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Barney: "Now, about that beer I owe you." Gordon: "What?" Barney: "It's me, Gordon. Barney, from Black Mesa." Gordon: "I don't know who you are, but you have beer? Where is it?"

In universe, it is known that Gordon has the ability to speak. In Freeman's acceptance letter, "the Office of the Administrator" (LM) writes: Telephone conversation? I suppose it's possible that Gordon communicated via a TDD, but I think some sort of reference would be made to Gordon's inability to speak in the letter. Something like, "Due to your mutism, we are providing you with a TTS device for communicating with your colleagues" or something. Nothing like this appears on the letter. This leads me to believe that it was a speaking conversation on the telephone and that Gordon has the ability to speak. However, he either chooses not to (what I voted for in this poll), doesn't have anything to say, or you just can't hear his voice as evidenced by his ability to order the rebels in HL2.

So, I saw this just now:

9.9/10. Lost 0.1 point over the aliased edges resulting in that small white thing near the avatar's right elbow.

I was going by memory.

6/10, magic is not scientific. And science isn't magic. Even sufficiently advanced science being indistinguishable from magic, it's not magic.

Simply ramping up normal speaking would be insufficient for the shouting. It would just sound like normal talking but louder. When shouting, one has a different tone to the voice. Shouting isn't simply talking louder. You can tell when someone's shouting even if the decibel level is really low in comparison to a louder regular talking voice. I don't have any money to help donate to the busted mic cause, so the only thing I can give right now is hope and patience.

Only drug I can remember Freeman ingesting was caffeine. "Blrbrlblrrlblrrrlblrllaaah. Coffeecoffeecoffee. Coffee! Not as strong as methamphetamines but at least it doesn't stain your teeth." He remarks about others, but, unless I'm mistaken, there's no on-screen drug-taking otherwise.

In order of interest to me: Doug/NCritic, Lindsay/NChick, Film Brain and Obscurus Lupa (both equal--their crossover review of Metal Man was awesome), MarzGurl, Angry Joe, Oancitizen, then anyone else that does something that might catch my eye. Just watched JesuOtaku's and Film Brain's crossover of Sucker Punch today and that was a lot of fun.

Banned for turning Dr. Horrible into a MLP.

So, this:

Banned for, as it says above your avatar, trying to eat things that belong to Satan.

I loved the Spooning With Spoony segment and I loved his "Dr. Insano" character. His appearances in the anniversary episodes was also great. He will be missed from TGWTG; I wonder how they'll do the 4th anniversary special which hasn't been released yet (assuming that Noah starred in it). But my favorite character/person on the site beyond Doug Walker has to be Lindsay Ellis ("The Nostalgia Chick").

Banned because not all bannings must be related.

Pinkie, Arby, thanks for the detail. Arby: Here's a link to one of JO's videos.

Here's Lupa's take on the subject from her website. She doesn't mention JesuOtaku here so maybe JO's involvement in this is apocryphal.

Apparently, both Obscurus Lupa and JesuOtaku are involved in this. The rumor is that Spoony was trying to hit on both of them and they didn't like it. I don't know; I don't follow Twitter and I'm reading things second- and third-hand. Either way, I'm still a fan of TGWTG even with Noah's exit.

Banned for the unexplained binary.

Banned for not including Y.

Banned because, no more rhyming, I mean it!

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MFW reading online posts by people afflicted with the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Banned for complying.

Banned for having minions.

Boobies!