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Half-Life 2 Writer On Plotting Freeman
Thanks to Planet Half-Life for their interview with Marc Laidlaw, writer on both the Half-Life games, who answers questions about Gordon Freeman's (and other less cipher-like NPCs') genesis, suggesting "...some of the character creation process is very analytical... but a large part of it remains intuitive", and goes on to point an admonitory finger at Joseph Campbell's Hero With A Thousand Faces: "I have great respect for Campbell, who never intended to create a boilerplate for insecure storytellers, but the mythological hero has been done to death." Above all, Laidlaw hopes you have a good time come Half-Life 2's September 29th appearance, saying: "I think the only sector of the audience likely to feel any disappointment are those fans who adored long-jumping between bits of floating rock on Xen."
Date: September 10, 2003 @ 4:31 PM
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RIAa will sue the black hole.
Your reporter Compost Heap reporting.
Today after astronomers announced that have detected the deepest note ever generated in the cosmos, a B-flat, the RIAa announced that they will sue it.
I. Sue Freely, legal spokesman for the RIAa said "I think we have a case, this hole has been making a B-Flat for Billions of years. Since we own the copyright to B-Flat we plan to sue it under the DCMA. Mabel, the subpoena clerk at the Justice Department is prepairing the subpoena right now. And we have NASA lined up to deliver it as soon as it is ready."
The black-hole only had one comment..."B-Flat".
Thats the news for now, Compost Heap reporting.