The journey to Nova Prospekt CONTINUES. Waking up on the floor of a rat-ridden sewer, Gord(g)on is surrounded by his fellow "Antiscience Team" members: FATHER GRIGORI, CHRISTOPHER, XAR, and their newest addition, STAIN. Despite absorbing fatal viruses and bacteria off the floor and becoming VERY sick, Gordon and co. press on towards their first objective, Black Mesa East, while guiding their new thing Stain through his first day out of his sewer-home. WILL THEY MAKE IT..? ACT 3 will be streamed LIVE at twitch.tv/wayneradiotv on **TUESDAY, JUNE 16th @ 8pm EST** !!!!!! --- The world we once knew is no more, but in its place, a world unknown. In 2020, I found an experimental, unreleased VR build of Half-Life 1 featuring "NPC's powered by voice recognition and machine learning". What I expected to JUST be an infuriating and funny playthrough turned out to be much, much more. Its 'machine-learning' NPC's were far more advanced than I ever thought possible, and my interactions with them dynamically changed the game in nonsensical and unbelievable ways. My journey alongside those 'self-aware' AI has long since concluded, but six years later, with all the recent hype over Half-Life 3/HLX, I felt nostalgic, and curiosity finally got to me: I returned. What I'd find... I could never have anticipated. HALF-LIFE 2: SELF-AWARE AI has BEGUN. all footage you see in this video was recorded in one singular live performance at http://twitch.tv/wayneradiotv FULL STREAM VODS CHANNEL: @wayneradiotvONDEMAND we are RADIO TV SOLUTIONS @RadioTVSolutions end screen by HRABB http://hrabb.it/ find me on twitter http://twitter.com/wayneradiotv bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/wayneradio.tv discord http://discord.wayneradio.tv/ tumblr http://tumblr.com/wayneradiotv merch http://nosferatu.baby/ #halflife #halflife2 #vr #garrysmod
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There's something so uniquely entertaining about how Wayne as the main character tries his best to immerse us and play seriously as if he's the only sane person while all the other characters feel like they're actively messing with Wayne and making the serious plot feel a little more light-hearted.
stain was the inspiration for the allegory of the cave
really like the mechanic of the christian god being some sort of D&D dark patron for grigori
I feel such peace whenever Additional Voices appears.
The Robot Alcemic Drive UI for Bubby's communication window was a great touch.
I adore how quickly gordon got attached to stain because it happened to me too, scorpy has such a knack for acting innocent and gleeful, and seeing it in a positive light rather than as an antagonistic force changes it so completely from "i cant bargain with this because it doesnt understand" levels of scary to "i must take care of this or it will be sad :(" like a tomogachi
I love when the subtitles get physically interacted with, like when the shell blasts it away with the rest of the physics objects, or when stain is kicking them out of the air in the helicopter fight. All the little details are so much fun
rip toonervil trolly bit, i wont forget you
yo! they got Penny Snapscube in this now, radical.
HOLY SHIT PENNY JUMPSCARE
I love this. I love how the sequel is pioneering multiple new artistic ways for violent overstimulation - the Hunger Suit, the Overwatch voice, and now everybody in RTVS at once having contagious diseases. Can't wait for the new meta in Act 3, where the next addition to the cast will be seven IRL firefighters attempting to inform Wayne/Gordon that his house is burning down thanks to him forgetting his Papa John's in the oven.
Thank God Stain had all those revive pills in his teeth or the funny will stop.
1:06:48 the subtitles getting yoinked with stain is so funny
Can't wait until Breen unleashes Metal Gordon
It might be a bit understated in comparison to so many bombastic performances, but Xar adds so much with so little that he's definitely my favorite.
I remember someone commenting in a livestream reupload that Stain was an archetypal Disney Princess. He’s been stuck in a small world all his life, until a band of misfits comes by and frees him from his captivity. He struggles to adjust to the outside world, fumbling at the simplest of hurdles, yet he finds this new world beautiful. I hope we see Princess Stain some day
25:18 soooooo, like guys, the skeleton? the skeleton?? the skeleton? no one.... just me.... Alright
I love that the second Stain does the sad walk emote Gordon immediately folds
food suit and combine announcer yuri is definitely a highlight of this series so far
im so glad that whatever the hell happened at 39:55 was included in the edit lmao