I just love how this man actually had the guts to stand up and directly oppose the Metrocop. He knew that in the past it was better, and he knew that people had dignity, so he decided to stand up and just spit into the cop's face: "You want this bench? Come on and take it, fucker."
That zoom in as his facial expression shifted from contentment to distant sadness and longing, as well as the match-cut to some years down the line was absolutely wonderful. Not to mention that dead *silence* on the soundtrack during that scene between him and the guard. It did not *feel* tense. It *was* tense.
@@Maréchal_John_Gaming that's the thing with Gordon, he semi caused the resonance cascade which lead to an extraterrersital species from invading earth but also saved tons at the same time. The same thing can be seen here with this fictional old guy being saved, while at the same time the block he stepped in got a reported ''miscount'', which resulted in a lot of deaths.
I mean, imagine living like that though. A decade or two ago you’d be able to go down to your favorite cafe and get a coffee, and now you’re under a militaristic ruler that doesn’t care about you at all. That would fuck with someone.
I just realized the citizens that were alive before the war probably have PTSD of the war and are probably depressed the people born before the war or during it just think this is the normal way of life
That last part about the people think that this is just the normal way of life is scary and saddening to me. Damn maybe I should just enjoy the time that I have with my life and savor it.
acolyte Ohhh, okay. First off, how did you know out of the many people that liked that video. Second, thanks for telling me but I'm not so sure which of the Indian facts out of many are true in any way. Third, I'm not white. ( ._.;) I could just like the video for being funny in a dark sense of humor or because the animation was impressive.
Not a fan of leftist crap either, but you stalking people's youtube accounts is incredibly desperate if not a lot worse. Let her figure out what's right and wrong on her own, this isn't George Orwell's 1984 novel.
Sorry this isn't a funny one, I started the channel with Half-Life 2 content, and it's been too long since I've gotten back into it. I have a lot of Half-Life projects that are either scrapped or in dev hell (including this one), so it's nice to get one out again. Don't worry though, the funnies will back soon, along side more somber projects like this.
yeah the old half life 2 models have some pretty rough face flexes so it took a lot of tweaking to make more complex emotions show through. i had little to work with so i tried to go for subtlety and i'm glad you appreciated it!
Really well done, when I previously played Half-Life 2, I looked at all the Combine buildings and towers thinking nothing of it, because of course, we only jump in when they're well into their control. We see the underground people and the rebels, but except for the first few parts where you see apartment raids, not much citizen life is seen.
I think that's the whole point, to show us how banalized the situation, the oppression has become ! "Yep ! they're raiding that building, we're next ! ... I don't want to be seen talking to you, go please..."
Very little is directly told to the watcher, but you still managed to get the point across. Even someone who doesn't know much about Half-life would feel the gravity of the situation. Very well done, sir!
You can just get so much out of it. He was a young man, living at the cusp of the new millennium just going about his daily life doing regular tasks such as eating, drinking, working, sleeping. maybe he had a wife and kids. Then the combine happened, And took his life away. Now he's a prisoner under the thumb of an Authoritarian puppet government. And he wants to remember happier times, Before Black Mesa destroyed the world he had lived in. Then Doctor Freeman came back.. And gave the humans hope. Maybe this brave and defiant Citizen joined the Rebellion and fought along him. We may never know. But i like to think he did. And he's at White Forest right now.. Admiring the beauty of nature around them.. Those precious memories of life before they came and destroyed his way of life flowing back to him.
this is cool. 0:38 he really almost was gonna move along. but the CP pushed it, trying to exert his authority too much, it offended the man's dignity. "Really? I can't even sit on a bench anymore? No, you're gonna have to take it from me if you want it."
One thing I really love about this animation is how it shows that any act of resistance, no matter how small, is an act of resistance, even if it's as simple as saying "No, I won't move" to a metrocop. Even if that metrocop kills someone else later, and even if this moment doesn't last forever, that was our protagonist's way of temporarily reclaiming a small piece of the world he once had. Truly an amazing animation
Wait. The disengage in the residential block six isnt the incident that happens when we enter the apartment buildings at the start of the game? Then hopefully this man is going to live another change in his life.
God this is why I love the half-life universe. Shit can be so depressing, but at the same time you can get some amazing content out of it. Don't stop man, it's great stuff like the rest of your *sexy memes*
The way he looks around at the end is really sad he probably thought "What happened here?" "Why everything changed so drastically?" "Why time passed so quickly?" (Also Please do more animation's of this kind. It really brings the feeling of sadness and nostalgia Your serious video are really good.)
That's the only thing that makes me be grateful of the fact the water has been adulterated to make you forget... If he actually could remember those last 20 years and the times before the disaster...
Coming from 2018 to 2021. That jump of time with all of our oppressive governments, this hits home of normal. Even if you weren't on this planet for very long. Remember that their goal is a forever present. Stay safe and sane my fellow viewers.
I see what the guy is doing in his flashback. When he's ordered by a metrocop to get up from the bench and go on with his day, he does stand up but disobeys the order to "move along". He's given about 3 warnings, the third the metrocop pulls out his stun-baton, threatening the man. The man notices people are staring at him and in that moment of people wondering what the hell is going on, he raises his voice to the metrocop and says "Go on!" He knew that the metrocop would show brutality for such a minor thing as sitting on a bench. This however did not happen as the metrocop radioed dispatch and was told to "disengage" as there was another problem happening. The metrocop chuckles, turns off the baton and proceeds to do what he was ordered, showing mercy. In short, the man was resisting the oppressing force of the Combine and saying "Fuck it, hit me with the stick if this is such a problem."
That is really beautiful in a way, that I can't describe with my own words. I can feel the anger and the loss in that person. And I'm really impressed by the facial expressions. It's maybe the best SFM I've ever seen!
This animation is very well made in my opinion that for some of here can reflect on time going by at a somber moments feeling tranquility for that man he certainly wishes to go back to before the seven hour war. SFM is an art truly well put together with great minds with remarkable talent.
This is such a seriously well made film. All the characters' mannerisms are on point, especially the metro cop. It's good to know there are still some properly skilled & talented animators on RUclips.
All you need is for the cop to say "Citizens social distance now, citizens who don't comply will be charged with civil disobedience." and you pretty much have 2020
0:43 I love how you can see the citizens entire train of thought during this stare at the CP, such provoking emotion that it's genuinely disheartening At the beginning, his stubbornness turns into him trying to empathize with the protection unit, his eyes filling with sorrow in an attempt to brave the question to the unit "Do you really trust the Combine?", "Why would you do this to yourself? Your people?" When the CP takes his stunstick out, his empathy has turned back into frustration, before he looks to the onlooking citizens. He looked to the floor as if to say "If it's what I have to do to get a message across, I guess there's no other option."
This is an amazing SFM! It's nice to have a serious animation that isn't over the top and filled with clichés like the ones that go into the saxy awards
This got to my feelings, poor elder had a happy life until the combine took over and now things are never the same. and when he told that CP to basically hit him (what I can understand from him saying "Go on"), I wonder if he actually wanted to pass on from the world he was living in, to live a better life than the one he's suffering in.
There isn't enough Half Life SFM stuff out there on youtube. At least, any good quality stuff. I say keep up the work on it, funny or not. You're doin great 👍
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I just love how this man actually had the guts to stand up and directly oppose the Metrocop.
He knew that in the past it was better, and he knew that people had dignity, so he decided to stand up and just spit into the cop's face:
"You want this bench? Come on and take it, fucker."
That zoom in as his facial expression shifted from contentment to distant sadness and longing, as well as the match-cut to some years down the line was absolutely wonderful. Not to mention that dead *silence* on the soundtrack during that scene between him and the guard. It did not *feel* tense. It *was* tense.
Thanks, I honestly *love* the way you describe it. And I'm very glad you enjoyed it, Bolbi.
Ha ha *bold* *words.*
It's one of those things where it just doesn't feel the same when you watch it a second time.
I sort of wished he also grew a beard, but it is cool either way
@@Spockitans At least it's not male_07. Please keep male_09 as the protagonist!
Why does it have to be funny? This was absolutely perfect.
It is just because most of his videos have a comedic aspect to them.
what's fuckin funny
Zaneta Jeziorska he’s talking about how other people wanting this sfm to be funny
@Tom Phelps what is a man?
Ur 999th like . Np
I like how, I assume, the dispatcher calls that CP to apartment raid from Half-Life 2.
BlueShit199
Welp. Found your way here too. As you always do
that could be very possible because it was the same time of day as it was in the game, it looks like
It means that Gordon kinda saved his life
@@Maréchal_John_Gaming that's the thing with Gordon, he semi caused the resonance cascade which lead to an extraterrersital species from invading earth but also saved tons at the same time.
The same thing can be seen here with this fictional old guy being saved, while at the same time the block he stepped in got a reported ''miscount'', which resulted in a lot of deaths.
"They put something on it that makes you forget"
I guess someone didn't
"I don't even remember how I got here."
@@hanzomb2732 Some times i dream about cheese
Hey. Word of advice. Don't drink the water.
Would be funny if everyone talked in game quotes.
Jokes on you i don't drink water
Interesting exploration into citizen life before and after.
I mean, imagine living like that though. A decade or two ago you’d be able to go down to your favorite cafe and get a coffee, and now you’re under a militaristic ruler that doesn’t care about you at all. That would fuck with someone.
@@tenacityxl oh boy
I just realized the citizens that were alive before the war probably have PTSD of the war and are probably depressed the people born before the war or during it just think this is the normal way of life
That last part about the people think that this is just the normal way of life is scary and saddening to me. Damn maybe I should just enjoy the time that I have with my life and savor it.
Of course the male_09 tries to out right provoke the CP
Classic Male_09!
It's Male 09 you dipshit. Male 07's Boxcar Joe, John Freeman and Gordon Frohman.
Edited
male 9 is a masochist
Male_09, a true hero.
Atleast it's not beta and the sky is still blue and clear.
LOL, I GET THAT REFERENCE
Yeah, thank god it's not beta.
atleast it's not fake beta ew
lmao found you like the 50th time now, BlueShit199.. xd
@@blueshit199 Thank god its not just retail
Even though it's not a funny one, it's still beautifully animated.
Those Pochantas videos you viewed were propaganda, please stop watching leftist crap trying to make you ashamed to be white.
acolyte Wait, what? e_e
the vids about the indians you liked are untrue garbage and just trying to guilt-trip you, basically
acolyte Ohhh, okay. First off, how did you know out of the many people that liked that video. Second, thanks for telling me but I'm not so sure which of the Indian facts out of many are true in any way. Third, I'm not white. ( ._.;) I could just like the video for being funny in a dark sense of humor or because the animation was impressive.
Not a fan of leftist crap either, but you stalking people's youtube accounts is incredibly desperate if not a lot worse. Let her figure out what's right and wrong on her own, this isn't George Orwell's 1984 novel.
" This used to be a nice neighborhood "
-Coach L4D2
2009 - 20xx
Now I want to see the L4D survirors facing the Combine.
Sorry this isn't a funny one, I started the channel with Half-Life 2 content, and it's been too long since I've gotten back into it.
I have a lot of Half-Life projects that are either scrapped or in dev hell (including this one), so it's nice to get one out again. Don't worry though, the funnies will back soon, along side more somber projects like this.
Spockitans yeah looks like
Spockitans I think I’m idiot
I like it, it's a good change of pace to see a serious sfm. I think you did well
Its nice too see you are still making these.
Love the emotion you add, truly shows your love for what you make, I wish you got a saxxy for this, cause honestly it looks awesome.
I dare you to try that in a half life 2 rp server in gmod
Banned
Reason: Failed to fear RP
This is why I stopped playing it
SmartAwsomeChannel I stopped playing because EVERY character I made was sexually assaulted and killed only a little after starting
SmartAwsomeChannel I know Fear RP is the most retarded rule ever. It pretty much doesn't fucking allow you to RP.
If you have to act EXACTLY how you have to act in real life. WHY DON'T JUST GO HAVE A WALK OUTSIDE?
SmartAwsomeChannel nigga if someone was putting a gun to me I would go for the legs and knock him over.
Those facial expressions are perfection... musthv taken hours to get them right ... sooo good
yeah the old half life 2 models have some pretty rough face flexes so it took a lot of tweaking to make more complex emotions show through. i had little to work with so i tried to go for subtlety and i'm glad you appreciated it!
@@Spockitansyou did a fantastic job ... kudos!
Really well done, when I previously played Half-Life 2, I looked at all the Combine buildings and towers thinking nothing of it, because of course, we only jump in when they're well into their control. We see the underground people and the rebels, but except for the first few parts where you see apartment raids, not much citizen life is seen.
I think that's the whole point, to show us how banalized the situation, the oppression has become !
"Yep ! they're raiding that building, we're next ! ... I don't want to be seen talking to you, go please..."
All he wanted to do was sell insurance.
Phirnyne [aka Bro2494] to think, all he wanted to do was sell insurance.
While occasionally dreaming about *cheese...*
Now He's a Freedom Fighter in the resistance of his occupied world.
I used that very sound line in my Lockdown mod in deathmatch as one of the prisoners if you go past the cell.
I like how aged the citizen looks like in the future, actually adds to the video.
You know it's the final warning when he clips a stick through his hand.
I like how his hair actually changes color.
And the wrinkles on his face too
20 Years passed...
He looks tired
He’s older somewhere in his 50’s or 60’s meaning that he might have been somewhere in his 30’s or 40’s before the Seven Hours War
Yeah it's a neat detail
This was really nice
Pretty good honestly, good premise, good execution.
Why am i relating to this WHY IS THE WORLD MAKING THIS RELATABLE!?
First part: How I see Dark RP
Second part: How I see HL2RP
?
I would honestly love to see more content like this. Keep up the good work.
Very little is directly told to the watcher, but you still managed to get the point across. Even someone who doesn't know much about Half-life would feel the gravity of the situation. Very well done, sir!
You can just get so much out of it. He was a young man, living at the cusp of the new millennium just going about his daily life doing regular tasks such as eating, drinking, working, sleeping. maybe he had a wife and kids. Then the combine happened, And took his life away. Now he's a prisoner under the thumb of an Authoritarian puppet government. And he wants to remember happier times, Before Black Mesa destroyed the world he had lived in. Then Doctor Freeman came back.. And gave the humans hope. Maybe this brave and defiant Citizen joined the Rebellion and fought along him. We may never know. But i like to think he did. And he's at White Forest right now.. Admiring the beauty of nature around them.. Those precious memories of life before they came and destroyed his way of life flowing back to him.
I've only seen the analysis videos on the metrocops and a couple other Combine subjects, and I could feel it
*Go on!*
*Male 09 a Half Life Story*
*masochism*
"Tell em' what ya think!"
Try me bitch
@@thelonewanderer8186 Your name, bud!
This is really powerful, it makes you think about how nice life was, and how we should savor our lives, before something tragic like this happens
Once was beautiful, now destroyed.
this is cool. 0:38 he really almost was gonna move along. but the CP pushed it, trying to exert his authority too much, it offended the man's dignity. "Really? I can't even sit on a bench anymore? No, you're gonna have to take it from me if you want it."
One thing I really love about this animation is how it shows that any act of resistance, no matter how small, is an act of resistance, even if it's as simple as saying "No, I won't move" to a metrocop. Even if that metrocop kills someone else later, and even if this moment doesn't last forever, that was our protagonist's way of temporarily reclaiming a small piece of the world he once had. Truly an amazing animation
Man this is really good. I’d love to see more of this.
“Change is in the air!”
-that one rebel seconds before he got fucking demolished by a random grenade in the street fight chapter in HL2
CP: Move away
M: ....
CP: *pulls out stun stick* this is your final warning
M: .....
CP: Back away
M: Go on!
CP: Man this guy has some balls
Would you be boss around a alien species thats form different world
@@thelonewanderer8186 Civil protection is made up of humans.
@@williamsmith281 Forgot about that
God damn its really been two years since I wrote that
@@roborobinson4682 now it's 3 years
Wait. The disengage in the residential block six isnt the incident that happens when we enter the apartment buildings at the start of the game? Then hopefully this man is going to live another change in his life.
This means that the uprising will happen in a week and two days, he will have his revenge
God this is why I love the half-life universe. Shit can be so depressing, but at the same time you can get some amazing content out of it.
Don't stop man, it's great stuff like the rest of your *sexy memes*
A truly brave man
A *FREE* man.
I’m pretty sure at the end that CP was supposed to go after Gordon since He was a high value target in the bit where the apartment is raided
Honestly, this is beautiful. Keep it up man. Funny, or serious, your SFM's are a treat.
sex :3
great use of the overwatch radio chatter mix
also +1 for Hometown. RIP its creator. he made AMAZING maps
The way he looks around at the end is really sad he probably thought
"What happened here?"
"Why everything changed so drastically?"
"Why time passed so quickly?"
(Also Please do more animation's of this kind.
It really brings the feeling of sadness and nostalgia
Your serious video are really good.)
@rickro2878It’s possible he fought in the seven hours war
@rickro2878 I’m sure in HL2 EP1 and EP2 elder rebels may be veterans from the war
That's the only thing that makes me be grateful of the fact the water has been adulterated to make you forget... If he actually could remember those last 20 years and the times before the disaster...
i'll never stop loving the metro police's laughs.
This made me cry at a moment,a citizen still dreaming about a normal happy life,forgetting the horrors of the word he ives in.
I really like how that male_09 model makes him look older compared to the flashback one.
when the citizen stood up and stared at the CP i thought it was gonna flash back to show that the CP used to be his friend in the past or something
The last chuckle from that Combine almost felt like a "Ohoh, citizen, you scamp! Get on outta here, you!"
So good
I like how he gets older and more stressed-looking.
Coming from 2018 to 2021.
That jump of time with all of our oppressive governments,
this hits home of normal. Even if you weren't on this planet for very long.
Remember that their goal is a forever present.
Stay safe and sane my fellow viewers.
I see what the guy is doing in his flashback. When he's ordered by a metrocop to get up from the bench and go on with his day, he does stand up but disobeys the order to "move along". He's given about 3 warnings, the third the metrocop pulls out his stun-baton, threatening the man. The man notices people are staring at him and in that moment of people wondering what the hell is going on, he raises his voice to the metrocop and says "Go on!" He knew that the metrocop would show brutality for such a minor thing as sitting on a bench. This however did not happen as the metrocop radioed dispatch and was told to "disengage" as there was another problem happening. The metrocop chuckles, turns off the baton and proceeds to do what he was ordered, showing mercy. In short, the man was resisting the oppressing force of the Combine and saying "Fuck it, hit me with the stick if this is such a problem."
Hope he survives to see the uprising
That is really beautiful in a way, that I can't describe with my own words. I can feel the anger and the loss in that person. And I'm really impressed by the facial expressions. It's maybe the best SFM I've ever seen!
0:30
he survived for 20 years, how his face "changed". Adult to old
Sometimes I just remember this adorable SFM and immediately watch it again and again. One of best SFM of all time(if not best of the best).
I love when people use SFM and Garry’s Mod to create more serious toned stuff
Me too. I *wish* I could make stuff look this good in my Gmod animations.
dude that guy probably had the biggest bragging rights for standing up like that
Wow, amazing! I love these “what it’s like under combine rule” sfm videos as I am a big fan of lore in franchises. Very well made, thanks for sharing
"Local Protection Team Units report on residential block 6"
sounds like a miscount in their block due to certain individual with a goatee and glasses
With the music of "The Stanley Parable", I love it!
This animation is very well made in my opinion that for some of here can reflect on time going by at a somber moments feeling tranquility for that man he certainly wishes to go back to before the seven hour war. SFM is an art truly well put together with great minds with remarkable talent.
Freedom will come
This was recommended to me, and i'm glad it was.
Amazing work, hands down.
I dont know what this video makes me feel, but I'm certainly not complaining
This is the best piece of art you will ever find that's made in sfm
That transition from the past to the present actually gave me chills. Great work on this.
This is such a seriously well made film. All the characters' mannerisms are on point, especially the metro cop. It's good to know there are still some properly skilled & talented animators on RUclips.
All you need is for the cop to say "Citizens social distance now, citizens who don't comply will be charged with civil disobedience." and you pretty much have 2020
I sat there looking at the screen for longer than usual, once it was over. Thank you for sharing.
I really love the lightning effect that has been made here.
Some scenes look really proffecional made.
0:43
I love how you can see the citizens entire train of thought during this stare at the CP, such provoking emotion that it's genuinely disheartening
At the beginning, his stubbornness turns into him trying to empathize with the protection unit, his eyes filling with sorrow in an attempt to brave the question to the unit "Do you really trust the Combine?", "Why would you do this to yourself? Your people?"
When the CP takes his stunstick out, his empathy has turned back into frustration, before he looks to the onlooking citizens.
He looked to the floor as if to say "If it's what I have to do to get a message across, I guess there's no other option."
Really makes you understand why the resistance in half life risk much more than just their lives fighting a war they already lost.
HOLY SHIT IT'S THAT ONE GMOD MAP!
also Stanley Parable ending music
Thus, the start of rebellion. Nice animation sir. 👍
This is one of my favorite HL SFM animations, righr next to The Old Days and stuff by TheParryGod.
So much emotion and tenseness in such a short time.
No words just ambience, good way to portray something.
“Stay HUNGRY Diner”
Ar3 guy lore is so deep
as long as the past is remembered, tyranny and hatred have no place in our future
No dialogue is my favorite kind of dialogue.
I had to watch it again. Nothing weird happened and I was confused. Now this is my favorite sfm.
Does an excellent job capturing the cold beauty of Half Life 2 and source in general.
Very nice, definitely captures the feel of the dystopic nature of the combine rule.
Jesus the lighting is amazing
This is an amazing SFM! It's nice to have a serious animation that isn't over the top and filled with clichés like the ones that go into the saxy awards
LOL I was expecting him to punch the CP to take him down and shoot any combines on sight
Loved every single second of this video, also your choice of music was fucking amazing so as your sounds.
This got me super emotional. Showed it to someone that doesn't know about HL 2 and she concured. Amazing work.
The combine still very much so exist. They just left Earth.
This was genuinely really good. Clearly this had alot of time and effort put in and It deserves more attention
you accomplished a more compelling story in two minutes than some other animations can do in a half hour.
you did good pal.
Many thank friend
This is so good. The sounds and visuals are on point, and the message was delivered beautifully.
Great perspective of citizens that have gone through the 7-day war. If half-life gets a live-action movie this scene should appear in it.
This got to my feelings, poor elder had a happy life until the combine took over and now things are never the same. and when he told that CP to basically hit him (what I can understand from him saying "Go on"), I wonder if he actually wanted to pass on from the world he was living in, to live a better life than the one he's suffering in.
The environment of this video looks happy at first but then it turns gloomy and sad. I like it.
There isn't enough Half Life SFM stuff out there on youtube. At least, any good quality stuff. I say keep up the work on it, funny or not. You're doin great 👍
I really like videos like this, they make you think
I so wish this was a miniseries.
I love how the flashback really sets the mood and reality of how life sucks under the combines rule
This will be us soon.
Very geniune. I enjoyed it! Loved the somber tones this gave off.