Day 158 of posting Half-Life memes until Half-Life 3 comes out
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  • 370 points Fireghoster

    I love unexplainable eastern european architecture

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    136 points vaccinateyodamkids

    It's actually very explainable, it's ledge so you can kill yourself easier if you were either A. Trapped by a fire or B. Just tired of living in Bulgaria

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    15 points xezrunner

    Wheatley, is that you?

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    68 points Mrheadcrab123

    you think with all the bureaucracies inside of the Soviet union they would eventually round these things out by now

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    36 points No_Pie2137

    Communist bureaucracies was what created these problems to begin with

    Your RYOBI dosen't know pain if it never had to drill throught finely aged reinforced concrete wall from the 60s with you praying that you wont fucking die cause some fucking moron decided to put (aluminium) 230V diagonaly to cut costs/don't run out of it and finding two pockets of newspapers that remember 40s in the concrete only to put a fucking shelf (you hit the rebar 6 times and had to start over)

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    6 points Mrheadcrab123

    Sounds right for the Soviet Union

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    8 points emo_boy_fucker

    you mean all eastern european architecture

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    2 points chingobingo228

    Deadass looks like a 10/10 smoking spot

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    1 points Full_Dot903

    I've seen a university that has a stone spiral staircase in the girl's bathroom, on multiple floors. There is nothing else in the room.

    I don't know how it could possibly lead to the actual bathroom(I'm a guy, so I obviously never went in. I could just ask someone, but I kind of like the mystery) and I've only been able to see it because people left the door ajar.

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  • 147 points Mental-Reserve8108

    Type of thing a YouTuber would make a video about “places you weren’t meant to go in half life 2” and spend 30 minutes talking about: (there’s 2 medkits and a box of shotgun shells behind it)

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    82 points IceBurnt_

    "The liminality of half life" (just empty spaces that the devs didnt fill with stuff)

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    31 points InfiniteDelusion094

    HL is a very liminal series aesthetically though, most of the environments in all of the games are corridors and open public spaces that are bereft of anyone but you and sometimes enemies. Episodes 1 and 2 are slightly less so because of Alyx but even they have stretches where you get separated.

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    22 points The_Ghast_Hunter

    Yeah especially in hl2 it's supposed to feel empty and a bit alien. Aliens came in and emptied the place after all. Everywhere you go you see things that somebody built, now used for whatever it can be used for.

    This dam was built by humans. People worked here once, you can see their lockers, the break room they ate in, and the fridge they put their lunches in. That's all wasted and ruined. Combine operate it now. Angular steel and energy fields cut access, while cables dig into human machinery, taking their power to fuel combine gunships. And you will use it for less. You'll kill the Combine infesting this dam, plunder what little resources the Combine left for their troops, open up a sluice gate, and continue on your mission.

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  • 42 points emo_boy_fucker

    they would put the emplacement gun there if the combine visited here

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    7 points Marcel-Tractoristu75

    And they'd bring a scanner

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    3 points Pitiful-Election-438

    Hi emo boy fucker, its me again

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  • 58 points The_Firebug

    god why can't I live in a decaying eastern european industrial complex instead of a stupid fucking suburban drywall house

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    15 points PrometheanSwing

    Seriously though, there is something weirdly cozy about the random places you find people living throughout City 17, especially in the industrial areas

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    11 points Perfect_Caramel4836

    So fucking real

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    4 points HoovyKitty

    god why can't I live anywhere else but my decaying eastern european building

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    3 points Vast-Conference3999

    Hey, I live in a decaying Eastern European soviet industrial complex.

    I don’t even live in a former soviet country in Eastern Europe. It’s just my home looks that way.

    I have all the old sawblades, oil drums, gas cylinders, liminal spaces, wood palates, supply crates and bicycle frames i could ever want.

    It’s nice.

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  • 25 points Formal_History_5657

    Shooting fast zombies from here would go crazy

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  • 24 points Pryus_C

    TF2 ass catwalk

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  • 10 points Jerwas170

    https://preview.redd.it/6ptg7nbgjvbg1.jpeg?width=556&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=090b052e880425895fac06f687ebe02fe3827e08

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  • 9 points Fast-Fig-4598

    valve loves weird catwalks

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  • 8 points etbillder

    I thought this is where Alyx snipes zombies

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    1 points Dakota_1547

    Zombines

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  • 6 points the_RiverQuest

    Gman would watch you from that catwalk and then leave through the door

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  • 5 points Annual_Loan_4805

    Hey wait i rember that from uh that one counter strike game

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  • 4 points AcidArchangel303

    "Another soul to save?"

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  • 3 points Torstiss

    Love how there’s an achievement for not using the shotgun in the level you get it in, bravo Valve!

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    2 points Disastrous_Maybe7281

    I think it's moreso for them to show off your recently aquired physics gun, their level, and to offer a small challenge (since no-one's forcing people to complete achievements)

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  • 2 points RandomShite15

    “My advice to you? Aim for the head!”

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  • 2 points strongesticefairy

    this here gman show up

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  • 1 points No_Butterfly9275

    Ravenholm in day

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  • 1 points DepressionWithHoovy

    Shoot to shoot the shootgun

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  • 1 points DUUKEEDOO

    Hush... they come.

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  • 1 points dedzip

    https://youtu.be/m6N4X1thwpo

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  • 1 points Old-Breadfruit-6120

    That one building in dayz

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  • 1 points KomradeKerbal

    what is that for ?

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  • 1 points enby_asac_schrader

    That more reminds me of one of Gman's secret spots in the latter half of water hazard

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  • 1 points Vast-Conference3999

    This is the ledge that GMan is seen standing on before walking away through the door.

    Later, you go up there but it’s just a solid wall behind with no way out.

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