Half-Life 3
1st July 2015
Dear Diary,
I have decided to start keeping a diary of my life, so that I will never forget anything that happens to me, and if I die, someone can find out what I was like, and maybe how I died.
Today, I found a DVD-R lying on the street. It was dirty and it had little chip marks all over it, as though whoever it belonged to wanted to destroy it but had failed. I thought it would be interesting to have a look, so I got home and washed the DVD. I'm currently waiting for the disc to dry so that I can find out what's on it, if it still works.
Sincerely,
Frank
2nd July 2015
Dear Diary,
The disc dried out overnight. It's a good thing I don't have any cats, because it would have been even more damaged by the time I woke up if I did. Alas, upon inserting the disc into my computer, I got nothing but a read error. Unusually, when I closed the error message, a new text file was created on my desktop. It was empty, and had the filename "TURN BACK NOW.txt".
I decided to play Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, because I had nothing else to do. I am an FPS fan. Generally, when you ask an FPS fan which series is the best, they will answer with either "Call of Duty" or "Half-Life". I am definitely on the side of the Half-Life games. I have completed all of them on the most difficult setting, and on my first time through each game, I had a sense of euphoria that no other video game I've ever played has been able to deliver since. I had an excellent game of Deathmatch, and my ping stayed consistently low for the entire game. That's a first for me.
When I had finished the game, I thought I might as well find out what was on the DVD. I drove to the shopping centre and went to the data recovery store. The man behind the counter took one look at the DVD and said to get back to him in a week, as the disc was going to be exceptionally hard to repair.
Sincerely,
Frank
stop now stop now stop now
3rd July 2015
Dear Diary,
It looks like someone else has been in here, because they've written directly underneath my last entry. I'll have to get a lock for this thing sometime. It's not like it really matters, though.
Today, the mood struck me to have another run through Half-Life 2. For some reason, for the duration of the first chapter, none of the characters moved, but just stood there in the reference pose. I thought Valve had broken something in an update yet again, but when I reached the second chapter, everything went back to normal, so I kept playing. When I got up to Ravenholm, I noticed one of the usually shut doors on the buildings in that chapter was open, so I went inside. After walking up a staircase, I teleported back outside the building, and the door was shut like normal. Confused, I progressed through the chapter, and when I got to the final scene where you have to help Grigori fend off zombies in the graveyard, he died, but the game didn't load my last save for some reason. I was able to pick up his Annabelle, so I finished off the zombies myself and exited the level. When the game loaded the next map, the reference pose bug was back. I wish Valve would quit breaking the game. I saved and exited for the day.
Sincerely,
Frank
LISTEN M8. YOU CAN'T USE THIS FUCKING DISC. DON'T EVEN PUT IT IN YOUR COMPUTER. THAT THING WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE SEEN BY THE PUBLIC. IT'S NOT DONE. IT'S DANGEROUS. JUST TRUST ME, YOU DUMBASS.
29th November 2015
Dear Diary,
That was a long coma. I was walking down the street when some jackass punched me in the head. Now that I'm finally out of hospital, they've given me my bag back, so I can resume this diary. It seems that the perpetrator of the crime saw fit to write in my diary and then put it back into my bag. This is a confusing world.
On the plus side, it's been a lot longer than a week since I dropped off the disc at the data recovery place. I will go there tomorrow to get the disc back, but right now I'm just too tired to bother.
Sincerely,
Frank
5th December 2015
Dear Diary,
I have forgotten to update this diary for a few days. It's not like it matters though, because not much interesting happened since the last update. I did go in to get the DVD. When I got there, the guy said it was lucky I hadn't come in on time because he'd only just managed to recover the data. He looked really disheveled and short of breath. I took the DVD and left, but I haven't had time to look at it yet.
Sincerely,
Frank
6th December 2015
Dear Diary,
I put the DVD in my computer today. On it is a single archive file. I tried to extract it, but my computer needs time to decode it. I guess I'll find out what the first file in it is tomorrow.
Anyway, for today, I played some HLDM with my friends. We played everybody's favourite map, killbox. The game was absurdly laggy even though I was hosting, and my friends reported seeing photos of dead bodies in the map.
Sincerely,
Frank
7th December 2015
Dear Diary,
The first file in the archive finished decrypting. It's a BSP file! I put it into my HL2 directory and played it. I spawned with a crowbar and pistol. I walked around a corner and there were a few zombies and headcrabs. I ran out of ammo and ended up finishing them off with my pistol. I jumped through a hole in the wall, grabbed a bunch of cool weapons from Kleiner, walked down a hallway, and came to a dead end.
Shit. And just as I was starting to have fun. Oh well. It was a mildly fun custom map.
Sincerely,
Frank
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