>Has a PHD from MIT
>Position at Black Mesa is "research associate"
So he's basically an intern? Why???
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>Has a PHD from MIT. >Position at Black Mesa is "research associate"
Gotta start from somewhere
With all the shady stuff BM did they probably wanted to see if you could be trusted
what the frick where is he
Go away, mobile poster.
...that's a cropped desktop image
ignore boomer morons that don't know about the catalog
Because having a PHD at MIT only opened the door, Black Mesa is like the top minds of the world. He still has to pay his dues to prove what he can accomplish.
How did the security guards and barney earned their position at BM? you would think they would all be ex-military/secret services but they all seemed like chumps you find at wallmart.
Security is a pretty low entry job, realistically BM would likely just give them extra tests to make sure they're less moronic than average. As long as they don't have access to any dangerous tech they only need to know the security protocols and to carry a gun without firing it randomly.
I just played Half-Life and could have sworn there was something implying that all security guards had military experience or other kinds of training to put them in an upper echelon, but maybe I'm going schizo. Obviously they come off as dopey because there are limited lines, they're probably supposed to be friendly (it's not like mall rent-a-cops where they have to deal with shoplifters), and there's going to be a sense of confusion/annoyance that the people they're paid to protect may have just doomed the world.
Barney from Blue Shift only had an undecided major after 2 years in college
>I just played Half-Life and could have sworn there was something implying that all security guards had military experience or other kinds of training to put them in an upper echelon
Gearbox expansions are not canon.
Then why Barney and Colette are Canon?
That fat bastard accurately one-hands a Desert Eagle, he's earned his job.
when your arm weights like a hand cannon you are used to it
HL: Blue Shift started with reskin of Black Mesa Hazard Course.
Cust cutting by corporations.
Black Mesa has a lot of "frayed carpet" if you pay attention.
Anon that's what most security guards are like in real life
These are the goobers defending US nuclear assets
Why do they all look like dorky dweebs?
Because they're USAF Security Forces
Air Force
Is that the guy from EB games in the back? Long ass neck over there bud
He had a post-doc between MIT and Black Mesa, but 'Associate' level is a common starting position. Black Mesa, presumably the leading research institution on the entire planet in the Half-Life world, is undoubtedly chock full of MIT, Harvard, etc graduates.
t. biotech researcher with a PhD who started as an Associate Scientist
Should add that if he was working an intern-like position, his job title would be something closer to "Lab Technician", "Temp/Travelling Research Associate", etc. Research Associate/Associate Scientist/Associate Professor means dedicated employment, but too junior to be considered a lead of their own project.
did you make Covid
It was a group effort, I can't take all the credit.
>undoubtedly chock full of MIT, Harvard, etc graduates.
Remember when degrees from those colleges meant you were smart and well educated, instead of connected and indoctrinated?
They still do, you just have to ignore the dumb degrees and the diversity hires. I can guarantee that the average white/asian guy with an engineering degree from MIT is still going to be pretty fricking smart.
I don't think they offer colonial minority gender studies majors at MIT, but that school has managed to become ultra-pozzed anyway.
it never meant you weren't connected and indoctrinated. if anything changed, it's who you were connected to and what you were indoctrinated with. you lost again.
No I don't, and you don't either because that hasn't been the case in any of our lifetimes. Putting aside MIT, Harvard has always been plagued by midwit socialites and moron legacy admissions.
the past was not as good as you think it was
>Remember when degrees from those colleges meant you were smart and well educated, instead of connected and indoctrinated?
the latter has literally always been the case
Black messa
I thought he had a huge bulge at first but it was just his crowbar lol
Glad I'm not only one
degree inflation
What's his salary?
Competitive :^)
i love how every job entry on indeed says this then you show up, get the job, and it’s €25,000 a year.
See, they're not lying, because they're all shit.
It's competitive but it's a race to the bottom.
I only played Half-Life 1 like the last weekend. Really enjoyed the game. Are the expansion packs fun?
They're worth a play. Blue Shift being a fair bit weaker than Opposing Force, though
Opposing Force is better than HL1 although shorter
Basically every chapter in Opposing Force is a re-treading of something that was already developed for Half-Life. OF is an alright expansion, but I find calling it better than HL absurd.
Barnacles as weapons is enough to prove you wrong
the level design is so much worse
he's 27, that's very young in the research / engineering world. A degree is only the beginning.
I unironically want a Half-Life 3.
the half-life story sucks and no hl3 will fix it
there, I said it
Being a security guard at Black Mesa seemed pretty comfy. I wonder if it was paid well?
Depends on which sector you work tbh
Imagine having to listen to scientists bickering all day
Eh. It seemed like scientists and guards weren't really fond of each other. Weren't there also dormitories for the guards in the black mesa facility?
Azure Sheep
There's a whole bunch of family dormitories.
Sure lil' Alyx got saved but there's probably a whole bunch of civilians and their children who got torn apart and eaten by aliens which is creepy to think about
Because he's a libcuck
knowledge and experience are two separate skillsets
Dr.Freeman I'm with Combine.
he sucked and fricked his way through life until he decided to kill aliens instead. it’s always the quiet ones…
>>Has a PHD
This doesn't mean anything other than you stuck around at tertiary longer to do post-grad work. It doesn't mean you're top echelon, best of the best, most intelligent, etc., etc. I got offered post-grad and I'm a fricking moron that wound up working in a call center instead of the field I spent 4 years studying.
PhD isn't post-grad you schizo
>PhD stands for Doctor of Philosophy and is considered the highest postgraduate achievement you can earn
You're speaking British, I speak English. In America a graduate degree is a Master's or Doctorate.
>In America a graduate degree is a Master's or Doctorate.
Pretty sure they have bachelors for graduates in America.
>Bachelors
It's called undergraduate in America
And doctorate, which is what a PhD is (DOCTOR of Philosophy ), is postgrad which you said yourself so why are you claiming it's not?
i dunno man i just went for the frickin piece of paper and picked up alcoholism on the way
Technically postgrad would be ScD (Scientiae Doctor).
Are you blind?
>You're speaking British, I speak English. In America a graduate degree is a Master's or Doctorate.
PhD is grad, not post-grad.
A PhD and a Doctorate are the same level you schizo. A doctorate is what you get to do practical, hands on work in a field and a PhD is where you study a field and do more academic theory shit. They're just different categories of the same level.
There's a difference between getting a PhD at MIT and a PhD at the Scrimblo Blimblo College for the Mentally Challenged that you were offered.
>Learning 2+2 here, is worth more than learning 2+2 there.
Huh?
It's the networking and connections in addition to the prestige associated with the name. Rich people slough off money like reptiles shedding skin. The closer you are to them, the more you can scrounge.
A graduate curriculum in physics is absolutely going to differ in content between institutions. But more important than the classes is your thesis. Joining a good research group makes a huge difference.
27 years old is like being a newborn baby in the scientific circles.
I'm hurtin Gordon
If you're doing a PhD, you know that's realistic. That's actually a decent employment outcome. Most PhDs end up worse off. Just because you're highly educated doesn't mean you'll get a good job.
>Good job, Gordon. Throwing that switch and all, I can see your M.I.T. education really pays for itself.
>intern
Not anymore, baby!
I wish they made Gordon looking more like Charlie Sheen in the Arrival
More realistic than you think. PHDs don't get you shit. Not unless you know or blow someone.
College is a scam kids. Learn a trade or suffer the reality of no one giving a shit about your credentials. They want realworld skills.
>skills
communication and especially charisma is a far far better skill to have. learn to be a glib fricker, and if you have the skill to back it up, great.
Sounds like you suck a mean one!
Your charismatic communication: "i will suck your dick"
If you can cut it a PhD will definitely serve you better. You just have to temper your expectations and realize that you're not going to get handed everything.
it absolutely matters in STEM
>getting a PhD
>not knowing someone
Your fault for picking a shitty advisor and not collaborating with other labs
A PhD is a doctorate you dumbass, a Doctor of Philosophy of x.
Friendly reminder that the average salary of a Philosophy major is higher then the average of any trade job.
Bullshit. I'm doubtful that even the average philosophy PhD makes more than the average electrician or plumber.
Friendly reminder you can just google it and blow yourself the frick out.
kek
>electrician by whole state
>philosophy per singular specific colleges
Super honest comparison. Not disingenuous at all.
>bro trust my completely unsourced bullshit list instead of what actual regular colleges in California pay
you can just ask anon
https://www.zippia.com/philosophy-major/salary/
Yeah I saw that list and it's obviously horseshit. They use HP as an example when HP is obviously heavily slanted towards engineers, not philosophers.
Jigaboo, read the post I replied to
>Friendly reminder that the average salary of a Philosophy major is higher then the average of any trade job.
He didn't specify PhD at all, and "major" almost always means undergrad, not graduate level.
>Bullshit. I'm doubtful that even the average PHILOSOPHY PHD[...]
Yeah? Maybe go back to school and finish your grade school education, cletus.
Never mind that was your post. Looks like I'm the moron.
I said doubtful though I'm open to evidence to the contrary (none posted yet). Here's another diagram for you to learn from; median starting philosophy major makes a bit under $50k.
i make twice as much being a comp sci bachelor dropout lel
What the frick does a degree holder in the field of philosophy even contribute to the world anyway?
Quotes that play on words?
maybe go to college, get an education, and you can find out
i'm not going back for another degree; especially, a teehee degree like going to a clown college or women's studies.
You posted the pay for a bachelors.
>tradie Black person moron can't read, like pottery
It's definitely higher. It's just a question of is it 'Spend 8 years of hell in school rather than take a trade for a quarter of that time' higher. Most people would answer that you don't make nearly enough. Not to mention the student loans.
The average philosophy PhD who gets a job in academia may make more, but those jobs are very scarce.
>college is a scam
found the midwit coper who thinks every moron will start his own 5+ million dollar plumbing company
enjoy cleaning my toilets while i bring in 300k raul
I'm making six figures with my first job out of college, so not really? I went to community college and a cheap as shit state school for the last two years as well, so I don't owe shit in terms of debt. I will say that I really had no desire to go beyond my undergraduate degree, just because academia seems like a hypercompetitive and generally moronic world.
Gordon is so friggin hawt
That's the reality of a fresh PhD graduate. Even with all that schooling all those other guys ALSO have PhDs and they've been doing it longer than you've even been alive.
He BSed his way into the job, likely from a military scholarship program. Why else do you think the Gman says the right man in the wrong place?
he basically just pushes carts around, the end of the world actually improved his position
How does some MIT nerd survive all of that shit he went through? Breen was asking the right questions
The suit gave him a ton of protection and probably enhanced his strength and endurance. Gordon is also probably autistic as hell (the good kind though) and has an obsession with guns so he can aim pretty well and not freak out under pressure. He was probably LARP'ing that he was in DOOM the whole time and pretended the suit voice was his waifu who would give him a handjob if he survived.
The will to survive.
> Military success
> r = 0.81
Gordon freeman is basically the exact type of person you'd find genuinely trying to be an astronaut, an extremely fit hyper autistic nerd, honestly that was probably his initial intended career path before he realized it's effectively impossible And got the potentially cooler gig at a mad science facility
Why couldn't I be the good type of autist
I don't get that impression at all, if anything he seemed like the kind of person most hardly even notice in spite of his brilliance because he's so quiet and focused on academics/research.
Do you think Gordon would've become part of the Lambda team?
I finished HL Alex the other day. AAAAH WHEN THE FRICK IS HL3!?
>AAAAH WHEN THE FRICK IS HL3!?
Nobody believes you give a shit about HL3. It's been 20 years since Half-Life 2 came out. Nobody gives a frick about it anymore.
I fricking do now. I didn't before I finished Alex. That made it fresh!
>Another aperture science shill
Only the top minds get into black Mesa, we're a serious, renowned institution. Nothing you'd understand.
Besides, even our associates get more benefits and pay than the top "researchers" at A.S(s).
Yea imagine hiring this guy. His first task was pushing a cart, something even a grade schooler can do yet he blows up the entire facility then decides to get hired by a shady gman figure.
Most scientists would be too arrogant to do cart pushing themselves. Freeman proved his ability to be a useful tool by pushing the cart.
After what happened freeman is the last person in the business you want pushing a cart.
You get stuck with the b***h work when you're new, which Gordon is established to be.
Freeman's Mind is cannon and you can't convince me otherwise.
isn't he like 30?
Would rather be a Combine grunt who gets paid in VR waifus to be perfectly fair and honest.
Im so glad I chose to be an army officer and I have a shitty yet forever stable salary
>forever stable
so long as you move up the ladder, right?
don't they kick you out after being the same rank for too long?
A lot of philosophy majors end up in law school.
Sure but now you're adding 4 additional years of college, and competitive college at that if you want to be a good lawyer (legal pay is infamously bimodal)
>Have a English degree (no postgraduate education)
>Wife has a PhD in Biology, with a subspecialty in Hemotology
>I make about 20k more than her, doing a job that had nothing to do with my degree
>But I also could never do what she does without having her level of education
Just goes to show that the postgraduate and post-docturate job market is totally fricked. If she worked in industry (like what Gordon did) she'd make probably 50-60k more than what I do fyi.
Why did BM have so much security? On any day other than when HL1 starts, they'd just be paying a hundred dudes to stand around doing nothing all day. Also why was the government's first reaction to the incident to kill all the scientists? When the scientists were the only ones who could stop anything?
///// BM IS HIRING /////
where would you like to work at in BM?
I think the offices are comfy af
>remove diversity quotas
>asians start getting everyone kicked out
Thats just cope.
I don't think people realize how little PhDs can be worth, I applied for a job and got put on a level above people with fricking postdocs because my fricking bachelor's degree was technically more relevant to the job description
I would hope that most realize that a BS in CS is worth more than a PhD in Ethnobotany when applying for a programming job
it actually was not such a stark difference in fields, my degree just gave me a few months of extra experience in a specialized area that any of these guys could have trained up on in half the time
Leave it to Valve to go 10+ years without a sequel to Episode 2. Then making a new Half Life game, only to retcon the previous installments continuity, and simultaneously ending up at the same exact fricking spot before chronologically.
Does anybody have any hope at this point? Haven't all but like 2 of the original HL devs left
No. There is no "hope". Valve, is too comfortable, too obsessed with reaching for something new and innovative. They can't provide a satisfying conclusion to any of their narratives, can't provide the slightest of shits to give to any of their IPs.
All they want to do is release the new half-life title with a new innovative industry changing element, like VR, a new physics engine, etc.
I am not satisfied, and I will never be satisfied. I want my fricking closure, you can't keep an entire generation of players and loyal customers sitting there with their dicks in their hands for over two decades.
Junior speaks wisely but is blind to his own words.
Half Life 3 will be like the Ready Player One. And the ending will be 2 hours of Alyx sex with VR + sensorial bodysuit. You will cum buckets young one, be patient.
Because he just started. You think the rest of the scientists there don't have PhDs as well? He's 27, gotta pay his dues.
As other ppl already said they wrote it right. But even if you didnt know the details you would expect gaben and co to get something like this right anyway considering the kind of company it is.
Reminder that Gordon has not had a regular night's sleep since the day before the Resonance Cascade. Ever since then he's either been knocked out or in stasis.
You can take a nap in safety at plenty of points during Half Life or Half Life 2. Just because you chose not to doesn't mean Gordon couldn't have had a comfy sleep at some point.
Isn't he basically high on morphine 24/7 anyway?
>Morphine is addictive and prone to abuse. If one's dose is reduced after long-term use, opioid withdrawal symptoms may occur. Common side effects of morphine include drowsiness, vomiting, and constipation.
Gordon has a hard life
>go to work
>cause the end of the world
>kill Boss Baby
>get stuck in a freezer
>get pulled out of the freezer and thrown into 1984
>start a resistance somehow even though you literally never say anything
>blow up some dude's portal
>get stuck in the freezer again
>wake up again in time for the portal you blew up to cause one of the coolest endings to an FPS
>run through the country and fire some rocket into space
>get put in a coma by a space potato
his life's just been non-stop confusing events
He got his job entirely through nepotism via Kleiner so he got a bullshit position.
That's how it works in the US. When you get a PhD and a job at a university, you don't start out as full professor. It goes assistant professor, associate professor, then full professor. It's the same in many private research organizations based in the US.
ayy
he has a physics degree but i feel like 'portals to alien dimension' science is a few steps above that
Everything I learned in school is useless to me. I spent 400k on an education that didn't even matter in the end.
Glam pulled some strings
JUST LIKE REAL LIFE
>my life is like a video game
OH MY GOD
WE'RE DOOMED
You can tell it was written in the 90s
If HL came out today he'd say OH MY SCIENCE instead
pretty accurate if you read it as roughly equivalent to a postdoc
as a physic's phd he's lucky he's doing something field-relevant and not as a data scientist in industry somewhere
Weapons Tierlist
S
Magnum
Gauss Cannon
Gluon Gun
A
Machine Gun (primary fire really not that weak thanks to stunlock)
Rocket Launcher
B
Tripmine (limited but highly effective when useful)
Pistol (the precision and fast rate make it an above-average starting pistol)
Crossbow (would be A-tier if the firing arc wasn't bugged underwater which is one of its special use cases)
Demo Pack (range is a bit limiting)
C
Grenades
Shotgun (useful on unarmored enemies but always disappoints against helmeted soldiers and alien grunts)
Hornet Gun
Crowbar (kind of a meme tbh)
D
Snarks
Pretty decent arsenal overall
you can really tell why they cut down the weapon selection in Half Life 2 because a lot of weapons just don't get used in practice. I often go the whole campaign without deploying tripmines, have only used the satchel charges and hivehand a couple of times, and I don't think I used snarks at all past that garage area with the vents.
it's still kind of a shame the SLAM mines were cut from the sequel, though. I think the physics and slower combat would have made them much more useful for general fighting.
I love the tripmines on alien grunts, especially the ones in those barrels in Xen, guaranteed kill.
>and I don't think I used snarks at all past that garage area with the vents
kek exactly it's like they realized they had a conceptually cool weapon that was pretty trash in practice so they designed that entire section around them
The problem with HL2 is that even with the reduced arsenal the weapons are still worse overall. The pistol is atrocious, the SMG is even worse, shotgun is just for clearing weak enemies to conserve other ammo (just like HL1 tbh), I think I only used the crossbow in the highway level, I guess the nade feels a bit better than HL1's because of improved physics though. Then on the other side comes the pulse rifle which is a high damage high accuracy high range death cannon with an insta-vaporize secondary fire, and the gravity gun which is the most overpowered weapon in fps history.
One year later they are still replaying to my thread kek
shit
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/half-life-is-shit.143035/
lmao, reminds me of that troony alf causing strife with his immense hatred of HL
from the thumb I thought it was an edit of gordon with a gigantic wiener like that donald duck meme
gay
Ok, but other anons said similar itt, so it wasn't just me