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hey guys. idea. gordon freeman domestic post canon life. dad bod. nod if you understand.

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Have this little guy that I made for an au I like to call SIMULATION REALITY

gordom wayne martinez (I took the surname from another fic from the AO3 series called The One True Streamman by @blacktobackmesa, pls go check it its so cool)

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Picturing Gordon and Gman doing filing out a dad things bingo card for fun.

I'll take that and raise you Tommy and Joshua filling out the bingo cards without telling their dads a thing.

"I got Bingo! My daddy does the loud sneeze thing!" "Aw, shoot! You got it. Actually, I-- I don't know if I've ever heard my pop sneeze. I think he can do it?" "Maybe his sneeze causes a sonic boom. An' he doesn't sneeze around you to protect you." "...Yeah!"

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Wait.... Does the intercom count as self aware?

Don't Worry About It ☺️ this will Not come up ever

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Remembering that brief moment when Tommy follows Forzen for the beyblade. And just, picturing Gman just giving his son a dissapointed look for leaving the group and teleporting him back.

"Where did I go so wrong..."

"Hadn't you only existed as a person for like an hour when that happened? I don't think you had anything to do with that choice."

"...I am. Such an absent father."

"Oh come ON!"

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When do u think the AIs became self aware?

Depends how you define the term. I've posted before on when they each realized the truth of their reality, so now we're asking either A. When they became autonomous and able to have thoughts not given to them by the program or B. When they first became aware of their ability to think.

Both are hard to answer, but B is near IMPOSSIBLE to answer because they would have no way of knowing that what thoughts were not their own to begin with.

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i've been thinking about this for a minute now ever since the ask about Gordon building their home while the AIs watch-- I imagine Bubby missing stargazing and stuff, and Gordon's like oh! well... here :) and then implements a bunch of stunning night skies-- constantly visible because who tf gonna program in light pollution!? idk i think it's sweet. Maybe Bubby can add a star since it's a texture :) a special star for him n coomer...

Bubby puts a new star in the sky that's only in the sky on the day of his and Coomer's anniversary. The impossibility of it would bother him if it was there all the time, and it would break the immersion of the otherwise synced up sky simulation. Since it's just a one night treat, it gets to be as unrealistic as he likes, changing colors between bright green and blue.

I can't decide if it would be sweeter for Gordon to stream eclipses and meteor showers to them when they occur in his sky or if Darnold should have connected the program to some meteorology satellite feed so that they can get those events in real time.

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hi alxyz

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i'm all for unique vortigaunt ocs

i know the point of vorts is that they're probably all meant to look the same because they are all one because of the vortessence or whaever

but

who cares? valve? they're not gonna come to your house and hold you by the collar of your shirt and shout in your face DELETE YOUR VORTIGAUNT OC POST THEY LOOK TOO COOL YOU CANT DO THAT

so make cool unique vort ocs, give them different patterns or eye colours or skin colours fuck it man

vorts are cool but they can always be cooler :)

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maybe if i think really hard about video game character everything will be okay

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hlvrai babies are born

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this snark is the dog from hl1

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recreation of an image I saw in a dream two days ago

in the dream hl2vrai was released but you could only watch it live if you made a sign that looked like this. the text could say anything but this is what I wrote on mine.

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Life After Half Life 2

i think even if stable populations of bovines survived the two decades of Combine occupation, they would be a very rare resource. It would make sense for goat products to be the primary source of dairy for Earth's rebuilding communities.

gordon: so this "white gilgamesh" thing is a staple beverage these days?

barney: [deception skills shaped by years of soul-sucking work infiltrating a fascist police state] oh absolutely. take a big swig

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