In games, how many settings that change the gameplay do you think should be allowed? Let's say that in Half-Life 3, iron sights are added. Of course, huge amounts of people will be angry, as Half-Life has had a history of being very run'n'gunny, but there's a twist: iron sights are only able to...
Yeah, Minerva couldn't really be made canon. On the other hand, mods like Precursor, Half-Life: Visitors, and Human Error don't really conflict with anything established in the Half-Life Universe.
And I spend quite a bit of time on Half-Life Wiki.
Wait a second... mother of god.
http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline#Several_days_before_May_16
http://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Half-Life_and_Portal_universe#Several_days_before_May_16
THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING.
OK, even though by now I'm pretty sure that you're correct, Chell certainly doesn't look like a teen in Portal, or in Portal 2, in which she was only 50 days older (biologically. Yeah, Gordon's chronological age is 47, his biological age 27. Thought I'd just clear that up.), and doesn't GLaDOS...
I hope we don't get a Half-Life 3, as Half-Life 2 was just awful. DNF on the other hand was a really fun and good game, eh. (http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?s=4c57f18e2ac7779fa1c522adb5b97e95&t=131750)
Well, of course BYDTWD happened, but in a time of dot matrix paper (look at the BDTWD banner), discontinued in 1995. Also, I doubt that an 11-year-old girl would spell observations as "odservations." At the most, I'd guess she could be about 8, which puts her year of birth at around 1985.
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Whether you like Black Mesa or not, there's absolutely no denying that a HUGE amount of effort went into the mod, and I think that the money they make will be well deserved.
I've noticed that she's started two bandwagons, one filled with all the people that are shocked, and a second "we-aren't-going-on-the-bandwagon" bandwagon that all the cool kids are in.