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HL 3...is it still happening?

  • No and anyone that still thinks that it will is delusional

    Votes: 289 45.6%

  • Yes, they just need a few more years to perfect it so it can another game changer in the industry

    Votes: 187 29.5%

  • Shouldnt it be called "Two Lives and a half" instead?

    Votes: 101 15.9%

  • Half life is overrated, you neckbeard homos

    Votes: 57 9.0%
  • Total voters
    634
No gordon dont!! Thats not hopium!!!
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Pumpkin_Spice_Bastard said:
New schitzokino dropped
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Pure schizo beauty. Here's more schizo for the pile: if multiverse-affecting bootstrap paradoxes are on the table then suddenly the G-Man and his incoherent tightrope act between temporal omnipotence and light-touch interference might make sense: if the Borealis is part of a multiverse-affecting bootstrap paradox, then "our" Earth might be causally indispensable for civilizations much further down the time stream across many universes, and the G-Man could be a time-traveling agent sent to ensure that the critical moments, paradoxes and all, are preserved to ensure his client civilizations' eventual existences.
 
crowabunga said:
Pure schizo beauty. Here's more schizo for the pile: if multiverse-affecting bootstrap paradoxes are on the table then suddenly the G-Man and his incoherent tightrope act between temporal omnipotence and light-touch interference might make sense: if the Borealis is part of a multiverse-affecting bootstrap paradox, then "our" Earth might be causally indispensable for civilizations much further down the time stream across many universes, and the G-Man could be a time-traveling agent sent to ensure that the critical moments, paradoxes and all, are preserved to ensure his client civilizations' eventual existences.
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Also, by creating this bootstrap paradox, the Combine and the Borealis are now inseparable. If the resistance can find and destroy the Borealis, the Combine will get paradoxed out of existence.
 
If this is true it would explain why a civilization as advanced as the Combine never figured out something seemingly so simple as local teleportation, cause they already had it. Though the fact that they don't have anything even remotely similar probably means they never actually figured out how it worked, and instead merely took advantage of its power to further their own development, and by the time it disappeared they were already advanced enough to curb stomp anything that stood in their way regardless. Big W for Aperture in that case, somehow figuring out things even a multidimensional empire couldn't, and probably for some dumbass reason too.
 
Valve would probably be one of the only groups of storytellers I could trust in modern day to handle a timewimey multiverse shitshow thing in a way that still has the potential to remain narratively satisfying. Regardless though, I also don't think I like the idea of them leaning into this super hard or something.
 
Pumpkin_Spice_Bastard said:
New schitzokino dropped
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Video summary in the end:

THE BOREALIS BOOTSTRAP PARADOX
- Combine attacks the Borealis (7 Hour War)
- Borealis fluctuates through time and space (∞)
- Fluxing Borealis becomes the source of Combine technology (eons in the past)
- Aperture discovers Borealis in a salt mine (1944)
- Aperture reverse-engineers Borealis technology (1944-2000s)
- Aperture stabalizes the Borealis, severing the Combine's access (post-1970s)
- G-Man delivers Xen sample to Black Mesa (2000s)
- Resonance Cascade reveals the Borealis to the multiverse (2000s)
- Combine attacks the Borealis (7 Hour War)

Vidya industry version:
THE HALF-LIFE BOOTSTRAP PARADOX
- Half-Life 3 is confirmed (post-2020)
- Various concepts used in the Half-Life universe span through time and evolution (∞)
- Said concepts becomes discovered and researched by humanity (post-1990s)
- Group of nerds form Valve (1996)
- Valve uses concepts from various concepts to create Half-Life and the GoldSrc engine, soon later Steam, the Source 1 engine and Half-Life 2 (1996-2010)
- Valve transitions away from traditional games, focusing on services, many of the creative minds behind HL1-2 leave Valve (post-2010s)
- Mark Laidlaw releases "Epistle 3", stirring the masses (2017)
- Valve notices new technology [VR], finalizes Source 2 and Half-Life: Alyx (2020)
- Half-Life 3 is confirmed (post-2020)
 
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