*slaps himself *
I have a PDF version of the book before it got printed.
You’re telling me it’s more work to toss a CD in your computer, press a few buttons, and leave it for an hour while it formats then to take the whole thing out and go get a new one?
If you’re not kidding, you’re a massive idiot.
depends on whether he means easier as in “less work”, or easier as in “I get a new and far more powerful computer this way”
also Amazon seems to have it for $24 https://www.amazon.com/Half-Life-2-Raising-David-Hodgson/dp/0761543643
Hang on…so you’d rather sort out a computer infected with a virus whereas you could just get a new one for free which is better than the one you already have?
i’d have them both
Damn I didn’t think of that D:
Next time…next time 
What he’s saying is that if you just use the OS CD, you could have just completely formatted your harddrive and then reloaded from scratch if you were willing to just dump your PC and not bother recovering anything. If you format your drive, then all the information is gone and hence viruses with it. The only way it would still be on that PC then is if it managed to write to the bios, and those viruses are fairly rare unless I’m mistaken.
But yes, you basically confirmed my point that “easy” meant “get better PC out fo the deal”
ye . remember this topic was about a freggin book
Yup. Speaking of which, I ordered a copy of Raising the Bar yesterday. Now it’s just a matter of waiting from 1 to 3 months for it to be shipped from the USA, and then it will take it two weeks to arrive here. I don’t mind torrents, but I guess I’d rather own the darn thing and read it on the subway or something. You can’t do that with ebooks, which sucks big time.
I might one day buy Twilight, just for the sake of having something ridiculously amusing and mind-numbing to read while I’m on my way to classes.
that;s what tranquilizers are for 
lmfao
i was actuali disapointed when i read the book … im not sayin the book was crap because it wasnt but . . . its like seeing a terminator movie without all the special effects . . . . it kinder spoils the " magic " and illusion. also i wish they could make a spinn off game/mod from their concept art because it looked amazing with the cremator and all the other “badies” that were left out. the concept art seemed a bit like bioshock. hl2 dnt get me wrong is an AMAZING game
im not an idiot i do understand why valve cut a lot of the npc from their concept story bords but some of the npcs were pretty dam cool !!
now with the latest source engine build ( l4d i beleive) it would be more than possible to capture the same horror and darkness that was their original concept . . . just a thought . . . mayb as we speek theres probably a mod team now doing just that. . . who knows :retard:
Raising the bar is exactly the kind of thing that could motivate people to purchase legit copies of games instead of pirating them – but it would have to be actually shipped together with the physical media on which the game comes. If they instead try to get extra cash by selling the book separately, then what exactly does a legitimate buyer get that the pirate does not? DRM? The requirement to connect to internet everytime I want to play?
I can imagine a system that when you register an electronically purchased (and delivered) game, you would have the option to request this kind of “bonus materials” for the shipping price as a reward for being legitimate user.
DVD producers should also think about how repulsive it is to purchase a movie for a lot of money, stick it in the player, only to:
- Be threatened with severe punishment for copying it, which (this thread) is not skippable.
- Or even learning “You cannot play this movie, because it was released for a different market”
What kind of dealing with customers is this? Do you see waitresses in restaurant coming towards you and telling you: “Look, you! If you spit around here, we’ll have to grab you by the collar and throw you out of here!” Sure, if you started spitting, they would do it, but why threaten you up front? Is that a way to deal with customers?
More generally, digital-content-selling-companies have to find ways to promote legitimate use. So far, that is not happening.
Hello all, I thought as there was a thread on this book I would ask something that has been bugging me for a while. I got the book ages ago and it is excellent, but I noticed something strange on the wiki page for Doctor Breen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Breen. In the section about before half-life 2 it states that:
“The Half-Life 2 art book, Raising the Bar, has information and images that indicate Breen used, at least in one point of the planned story if not in the final version, a radio transmitter tower on the surface (i.e., not in Black Mesa) to communicate directly to the Combine and negotiate a surrender. Images show him at the foot of the tower, wearing a headset linked directly to the tower, with arms held wide and speaking to the skies.”
Now for the life of me I cannot find this image anywhere in the book, and I was wondering whether anyone could tell me whether wiki is just wrong, or perhaps that my copy is faulty or indeed that I have just somehow missed the picture (if so page numbers would help 
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any help would be much appreciated, and good for my sanity
Page 142, script for slideshow briefing from Eli of events between HL1 and 2:
No actual image, just the description of one.
Many thanks, I thought it must be a mistake
I read the whole thing in an hour, best book ever.
I have the book. I’ve read it numerous times. I really liked the older half-life 2 scripts.
ye but they ware too emotional…
yer i agree but they could work as an entireley new game. like left for dead and portal.
obviously it wouldnt work as a paralell game or spin of in the half life franchise coz it wouldnt make sence.