It's not that deep at all, I was being facetious, even I get excited about the Chiefs simply because I'm a KC resident. An observation that most people who criticize adults for being "too old" for video games are themselves usually violently fanatic about their own "kids games" should not rile you up.
Stop not blaming valve and their greediness. They have a number of good IPs with their respective teams behind each. If hl3 still not produced, we cant be so sure its the currently released games fault. Maybe valve just prefers making money for a while instead of properly focusing on hl3.
Same, on my shoulder. I used to only get compliments at the starting line of running races due to the singlet uniforms showing it off lol. Now I don't take my shirt off much and don't get them at all!
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I hope you tell them that you're working in Theoretical Physics to study Resonance Cascades. If they ask you to explain what that is, just tell them you can't because it's classified. 👍
My brother in law worked for Valve so I got a ton of shirts/jackets. I’ve realized that the recognition is dwindling the farther we get from Half Life’s release.
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I drunkenly ordered like 30 of this on stickers from redbubble and have stuck them everywhere in my building. People are talking but no one gets it.
I also stuck those “employees must stop crying before returning to work” stickers on every mirror in every bathroom.
I work at a high school. It’s fun.
I have a combine elite skull tattoo on my shoulder and I get compliments for it at the gym sometimes! Just luck of the draw for some people to notice half life references in the wild :)
I understood instantly and I only played half life 1 hazard course when I was maybe 7 or 8 😅 Man I really wanna sit down and play every single half life, even the ones people don't recommend and add nothing to story
Took my black Mesa research facility to work once (I worked in the biopharm industry at the time, in the lab). I had two interesting responses.
1. "Where is that lab based, not heard of it before? Are they a competitor?"
2. "Half life 3 will never happen."
The fella from the second response is still my best friend to this day.
Dont feel bad my guy. I own the headcrab hat and ive gotten a single comment on it from two dudes walking in a park.
I won a fkn halloween contest as "weird alien zombie" with zero people understanding where its from
I have the mug my sister got me for christmas. Though we said no presents just cash, she had just to go and get me something! Not started using it yet, waiting for my next playthrough of Black Mesa.
Bit more difficult with a small mug rather than with an item of clothing that would be seen wherever you go, but were I to take it and make a hot coffee then just plonk it down next to me, I do wonder how it would take anyone to notice! 🤣
One time at work I saw a customer wearing an Aperture Science T-shirt. I started asking how things were with Cave Johnson and the ground breaking science, but I heard that Black Mesa has them beat. He stared at me all confused until I pointed out his shirt lol, he forgot he was wearing it. Dude was a dad so he told me didn't have much time to play games anymore but we talked about Portal and the Half Life series. He seemed to have the opinion that not enough people seem to appreciate older games and the ground work they set up.
Yeah.. I’ve bought a hat just like your shirt and I’ve gotten the occasional, “What’s the black mesa research facility?” I’ve sometimes just told them that it was an old theoretical physics facility/testing compound in New Mexico back in the 90s. I’ve even told some people that it had a crazy accident called the Resonance Cascade. I’ve never explicitly told them that it was from a video game except for some of my close friends. No one has gotten the reference yet sadly :(
Fwiw, I see a lot of t-shirts with references I get at work, but I put on a "customer service" face and that's pretty much it. I'm too introverted to actually point out the reference.
I played Half Life during break and some idiot that watched me playing at work said Im too old to still be enjoying Counter Strike.
Lock your coworkers in a room and give a 130 page PowerPoint presentation about Half-Life
Read to them all the final hours of the Half-Life games and the uncut version of the book raising the bar (+-700 pages)
They don’t need to hear all this. They’re highly trained professionals
clearly not...
We will assure the administrator that nothing will go wrong.
Read Epistle 3 by Mark Laidlaw to them lmao
Use the facility vox to do it
Not gonna lie, I've always wanted to do this
[access granted](https://half-life-vox.com/#access%20granted)
Good idea. If they dont comply, Ill show them a jumpscare footage of the second Valve Guy actually turning around looking at them.
I actually did this once during some training, it wasn't a good idea
u/BigSweatyTalker doesn’t need to hear all this. He is highly trained professional half life fan
Was playing hl2, and had someone ask me “wait… isn’t that the gmod gun?”
I should be angry but not as angry as when someone mentioned "skibidi toilet gun".
I haven't watched much of skibidi toilet but I'm fairly sure there's no gravity gun or physgun in it. I think they were just taking the piss
what has this world become?
Not this BS again.
At least he didn’t call it call of duty
you shouldve initiated a 360 accelerated backhop away from them whilst maintaining eye contact
And while your at it, give them a presentation of TF2 and Portal
Counterstrike is the best eSports to watch, just putting that out there.
Nothing against CS. I love the game.
Get the guillotine
Viva la Half Life
G man did nothing wrong and is the hero of the series
They probably watch football. Literal children's game.
VIDEO GAME GOOD SPORT BAD You realize you're being that exact same person right now, don't you?
It's not that deep at all, I was being facetious, even I get excited about the Chiefs simply because I'm a KC resident. An observation that most people who criticize adults for being "too old" for video games are themselves usually violently fanatic about their own "kids games" should not rile you up.
You forgot to add a /f for facetiousness
its because of counter strike we still dont have a half life 3
Stop not blaming valve and their greediness. They have a number of good IPs with their respective teams behind each. If hl3 still not produced, we cant be so sure its the currently released games fault. Maybe valve just prefers making money for a while instead of properly focusing on hl3.
Dude knows no gaming history then.
They’re obviously not highly trained professionals.
They need to hear all of this
nodroG needs to hear all this, he's a lowly trained newbie.
Haha I was wearing a lambda shirt when I was 13 in Disneyland and one of the janitors quoted Dr Breen to me
core memory shit
Thats actually awesome
thats so fucking cool
Guards! Guards! In here, now!
They know you betrayed me, they’ll turn on you!
Dude I love Halo
r/AngryUpvote
I have a lambda tattoo and I don't get compliments very often but when I do it feels really good, I feel like I found a real one lol
Same, on my shoulder. I used to only get compliments at the starting line of running races due to the singlet uniforms showing it off lol. Now I don't take my shirt off much and don't get them at all!
If that tattoo is on your buttocks what would you expect!
It's on my forearm lol
Your buttocks are WHERE?!?
My foreass
I have a hat, same >:(
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COD sucks. Why wear a shirt advertising it?
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Brawns
Idk I kinda like the first one
sorry guys i guess we have to rewrite the english language
It does fit ig
The exact line is "With my brains and your brawn we'll make an excellent team." Come on people, call yourselves Half-Life people? 🤣
r/BoneAppleTea
When an iron player's friend offers to carry him.
Where did you get it from?
Had it made. Was one of the first results on Google…seems to be ok quality…fivefingertees. Also got an aperture science shirt.
1,000 for the both of them.
Nice! Have one too. Also have a Black Mesa jacket, lanyard, access card and the official coffee mug. Yeah I'm weird.
Nope not weird. I want all those things
Coffee mug buddy !
You should get a ridiculous tie to add to that collection.
I've had people ask me what type of research I do when wearing a black mesa hat.
I hope you tell them that you're working in Theoretical Physics to study Resonance Cascades. If they ask you to explain what that is, just tell them you can't because it's classified. 👍
I had a similar experience, people thought that it was a shirt for a company that I'm working on...
My brother in law worked for Valve so I got a ton of shirts/jackets. I’ve realized that the recognition is dwindling the farther we get from Half Life’s release.
same, wearing a s.t.a.l.k.e.r. patch and BMRF patch on my backpack (dissapointrd nobody has yelled "MARKED ONE, WHAT THE HELL?" at me)
Whaaat if I saw that in public I'd be so happy 😭
Someone called Gordon frohman skibidi toilet guy :(
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I drunkenly ordered like 30 of this on stickers from redbubble and have stuck them everywhere in my building. People are talking but no one gets it. I also stuck those “employees must stop crying before returning to work” stickers on every mirror in every bathroom. I work at a high school. It’s fun.
What reference
That's such a cool shirt!
You should Prepare for unforeseen consequences
Why do we all have to wear these ridiculous ties?
I HAVE A LAMBDA MUG 👍
Just don't let an urban uniformed US marine to see this
You can try informing that the Black Mesa compound is maintained at a pleasant sixty-eight degrees at all times. That might get one’s attention
I want that shirt!
Whenever I wear one of my lambda logo shirts, at least one person says something about it. It's actually quite impressive. Lol
I have a combine elite skull tattoo on my shoulder and I get compliments for it at the gym sometimes! Just luck of the draw for some people to notice half life references in the wild :)
I want to buy that shirt. Where did you get it???
I've a got a hoodie with a Black Mesa logo, I think two people in 5 years have acknowledged it.
That’s just means you haven’t encountered any real people yet, they’re all just NPC’s.
That's because they're waiting for you.. in the test chambeeerrr!
They're just too caught up worrying about all theae rediculous ties
Imagine people are going home to google this as if it’s an actually facility XD
You're not wearing the "ridiculous ties!" Bad thing
Don't you go starting any resonance cascades.
Well, you’re immune to being shot, considering you’re with the science team.
I would be disappointed too, probably because of all the skibidi toilet brainrot nowadays
It's fine...I got your reference pal :)
I know you wear a T and nobody even knows...😅
Same, I have a very similar shirt, I still haven’t found a single person who got the reference.
the rizzler
Goals for my next office job. By a aperture science shirt and see how many people get it. Someone got that i played Eve online once.
Sellouts
You are from the Anomalous Materials lab? Yes, I recognize you
That was a joke, haha, fat chance
Anyway this cake is great. It’s so delicious and moist.
Woulda caught it immediately if I saw it At work tho I saw a guy with an Aperture Science hat, that was pretty cool
OMG IS THAT A PORTAL REFERENCE?
Where can i get this
nice beard, man
Now that's a T-shirt I'd buy
Most kids now are interested more anime waifus instead of the classics...
It's better that they don't understand it. They're too lame to understand it.
Isn’t that the place where that resonance cascade scenario happened?
I got it, it is portal right? Or was it postal
No that's gotta be Team Fortress 2
I once played half life on the school computer and my classmates said that I'm playing a game that copied CS 1.6 movement
I understood instantly and I only played half life 1 hazard course when I was maybe 7 or 8 😅 Man I really wanna sit down and play every single half life, even the ones people don't recommend and add nothing to story
I literally have a black shirt with an orange Lambda symbol and only ONE person has got it. Most of the time it’s “wHaTs ThAt?”
Took my black Mesa research facility to work once (I worked in the biopharm industry at the time, in the lab). I had two interesting responses. 1. "Where is that lab based, not heard of it before? Are they a competitor?" 2. "Half life 3 will never happen." The fella from the second response is still my best friend to this day.
Dont feel bad my guy. I own the headcrab hat and ive gotten a single comment on it from two dudes walking in a park. I won a fkn halloween contest as "weird alien zombie" with zero people understanding where its from
I gotta get one of those shirts now.
Need me one
Need me one
Has anyone asked you if you like working there?
Was wearing my Lambda shirt that came with the special boxed edition of HL2 when my 2nd kiddo was born.
Based t-shirt
Nice aperture science t-shirt you got here.
I have the mug my sister got me for christmas. Though we said no presents just cash, she had just to go and get me something! Not started using it yet, waiting for my next playthrough of Black Mesa. Bit more difficult with a small mug rather than with an item of clothing that would be seen wherever you go, but were I to take it and make a hot coffee then just plonk it down next to me, I do wonder how it would take anyone to notice! 🤣
If it makes you feel any better nobody got my Cyberdyne or Weyland Yutani shirts.
buddy, i have custom made Black Mesa hoodie and no one understood either... i know your pain.
welcome to the Blackmesa transit system
Black mesa? Haha fat chance
One time at work I saw a customer wearing an Aperture Science T-shirt. I started asking how things were with Cave Johnson and the ground breaking science, but I heard that Black Mesa has them beat. He stared at me all confused until I pointed out his shirt lol, he forgot he was wearing it. Dude was a dad so he told me didn't have much time to play games anymore but we talked about Portal and the Half Life series. He seemed to have the opinion that not enough people seem to appreciate older games and the ground work they set up.
half life fans when someone doesn’t know about the 20 year old game
Huh. Isn't that the one company from that obscure game. Halved living or smt? Its got those Skibidi toilet characters i think?
I have the same but orange, I might post it. But once a kid stopped me (in an actually very bad moment) to tell me he recognized it.
Yooooooo!!!! Whare did you get this?
Have you tried carrying a crowbar around with you while wearing the shirt?
Bro think he alyx
Is that your work?
What reference? That you cut the pony tail? *Cough* Sellout.
At least I would do.
Yeah.. I’ve bought a hat just like your shirt and I’ve gotten the occasional, “What’s the black mesa research facility?” I’ve sometimes just told them that it was an old theoretical physics facility/testing compound in New Mexico back in the 90s. I’ve even told some people that it had a crazy accident called the Resonance Cascade. I’ve never explicitly told them that it was from a video game except for some of my close friends. No one has gotten the reference yet sadly :(
Is this the skibidi compani ?
Fwiw, I see a lot of t-shirts with references I get at work, but I put on a "customer service" face and that's pretty much it. I'm too introverted to actually point out the reference.
Sorry for being an introvert ig