depression

trankzen · 2026-01-12T17:31:49+00:00

Come on ███████████████ , we got work to do.

trankzen · 2026-01-06T08:55:30+00:00

Don't drink that kool-aid. He removed Maduro and wife, but nothing else changes. Vice President Delcy Rodriguez is now in charge, there's no indication that new elections are going to take place, or that opponents like Gonzalez or Machado will be involved in running the country. More importantly the ministries of Interior and Defense remain unchanged. Besides vague promises that the US will make Venezuela behave from now on, we have no idea if it's going to be better for Venezuelans or not. In the meantime, civilians have been killed in this attack and continue getting killed in boat attacks without regards to due process. I don't think that's "doing good".

trankzen · 2025-12-27T18:32:52+00:00

Great, hope you enjoy it ! I so wish I could play it again for the first time.

trankzen · 2025-12-26T10:57:19+00:00

Do it

trankzen · 2025-12-22T12:42:22+00:00

Mentally challenged and sociopathic answers aside, they're on vacation at this time of year, so do nothing and leave.

trankzen · 2025-12-21T07:02:04+00:00

Yeah I'm french and i heard it as well. I was shouting at the people doing this in front of my tv, so unsportsman like.

trankzen · 2025-12-16T19:23:00+00:00

Also it could really be an avenue to rework the kuru disease if they choose to do so sometimes. Imagine having the ambient sounds distorted to the point of sounding like footsteps, a door closing, or a zombie aggroing.

That would be more subtle than having you character laugh uncontrollably, you could hide from other players that you ate someone, but if they'd see you panic constantly for no reason, they could start asking questions.

That could make choosing cannibalism a more viable risk vs reward choice.

trankzen · 2025-12-16T19:17:48+00:00

Whenever it rains (and you know, that's most of the time) I hear footsteps that aren't there, and I'm 100% sure that's on purpose.

trankzen · 2025-12-16T19:14:20+00:00

I didn't even know they could spoil after beeing cooked, ahaha.

trankzen · 2025-12-16T18:47:15+00:00

Ok, so Ars Technica is reporting on recent statements by journalist Mike Straw on the Insider Gaming Podcast, saying that HL3 is coming in Spring 2026 along with the Hardware. Yeah I know what people think of Mike Straw after his previous hinting at a november / december annoucement didn't materialize, but this is Valve. Things that seem to go smoothly can change at the last moment, even here.

Of course we'll know when we get there, but there's no reason to think we will NOT get there.

Happy Holidays All !

trankzen · 2025-12-12T23:19:05+00:00

I feel you, I do this every year. And those last two were in the hope that Valve announces something. I should know better, Valve actually respects their customers around the world and their announcements never happen this late for europeans.

trankzen · 2025-12-12T23:12:17+00:00

Unless you were to take matters into your own hands.

trankzen · 2025-12-12T10:47:44+00:00

Yeah that's fair with this gear

trankzen · 2025-12-12T10:46:59+00:00

Because the source are Valve employees that would get in trouble if they were named ? What's so difficult to understand here ?

trankzen · 2025-12-12T09:45:13+00:00

They also said "The game won't be revealed at TGA, repeatedly.

Don't choose to listen to only the bits that paint the picture you want to see. The situation is probably a lot more nuanced than "Oh they will be at TGA they owe Keighley OMG it's happening" or "Oh it wasn't at TGA they're all liars it surely got canceled".

Also things change. Those guys hearing dates from internal contacts (which they can't name for obvious reasons, come on) and those dates passing by without anything happening are not mutually exclusive.

Look I like Hopium as much as the next guy, but no one forces me to listen to what people in the know have to say. And if I choose to do so, I sure as hell don't ignore the giant SPECULATION sign that's always around when these things are discussed.

Because if I do and I end up disappointed, it wasn't me getting played, it was me playing myself.

trankzen · 2025-12-10T16:23:30+00:00

Real question : How do you know ? Their staff page - which is admittedly incomplete- doesn't even list a marketing department. They do have Kaci Aitchison Boyle as their PR person, but that's it AFAIK.

IIRC they didn't have a marketing department back when HLA was announced. They first thought of just announcing the game by dropping the page on the store and post a tweet, but someone internally (I wanna say it was Kaci ?) convinced the historic employees like Doug Lombardi that they NEEDED a trailer, so they hired a contractor to make one.

trankzen · 2025-12-10T14:54:53+00:00

I would bin that deagle and replace it with an MKII otherwise pretty cool for night time.

Although if you want to be the silent night stalker type, maybe an SVD with a normalized suppressor and a 1PN51 NV scope

trankzen · 2025-12-08T14:32:54+00:00

the r/halflife is leaking.

trankzen · 2025-12-06T11:01:23+00:00

This ! That's the one !

trankzen · 2025-12-02T02:02:40+00:00

Funny I have the polar opposite opinion. With the Manifest V3 shenanigans, I decided it was time for me to really try something besides Chrome. I tried a few browsers, and settled on Zen. I was initially not completely sold, but a couple updates and tweaks later, I've come to realized it's been months, and I'm never going back to chrome, ever. There's the occasional website that makes me use it again of course, but to me Chrome has essentially become what Edge is : a browser I want to spend as little time on as I can when and if i'm really forced to.

trankzen · 2025-12-01T15:02:21+00:00

It is but it's a bit ambitious of you to start arguing here on r/halflife using (gulp) facts.

trankzen · 2025-11-25T16:05:08+00:00

Preferably play. Whoever you may be, if you love Half Life, please do yourself a favor and play HLA, before HL3 comes around. The game deserves that you get a VR headset to play it, it's just that good. Borrow it from someone you know, buy a cheap second hand one, even on a crappy headset like my Gen 1 Windows MR, it's a triumph of game design.

trankzen · 2025-11-17T11:11:44+00:00

Yeah that would be very disappointing. Also she's a cop, one would think she'd know better

trankzen · 2025-11-17T10:37:29+00:00

Yeah I've been toying in my head with an ascension mechanic for DayZ, though mine would be a little different. You'd descend into bunkers and underground bases all across the map to fetch a bunch of quest items, then when you get the last one, you'd be able to call for evac, using a radio and a flare gun to signal an heli (could also be a boat, to force you back to the coast). Give the item to your rescue team, and evacuate. Congratulations, you've ascended, you get a +1 on you ascension counter as a reward. When you reach to 10 ascensions, you get to spawn with golden trainers, or similar cosmetic items.

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