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