Aperture Science >Chad CEO >always testing their products to be in perfect condition to mass market >created repulsion, propulsion, conversion gel >created sentient turrets capable of reading (each one also got a copy of the Law of Robotics so they will respect your NAP) >created actual teleportation way before the Combine >created long-fall boots that negate any gravity-related damage on the user >shower-curtains >pioneer on AI development, personality sentient AIs cores and transferring human conscience into a machine creating literally immortality >#2 biggest science corp
Black Mesa >Government bitch >HEV suits that can't even support a fall of 3 meters >did tests that could result in the end of humanity >only noteworthy experiment created a resonance cascade that doomed humanity opened a portal to XEN and later humanity got enslaved by a superior alien species that can't even teleport >#1 biggest science corp
Tell me again how the fuck Black Mesa was better than Aperture?
portalshit shouldn't have been forced into half life and hl1 is the best half life game
Xavier Nelson
Have you played HL2? Portals are literally the solution for humanity fight back the combine
Bentley Martinez
Didn't Black Mesa steal a lot of technology from Aperture so that Aperture ended up going to shit?
Joshua Ross
The only evidence I know about that is Cave Johnson pre-recorded tapes
Lincoln James
Oh, right. Then I don't know.
Grayson Price
Aperture made Portal Gun and some jelly, while Black Mesa have been doing useful stuff, and actually have been on a verge of break through portal technology, that they DID ARCHIVED during Half Life and Half Life 2 events - Gordon launched the satellite, and Eli and Kliner managed to utilize it to transport people. Why did they fucked up? Because Nihilant have been fucking them up from the other side! What have been Aperture doing? Welp, they have been around longer since the Black Mesa incident was local, and Combines came after that, and all they did is gel that causes cancer, more portable portal gun, and AI that ended up killing everyone. Need I say more?
Jackson Brooks
Cave Johnson must banged the shit out of Caroline.
Aperture Science made a lot of weird things with no real end to it, they made the portal gun, effect jellies, weird DNA experiments, and aside from the laser guided turret, seems that all those things never ended up being marketed because they either had unsolved side effects or simply had no use in general, had nothing to show for it and in the end went broke. (and then they all died) Black Mesa on the other end seems to have multiple contracts with the US, including automated turrets, weaponry, vehicles, body armors, medical, etc... And was still up and running until the incident. (where they nearly all died)
Sebastian Scott
that man belongs on a greek statue bust. Not because he's an adonis or anything, but because his features really suit it
Ryan Carter
They did much more than some gels and the portal gun, don't forget they literally made light into a solid-state, funnels, Adhesion gel, long fall boots that literally negate gravity, the Fizzler/Emancipation Grid that could selective disintegrate any material. They were far more advanced, Black Mesa did only army stuff because the US gov is insane about the military-industrial complex.
>thermal discouragement beam Cave have such a talent into naming things.
Gavin Lewis
Indeed they were much more advanced in their technologies but they also either ended up extremely expensive (long fall boots, conversion gel) or/and had unwanted side effects (repulsion/propulsion gel) that made them simply unmarketable. The graph in OP is an actual in-game graph that showed how they proposed an outrageous amount of money from government contracts and ended up getting none.
Hudson Morris
>unwanted side effects (repulsion/propulsion gel) to be fair they only had unwanted effects because they wanted to sell them as dietary supplements the whole joke with Aperture is that they are actually way better at inventing things but are completely clueless about how to use them or market their company
Anthony Barnes
>to be fair they only had unwanted effects because they wanted to sell them as dietary supplements Which hated the human skeleton for some reasons.
James Roberts
Black Mesa >part of a shitty boring “game” series that only 35-year-old virgins that live in their mom’s basement remembers
Violet Plateau >part of Valve’s greatest game series and universe which is subject of biggest competitive gaming event of all time
Half-Life is shitty and boring.
Gabriel Gray
At least none of their creations culminated on the enslavement of humanity and could have various uses to your average civie, corps and the army. Black Mesa was pratically only millitary. >dotafag cringe, leave my thread and go back playing your card game.
Ayden Allen
That because it was alive. They literally created an artificial new species.
>At least none of their creations culminated on the enslavement of humanity Instead they got a murderous AI that was really effective at killing everyone in the facility.
Brayden Richardson
>"Oh, in case you got covered in that repulsion gel, here's some advice the lab boys gave me: DO NOT get covered in the repulsion gel." >"We haven't entirely nailed down what element it is yet, but I'll tell you this: it's a LIVELY one, and it does NOT like the human skeleton." It's probably a super bacteria. theportalwiki.com/wiki/Cave_Johnson_voice_lines Blame Henry, she was ok with the Morality Core but still needed tweaking, the retarded Henry feel into her trap when she asked for neurotoxin. GLaDOS was literally the first super-intelligent sentient AI ever created, she was still taking baby steps into not killing humans, it's not Aperture fault if one scientist was retarded enough to give a machine gun to a chimp.
Well, he could be using a hyperbolic to describe the repulsion gel, but I like to believe it's alive. Aperture didn't want you to eat it, they were trying to make "Pudding" >Aperture's first attempt at a dietetic pudding substitute resulted in Repulsion Gel, a much sweeter, slightly less non-toxic form of fiberglass insulation that caused subsequently-ingested food items to bounce off the lining of the dieter's distended stomach and out his or her mouth. They later used only for testing instead, but it was too late because the pudding was already on the shelves. It's one Valve animator used as a model to Cave Johnson. Jokes on you, that was me bumping.
Owen Green
wtf is a linus?
Eli Russell
dead thread
Connor Thompson
bump
Joshua Hughes
its not really forced. They get referenced in both games but other than that they are completely separate
Grayson Jenkins
Until HL3 is released and they reach the Borealis.
Easton Roberts
>Until HL3 is released lol after alyx flops the series will be shelved forever
Nathan Gomez
Where's that theory where all the Valve games are interconnected in a multiverse thing?
Portal 1 fits in reasonably well. 2 really went off the rails.
Matthew Bennett
It is, but TF2 is a saturday morning cartoon and L4D is a movie franchise. The mystery is where Ricochet fits all this.
Isaac Ramirez
It never ceases to amaze me how people come to ass backwards conclusions like this. The joke is repulsion gel repulses stuff. Getting completely covered in it would be a bad fucking idea.
Isaiah Smith
Have you read the lore? Or even paid attention to in-game posters? I think in the first test there is a poster telling the history of the repulsion gel and how it was a diet pudding in the begining.
Lucas Watson
Aperture didn't produce practical technologies and they spent all of their fortune on inane shit. Also, Cave died because of asbestos poisoning, not moon rocks. And he's an absolute faggot.
>t. Breen
Grayson Fisher
Fuck off, Black Mesa shill.
Kevin Rodriguez
Why did you post Tony Hawk?
Dominic Nelson
Lord knows it would have to be a multiverse. Imagine if Black Mesa just existed within the world of TF2. > The first few headcrabs get pulled through from Xen > Whoever or whatever the fuck succeeds Mann Co. immediately starts paying for them by the barrel-full, selling them as headgear and probably sticking them on some weapons, who gives a shit? > The resonance cascade happens > G-man winds up, through the power of comedy, embroiled in one of Merasmus' get rich quick schemes, ending with him in severe debt to at least four mafias > Soldier, still riding those kill-me-and-I-come-back-stronger pills, blasts his way through Xen, screaming about commie experiments > At least five squads of incompetent psychopaths end up literally clogging the portal with their corpses
Hudson Cooper
a anus but in finish
Aiden Richardson
If I injected repulsion gel into my urethra what would be the result?
Blake Reyes
are you circumcised? If not, you're going to be.
John Lee
They also wasted 90% of their budget and time on projects that were completely insane and either didn't work or caused massive disasters. I remember something from Portal 2 about turning people into mantises for some reason and the CEO going insane and trying to turn lemons into a power source or some shit.
Robert Garcia
Didn't they not market the portal gun because it wasn't a shower curtain?
Blake Diaz
it wasn't ready yet, he kept testing the portal gun during the 30 years he was alive in Aperture.
Easton Scott
It clearly functioned and allowed stable portals to be made between flat concrete surfaces during even the earliest tests.
Kevin Martin
It was functional but not perfected. That is why he went to the fucking moon to get a better material to deploy portals.
