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Hello! I am Fin Nicol-Taylor, a writer and musician from Australia. I mostly post AI-driven audio-based fan content on this channel - most of it themed around the Half-Life games by Valve and Crowbar Collective. I'm currently working with a volunteer team to recreate the fabled Half-Life 2: Episode 3 as a mod.
You can check out my composition channel, my indie rock band Fin's Contingency Plan, or Team Hyperborea (the modding team I work with) at the links below.
You can check out my composition channel, my indie rock band Fin's Contingency Plan, or Team Hyperborea (the modding team I work with) at the links below.
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BMRF Lambda Reactor Security Recording (Episode One)
Просмотров 2,5 тыс.5 месяцев назад
"They were with him all the way to the end, watching from our side. God rest their souls." When Gordon Freeman jumped into the portal to Xen, the Lambda team knew that the fate of the world rested on his shoulders. This is their story as they try their best to aid Dr Freeman and ensure he achieves his goal. This is an AI-driven audio drama based on the "Half-Life" franchise by Valve Software, a...
Black Mesa: An Excerpt From "Applied Sciences in the 20th Century: the United States and Beyond"
Просмотров 2,9 тыс.7 месяцев назад
A short excerpt from "Applied Sciences in the 20th Century: the United States and Beyond" by Richard P. Brennan, a 1998 book detailing some of the large applied science companies following World War II. DISCLAIMER: This is not real.
UN Secretary General Addresses The World - Shortwave Radio Broadcast (The Seven Hour War Begins)
Просмотров 4,1 тыс.8 месяцев назад
In this archived shortwave radio transmission, the beginning of what would eventually come to be known as "The Seven-Hour War" was documented. As many homes did not have functioning television network connection at this point, this address was kept short and broadcast on all possible wavelengths, hence its interception here on a shortwave radio set from a rural location in Australia (one of the...
Music Video - Where's The Body?
Просмотров 84410 месяцев назад
Something different for this channel. The new music video from my band Fin's Contingency Plan. This is off our upcoming concept album that tells the story of an SCP-like entity in the shape of a houseboat.. Our channel: @finscontingencyplan7005 Spotify/Apple Music/Bandcamp: fanlink.to/wheresthebody
Congressional Committee Holds Trial; Black Mesa's Former Administrator Testifies
Просмотров 10 тыс.Год назад
When Bill Clinton appointed a special Black Mesa Congressional Committee to determine the responsible parties at play for the ongoing disaster, the name Wallace Breen was first heard by millions of citizens. This relatively obscure scientist was one of the only survivors of Black Mesa's executive team and, as such, he had no surviving colleagues to dispute his story.
SCP-3000 - A Radio Drama (Part 1)
Просмотров 1,3 тыс.Год назад
Powered by AI voice cloning technology, this is the first part of SCP 3000. Instead of simply reading the article, I've turned it into a fully-casted (albeit with AI) rendition, where the explaration logs are now fully realised with sound FX and foley. You can now imagine you're a researcher sitting at your desk in 1994 listening through a series of tapes from the SCP archives selected to give ...
"Portal" Storm Precipitates Unknown Wildlife; World Leaders Urge Defensive Measures
Просмотров 12 тыс.Год назад
Just launched: ko-fi.com/finnicoltaylor The United Kingdom largely missed this news report, as many were already in the process of stockpiling food, water, and medical supplies. However, its contents were notable for essentially being the first public acknowledgement of the existence of extra-terrestrials. The BBC opted to announce this with little fanfare and a quick speech from a well-known b...
Teaser for SCP-3000 - An Audio Dramatisation
Просмотров 1,3 тыс.Год назад
A short excerpt from my latest AI-driven project to test the waters regarding the SCP content I'm looking to produce on this channel. Yes, I know the visuals are crap, but this is intended to be an audio-only experience for the SCP foundation's brilliantly-written exploration logs. WARNING: THIS VIDEO DOES NOT DEPICT REAL EVENTS. IT IS A FAN-VIDEO GENERATED USING AI VOICE CLONING TOOLS, BASED O...
An Important Message From Dr Kleiner (Subscriber Special)
Просмотров 5 тыс.Год назад
In a nutshell! - More videos coming, some will be SCP themed! - Neinfeld and I are starting a discord channel! - The mod team I'm on, Project Hyperborea, is looking for mappers! Discord: discord.gg/W3uxpzcGaa See you soon! WARNING: THIS VIDEO IS A FAN-VIDEO GENERATED USING AI VOICE CLONING TOOLS WITH A SCRIPT WRITTEN BY ME, BASED ON THE "HALF-LIFE" GAMES BY VALVE CORPORATION. THIS VIDEO DOES NO...
Freak Weather Events Suspected To Be Linked To Black Mesa - NBC News Coverage
Просмотров 24 тыс.Год назад
The late afternoon NBC News bulletin of December 7th was illustrative of just how quickly the Black Mesa situation was progressing. After an eyewitness interview from that morning sparked international confusion, news networks had to rapidly pivot to cover an abrupt, destructive meterological event that left thousands dead. In a rare public appearance, the CEO of Black Mesa's rival company, Ape...
Black Mesa Incident News Coverage: Eyewitness Interview From Evacuation Site (Reconstruction)
Просмотров 32 тыс.Год назад
British television hosts NBC's live eyewitness interview from the Chihuahua evacuation site. This interview, initially intended to provide some reassurance to the public that people had safely evacuated, instead sparked panic when the interviewee described what was apparently a flying object of extremely esoteric appearance. WARNING: THIS VIDEO IS NOT A REAL NEWS REPORT. IT IS A FAN-VIDEO GENER...
Breengrub - Audio Reconstruction
Просмотров 121 тыс.Год назад
An intercepted audio packet from the White Forest Base radio tower. Decoded by Vortigaunts and stored in the Resistance archives. Out of universe, this is an AI-driven audio reconstruction of Marc Laidlaw's twitter account "breengrub". Laidlaw, the former lead writer of the Half-Life series, famously made headlines when he posted his story treatment of Half-Life 2: Episode 3 in 2017 (at the tim...
The Fate of Doctor Freeman - An Audio Memoir By Eli Vance and Isaac Kleiner
Просмотров 8 тыс.Год назад
The Fate of Doctor Freeman - An Audio Memoir By Eli Vance and Isaac Kleiner
The Black Mesa Incident - Archival Footage NBC (reconstruction)
Просмотров 352 тыс.Год назад
The Black Mesa Incident - Archival Footage NBC (reconstruction)
Half Life 2 - Nova Prospekt Internal Stabilisation Team Communications Log
Просмотров 8 тыс.3 года назад
Half Life 2 - Nova Prospekt Internal Stabilisation Team Communications Log
Half Life 2 - Nova Prospekt Land-Sea Intercept Teams Communications Log
Просмотров 10 тыс.3 года назад
Half Life 2 - Nova Prospekt Land-Sea Intercept Teams Communications Log
I put the Fallen Vengeance cover of Seven Nation Army over the Battlefield 1 Trailer
Просмотров 8323 года назад
I put the Fallen Vengeance cover of Seven Nation Army over the Battlefield 1 Trailer
[YTP] Newmarket Train Station Instigates A Brutal Trade War, Making CoC Unprofitable
Просмотров 3274 года назад
[YTP] Newmarket Train Station Instigates A Brutal Trade War, Making CoC Unprofitable
[YTP] Introducing LoL Gay, new champion for the Secks Games
Просмотров 3984 года назад
[YTP] Introducing LoL Gay, new champion for the Secks Games
[YTP] Microsoft SoSSmith Automatically Generates SoS
Просмотров 2304 года назад
[YTP] Microsoft SoSSmith Automatically Generates SoS
[YTP] Kim JoJ-Un's Perilous Lineage Is Investigated By Channel Nine
Просмотров 4854 года назад
[YTP] Kim JoJ-Un's Perilous Lineage Is Investigated By Channel Nine
[YTP] They Might Be Giants Attempt To Avoid Plagiarism
Просмотров 1,3 тыс.4 года назад
[YTP] They Might Be Giants Attempt To Avoid Plagiarism
[YTP] Thunderbirds Make Toast And Get Shot Down By Your Mum
Просмотров 2,7 тыс.4 года назад
[YTP] Thunderbirds Make Toast And Get Shot Down By Your Mum
[YTP] The Based Rebel Nanosaurs Use Ancient CoC To Create Warrioriors
Просмотров 2124 года назад
[YTP] The Based Rebel Nanosaurs Use Ancient CoC To Create Warrioriors
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This is how you use AI. Lovely work! Not letting them write the script for you, but rather collaborate with AI to create your own vision
Shu'ulathoi being controlled by a parasite into being evil is such a twist and yet such a beautiful one that I hope it becomes "canon." I don't like the idea of G-Man being one though he always seemed very third party, and considering Breen said "Your contract is open to the highest bidder." quotes and ominous lines like that are what Half Life and Valve games overall are about, some greater ominous horror lurking behind the walls of every game. G-Man being something middle of the way who has his own interests that we have not been introduced to yet is the best way to go about him. That there's always a bigger fish vying for influence over the universe.
This is the best Halflife content I have encountered since Epistle 3. Thank you for putting this together.
Marc Laidlaw unironically inspired me to become a writer myself. He has such a tight grip on deep existantial themes that you won't find in any other game or movie. It would be an unforgiveable shame if Valve were to disregard the lore Marc original wrote for the Half Life/Portal universe.
This is one of top 5 half life videos for sure. Unrelated rant, but on the matter of common complaints i hear from different people about HLA...valve already retconned HL2 with Episode 1/Aftermath. It would have been nice if a short episode three tied up the HL2 arc with some of epistle 3's ideas (remember, Laidlaw himself said it was a hodge podge of ep3 draft ideas and metacritique of his industry experience, not cut and dry canon), but its been made pretty clear this year by valve devs that the decade+ of radio silence on half life was because they were trying perfect Source 2 because theyre envisioning an experience as radical and fresh as HL1 was.
I think valve could have made Laidlaw's story into a quick 4-chapter game with relatively little effort and I'm disappointed they didn't.
This is excellent! Will anymore news-style Half-Life videos be coming?
Its so cool when games takes real event figures and then make it to their games event history
This is what I think of the combine: 🖕
Come back to watch this often and absolutely love it ! Really great work !
can i use a few of your half life videos? I wont forget to credit you.
@@unforeseenconsequences51603 sure, what for?
11:25 i like to think that the parasite *THEY* modified was the sack tick from the beta
So basically everytime breen is transformed to other host body he's losing some of his memories and he's gaining some new. Sounds like brainwashing process to slowly change his personality so that breens main focus is to obtain more knowledge and power, there's no more breen, who was that?
About the description, I think Marc pushed valve into what we got at the end of HL:A. They had to change everything, if marc havent released epistle 3 then valve would probably just change some details without changing story too much.
@@BananJumper that much is clear. The question is, was that the best course of action?
@@macdrown3892 To be honest, i don't know. I'm fine with story change as Marc's idea for ending was sooooo depressing, fitting but still depressing. I'm total wuss, I want a happy ending after all those years.
@@BananJumper Marc’s ending isn’t meant to be taken literally imo. The text implies a somewhat happy ending.
@@macdrown3892 'somewhat' is very fitting for half life :D Thanks
The vortigaunts have some explaining to do.
No mention of Adrian Shepherd
This version of the story assumes that he's either non-canon or he doesn't pass through the Lambda reactor tip
Even with this not being real, Gore's words hurt to hear, know both the fate of humanity and that this would have been the one and only time our species united as one unilateral force, if not for the Resistance 20 years later.
I'm kind of confused. What is Breen Grub? Is it his "host body" that he talks to the Advisor about?
Breen was killed, and a backup of his mind was activated, loaded into an advisor grub. This is expanded upon in Marc Laidlaw’s story treatment for episode three
1:01-1:04 - You can see the man sitting to the right of the President who was probably the G-Man's employer. All makes sense now.
Is that real
the thought parasite is brain rot
''Toughts of depravity'' Yeah sounds like it
Even through such an unimaginable existential nightmare Breen's scientific nature of inquiry, deconstruction, and theory persists. A wonderful detail that shows the depth of his brilliance, flawed as he may have been. Most any other human's mind would have broken under such stress.
This song is great! I love the horns
Wtf BLACK MASA WAS REAL WTFFFF
@@drnandkumarpurohit3656 correct.
Australia wildlife jokes are not and never have been funny.
"Composers of intricate art forms?" "Builders of unseen worlds?" Able to control their physical form? Are the Shu'ulathoi basically GMod players? Gamers, even?
''The eyes within your eyes the minds in your mind'' -singing vortigaunt
¿Why i feel i was there?
What are we, some kinda Half-Life (1998)?
Fantastic Work! Love it!
Ahh yes where it mostly sends you to synergy where you'll see other half life'd despot's scavenging for lambda locators and murdering everything for them like a drug that's never satisfied.
Half Life community is so malnourished from any attention or updates they've started slaughtering unicorns for their blood, a sad but eventual reality.
Is it just me?, or is the someone at the beginning sounds like Issac Kleiner?.
Spoiler: Snape kills Eli Vance
New stuff from Macdrown? It’s more likely than you think. open.spotify.com/album/16P2kuiUlZ79axRq2mrum9?si=Mya5d9PlS4KDlCyTV6-gYw
Gordon doesn't need to hear all this; he's a highly trained professional.
@@BirdieSenpai These human body parts are exquisitely delicious.
Rise and shine, Mister Freeman... Rise and, shine...
HELLO GORDON
I wonder what are they upto nowadays
Adding some glitches like fast forward for a second and then slowing down the video would make it more believable
Perhaps in a last bid to survive, G-man, and his peers and employers, decided to refine and shape the parasitic thoughts dormant within them all to emerge from his pupal form as entities that could use psychic abilities and dreams to bring merely even a fraction of their dreamy, metaphysical power into the real world, to escape the confines of the Combine invaders.
If the grubs are just verisons of people that can copied over snd over again,that means it may be possible to bring laszlo back and reunite him with sandy and the rebels.if breen grub styas,im praying we get to reverse the grub and get true lazslo back,hell maybe even see winston again if he lived after those gun wounds
the urge to put this in a vhs and place it in a store is insane
Ai will never beat actual voice acting
I agree, honestly.
Sending condolences for the people who lost their lives during the incident
The Half-Life universe is a lot larger than merely the Combine or even G-Man
Judging by what he says of "them" it's likely that whatever the true combine species is, isn't even a physical species. More like a strange metaphysical lifeform
I actually have a pet theory that the creators of the Combine dies off billions of years ago and that it's now just a big machine that's running itself on automatic, with trillions of beings scared of the top combine leaders that doesn't even exist anymore.
@@macdrown3892 That sounds like a very unique and interesting take on a Sci Fi faction... I'd like to talk to you a lot more about this. Would you be interested in reading some of my literature?
I think The Combine is an idea which is a sort of mind-virus. It represents the Advisor's desire to change the world into what they think it can be. Seeing themselves as benevolent enough to rule. The idea was to conquer species and refine them. Taking the best and brightest and copying them while all the others were wiped and served as mindless drones that were subservient to them. This evolution in idea might have been a result of finding The G-Man and his employers, seeing them as an obstacle to their efforts to unite the multiverse under one regime. It's the classic story of good intentions going bad, they thought with all their wisdom that they knew best and would bring peace and order to the multiverse, turns out that they couldn't see beyond themselves, which is why they are so ruthless to every other species they conquer, as they see them as beneath them.
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Incredible concept. A species of creature that uses telepathy and cognitive symbiosis during their incubation period to prepare them for adulthood. But their shared imagination can create worlds, realities, all at whim. It's like an analogy for dreamers, creators. Video game makers.