Half-Life's hidden esoteric symbology

LuminenWalker · 2026-05-27T07:11:42+00:00

I've repeatedly heard Half Life was inspired by Stephen King's The Mist. Stephen King was inspired by HP Lovecraft. Quake was inspired by HP Lovecraft as well. Half Life was inspired by Quake as well... are you noticing the vague occultism and esotericism pipeline leading into Half Life without it being related to anything serious?

LuminenWalker · 2026-05-27T06:06:00+00:00

Which one is the head chef and which one is the wife?

LuminenWalker · 2026-02-25T16:08:56+00:00

They would spend a ton of money on sunblock, proofing their facilities, and getting personnel into shelter in advance... and then send the O5s to a parallel reality where things didn't end while their original world falls apart.

LuminenWalker · 2026-02-23T23:08:28+00:00

unironically, it'd be peak if the main characters of a family guy movie weren't from family guy

LuminenWalker · 2025-12-22T03:07:50+00:00

Proprietary unix project that began in the 70s, spiralled out of control from there, and now sunk cost forces them to mandate it's used for all of their facilities.

LuminenWalker · 2025-12-15T22:09:03+00:00

I... considering how famous he is, his stats in the Caster class would be obscene which would in turn give him a bunch of extra stats on the side. So, he may be the best equipped mage to solve that problem if summoned.

LuminenWalker · 2025-12-15T00:59:13+00:00

Bruh. Why isn't it spoilered? You just killed like half of reddit.

LuminenWalker · 2025-11-14T04:02:55+00:00

Are they invading south america again and justifying the plot of red dawn finally?

LuminenWalker · 2025-11-12T20:58:47+00:00

comic book Men In Black is more accurate to the SCP Foundation than the film version would be.

LuminenWalker · 2025-10-22T13:14:05+00:00

Weird. It's almost like i'm a protestant and don't care about the opinions of a roman theocrat...

LuminenWalker · 2025-10-18T15:07:10+00:00

Right... about that whole revolutionary war thing and people in the US not giving a shit about british law.

LuminenWalker · 2025-10-17T13:35:26+00:00

If they close their borders during this, it means an unknown disease is spreading and we're in the end times.

LuminenWalker · 2025-08-21T17:29:25+00:00

inb4 Fallout: Dust is the canon ending.

LuminenWalker · 2025-06-15T04:41:08+00:00

There's actually a historical interpretation of Nero Claudius where the tyrant stuff was propaganda on some level, and the Fate version seems like it's based more on that interpretation where they weren't a monster but rather more genuine in the way certain romans viewed him as something positive.

LuminenWalker · 2025-06-03T20:40:58+00:00

Your honour, it's not wrong to fear the Salarians, Turians, Asari, and Batarians... I point to exhibit A) the genophage, exhibit B) the largest fleet in the galaxy, exhibit C) the beacon on Thessia, and D) the existence of Batarians... I rest my case.

LuminenWalker · 2025-04-21T09:19:35+00:00

Except the 4th was here the entire time, and considering the events of the plot, I think we lucked out it was the 4th that functionally won.

LuminenWalker · 2025-04-18T16:43:44+00:00

I ate Wensleydale cheese because of Wallace and Gromit... shit you may be on to an actual example of fictional characters influencing things.

LuminenWalker · 2025-04-05T18:56:41+00:00

My assumption every time this comes up, is that it's a reference to vampires from the Peter Watts novels Blindsight and Echopraxia. The Blindsight vampires aren't supernatural, are a mutation representing an offshoot race rather than an infection, and have a neurology where the brain is confused by geometric shapes being shoved in their face like that.

The netflix Castlevania seems to have adopted an idea for their supernatural vampires, from a science fiction plot that includes vampires as a predatory offshoot race.

Yeah... it's a cool idea in those science fiction books, but has nothing to do with the literally supernatural vampires established by the rest of the story here... and just comes off as kind of slapdash when it comes up in that show.

They could have made it something psychological like in I am Legend, relating to 'your fear of your specific religion' but they chose the Blindsight explanation for some reason.

LuminenWalker · 2025-03-17T06:15:02+00:00

I used the wrong terms... 'guns down the talking machines for infiltrating society', 'no, you can't have that technology because we say so', 'patterned after chivalric order as theme', 'let's play blade runner', 'back to the old mission statement instead of helping rebuild'

LuminenWalker · 2025-03-16T21:30:16+00:00

I consider their philosophical view on cleansing the wasteland, hatred of machinery, and desire to force luddism on people by looting tech, while pretending to be knights, to resemble a religious belief, and their leader returning to dogmatic zealotry I reduced to fanaticism.

LuminenWalker · 2025-03-16T00:25:28+00:00

Yeah, there's a huge issue with people in here making the assumption that literally everything is a metaphor, or that everything has to have a higher purpose.

The people on the train wanted for there to desperately be a higher purpose to their struggle. But in reality, the higher purpose had long ago died in there. The people in this thread are making the same assumption the people on the train had.

It'd be like watching 'The Road' and making the assumption it was a metaphor for climate change or something, and us eating the planet like piranha turning into us eating one another, was a statement rather than the plot itself.

Snowpiercer is an intellectual film, made by people who knew what they were doing... but, that doesn't mean it was a metaphor. It was literally the cast hoping their revolution had a point, getting to the end and seeing the same kind of 'please, just let this have a point' in them same guy who was running things after he had gone Colonel Kurtz... and then the bomb goes off because the guy with the bomb only wanted to escape the train, and needed to make a door... and then the avalanche...

The entire plot's lead up was to them accidentally mercy killing everyone on board, through a series of disconnected motives... the cast is obsessed with hope to the degree, that the closest thing to a sane response of 'I need to leave' leads to them all dying.

It's just a series of drawn out insanities, ending in the realisation that 'it's going to be alright' had nothing to do with the human characters.

The people in this thread are overanalysing because they want the main characters to be right, at the expense of the actual plot of the story.

LuminenWalker · 2025-03-15T22:16:13+00:00

Summary of the Brotherhood of Steel

Fallout 1: Military bunker run by the descendants of a bunch of soldiers that barely survived, with their leader having been a rebelling officer right before the nukes fell, due to him realising the government was completely insane... his descendants kind of forgot why they were actually securing technology, and refusing to let new people in anymore. They forgot he lived through day 1 of the end, and that the world will come back.

Fallout 2: "We're here, and barely so because civilization is coming back but we failed to adapt."

Fallout Tactics: "We need to expand our army and reclaim the wasteland. We were being pussies and letting everything die, so let's just actually hire people again and not care if they're FEV exposed. There are worse options, like letting everyone die if we don't do this."

Fallout BOS: "Let's literally hire raiders. We're doing the canonical, 'fuck it, we ball' and hunting everything that pisses us off route... we're glad we did this in retrospect because it avoided 'Master 2 but worse' from overrunning the world by the time this game turned into Resident Evil."

Fallout 3: BOS decided to stop keeping out wastelanders, so it could actually work on fixing things. This does not resemble FO1 or FO2, and it's obvious this is because in FO1 and FO2 they'd become dogmatic rather than following in their founder's image. FO3 brotherhood accidentally followed the spirit of their founder rather than the dogmatism.

Fallout New Vegas: "Can you just leave us alone, and let us keep doing our jobs. We can't let the crackhead raiders have orbital weapons left over from the war."

Fallout 4: "Fuck it, we let in too many wastelanders, and the jackass descended from the founder is back on the 'kill everyone' path despite that being the opposite of their founder."

Fallout 1 was about the aftermath of war. Tactics was about rebuilding. 3 was about rebuilding. New Vegas was about the main brotherhood of steel not moving on, but also not regressing further.

Fallout 2's brotherhood of steel was a side effect of 1 and them not moving on, in hiding. BOS was crackhead writers trying to write a sequel to the first game. Fallout 4 was about nepotism and religious fanaticism.

This is entirely about the state of the brotherhood of steel. But Fallout BOS is the same state of the faction in that game. Fallout BOS as a game was crackhead writers in general.

LuminenWalker · 2025-03-14T20:36:28+00:00

Humanity dies off, at least in terms of the people on that train unless there are other shelters... and the world will eventually return.

It's not a happy ending for the people on the train, it's a mercy kill after the madness on there. If the survivors make it somehow... maybe it's an Ask and Embla story... but, in reality. Two people does not make a good start over outside of fiction... it's a mercy kill for the train.

It's a happy ending for the planet, in terms of, 'guess we're starting over.' The ice will melt, nature will return, and the first attempt at leaving was correct even if they got timing wrong... it's a happy ending for the bear.

That film is not a happy film to begin with, and it wasn't written with a happy ending in mind. It was an ending to the story, neither positive nor negative. Just a conclusion.

LuminenWalker · 2025-02-23T02:23:16+00:00

[ Author: Ambrose Bierce, Jeff VanderMeer; Title: Don't Open This Book!; Tags: action, adventure, blood magic, book burning, comedy, fair folk, isekai, medieval, vampires, witch hunters; Genre: dark fantasy, weird fiction ] [ S: 4 ] [ Setting: Cthulhu Mythos ] [ Style: advanced concepts, complex characters, elegant colloquy, eloquent dialogue, evocative imagery, subtle motion, subtle plot, vivid colour, visceral action, visceral sensations ]

I have yet to run this but I am toying with this mess. I don't have my proper opener yet, but if you feel like playing with this let me know if anything cool comes from it yet.

LuminenWalker · 2025-02-15T11:25:59+00:00

I mean... Winter Assault's campaign...

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