You’re not as funny as you were earlier mate:| I really do suggest you let it rest, whatever you think.
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ii just said i did
It’s not a liquid. People have explained it to you logically but you’re not paying attention. For one thing, you said the Tau Cannon being a gun that fires Tau particles (but I guess Valve would never make it make that much sense, right?) it wouldn’t ‘bounce’ the way it does. Well firstly, I’ve never fired a beam of Tau particles at the wall so I’ve no idea whether they would bounce off or not, but I’m pretty sure I have squirted liquid at walls before, and guess what: liquids definitely don’t ‘bounce’. [COLOR=‘Red’]Drop the argument.
Because we all live in a world of sugarplums and gumdrops, where using the words interpret, imagine and symbolic are actually forms of credible supporting evidence.
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Two suggestions:
- I suggested this before the crash, but just to make sure it’s remembered; After effect “echoes” of the resonance cascade at the super portal to the nililith. Listen carefully for a few minutes before you jump into the portal, it’s there.
- Make the seats in the tram “sitable” like in HL. You can wedge yourself in between windows while over the seats, so you don’t have to hold crouch to pretend to sit.
EDIT: one more! In the hazard course, leave in the other ways to get past obstacles. You can jump on the green crates in the crate room to not pull the first crate in there, and then jump on the concrete barrier next to the platform to get on it, and in the crowbar room, you can jump over the crates and walk on the concrete above! :freeman:
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“2. Make the seats in the tram “sitable” like in HL. You can wedge yourself in between windows while over the seats, so you don’t have to hold crouch to pretend to sit.”
You know, you could always switch the crouch controls to “toggle” instead of hold.
Or you could just stand the fuck up!
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I’m not sure this should be dignified with an answer.
It’s actually amazing how many people have suggested that. I know it was a large part of what made HL so special - that it spent time immersing you in a normal working day in the BMRF before the shit hits the fan and the shooting begins, but still, it’s an action game not a ‘going to work simulator’. Just pretend Gordon’s a fidgeter with too much energy to sit still or something.
I just hold the crouch button while standing on the seats and don’t bitch about little shit like sitable seats. As long as I get to shoot people I’m happy. 
Whenever Gordon has to shit, he stands on the toilet, crouches, and from then on it’s like someone stuck a thermal detonator in a blender, poured the resulting goo in a cup, lit a match, dropped it in the cup, and fed the whole thing to a fish.
wat.
I dunno if this has already been said in this thread, but would you add minor details that help connect/make more continuity with the HL expansions?
I read the blog about the writer feeling doing such things feels more like hijacking the original story rather than improving apon it, but i mean really small details, eg. the security guard at the beginning banging on the door (Barney Calhoun) not wearing armour & helmet (seeing as in the original half life they did, and gearbox apparently completely overlooked that and told you to go put your armour on anyway).
How will you address certain things like this?
The Gearbox expansions are not treated as Half-Life canon, except where explicitly confirmed as such by Valve. There are very few instances where this is the case. I believe that Barney Calhoun being the guy banging on the door is one of them.
The Tau cannon now shoots white transparent goo which slows down the opponents movements due to its stickiness.
However, it takes one bundy to charge before firing…
So it’s a penis cannon.
I had a theory on Half-Life’s Tau Cannon, since I’m a physics major in college, I think about these things quite a bit. 
A ‘Tau’ is a sub-atomic particle, like others have stated.
The ‘canisters’ on the gun, are most likely Hydrogen. Anyways, somehow in the ‘Half-Life world’ They have great ways of controlling matter.
The Magnets force this hydrogen nuclei at almost the speed of light, into some type of grid, there it emits a very sharp beam of tau particles, that are negatively charged. Whatever matter comes into contact with this beam of negatively charged particles just falls apart.
The more you charge it up, it spins more nuclei resulting in more particles emitted.
That’s what I think at least. And I don’t really care if this is off topic, I just felt like sharing my opinion when the ‘Tau cannon’ is being discussed in ways…
You just made the Tau Cannon sound feasible to be created.
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that is the greatest. themesong. ever.
With the magnetically-accelerated hydrogen, are you using hydrogen ions?