Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master

i am quite fond of die of death on the roblox platform 👍

prepare for the valve opening

hardware acceleration being on or off doesn't seem to make a difference (i usually have it off). what hell backend change occured that doing anything on this god forsaken platform just will consume your cpu now

has anyone else noticed discord being Uniquely more performant than usual lately? literally doing anything like typing a message, switching a channel, opening an image or loading a video all just have begun spiking CPU usage more than it normally did in the past week

the years and years and years and years of unsubstantiated rumours about HL3/Ep3 have completely turned discussion of it into a boy who cried wolf type scenario because the moment we get Actual Tangible pieces that HL3 is Happening For Real its been so long people still think we’re in the rumour era

The moment HL3/HLX gets announced there is going be an incredibly annoying set of people who will have replied to every HLX leak with “i’ll believe it’s real when i see it” who will immediately switch to going “a broken clock is right twice a day”

It's a good year to be a Half-Life fan.

to extend my thoughts a bit more: Portal 1 tracks? Almost more certain than Portal 2 tracks, I feel confident in saying that we'll see atleast one track from both games make an appearance somehow.

When I say Portal 2 for the record - I do just mean the Old Aperture music, the rest just wouldn't fit

YouTube video by KniL Portal 2 OST Volume 2 - Vitrification Order

HL3 is 100% going to be using Portal 2 tracks when the Borealis comes into the picture level-wise

Like you cannot tell me a level where you're slowly working your way closer and closer to the Borealis fighting through Combine as this plays wouldnt go so fucking hard
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMqZ...

next video of mine should be about 19-20 minutes when complete, just looking over the project timeline

this was stated by anomidae in a q&a on his discord

looking at the early interloper stuff in isolation there's this idea of like, the demos being machine learning algorithms in training, with the way some just do random inputs and seem aimless

it being written over as "oh these are people's playthroughs of the games" is... really weird

yea, the reason why ive harped so much on the idea that this needed planning was because it really helps to have even the Basic Idea of something you want to build towards, the fact that Interloper didn't really *have* anything it was building towards for as long as it did made it's pacing whack

feel free to disagree with me on all this for the record, infact i anticipate and welcome it. my opinion is just one out of many and i speak solely from my personal perspective on things

spoilery elaboration:

so to summarise my final thoughts:

- interloper has a lot of fun ideas and concepts, but it fails to string them together in a cohesive manner
- the pseudo-technicalities feel drawn out, especially given the idea behind the series' ending
- the lack of planning genuinely hurt the story hardcore

i dont even care about the anachronisms. and there is so many of those, im willing to personally suspend my disbelief for that

this is solely about the story being presented, which felt shallow and constantly at whim of being changed.

the actual interactive parts were fun. thats all i can say.

one of my biggest complaints i had when following the series was that it is *suffocating*. i do not want to be spoonfed what you want me to know, i want to work that out myself from the text you are giving me.

if you are having to do that - your priorities might be in the wrong place.

Interloper, in comparison... shows you something, and then spends about 40 minutes trying to explain it in-universe with a slideshow filled with pseudo-technicalities, and then in a later episode will completely change what that thing is. or just retcon it.

i would actually like to contrast this to an inspiration the series had - Petscop.

Petscop was *incredible*, it did not sit down and explain to you the innerworkings of the game or how things operate like interloper. it just *showed you* things, and let you piece that information together yourself.

what i think interloper *needed* to be was something that focused less on pseudo-technical explanations to "make sense" of itself, and to instead focus more on imagery. focus on what it *wants to say* instead of *what it is in-universe*.

but that's not possible with interloper, it had no plan.

interloper in my brain belongs to the same school of "story telling" as the FNAF series. it's a bunch of loosely connected concepts and ideas thrown out for the fanbase to chew on and endlessly theorise about, because why bother having any form of internal logic when you can just suddenly retcon it?

the amount of *retcons* that existed in that final episode, the amount of "actually this fact was a lie", *everything* about that felt insane. that's not something you do *in the final episode* of your series.

the final episode has a very nice and fun idea with what they say about all these weird demos and void environments. its a shame that in order for that to happen, we had a ham-fisted plot twist of "actually information was withheld the whole time and a whole 2nd secret investigation was happening"

having had my time to think about the series as a whole now that it's concluded - it genuinely is a disappointing trainwreck. it suffered under the fact there was no planned direction until the 8th (!!!) episode and then felt like it was scrambling to tie together things in any way possible

what a disappointing trainwreck of a series interloper became.

people who are freaks about wheatley need to commit. dont put that british white boy in a human body or make him an android or anything like that. if u want him then you gotta work with the sphere.

its the nature of volunteer modding projects at the end of the day. i will say across the board what’s been achieved is damn fucking impressive, this is going to be a really big deal once its been sent out into the world