'paleo' means very old or ancient, (eg palaeontologists study prehistoric Earth, dinosaurs etc), so "still studying paleo-mathematics?" is a brutal burn and diss implying that your mathematical techniques are out of date and belong in a museum.
Don't run, find its Hamiltonian and simulate it ab-initio using DFT, HF or QMC methods. All chemistry is made of physics, i.e. quantum mechanics. Computing power is the only limitation in converting physics to chemistry, chemistry to biology, biology to psychology, philosophy, art, music, etc.
@@DrToxicTofu You never looked up, and you shot like, so slowly, you can shoot extremely fast. The solution is just to kill them? xD But, Its not a big deal, its just funny that you instantly went to sacrifice him.
24:15 - This is not mistake, this is an easter egg - Dr. Gina Cross is the one of two protagonists in "Half-Life: Decay" co-op spinoff. She wears the same HEV suit, and this scientist just not recognized that there was Dr. Freeman in this HEV suit. The other protagonist is Dr. Colette Green. I think those two ladies took two other HEV suits from the stands before Dr. Freeman have arrived (because Dr. Freeman is late). The other spinoff, "Half Life: Blue Shift" let you play for Barney Calhoun, the security guy, and you can use cameras on the security post to see Dr. Freeman and Dr. Cross on the monitor, when Dr. Freeman is not in his HEV suit yet, but Dr. Cross is already in her HEV suit and transporting the Zen Crystal to the lift into test chamber.
Dr. Cross was also the one who was Freeman's hologram instructor for the Hazardous Training Course. In the PS2 version's manual booklet you can find a training schedule with familiar names such as Freeman, Calhoun, Cross, Green and Steiner.
as a half life vet this was a PAIN to watch through seeing you pass all the medkits and be confused by your actions. i get its a blind playthrough but i was physically screaming at my monitor
Half life and Portal were confirmed to share the same canonical universe in the Portal games. You may recall a mention of black mesa by Glados, well...now you're in it.
@DrToxicTofu Also Half Life 2 directly mentions Aperture Science and their facility. If you play Half Life 2 (or haven't already) be prepared for the story to just end unfinished. It's sad but we will always be left on a cliffhanger that will probably never be finished
@@atheist101 valve are actively working on another half life title, there's been lots of coverage recently. Like it's not an announcement but check Tyler McVicker's video on the subject, there's a reason to hope again
1:43 "Okay... The graphics are... very primitive" I can see where this might come from, but I would argue it's very good for what it is. Also, try to play the original HL if you have time, with classic weapon/NPC models.
If I'm not mistaken that comment came from the fact that the graphics quality was low (grainy and 2d) I'm not sure if I edited it out of this VOD but I actually increase the quality in the settings later.
@@DrToxicTofu yes, I saw it later on. To be fair, despite overall coherent and up-to-par (for the date of release) image quality, especially after enabling experimental "above-ultra" checkbox at the bottom of the graphics settings menu, game textures are somewhat blurry when studied up close. Not sure if it's the limitation of the game engine or done deliberately to avoid having hight and medium resolution textured objects next to each other.
My math professor once said that learning hard math causes you to forget the easy stuff. He said this right after writing "3^3 = 9" by mistake in front of an entire proofs class, and nobody caught it until 15 minutes later, when his proof wasn't proofing correctly. Anyway, that's what I was thinking when you explained all the white boards, which I've never heard any other streamer do, only to then get bitten by 4 out of your first 7 barnacles. Subscribed.
33:50 The LIGO gravitational wave detector had this problem. They found something in the first hour and the signal looked exactly like they expected with no frills and the peak frequency was just in the range of peak sensitivity. They were just like "whatever man, I don't have time for this; the world doesn't work this way". Then they got paranoid that someone tried to fake the signal somehow because it just couldn't be true; before eventually convincing themselves it was true.
@@DrToxicTofu Blinds are the best. I remember playing this with my brother when I was 16 (41 now). We got stuck all the time, but this game was one of a kind. People you can talk to? A story? An actual location? Blew our minds. I can dream this game, finished it 100 times 😂 love seeing new people still enjoying this classic. Also I am a chemist, whats wrong with chemistry? Dont run... 😂
"The graphics are very primitive" That hurt :') Also I think "Paleomathematics" (stone age math) is a joke on "haha you dum" In-universe you're regarded kinda badly at the start because of how upstart your employment was.
@@keyboard_toucher Yeah, I saw that, I wrote that comment because on my first time playing black mesa, before the zen stuff was in back in the day, I literally had to play on lowest settings because I was running on an actual potato. My GT220 did not like this game at all :') And it still blew me away at the time xD
The poster at 1:44:26 seems to be based on a real paper, "Precession and chaos in the classical two-body problem in a spherical universe". There's a steam workshop add-on that increases the resolution of all posters high enough that you can read the abstract.
@@schwartzseymour357 it is unfortunate that so many comments are awfully negative about me not knowing the mechanics/secrets etc but it's a first playthrough! I must learn like you guys first did!
@@schwartzseymour357 didn't mean you just that some comments are very aggressive for me missing things. The reality is, this is a truthful blind playthrough! XD
@@DrToxicTofu You're right, you should be free to mess up like we all did. However, I will say you're a bit too distracted for this game, most of HL and HL2 story isn't directly told but comes from details in the world, things you hear around, posters, newspapers, radio broadcasts, or even graffiti. You don't need to be OCD about it and the games are still fun even if you ignore the story altogether, but you do miss out imho.
@DrToxicTofu Don't be sad. I think they come from a place of love for this game and from a wish to see you experience the best it has to offer. The beginning, especially, is littered with fun things you can interact and mess with, causing some havoc for your colleagues. I wish people weren't being mean about it and just enjoyed your otherwise great playthough full of physicist insights 😄
*Tofu is holding a gun* *Watches guy slowly and painfully die to "his friend with a little bugger on his head."* "Yeah, there was nothing I coulda done there." XD Honestly, it must be your lack of American-ness, but you often seem to forget that you can just shoot things, 'ticks,' 'tongue-things,' 'Pinkies-ish,' 'imps from doom three,' and so on are all highly allergic to bullets, I assure you. Edit: Oh, and we can't forget the innocent and very easily murdered scientist ladies that trust you with their life. Those are very shoot-able.
Since you have played Portal you probably know what happened at Aperture. This game takes place 1 week after GLaDOS is put online. She locked down Aperture and killed everyone in the facility a week ago from everything that happens in this game. Also this is the same universe and Aperture was the competitor company. Black Mesa often stole designs from Aperture and because of it Black Mesa always beat Aperture for government funding. In an alternate universe Aperture is the successful company and they buy out Black Mesa renaming it Blaperture Mesa they also close down the area Gordon works because they deemed it too unsafe which is ironic coming from Aperture. At this time Aperture and Black Mesa were competing to make portal technology. Black Mesa was unaware that Aperture had already perfected portal technology in the 1960s and they may have already gone to the boarder world too.
55:21 That gave me so much nostalgia of when I played Half-Life as a kid and didn't know where to go so for YEARS (Gosh I was stupid) and didn't know where to go until I found UA-cam.
The original game didn't have much in terms of a physics engine. There was a system for moving boxes and floating barels but that was about it if I remember correctly. The groundbreaking physics engine was mainly the second games job. HL1 was mostly revolutionary for relatively advanced NPC behavior and modeling as well as being pretty much the first FPS game where story took center stage.
12:09 If you want to have fun laughs; below the desk, there should be button! that’ll put the whole facility into emergency if you push it xD You can mess around so much in Black Mesa intro!
I am playing it again by myself! As this was a first blind playthrough I didn't know anything about the game! It just happened to be a gift I got, I wanted a fun shooter and I was obviously pleasantly surprised! I know I missed a lot of interactions etc that I'm going back on but I just truly didn't even know what I didnt know! 😂
@@DrToxicTofu no worries! (this is hunter, i'm currently using my main account; i was not supposed to use alternative xD) Black Mesa has evolved a shit lot from Half-Life. you can do so many hilarious shit in the intro! (they even included multiplayer...) I probably have the video somewhere in my channel named "Trying To Get Fired in Black Mesa" which shows the variety of stuff that you can do before proceeding to the actual gameplay XD and welcome to the black mesa community! keep up the good work! :D
@@DrToxicTofuin the starting break room that is on the way to the locker room, theres a microwave and you can turn it up to ruin someone’s casserole inside. you finally meet the owner of the casserole (magnusson) in half life 2 episode 2 where he mentions he’s still angry about it so many years later.
Yeah Doom 3 is basically darker version of the first Half-Life game. It has much better graphics and lights compared to Half-Life 1 though. It's also ironic because HL1 is basically more advanced Quake (another id software game) because they share their codebase. Fun fact: flickering light effect in both Half-Life Alyx (2020) and Quake (1996) have the same pattern. The same pattern is also in Portal.
something i would want to mention as a fun fact is that Gordon Freeman has a PhD in theoretical physics and got that degree in MIT. also that Gordon can speak but throughout the game series he doesn't have a chance to speak. hope these fun facts help know a little more about Gordon.
When I first found out about the G man It freaked me out knowing that I was being watched but didn’t notice it. Hope it does the same for you :) 8:47 on the other tram to the left 14:19 In that office in the left 1:04:46 On top of the ledge 2:30:18 You can just about see him walking away from the locked door on the far right
I noticed twice and honestly at the time didn't think much of it, assumed it was layered graphics etc and I noticed him later in the games a few times. It being a blind playthrough I didn't understand the significance of G man
Half Life 1 1998 was the first game with a real story and friendly npcs where you could move things and push buttons. the physics stuff came with Half life 2 in 2004
man i love coming into work and the ANTI MASS SPECTROMETER FUCKING BLOWS UP and then OH MY GOD BARNEY LOOK A HEADCRAB NOO- and then A GUY GETS MAD 25 YEARS LATER ABOUT A FUCKING CASSEROLE IN THE BREAK ROOM and then humanity gets enslaved by a silly little army named the combine 😊😊😊
Half life 1 had near zero physics, Half life 2 made big steps in that direction. Half life 1 was a much bigger step. It was pretty much the first game that put alot of effort in story telling through game design. Back then most shooters were just corridors with enemies.
1:27:28. Gordon on the Black Mesa incident (prob): It wasn't me. I just witnessed the incident. It was not my fault. I did not do that on purpose. I wasn't the problem. 1:56:52. Don't know if you missed that callout, but like the orignal game, this title has so many small details that you probably would have missed on a first playthrough.
2:11:04 “Why are you running?” Oh if only you knew 😣 I just found this playthrough, I know you’ve already completed the game so this isn’t a spoiler, but I’m so grateful for how this Black Mesa remake expanded on the Interloper chapter in Xen to make it clear to any new player the truth about the Vortigaunts Because the original Half Life did nothing to make it clear that they were enslaved by the final boss, you’d have to be a genius to put two and two together to note that the green things around them are slave collars
Seemed pretty clear to me that something was up. The vortigaunts quit attacking you on sight in the last few chapters. They also appeared to be under supervision by the Alien Grunts and Xen Masters. They also appeared to be busy with something as they'd run back and forth between the various alien machines and technology. Also with the low rez models it's pretty clear they have shackles on. The high rez models are not so clear about that.
Primitive!? Now look here, it's called tasteful! Tasteful graphics. Refined! ... Jokes aside, you should play the original Half Life, that's primitive. One could go back farther in time, but I digress. I think the dev team did a wonderful job on remaking the game and the graphics update was wonderful.
I'm not sure if I will since it is before my time. That being said I am very pleasantly surprised how enjoyable this is without a direct nostalgia so who knows! 😄
@@DrToxicTofuow I wouldn't recommend it unless you're into that 😄 That's why the remake was a blessing to me, as a big half life fan. Black Mesa was my first play through of HL1. In some games, like doom64, I don't mind the older graphics because they added higher resolution support. This game gets better and better as you go and the end is amazing, so enjoy your journey while it lasts. And there is always hl2 & ep1 and 2 if you want more, trust that they are worth the time.
@@DrToxicTofuI'm old enough That I actually grew up on the original and I highly do not recommend going back to it. Without nostalgia it does not hold up. I really want the guys who made this remake to do a remake of opposing force. The blue shift remake looks pretty good but the problem is blue shift is incredibly short as a game.
Still working through Black Mesa myself, but I loved your reaction to the first barnacle encounter in that hallway. Edit: Also, the scientist who decided to shield you (and got a bullet to the head for her efforts), and the one who got both barrels from your new shotgun🤣
1:43 As someone who just recently finished the original 1998 Half Life that comment made me laugh. 8:47 How she missed the G-Man staring at her because "cute robot!" xD 14:20 missed seeing the G-Man a second time. 1:40:45 dat loot face tho
But cute robot! It's all hindsight because I didn't even know who gman was or what the significance is. I didn't know to keep an eye for him if that makes sense.
@@DrToxicTofu CUTE ROBOT!! =D Sorry if this came across as criticism, I was just observing your intensely entertaining gameplay as a huge Half Life fan x3 G-Man is everywhere right from the beginning which gives the whole game quite a different meaning if one knows how the game ends. I'm gonna continue to watch and see where you first notice G-Man, that'll surely be a fun moment 😁
I suppose this is a personal nitpick but I always hate when people play games like these on stream, they always miss things because their attention is divided between the game and chat Dx Regardless, thanks for playing! It's one of my favorite games!
@@NomadKolibria it's also important to highlight on the counterpoint that a lot of what I "missed" because of chat wasn't chat... It simply didn't make any impression on me at the time and I don't understand the significance and so I don't comment on what I witness. Couple of points being made from the community were simply aspects of "hindsight" and indepth game knowledge that I yet did not possess.
Actually. 🤓👆 Physics is a gameplay mechanic that Half-Life 2 pushed into mainstream. Half Life 1 was the game, that popularized environmental storytelling in videogames. Before HL1, the trend was- "Story in a game is like story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not important.” -John Carmack. HL1 showed how to tell story through level design alone, without taking away control from player and interfering with gameplay flow. Not that these things didn't exist before HL games, but HL games were such a big hit, that it heavily influenced future games through entire videogame industry.
Oh, you must play Prey (2017). And maybe Kerbal Space Program and Subnautica. And do you do movie reactions? I'd love to get a physicist's view on Mindwalk (1990), or Borders (TV Movie 1989).
OOH and The Invincible. It's the 70's Soviet future, so everything is yellow plastic, and analogue. Even the x-ray vision ground penetrating gadget readout seems to be some kind of CRT oscilloscope doing wireframes, and even though you have a drone, you have to develop the slides and hold them up to the light to look at things it takes photos of.
i highly recomend using the BMCE addon on the steam workshop, the instalation is tricky but in return you have a lot more interesting and improved staff members+new ones that dont effect the game play and dont brake the lore
The Pizza Code Mystery-Black Mesa ARG This goes deep, and we haven't figured it out after a decade + I first learned about when I noticed Dr. D. Sezen's desktop computer has a screen rant about Dr. Horn. reads as follows on the "Awesumz - word pad" // I heard Dr. Horn was on a rampage again. I have an awesome idea, I shall yous my lee7 // programming skillz to send him a batch file wat crashes his computer for like 10 mins. // That will teach him to keep // telling me to fix things. Stupid level designers overusing the entities in maps. Its not like us coders // don't warn them about possible repercussions of overusing things like ambient generics. // how were we supposed to know they would lower the limits in the new pdk base... // i found another of those odd pizza messages again today. I have a feeling its related to whats // on the board over yonder. im new though, so maybe its something ongoing. Going to watch Star // Trek tonight, S04e03 I think. Should give me some ideas for code. @ocho off:crash start goto crash The screen is full of interesting tidbits, like instead of a start button, there is a fix it button. And at the bottom of a message, there is a "press F1 for help" text. When you activate the keyboard, the screen turns blue and then the computer sparks, catches on fire and goes black. Then there is a message of "FIX IT DENIZ!!!" When you get to Dr Horn's desk, there is no board. But when you get into the primary Laser room, there is a coded message from Dr. Horn to Dr. Bottomley. I don't know how to decode it. But I suspect it has something to do with sumz. It reads. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3367046024 DR BOTTOMLEY 31529 63776 21295 33399 44534 97341 68095 91847 99899 47843 91327 76794 07031 80431 91909 02118 97319 80497 17819 91998 59314 91931 41651 49161 97998 43089 11933 13937 48491 89198 98878 29905 90941 84992 89313 27810 43844 11818 39111 19562 74899 49301 99848 05075 50994 47717 11522 89919 13139 93187 87339 89438 64933 23042 09364 38899 25012 93143 93496 10193 68393 99855 90591 22893 84499 88299 23898 73571 38537 15395 81199 28050 39045 51198 32189 91192 71948 45160 15835 13817 89530 19314 97313 00149 44841 39991 95319 03338 19887 71111 82261 19390 95231 31788 08497 97784 11139 39519 34949 93559 35177 10951 18199 31599 70923 15122 98343 94109 31461 DR HORN The code to break it is found in Star Trek TNG season 4 episode 3, Data gives a very long password for security sake. And that is just the start of the mystery. It just keeps going, and going, and going, until we are all up to date and lost as to where to go next.
DOOM 3 kinda stole the theme of the original Half-Life as many other games have because Half-Life is a great game. It is so much fun to watch someone who has no idea about the game yet. You will like playing Black Mesa but it is a long play to the finish.
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'paleo' means very old or ancient, (eg palaeontologists study prehistoric Earth, dinosaurs etc), so "still studying paleo-mathematics?" is a brutal burn and diss implying that your mathematical techniques are out of date and belong in a museum.
Lol
If the game was made today, it would've been called Legacy-mathematics
Brutal burns doled out by PhD's are actually radioactive, instead of thermal - This is why the damage takes a while to manifest.
"I'm theoretically coming" Oh boy... that sounds familiar.
@@etvon32
Oh nahh
Ohhh, that's chemistry, RUN!!!
Spoken like a true physics major
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Don't run, find its Hamiltonian and simulate it ab-initio using DFT, HF or QMC methods. All chemistry is made of physics, i.e. quantum mechanics. Computing power is the only limitation in converting physics to chemistry, chemistry to biology, biology to psychology, philosophy, art, music, etc.
I love how your solution to the first set of barnacles is to use body parts to keep them occupied
thats not **the** solution? XD
@@DrToxicTofuI think you may have set the new standard 😆
@@DrToxicTofu the breaks. You'd hit the breaks.
@@DrToxicTofu You never looked up, and you shot like, so slowly, you can shoot extremely fast. The solution is just to kill them? xD But, Its not a big deal, its just funny that you instantly went to sacrifice him.
Barrels
Finally, someone who can understand to some level what all these fancy-ass whiteboards said. I only understood the biology ones later on
haha understand is a strong word haha :D unless you practice the field you do forget what you studied! its still fun though!
@@DrToxicTofuyeah i did 2 years of web development classes in high school and immediately forgot it all when i graduated.
24:15 - This is not mistake, this is an easter egg - Dr. Gina Cross is the one of two protagonists in "Half-Life: Decay" co-op spinoff.
She wears the same HEV suit, and this scientist just not recognized that there was Dr. Freeman in this HEV suit.
The other protagonist is Dr. Colette Green.
I think those two ladies took two other HEV suits from the stands before Dr. Freeman have arrived (because Dr. Freeman is late).
The other spinoff, "Half Life: Blue Shift" let you play for Barney Calhoun, the security guy, and you can use cameras on the security post to see Dr. Freeman and Dr. Cross on the monitor, when Dr. Freeman is not in his HEV suit yet, but Dr. Cross is already in her HEV suit and transporting the Zen Crystal to the lift into test chamber.
Dr. Cross was also the one who was Freeman's hologram instructor for the Hazardous Training Course. In the PS2 version's manual booklet you can find a training schedule with familiar names such as Freeman, Calhoun, Cross, Green and Steiner.
I never picked that up! God this fan remake is so good. You can tell they love half life dearly
@@ZombifiedBuizel whos Steiner?
@@jerbeary11 I didn't realize I typed that. I meant Kleiner
TinyToxicTofu doesn't need to hear all this. She's a highly trained professional
as a half life vet this was a PAIN to watch through seeing you pass all the medkits and be confused by your actions. i get its a blind playthrough but i was physically screaming at my monitor
It took a while but I eventually got it! 🤣
Half life and Portal were confirmed to share the same canonical universe in the Portal games. You may recall a mention of black mesa by Glados, well...now you're in it.
I do remember you're right 🤣
@DrToxicTofu Also Half Life 2 directly mentions Aperture Science and their facility. If you play Half Life 2 (or haven't already) be prepared for the story to just end unfinished. It's sad but we will always be left on a cliffhanger that will probably never be finished
@@atheist101 boy is there some good news for you
@@vidyajamesu and what's that?
@@atheist101 valve are actively working on another half life title, there's been lots of coverage recently. Like it's not an announcement but check Tyler McVicker's video on the subject, there's a reason to hope again
Theoretical Physics? Well, dont we all have a theoretical degree in physics!
We're all fantastic
@@WhiskeyTheDerg filled with micropastic!
@@arnabbiswasalsodeep I dont know if this is some reference, but I was trying to reference Fallout NV
@@WhiskeyTheDerg i went with the barbie song & parodied it a bit. "I'm made of plastic, its fantastic."
hypothetical physics haha new major new dumb idea. should mod that lol. don't mind me I'm a hypothetical rocket scientist.
37:25, if any of you haven’t noticed but that’s Kevin Brighting. The same guy who voice acted the Narrator in the game The Stanley Parable 😃
@@mr.nobody2858 I didn't know!
@@DrToxicTofu Well now you do 😊
You made a mistake… But then you immediately quick saved your actions! lol
The poor guy is permanently dead now
1:43 oh dang she should’ve played the old one then 😭
"The graphics are a bit primitive"
Well... its a lot better than the original half life from 1999...
I just meant there was clearly something wrong visually, a few minutes later I realized there was setting issues hence fixing it live on stream!
That that conversation at 18:12 is actually also a reference to how various peolle felt about their project of "remastering" half life
1:43
"Okay... The graphics are... very primitive"
I can see where this might come from, but I would argue it's very good for what it is. Also, try to play the original HL if you have time, with classic weapon/NPC models.
If I'm not mistaken that comment came from the fact that the graphics quality was low (grainy and 2d) I'm not sure if I edited it out of this VOD but I actually increase the quality in the settings later.
@@DrToxicTofu yes, I saw it later on. To be fair, despite overall coherent and up-to-par (for the date of release) image quality, especially after enabling experimental "above-ultra" checkbox at the bottom of the graphics settings menu, game textures are somewhat blurry when studied up close. Not sure if it's the limitation of the game engine or done deliberately to avoid having hight and medium resolution textured objects next to each other.
13:20
@@enricofermi3471 Definitely a limitation of the 20 year old source engine. A retro game got updated into a less retro engine, basically.
Pretty pretentious for having primitive perception filters, what can you not automatically upgrade graphics within your being? Still only human.
It is really cool that you happened to play this in May, most people theorize that the incident at black mesa took place in may 13th of 2003.
2002*
Fun fact: Aperture Science (Portal) and Black Mesa are rival science corporations in the same game universe (of course).
Not even a second in and seeing you kill a scientist, i knew it was going to be a good playthrough.
@@oopus4 listen, officially, it was an accident
My math professor once said that learning hard math causes you to forget the easy stuff. He said this right after writing "3^3 = 9" by mistake in front of an entire proofs class, and nobody caught it until 15 minutes later, when his proof wasn't proofing correctly.
Anyway, that's what I was thinking when you explained all the white boards, which I've never heard any other streamer do, only to then get bitten by 4 out of your first 7 barnacles. Subscribed.
33:50 The LIGO gravitational wave detector had this problem. They found something in the first hour and the signal looked exactly like they expected with no frills and the peak frequency was just in the range of peak sensitivity. They were just like "whatever man, I don't have time for this; the world doesn't work this way". Then they got paranoid that someone tried to fake the signal somehow because it just couldn't be true; before eventually convincing themselves it was true.
Came for Black Mesa playthrough, subbed for feeding barnacles body parts
@@xTriplexS they're hungry too!
Only half way, but i hope you learn to break crates with the crowbar. Fun video, first time on your channel. Your reactions are fun 😊
Listen, wait till you find out how long it took for me to notice those heals on the walls 🤣 this is was an honest to God blind playthrough 😂😂
@@DrToxicTofu Blinds are the best. I remember playing this with my brother when I was 16 (41 now). We got stuck all the time, but this game was one of a kind. People you can talk to? A story? An actual location? Blew our minds. I can dream this game, finished it 100 times 😂 love seeing new people still enjoying this classic.
Also I am a chemist, whats wrong with chemistry? Dont run... 😂
this is the perfect half life reaction playthrough on the internet.
I love everything about this and you! As well as your accent!
"Hazard suit? What theoretical physicist gets into a hazard suit?"
Oh, I'm going to love this
I love this. I really love seeing new persons jump into black mesa
very nice video!
just wait till she finds out the entire lore of every half life game in existance
Great reason to replay and find all the Easter eggs!
thanks for playing black mesa really, I gonna watch the another vods for sure!
"The graphics are very primitive"
That hurt :')
Also I think "Paleomathematics" (stone age math) is a joke on "haha you dum"
In-universe you're regarded kinda badly at the start because of how upstart your employment was.
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@@keyboard_toucher Yeah, I saw that, I wrote that comment because on my first time playing black mesa, before the zen stuff was in back in the day, I literally had to play on lowest settings because I was running on an actual potato. My GT220 did not like this game at all :')
And it still blew me away at the time xD
The poster at 1:44:26 seems to be based on a real paper, "Precession and chaos in the classical two-body problem in a spherical universe". There's a steam workshop add-on that increases the resolution of all posters high enough that you can read the abstract.
@@ja31472 that's class,! I did struggle to read properly, didn't help with my bad eyesight
Wow, a real physicist playing Half Life. Love it. Great playthrough!
I love how she doesn't know the game and we geeks are just sitting here thinking: "you're going the wrong way"! :D
@@schwartzseymour357 it is unfortunate that so many comments are awfully negative about me not knowing the mechanics/secrets etc but it's a first playthrough! I must learn like you guys first did!
@@DrToxicTofu I wasn't being mean, I think it's cute. :D
@@schwartzseymour357 didn't mean you just that some comments are very aggressive for me missing things. The reality is, this is a truthful blind playthrough! XD
@@DrToxicTofu You're right, you should be free to mess up like we all did. However, I will say you're a bit too distracted for this game, most of HL and HL2 story isn't directly told but comes from details in the world, things you hear around, posters, newspapers, radio broadcasts, or even graffiti. You don't need to be OCD about it and the games are still fun even if you ignore the story altogether, but you do miss out imho.
@DrToxicTofu Don't be sad. I think they come from a place of love for this game and from a wish to see you experience the best it has to offer.
The beginning, especially, is littered with fun things you can interact and mess with, causing some havoc for your colleagues.
I wish people weren't being mean about it and just enjoyed your otherwise great playthough full of physicist insights 😄
*Tofu is holding a gun*
*Watches guy slowly and painfully die to "his friend with a little bugger on his head."*
"Yeah, there was nothing I coulda done there."
XD
Honestly, it must be your lack of American-ness, but you often seem to forget that you can just shoot things, 'ticks,' 'tongue-things,' 'Pinkies-ish,' 'imps from doom three,' and so on are all highly allergic to bullets, I assure you.
Edit: Oh, and we can't forget the innocent and very easily murdered scientist ladies that trust you with their life. Those are very shoot-able.
haha I love this comment xD
Since you have played Portal you probably know what happened at Aperture. This game takes place 1 week after GLaDOS is put online. She locked down Aperture and killed everyone in the facility a week ago from everything that happens in this game. Also this is the same universe and Aperture was the competitor company. Black Mesa often stole designs from Aperture and because of it Black Mesa always beat Aperture for government funding. In an alternate universe Aperture is the successful company and they buy out Black Mesa renaming it Blaperture Mesa they also close down the area Gordon works because they deemed it too unsafe which is ironic coming from Aperture. At this time Aperture and Black Mesa were competing to make portal technology. Black Mesa was unaware that Aperture had already perfected portal technology in the 1960s and they may have already gone to the boarder world too.
no surprise it have same movement like counter-strike as counter-strike originated as a mod for half-life after all :D
55:21 That gave me so much nostalgia of when I played Half-Life as a kid and didn't know where to go so for YEARS (Gosh I was stupid) and didn't know where to go until I found UA-cam.
The original game didn't have much in terms of a physics engine. There was a system for moving boxes and floating barels but that was about it if I remember correctly. The groundbreaking physics engine was mainly the second games job. HL1 was mostly revolutionary for relatively advanced NPC behavior and modeling as well as being pretty much the first FPS game where story took center stage.
That conversation at 19:00 is a in-joke about this game being a fan remake of half life 1
12:09 If you want to have fun laughs; below the desk, there should be button! that’ll put the whole facility into emergency if you push it xD
You can mess around so much in Black Mesa intro!
I am playing it again by myself! As this was a first blind playthrough I didn't know anything about the game! It just happened to be a gift I got, I wanted a fun shooter and I was obviously pleasantly surprised! I know I missed a lot of interactions etc that I'm going back on but I just truly didn't even know what I didnt know! 😂
@@DrToxicTofu no worries! (this is hunter, i'm currently using my main account; i was not supposed to use alternative xD)
Black Mesa has evolved a shit lot from Half-Life. you can do so many hilarious shit in the intro! (they even included multiplayer...)
I probably have the video somewhere in my channel named "Trying To Get Fired in Black Mesa" which shows the variety of stuff that you can do before proceeding to the actual gameplay XD
and welcome to the black mesa community!
keep up the good work! :D
@@DrToxicTofuin the starting break room that is on the way to the locker room, theres a microwave and you can turn it up to ruin someone’s casserole inside. you finally meet the owner of the casserole (magnusson) in half life 2 episode 2 where he mentions he’s still angry about it so many years later.
bluescreen errors on the computers, that's the real horror here
I really enjoyed how you got distracted by any math equation yous aw until you came across the chemistry one lol
Yeah Doom 3 is basically darker version of the first Half-Life game. It has much better graphics and lights compared to Half-Life 1 though. It's also ironic because HL1 is basically more advanced Quake (another id software game) because they share their codebase.
Fun fact: flickering light effect in both Half-Life Alyx (2020) and Quake (1996) have the same pattern. The same pattern is also in Portal.
Now I get why so many scientists couldn't survive😂
"Which one do I test it on - right or left?"
Quick Save
- Both?
- Both!
- Both!!
- Both is good
@@HeavySandvichGuy1 love road to El Dorado!
@DrToxicTofu a bit out of context, but if you do video reactions, you should react to "Pootis Engage" and "Pootis Engage Extreme"
Half-Life 1 didn't have any physics engine, it was Half-Life 2 that was praised for it
@@shrub8644 but black mesa was built on the half life 2 engine 🚂
@@DrToxicTofu yeah I'm just talking about the original 1998 game
"She walked into your bullet? Sure lady, save it for the judge!"
@@magmat0585 but she did judge I swear
@@DrToxicTofu And the others?! XD
Drinking wine while playing an fps horror is a crazy big dick move and I’m all for it
I love a good Black Mesa/Half Life Blind LP, and a physicist's take on it should make for a really interesting series!
something i would want to mention as a fun fact is that Gordon Freeman has a PhD in theoretical physics and got that degree in MIT. also that Gordon can speak but throughout the game series he doesn't have a chance to speak. hope these fun facts help know a little more about Gordon.
you did better in the flooded tunnels then any other streamer ive watched playe this game!
1:16:22 the barnacle ate the headcrab 💀
Those poor scientists!also the guy get CPR actually lived in the original half life,the CPR worked
Really? I forgot about that
When I first found out about the G man It freaked me out knowing that I was being watched but didn’t notice it. Hope it does the same for you :)
8:47 on the other tram to the left
14:19 In that office in the left
1:04:46 On top of the ledge
2:30:18 You can just about see him walking away from the locked door on the far right
I noticed twice and honestly at the time didn't think much of it, assumed it was layered graphics etc and I noticed him later in the games a few times. It being a blind playthrough I didn't understand the significance of G man
Ok, so the idea im getting from the SEM, its its a fancy machine that required you to bling out something
“The graphics are… primitive” you should see the original half life lol
Half Life 1 1998 was the first game with a real story and friendly npcs where you could move things and push buttons. the physics stuff came with Half life 2 in 2004
man i love coming into work and the ANTI MASS SPECTROMETER FUCKING BLOWS UP and then OH MY GOD BARNEY LOOK A HEADCRAB NOO- and then A GUY GETS MAD 25 YEARS LATER ABOUT A FUCKING CASSEROLE IN THE BREAK ROOM and then humanity gets enslaved by a silly little army named the combine 😊😊😊
sorry for the spoilers
its suposed to be a military research facility, thats why they are developing a lot of guns, including that missile.
For you to know, Black Mesa is rival to Aperture Science in portals creation research and teleportation.
Physicist this good looking only exist in Hollywood. Issa Industry Plant bois.
Watching you play this is fun LOL
@@spacatti I'm glad, hope you enjoy!
Wait you have a UA-cam channel too? Omg this is so cool
technically same year was released trespasser (sort of jurassic park game) which had even better* physics
58:08
Tofu: "I don't need to hear all this, I'm a Highly Trained Professional!"
Half life 1 had near zero physics, Half life 2 made big steps in that direction.
Half life 1 was a much bigger step. It was pretty much the first game that put alot of effort in story telling through game design. Back then most shooters were just corridors with enemies.
1:27:28.
Gordon on the Black Mesa incident (prob):
It wasn't me. I just witnessed the incident. It was not my fault. I did not do that on purpose. I wasn't the problem.
1:56:52.
Don't know if you missed that callout, but like the orignal game, this title has so many small details that you probably would have missed on a first playthrough.
Valid and based
Fact : use F6 to quicksave while in game, and F7 to quick load
(Oh and theres an achivent rrlated to the microwave at the beggining)
Recommend changing qs to f5
love this game. and the more workshop shit that is out it's great.
Just wait until you play HL2 and get to witness the glory that is the zero point energy field manipulator! 🌚
2:11:04
“Why are you running?”
Oh if only you knew 😣
I just found this playthrough, I know you’ve already completed the game so this isn’t a spoiler, but I’m so grateful for how this Black Mesa remake expanded on the Interloper chapter in Xen to make it clear to any new player the truth about the Vortigaunts
Because the original Half Life did nothing to make it clear that they were enslaved by the final boss, you’d have to be a genius to put two and two together to note that the green things around them are slave collars
Seemed pretty clear to me that something was up. The vortigaunts quit attacking you on sight in the last few chapters. They also appeared to be under supervision by the Alien Grunts and Xen Masters. They also appeared to be busy with something as they'd run back and forth between the various alien machines and technology. Also with the low rez models it's pretty clear they have shackles on. The high rez models are not so clear about that.
1:35:47 me too!! I love steam so much and their games
Primitive!? Now look here, it's called tasteful! Tasteful graphics. Refined! ... Jokes aside, you should play the original Half Life, that's primitive. One could go back farther in time, but I digress. I think the dev team did a wonderful job on remaking the game and the graphics update was wonderful.
I'm not sure if I will since it is before my time. That being said I am very pleasantly surprised how enjoyable this is without a direct nostalgia so who knows! 😄
@@DrToxicTofuow I wouldn't recommend it unless you're into that 😄 That's why the remake was a blessing to me, as a big half life fan. Black Mesa was my first play through of HL1. In some games, like doom64, I don't mind the older graphics because they added higher resolution support.
This game gets better and better as you go and the end is amazing, so enjoy your journey while it lasts. And there is always hl2 & ep1 and 2 if you want more, trust that they are worth the time.
@@DrToxicTofuI'm old enough That I actually grew up on the original and I highly do not recommend going back to it. Without nostalgia it does not hold up. I really want the guys who made this remake to do a remake of opposing force. The blue shift remake looks pretty good but the problem is blue shift is incredibly short as a game.
She only stood there for five seconds...!
Still working through Black Mesa myself, but I loved your reaction to the first barnacle encounter in that hallway.
Edit: Also, the scientist who decided to shield you (and got a bullet to the head for her efforts), and the one who got both barrels from your new shotgun🤣
Apologies if you’ve already answered this, but would you ever play half life/half life 2 on stream?!
Yes! Black Mesa was a "filler game" and I was shocked hot much I loved it - half life 2 is on the list this summer!
1:43 As someone who just recently finished the original 1998 Half Life that comment made me laugh.
8:47 How she missed the G-Man staring at her because "cute robot!" xD
14:20 missed seeing the G-Man a second time.
1:40:45 dat loot face tho
But cute robot!
It's all hindsight because I didn't even know who gman was or what the significance is. I didn't know to keep an eye for him if that makes sense.
@@DrToxicTofu CUTE ROBOT!! =D
Sorry if this came across as criticism, I was just observing your intensely entertaining gameplay as a huge Half Life fan x3
G-Man is everywhere right from the beginning which gives the whole game quite a different meaning if one knows how the game ends. I'm gonna continue to watch and see where you first notice G-Man, that'll surely be a fun moment 😁
I suppose this is a personal nitpick but I always hate when people play games like these on stream, they always miss things because their attention is divided between the game and chat Dx
Regardless, thanks for playing! It's one of my favorite games!
@@NomadKolibria it's also important to highlight on the counterpoint that a lot of what I "missed" because of chat wasn't chat... It simply didn't make any impression on me at the time and I don't understand the significance and so I don't comment on what I witness. Couple of points being made from the community were simply aspects of "hindsight" and indepth game knowledge that I yet did not possess.
Spoiler-ish:
if you saved the security guard from the zombie, he unlocks the chain link gate and you can get an early shotgun
Did it really take an average gamer over 40 minutes to start the game? I'm still hooked every time I take 40+ minutes to get to play it :)
0:31 Physicist just testing the game's physics. Nothing unusual to see here
Press E you can talk to scientists
2:28:44 OMGG HAHAHAHAHAHHAFKLLKMADLKASNLKS 💀💀
that was so good
I did that one time, I regret even to this day
Actually. 🤓👆 Physics is a gameplay mechanic that Half-Life 2 pushed into mainstream. Half Life 1 was the game, that popularized environmental storytelling in videogames. Before HL1, the trend was- "Story in a game is like story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not important.” -John Carmack. HL1 showed how to tell story through level design alone, without taking away control from player and interfering with gameplay flow. Not that these things didn't exist before HL games, but HL games were such a big hit, that it heavily influenced future games through entire videogame industry.
2:12:32 You and I had the exact same reaction in this moment
1:45:55
*shoots zombie*
"Guess I can't shoot the zombie"
I'm pretty sure that decathlon got cancelled
Yep, this was very painful to watch :D It's funny though. Hope you enjoyed it!
im just raging how she was skipping every first aid stations
Some people like challenge runs 😎
Oh, you must play Prey (2017). And maybe Kerbal Space Program and Subnautica.
And do you do movie reactions? I'd love to get a physicist's view on Mindwalk (1990), or Borders (TV Movie 1989).
OOH and The Invincible. It's the 70's Soviet future, so everything is yellow plastic, and analogue. Even the x-ray vision ground penetrating gadget readout seems to be some kind of CRT oscilloscope doing wireframes, and even though you have a drone, you have to develop the slides and hold them up to the light to look at things it takes photos of.
1:51:45 because all Guinea pigs shriek and sound like they are exploding.
The game, the sweatshirt, the glass of wine i guess.. You are my future wife.
You played any of the modern Doom games? 2016 or Eternal?
I played 2016!
@@DrToxicTofu Ah cool! 🙂 Eternal is personally my favorite game of all time. Can't wait to see what The Dark Ages brings.
i highly recomend using the BMCE addon on the steam workshop, the instalation is tricky but in return you have a lot more interesting and improved staff members+new ones that dont effect the game play and dont brake the lore
Luckily I figured out the crash! So luckily was all sorted but thank you!
epic!
The Pizza Code Mystery-Black Mesa ARG
This goes deep, and we haven't figured it out after a decade +
I first learned about when I noticed Dr. D. Sezen's desktop computer has a screen rant about Dr. Horn.
reads as follows on the
"Awesumz - word pad"
// I heard Dr. Horn was on a rampage again. I have an awesome idea, I shall yous my lee7
// programming skillz to send him a batch file wat crashes his computer for like 10 mins.
// That will teach him to keep
// telling me to fix things. Stupid level designers overusing the entities in maps. Its not like us coders
// don't warn them about possible repercussions of overusing things like ambient generics.
// how were we supposed to know they would lower the limits in the new pdk base...
// i found another of those odd pizza messages again today. I have a feeling its related to whats
// on the board over yonder. im new though, so maybe its something ongoing. Going to watch Star
// Trek tonight, S04e03 I think. Should give me some ideas for code.
@ocho off:crash
start
goto crash
The screen is full of interesting tidbits, like instead of a start button, there is a fix it button. And at the bottom of a message, there is a "press F1 for help" text. When you activate the keyboard, the screen turns blue and then the computer sparks, catches on fire and goes black. Then there is a message of "FIX IT DENIZ!!!"
When you get to Dr Horn's desk, there is no board.
But when you get into the primary Laser room, there is a coded message from Dr. Horn to Dr. Bottomley. I don't know how to decode it. But I suspect it has something to do with sumz.
It reads.
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3367046024
DR BOTTOMLEY
31529 63776 21295 33399 44534
97341 68095 91847 99899 47843
91327 76794 07031 80431 91909
02118 97319 80497 17819 91998
59314 91931 41651 49161 97998
43089 11933 13937 48491 89198
98878 29905 90941 84992 89313
27810 43844 11818 39111 19562
74899 49301 99848 05075 50994
47717 11522 89919 13139 93187
87339 89438 64933 23042 09364
38899 25012 93143 93496 10193
68393 99855 90591 22893 84499
88299 23898 73571 38537 15395
81199 28050 39045 51198 32189
91192 71948 45160 15835 13817
89530 19314 97313 00149 44841
39991 95319 03338 19887 71111
82261 19390 95231 31788 08497
97784 11139 39519 34949 93559
35177 10951 18199 31599 70923
15122 98343 94109 31461
DR HORN
The code to break it is found in Star Trek TNG season 4 episode 3, Data gives a very long password for security sake. And that is just the start of the mystery. It just keeps going, and going, and going, until we are all up to date and lost as to where to go next.
DOOM 3 kinda stole the theme of the original Half-Life as many other games have because Half-Life is a great game. It is so much fun to watch someone who has no idea about the game yet. You will like playing Black Mesa but it is a long play to the finish.
personally, I find difficult to Steam be evil, but we never know :(
58:48 office after crowdstrike
1:31:22 I liked where she was going with that idea, but it wasn’t going to work.