This makes me want to go back and play HL2 Episodes 1 & 2. I know I bought them, but don't remember ever finishing them. HL2 was so technically impressive. Portal 2 was also great, especially the co-op multiplayer. Alyx is a good VR title- it's close to a "killer app" for VR, but not quite there. 1 of the few VR titles compelling enough to keep headset on for more than 1 hour.

Not half-life related, but "old but cool" PC tech from that era: I had a DVD/MPEG2 decoder card that did VGA passthrough, and would replace black pixels with the movie content - so I could watch the Matrix in the background of playing Quake or other FPS (this was a dual PIII-450Mhz). I later installed an ATSC tuner card - one of the first channels that broadcast in HD was Fox, and one of my favorite shows, 24, started to broadcast in HD - and the early days all the makeup artists took advantage of low-res, so as soon as the show went to HD, you could see how fake all the blood, makeup, and other effects were. Hollywood ramped up quickly once the first HDTVs started shipping.
That computer also ran BeOS quite well.

Since HL2 will be/is 20 yrs. old and we're all getting nostalgia! Let's talk about those days!

IIRC during the first week of its release, I bought its retail from a local Best Buy with a $10/10% sale or something back then. According to my detailed https://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/toys.html history, I recently upgraded my Windows gaming PC with these parts: "... ATI Radeon 9800 Pro video card, an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.2GHz 512KB Socket 754 single core CPU, ASUS K8V SE Deluxe (VIA K8T800 Socket 754 ATX; VIA VT8237 South Bridge; Revision 2; onboard sound disabled; onboard NIC not used/connected (using 3COM NIC for network) and can't be disabled or else Promise Raid won't be activate), a 3 fan HDD Peeze cooler, 1 GB of PC3200 Kingston RAM (CAS 3), and Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS." I think I also got Windows XP OS too.

Anyways, I remember playing this game over my long Thanksgiving weekend. It was amazing! Very smooth, pretty, and fun! I don't remember how long it took me to finish it. It was a great sequel. Of course years later, episodes 1 and 2 (The Orange Box -- will talk about that in three years). I don't have and want a VR to play Alyx.

What about the rest of you? Also, remember PlanetHalfLife.com web site? RIP, & GameSpy's web sites.

Your evidence?
Russian bloggers on twitter?
Beyoncé, Lizzo, Megan, Eminem, the Harris campaign and official campaign financial records all say it’s 100% bullshit spread from Twitter accounts.
You bought and repeated another stupid lie without checking it out, because you don’t care if it’s true you just love to talk shit like a spoiled little girl.

The Harris campaign, as of Oct. 17, lists only one endorsement-related expenditure — for $75 — in its Federal Election Commission financial reports. It was made to the League of Conservation Voters, a pro-environment nonprofit, in June, when President Joe Biden was still running for reelection.

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/10/posts-make-unfounded-claim-about-beyonces-endorsement-of-harris/
Sorry, not sorry, liar, another stupid lie debunked as soon as you spout it.

Why is it that you continue to buy every stupid lie you’re sold and never are embarrassed or apologetic when your stupid insulting lies are proven to be lies? Must be because you have no morals or ethics left, and we’re never smart.


By comparison….
The felon’s campaign finance records showed he had to pay actors to pretend to be auto workers, union workers, blacks for Trump, etc…paid people to show up at his rallies and post a picture to prove it, etc…Elon had to pay millions for votes (and is being accused of hacking the election using Starlink to edit the data it transmitted, then crashing the satellite to erase the evidence…14 million missing votes, recounts started!)…every single relationship he’s ever had including familial has been transactional.
If you actually had a problem with that, you wouldn’t support the felon who only has paid spokespeople who make millions themselves…parking lot attorney Alina Habba?!? How many millions did she get paid?
Even Melania had to get paid $250000 to stoop to speaking for 15 minutes to support her husband.

THAT is a LOSER!!!!!!!!!!!!

You also have conceded that you expect every metric of the economy to be worse under Trump than it has been under Biden, you can’t come up with a single measure you expect to improve in the next 4 years…and have telegraphed your nonsensical intent to blame Biden for Trump’s economy and accept no blame despite holding full control of all 3 branches of government. If only your people had been honest about that before the election things would be different.

I would like you to pin down EXACTLY how it will be “better”…because the economy was better under Biden, health was better under Biden, crime was better under Biden, deficit was better under Biden….so how EXACTLY will it be better, and pick something that is measured like crime or gdp or unemployment or average lifespan or the stock market, not something ephemeral based on your feelings. Then we can take today’s (or Jan 19ths) measure and see how 2, then 4 years change it. I doubt you’re prepared to stand by your statement, prove me wrong.

Once again, all the looting, burning, bombing, and shootings were right wing nutjobs, just like the two attempted assassins and all the violent Jan 6 insurrectionists. This will definitely embolden them. They may continue to pretend to be left wingers, like the Boogaloo boys did during the 2020 BLM protests, or they may finally feel secure enough to be honest about who they are and what they stand for (like the Boogaloo boys were in their written manifesto only found when they were caught after setting off bombs and shooting cops and blaming BLM).

The media has been on the felon’s side this election, sane washing him daily while scrutinizing her every syllable. Why do you expect a reversal? They’ve been bought by right wing billionaires and are still under threat of losing their license if they don’t pretend the felon is a virile genius superman who does literally everything right.

You brain dead dishonest slug.
FEMA does not use any of its disaster assistance money for immigrants. That money comes from a completely separate fund.
This lie has been debunked by every single news organization as a pure fiction, a baseless lie told by Trump and repeated by braying morons like yourself that never think to look into his accusations that every single time are really an admission.
“ Back in 2019, Trump used money from FEMA’s disaster fund for migrant programs at the southern border. In August 2019, the Trump administration told Congress it intended to shift $271 million in funding from DHS -- including $155 million from FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund -- to pay for detaining and transporting undocumented immigrants and temporary hearing locations for asylum-seekers.”
Biden has done no such thing, The Felon did raid FEMA disaster relief for his failed immigration policies, now he’s saying it’s terrible he did that, you sniveling idiotic fucktard.

Here’s one of 3 dozen articles saying the same thing, it’s another bullshit lie you bought.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-falsely-claims-biden-fema-funds-migrants-trump/story?id=114577647
And since I know you’re going to say “biased ABC, give me a break!”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/10/04/trump-fema-claim-debunked-agency-not-running-out-of-money-because-of-migrants/

That’s what YOU’RE voting for, a party that put America last over and over and lied about it to no end, and is still lying and projecting about it to this day, the party that would end elections altogether.


Ready for the next once in a generation hurricane…two in two weeks but absolutely not because of human caused global warming? I’m hoping it turns hard left up the coast just for you. Don’t bother looking for any government assistance, you say there is none, don’t waste your time checking.

OMG! The moron went to an Oct 7 event and tried to sign the Torah!

😂All 100% verified by multiple sources, including the campaign itself you idiot.😂
I’ll guess you dispute the worst fact given, the violent desecration of Arlington by the felon.
They posted the tic tok video and photos of the team taking unauthorized photos and videos of the felon thumbs upping graves and ceremonies in violation of federal law and common decency, using dead soldiers as political props.
Yet again you fall for baseless stupidity posted by failed brainless idiots posting nonsense online from mommy’s basement.
Trump’s team physically pushed past the female guard (who has received death threats despite not pressing charges, just for speaking up) after ignoring the clear long standing rules/laws that were repeatedly explained to them because they couldn’t understand it wasn’t ok to shoot a tv commercial in Arlington…or anything political.
What he took were political photos and a political video almost instantly posted by the campaign, taken by photographers and videographers hired by the campaign that were not allowed at the event but with the felon’s violent team’s help forced their way into a sacred ceremony in the special area where only official Arlington videographers and photographers are allowed to film at all BY FEDERAL LAW.
Multiple gold star families have publicly complained about the desecration of their family’s graves when the felon abused staff and violated laws to use them as unwitting political props in political propaganda.
BTW- this was not the first time he has used Arlington, and area 60 itself, as a backdrop for political photos, nor the first time it was a scandal. He absolutely 100% knew it was wrong and illegal, he simply doesn’t care and neither do you.
Trump has zero respect for the military, always has since cowardly buying a 100% fraudulent deferment and sending others to fight in his stead that didn’t stop him from dancing and little girl screwing through the Vietnam war era. He thinks the military are suckers and losers. It shocks no one his team disrespected Arlington and the heroes buried there by using it as a backdrop for a political ad and political photos where he thumbs ups a fallen soldiers grave.

Bidenomics is absolutely great for America, better recovery from a worse covid response and worse economic collapse than any other large economy in the world, not so great for Russia or traitors, figures you hate it. You bought Tesla at $400. I bet you have some DJT too. People not invested in stupid maga bullshit are making bank…markets are consistently hitting record highs, companies are raking in record profits (accounting for a huge/majority percentage of “inflation”)…I made >6% in the last 2 months alone.

My team can speak English and count…yours can do neither. You can’t show one time I failed to give the verifiable facts, nor a single time you presented any.

Too bad all you can do post and repost other morons lying about everything under the sun. Always idiotic nonsense, no exception this time.
Really, an instantly corrected on the spot misstatement from memory about precisely which military honorariums Harris attended 3+ years ago is the best you’ve got to show some media bias? Nobody is going to pay $787 million over that, sucker! Donny beats that “lie” daily before he wakes up.

Here’s Harris paying homage to those fallen soldiers at Arlington like you say she didn’t…you probably didn’t know because she and Biden didn’t use the multiple solemn events as political opportunities, didn’t create campaign commercials there, didn’t create a scandal by assaulting guards and violating the law, civility, and decorum, and were actually there for the soldiers and their families not themselves and their campaigns.

Notice the lack of idiots everywhere filming with phones and professional video cameras and no happy thumbs up, just the one official shot by the Arlington videographer and deep respect being shown.


Last night the felon directly and unequivocally admitted on Fox that he interfered in the 2020 election…probably not good for his election interference cases.
He’s also holding “The Treasonies” an awards ceremony/fundraiser for the Jan 6 insurrectionists (likely another felony since he is barred nationwide from having any involvement in any charity)…probably not good for his Jan 6 cases, definitely doesn’t put distance between him and the mob he directed.

More blatant lies, eh bob? Why is no one surprised?
The event you posted with the idiot asking “how many kids do you see on the street? Too many!” has zero kids because the event is, and always has been an ADULT ONLY EVENT.

YOU WORTHLESS LYING WASTE OF SKIN.

IF YOU HAD A LEGITIMATE POINT TO MAKE, YOU WOULDN’T HAVE TO LIE ABOUT LITERALLY EVERYTHING …BUT YOU DO LIE ABOUT LITERALLY EVERYTHING BECAUSE YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY LEGITIMATE POINTS TO MAKE EVER.
A real man would see this and do something about it, you just continue to wallow in your fact free immorality, never once having the spine to admit you bought another lie despite doing nothing else but buy and try to sell idiotic lies day in and day out.
I think you come here because you are banned from all other social media for constantly spewing disinformation which is tolerated here and you are starved for attention. Either that, or you are just a bitter troll with nothing better in your life so you try to annoy the liberals because then at least someone acknowledges you exist.
Once MAGA dies your usefulness will end…you might want to not force similar rules to be enacted here and end up banned for constantly posting racist, sexist, and homophobic disinformation.

Uh oh…Cannon is now being investigated for judicial malpractice, and 100% of non MAGA lawyers (not just liberals) agree that’s what she did, and should be removed from the bench immediately. That may be the outcome soon…she was counting on a Trump election win and simple pardon end to the case (she knows full well the appeal will win, her decision like every other was a delay tactic and nothing but).

Federal laws legitimize the appointment, you read 4 of them that do. The only Supreme Court writing is a singular dissenting opinion by comprised bought and paid for criminal Justice Thomas…who doesn’t have long on the bench.
Thomas is now terrified because he will be removed for malpractice in January when the complicit criminal MAGA loses its obstruction powers and he is impeached. He also counts on a Trump win to protect his job and power.

“Fined for mishandling the payment “?
She hired a law firm and classified the payment as legal fees. Isn’t that something your side says isn’t a crime? 😂
The dossier was bought and paid for by Republicans, then sold to the Clinton Campaign. I know you hate that fact, but it’s there.

The laptop contents are fantasy, as is the diary. Half truths and pure fiction. Shouldn’t have tampered with it if you wanted anyone to pay attention….not that it would matter anyway, Hunter is nobody.

The economy crashed under the felon, it got better under Biden. Trump can get credit for the first 6-12 months of the next president’s economy which were not good, but absolutely not last 12 which so far are amazing, far better than the last guy’s best year.

Michael Flynn was convicted of treasonous activity and the felon Trump pardoned him because he did the treason for Trump, namely negotiating with Russia in December before his administration started then lying about it to the FBI.

The Biden’s did no such thing and your multiple investigations have found zero evidence of any payoffs nor a single time Biden changed policy to help China, that was Don and Ivanka who were given millions in patents then the next morning changed policy to favor China, then were gifted more million dollar patents. You can’t point to any untoward or even questionable payment after 4 full years of investigations. At best you just refuse to hear the verified explanations and make up crimes.

Trump lost jobs. He left a negative gdp and recession. Shelves went bare under the felon. Over 1 million Americans died due to his policy according to his own CDC. He added more to the debt and deficit in one term than any listed president did in two. The wannabe dictator left the nation more divided than any time since the 1850s and continues to sew division constantly. Trump was worse than any you listed by any measure. You simply deny the facts.

Nice pedophile fantasy you have there, every accusation is an admission, but not smart especially since Trump definitely fucked his daughter and has bragged about it publicly for decades, Barron is definitely her son, the resemblance is there but not with Melania. Trump is on the Epstein list more than anyone else but Maxwell who he still wishes well…know who isn’t? Biden. Trump is an adjudicated rapist with now 40 accusers. Know who isn’t? One has 34 felony convictions…which one was that? 😂

BTW- the first few post debate polls are out…Biden gained a few points after the debate. Enjoy!

The Russia hoax was just that. Bought and paid for by hilly Clinton, and she got fined for mishandling the payment .

The Laptop IS real. The diary is real

The Economy did get better.
Michael Flynn took a shit deal. along with all the others.


Biden sold America to China and Ukraine and lined the pockets of himself and his family.

Trump still a better POTUS than OBAMA, Biden or wannabee Clinton.

Joe showered with his daughter. Pedophile Joe is your man.

Thank you for admitting the well known blatantly fraudulent fake you just tried to pass as fact.

Yes. Another Fake. Another fraud you try to disguise as a fact.

What you never seem to realize is every time you get behind one of these fake stories (which is constantly) what you are really saying is you have no real argument so you are forced to make up nonsense. Every time you doctor a video to make President Biden look unfit you admit he actually is fit. It’s an admission of the total failure of your position….something you would never intentionally do no matter how badly your position had failed, but a message you send daily by relying on lies and fraud to make your position.

It’s fake because it is not a payoff like is suggested and is what the President denied, but income/growth from declared 100% legal INVESTMENTS in Chinese companies with his 100% legitimate international investment company, again, not direct payments from them.
If making money from foreign investments is suddenly going to be considered illegal or immoral, let’s start with whales who directly and demonstrably sold policy for billions before going after minnows who made millions through investments with no policy involved. Who made billions from foreign powers again? Who directly made hundreds of millions directly from hostile governments like China while in office? (Rented unused space in his buildings for years, then cancelled the leas when he lost.). Who changed US policy to benefit the same governments?
Another long ago debunked talking point that’s really an admission disguised as an accusation, more fake news like every single thing you believe.

Notice he was not prosecuted for unreported income from foreign governments, nor was he charged with not reporting himself as a foreign agent…unlike dozens of maga officials and Trump family members. Barr spent 4 years investigating every detail of his finances and came up with nothing.

It’s also fake because it attempts to paint the father with the imagined sins of the son, which is nonsense.

It’s also hilarious because it reminds us that Trumps family DID have direct payments from hostile foreign governments after changing American international policy to benefit those governments to the tune of $3.5 billion, a verified fact unlike the lie that China paid Hunter $3 billion, or that President Biden ever changed any U.S. policy after a payment. Neither has been verified by a scintilla of evidence because neither happened.

Everything you believe is nonsense, because you bought every lie told by the lie machine for the last 8 years.
Every, single, one.

In New Hampshire disgraced felon Trump once again demanded that “President Obama immediately resign”. He STILL thinks Obama is president, it is not a joke, it is not reference to his claim that Obama pulls the strings, it is his tiny feeble brain melting under the pressure. He knows it makes him look like he’s in full blown dementia, but he keeps on doing it. Are you gullible enough to believe it’s on purpose, and if so isn’t that also an indication of dementia?

Exactly….which is not at all, because pedophile Joe is a fantasy you made up, unlike pedophile Don who has decades of proof of his deviency including over 20 years being the “partner in crime” with Epstein during the time he was prostituting and raping little girls including some that Don sent to the island himself to “work”. Turns out he is John Doe 174, credibly accused of raping multiple underage girls in the Epstein investigations, with details and flight logs to corroborate the accusations…and maybe video.

You, conversely, have bought every single brainless nonsensical conspiracy theory and lie that came out of convicted felon and rapist Don’s mouth, and continue to believe him over reality at every turn despite his allergy to honesty. 😂

Age restricted because it’s dealing with Don’s disgusting but long, continuing, and well documented record of pedophilia and incest including when he raped a 13 year old girl and forced himself on 15 year old girls in their dressing room to leer at them changing and bragged about it on air, when he cat-called a 7 year old on camera, when he talked about how he constantly rapes women and cheats on his wives on a hot microphone, etc….
It’s inappropriate to discuss the FACTS about Don in front of women or children, it is just that disgusting…with video.

More brain numbingly stupid projection.
Everyone including yourself knows full well disgraced Donny lusts after his daughter and has since puberty started, he’s always been very public about it. Everyone knows disgraced Donny spent decades partying constantly with Epstein who was prostituting little girls to his rich friends, was credibly accused of raping a 13 year old at his island (with video), and still defends middle school madam Maxwell (because she has the tapes) despite her convictions for child sex abuse. Everyone knows disgraced Donny bought the Miss Teen USA pageant specifically to be able to go backstage and leer at the underage girls getting dressed, and bragged about it on air. Everyone knows disgraced Donny violently raped his wife then bought her silence (after she reported it). Everyone knows Disgraced Donny told 26 women he cheated on his wife with that they resembled his YOUNG DAUGHTER which made him horny for them.

Everyone knows these disgusting and just dumb lies about President Biden are utterly ridiculous, (edit: like the last one when you claimed he raped an woman in the open halls of congress in public during session but no one noticed and it wasn’t reported for 40 years but really it happened, believe you!…and come from known liars who usually are guilty of the baseless charges they lob at others…like the GOP that is absolutely overflowing with real charged rapists and pedophiles like Gaetz and Donjon.)

Married his babysitter…Jill? What? According to who? They met in 1975 on a blind date set up by Biden’s brother who knew her. You are buying more stupid lies because you are nothing but a stupid liar who stupidly lies day in and day out, convincing no one of anything besides the fact that you are incredibly, outrageously, unbelievably stupid and a constant idiotic liar afraid of reality or truth. Congratulations.

Jill bangs her son’s wife? What? You smoked some bad meth, buddy. Get help.
You really are off the deep end and just screaming self referencing nonsense on the corner. If only you could recognize how insane you really are in your panic at losing everything, you would voluntarily commit yourself tonight.

As expected, you ignore this laundry list of disqualifying facts about a convicted felon, rapist, cheater, and incestuous pedophile but hold onto nonsensical blatantly obvious lies about a lifelong public servant and loyal and decent husband and father.

The Trump crime family has more CONVICTIONS than every administration before and after them combined. They have more convictions than many administrations had accusations, and more credible accusations than all administrations ever! 😂

More delusional twaddle…although you DO know bullshit.

Every single year of President Biden’s presidency has had better jobs numbers than the best year of convicted felon Trump’s.

That is exactly what you said last spring, except they weren’t revised down, many reports were revised up from the initial unbelievably good reports….you liar. You just CLAIMED they would be revised down, and you were wrong as usual so you went silent when pressed about it like the sniveling cowardly infant you really are. Now you just lie about it again, hoping everyone reading is as ignorant and intellectually lazy as you are and don’t check.

Went to non Americans! lol, making up more bullshit I see. Your proof? Nothing….because those temporary migrant jobs aren’t counted in the reports.

Only one candidate partied with the most prolific pedophile in US history for decades and said on video that they had similar taste in women (young), only one bought a teen beauty pageant specifically to be able to spy on them in their dressing room, naked 14 year old girls, then bragged about it…only one told multiple women he was attracted to them sexually because they looked like his then young daughter, only one joked publicly about having sex with his underage daughter, only one is credibly accused of raping a 13 year old girl, only one is an adjudicated rapist….its not Joe it’s convicted felon and rapist Don John Trump.

4% is an up tic from the longest record low unemployment period in our history. It’s a good thing.

The administration put the wheels back on the bus, and has been souping up the engine for 3 1/2 years now. If Biden wins, the media will continue to pretend we aren’t in an economic boom that we’ve been in for a year now without it being reported.

I certainly hope they are using American weapons in Russia. I would give them Moab’s and all the missiles and bullets they can shoot, then put American soldiers in Ukraine and go to full fledged war at the first injury. We signed a treaty pledging more than that, we should honor it. Russia deserves a biological weapon attack.

Israel is using American weapons to target innocent civilian children…that’s a problem, but we have paused rearming them at least, a big step forward finally.

If convicted felon and rapist Trump wins he will be responsible for any crash, because the trends are ALL positive under Biden’s leadership. If Biden wins there won’t be a crash because he understands economics unlike the 6 time bankrupt and 34 times convicted (not including his businesses convictions) fraudulent “businessman “.

Hey! You’re in a movie!

Aaaaaand…exactly as I said, those numbers have been retracted by every non maga outlet and they admitted they came directly from the indicted maga mayor who got them from Trump, the mayor whose spokesperson before the event admitted a 20000 capacity and the venue was only half full at the peak (with droves leaving when Trump started rambling).
Real estimates are just over 10k…100k was such a blatant impossibility that it served as a test for total cultish gulibility…if you will repeat that insanity, he’s got you hook line and sinker and can take you for everything you’ve got left.

Another ridiculous maga lie you bought and tried to rub in our faces, ending up with shit in yours once again, as always.

Why do you do it? I’ve never met someone so masochistic, and I’ve known some freaks! This really must be the only attention you can get, there’s no other explanation for you coming to this site to be ridiculed for your stupid, ignorant, uneducated, nonsensical beliefs time and time and time again.

I’m sorry you are so lonely that abuse is the best attention you can find. Maybe try making yourself less abrasive and ridiculously gullible and you can get positive attention for a change. You don’t have to involve yourself in politics, and when it makes you the fool so often you shouldn’t.