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I really don't think that Ross will do another freeman's mind UNTIL he is done with his big project. You'd think that...

Jared O'Brien is listed on IMDb as having worked on Civil Protection. Is this the same Jared, better known as Centaur1um (and also as CptCool), who went on to portray an alternate Gordon Freeman in the short-lived Freeman's (-ish) Mind 2 (and further appear in Felix's Mind, Meeting of the Minds 1 & 2, and Mind the Gap?

Also when Freeman ducks under the train wreck after shooting the Vort, you can see the point where he stops and crouches down. What he should've done is crouched down a mite earlier and kept the movement a little fluid, that way it doesn't look like he's blatantly walking into objects.

Is there a way to listen to his commentaries without playing the game? Try looking for playthroughs with the commentary enabled, apparently people sometimes do that.

I don't know why Freeman shooting the vort annoyed me so much. I know yeah it's how he would react and it's consistent with Freeman's previous behaviour but for some reason it annoys me that he wasn't paying enough attention to realise that the Vortigaunts aren't the enemy anymore and in both cases where he was panicking about the vorts they were clearly not doing any harm.

Really? He said that? Aw man. I mean, yeah that'd be cool too, but still...

Incidentally if Felix's Mind is set in the timeline where Freeman declined Gman's offer, who's the -ish bugger Jared plays in the follow-up after Felix got himself sniped?

So presumably some of you here who have seen Freeman's Mind will have watched, either out of curiosity or for sake of completionism, some of the spin-offs and/or rip-offs of Freeman's Mind that invariably come when something new and original comes out and becomes popular. The best known of these would undoubtedly be Barney's Mind by Ian "MightyPirate" Riley (formally authorized by Scott), and Shephard's Mind by Robin "Krimsin" Darnell, both of whom briefly cameo in FM. They of course went on to found the Master Minds, comprised of Ian, Robin, CyhAnide (Chell's Mind, became Ian's girlfriend), Chunkboi (Kane's Mind), Simon "EmperorPsymon" James (Parker's Mind), Jared "CooL" O'Brien (Freeman's (-ish) Mind 2), Curtis "Corky64" Trudeau-Brown (Felix's Mind), and Chloe (her name is pretty much all I know about her much to my ire), with Ross Scott as an honorary member. So they did a few crossovers, borrowed a few jokes from each other, did 3 podcasts (Out of Our Minds, Mind the Gap, Meeting of the Minds 1 and 2) and a Let's Play channel (Opposites Attack) before fizzling out. Then Curtis and Jared decided for whatever reason to remove both their series from public view. I know Ross said if he ever did another episode of Civil Protection (which he said in the same source he would be unlikely to do that unless someone else animates it) he thinks it'd be cool to have Ian voice Barney in the series.

Anyone see Ross' interview on VNN? He did say he'd like to do a Civil Protection with Ian Riley.

Oh, okay. Didn't notice that. Thanks BTGBullseye!

Whilst watching through a very informative video (one of the less high-brow videos by TruthStream on weather and climate control and the role that the polar areas have in this process, a thought struck me. I'll quote you verbatim the part that interested me - "A 1959 Hartford Courant article discussed Dr. Harry Wexler's plan for clearing the Arctic Ocean of all ice and making travel from New York to the Orient much faster by detonating ten hydrogen bombs under the water and blowing enough steam into the polar sky to blanket the ocean with an ice fog that would drastically cut the amount of heat escaping the ocean and thus prevent new ice from forming there, but he was worried the plan would actually drown many famous ports across the world and throw the planet into a new ice age so they weren't sure if they wanted to do it or not." The video also points a finger at military rocket tests for accelerating the process of global warming irrevocably. "By 1962 however Dr. Wexler was singing a different tune on weather modification. His new calculations worried him that rocket fuels of the type that the world's militaries had been firing off into the atmosphere in all manner of experiments, weather and otherwise since the end of World War Two, was possibly permanently affecting the climate and irreparably changing the world's weather for the worst. Throughout 1962 he delivered a speech entitled 'On the Possibilities of Climate Control' to at least three different groups across the country on how the residues of rocket fuels, including chlorine and bromine compounds, were contaminating the upper atmosphere not just by destroying the Ozone Layer, but by punching holes in the ionosphere... In other words, Wexler was saying that these rocket fuel compound residues were causing what could eventually be permanent climate change. And by the way as Fleming points out, our modern history of Ozone depletion only really dates back to the 70's, that's when they started talking about that as being an issue and a problem that we were facing. It's also a good time to point out that by 1962 when Wexler was saying this, the US military, USSR and others had been not only detonating rockets in the atmosphere for various science and military experiments including hundreds of sounding rockets from Antarctica, but they were also reportedly blowing up nuclear warheads in the upper atmosphere, including top secret high-altitude nuclear testing Operations Hardtack and Artists in 1958, and Operation Fishbowl which had just begun in 1962 when Wexler began making these claims. Wexler noted that the effects could be temporary but he also said these compounds could be left behind as a catalyst that could cause permanent climate and weather changes." One more quote - "This was a man who was sitting on every relevant scientific advisory board on weather and weather research that the US had at the time. He was working alongside the likes of John Von Neumann and he'd been writing papers on weather control for JFK, so he knew what he was talking about or at least he should have. And now he was publicly warning against one of the US miltary's biggest state goals and biggest justifications for the scientific takeover of Antarctica, where the majority of rocket launches and weather experimentation was taking place at that time." After convincing the DoD to perform an investigation into the effects of these rocket launches on the atmosphere, Wexler died August of that year, aged just 51, of a reported heart attack, while on vacation in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and a paper on the subject crediting him as editor was published posthumously but curiously omits all mention of his findings, as does the First International Symposium on Rocket and Satellite Meteorology (which was published in April '62 while he was still alive, and organised in part by him, and bears a memorial to him in the opening). Reportedly the yearly symposium is opened by a paraphrase of Wexler's opening remarks regarding "man's endeavour to push higher into the atmosphere with his instruments". It seems unlikely that Wexler would go without trying to alert RAND to his findings about those very instruments and their effects on the climate. It could be speculated that Wexler was silenced and his findings suppressed but this isn't a thread for speculation about conspiracy. (Though it could be...) Doing some further digging, I came upon some interesting documents about Dr. Wexler's weather control theories, because the thought occured to me that if the force of ten hydrogen bombs could cause a new ice age, then surely it would be possible to reverse the global warming effect using a slightly less powerful variant of Wexler's proposal. http://www.colby.edu/sts/wexlerozone.pdf http://www.colby.edu/sts/agu2007wexler.doc

In Freeman's Mind: Episode 67. Anyone know what "additional content" this is referring to?

I'm sure I read somewhere that the damage values were altered by Ross for FM to make the weapons seem more realistic (I apologize if this has been posted anywhere else), does anyone know what the values are?

I'm probably gonna get a lot of burn for necroing this but I feel I just have to add this as an addendum - Shephard does have a cameo in Freeman's Mind Episode 61 when he very faintly shouts "Backrubs" just before Freeman jumps into the Lambda Core. Robin Darnell (better known as Krimsin, the creator of Shephard's Mind) is credited as "the Mystery Voice". And as for Barney's Mind, Ian "Pirate" Riley (Barney's Mind, also known for creating the Master Minds group) is credited for "Additional Voice Acting" in Episode 67 (presumably it's his voice that says "I wanted a cheeseburger!" as Freeman comes up to the "death metal CB" as unless I'm very much mistaken)

Yeah, I like the sound of that too. Sort of ironic my family originally came from Ireland and now I've got to do a "plastic paddy" voice for a recreation of the Half-Life Alpha. I'm not sure what sounds worse, the original voice or me trying to impersonate him. But yeah, this idea has some real potential behind it.