#highway 17

[psyphigirl]

I was super bored in class the other day, and because I wasn't in the front row I couldn't start mindlessly scrolling through tumblr so I ended up writing 2000+ words of half life fanfiction. I'm not entirely sure how that happened but tbh I'm liking it so far

[emmaverick]

ive just been staring at my pfp for 5 minutes

this goes so raw

[blue-car-road-tripper]

Another gem I found via the posts on social media…..

Kathy’s Cafe located down the 563 Batchawana Bay.

Homemade food.

All day breakfast 🍳

…. Talking to the owner, this cafe came to be after the passing of her 42 year old daughter Kathy in a car accident. The two of them had wanted to open a cafe and tried for years but were unsuccessful. After Kathy’s passing, her mom decided to try again and now has a beautiful cafe in her daughters honour 💕 …

A beautiful portrait hangs in the cafe in tribute of her gorgeous daughter (see picture).

If you’re in the area this is a wonderful and quiet place to dine and every day she has a special. I’ve heard that her pizza is amazing too !!! Oh, and DO NOT forget to buy a cinnamon bun because they are delicious !!! 🚙 …. Kathy’s Cafe

[twoseparatecoursesmeet]

View from a California Highway, 1970s

[autistic-spirk]

Okay but I haven’t seen anyone else mention this, when Jekyll’s in the subconscious and has a board of papers comparing him and Hyde we mostly see notes on Hyde but if you look in the bottom right corner,

You see this

“A good person” crossed out.

Someone get him therapy

[thatonefreemanversefic]

was looking through my old notes, felt like this was something tumblr needed to see

[dreamlogic]

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[c0lorthelostwaveguy]

half life 2 if it was truly optimized

[master-gatherer]

Feeling nostalgic for good fpses again and want to go back to my half life 2 playthrough

But last time I played it it gave me terrible motion sickness and idk if I want to deal with that this weekend

Which really sucks because that is a great game, an absolutely terrific game, probably the best game I've ever played both from a story telling and game design perspective, and you just don't get games like that anymore

[sapsolais]

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[heliianth]

my mom might not let me go to sonic symphony bc i dont have any irls that would go with me this shit SUCKS

[oldlovecassette]

we are spinning BACK HERE ON EARTH over here this evening

[twoseparatecoursesmeet]

On the Road, circa 1980

[attila-werther]

every time it's so easy to think that this is the most you'll ever feel, that you'll never get it back again, but ngl life is full of different feelings, and all of them are going to be different because life marches on and so do you

[thatonefreemanversefic]

(ok so this is probably a spoiler but) for martini, mercy, and freerun, is this a game? like,,, is martini just in vr, or is freerun trying to set a record? also related: do any of them have any game mechanic stuff? like reloading/respawn (probably not), grenade jumping, noclipping?

For Martini and Mercy: Nope! While I do love my HLVRAI's that are canonically accurate, I adore Not A Game AUs all the more. As for Mercy, I just think his character hits harder if he's just... some guy. Just built like that. (This would only really be a spoiler if it were true, but it's not so you do not have to worry!!) For Freerun: Yes and No. Not in like a maybe sort of way, but more like Schrodinger's Cat. He both is and isn't. partly because I can't decide and partly because I don't want to. I think either concept is incredibly interesting, so I'm trying to leave it vague so that you as an audience can decide for yourself. Game Mechanics: Depends on the mechanic, but a lot of them actually WILL be implemented. When I find the right moments anyways. Mercy will be using grenade jumping (and explosives in general) religiously, Freerun might get some noclipping moments (though I also might just leave that to our noclipping king), and fun fact about the respawn/reloading stuff! I sort of did have a plan to use that (not sure if I will but it was in the notes originally), but not for any of the characters you have listed :) ((Also one final side note: Thank you for the fun ask!! I don't mind the ones that ask for clarification or anything, but ones that get me talking about the story are very fun!! Also don't be afraid to ask things you think are spoilery, I will simply work around that!)

[trigeda-republican-army-lexa]

This is a very area specific PSA, but: Don't drive on 17 in this.

If you know what I'm talking about, you know how awful and dangerous that highway is under the best of circumstances and if you're at UCSC and you don't know what I'm talking about, look it up, ask your professors who've lived in the area for a while, Highway 17 is notorious. People will die on 17 in this, there will be mudslides and flooding on that damned highway, and ramen, or a trip to Mitsua, or getting to work in person, or whatever the hell else you're going to the Valley for isn't worth it.

quick psa: if you're in northern california right now, we have a big storm coming. i study atmospheric rivers and for reference this is what they usually look like:

a storm like that will bring us most of the rain we get in a year. that storm in particular caused numerous road closures, landslides, floods, and evacuations. it was massive and it was damaging.

however, this is what this storm looks like:

hey we added two new levels to the scale! i usually never see these above 1200 (the measure is vapor transport in kg per meter integrated with time and depth.) and if you look closely you'll see that the date at the top is the prediction for five days from now, and it's going to rain for most of the days in between, so if you don't have a plan for loss of power and flooding and you live in northern california, you should get one. anyway, posting this in the time honored tradition of sharing news on tumblr faster than i see it on actual news websites. the sky isn't falling, but i would at least get some candles and non perishable food. maybe fill up some water jugs in case something wonky happens. tell friends and family what's going on before power goes out and you and a hundred thousand other people are trying to use the same cell tower at once, etc. stay safe out there!