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- Half-Life: Alyx review: The greatest VR adventure game yet https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/03/half-life-alyx-review-the-greatest-vr-adventure-game-yet-and-then-some/ 10 comments
- I played Half-Life 2 RTX with Nvidia neural rendering, and it looks damn fine https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia/half-life-2-neural-rendering 113 comments hardware
- Half-Life and it's failed OS 9 port http://blog.greggant.com/posts/2024/06/24/half-life-for-the-mac-canceled-and-revived.html 20 comments apple
- Half-Life Alyx None 18 comments linux_gaming
- Gabe Newell sends Half-Life’s Gnome Chompski into space tomorrow https://www.pcgamesn.com/gabe-newell-garden-gnome-space-launch 3 comments nottheonion
- Half-Life: Absolute Zero can run natively on Linux https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d/releases/tag/v0.19.2 7 comments linux_gaming
- Half-Life: Alyx is confirmed for Linux, to arrive with Vulkan support post-release https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/16244 161 comments linux_gaming
- Erik Wolpaw, one of the writers of Portal and Half-Life: 2 episodes seems to have returned to Valve https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/erik-wolpaw-one-of-the-writers-of-portal-and-half-life-2-episodes-seems-to-have-returned-to-valve.13275 83 comments linux_gaming
- Is the long half-life of many types of radioactive waste paradoxical to the fact that it is dangerous? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/acdf5r/is_the_long_halflife_of_many_types_of_radioactive/ 9 comments askscience
- Synergy - play the Half-Life 2 campaign co-op with friends and family! http://store.steampowered.com/app/17520/Synergy/ 8 comments linux_gaming
- Gamasutra - Half-Life and Team Fortress Networking https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131577/halflife_and_team_fortress_.php?page=1 9 comments programming
- TIL, F1 used the same font for their timing graphics in 2010-14 as the one used on German road signs and... Half-Life 2 https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/78lkh7/til_f1_used_the_same_font_for_their_timing/ 37 comments formula1
- How do we determine the half-life of U-238? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/6xbye9/how_do_we_determine_the_halflife_of_u238/ 8 comments askscience
- Why do we use Half-Life for elements and not Quarter-Life or any other fraction? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4zlkpi/why_do_we_use_halflife_for_elements_and_not/ 15 comments askscience
- The Half-Life of Deindustrialization: Why Donald Trump Is Just A Symptom http://billmoyers.com/story/half-life-deindustrialization-donald-trump-just-symptom/ 3 comments politics
- Transmissions Element 120, a stand-alone game set in the Half-Life universe is now on Steam for Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/transmissions-element-120-a-stand-alone-game-set-in-the-half-life-universe-is-now-on-steam-for-linux.7439 17 comments linux_gaming
- Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Updates Released http://store.steampowered.com/news/10944/ 5 comments linux_gaming
- Half-Life: Blue Shift will be coming to Linux as well http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/halflife-blue-shift-will-be-coming-to-linux-as-well.1726 29 comments linux_gaming
- Samarium is a rare-earth element that can have a half-life of 106 billion years. You'll note that the entire freaking capital-U Universe, itself, is only around 14 billion years old. http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/podcast/interactive_periodic_table_transcripts/samarium.asp 18 comments science
- Valve teases a Mac release of Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress 2 http://www.tuaw.com/2010/03/03/valve-teases-a-mac-release-of-half-life-portal-team-fortress-2/ 113 comments apple
- Ok... is there a relationship between Half-Life and Portal? http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/b8g91/portal_arg_summary_a_tldr_version_of_what_has/ 9 comments reddit.com
- The Cabal: Valve’s Design Process For Creating Half-Life http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3408/the_cabal_valves_design_process_.php 4 comments gamedev
- Video: Half-Life 2 With A Portal Gun http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/10/video-half-life.html 2 comments reddit.com
- Half-Life: Field Intensity mod supports Linux on Day-1 https://www.moddb.com/mods/field-intensity 25 comments linux_gaming
- Valve reportedly developing a Half-Life shooter-strategy hybrid https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/12/valve-reportedly-developing-a-half-life-shooter-strategy-hybrid/ 18 comments linux_gaming
- Announcing Ogre: A Quake and Half-Life texture WAD parsing library for Rust. https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/n4bbj1/announcing_ogre_a_quake_and_halflife_texture_wad/ 7 comments rust
- RuneScape, Duke Nukem II and Half-Life: Before's native Linux ports added to Luxtorpeda for Steam https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/m7pp04/runescape_duke_nukem_ii_and_halflife_befores/ 4 comments linux_gaming
- Half-Life: Alyx Linux Binaries Depo just opened up -- release impending? https://steamdb.info/depot/546564/apps/ 31 comments linux_gaming
- Existing theory predicts the radioactive decay of xenon 124 to have a half-life that surpasses the age of the universe “by many orders of magnitude,” but no evidence of the process had been found. New study finds the half-life to be close to 18 sextillion or 18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. https://news.rice.edu/2019/04/24/elemental-old-timer-makes-the-universe-look-like-a-toddler/ 11 comments science
- Black Mesa, the fan-made re-imagining of Half-Life just had an update bringing Xen another step closer https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/black-mesa-the-fan-made-re-imagining-of-half-life-just-had-an-update-bringing-xen-another-step-closer.11690 16 comments linux_gaming
- If half-life of most elements after lead is at max around 80 million years, how can we still find any of them so long after some supernova made them? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/6mlc84/if_halflife_of_most_elements_after_lead_is_at_max/ 9 comments askscience
- Trying to play Half-Life 2 on Linux Mint 17.1. Error Says I need S3TC texture installed https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/5gjsi7/trying_to_play_halflife_2_on_linux_mint_171_error/ 13 comments linux_gaming
- Physicists have measured the half-life of iron-60 with an accuracy sufficient to support its use as a chronometer for cosmic processes. http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/physrevlett.114.041101 5 comments science
- Half-Life Of The Coal Child: Not many know that the dangerous and suffocating rat mines of Meghalaya are worked by 70,000 child miners. http://www.tehelka.com/half-life-of-the-coal-child-2/ 3 comments india
- Half-Life 2 Deathmatch Lands On Linux: Toss A Toilet At Your Friend Today! http://linuxgamecast.com/2013/03/half-life-2-deathmatch-lands-on-linux-toss-a-toilet-at-your-friend-today/ 12 comments linux
- Huge Half-Life Update Released on Steam for Linux, Fixes All Mouse Problems http://thelinuxsite.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/huge-half-life-update-released-on-steam-for-linux-fixes-all-mouse-problems/ 5 comments linux_gaming
- A free neutron has a half-life of about ten minutes. Suppose we were to somehow get a kilogram or so of free neutrons together before they decayed. What sort of physical properties would this mass have? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron#Stability_and_beta_decay 78 comments askscience
- Beyond Black Mesa Released: This Is The Closest You'll Get To A Half-Life 2 Movie. It's Incredible. http://gm3r.com/blog/2011/01/22/the-half-life-2-movie-this-is-beyond-black-mesa/ 4 comments reddit.com
- Does the relatively short half-life of DNA make panspermia impossible, or at least extremely unlikely? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/27/antarctic_lake_microbial_life/ 8 comments askscience
- Now You Can Walk Inside It: Half-Life Inspired 3D Level with WebGL - Supports Touch Devices https://oguzeroglu.github.io/roygbiv/demo/villeneuvedascq2/application.html 30 comments javascript