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Published: 2010-06-21 05:40:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 11444; Favourites: 178; Downloads: 0
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I finally did it! This comic has been in the works for a while. I had to do this before I got onto my Half Life 2 comics...Yes, this is Half Life 1. I got real confused at this part. Why can't Gordon Freeman use a crowbar to, I don't know, PRY THINGS OPEN? Especially a door that looks very ajar and would just take a bit of leverage? I don't know. Maybe he's always had his head too much into books and not enough into practical skills. Except for shooting things.
So this took me about 1.5 or 2 hours tonight to ink and get all nice and spiffy. Going to color it soon, I hope. I'll update it when I do! Critiques are super-appreciated!
Edit: Now in color! Sorry I was kind of sloppy with the shading and whatnot. I also couldn't figure out what colors to make the last panel. =/ maybe I'll edit it later.
Gordon Freeman and Half Life are (c) Valve
This comic is (c) Megan Bednarz
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NICE TRY...IT WAS APRIL FOOLS WHEN YOU WROTE THAT! AHA! YOU STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND MATHS!
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Maths will exist forever...*evil laugh*
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It's okay. ...Oh wait it's not, maths will be needed forever.
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"Oh-ho, Another locked door! I don't think so, I've got a crowbar! EAT THIS! *smash* Hey, I can just crawl through here! I am a genius!"
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Would you believe that Black Mesa Source had the crowbar moved to another room in Sector C? You have to go through that path a whole other way!
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The path itself is the same, but you have to fend off zombies with flares, a guard and physics objects. The crowbar doesn't show up until you reach the control room past the lobby through a vent. And it's jammed into the lock on an automated door.
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You STILL think there's nothing to chaos theory?
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I fail to see how that applies to the current situation. Or was that a quote?
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That's a quote stated by some of the generic NPC scientists in Half Life 1.
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LOL I forgot about that one. Thanks for the reminder
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Yeah, it kinda fits in with this situation.
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F=ma............
YEAH, and that's how it's done.
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Haha yep 
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...You know, FreemanΒ΄s crowbar is mystic
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I thought it was all sciencey and stuff
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If killing a huge headcrab(HL), antlion guard, and hunters(HL2 ep1 ep2) is not mystic, then I donΒ΄t know what it is...
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Well, I don't think it's a magical or spiritual weapon... maybe legendary is what you mean. I'll buy that
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Indeed.
And ironically, for a game of logic, Half-Life DEFIES logic.
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Yep. Valve physics!
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Isn't that the door of the elevator that as soon as he shatters it a bunch of poor scientists and a blue-shift buddy of Barney fall down inside the car to their certain demise???...(after which Gordon climbs down through the service access ladder to pick up a 15% power up box among the limbs and remains??). Very nice logic of equations and good coloring effects!
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Well, it's supposed to be the first door you get to that you have to use the crowbar to open the glass. It's in that same area though.
Thanks
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Wow what the hell is all that numbers shit Gordan Freemon is thinking about.
Rotational inertia DUUUURRR what's that
I'm a painter artist so you're gonna hafta explain it to me like I'm two.
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Lol... well since you're a painter, you don't have to worry about it 
But the point is that since he's a theoretical physicist, he always overthinks everything.
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Well they're called 'wrecking bars' for a reason right?
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Haha... too true. Some things only require a practical knowledge of physics
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Well, yeah. It's more fun that way
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All I know is that if anything goes wrong, just blame physics.
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...force = (mass)(area)? (accuracy)? (axis)?
Um.
Look what math class is doing to me...
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lol yep. Close. The equations are for rotational inertia and torque. The idea is that he doesn't remember how to solve those, so he goes with F=ma which is Force = Mass x Acceleration. Hence the acceleration towards the door
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Ah, acceleration! Knew I was missing something obvious.
Genius.
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So if that crowbar for example, weighs 20 pounds, and his acceleration is 3 mph.(I'm really bad with speed lol)
Then
F = (20)(3)
F = 60
Force = 60
Units of measurement can die in a hole.
You can tell I'm really bored.
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Usually if you're doing a problem like this, you'd measure feet per second. I'd say he's going about 20 feet in 2 seconds, so that's 10 feet per second. Don't forget to add in Gordon's mass too, since he appears to be crashing into the door full-force
Here's the tmi Wikipedia page: [link] enjoy
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Looks great.
There is this site that does Half life based videos.
Do you remember the beginning of half life in which Gordon rides the monorail to work? Basically Gordon is riding and complaining about how late he is and some other stuff.
Unfortunately my error correcting memory has gone south and I forgot the site's url.
For some reason its more fun to smash stuff than to pry stuff.
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