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Enough. I don't want to hear any marble out of you.

Only stoners and metalheads like puns about geology.

Subs up!

Just keep standing there; this is a very important part of the ceremony. We have to get the subtitles and attend the luncheon... Mmmm... luncheons. freeman_s_mind_episode_63_en.srt

A way to shut down a corny pickup line: Man: Did it hurt? Woman: What? Man: When you fell out of heaven? Woman: Did you just call me Lucifer?! A way to open it back up: Man: Well, you do bring the light to my darkened heart.

I think of headcrabs like ants or bees. You have the queen (Gonarch) which is, essentially both male and female, fertilizing its own eggs, growing the larval headcrabs in its body until it's time to release them. The resultant headcrabs are like worker ants or worker bees and are sterile themselves. If a Gonarch dies, a headcrab is born to replace the dead Gonarch as queen headcrab. The headcrab grows into another Gonarch. That's how it works, at least in my mind.

Poltergeist

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Picture responses or text responses on this thread?

I take the sounds I hear and try to write them out as if I was trying to spell them. Sometimes I call my mind back to various comics I've read for how to write certain onomatopoeia. If I can't figure out how to spell them or it becomes really stupid looking when written down, I just change it to what is happening and put it in brackets (such as in this episode, I wrote [hyperventilating]). I don't write what emotion is being given, however. If Ross's Gordon is screaming or shouting over a lot of noise (such as during a battle or when there's the 'earthquake' in this episode), I just write the words in all caps. I'm also trying to all caps certain words that are being emphasized (such as "I didn't realize I was THAT late" where the word "that" being emphasized). In comics, those words are bolded, but I don't believe it's possible to bold or italicize subtitles on Youtube. Thanks for your effort and contribution, kingkolton9, but I'm more than willing to continue doing the subtitles for the English language captions.

Wow, my subs are absolute trash next to yours. I guess that was to be expected. Oh, wow. I didn't even realize you had done them. My apologies!

8/10 No boobs, right amount of horn.

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Big Her 6 A six-person superhero team consisting entirely of overweight women. Rated the worst movie ever made, even beating out such classics as Manos, Plan 9 and Battlefield Earth.

Rhombuses.

Subs up! For those in the US (or those who used to be in the US and still celebrate it), Happy Thanksgiving!

Xen and the art of rhombus eating. freeman_s_mind_episode_62_en.srt

There are hypotheses currently that black holes as we know them aren't actually physical objects that have been compressed down to minute size. Growing up, I was taught that black holes were collapsed stars that had been shrunken down to a very small size without losing mass (that had not been blown away by the supernova explosion or whatever) so it'd be like compressing a human down to the size of a cube of table salt so the cube would be 200 pounds heavy or some crap like that. That might be wrong and they could just be extraordinarily strong gravity wells without associated matter to cause it. I don't really see a problem with Gordon making wild guesses. Ross could nip it in the bud by reminding the viewers (while not breaking character) that Xen is a completely alien dimension so the currently known rules of physics can take a hike (or some other colorful euphemism). He could also insult (without breaking character) people that question it by saying something like, "That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Anyone that doesn't like that can eat my shorts. Oh God, I'm so hungry. Wonder if I can eat my shorts." Or something.

There isn't an unlimitted number of Xenians; for the sake of the discussion, let's assume that there's 4 billion of all species, not counting Controllers (let's say 20-100 million), Tentacles (10 million?), and any alien produced in factories (Alien Grunts, Mantas, and Gargantuas specifically). So, with these figures, North America will likely be overrun, and a good chunk of Latin and/or South America with it (although maybe not, if nuclear weapons are used more and more). Everywhere else should be "fine". No, there isn't an unlimited number of Xenians but there's no reason to assume those numbers. Xen itself could be the size of a galaxy for all we know. The scientists call it the "border world" but they could be wrong. There could be any number of species, and not specifically from the native homeworld where vorts and company come from. "Xen" could be a region of interdimensional space where refugees from the Combine hide out. Who knows what could come through the portal onto our planet, given enough time.

Everyone missed my birthday on the 21st.

Without going to Xen, Nihilanth will continue to live, thereby keeping the portal open. This means that there would be no portal storms and the Combine would never come. That might be good or bad. The Earth would be overrun with Xenians. Gordon Freeman aside, it seems humankind has a big problem fighting off the Xenian onslaught. Whereas the Combine just killed most of the people and enslaved/persecuted the rest, the Xenians would kill everyone. I just imagine Gordon holed up in a mountaintop cabin, the last man on Earth. And with no Doritos. I can just see Gordon being surrounded by a megahorde of Xenians, him roaring as he mows down Xenians, but becomes overwhelmed and is finally killed. Lamarr stands on his corpse, sucking on a watermelon.

Remember, throughout the episode, Gordon apparently has no idea where he is. He could be in Massachusetts (Harold Parker State Forest), he could be somewhere in Europe or somewhere else entirely. Gordon was only making suppositions based on the available evidence (deciduous forest, appearance of the ruins, it being daytime*). * Though with the "slow teleport" mentioned in Half-Life 2, what should be instantaneous teleportation, hours, days, or even weeks can pass before the teleportation finishes.

Did you know that we are closer to the Tyrannosaurus rex than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth?