Whats the "Cat"
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Azner said:
IT IS SO VERY VERY OLD. THE CAT IS ONLY A JOKE, NOT A PART OF THE STORY
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It was a cat when it went into the teleport machine, it wasn't when it came out. It probably got reconstructed wrong and turned into a grotesque lump of meat. We'll probably never know, but it seems at least that the incident happened because Barney mentions it after the teleporting so he and Kliener aren't just trying to scare Alyx and Gordon.
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Teh Cat is teh G-MAnss!!!!
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Azner said:
What, why the hell would he mention a dog barking? That would mean nothing at all, they wouldn't include that in the script. He might as well say "hey Gordon, doesn't that cloud look like a spinning top?"
I bet Valve really loves how people appreciate the work they put into the script for HL2.
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You mean you don't know about how the cheese figures into the whole conspiracy? It was the late-night fondue that made Gordon late for the experiment in Sector C in the first place. You find that out if you press the action key sixteen times on the scientist on top of the power generator in Blast Pit. He goes on about what a wild time the two of you had with Azian (Vance's wife) the night before, but gives you grief for being late and screwing up the cascade resonance experiment, which was really just meant to help them figure out if they could use lab C-22/a as an enormous fondue pot - there wasn't really anything to do with teleportation or alien vivisection going on at all, so the scientists were incredibly bored, you see.
The rebel that says the line in HL2 was at the fondue-party too. He held the pot.... and had so much cheese that he slept through most of the Black Mesa incident, and survived... but he's a bit hazy where his cheese-induced dreams end and his actual memories of the incident start. If you look closely you see his eyes are kinda of funny - he phases in and out of conciousness and a psychadelic version of C17 - kind of like that episode of the Simpsons where Homer eats the really hot chilli. Of course he only tells you all this if you offer him 'bugbait' when he says what you quoted....
And that is exactly why you shouldn't take every little incidental bit of speech or graphic in the game seriously!
The rebel that says the line in HL2 was at the fondue-party too. He held the pot.... and had so much cheese that he slept through most of the Black Mesa incident, and survived... but he's a bit hazy where his cheese-induced dreams end and his actual memories of the incident start. If you look closely you see his eyes are kinda of funny - he phases in and out of conciousness and a psychadelic version of C17 - kind of like that episode of the Simpsons where Homer eats the really hot chilli. Of course he only tells you all this if you offer him 'bugbait' when he says what you quoted....
And that is exactly why you shouldn't take every little incidental bit of speech or graphic in the game seriously!
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TheBleeding said:
Oh my God! So that's what happened. Kleiner is the one responsible for the poison Headcrabs! He tried teleporting a cat and it happened to land in the exact some spot as a Headcrab and mutated into some kind of terrifying cat/ poison headcrab thing!
*deep breath* DAMN YOU KLEINER! DAMN YOU TO HELL!
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kupoartist said:
You're scaring me, man.
There was another bit of this I heard about - I remember a few years ago, we were talking about this on the Planet Half-Life forums, and someone mentioned that he'd played an early release of HL1, and managed to get to the oil tanker. This guy fought off all the mercenaries, then went back and started fooling about on the deck, smashing container crates with his crossbar. One crate covered up a hidden hatch to the inside of the ship and he jumped through. You know what that tanker was carrying? I'll give you a clue - not oil!
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YES! It WAS oil! How the hell did you gue.... oh, hang on, no. I forgot - NOT oil, okay?
I'm going to sleep.
I'm going to sleep.
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I don't want to say that:
You guys are very stupid.
In fact, there is, or was, a cat. And obviously Barney was scared by it, no matter what befell that cat. We'll never know. Later, in the sniper level, Barney asked Gordon if he heard that cat, following barney said that thing haunted him. Actually, there was no cat meowing, as a matter of fact. It was just Barney's own imagination, his OWN illusion. The cat did not appear throughout the entire game. What we know is that some horrible incident took place on the cat and Barney cannot help thinking of it. And that's why some illusion emerged from Barney's mind. He thought he heard a cat, he didn't, in reality. In other words, THE CAT IS NOT THE SUCKEN HEADCRAB!!!
You guys are very stupid.
In fact, there is, or was, a cat. And obviously Barney was scared by it, no matter what befell that cat. We'll never know. Later, in the sniper level, Barney asked Gordon if he heard that cat, following barney said that thing haunted him. Actually, there was no cat meowing, as a matter of fact. It was just Barney's own imagination, his OWN illusion. The cat did not appear throughout the entire game. What we know is that some horrible incident took place on the cat and Barney cannot help thinking of it. And that's why some illusion emerged from Barney's mind. He thought he heard a cat, he didn't, in reality. In other words, THE CAT IS NOT THE SUCKEN HEADCRAB!!!
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bbson_john said:
Yes yes YES WE DO UNDERSTAND, THAAAANK YOOOOOOU, we're just having a little joke ffs get a grip.
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Now that you mention it, the scream the Posion Headcrabs make does sound kinda cat-tish.Greatgat said:
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ríomhaire said:
I think the most argued topics are "Whether the Cat is a Headcrab" & "Whether G-man is Gordon freeMAN". Yet, these two arguements worth an eon and the answer had already be drawn long ago. However, some very stubborn guys still think there thought is correct.
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Its simple really;
Marc Laidlaw would not use such a shitty story concept, I suppose you haven't read the short story by him, "Cyborg werewolves from loltown" - its probably because Laidlaw isn't 12 years old and wouldn't write such crap.
Marc Laidlaw would not use such a shitty story concept, I suppose you haven't read the short story by him, "Cyborg werewolves from loltown" - its probably because Laidlaw isn't 12 years old and wouldn't write such crap.
Gordon Freeman is not and never will be the G-Man.
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Shodan said:
I am so sechsing you.
-Angry Lawyer
The cat is clearly a homage to the original version of "The Fly" which came out in either the early 60's or late 50's (I don't recall exactly). The movie, like it's 1980's remake, is about a scienstist working on teleporter technology. His first live test subject is his familie's house cat. It dissapears at one end but never re-appears at the other. However it's disembodied "meowing" can be hear for several seconds.
So, considering the situation in which we first hear Barney mention this cat... It's obvious.
Try watching some old classics sometime.
So, considering the situation in which we first hear Barney mention this cat... It's obvious.
Try watching some old classics sometime.
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Poor cat.
