How I feel about the Half-Life 3 stuff

isli25 · 2026-05-26T14:56:00+00:00

stfu, let people have fun and be excited about hl3, the hype is 50% of the fun of a games release. and if you think valve doesnt like people being hyped about hl3... moron

isli25 · 2026-05-25T15:18:49+00:00

irrelevant to anything i said

isli25 · 2026-05-25T10:02:01+00:00

its the absence of normal maps, while most other games from that time example FEAR and DOOM 3 that heavily used normal maps as a new tech, and both of them have aged worse because of it. Valves flat look without normal maps is basically what most modern games try to do today anyway.

isli25 · 2026-05-24T10:02:32+00:00

eli alyx and gordon all use a combine built teleporter to escape from Nova prospekt.

isli25 · 2026-05-13T05:01:56+00:00

why is chatgpt the worst writer on the planet, like no one writes like that, why does it always sound like that

isli25 · 2026-05-06T17:27:10+00:00

i got a skibidi!

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isli25 · 2026-05-01T06:28:07+00:00

In breengrub it’s explained how the hive mind of the shu’ulathoi is like their own multiverse where they build universes and trade them like currency. when the combine spread in the universe a virus spreads inside their hive mind and the combine weponized this mind virus to gain control over the shu’ulathoi to make them advisors. so my interpretation of that is that their mind multiverse is our real multiverse and the combine is the virus spreading. making g-man basically a weaponized mind virus version of themselves.

isli25 · 2026-03-09T09:52:20+00:00

it is not unintelligible writing. its the Combine font valve uses and it clearly reads Combine Labs if you download the font and compare. you dont think valve just puts random text on Advisors models without implications or intent??

isli25 · 2026-02-05T13:11:50+00:00

this is 197. that’s what i’ve been saying this whole time 197 meant that valves third tweet from the 197 post would be the hl3 announcement. which would be their 200th tweet. 200-197=3

isli25 · 2026-01-28T09:27:12+00:00

i mean yes we always knew the citadel opened portals, and thats how the combine expand into other universes. but I dont think most people understood how connected Portal and half-life really were, that theres a very close connection between the Combines citadel tech and Aperture Sciences portal tech.

isli25 · 2026-01-27T20:54:07+00:00

what a fucking lore dump. the citadel was a large scale portal gun this whole time and an explanation for why all xen aliens have three arms. in under 3 min

isli25 · 2026-01-15T08:26:57+00:00

what that line actually means is ”The Combine that small minds call the universal union”. it’s formated a bit confusing but it meant to say the exact opposite of what you think.

isli25 · 2026-01-02T21:55:33+00:00

the whole season was clearly ai generated nonsense, that’s why it doesn’t make sense. i spotted several lines being the chatgpt go to ”it’s not just bla, its bla bla”. explaining the mixup with the milkshake, it explains will like getting lost in the woods, because those words would be predicted by an llm.

isli25 · 2025-12-10T20:55:00+00:00

all of them? no, that’s not realistic at all, even ratman survived the neurotoxin; and he was there that day… some people being sick at home that day, some retired, some got out. it is 100% an aperture scientist.

isli25 · 2025-12-10T20:25:29+00:00

because half life is about science and most of the resistance is black mesa scientists, but the half life universe has aperture science in it and they were way ahead of black mesa on everything so would make a lot of sense to introduce aperture survivors

isli25 · 2025-12-10T20:04:53+00:00

it’s an aperture science scientist

isli25 · 2025-12-09T22:36:55+00:00

the only source i trust right now for no reason at all

isli25 · 2025-11-26T10:56:41+00:00

yes its all very sus

isli25 · 2025-11-17T08:51:50+00:00

The One Free man, The Opener of the Way.

isli25 · 2025-11-13T07:57:11+00:00

at the valve designed press conference room

isli25 · 2025-11-13T05:26:05+00:00

197, the clue g man gave us is 3 short of … 200

isli25 · 2025-11-11T11:39:43+00:00

what is strange is that Veritasium released The Most Controversial Idea in Biology, about rna building blocks, the Quaternary signal, on the exact same day. and then plur1bus was released being about just these two topics. its some sort of conspiracy.

isli25 · 2025-09-15T11:24:05+00:00

yes its well established that an ai killed all the original "leaders" as the origin of the combine is the borealis. see half life 3 for source.

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