The lost hour of Half-Life [Resties]

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Half-Life, Valve updated the original game, released a documentary, and ran a brief PR victory lap. The standout achievement of the anniversary is the excavation of Half-Life Uplink, the original demo that crammed all of the game's big ideas into a 30-60 gauntlet of action. It's the antithesis of Half-Life's artful, but slow start. And it rules. In the back half of the episode, Frushtick and Plante talk about their surprising enjoyment of the Meta Quest 3. But does it have enough games? Get links to everything discussed on this week's episode by subscribing to our newsletter at Besties.fan!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. My name is Chris
0:09.5	is Christopher Thomas.
0:11.0	My name is Russ Frustic.
0:12.4	And welcome to the rest
0:14.0	sheets. We are the rest of the best.
0:16.0	Discuss the best of the rest. This week we are talking about the
0:21.0	25th anniversary of the original half life and going deep into the future.
0:27.9	We're talking about virtual reality, not virtual insanity, though I'll link that music video in the newsletter because why not.
0:36.3	We're talking about the MetaQuest 3 and some experiences that both of us have had that I think
0:41.2	been pretty good. I'm excited to talk about that. But before we do either
0:46.9	those things... Where do you dry, Chris Plant? Where do I dry? After a shower, where do you dry?
0:53.0	Are you fucking kidding me?
0:55.0	No.
0:56.0	Where do I dry?
0:57.0	My whole body is what I dry.
0:59.0	No, no, no, no, no, no.
1:00.0	No, no, no, no.
1:01.0	No, no, no, not what I what I was asking. This is my fault. I phrased it in a weird way.
1:07.0	Specifically, when you're drawing your whole body, where are you standing? So this is very intimate. You you let a little bit
1:18.9	run off you don't just hop right out of the shower. Right that's that's amateur right. Like that's just your recipe for disaster. But then you have
1:28.0	a bath mat outside of the shower and you stand there and then you dry.
1:31.6	Okay, but are you bringing the towel into the shower?
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