#half life but the ai is selfaware

[least-sexy-man-competition]

THE GRINCH VS BENREY

ROUND 1 SIDE A

REMEMBER TO VOTE FOR WHO YOU THINK IS MORE SEXY! THE LOSER WILL MOVE ON!

[pokeshadow]

Controversial hot take for the HLVRAI fandom.

I actually don’t want half life 2

Yes really. This is something I’ve been thinking about for like a year now, but I just don’t want to see the gang in half life 2. Here’s my two main reasons. First, the magic of HLVRAI was the fact that half life 1 was a bare bones playset. The game just gives you a set of characters, a super basic plot, then just let you loose. Hell for half the game you don’t even have a big bad guy to go kill or giant plot to go solve, you were JUST Gordon Freeman trying to get out of Black Mesa alive. Eventually the scientests rope you into the whole “hey we kinda fucked up playing with aliens can you go fix it for us please?” thing, but for the most part there’s barely even any dialog or story other than you just trying to find an exit. It was precisly because the game was so barebones that Wayne and the gang could take that playset and make something new with it. They had the room to make up a new story, to just sit down and talk, create entierly new characters and backstories for anything they wanted, and it never broke the flow of the original game. That’s something you just can’t really do in Half Life 2. HL2 has a very strict plot without really any wiggle room to change things. Even when there’s some downtime, there’s always this feeling that you can’t really just stop and relax because people are depending on you. People are talking to you constantly, with set plots you can’t really change and their own lives that are set in stone. Hell even the playspace itself is a lot narrower than the wide open hallways of HL1, the science team would be so squeezed together and right in gordon’s/the cameras face because there’s just no room. Plus, unless Alex, Eli and Kleiner are all played by real people as well, how do you deal with the fact that the real NPC’s are totally ignoring the science team trying to talk to them? Unless they literally build their own version of HL2 from the ground up in Gmod just to cater to their hyper spesific needs, it just wouldn’t work. Plus the story of half life 2 kinda ends on an unfinished cliff hanger. Where do they go with that if they’re following the plot 1 to 1? Second reason, and probably the dumber reason... I don’t want these characters to get hurt again. I love the implication of the ending of HLVRAI that they really did save the world. They went through so much traumatizing shit, but they won. They got to have their pizza party, and then they can start new lives outside of black mesa. Gordon can be with his son again and start streaming Kane and Lynch 2 on justin.tv. Coomer can start his own little boxing career. Bubby can experience the outside world for the first time. Tommy and his dad can finlly reconnect and learn how to be a real family at last, with Sunkist in tow. But with HL2 that would all go away. The world would literally end, and they’d be flung into a far worse sitution than the black mesa incident. Mr Coolatta / Gman might be able to grab them all and put them in stasis for the years between HL1 and 2′s plot so they’re not in any danger, but still. Again, I totally acknowledge how dumb this is, but I don’t want these characters to go though all that. I just want them to be happy.

Which is why I much prefer the idea from the Pay Day 2 stream and Coomer’s final monologue. Take the science team and have new adventures with them in other games and the like. For those who like the in game hlvrai lore, this wouldn’t really touch it much so the characters just get to live their own lives people can make stories about. For the in stream lore it just means Gordon fufils Coomer’s wish of having their data saved and taken with him, so Gordon never forgets his weird ai friends and can have new adventures with them like robbing a bank in PD2. Irl lore, it just means we can keep seeing the characters we love so much, and the RTVS crew aren’t under the enormous pressure of having to somehow top HLVRAI by doing HL2. Lets be honest, there’s a pretty big expectations for HL2VRAI to be something bigger and better than the first, and no matter how fantastic they make a heoretical HL2VRAI, there would always be people dissapointed. Of course there’s also the opposite side of the coin that people would ALSO be dissapointed if the crew came out and said they’ll never do Half Life 2, but as long as we still get to see the characters in SOMETHING again I feel that dissapointment would be lessened a tone. Idk, rambly thoughts, but I just see so many people talking about wanting a HL2VRAI and just wanted to say my thoughts.

[peanutlolxd]

self projecting onto tommy be like

[sleepybulbasaur]

Ah ha ha, so who can I commission a fanfic for some freelatta... if I needed some?

[yourprivateplaguedoctor]

When you’re so bored so you have decided to publish a post of Benrey fanart.

I’m not sorry.

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[thesuperplayerfeature-tm]

sketchpage #uhh

[clockworksir]

Why be sad when you can rewatch Hlvrai again ?

[greyedian]

Got around to doing @alieryn-art‘s DTIYS challenge! Her @barnrey AU comics are a delight to read.

Here is the original!

[bunny-heels]

okay hi i cant get this off my mind

this is for both HLVRAI fans and OG HL fans

please. for the love of fuck. PLEASE. do not say shit like "half life isnt that good"/"hlvrai isnt that good" as a form of passive aggressiveness

i get it. both sides are upset. both sides are throwing unnecessary drama at each other. both sides are getting invalidated for basically no reason. i get it.

but please. please think about the fact that these two things have meaning to people. OG HL fans cherish this series for its unique takes of gaming at the time it was made and the story it has going for it, plus its large modding community. not only that, but legit the HLVRAI team themselves love HL, and it means a lot to them.

as for HLVRAI, it has so much charm to it. the characters in there have so much personality, love, effort, and caring traits to them that it really shouldnt be surprising just how many people fall for these new little quirky and silly fanon characters. they are funny, made from the heart of kind people, and exist to bring joy.

i know youre mad. i know what its like to feel like the lesser in a group of 'elder fans'. i know how it feels to have the original source material ignored. i know how it feels to get hurt just because you care about something.

please. just for the sake of keeping things clean. please do not invalidate their love and passion by saying its "not that great". please.

[bugbreach-art]

WellwellWELL i did a draw this in your style thing from @barnrey​ / @alieryn-art

honestly love her barnrey comic thing she got goin on there so OBVIOUSLY i could not not do it.

The original art piece can be found by clicking this spicy text

[lawldog]

its funny because you cant disagree with me

[bugbreach]

guess who did a benrey closet cosplay this morning instead of having breakfaaaast???

i am planning of doing a proper cosplay - but for now i’m just playing around.

Also got something more eldritch planned, but we’ll see how that goes.

(also i could not get any good quality of the gif. there’s a clear video form on my instagram @/bugbreach_cosplay)

[peanutlolxd]

Forgot to post this here awoo

Wahwahwahh

[mrgrassy]

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[creaturrcraze]

So I'm making an absolutely cursed AU-

Gorgeous Life but the AI is Self Aware

Yes, you have permission to beat me up but I have no regrets :)

If you're interested in the AU you can read some of my ideas for it here!!

[pinkharte]

which url is better?

(for half life vr ai blog) @bluebenry or @legobenry