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this-should-do · 2 years

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god i think the best part of hl3 vr for me, something that still sticks woth me is rising up in the citadel and just seeing c17 sprawled out below you, even tho its just a google maps image of new york,

seeing it like that when just before you were out figbting in the trenches with everyone it felt so,,, small and fragile and i felt even smaller rising up above it every problem just seemed to disappear i could almost forget a war was being eaged down below and that what i was foghting was so large so as to be beyond my xomprehension, it made everything so hopeful and small like i was going somewhere that everyone was going somewhere,

and it reminded me of how astronauts when they see earth from space and the moon and how every imaginary line and every problem in the world seemed so small and so easy to solve, and how small and mortal and fragile the earth itself was never mind them thrmselves (its called the overview effect btw, i was reading a lil bit about it on wikipedia and it had a section about how vr can mimic this effect, granted it was focussed on mimicing it by simulating seei g the earth, and its like yeah it really fucking can, doesnt even have to be seeing the earth)

so ever since i sae c17 from so high up ive been thinking about making a comic woth a quote from an astronaut about how they felt seeing space so ive compuled sum of my favs becuz i cnat decide which ones i want to use, so enjoy them

#that feeling was just so overhelming #i dont know if valve intended that to be part of what u feel when u go uo in the citadel cuz playing tbe game normal i never really felt #anything quite like i did in vr #but #im glad they gave us that view #its was so overehelmingly beaitiful and i still think about it #it mightve been my fav part of hl2 vr honestly #it was such a visceral feeling #and i think that gordon (who ive recently decided is afraid of heights) is for just those few moments #forgets evruthing #his fear of heights his worries about the rebellion where hes bekng tsken to everything #and is just teminded that the earth is still there its still so fragile but still so e compassi gly large and strong #i feel like that moment might feel so good in the moment but when hes got such a large responsibility #being given that moment of clarity and big picture would weigh so heavily once he falls back down to earth....#i dunno #it was an experience and one day id like everyone to be able to experience it #ponderingradioactivedecay #and god im realizing that this effect could also have interesting effects on and i fkrm us more about breen #and how ans why he axts the way he does #ciz i had that one psot about him before and remembering that feeli g really leans into mu examination fo him #which im always happy to talk about more so if anyyalld be interested send me an ask or summin and ill see if i can get #my ass to write something in an appropriate amoint of time lmao

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