Gabe Newell personally approved of the giant testicle monster when it was in danger of getting cut out of the game.

Somebody should make mod where experiment ends successfully, Gordon spends rest of his day on paper work, eats dinner in the kitchen, drinks beer with Barney and returns home by train at 5 pm

“Crouch Jumping” in real life is just tucking your legs up, so they’re not dangling underneath you while you’re trying to clera a fence or something.

38:40 Dario Casali confirmed doing that map in his Half Life playthrough. He indeed placed that turret here.

I fuckin’ love how every time he talks about ID, he has to come up with a new title for our “all powerful omnipotent deity of engineering” John Carmack

“It’s bad to blame it all on one person, except Randy Pitchford”

Gotta love how that’s slipped in between various jokes about Casali and enemy placement.

“There aren’t political prisoners being kept in a subterranean prison and being forced to play video games to make reviews on them, Freeman. You’re just being paranoid.”

I actually always saw the "youre a decisive man" line from the gman as a clue that freeman is being manipulated. You have proven that you will do as youre told, what else would his employers want?

22:02 in Black Mesa the grunts actually mock you with "nice camouflage, asshole!" I always love that detail

51:58 I'm fairly confident that the "mysterious barrels that have aliens in them for some reasons" are supposed to be eggs / individual incubation chambers in which the alien grunts are artificially grown, organic armor and hive hand included. I actually thought it was pretty neat

Fun fact:  The player was originally able to carry up to 15 grenades, but this was changed to 10 later on.  This is the reason that they often appear in clusters of 3 (15)

23:45
In all of my history of gaming, this was hands down the most glorious moment.
When I got HL as a teen, there was pretty much no Internet in Moscow, so nowhere to look up. And I didn't speak English back then, so I couldn't figure out things by listening to NPCs. That damn dragon thing just kept killing me, and I had no idea of how to navigate it. I wasted all my ammo on it in vain, then got frustrated to a point when I just quit playing it for a year or so.    
A year later I heard from someone that the dragon was deaf, and that I could sneak past it. And when I did, and I started that fuel and oxygen compressors, I distinctively remember the feeling when I approached the "Launch" button in the control room. Ending my year of humiliation would take just pressing the button. And so I did. No buttons I pressed since would even remotely give me the sense of satisfaction I felt that day like 22 years ago.

Value Employee: Dario Casarili, we're running short on time, think you can do the Surface Tension level all on your own?
Dario: Yes.

"Voila, hentai averted"
- Civvie, 2021

"its not as elegant as Modern Major General but it'll do"

I was waiting for a Freeman's Mind joke. A+

44:26
This joke is now way funnier knowing Ross just uploaded a video that's about as long as this one about the game he's playing here

Great video, I haven't watched it yet. Is this game any good?

"Why does the pistol work underwater?"
Because Glocks are one of few pistols that do reliably work underwater out of the box. Admittedly they're ineffective as fuck but they're one of few that doesn't just straight up fail to work when you fire the first shot underwater. They don't reliably cycle but that first shot will always work.

"Valve's first game was.. Half-life." Well fuck, what is there left to do other than creating an entire gaming platform. If you keep going things can only go downhill

13:20 The Scientist Hunt mod was great. They had a game mode where one player was disguised as a scientist in a map full of regular NPC scientists and the other had to identify them and kill them. The scientist player got points for every innocent NPC scientist the hunter killed. An early precursor to Prop Hunt.