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FREEMAN’S MIND 2: EPISODE 18

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Not gonna lie, the past few episodes had me so not-feeling-it that I was kind of dreading this one, but this feels like a return to form in a lot of ways. I like the way he's reacting to Grigori, like yeah of course the crazy guy with a gun who's narrowly avoided shooting him multiple times now is treated as an ally more than the friendly scientists he's met, because game recognize game. And the ways you're getting away with not resorting to using the gravity gun (like making explosions kill everything on screen without leaving stragglers) are subtle, clever, and feel natural. Presumably once we get to the next bit, you'll have disabled the infinitely-respawning zombies too, which should help a lot.

 

For a peek behind the curtain, though, does Gordon actually run out of ammo at the exact moment he says "I'm out"? Or just close enough that you wouldn't be able to get through another encounter without a refill so you need to justify him not firing any more shots? Because if it's the first one, I can't imagine how many takes it took to not be stuck in a situation where there's an enemy still alive and no more bullets.

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On 4/20/2023 at 3:50 PM, Steve the Pocket said:

For a peek behind the curtain, though, does Gordon actually run out of ammo at the exact moment he says "I'm out"? Or just close enough that you wouldn't be able to get through another encounter without a refill so you need to justify him not firing any more shots? Because if it's the first one, I can't imagine how many takes it took to not be stuck in a situation where there's an enemy still alive and no more bullets.

I personally think it was unplanned and that he did actually ran out of ammo, this has happened plenty of times before, I think.

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I could have believed he was genuinely running out of ammo.

 

Anyways, good episode. I agree that this is really much like the old episodes of FM; the mental image of Grigori turning Ravenholm into a pseudo-Running Man set was amusing.

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This is more relevant to the last episode but it's something I thought of recently. If in future episodes you need an explanation as to why the Gravity Gun doesn't work on enemies but it does with random physics objects- It's blood. That's the one consistent throughline with all the stuff the Gravity Gun cannot pick up. It can't grab anything that has blood.

 

I don't really know enough science to give a reasonable explanation as to why blood would stop the Gravity Gun from working... but it's the only explanation I can think of. It still works on wood, so the difference is not "organic matter".

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On 4/21/2023 at 9:29 AM, HQDefault said:

This is more relevant to the last episode but it's something I thought of recently. If in future episodes you need an explanation as to why the Gravity Gun doesn't work on enemies but it does with random physics objects- It's blood. That's the one consistent throughline with all the stuff the Gravity Gun cannot pick up. It can't grab anything that has blood.

 

I don't really know enough science to give a reasonable explanation as to why blood would stop the Gravity Gun from working... but it's the only explanation I can think of. It still works on wood, so the difference is not "organic matter".

That fits perfectly with the daemon summoning theory about the Lambda complex. "What's that Arthur C. Clarke quote? Well, that doesn't rule out magic."

Come the full moon, the bat flies whose boiling blood shall stem the tide.

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It's a pleasure to know that Gordon's worst apartment was somewhere between a cave in Xen and a flat in Ravenholm. I was looking forward to seeing more interaction with Gregory and it's been a blast. Kudos to the person doing the sound editing for zombie-smashing car sounds: very satisfying.

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loved the episode!

I was a North American Fall Webworm in my past life. Those were the good old days... What were you in your former life?

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I really like all the ways, Ross comes up with, to never use the gravity gun. I personally feel like that weapon doesn't belong in the HL world that Ross has build for his version of Gordon - you know - treating it like reality and how a man would actually respond to the events unfolding before them.
The gravity gun feels too video-gamey (like waay more than the gluon gun) to fit in this "realistic" take.

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On 4/20/2023 at 2:50 PM, Steve the Pocket said:

Not gonna lie, the past few episodes had me so not-feeling-it that I was kind of dreading this one, but this feels like a return to form in a lot of ways. I like the way he's reacting to Grigori, like yeah of course the crazy guy with a gun who's narrowly avoided shooting him multiple times now is treated as an ally more than the friendly scientists he's met, because game recognize game.

 

I'm the opposite.
A get a good deal of enjoyment from Freeman shitting on all the the cornerstones of HL lore and fan darlings.  It think he was a little *too* soft on old heckin' Gregorino to not upset Richterovertime

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