CBS 2001.9.6 Incident at Black Mesa Research Facility | Half Life

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  • Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
  • #halflife #halflife2 #portal #blackmesa #gaming #ai #althistory #analoguehorror #analog #horrorstories #scifi #alien #aliens
    CBS report on the Incident at the Black Mesa Research Facility, 9:47 AM, Mountain Time
    Not actually real

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  • @Epentibi
    @Epentibi  3 месяца назад +554

    Join our discord to stay up to date on future videos! (as well as make suggestions)
    discord.gg/Aw8gyMrh5g
    - The camo is off I know it, thanks to everyone for pointing it out. Unfortunately it's really hard to find the exact footage in the right context (location and time wise). BUT, I do have some AI stuff that might be able to swap out cloth / camouflage. Will pay more attention to this next time!
    - Microsoft logo is incorrect, I got that thank you
    - Some people ask if the date here "contradicts" the actual date of the incident, but really there isn't a canon date for the incident, even the original creators contradict with some other Valve devs, so I just picked a random time (or not so random) given the likely span when it occurred.

    • @toddfraser7009
      @toddfraser7009 3 месяца назад +18

      Also, the Microsoft logo you used is the modern version and not the one they were using back in 2001.

    • @eduardog3000
      @eduardog3000 3 месяца назад +8

      Minor one: when he’s supposed to say “$10 billion” he actually just says “10 billion”. Probably better to write it out as “10 billion dollars”.

    • @liftfork
      @liftfork 3 месяца назад +3

      Do you mean the camo that the soldier speaking to the camera is wearing? Personally I don't see anything wrong with it.

    • @snaiper195
      @snaiper195 3 месяца назад +1

      In game thier camo is difrent.​@@liftfork

    • @tungngominh746
      @tungngominh746 3 месяца назад +3

      ​The multicam camo doesn't get issue during 2001 yet

  • @flameguy3416
    @flameguy3416 3 месяца назад +3795

    Nothing happened to the Aperture Science Laboratories Computer-Aided Enrichment Center.

    • @user-ok2bb8rg9k
      @user-ok2bb8rg9k 3 месяца назад +98

      Almost no one knows who they are.

    • @nathanchapin8445
      @nathanchapin8445 3 месяца назад +62

      this sounds ominous as hell lmao

    • @___-qj2lx
      @___-qj2lx 3 месяца назад +20

      1984

    • @hcolider2817
      @hcolider2817 3 месяца назад +79

      @@nathanchapin8445 If we're to go off of what's said in the games and such, the lab was simply locked down, and nobody knew why. Nobody ever came in or out from that point on, and it can be assumed that there wasn't enough time for authorities to actually investigate until the portal storms hit, leaving these sort of things unanswered and probably entirely forgotten in the setting

    • @FreemanicParacusia
      @FreemanicParacusia 3 месяца назад +30

      I remember before Portal 2 came out I speculated that Chel was part of a HECU squad sent into the Aperture facility after the nerve gas was deployed to find out what had happened there, and that she was captured and made into a test subject.

  • @EdwardGLord
    @EdwardGLord 3 месяца назад +4642

    Sept. 6, 2001: I hope this week doesn't get any worse...

    • @dubuyajay9964
      @dubuyajay9964 3 месяца назад +229

      The 11th was at the start of the week. The 6th should be the week prior.

    • @RainbowsClone
      @RainbowsClone 3 месяца назад +76

      pretty sure it's the 9th of June. Which is also wrong because the BM incident happened may 16th (And the next few days)
      Unless this is meant to be a report from a few weeks after it all went down, idk.

    • @AlottaBoulchit
      @AlottaBoulchit 3 месяца назад +28

      ​@RainbowsClone In the report the message from NM authorities is dated September 6, 2001.

    • @saltiestsiren
      @saltiestsiren 3 месяца назад

      What could possibly be worse? A terrorist attack that kills thousands? What are the odds of THAT happening?

    • @femboy4rumMars
      @femboy4rumMars 3 месяца назад +11

      @@AlottaBoulchitnot every country writes dates the same, people in the UK write Year/Month/Day

  • @torrtoise
    @torrtoise 3 месяца назад +403

    the AI is noticeable, but it's scary good. imagine when it stops being noticeable, damn.

    • @GLUBNOIR
      @GLUBNOIR Месяц назад +7

      I don't even wanna think about that 😰

    • @tomcat7928
      @tomcat7928 13 дней назад +1

      its noticable because it was made with consumer hardware and software,i want you to imagine what super computer with thousands of gpus in a secret military resaerch facility can do!

    • @damienblackburn5459
      @damienblackburn5459 11 дней назад +4

      @@tomcat7928 "Super computers" aren't needed. The issue is the models can't be trained reliably on human figures and non-standard patterns. That's why hands and text are almost always the big things to look for for AI generated models -- it doesn't understand the concept of fingers, or how many a hand should have, even if you tell it. That's why I think it will never amount to anything significant as it is now. It would have to be fundamentally redesigned to be anything useful.

    • @sinisterisrandom8537
      @sinisterisrandom8537 5 дней назад +2

      It won't. Gonna be a long time till that occurs and even then would be limited.

    • @GLUBNOIR
      @GLUBNOIR 5 дней назад +1

      @@sinisterisrandom8537 Let's hope so

  • @lilwyvern4
    @lilwyvern4 3 месяца назад +1173

    This AI stuff is getting spooky. 5 years ago this would have genuinely alarmed a lot of people. Really only the monotonous voices, especially the one of the off-screen reporter in the news conference, are the major giveaways.

    • @CastleHassall
      @CastleHassall 3 месяца назад +139

      the voices are very realistic for that type of broadcast

    • @OlviMasta77
      @OlviMasta77 3 месяца назад +81

      Looking at the lips give it away

    • @frenchynoob
      @frenchynoob 2 месяца назад +53

      wym, the off-screen reporter is the _most_ convincing one

    • @christoffesedao3579
      @christoffesedao3579 2 месяца назад +42

      99% of people would not know this is fake. Most people are not paying attention.

    • @lilwyvern4
      @lilwyvern4 2 месяца назад +7

      @@christoffesedao3579 With everything as hopeless as it is now, why would you want to?

  • @mikdan8813
    @mikdan8813 3 месяца назад +1507

    Gordon doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly trained professional.

    • @Cam_88
      @Cam_88 Месяц назад +5

      Why was the Army dude wearing multicam? Oh sh!t...did I just get hoodwinked 😂

    • @user-mq9ew1fi4k
      @user-mq9ew1fi4k Месяц назад

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @Archimedes177
      @Archimedes177 Месяц назад +1

      -famous last words

    • @MarkHennessyBarrett
      @MarkHennessyBarrett 16 дней назад +1

      @@Cam_88 I mean, the F35 overhead was a *bit* temporally incongruous...

  • @or_gluzman561Peace_IL_PS
    @or_gluzman561Peace_IL_PS 3 месяца назад +1772

    they're waiting for you gordon in the test chamber

    • @real-lacey
      @real-lacey 3 месяца назад +143

      in the tesstt chamburrrrr

    • @Chunga9
      @Chunga9 3 месяца назад +29

      Gordun freemen in the fleshh, or rathr in the hazerdd suit 🤵‍♂️🧳

    • @adcraziness1501
      @adcraziness1501 3 месяца назад +8

      Well Gordon, I see your HEV suit still fits you like a glove...at least the glove parts do

    • @djinn_tseng
      @djinn_tseng 3 месяца назад +5

      gordon, are you not hearing me?! climb up and start the rotors!!

    • @sergentjohncaptain2557
      @sergentjohncaptain2557 2 месяца назад +9

      Gordon doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly trained professional.

  • @sarahjrandomnumbers
    @sarahjrandomnumbers 3 месяца назад +1246

    "Cave Johnson, CEO of Aperture Science, was approached for his thoughts about the Black Mesa disaster, but he started throwing what appeared to be incendiary lemons at us."

    • @oxydator
      @oxydator 3 месяца назад +49

      "I've been thinking. If life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade.."

    • @Lee.Willcox
      @Lee.Willcox 3 месяца назад +2

      🤣😎

    • @hellcat9405
      @hellcat9405 2 месяца назад +22

      @@oxydator "Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these!?"

    • @DST.73
      @DST.73 2 месяца назад +10

      "I'm the guy who's going to burn your house down...with the lemons!"

    • @benjovernow
      @benjovernow 2 месяца назад +5

      "Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's going to burn your house down - with the lemons! I'm going to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!" -Cave Johnson

  • @clonecommandermike332
    @clonecommandermike332 3 месяца назад +389

    My buddy used to work at Black Mesa as a security guard. He quit before the incident, thankfully, but he told me about some weird stuff going down there.

    • @TpoJioJio47
      @TpoJioJio47 3 месяца назад +1

      lucker :)

    • @apexone5502
      @apexone5502 3 месяца назад +5

      Like what? What did he witness?

    • @JustinTK416
      @JustinTK416 3 месяца назад +18

      He ever meet that Barney guy who went crazy and posted that video where he claimed to have fought aliens and zombies during a power outage or something?

    • @clonecommandermike332
      @clonecommandermike332 3 месяца назад +24

      @@apexone5502 The usual government stuff. He used to guard top secret shipments in the rail yard. He saw this one government guy with a suit on a lot.

    • @clonecommandermike332
      @clonecommandermike332 3 месяца назад +11

      @@JustinTK416 I know he used to go out for beers with a guy named Barney Callahan or something like that.

  • @TheSuperiorQuickscoper
    @TheSuperiorQuickscoper 3 месяца назад +2513

    Nice to see the first 90s-2000s U.S. newscast on this channel. Dan Rather sounds a bit off, but I am legitimately blown away by how accurate Rumsfeld's cadences and speech mannerisms are. One small critique: the Microsoft logo at 0:17 is from 2012, it should be the famous Helvetica wordmark from the 90s instead.

    • @Epentibi
      @Epentibi  3 месяца назад +466

      Thank you for catching that

    • @WindowsXPMapping1
      @WindowsXPMapping1 3 месяца назад +61

      Was also gonna point that out, but hey, already done, so thanks chap

    • @killerkirbydude
      @killerkirbydude 3 месяца назад +180

      @@Epentibi You should also do your homework on military equipment and uniforms. The fighter jet is an F-22, which entered service in 2005; the uniforms are OCP/Multicam, not adopted until the 2010s; and the "tanks" on the railcars are actually M88 Hercules ARVs, basically giant tow trucks. If you need to consult with someone you should do so- I and many others can assist you with this sort of stuff.

    • @Bold_Burnett_35
      @Bold_Burnett_35 3 месяца назад +36

      Also it’s would have been M81 camouflage not multi cam

    • @ndhart3213
      @ndhart3213 3 месяца назад +39

      @@Epentibi also I recommend using cars made from the early 2000s and below

  • @pman56789
    @pman56789 3 месяца назад +2120

    Now Half-Life? Fuck yeah!

  • @GermanPeter
    @GermanPeter 3 месяца назад +398

    That's insanely well made, holy hell. Genuinely believable.

    • @btm9099
      @btm9099 Месяц назад +4

      Damn didn’t expect you here

    • @mathewvanostin7118
      @mathewvanostin7118 28 дней назад +2

      Bro is true half life event really happened? Or its just a joke?

    • @jaf5281
      @jaf5281 26 дней назад +21

      @@mathewvanostin7118Yes, it really happened

    • @mathewvanostin7118
      @mathewvanostin7118 26 дней назад +9

      @@jaf5281 wow so they made video game out of the event so nice

    • @MarkHennessyBarrett
      @MarkHennessyBarrett 16 дней назад

      @@mathewvanostin7118 ruclips.net/video/54rwawswQpM/видео.html

  • @calimantis
    @calimantis 3 месяца назад +91

    2:52 "Well... um... as you know, with some accidents, there-"
    "...are unforeseen consequences..."

  • @missk1697
    @missk1697 3 месяца назад +1126

    If there ever is some supposed "accident" that brings heavy military response and the officials will be twisting their tongue and sweating trying to downplay it - Ya know it's time to get the hell out of there.

    • @federalinvestigationbureau5814
      @federalinvestigationbureau5814 3 месяца назад

      very realistic answer for any government, even democracies, because considering that the installation does research with materials and alien life and then an incident of this type happens and threatens national security (especially considering that the government sent military forces and then black ops agents ( CIA SAD) to eliminate the evidence and witnesses that would tarnish the government's image and are also facing aliens) and to avoid causing panic and perhaps rebellions and an insurrection against the government, it is not unrealistic for the US government to have done this, whatever country would do this

    • @iusemyrealnamebefore
      @iusemyrealnamebefore 3 месяца назад +64

      But in the end we will be invaded by the most powerful empire in the entire universe (I think) in under 7 hours.

    • @xdas11
      @xdas11 3 месяца назад

      Not a universal.
      It's a multi universal empire!​@@iusemyrealnamebefore

    • @dr.cheeze5382
      @dr.cheeze5382 3 месяца назад +21

      ​@@iusemyrealnamebefore entire multiverse, but that was only months after the cascade

    • @fdk7014
      @fdk7014 3 месяца назад +4

      It's already too late then

  • @leonel1982
    @leonel1982 3 месяца назад +865

    I'm certainly put at ease by the words of Reliable Rumsfeld.

    • @Epentibi
      @Epentibi  3 месяца назад +128

      He will lead us to total victory against the combine! Sun Tzu reborn

    • @Huron2010A
      @Huron2010A 3 месяца назад +55

      "The Black Mesa facility is located somewhere north, south, east or west of Taos" IYKYK

    • @noremacmada
      @noremacmada 3 месяца назад +3

      Rofl

    • @enginerdy
      @enginerdy 2 месяца назад +1

      @@Epentibimeanwhile attempting to broker a side deal with the combine

    • @falamensia-3454
      @falamensia-3454 2 месяца назад

      San Tazu, whose that guy?! 🇸🇲🇸🇲🇸🇲🩵🩵

  • @Clarence_13x
    @Clarence_13x 3 месяца назад +117

    It’s cool how the 2019 Honda accord made its debut in 2001, and still looks great.

    • @Icemansvid
      @Icemansvid 3 месяца назад +10

      Concept car

    • @AlottaBoulchit
      @AlottaBoulchit 3 месяца назад +10

      It was truly ahead of it's time

    • @a-s-greig
      @a-s-greig 3 месяца назад +2

      Stock footage of a time traveller.

    • @chiimumango3979
      @chiimumango3979 13 дней назад +3

      F-35 at 0:40 and a soldier wearing OCP multicam uniform at 1:03

  • @FourthDerivative
    @FourthDerivative 3 месяца назад +96

    People watching this on 9/6/2001: "Man, can this month get ANY worse?!"

    • @a-s-greig
      @a-s-greig 3 месяца назад +5

      I dunno, I'm looking forward to that new Japanese turn-based strategy game getting released... should be interesting. :)

    • @oreodualshock5005
      @oreodualshock5005 28 дней назад

      September 11 attacks

    • @ferdinand5223
      @ferdinand5223 20 дней назад

      ​@@oreodualshock5005nothing compared to what happens in September 12.

  • @Patman2077
    @Patman2077 3 месяца назад +403

    "Unforeseen consequences"

    • @AzysAnimzimr
      @AzysAnimzimr 3 месяца назад +4

      Yeah, sadly John Pugh stop making that and yeah I knew because of father death but still I wanna see his version some day

    • @haybail7618
      @haybail7618 Месяц назад +1

      half life 3 when ??? 😭

  • @Guags
    @Guags 3 месяца назад +769

    The TNO stuff is already great, but this makes me realize that this format has pretty much endless potential.

    • @prospekt921
      @prospekt921 3 месяца назад +31

      i think you mean "limitlesssss potentiallll"

  • @moisander8858
    @moisander8858 Месяц назад +64

    1:00 Also note, Stryker APCs nor Multicam camo was not in use yet in 2001

    • @arthurcrosnier7516
      @arthurcrosnier7516 28 дней назад +3

      Also the F-35A flying overhead at 0:40

    • @sweetsourorange
      @sweetsourorange 24 дня назад +3

      @@arthurcrosnier7516Is that an f-22 or f-35? It’s a bit blurry for me to tell

    • @bryo4321
      @bryo4321 24 дня назад

      The cars in the state police footage are also too new.

    • @arthurcrosnier7516
      @arthurcrosnier7516 24 дня назад +1

      @@sweetsourorange It's an F-35, you can get a pretty good look at it if you pause at 0:42 while the plane is at the right of the image. Look at the shape of the stabilators and the recessed engine, it's one of the biggest physical differences between the F-22 and F-35.. You can also somehow make out the shape of the F-35's divertless supersonic intakes at the front.
      EDIT : It's also pretty hard to know what exact variant it is, It's not the C because the wings are too small, but it could be an A or B bacause they look pretty similar, especially from the bottom. However the A is way more common so i'd be confident to say it's that variant.

    • @SpyBOGod
      @SpyBOGod 21 день назад +4

      1:04 They're showing soldiers, not Marines, and they're using the wrong uniform. This is MultiCam for U.S. soldiers, but Marines should be using woodland camouflage. In the late 1990s, the U.S. Marine Corps used woodland camouflage, while the U.S. Army primarily used the BDU (Battle Dress Uniform) with woodland camouflage as well.

  • @Bludijin
    @Bludijin 3 месяца назад +53

    I was in the 8th grade when 9/11 happened. I watched the second plane hit the tower live as my mom was yelling at me to stop watching TV and brush my teeth. Seeing Donald Rumsfeld give press conference about Black Mesa took me right back to being 12 in a weird, not so great way...

    • @ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky
      @ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky 21 день назад

      I never saw 9/11 but I saw the news report of Osama Bin Laden getting killed tho.

    • @ConeFlower-gx2qk
      @ConeFlower-gx2qk 4 дня назад +1

      It’s weird the stuff you remember. My earliest memories of real world events on television were 9/11 and Dale Earnhardt dying

  • @nathanseper8738
    @nathanseper8738 3 месяца назад +325

    I love you combining 2000s news broadcasts with things like Half-Life. Throwing in real-life public officials like Rumsfeld adds authenticity.

  • @NexusApollo
    @NexusApollo 3 месяца назад +236

    One of the last broadcasts before the Combine arrive. Chilling.

    • @LBSMC2012
      @LBSMC2012 Месяц назад +8

      And Before... Uhh... Some Towers And a Pentagon-Form Building...

  • @budnrobots2968
    @budnrobots2968 17 дней назад +12

    My uncle was in the army and he was stationed at black mesa for a couple years. Really an adjacent compound but ‘everyone called it Black Mesa anyway’ according to him.
    He passed before i really got to ask him anything about what he did, but i do remember him telling my family about strange noises and the extreme formality all his higher ups had about the situation.
    I wish i could’ve asked him things, it’s so interesting to imagine what he may have seen. God rest his soul.

    • @mrdarkshoe
      @mrdarkshoe 2 дня назад

      My uncle used to work security at Black Mesa as a civilian contractor. I would always ask him if he had any cool stories but he told me the most exciting thing he’d ever seen happen was a scientist slip on a puddle of coffee!

  • @alias6149
    @alias6149 2 месяца назад +14

    Now we need a broadcast on the 7 Hour War

  • @Alfredo12
    @Alfredo12 3 месяца назад +220

    "And so, without anyone from the national and international audience knowing that just at that moment an inter-dimensional alien invasion was happening in Black Mesa, it would only be the beginning of something much, much worse."

  • @alba5962
    @alba5962 3 месяца назад +186

    This feels like a new type of horror where you just look at the hyper realistic news reports about upcoming end of the world. Good job/

    • @ChainikVlad
      @ChainikVlad 3 месяца назад +15

      Eh, don't think it's new - Local 58 was a thing before, but this with the help of AI (or VO in general) feels more natural

    • @RootVegetabIe
      @RootVegetabIe 3 месяца назад

      ​​@@ChainikVladNatural? It looks fucking uncanny. The mouth movement is bizarre. The ai voices are wooden. Never mind that it's written like shit.

  • @thesteellegionnaire4570
    @thesteellegionnaire4570 24 дня назад +13

    One anachronism I can point out is the Major in Multicam. In 2001, he’d be wearing M81 Woodland. Outside of that, phenomenal work.

  • @-._Radixerus_.-
    @-._Radixerus_.- 3 месяца назад +20

    2:00 WOW. You're going for the DEEP CUTS, man!

    • @PikaWarrior1222
      @PikaWarrior1222 17 дней назад +1

      what's the deep cut? i forgot a lot of the lore.

    • @Arc_5
      @Arc_5 14 дней назад +1

      @@PikaWarrior1222 on dock 137 the containers and some of the warehouses have the northern petrol logo and the name, and they also used to own the dock

    • @-._Radixerus_.-
      @-._Radixerus_.- 10 дней назад

      @@PikaWarrior1222Northern Petrol is a real company in Half-life that you can see on shipping containers

    • @snark894
      @snark894 9 дней назад +3

      ​@@PikaWarrior1222Northern Petrol is a brand seen in half life very prominently, on many many cargo crates and fuel tanks

  • @natescoolplace
    @natescoolplace 3 месяца назад +1575

    This is just the peak of alternate history footage
    Holy gone-golly you guys got me to 1k likes

    • @aturchomicz821
      @aturchomicz821 3 месяца назад +2

      No you just have low expectations?

    • @natescoolplace
      @natescoolplace 3 месяца назад +27

      @@aturchomicz821 talk to the 260 likes

    • @EMan-xj5cz
      @EMan-xj5cz 3 месяца назад +19

      @@aturchomicz821no it’s just really well made (you have high standards)

    • @aturchomicz821
      @aturchomicz821 3 месяца назад +3

      @@EMan-xj5cz Yeah I agree its _really good_ , but its absolutley not "the peak". Youre just setting yourself up for worse media afterwards if you think like this

    • @EMan-xj5cz
      @EMan-xj5cz 3 месяца назад +12

      @@aturchomicz821 yeah obviously it’s not “peak” (in a literal sense) usually peak nowadays just means really good

  • @aidanr.c.2604
    @aidanr.c.2604 3 месяца назад +112

    Should have used the early 2000s era Microsoft logo at the beginning instead of the current one

    • @jacksoncremean1664
      @jacksoncremean1664 3 месяца назад +7

      I didn't even notice that

    • @duon44
      @duon44 3 месяца назад +3

      Ah that's what felt odd about it

  • @militustoica
    @militustoica 3 месяца назад +22

    Only thing that threw me off was a US soldier wearing OCP when we were still in BDUs back then

    • @user-sz2hw2sz8x
      @user-sz2hw2sz8x Месяц назад +4

      Yeah I was like wait a minute...that wasn't issued yet...lol.

  • @Davemon115
    @Davemon115 3 месяца назад +7

    Fun fact, the incident opened up a wormhole in time as well as space, which is why this broadcast has a Microsoft logo that didn't exist until 2012

  • @Nalrats
    @Nalrats 3 месяца назад +58

    I love how you included the in-universe Northern Petrol into the new newscast. Very well done!

    • @TimRobertsen
      @TimRobertsen 8 дней назад

      I didn't even know about Northern Petrol. But that 5 second segment gave me sneaking suspicion that something was up.

  • @IRB1881
    @IRB1881 3 месяца назад +1629

    If Dr. Coomer doesn't make an appearance, I'm not watching

    • @sirtitanic7882
      @sirtitanic7882 3 месяца назад +119

      *HELLO GORDON!*

    • @rosemeowmeows
      @rosemeowmeows 3 месяца назад +64

      wheres your passport

    • @EnclaveSoldier2201
      @EnclaveSoldier2201 3 месяца назад +56

      Rope! We can use this to traverse large pi- Hello, Gordon!

    • @Willindor
      @Willindor 3 месяца назад +33

      Sadly he was at a Canadian university giving a lecture with his colleague Dr. Gooner when all of this happened

    • @EnclaveSoldier2201
      @EnclaveSoldier2201 3 месяца назад +32

      @@Willindor You have lost 12 play coins for this comment.

  • @canlinzhang4863
    @canlinzhang4863 2 месяца назад +6

    Nice choice of stock footage in 1:21. I think it's the Titan Missile Museum near Tucson, AZ.

  • @MagmaSloth64
    @MagmaSloth64 3 месяца назад +23

    This is literally the coolest thing ever, after having just watched this documentary from 2008 called Wake Up Call - New World Order, this footage just blends seamlessly with that perfect early 2000s conspiracy unfolding vibe.
    As an environment artist working on the opposing force and blue shift remake, Operation: Black Mesa, I almost wish it were possible to include something like this as an Easter egg. I'm not sure if it is though due to source engine limitations, but this really does feel like a slice of half life bleeding into the real world.
    Excellent use of footage, I particularly like that you included the shot from inside the Titan II missile silo. I'm curious what was that subterranean water reservoir that resembled the half life 1 sewer system/lower canal?

  • @PublicEnemy442
    @PublicEnemy442 3 месяца назад +550

    Am I the only one that noticed the Black Mesa incident takes place only 5 days before 9/11?

    • @Ayeohx
      @Ayeohx 3 месяца назад +172

      Yeah I remember this. What a week.

    • @federalinvestigationbureau5814
      @federalinvestigationbureau5814 3 месяца назад +70

      but didn't the incident occur on December 5, 2000? and the seven hour war at the beginning of 2001?

    • @thecommunistloli1042
      @thecommunistloli1042 3 месяца назад

      Poor Osama the interdimensional aliens took the spotlight from his big bad evil plan :(

    • @TheSpellingErrrror
      @TheSpellingErrrror 3 месяца назад +56

      @@federalinvestigationbureau5814 people say it happened in the 1990s 2003 or 2000 but I personally believe it happened in December of 2000 never heard someone say right before 9/11

    • @KaiserMattTygore927
      @KaiserMattTygore927 3 месяца назад +92

      Yeah, the black mesa stuff got overshadowed completely.
      I still remember being a kid back then and some people were talking about some "Free man" with a crowbar, probably another terrorist.

  • @pyroshilov8474
    @pyroshilov8474 3 месяца назад +90

    Epentibi touching on Half Life content is a huge and welcome suprise. from looking at other content creators trying the same thing (and succeeding), news reports of the Incident, Xen invasion, 7 Hour war and aftermath would be incredible
    you never fail to deliver

  • @Colddirector
    @Colddirector 3 месяца назад +9

    Just think - while that press conference is happening, there is a man in an orange hazard suit running around murking soldiers to the tune of Modern Major General.

  • @halvarmc671
    @halvarmc671 3 месяца назад +8

    3:37 If you're going to make this half believable, in 2001, the Army was not using those ruck sacks. Those didn't come in until 2006 and those particular ones came more than a few years after 2008.

  • @SpeedyHOI4
    @SpeedyHOI4 3 месяца назад +357

    If this is happening 5 days before September 11th, wouldnt that imply 9/11 was a cover up operation for the Black Mesa Incident?

    • @shinsenshogun900
      @shinsenshogun900 3 месяца назад +83

      Or an adequate distraction of an issue

    • @liftfork
      @liftfork 3 месяца назад +95

      Maybe Bin Laden saw the aliens and was like "damn, lets give the americans a break"

    • @shinsenshogun900
      @shinsenshogun900 3 месяца назад +23

      @@liftfork as if the AQ are to be spared from G-Man's plans

    • @federalinvestigationbureau5814
      @federalinvestigationbureau5814 3 месяца назад +22

      the incident must have occurred on December 5, 2000 and the seven hour war on February 2, 2001 based on the two videos of that guy who made the situation in the world after the black mesa incident and its consequences at national level (USA) and global level

    • @liftfork
      @liftfork 3 месяца назад +31

      @@shinsenshogun900 “Time, Mr. Bin Laden? Is it really that time again?”

  • @daliilars3350
    @daliilars3350 2 месяца назад +13

    This is horrifying.

  • @Jolis_Parsec
    @Jolis_Parsec 3 месяца назад +6

    I noticed that you used VHS cassette glitching and artifacting in order to help mask the tweaks to people’s mouths when getting their lips to sync up with the dialogue for the video. Definitely helps that the video is grainy as well. I’m impressed, good job! 😊

  • @rocketman3863
    @rocketman3863 3 месяца назад +84

    I can feel the half life inside me

    • @LeonidasF2P
      @LeonidasF2P 3 месяца назад +13

      I feel half of my life ripping out of me

    • @Mikewee777
      @Mikewee777 3 месяца назад +3

      Half is love , love is life ; 3 confirmed.

    • @the10ofdiamondscard
      @the10ofdiamondscard 3 месяца назад +3

      Friend inside me

  • @freundschaft870
    @freundschaft870 3 месяца назад +160

    Soldier wearing the camo from the future, they used woodland in 2001 not the OCP

    • @ebrimajallow9631
      @ebrimajallow9631 3 месяца назад +11

      Don’t worry about little details it ruins it

    • @warweasel2832
      @warweasel2832 3 месяца назад +34

      They also showed Struker vehicles that didn’t begin production until 2002, but there’s a level of suspension of disbelief there I guess.

    • @federalinvestigationbureau5814
      @federalinvestigationbureau5814 3 месяца назад

      Striker that is the correct name of the vehicle but you are right the US army was still testing the striker and it had not entered service and mass production in 2001 (and the black mesa incident did not occur on December 5, 2000? and Did the Seven Hours War happen at the beginning of February 2001?)​@@warweasel2832

    • @thecommunistloli1042
      @thecommunistloli1042 3 месяца назад

      On this guys's defence there's an interdimensional alien invasion going on caused by human experiments and the black mesa research facility has developed stuff like the TAU cannon and the displacer cannon so maybe they developed that other stuff sooner

    • @thatpersonwithamlpiconwhos2861
      @thatpersonwithamlpiconwhos2861 3 месяца назад

      The games also had VTOL aircraft that were only in experimental phases at that time. Half life is not a series that worries about realism lol​@@warweasel2832

  • @EmperorSteele
    @EmperorSteele Месяц назад +2

    I forget the exact time-line, but I'm pretty sure that at various points in the game, evacuation orders were called in an expanding radius, and at one point, the army even requested anyone with firearms training to stay behind to help (all of this is overheard on radios). Pretty sure the news networks would have caught on to that. Also, That contradicts the "stay at home" order.
    Regardless, this was chillingly convincing; great job!

  • @Nihilistic-Mystic
    @Nihilistic-Mystic Месяц назад +3

    depending on how long it took before portal storms appeared, the black mesa incident mightve singlehandedly prevented 9/11

  • @Michael-yu2yk
    @Michael-yu2yk 3 месяца назад +264

    one note: your Army uniforms are not correct for the time period, they should be wearing an earlier one like desert “chocolate chip” or woodland BDUs

    • @ForFucsSakeWhyDidYTchangmyName
      @ForFucsSakeWhyDidYTchangmyName 3 месяца назад

      Matter of fact, it wasn't the army who responded, it was the marines

    • @andystegall7407
      @andystegall7407 3 месяца назад +14

      DBDU was discontinued in 1995. You're thinking of DCU or the three color "coffee stain" camo

    • @SethiKinsGaming
      @SethiKinsGaming 3 месяца назад +9

      @@andystegall7407 man, those are some wild names for camouflage.
      "Chocolate chip?" "Coffee stain?" sounds more like a café menu than the U.S. military lol

    • @Powbro1985
      @Powbro1985 3 месяца назад +9

      ​@@SethiKinsGamingmeh we used to call the navy Blue camos blue berries

    • @coolguy05190
      @coolguy05190 3 месяца назад

      @@andystegall7407 thank you solid snake

  • @ODKilroy
    @ODKilroy 3 месяца назад +29

    They also mentioned Northern Petrol. Cool attention to detail.

  • @SneedFeedAndSeed
    @SneedFeedAndSeed 3 месяца назад +9

    >new windows logo
    you tried

  • @snart2195
    @snart2195 17 дней назад +2

    It's so unbelievably uncanny to see Donald Rumsfeld say "Black Mesa Research Facility"

  • @bokunogentoo4420
    @bokunogentoo4420 3 месяца назад +109

    0:17 that's the wrong Microsoft logo for 2001 ☝️🤓

    • @spong1348
      @spong1348 3 месяца назад +25

      Noticed it immediately. Literally unwatchable 😤

    • @olympian3
      @olympian3 3 месяца назад +7

      Everything is so perfect except for the Microsoft logo 😢

    • @Neukend
      @Neukend 3 месяца назад +12

      The military stuff is also entirely wrong for the time period.

    • @Callaghan552
      @Callaghan552 3 месяца назад +1

      The English is janky, like it was scripted by someone who doesn't speak natively.

    • @ashdjones
      @ashdjones 3 месяца назад +1

      Nothing holds back Gillian Gates (Sliders) !!!

  • @FlyAwayN0w
    @FlyAwayN0w 3 месяца назад +160

    quite a few years too early for an f35

    • @jasziegl8983
      @jasziegl8983 3 месяца назад +66

      OFFICIALLY

    • @federalinvestigationbureau5814
      @federalinvestigationbureau5814 3 месяца назад +17

      and the f-22 and the ifv striker however much they were being tested at the time of the incident

    • @edmundliankalang5925
      @edmundliankalang5925 3 месяца назад +18

      The army guy was also wearing Multicam instead of HECU Camo

    • @ashdjones
      @ashdjones 3 месяца назад

      Nuhuh not for classified ops, a Vortigon set up the news com. Tinto dataum, take the gun off me Ming let my uncle live for the love of christ can you see hes not darth vadar he's done nothing wrong he runs a leukemia charity we know nothing about jets, bang, I"ll tell them Luv did it my Ace Rimmer snogging hand knows the answer - hi i am crazy positive, as weirder science lisa i proclaimers it is true so fk my god right up my asshat heh heh heh Bedevil eh, I'll be a lesbian one day dad.

    • @Coldsteak
      @Coldsteak 3 месяца назад +4

      @@jasziegl8983i dont think they'd let a news cast capture b-roll of their classified jet

  • @anonymous_preferred7737
    @anonymous_preferred7737 17 дней назад +1

    I remember hearing about this incident. Unfortunately by the following Tuesday, it was completely forgotten about.

  • @FranRoscelli
    @FranRoscelli 3 дня назад

    I need the complete coverage 24/7 from this point to the 7 hour war, non stop. This is the best I've seen in the Half life lore probably

  • @SamuelHasTakenTheLifeOfAMan
    @SamuelHasTakenTheLifeOfAMan 3 месяца назад +39

    Holy shit he did a Half-Life one

  • @whiteelephant3673
    @whiteelephant3673 3 месяца назад +20

    This has come out of a blue, Epentibi. Thank you, from a bottom of my heart, as a HL fan. And thank you for all your great work.

  • @TemmieContingenC
    @TemmieContingenC 3 месяца назад +2

    this scratches my itch for Black Mesa vhs/eas content thank you
    I also dig the usage of army footage as I think whilst the USMC were the door kickers, there was still a sizeable presence of national guardsmen handling the whole evacuation thing as well ad giving the HECU air assets to work with. I guess it’s possible to write off them being in OCP since they were being phased in and replacing the old UCP during the late 2000s

  • @badpiggies988
    @badpiggies988 3 месяца назад +4

    Now do one for the TF2 senate hearing
    3:15 Famous last words

  • @theformerkaiser9391
    @theformerkaiser9391 3 месяца назад +25

    I like how you quoted part of the EAS announcement from Black Mesa

  • @randomyankee8923
    @randomyankee8923 3 месяца назад +41

    This is pretty good and im watching live, you should make a Seven Hour War news broadcast

    • @whiteelephant3673
      @whiteelephant3673 3 месяца назад +3

      That would be based

    • @federalinvestigationbureau5814
      @federalinvestigationbureau5814 3 месяца назад +3

      no, first he has to do it about the destructive meteorological events and disposition of alien life on earth, then about the joint committee of both the Democratic and Republican parties on the incident and the testimony of the former administrator of the black mesa research facility and the employees survivors, then the chaotic situation in the world and then the detection by the United Nations and multiple space agencies of the arrival of the Combines and then the Seven Hours War and the unconditional surrender of all UN members

  • @Trouble_2-1
    @Trouble_2-1 2 месяца назад +1

    Well made sir, well made. One point i'd like to add for historical correctness:
    MultiCam which is the camouflage pattern used by officer NUGENT in the video was not developed/designed/unveiled until 2002 and started being used by units around 2004. It was mainly used by different special units during GWoT era. The widely adopted OCP/Scorpion W2 which is the US Army version of Cryes MultiCam was rolled out summer 2015.

  • @bob-omb1217
    @bob-omb1217 3 месяца назад +2

    This is crazy impressive, the filters are really good too! I'd love to see a behind the scenes on this!

  • @whiteelephant3673
    @whiteelephant3673 3 месяца назад +42

    There's part two. We are truly blessed 🙏

  • @qboxer
    @qboxer 3 месяца назад +11

    This is unbelievable good - especially the Rumsfeld briefing. I have no idea how you did this, but you are a master. Well done.

  • @-Poka-
    @-Poka- 2 часа назад

    This can easily fit in as a scene for a live action Half Life movie. Good damn work.

  • @optionalcoast7478
    @optionalcoast7478 12 дней назад +1

    just a note the plane at 0:42 is a F-35 which did not enter service until 2015

  • @ardentfire3956
    @ardentfire3956 3 месяца назад +36

    The interview with the soldier is a bit of a mistake. He's wearing the modern OCP uniform while back in 2001 they would be wearing BDUs with either M81 woodland or tri color "coffee stain" desert camo.

    • @OnxGrid
      @OnxGrid 3 месяца назад +5

      I know it's sounds dumb, but maybe the HECU were testing out new gear for the military, before they send the new gear to troops in Afghanistan and Iraq they decided to use this incident for "trials on the field" stuff.

    • @federalinvestigationbureau5814
      @federalinvestigationbureau5814 3 месяца назад +9

      ​@@OnxGrid"Afghanistan and Iraq" bro the black mesa incident occurred even before the September 11 attacks, so there is no invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq

    • @OnxGrid
      @OnxGrid 3 месяца назад +3

      @@federalinvestigationbureau5814 but still though, the US are planning to modernize their equipment by late 90s- early 2000s even before the 9/11 happen

    • @manformerlypigbukkit
      @manformerlypigbukkit 3 месяца назад +1

      I mean, the HECU wears urban camo under olive drab vests and helmets, so maybe this is fine to let slide

    • @KingLich451
      @KingLich451 3 месяца назад +1

      🤓👆

  • @thatrandomcrit5823
    @thatrandomcrit5823 3 месяца назад +15

    This is terryfying, why is this so well made

  • @abramsullivan7764
    @abramsullivan7764 Месяц назад +1

    Interesting while all this happened a man in a HEV suit at the age of 27 is running around with an inventory of weapons running around trying to think, live, and survive.

  • @bilbo1778
    @bilbo1778 3 месяца назад +7

    This is the proper use of AI - not trying to have it write poorly written fiction but rather as an easy to use SFX tool far beyond the capabilities of a human trying to manually splice audio files...

    • @gwiz6955
      @gwiz6955 3 месяца назад +2

      It is a basis for making tools. Computing taken to its limits as of now.

  • @shrekk14
    @shrekk14 3 месяца назад +23

    a emergency special report detecting a certain universal union heading for earth would be so cool

  • @rootin222
    @rootin222 3 месяца назад +10

    1:09 the camo is off everyone wore the trash ucp

    • @JHRTV1
      @JHRTV1 10 дней назад +7

      2001, they wore M81 Woodland or DCU Desert Camo.

    • @Christerray
      @Christerray День назад

      More than likely he would be in woodland for something like this, they didn't have deserts just ready to go at a moments notice. Especially for media relations guys.

    • @rootin222
      @rootin222 День назад

      @@JHRTV1 exactly

  • @AWSOMEPOSSUM16
    @AWSOMEPOSSUM16 26 дней назад

    This is really cool. The blurry VHS video really helps with the mind accepting the mouth movements; definitely wouldn’t have worked in HD.

  • @proxy3386
    @proxy3386 3 месяца назад +2

    The only thing I notice that is a bit amiss (given the time period), is the production F-22A Raptor flying four years before it’s disclosed “put into service date” found easily on Wikipedia.

  • @r00dfr00t
    @r00dfr00t 3 месяца назад +9

    Oh my god we need more of this Half LIfe stuff. It'd be interesting if you could try to incorporate the EAS broadcast messages from Black Mesa into the second part as I think it would add more to the immersion.

  • @flashybangy
    @flashybangy 3 месяца назад +14

    ABSOLUTE CINEMA

  • @matthewtarr4794
    @matthewtarr4794 3 месяца назад

    OMG this is awesome. I remember in the early 2000s me and my friends would speculate on how the US gov would communicate the black mesa incident to the public and this is right on. Great editing so cool.

  • @spran369
    @spran369 Месяц назад +1

    This is really well-made! Quite impressive what AI can do now.

  • @Chevalert
    @Chevalert 3 месяца назад +10

    Like without looking

  • @hukg4988
    @hukg4988 3 месяца назад +9

    Was really interested in TNO stuff even despite not playing hoi4 all that much, but this just sold me. Keep up the good work, these videos are really cool.
    If you are going to continue with half-life universe after that, I would be pretty interested to look at the news report regarding aperture science senate hearings about missing astronauts if possible.

  • @cloudycolacorp
    @cloudycolacorp 3 месяца назад +1

    OCP camo in 2001, I'm starting to think this might not be real at all!

  • @chthulu27
    @chthulu27 2 месяца назад +1

    THIS is what AI generated content should be: hilarious, clever use of material, brilliantly edited.

  • @JagerLange
    @JagerLange 3 месяца назад +42

    "They're waiting for you, Donald... in the Press chamber..."

  • @MemeMarine
    @MemeMarine 3 месяца назад +3

    This and the 1984 one is pretty cool, I like that you're branching out into other worlds

  • @DeadGothicRed
    @DeadGothicRed 11 дней назад

    Lol I love the edit and the obvious cut in with the Military where some of the vehicles shown weren't even around yet. Except the F22 funny enough.

  • @obamasdadlol
    @obamasdadlol 10 дней назад

    This stuff is genuinely cool. Adds so much depth to the world of half life, I especially liked when Black Mesa included the EAS announcement

  • @Descriptor413
    @Descriptor413 3 месяца назад +17

    Easily the worst thing to happen in September of that year.

    • @Mikewee777
      @Mikewee777 3 месяца назад +4

      A second tower fell onto the freeman.

    • @SDVHILzseriolih
      @SDVHILzseriolih 3 месяца назад +2

      the resonance cascade did not happen in september 2001, it was may 2003

    • @uranium_enjoyerOfficial
      @uranium_enjoyerOfficial 2 месяца назад

      ​@@SDVHILzseriolih its still unknown what exact year resonance cascade happened, it could be any year from 2000 to 2009

  • @Yourlocalwordrobe
    @Yourlocalwordrobe 3 месяца назад +32

    HALF-LIFE FANS ASSAMBLE!

  • @MickDelgado
    @MickDelgado 3 месяца назад +1

    Good job, just a minor mistake. You used the modern MS logo syle in report that should be over 20 years old. Back in the 2000s the windows logo was a bit more detailed than just 4 squares

  • @DanSwanson2070
    @DanSwanson2070 2 месяца назад +3

    Then the Pentagon bought 1200 crowbars at $23,000 a piece…

  • @olzhas1one755
    @olzhas1one755 3 месяца назад +3

    1:31 The vehicles in that video are anachronistic for this time period, there's clearly car models from the 2010s ans 2020s. It would've been better to use an excerpt from a different news broadcast from the 2000s/1990s.

  • @arutemisemtrai9769
    @arutemisemtrai9769 3 месяца назад +3

    0:32 Did they sample it from Mike Tyson or something? "Black maytha retherch facthilty"

  • @Krystalmyth
    @Krystalmyth 3 месяца назад +1

    How was, literally ANY of this made? I feel left in the dust when it comes to technology these days. I know some of this is AI, but, I'm honestly floored. How was this done? A making-of would be captivating.

  • @ceno8yte
    @ceno8yte Месяц назад

    I think my favorite detail here is the beginning of the report on Northern Petrol. Such a small little detail that makes it feel more like Half-Life.

  • @Dacyberwolfttvyt
    @Dacyberwolfttvyt 3 месяца назад +3

    Sadly the news cast isn’t period accurate at 0:24 Microsoft didn’t use that logo during the 2000s

    • @lenadams854
      @lenadams854 26 дней назад

      The shadow itself was seen in ads for 95

  • @jesusisherelookbusy
    @jesusisherelookbusy 3 месяца назад +3

    Half Life is an untapped resource for some great analog horror.

  • @beanboy887
    @beanboy887 24 дня назад +1

    I’d really love a sequel about the 7 hour war

  • @sagaswp
    @sagaswp 3 месяца назад +1

    This was fantastic. I would love to see a version of the events that took place in Zanzibarland and Outer Heaven back in the '90s. Also, one tiny critique...Americans wouldn't print the date like that. It should read 9-6-2001.