So this piece of audio came out today:
I heard it’s in the new Portal 2 DLC but I’m not entirely sure. Seems pretty legit though.
And it gets weirder, If you go to this link:
https://forum.pandoric.com/index.php?/topic/367-blappeture-mesa/
So when the audio is reversed, we hear Gabe Newell???
WHAT COULD THIS MEAN???!!!??? :fffuuu:
Theorists… Theorize
EDIT:
The audio doesn’t have Gabe Newell’s voice. But the fact that the audio is still there really does leave room for some speculation.
The reversed audio sounds too good for me.
Turns out it was. According to Steamcast, it was most likely a joke from Garry of Gmod (is there any other?) and SnakeZ from JBMod. But Garry always does stuff like that. But the J.K. Simmons recording is entirely real though.
I reversed it myself and I didn’t hear anything. FAKE!
So the source links to blackmesasource.com and the DNS servers are connected to CloudFare, same as blackmesasource.com.
Is this the start of their PR campaign before mod release that someone spoke of a couple of months back?
Or do the Black Mesa team just love trolling everyone?
lol:
If you click on the title and press play again it plays: " Hi this is gabe newell"
The sound is real, the rest is fake.
That was fun!
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https://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/117161-Cave-Johnson-Announces-Blappeture-Mesa
Cave Johnson Announces “Blappeture Mesa”
Andy Chalk | 9 May 2012 1:20 am
The famed Black Mesa research facility has a new owner.
Something is afoot at blappeture.com! The Blappeture Mesa site, which came to the notice of the internet at large earlier this evening, sports an oddly-familiar logo and a link to a recording of none other than Cave Johnson, the head honcho of Aperture Science, announcing himself as the new owner of Black Mesa, the cutting-edge research facility that served as the setting of the original Half-Life. He also called for the immediate shutdown of Black Mesa’s anomalous materials research “before you idiots end the world.”
It’s definitely the voice of Cave Johnson [or someone who does an absolutely picture-perfect impersonation of his delivery and management style], but a quick /WHOIS reveals that the blappeture.com domain was registered on April 30 by Joe Angry of Madbox, Newfoundland, which, I’m sad to say, is a fake address. Probably a fake name, too. So what’s going on?
Alas, it looks like the whole thing is an elaborate troll. While some long-suffering Half-Life fans are continuing to search for the hidden meaning, the general consensus is that somebody is messing with us. Steam forum users, and probably others elsewhere, pointed out that the audio clip is actually an Easter egg found in the new “Perpetual Testing Initiative” DLC for Portal 2, and the rest of it could have been put together by anyone. As a long-suffering Half-Life fan myself, the mere reference to Black Mesa in a Valve game gives me hope that somewhere, somehow, the wheels are turning, but this particular site? It’s fun, but I don’t think there’s anything to see here.
Don’t forget to click the Blappeture Mesa logo on the way out, though.
Ah, got my hopes up for another ARG too soon. But I can’t help but wonder: Where did he get that audio file of Cave Johnson? I’m almost wondering if Valve gave him the audio file, or mabie even set up the website. What if we don’t have two trolls, but just had someone manipulating the reversed audio file? I just can’t put down the fact that he/she had that never-before-seen speech from Cave Johnson.
Or mabie Valves ARG has made me look too deep into this. :retard:
Hubicorn (this time) has nothing to do with this and the Black Mesa team is not connected in any way to this ARG.
I love the They Live reference.
Founded in 2004, Leakfree.org became one of the first online communities dedicated to Valve’s Source engine development. It is more famously known for the formation of Black Mesa: Source under the 'Leakfree Modification Team' handle in September 2004.