kingkolton9

Dammit! Well, someone was faster, and I didn't even notice any new people up here... Here's my take on what he did. I used the same image as him, but it's a Polaroid now. Postcards and Polaroids go together.

The Expletive system is similar to the metric system. So, yes, you are correct.

Yeah, it is. Though, metric fuckton is at least standardized. I.E: One metric fucktonne of electricity is equal to the amount of energy it takes one's head explode. Or hair to set on fire, whichever is larger. Valve time is best explained as "Whenever Valve feels like it."

Imagine you're in a universe where things move at 1/1000th the time. That, my friend, is valve time.

You want a postcard from Xen? Why not? I can say I got a postcard from another dimension! Don't forget about Black Mesa East and White Forest! Well, the former USED to have good mail service.

I live with Ross and I find this comment really funny I didn't hear a no regarding his visitation... Can we get a post card?

I thought they weren't attacking in the factory, not interloper? The factory is in the chapter Interloper. It's after the second act on the floating island. (if memory serves me right on this part.) Ahh-- I thought it was in a separate chapter, considering that there was a boss battle before it.

I thought they weren't attacking in the factory, not interloper?

*Begins to replay Lost Coast* Edit: Well, shit. You're right. Gordon must be mighty hungry after 20 years.

The original quote: "Hey, it's neon green! Do they throw raves in here? The acoustics would suck." What Freeman is saying, simplified: "It's bright green in here. Do they have dance parties in here? The sound would be bad." A "rave" is defined as "Any gathering of people listening and dancing to music, typically in the electronic genre, as played by a set of live disk jockeys (DJs). Often characterized by a positive atmosphere, influenced quite often by drugs and alcohol." Does that help?

I can see that. Like, at the end of Uplink when you're cornered, he just passes out and suddenly wakes up where he would have ended up normally. Then he just rationalizes this whole episode as a fever dream spurred on by shock from having his atoms scattered by the portal or whatever. I think Freeman will probably flip out and then deus ex machinima back to the chambers via lucky teleport. The episode will end with the Freeman saying that he "needs to take a rest," because he almost died. I decided to watch Barney's Mind and I have no idea where I got that idea. It's actually pretty good. I'm on episode 10, I think and it is way better than I remembered. I withdraw what I said about Barney's Mind.

In Shepherd's mind I like where he went with it. A spazzum(?) of random teleportation, getting stuck in the floor and the locker. The meetup was nice, but I didn't like Barney's Mind as much as Shepherd's or Freeman's Mind. Barney's mind seemed like such a rushed job, and while I never finished more than like 4 or 5 episodes, the quality was clearly lacking. I think if he put a little more work in it'd be so much better. Fitting, seeing as how Blue Shift was always the odd one out in pretty much every aspect. Truth be told, if/when Operation Black mesa comes out, I'd like to try taking a crack at making a "Mind" series, with Ross' permission, of course. I'd need to get a good mic, because the one I have right now is subpar in quality. I think I had an Audio Technica or a Blue mic at some point, but I digress, and my voice always sounds so high to me. I think the teleportation to Uplink is a cool idea (Not going to put it in a spoiler now since we're on the second page). It's Freeman around the universe, but in 3D! I just have no idea where Ross is going to send freeman back. The teleportation chambers seems like the kind of place where Freeman would just say "Hell no!" I think Ross is using SteamLink because Uplink has no console (as far as I'm aware). Don't quote me on that, though. I've played that. It's good, but the lighting needs work.

Yeah, there's only so many bugs I can fix. Stuff like this is why I'm trying to retire from source and get proficient in another engine. May I ask how you got the game to run so well? I've tried to play it but there were so many bugs it was unusable.

I was going to mention in the last thread, but thought my idea was stupid. Tell me, how did you get it to run properly? I assume you ran it on an emulator like Arcade America, because when I ran it in compatibility mode I couldn't change the resolution.

Even if Ross took 24 years to get out Freeman's Mind out, I wouldn't be mad! It's Freeman's Mind! Who can complain? While Ross does skip an area where a real person would say "No, fuck that," I don't think it'll be a problem. I don't think Ross will rush himself too bad. *Incoming "No True Scottsman Fallacy"*

I can only imagine what new neighbors would have thought. "Does our neighbor always scream about aliens and the military and getting shot?" "Nah, only once in a while. You get used to it."

None that I recall. Maybe it's a joke about him being a robot and binary? It's no more odd than Hλlf-Life, though that's explainable.

Too bad he couldn't (Episode 2 spoilers) Don't you mean "D0g, the attack r0b0t?"

Robot Attack Dogs, you say?

I bet Ross is actually on a top secret mission, which began when he constructed his own space ship and journeyed across the galaxy, looking for clues. The evidence led him to Germany, where a strange Russian contact with an overcoat and glasses pointed him in the direction of a racetrack in the middle of nowhere. Ross then drove out there, evaded the police who tried to ticket him, but instead of finding a racetrack, he arrived at a carnival filled with undead enemies. After defeating the Baron running the place, he went through a portal to another dimension, where he took part in the French Revolution and visited a tavern. By questioning Star Trek Gorbachev, he learned that his girlfriend had been kidnapped by aliens, which were also pursuing him. He went to ground on a mini-golf course (no one would look for him there!) and plotted his next move. After fighting his way through an army of robots and taking down an extraterrestrial fiend, he managed to get back to our dimension. In order to learn more about the aliens, Ross traveled to Florida to question Sean Puckett, hoping for information. Along the way, he had to contend with birds that insisted on pooping on his car (these may or may not have been alien drones monitoring and hindering his progress). When he arrived at Puckett's house, he found it deserted, but thanks to some alien computer code, he managed to learn enough about the aliens to make his next move. Figuring he needed a team of super-heroes to defeat the aliens and reclaim his girlfriend, Ross then flies to California, having heard of a group of monsters he might recruit. Unfortunately, the monsters get scattered across the country and he must accompany his old pal Joey to round them up. That's as much as I can piece together from the cryptic messages he's sent us since October of last year. Not sure what his next move might be, but don't worry, Magda; he'll save you! Last I heard he was wandering around some lab in New Mexico. *I hope these jokes aren't in bad taste, HLPrincess*

I say we take the logical route by making a compromise and assuming that he is in a coma, or is otherwise paralyzed/incapacitated. I think we can all agree that this is the most likely scenario, given what we know so far. You know that for me, as Ross's girlfriend, these kind of jokes are totally NOT funny and in bad taste. It's easy to joke like that when you're far away. Would you joke like that about your girlfriend/boyfriend? I hope not. Sorry about that. Sometimes I don't think before I post.

He hasn't confirmed that. He's obviously alive.

Speaking of the ending to Freeman's mind: After we see Gman and you either kill freeman or save him, would you consider doing a behind the scenes episode? That is, of course, assuming you don't send us a message from beyond the grave saying "I'm dead" before then.

Maybe it's a problem with flash? I want to know, too.

No, but his laptop could be hooked up to one. I've never seen a laptop screen flickering though but it I guess it doesn't mean that his laptop doesn't do that. The reason laptop screens don't flicker is because LCD screens work a bit differently from CRT monitors. In CRTs there's something called an electron gun that "draws" the image pixel by pixel. After one pixel a new one is "drawn," and the previous starts to disappear. However, this is happening so fast you cannot perceive this. Your eyes see one image. This flicker could (and likely is, if you're using a CRT) be because the refresh rate is set too low. At 50 Hz on a CRT, the image is being drawn slow enough that most people's eyes can perceive a flicker. At 72 (if I recall correctly) Hz, most people can't tell. Some CRTs can go up to 140 Hz. It *might* be because your video card can only output 30 frames per second and your monitor's refresh rate is set significantly higher. This is unlikely, though, unless the CRT you are using is truly ancient. LCDs *do* flicker! However, as the backlight is most likely running at a minimum of 200 Hz, one's eyes do not see it. LCDs also work a fair bit different than CRTs in regards to how video is displayed. If your laptop has an HDMI port on it, and you have a cable, try hooking it up to your TV if it's an LCD and it's compatible.