Half-Life References you notice in everyday life...

[Omnomnick]

What kind of Half-Life/Valve game references have you spotted in your everyday travels.

Yesterday I went to 'The Freeman Hospital' and the sign on the way in said 'You are now entering the Freeman' I was like

A while back I also saw Freeman Drive which was kind of funny to just drive past.
Post your Half-Life/Valve game references here.

Post now.

 

[highlander]

LHC D:


also, my english teacher looked like Freeman.

 

[Gemma]

My brothers password is Mr Freeman
does that count?

 

[VirusType2]

password for what?

:]


j/k

 

[SpiderPig]

I saw a black dude with a red valve sticking out of his head.

 

[Jintor]

There's a huge lambda painted in yellow on a wall on my way to school.

/edit TO THE SCHOOL I USED TO GO TO BEFORE I GRADUATED, I mean.

 

[G(ordon)-man]

'You are now entering the Freeman'

Sounds like a vortigaunt.

 

[Insano]

There's a city called Ravenhout nearby, but every time I see the sign, it reminds me of Ravenholm.

 

[Kase]

when i look up theres a sky and when am in game and look up theres a sky too! :O

 

[Sheepo]

Saw a sign that said, "Dr Gay Freeman". I lol'd.

 

[ríomhaire]

A reference is something intentional. What you mean is things that remind you of HL, and nothing springs to mind.

 

[The_E]

my physics teacher mentioned half life the other day...

 

[SamuraiKenji]

The Cursive lower-case C
Depending on how you do it it looks like a Lambda

 

[theotherguy]

You mean things that remind you of the game? These are not references....


For actual references: I saw a grafitii companion cube on a highway once.

For things that remind me: The Cathedral of Learning looks a hell of alot like the Citadel when it's really foggy.

It looks sort of like this, except the top is not visible on a foggy day, making it look much taller.

 

[VirusType2]

The Cathedral of Learning

lol. sounds like something out of a really bad RPG

 

[Leto]

In a school I used to go to, there was a teacher named Mr. Freeman.

No, he taught english.

 

[ailevation]

Gordon's a mute though, so the students mustve learned shit.

 

[Omnomnick]

I know Half-life is to do with the decay of Nuclear Material..

But, in my Physics lesson me and my friend found some test papers with 'Half-Life Questions' at the top, I almost expected it to ask about the combine or something...

 

[Nomad]

My principal's name is G. Freeman. The G sttands for Gregory.

 

[theotherguy]

lol. sounds like something out of a really bad RPG

I know, right? They could have at least called it "The Tower of Enlightenment" or something.

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

My principal's name is G. Freeman. The G sttands for Gregory.

He's a mute psychopath? Making obscene and disturbing hand gestures to get his point across.

 

[Adrik_Senturu]

Kid in my chemistry class named gordon and he wears glasses. I had to partner up and he went off to get the materials and I said "Gordon you're needed in the test chamber!". He didnt get it.

 

[soulslicer]

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/picture.php?albumid=40&pictureid=103

Hmm, here's my estate area, I wonder if their any half life references...

 

[Darkside55]

One time I was walking down the street and I saw a skinny, bearded Black man with an eyepatch over his right eye. Once I was indoors I could not stop laughing.

(Not directly a HL reference, but eh...what do you want me to say, I see red valves everywhere?)





(Because I do)

 

[Omnomnick]

I did also say 'Valve game' references, so that was ok.
Sounds pretty funny. Speaking of can't stop laughing, I saw one of those Council Grass cutters trimming a hill near where i walk to school, me and my brother were so hoping it would tip over, only to see it skid a few seconds later and bang into a lamp post and got stuck.

 

[MJ12]

Whenever I hear the word "Advisor" I automatically think floating space slugs. There's a lot of little sayings throughout HL and HL2 that are spoken in real life occasionally that will remind me as well.

lol. sounds like something out of a really bad RPG

I lol'd.

 

[losttheskyagain]

There's a medical center about twenty miles from my home whose logo is an oval that is half orange, half blue.

Additionally, there's a room in one of the buildings on campus which makes me feel like a scientist in black mesa.

Anytime anyone has a crowbar in scene shop we start talking to them G-Man style because we're all nerds.

yep. There are several.

 

[Blinxx]

I pass a garage on my walk to uni everyday where there's one of those compressed air thingies for your tyres and a big board above it which has the letters VAC.

 

[Omnomnick]

We were doing 'Half-Life' as in the Scientific term about Radioactive decay.

At the beginning of my lesson the teacher (Who is quite funny, specially for a teacher) said...


'Half-Life....is a computer game........a pretty good computer game...but it is also blah etc.'

Me and my friend lol'd

 

[Omnomnick]

Sorry for double post but the other one wouldnt edit.

Anyway, today I ran round the PE hall hitting people over the head with a baseball bat and yelling BOINK, it was very lolz.

 

[Pivovar]

If you hit a fat kid, I REALLY hope you said "Beat it, fatty!"