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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Hello, Gordon!Have you ever wondered what would happen if Gordon Freeman weren't alone during the events of Half-Life? What if, instead, he were accompanied by a small band of AI-controlled survivors of the Resonance Cascade, and had to shepherd them through the dangers infesting Black Mesa? Now what if those survivors suddenly developed eccentric, frantic, and downright moronic personalities? It turns out, the end of the world becomes a lot sillier.Half-Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware is a roleplay Machinima series by WayneRadioTV and other members of Radio TV Solutions. All episodes are almost pure improv, performed live through the medium of Garry's Mod with minimal scripting and preparation. Wayne takes the role of Gordon Freeman, with his friends playing the roles of his NPC compatriots. The core cast is comprised of Benry, a standoffish security guard obsessed with passports; Tommy, a childlike scientist with a surprising acumen for nuclear engineering; Bubby, a long-suffering particle physicist who brings his problems on himself; and the ever-babbling Dr. Coomer, whose AI appears to be just a bit broken. Only through teamwork will they be able to survive alien invaders and government assassins, if they can go five minutes without killing each other or themselves first!Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The first Act was streamed onto Wayne's Twitch channel on March 5th, 2020 with the fourth and final Act being streamed on April 9th. Edited versions of the streams were then uploaded to Wayne's YouTube channel between March 13th and April 19th of 2020. More VR but the AI is Self-Aware series have been confirmed to be on the way, although if any of them will be a continuation of the Half-Life story is yet to be known.Wayne and the crew would return to play their characters for their "AI-Crushes-All-Banks" Justice Drive charity stream on May 31st that year, where the Science Team makes good on their promise to rob a bank in PAYDAY 2 VR. | |
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Badly Battered Babysitter | |
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Badly Battered Babysitter: Gordon is essentially this for most of the series as he's constantly having to keep everyone else out of trouble. | |
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Non Sequitur | |
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Non Sequitur: The final battle is over, Earth is saved, Gordon is presented with his final choice... and he immediately gets into an argument with G-Man about whether Chuck E Cheese's is a restaurant or a family entertainment center. | |
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Hulking Out | |
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Hulking Out: Coomer when Gordon spends a Play Coin to activate Super Player Mode, complete with deepened voice. | |
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World of Badass | |
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World of Badass: Yes. Pretty much everyone who isn’t a Red Shirt is some sort of Eldritch Abomination or a Badass Normal, both of whom are able to fight their way through numerous highly dangerous threats, such as mutants, aliens, and the U.S. Military. | |
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Human Resources | |
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Human Resources: Black Mesa's Frozen Goods Department deals with the flash-freezing of human meat for unspecified reasons. The process gives the meat dangerous properties. | |
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Death from Above | |
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Death from Above: Gordon's Finishing Move on Benrey is to bring a hammer-fist down on him from high up. | |
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Senseless Sacrifice | |
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Senseless Sacrifice: In Act 1, Benry dies when he holds up a closing blast door, while everyone could easily have run through, and said guard refuses to move out of the way of the door. | |
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Milking the Giant Cow | |
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Milking the Giant Cow: One of the biggest perks of the series being in VR is allowing Gordon to punctuate his dialogue with wild hand gestures. | |
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Adaptational Villainy | |
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Adaptational Villainy: Black Mesa is actually responsible for some of the monsters in the game among other horrors, though this is assuming that the other cast members are telling the truth. | |
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Failed a Spot Check | |
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Dr. Coomer exclaiming "Look, Gordon, ropes! We can use these to traverse dangerous pits!" every time he sees a barnacle, almost always followed by "Help me, Gordon!" when he gets caught by them. | |
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Chekhov's Gag | |
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Chekhov's Gag: The passports. The science team needs to destroy their passports in order to defeat Benrey. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Act Three: Part Three: The events of the last few episodes have clearly gotten to Gordon's head, putting his Only Sane Man status into serious question. G-Man at one point shows up (and he seems to be a self-aware NPC as well), and at the end of his usual schtick, he reveals that he has a child. And then at the very end of the episode, the skeleton shows up, and it's implied that he's been controlling Benrey all along. Oh, and Gordon drinks the soda. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Gordon is trapped in a dark room and has the shit beaten out of him when Benrey and Bubby turn against him. He loses his right hand in the process. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: The videos have plenty of references to Wayne's past streams and in-jokes between the members of Radio TV Solutions: Gordon's locker contains a baby photo, which he claims is of his son Joshua. "Joshua" was the name the crew gave to a weird text-to-speech voice they made via a machine learning service, declared to be Wayne's "son" and would torment him with onstream. The reason Dr. Coomer starts reciting the Wikipedia article on chairs in Act 2 is because Holly, who played him, memorised it back in the early 2010s to annoy her friends. It's not the reason why everyone kept namedropping Wikipedia throughout the act (that was because they were joking about the infamous cock and ball torture article prior to the stream), but there was a mutual understanding between them that it was only a matter of time before Holly used it as an excuse to do the chair bit. During Benry's Motive Rant he talks about using "YouTube Yownloader", a typo that has been a long-standing in-joke between the group. In the Act 4 commentary stream they note that Scorpy, who works as a professional video editor, once managed to sneak "youtubeyownloader.bat" into a commercial he did for a major brand. Gordon and the G-Man's debate over whether or not Chuck E. Cheese's is a restaurant is directly based off of a similar debate that Wayne and his friends had during a stream of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. One Wayne admits they included purely for themselves is the clip of Tommy sitting on Vin Diesel's lap like he's a mall Santa during the credits, calling back to an old series of GMod videos Scorpy made for their movie nights in which Vin Diesel would interview various characters via text-to-speech. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: At 19:02 in Final Act: Part 1, Benrey can be seen dancing in the background while Gordon is trying to talk to Tommy. | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_27a42ebc | comment |
Spiritual Successor: Can be seen as one to Freeman's Mind, as both are absurdist playthroughs of the original Half-Life campaign, with the previously un-voiced characters taking on a mind of their own, albeit with the treatment given to multiple characters rather than just Gordon this time. | |
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Dream Apocalypse | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_2bc48235 | comment |
Dream Apocalypse: Dr. Coomer asks Gordon to transfer his and the other AI's code to another game in hopes of averting this. Judging by dialogue during ACAB, Gordon has indeed done this, bringing their code over to Payday 2. | |
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Back to the Early Installment | |
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Back to the Early Installment: Gordon has to travel back in time, thanks to a portal gun Bubby found, to before the experiment that caused the Resonance Cascade to find his passport in his locker so he can destroy it in order to defeat Benrey. | |
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Lightmare Fuel | |
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Lightmare Fuel: Benrey becomes this full stop after his reveal as the Xen God that caused the resonance cascade. He's treated as the Eldritch Abomination that he is, but he's still an Almighty Idiot and a Psychopathic Manchild who acts as his usual goofy self. | |
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Canis Major | |
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Canis Major: Sunkist is as tall as an adult man while seated. He's also a two-dimensional image, but Tommy loves him all the same. | |
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"Let's Watch Our Show" Plot | |
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"Let's Watch Our Show" Plot: After Tommy's birthday bash, the part 1 commentary starts when the G-Man forces Gordon to accompany him and the science team to watch a movie... which, to Gordon's confusion, is the commentary footage. As usual, no one else questions what they're watching. The openers for the succeeding commentary videos continue building off of part 1's. | |
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Implied Death Threat | |
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Implied Death Threat: Dr. Coomer has a way of making NPC-like chatter into a charged threat, mostly owing to pointing his revolver at Gordon when he does it. Gordon accuses Benry of this often, but Benry's motives are never quite clear... | |
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Adapted Out | |
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Adapted Out: Benrey replaces Nihilanth as the Final Boss of the journey. | |
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Mad Scientist | |
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Mad Scientist: Black Mesa's projects are all either insanely dangerous, like the Peeper Puppies and the Pita Cutter, or completely nonsensical, like replacing the fluoride in water with blue Powerade. Darnold, in spite of being the most stable member of the cast, is definitely one of these, since he makes regenerative potions that cause Gordon to grow a Hand Cannon that shoots fingernails where his hand used to be. | |
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Reality Warper | |
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Discussed in the commentary for Act 3, G-Man and Benrey have a white glow around their text to symbolize their status as Reality Warpers. | |
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Ungrateful Bastard | |
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Ungrateful Bastard: In spite of Black Mesa providing the U.S. Military with the majority of its funding and equipment, the military still tries to murder everyone in Black Mesa for no reason. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_420c50b7 | type |
A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_420c50b7 | comment |
Dr. Coomer speaks in a typeface that wouldn't look out of place on a computer from the 80s, indicative of how his A.I. Is a Crapshoot even compared to the other scientists. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_4d044580 | type |
Motive Rant | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_4d044580 | comment |
During Benry's Motive Rant he talks about using "YouTube Yownloader", a typo that has been a long-standing in-joke between the group. In the Act 4 commentary stream they note that Scorpy, who works as a professional video editor, once managed to sneak "youtubeyownloader.bat" into a commercial he did for a major brand. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_4e7c4536 | type |
Wham Line | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_4e7c4536 | comment |
Wham Line: "THERE'S NOTHING THERE." "There he is! Get him!" Two in Act Three: Part Three: "And we're BAAACK!" The "wham" here is that Benrey's Rainbow Speak suddenly goes from navy to navy with a red outline. In the PAYDAY 2 stream for charity: | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_4e7f703c | type |
Wham Shot | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_4e7f703c | comment |
Wham Shot: When the party arrives at the surface, they find the military is bombing the place. Then we see the skeleton running around, and so disappears the last vestiges of normalacy in Gordon's life. In Act Three: Part Three, Benrey can see the skeleton, and it has a passport. If you look closely at it, its name is "You." When the party gets to Xen, Benrey is suddenly floating in the air and way bigger than he used to be. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_4f4372e9 | type |
Early-Installment Weirdness | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_4f4372e9 | comment |
Early Installment Weirdness: A lot of these were pointed out by the crew in the Act 1 commentary stream. The stream notifications and mediashares were left in the Act 1 highlight videos, since no one was expecting the series to blow up as hard as it did. This leads to a lot of immersion-breaking moments such as Morshu suddenly popping up in the middle of the screen, or a Russian cooking video playing over an otherwise tense scene. Starting with Act 2, Wayne made the notifications smaller and less obtrusive, put strict rules in place as to what could be requested through mediashare, and recorded the audio separately for the highlight videos. During Tommy's first appearance, Gordon is noticeably disturbed by him and calls him a freak. Compare this to the later parts, where Tommy is the only Science Team member he fully trusts and the one he gets exasperated with the least. In Act 1, Gordon claims the baby photo in his locker is of his son, Joshua. This receives a Call-Back near the end of the act, but after that there are no other mentions of Gordon being a father. Gir theorizes that the photo just came with the picture frame and Gordon was too embarrassed to admit he never removed it. During Act 1, Coomer would get Benry's name wrong every time he mentioned him (his actor, Holly, assumed they were doing a Running Gag about nobody remembering his name). From Act 2 onwards, this is no longer an issue. It took until Act 3 before the series implemented a custom model for passports, which meant that before then, everyone was forced to make do with what they had. This led to moments such as Benry calling his Pulse Rifle a "passport" and Gordon trying to present a toolgun as his during Act 1. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_5009999d | type |
Painting the Medium | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_5009999d | comment |
Painting the Medium: The subtitles for each member of the Science Team come in different fonts, reflecting their different personalities: Dr. Coomer speaks in a typeface that wouldn't look out of place on a computer from the 80s, indicative of how his A.I. Is a Crapshoot even compared to the other scientists. Tommy's subtitles are written in a font reminiscent of crude handwriting, which is fitting for the Manchild of the group. Discussed in the commentary for Act 3, G-Man and Benrey have a white glow around their text to symbolize their status as Reality Warpers. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_5080221 | type |
Faux Horrific | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_5080221 | comment |
Faux Horrific: The moths, which the entire party opens fire on. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_50b05d30 | type |
Disproportionate Retribution | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_50b05d30 | comment |
Disproportionate Retribution: Happens when the party come across a Dr. Coomer clone. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_56f6d892 | type |
Injured Player Character Stage | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_56f6d892 | comment |
Injured Player Character Stage: At the end of Act 3 Part 1, Gordon has his right hand cut off, leaving him defenseless and forcing him to rely on the rest of the party to protect him. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_5a36f8bc | type |
Not His Sled | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_5a36f8bc | comment |
Not His Sled: A few things happen differently in this version of Half-Life. For example, after being clobbered unconscious and left for dead in a trash compactor, Gordon wakes up to find out he's on the outside of the smashing pistons, so he was never in danger of being crushed. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_5c17c12f | type |
Bribing Your Way to Victory | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_5c17c12f | comment |
Bribing Your Way to Victory: Parodied; Dr. Coomer repeatedly offers PlayCoin transactions in order to grant Gordon enhanced abilities or vital services. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_5cc25ed | type |
Not-So-Imaginary Friend | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_5cc25ed | comment |
Not-So-Imaginary Friend: The party can sometimes see the skeleton, and sometimes cannot. And then sometimes only certain party members can see it. Gordon wastes no time shooting it in any event. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_5cc25ed | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6293c185 | type |
Sequel Hook | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6293c185 | comment |
Sequel Hook: The Stinger for Act 4 has Dr. Coomer ask Gordon/Wayne to save the scientists' data somewhere else before closing the game for good, possibly hinting at future adventures. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_62f9d08e | type |
Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_62f9d08e | comment |
Freeze-Frame Bonus: In Act 1: Part 1, as Gordon is sprinting towards the door at around 4:50, you can see a scientist dancing on a ledge on the other side of it. At 5:49 in Act 1: Part 2, while Benry is shooting the pigeons, you can see Father Grigori standing in the corridor for a split second. At the end of Act 1: Part 2, after the Science Team gun down the skeleton, you can see a Pikachu holding a crowbar appear behind Dr. Coomer. In the commentary for Act 1 it was revealed that this appearance was their stagehand photobombing them. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6400a34 | type |
Arm Cannon | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6400a34 | comment |
Arm Cannon: Some time after losing his right hand, when the group arrives at Darnold's lab they're able to give him a replacement: the minigun from Unreal Tournament, which apparently shoots fingernails. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_66479d0 | type |
Our Ghosts Are Different | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_66479d0 | comment |
Our Ghosts Are Different: In AI Crushes All Banks the ghost of Elvis Presley is able to phase through people and mind control them with his dancing. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6d07bf85 | type |
Welcome to Corneria | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6d07bf85 | comment |
Dr. Coomer saying "Hello, Gordon!" almost every time Gordon talks to him. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6d07bf85 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6edb0066 | type |
Zero-Effort Boss | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6edb0066 | comment |
Zero-Effort Boss: One of Science Team's passports is being protected by Benrey in a Mokujin robot. However, its shoddy construction causes it to explode after a couple seconds of gunfire without attacking once. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6edb0066 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6f7e717a | type |
Surrealism | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6f7e717a | comment |
Surrealism: Alternates between the Surreal Humor and Surreal Horror, and sometimes does both at the same time. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_71bd62b9 | type |
Calling Your Attacks | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_71bd62b9 | comment |
Calling Your Attacks: Gordon's "Spin Move!" and a non-attack example, "Gordon Sprint!" | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_71bd62b9 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_72dd7026 | type |
What the Hell, Player? | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_72dd7026 | comment |
What the Hell, Player?: In the earlier stages, the scientists are quick to admonish Gordon whenever one of the regular scientist NPCs die. Regardless of whether Gordon was actually at fault, or if the NPC was in fact killed by a collapsing bridge, being executed by the AI themselves, or inexplicably swelling in size then igniting and burning to death. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_7d34f23a | type |
Reckless Gun Usage | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_7d34f23a | comment |
Dr. Coomer has a way of making NPC-like chatter into a charged threat, mostly owing to pointing his revolver at Gordon when he does it. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_7eb2bc15 | type |
Ambiguous Time Period | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_7eb2bc15 | comment |
Ambiguous Time Period: Nobody is exactly sure on what year it is. When Gordon asks about it, he thinks it's 1998, Bubby guesses it's "2000-and-something", and Coomer ominously says "2020". Most of the older things mentioned to set the series in the recent past* Heavenly Sword, the HD DVD/Blu-Ray format war, Justin.TV, etc. are from around 2007, but then there's Gordon's favorite game being Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days from 2010. It's probably not worth worrying about. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_7fbb2a3 | type |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Benrey claims that all of this happened because of a rude conversation Gordon had with him ages before the cascade. Gordon doesn't remember the exchange at all. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8029fa50 | type |
True Final Boss | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8029fa50 | comment |
True Final Boss: Benrey turns out to be the Science Team's ultimate foe. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_80874b5d | type |
Mechanical Abomination | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_80874b5d | comment |
Mechanical Abomination: The "regenerating helicopter"/Helicopter Heap. It's this out-of-universe too, due to it being a fuckup with the map that infinitely spawned helicopters rather than an intentional creation. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_82a631b8 | type |
Present-Day Past | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_82a631b8 | comment |
Present-Day Past: The series is seemingly set in the late 2000s, with topical mentions of Heavenly Sword, The Irate Gamer, and Justin.tv. This adheres to the original lore of Half-Life, being set in 200X. However, there are a few anachronistic mentions from the year 2010, including Kane And Lynch 2: Dog Days, Despicable Me, and Playstation Plus subscriptions. In one of his bouts of "seriousness", Coomer answers a question of what year they're in with "ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ-ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ". | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_844b6779 | type |
Super Mode | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_844b6779 | comment |
Super Mode: After gaining a minigun hand, Gordon is told that he can "PRESS ALL BUTTONS TO ACTIVATE DEVIL GUN MODE!" Not knowing what that means, he attempts to clench all of his muscles at once, accomplishing nothing, and is later informed that "IF YOUR BODY IS NOT STRONG ENOUGH, YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO ACTIVATE DEVIL GUN MODE!" He finally manages it upon reaching Xen; the mode temporarily gives his arm a significantly higher rate of fire but requires a cooldown afterwards. In the final battle against Benrey, Gordon gives Dr. Coomer all of his Playcoins to activate "Super Player Mode," which causes Coomer to Hulk Out. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_844b6779 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_86b21114 | type |
Badass Boast | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_86b21114 | comment |
Badass Boast: "Don't fuck with the Science Team!" is a favorite of Doctor Coomer's. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_86b21114 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_884e513b | type |
Medium Awareness | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_884e513b | comment |
"THERE'S NOTHING THERE." | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_884e513b | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_884e513b | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_884e513b | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8ae880f7 | type |
Deconstruction | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8ae880f7 | comment |
Deconstruction: In a roundabout way, the series serves as one for Gameplay and Story Segregation in a coop multiplayer game. The four companions, with their goofy antics, itchy-trigger fingers, and general trolling, wouldn't seem out of place as a random group of friends going for a romp through the game with a handful of cheat codes turned on (which of course is not so far from the truth). Poor Gordon meanwhile, as the Only Sane Man, is stuck inside the fourth wall and treats life-and-death dangers and the loss of human life as Serious Business, and quickly becomes unhinged when he's the only one doing so. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8ae880f7 | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8ae880f7 | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8ae880f7 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8c23b321 | type |
Harmless Villain | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8c23b321 | comment |
Harmless Villain: Forzen fails at pretty much everything he does, and when he winds up in a position of authority, he starts making nonsensical and petty demands to the Science Team even after it becomes clear he has no leverage over them since Sunkist is Immune to Bullets. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8c23b321 | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8c23b321 | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8c23b321 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8d0785d5 | type |
Didn't Think This Through | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8d0785d5 | comment |
Didn't Think This Through: The HECU use all of their resources on utterly ridiculous and impractical tactics. They're so inane that they get most of their men killed, eventually causing their entire attack on Black Mesa to fall apart. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8d0785d5 | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8d0785d5 | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8d0785d5 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8e20979 | type |
Wham Episode | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8e20979 | comment |
Wham Episode: Act Three winds up being a whole string of these. Act Three: Part One: Benrey and Bubby, who've obviously been plotting behind Gordon's back during the entire episode, trap him in a pitch-black room as HECU soldiers start beating the shit out of him, before ultimately severing his right arm. Dr. Coomer does nothing to stop this because Gordon is out of Playcoins™, and Tommy is the only one genuinely concerned about Gordon. Then he's captured by the military... Act Three: Part two is even crazier. Gordon wakes up missing his arm, traumatized beyond belief, and barely able to function... then he discovers an army of Dr. Coomer clones, revealing that Dr. Coomer is aware he's in a artificial world and that there's a world inside Gordon's dreams. Act Three: Part Three: The events of the last few episodes have clearly gotten to Gordon's head, putting his Only Sane Man status into serious question. G-Man at one point shows up (and he seems to be a self-aware NPC as well), and at the end of his usual schtick, he reveals that he has a child. And then at the very end of the episode, the skeleton shows up, and it's implied that he's been controlling Benrey all along. Oh, and Gordon drinks the soda. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8e20979 | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8e20979 | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8e20979 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_91697559 | type |
Half the Man He Used to Be | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_91697559 | comment |
Half the Man He Used to Be: Benry's first death, in Act 1. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_91697559 | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_91697559 | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) | hasFeature |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_91697559 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_940a5958 | type |
Artificial Stupidity | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_940a5958 | comment |
Barnacles are called "ropes" by Dr. Coomer, though when he is not compelled by his Artificial Stupidity, he actually does call them "barnacles". | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_940a5958 | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_940a5958 | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) | hasFeature |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_940a5958 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_95a2cbd4 | type |
Exposition Fairy | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_95a2cbd4 | comment |
Exposition Fairy: Dr. Coomer acts like one of these with a heaping helping of Artificial Stupidity. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_95a2cbd4 | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_95a2cbd4 | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) | hasFeature |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_95a2cbd4 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9a1d239e | type |
Been There, Shaped History | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9a1d239e | comment |
Been There, Shaped History: Black Mesa runs Wikipedia, and uses the donations for Wikipedia to provide the budget for the experiments they run. Later, Dr. Coomer claims that Black Mesa also uses Wikipedia to fund the U.S. Military, who they provide with weapons in exchange for being allowed to conduct their deranged experiments. Discussed by Dr. Coomer and Gordon when he asks if Black Mesa invented the nuclear bomb after coming across a missile silo that Coomer claims contains "ᴛʜᴇ ʙɪɢ ᴏɴᴇ". | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9a1d239e | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9a1d239e | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) | hasFeature |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9a1d239e | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9cbb0add | type |
HulkOut | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9cbb0add | comment |
In the final battle against Benrey, Gordon gives Dr. Coomer all of his Playcoins to activate "Super Player Mode," which causes Coomer to Hulk Out. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9cbb0add | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9cbb0add | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) | hasFeature |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9cbb0add | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9cde2df1 | type |
Hand Cannon | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9cde2df1 | comment |
Darnold, in spite of being the most stable member of the cast, is definitely one of these, since he makes regenerative potions that cause Gordon to grow a Hand Cannon that shoots fingernails where his hand used to be. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9cde2df1 | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9cde2df1 | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9cde2df1 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: At the end of ACT 3, Benrey is suddenly able to see the skeleton and asks for its passport. It shows it to him, and he accepts it. If you examine the passport closely, you can see that the name on it is "YOU". In the finale, the skeleton is revealed to be either Benrey's true form or some kind of extension of him. When Gordon first meets Benrey, he innocuously crouches down in front of him. This was actually Benrey's player, scorpy, planting the seeds for Gordon's supposed dick slip. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9d12bbc1 | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9d12bbc1 | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) | hasFeature |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9d12bbc1 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a3c0c1df | type |
Dance Party Ending | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a3c0c1df | comment |
Dance Party Ending: The ending of Half-Life 1 has all the characters dancing and celebrating at Tommy's birthday party at Chuck E Cheese's. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a3c0c1df | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a3c0c1df | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) | hasFeature |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a3c0c1df | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a484ef6c | type |
Sensory Abuse | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a484ef6c | comment |
Sensory Abuse: The sound made by the Helicopter Heap, to the point that the Youtube highlight includes an onscreen warning right before its appearance. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a484ef6c | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a484ef6c | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) | hasFeature |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a484ef6c | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a6c69bd | type |
MacGuffin | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a6c69bd | comment |
MacGuffin: Passports, which apparently hold some sort of great power. Benry's Pulse Rifle is a passport (until the point where actual passports are obtained by the cast), and the final battle is focused around Gordon and the science team seeking out everyone's passports to destroy them and deprive Benry of his powers. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a6c69bd | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a6c69bd | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) | hasFeature |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a6c69bd | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a86069f | type |
Alternate History | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a86069f | comment |
Alternate History: This adaptation of Half-Life seems to take place in the late-00s, with Gordon wanting to be a streamer for at-the-time relevant justin.tv and Benrey rambling about Heavenly Sword on the PlayStation 3. Gabe Newell is also referenced to just be a famous knife collector, though Dr. Coomer seems to know him for different reasons. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a86069f | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a86069f | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a86069f | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_abad35b4 | type |
Soundtrack Dissonance | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_abad35b4 | comment |
Soundtrack Dissonance: Sometimes the chat chooses what Background Music plays, which means this chaos can be accompanied by such songs as 'La Marseillaise', 'Soul Bossa Nova', or 'A Cruel Angel's Thesis' | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_abad35b4 | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_abad35b4 | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) | hasFeature |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_abad35b4 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_ad1db87c | type |
Oh, Crap! | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: After facing the terror of the Helicopter Heap, Gordon attempts to climb a ladder. However, thanks to the poorly-interacting combo of GoldSource era ladder physics (or lack thereof), the VR game's methods of climbing ladders, and the fact that the ladder has about six inches of foot space at the bottom before the cliff edge, Gordon falls off the cliff and is left clinging on for dear life. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_ad1db87c | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_ad1db87c | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_ad1db87c | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_aea21604 | type |
Even the Subtitler Is Stumped | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_aea21604 | comment |
Even the Subtitler Is Stumped: Some of the lines from the scientists either aren't very clear, or plain nonsensical, leading to this. Usually, even the actors don't know what they were saying. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_aea21604 | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_aea21604 | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_aea21604 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_af3ea0e3 | type |
Face–Heel Turn | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_af3ea0e3 | comment |
"There he is! Get him!" | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_af3ea0e3 | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_af3ea0e3 | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) | hasFeature |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_af3ea0e3 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b01abe4f | type |
Catchphrase | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b01abe4f | comment |
Catchphrase: "Another day, another dollar" is Black Mesa's, according to Doctor Coomer. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b01abe4f | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b01abe4f | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) | hasFeature |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b01abe4f | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b47d95be | type |
No OSHA Compliance | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b47d95be | comment |
No OSHA Compliance: Averted. The entire facility is built to-code. It is all OSHA-approved. The US lets them do this. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b47d95be | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) | hasFeature |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b47d95be | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b4d6aa7d | type |
Dungeon Bypass | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b4d6aa7d | comment |
Dungeon Bypass: Various parts of Half-Life are skipped through a combination of god mode to bypass obstacles that are meant to kill you, or by having someone trigger map scripts to open doors to before from the other end. Occasionally the group will teleport past segments, or just skip them between videos, either when a mazelike area causes them to become completely lost or if they won't work in VR/multiplayer. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b4d6aa7d | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b4d6aa7d | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) | hasFeature |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b4d6aa7d | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: By indirect means, in that Forzen is very insistent that The Irate Gamer most definitely did not rip off The Angry Video Game Nerd, yelling that this is not the case multiple times and getting very angry with anyone who disagrees. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b53077b3 | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b53077b3 | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b53077b3 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b6f33a21 | type |
Rainbow Speak | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b6f33a21 | comment |
"And we're BAAACK!" The "wham" here is that Benrey's Rainbow Speak suddenly goes from navy to navy with a red outline. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b6f33a21 | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b6f33a21 | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b6f33a21 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b707726f | type |
Hypocritical Humor | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b707726f | comment |
Bullsquids are simply called "creatures" or "beasts", and are claimed to be not aliens but genetically-engineered waste disposal beasts of burden. Bubby chides Gordon for calling them "bullsquids" as nomenclature is nothing to play with. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b707726f | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b707726f | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b739b613 | type |
Elvis Lives | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b739b613 | comment |
Elvis Lives: Averted in AI Crushes All Banks, where Elvis’s ghost shows up. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b739b613 | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b739b613 | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b739b613 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_bb76c854 | type |
Classified Information | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_bb76c854 | comment |
Classified Information: The purpose behind the Frozen Goods Department as well as the existence of headcrab zombies were kept from most Black Mesa employees prior to the Resonance Cascade, though Dr. Coomer appears to have been briefed on them. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_bb76c854 | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_bb76c854 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_bd8aa92a | type |
Negative Continuity | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_bd8aa92a | comment |
Negative Continuity: Due to the series running on the law of "whatever's funniest at the moment," plot details are continuously forgotten or contradicted (Early Installment Weirdness lists a few). Just roll with it. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_bd8aa92a | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_bd8aa92a | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_bf9ed416 | type |
Immortality | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_bf9ed416 | comment |
Immortality: Tommy claims his dog Sunkist is immortal. It turns out he was telling the truth. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_bf9ed416 | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_bf9ed416 | featureConfidence |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_bf9ed416 | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_c25c7890 | type |
Fun with Acronyms | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_c25c7890 | comment |
Fun with Acronyms: AI-Crushes-All-Banks seems like an unwieldy title until you realize the acronym is ACAB, or All Cops Are Bastards | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_c25c7890 | featureApplicability |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_c25c7890 | featureConfidence |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_c5b47b36 | comment |
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: While Gordon is running away from some orbital strikes, Coomer manages to punch off the top of a tank. | |
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Shout-Out | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: In the commentary streams, Holly mentions that the SuperPlayer Feature was based on the "Super Guide" from Donkey Kong Country Returns, where you can have a golden "Super Kong" complete a level for you if you die too many times on it. Super Player Mode Coomer bellows out "TRAIN AND FIGHT, GORDON!" before charging into battle in reference to the popular Tumblr inspirational blog warriormale. When Dr. Coomer activates SuperPlayerMode, it's accompanied by the Super Saiyan power-up sound. Gordon makes a pretty subtle one to this Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff comic in Act 2: Part 2. Tommy's favorite TV show is Invitation to Love. Whenever Bubby says "oh yes" he always says it with the same inflection as Bob Page in the intro to Deus Ex. Gir has confirmed this was intentional, and was a reference to his favourite part of "Deus Ex: The Recut". | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_c83a589c | comment |
Luke, I Am Your Father: In the finale, Gordon learns that the G-Man is Tommy's father. | |
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Magic Music | |
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Magic Music: The Black Mesa Sweet Voice is something along these lines, allowing the user to write on thin air and even control minds. Tommy is fluent in the meanings of the various colors and often translates them in rhyming phrases. Benrey's skeletal minions use the Sweet Voice to hinder the science team during the final battle. | |
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Armies Are Evil | |
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Armies Are Evil: The HECU, who are both just as evil as they were in the original source material, and much dumber. Dr. Coomer claims that they get their funding and equipment through Black Mesa, which makes it seem like a suicidal move to attack Black Mesa. | |
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Wacky Sound Effect | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_cbeb76de | comment |
Wacky Sound Effect: A cartoon cymbal crash plays whenever a party member takes fall damage or falls unconscious. | |
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Cerebus Syndrome | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_cfdb9e17 | comment |
Cerebus Syndrome: After Gordon’s arm is cut off at the beginning of Act 3, the series takes on a far darker tone. While there is still a lot of jokes, some things, like Gordon’s declining mental state and Dr. Coomer’s realization that the world is fake, are played entirely seriously. | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_d028e0da | comment |
Act Three: Part One: Benrey and Bubby, who've obviously been plotting behind Gordon's back during the entire episode, trap him in a pitch-black room as HECU soldiers start beating the shit out of him, before ultimately severing his right arm. Dr. Coomer does nothing to stop this because Gordon is out of Playcoins™, and Tommy is the only one genuinely concerned about Gordon. Then he's captured by the military... | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_dbca2c99 | type |
Red Herring | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_dbca2c99 | comment |
Red Herring: In one of the G-Man's first appearances, he requests that Gordon take care of his "progeny". Initially, one might assume the G-Man is referring to Benrey from his similarly supernatural powers, but he's actually talking about Tommy. | |
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Virtual Pet | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_de3f31b9 | comment |
Virtual Pet: Dr. Coomer occasionally speaks as though he's one of these, with hunger, thirst and bathroom needs. | |
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Broken Record | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e085feeb | comment |
Broken Record: Benry's passport lists his name multiple times, to the point where the text cannot be contained by the paper itself and just hangs it off the side. | |
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Manchild | |
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Tommy's subtitles are written in a font reminiscent of crude handwriting, which is fitting for the Manchild of the group. | |
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World of Jerkass | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e2f13529 | comment |
World of Jerkass: Pretty much everyone is a murderous psycho, a stupid murderous psycho, or a murderous psycho who's even more dangerous, cruel, and violent than the rest. Even Gordon and Tommy, the nicest and most moral characters in the series, have their moments of cruelty, although it's usually unintentional. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e563bf09 | type |
Insistent Terminology | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e563bf09 | comment |
Insistent Terminology: Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Never just Wikipedia. | |
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Unexplained Recovery | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e5d8460d | comment |
Unexplained Recovery: Gordon quickly gets used to his companions dying and coming back, save for the occasional Plotline Death. And even those don't often stick. | |
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Flanderization | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e5e6640b | comment |
Flanderization: ACAB jettisons Benrey's Lawful Stupid traits in favor of playing up his incompetence, childishness, and delusional view of the world. | |
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Freudian Slip | |
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Freudian Slip: Gordon delivers one of these seconds before the HECU starts shooting at the party. | |
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Blue-and-Orange Morality | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e8e56799 | comment |
Blue-and-Orange Morality: Benry and the Science Team, sans Gordon and, to a lesser extent than Gordon, Tommy. They are more than comfortable with murdering other scientists and each other based on the smallest of whims, yet chastise Gordon for vandalism and for not saving scientists they killed, amongst other things. Benry in particular stands out, as he has no qualms with killing every NPC they happen upon or luring Gordon to the HECU and instructing them to cut off his arm, but is deeply offended by Gordon's lack of a passport and seems to consider it more important than anything else. In Tommy's case, while he is the most "human" of the three and generally reacts to situations as a normal person would (such as when he begins panicking and freaking out as Gordon's arm is forcibly cut off), he is seen on more than one occasion participating in the random violence (more often against other Science Team members than others, though). In addition, although he is shown to be very caring toward Gordon in particular, he has no qualms threatening him with a gun when Gordon suggests that he cut down on the soda (though given Tommy’s lack of knowledge on firearm safety and Reckless Gun Usage, it’s possible this wasn’t actually a threat). | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_ec02c97e | type |
Defied Trope | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_ec02c97e | comment |
The party doesn't know what to call vortigaunts, though Dr. Coomer suggests they remind him of his ex-wife. Gordon declares they are not calling them "ex-wives". Later on, they occasionally call them "Vonneguts." | |
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World Gone Mad | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_ef92caa4 | comment |
World Gone Mad: For Gordon, there's no Gameplay and Story Segregation; the various Good Bad Bugs invoked and Black Comedy jokes made by his comrades are taken totally at face value, and are terrifying to him. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_f64a9cf7 | comment |
Earn Your Happy Ending: After all the hell Gordon and the scientists go through to navigate Black Mesa and kill Benrey, the G-Man rewards them by taking them all to Chuck E Cheese's for Tommy's birthday. | |
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Darkest Hour | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_f91d1d4f | comment |
Darkest Hour: The party is trapped in a hopeless fight with Benrey on Xen, though they destroyed their own passports. Bubby uses a gun he found in Darnold's lab that sends Gordon back in time to before the Resonance Cascade test, where the giant Benrey still chases him down. He goes and destroys his passport, but needs to go back to Xen. So he begs a pre-sentience Dr. Coomer to let him give him his Playcoins to him, begs him to remember anything, as Benrey slowly closes in. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_f9f2c33 | type |
Running Gag | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: Benrey constantly asking Gordon for his passport. Dr. Coomer saying "Hello, Gordon!" almost every time Gordon talks to him. Dr. Coomer exclaiming "Look, Gordon, ropes! We can use these to traverse dangerous pits!" every time he sees a barnacle, almost always followed by "Help me, Gordon!" when he gets caught by them. The pigeons that inexplicably begin swarming Black Mesa at the Resonance Cascade. "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit!" | |
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Fun with Subtitles | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_fdb355db | comment |
Fun with Subtitles: All over the place, from Coomer's dialogue swapping from complete sentences to being cut off at the last second, to "*hog noise*" and a picture of a Smoker zombie being used to subtitle the slurping noises the scientists make when drinking soda. | |
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Evil, Inc. | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_ff934825 | comment |
Evil, Inc.: Between the human experimentation, the mutant animals running loose, and the company concealing a potential Zombie Apocalypse from its own staff, this version of Black Mesa is far more obviously sinister than its canon counterpart. | |
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Chromosome Casting | |
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_ffb79066 | comment |
Chromosome Casting: All of the characters are male, though Dr. Coomer is played by a woman, and no female characters are even referenced except for Dr. Coomer's "ex-wife" (if she even existed at all, which, given that this is Dr. Coomer we're talking about, is entirely up for debate. | |
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