probably should've gone into more detail to save you the effort of writing that wall of text. I'm talking about SSRIs & SNRIs (classes of drugs used for depression), both virtually the same only an SNRI acts on both norepinephrine & serotonin transmitters (in a nutshell boosting your...
it doesn't stop producing it through change of thought, it stops producing the chemical because it's receiving it from another source (the pill). this doesn't happen over night and it takes roughly a month before any supplement based antidepressant becomes fully effective.
I really think...
majority of meds are just serotonin supplements anyway, the reason people are so against them is because your brain stops producing it thus the side effects (missing a dose), so it's kind of like a never ending cycle of addiction. I think they would probably help for a kick start, but aren't...
sidenote: the brush-based gun was originally supposed to be another tank (ironically would've made more sense, although kinda dumb). I think the alien grunts were added later in development, thus adding the Xen equivalent of a tank. http://img576.imageshack.us/i/88220179.jpg/
For me, HL2 was a different experience; a different game all together. It didn't have the atmosphere I loved whilst playing HL1 (and the expansions), if that makes any sense. Obviously that's not to say it was a let down in anyway, it was amazing, it just wasn't the Half-Life I grew up playing...
Not exactly. There won't be a storyline or anything like that, just separate chapters that document the different builds. For example the first episode, Office Warrens, uses the red HEV stage with the battery HUD, while the second episode will be an early alpha (bare arms etc).