to see some writing on, say, the National Guard is being deployed more as the events are going on and how state/local governments are dealing with the issue. That's touched on at the beginning, but combat ready men aren't infinite in numbers and I'm sure the US wasn't keeping containment very well given the ending. It'd be cool to read about that. - Civil unrest. It's touched on once, but supply chains, especially those involving foods, are critical infrastructure that isn't planted into the ground. When bad things happen, resources are diverted. Diversion of resources strains supply chains. What are people doing, and how are the people acting? Tiny shifts in people's lives tend to have big magnifications in civil unrest. - The President gives a lot of speeches in the East Room. Maybe he shouldn't. He waits until 7 PM to give a speech, and that's a lot of hours to wait when there's more than a few thousand people affected. There's a protocol given to public news stations to cut to the President if he or she has something to say that's grave to the nation. It's been used before, so it's definitely a realistic thing to expect. - What are the people doing? I mentioned civil unrest, but a lot of people will just be trying to make it by. How are governments responding? Are they being herded, relocated, dismissed? Again, this is touched on briefly at one point, but I'm sure this would impact people even early on. The weather alone would be enough to close big industries like tourism, outdoors work, really anything where being outdoors or within the elements is required to do your job. Say you're a farmer, and sure it's winter so stuff isn't growing, but you still have animals. What about radio transmission systems? Magnetic storms do happen in real life in more extreme parts of the world and they wreak all sorts of havoc with telecommunication and radio communication equipment. I wouldn't spend half an hour writing that if I didn't love the idea and the execution. I hope some of that at least is thought provoking and something worth building on or at least spurs additional thought, because I love this concept to death. It's all just numbers, text, and a map, and yet it's chilling.

[@adamsfusion]

@@Neinfeld That was a great and pointed response, thank you. Can't wait to see more of your videos.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

Yeah these types of slow burn alien invasion scenarios are the creepiest stories of all, honestly.

[@izzystar5904]

@@Neinfeld I also have another thing to add Emergency Action Notifications are only intended to be used for nationwide emergencies and the Emergency Alert System transmissions used in the video lack an End of Message burst (EOM)

[@azurebookllet9216]

@@Neinfeld I think it's a bit weird that Clinton is the only one featured in all of the news from the US even though he was already a lame duck at the time the incident happened. As President-elect, GWB would have been expected to make public statements on the matter as well, and they would have also been treated as news, right? In fact, he would have likely started to receive briefings as soon as the death toll went above 100k, if not 10k. Globally, it's amusing that it feels like every country is just sitting still until their key cities get hit by portal storms one by one. I am sure that after like the 10th, or at most 20th, country, got hit, many others would have had started to go for pre-emptive evacuations, or they would have had started taking other measures based on pure paranoia.

[@nickolaswiebeck6429]

I feel that it would have been fitting to hear Gman say "Prepare for unforeseen consequences" around the 50 second mark before the ominous ping that follows. The atmosphere of HL is truly frightening.

[@bonkersmcgee4356]

The sound effect at 1:44 is the definitive sound effect of Half Life for me. There's something very unworldly about it, and it really set the tone for the areas where it's played.

[@c0ntriL]

I'm a huge Half-Life fan, (i thought this timeline lasted a few days to atmost a week) but the fact this entire thing lasted ALMOST A MONTH scares the hell out of me, even more so, my home city is one of the main cities effected through out the time line.. 2020 for the love of god dont do this.

[@ChristianBMundy]

To quote our mutual friend: "Prepare for unforseen consiquences."

[@Cscuile]

The actor for G-Man Mike Shapiro said this before 2020 on his twitter: "Should old acquaintances be forgot? Well, after so much... time, some things can prove difficult to remember. See you in the new year. And do prepare for... consequences hm?" It is like he knew!

[@Matzu-Music]

Well do we know wat is in area 9? That's where the tram says Black Mesa is.

[@SuperNath97]

oh but that was just the start, the combine then took all of earths resources and then tried to assimilate everyone. The portal storms kept happening.

[@GodFatherGB]

Actually the game took place in may and not in December and the events unfolded in a couple of days and not a month, check out the wiki for more info on this half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page

[@thedemonslayer51]

I'm just imagining, those places that lost power and utilities in the USA, trying their best to be happy and forget about the crumbling world, in the dark, for just one, christmas day.

[@ghuttsmckenzie4269]

I'd probably get drunk off the whiskey I stole from a convenience store and take a bunch of melatonin and cough syrup.

[@thedemonslayer51]

@@ghuttsmckenzie4269 Ah, going with the "We're all gonna die soon, so might as well die in the 5th dimension" mentality. That works too.

[@ghuttsmckenzie4269]

@@thedemonslayer51 if I'm gonna die im gonna live the way I want to before it happens: tired, Drunk, and confused with all the swirly, angry lights.

[@ghuttsmckenzie4269]

@Top_Hat_Mann sounds like the best way to go!

[@dayofthedaleks1524]

The black mesa Incident: Reaches Greenland us: did we just lose?

[@Callidus_Fox]

If plague inc has taught us anything, It ain't over till Greenland is hit.

[@ch3rryblu330]

@Eric Miret NAH MAN. NEW ZEALAND. THOSE BITCHES TAKE YOU OUT IN SECONDS.

[@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413]

@@ch3rryblu330 CARRIBEAN

[@ch3rryblu330]

@@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413 HAHAHAHAHA

[@Notaname21]

No because GORDON FREEMAN is alive

[@ceresalpha]

Just know that around the beginning, numerous casualties are probably caused by Gordon Freeman.

[@Chuked]

Yeah the soldiers in Black Mesa

[@L_Lawliet1907]

He had to anyway. They were planning to kill everyone inside.

[@samsonguy10k]

@@Chuked Don't forget Ted. That creep had it coming.

[@Jtak-qu5hk]

@@samsonguy10k who's ted?

[@samsonguy10k]

@@Jtak-qu5hk You forgot Ted? I am disappoint.

[@pylewastaken]

All of that because some overly qualified guy pushed a glowy rock into a glowy beam

[@henrycgs]

All of that because some random guy ate a weird bat

[@yuithekitsune]

All of that because some overly qualified guy forgot his passport

[@lycanrocvevo147]

All of that because some random explosion created everything

[@halomaster213]

Mialisus well it’s really because the arch dukes driver made a wrong turn.

[@purpleguygaming3412]

All of that because a some random company decided to drill on the moon

[@LymanAlpha1]

I too request information from the United States government about the minor nuclear event at the the Black Mesa research facility in southeastern New Mexico

[@tall_prince]

I also request that Information

[@temrinet5421]

@@tall_prince And me aswell.

[@Chuked]

I too want to play half life1

[@cinnaboofid8193]

45:52 was where I went from curiosity to pure horror. I've not been to many of these places, but I've seen New York. Imagining the hellscape a portal storm and xen invasion would create took my breath away and I just kept repeating "Oh my god" until I reminded myself none of this happened. This is a very well made video and I hope it gets treated favorably by the algorithm

[@boxtank5288]

I can only imagine the UNTHINKABLE death toll and the panic...the sobbing of frightened men, women and children, Wall Street Journal printing out 'THE END IS HERE' and only those words, sending them to the damn winds as the conditions get worse and worse. Entire BUILDINGS vanishing under a green light and people falling forever in Xen, or rather what remained after the Nihilanth's destructive dying throes (I consider Black Mesa's depiction of Xen canon). Monsters destroying homes and making mockery of our once normal lives....

[@itsthisguyNeil]

29:15 "These events of catastrophic atmospheric significance have sparked debate among the nation's top climatologists, with explanations ranging from the meteorological consequences of climate change..." Yep, totally climate change, not the aliens pouring through the rip in dimensions

[@theorangeoof926]

They tried to hide it as much as possible, but it was inevitable

[@workromworkrom2853]

"Look Gordon ropes! We can use them to... HELP ME GORDON!"

[@mateuszw.7905]

Another day another dollar am i right ?

[@scriptedjuice3566]

Wikipedia the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit!

[@Josh-zu8cr]

MY CLONE

[@vitaliitomas8121]

THERE'S NOTHING THERE

[@waterdhavian_wizard]

MY DREAM COMES TRUE! I'M LEAVING THIS WORLD!

[@dinkthegreatest]

*Gordon wakes up from stasis* Gordon: what the fu-

[@sirdorkster]

He didn't wake up from stasis in the year 2000. Silly Zoomer, maybe you should play the game and read the lore.

[@pedrovinicius9592]

@@sirdorkster zoomer boomer haahahah doomer hommer hammer bruh bruh fortnite bad minecraft good burh burh zoomer boomer bruhhhh lololololloo ayo pizza here bonk pfff bruh get wifi anywhere you go hold up bruh bruh hahahahhaaha lololololo

[@sirdorkster]

@@pedrovinicius9592 Fifty-Twelve!

[@doomjuan]

@@sirdorkster Im pretty sure he is talking about when half life 2 started. also cringe of you to use the boomer-zoomer meme in 2020

[@raulcabezas6244]

@@sirdorkster do You know when he waked up after this events right?

[@catsndogs98]

This it what it looks like if the SCP Foundation failed their mandate.

[@abdullahkratos]

it is, read "SCP Foundation: Document Recovered From The Marianas Trench". You will see its kinda the same

[@recordkeepingandinformatio8206]

I blame Kondraki

[@hoov100]

I wish I could love react this post.

[@Dorraj]

Aren't all the SCPs from things that have been around on earth for a long time? Pretty sure their containment is just making it even worse, putting all the dangers so close together.

[@Freakmenn]

@Sweetbutter Cupcakes Sorry if I misunderstood, but the SCP site a wiki project, no? Meaning that instead of having one writer on the task, anyone can add their own SCP, so idk how one writer deciding to leave would have any effect on the projects quality. There are still some pretty decent modern-day SCP's imo.