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Do not toy with our emotions, Ross. I need this to be true. [edit] I've watched it now. It's perfect. I need this back in my life. I pitched in for the donation drive to finish up HL1 way back when. Make a Patreon for this or whatever if you must, I don't give a fuck. I just need this to continue. [/edit]

Registered after lurking for quite a while for two things: First: Thank you, Ross. As many others have pointed out, Freeman's Mind simply was extremely good entertainment. I was happy every time I saw a new video pop up and didn't care how long it took you. Didn't even think for a second to throw money at my screen when you needed some to push through to finish the series. It's rare, particularly with YouTube series, that something delivers on such a consistent basis, maintains its quality over time and finishes leaving a taste for more. That brings me to point two: I would pay cold, hard cash to have this continue into HL2. I'm not joking here. I don't care how you do it, launch a Kickstarter with no prizes whatsoever except cans of beans, set up a Patreon where people get a video plus a smack in the face per month, whatever you need to do. I understand finishing HL1 was a daunting task and you got a lot of hate for taking your time with it. But I also think that through working on it, you found your tone and your tone found a fanbase. You've proven the haters wrong, you persevered and won the appreciation of us all. You've made it. This is what so many people are struggling to get, whether they know it or not. You are now at a point where you could continue this - not chasing something, but delivering from a zone of comfort. You know you can do it and we know we will like it. That's a precious gem that is yours for the taking now. I don't even know how FM would work out in HL2, how the character you developed would fit in, how the different tone of the game, the different pacing and the environment itself would work out. I don't know - and I really like that. Because after 68 goddamn episodes, I know with certainly that whatever you'd do with this task, it'd be awesome, entertaining and worth whatever you ask in return from us. Now, I also have trust (judging from the other series you've been working on) that whatever else you decide to pick up will at least be worth my time checking out and it's exciting to see that you're excited for whatever is cooking up in your head right now. As Anton Ego said: 'Surprise me!' Just whatever you do, please hear my humble request to make a continuation of FM part of it. Because it is daunting and perhaps a bit simplistic and boring and tedious. Because it's "just more of the same" (yet totally not, as we've seen in the last episodes) and obvious and too familiar and there's so much else to possibly do and all those things. Because in spite of all that, I still want to frigging see it. I want to see Ross "I'm done with that phase of my life and have learned so much and am now in a different, awesome place" to take the series from here. I really liked how he finished off the last season. Step out of the train into the goddamn teleporter, Jeeeesus Christ.