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Black Mesa
- theandrewbailey 2y agoBlack Mesa is a good game itself. https://www.crowbarcollective.com/games/black-mesa https://www.crowbarcollective.com/games/black-mesa
- jemmyw 2y agoI clicked because I thought this was going to be about the game
- arresin 2y agoSame. It was disappointing.
- Waterluvian 2y agoI enjoyed most of it except the moments it turned my GPU into a leaf blower for no reason. I’d look at the floor and my computer began melting and then I’d look ahead into the level and it would settle down. I swear the game is trying to create an IRL resonance cascade in my house.
- c-hendricks 2y agoI've just started my Nth play through. I think my favourite bit is the subtitles on the scientist that says "they're waiting for you in the test chamber"
- zeagle 2y agoAny suggestions for getting past the expanded Xen stuff? I lost my momentum and quit after yet another long conveyer belt / cargo pod section.
- c-hendricks 2y agoSadly not really. It's really impressive what they turned Zen into, but it does drag on. I don't think there's much after that, and the final fight does have some spectacle that you should see.
- zeagle 2y agoAw that's too bad. I'd take a longer under / on the rails section compared to that factory stuff any day.
- csours 2y agohttps://blackmesa.com/resonance-cascades https://blackmesa.com/resonance-cascades As many of you correctly assessed, we're actually a real company in the Boston area. We're working hard to assure and secure vaccine and other biological manufacturing production. As much as we would be honored to be part of any Valve game - we do not work in this sector at all. We are not secretly working on Half Life 3, Project White Sands (whatever that is/may be) or any other Valve title - we're just nerds working to secure the global bioeconomy. ===== Or so they say...
- clarkrinker 2y agoAre you concerned about unforeseen consequences of your research -_-
- hprotagonist 2y agoonly in sector C
- kulahan 2y agoLook, I’m certain you’re doing great work, but I gotta know - was the name chosen purposely??
- ehsankia 2y agoBut why would there be a secret countdown at the bottom of the page, ticking seconds, with ~46 days to go?
- RantyDave 2y agoNo jobs page :(
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y agoAnd it should have a humans.txt.
- crtasm 2y agoSeems there was one, linked from here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/black-mesa-technology_the-list-of-open-positions-at-black-mesa-activity-7102619845577334786-Rsig https://www.linkedin.com/posts/black-mesa-technology_the-lis... but I don't see an archived copy anywhere.
- jonny_eh 2y agoSeems like a bad idea for a company to name itself after the villain/location of one of the most popular games in history. Was Cyberdyne Systems taken?
- chungy 2y agoThis is an obvious satire based on Half-Life itself. The logo is an exact copy, it talks about resonance cascades, etc.
- jonny_eh 2y agoOther comments here, and their own blog posts, seem to disagree with it being a parody.
- Keyframe 2y agoWas Cyberdyne Systems taken? yes: https://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/ https://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/
- traverseda 2y agoYeah, Cyberdyne Inc is a japanese company. Their main product line is the "Hybrid Assistive Limb" (HAL) exoskeleton, a powered exoskeleton mobility suit targeted at keeping the elderly in their jobs for longer.
- m3kw9 2y agoSo Half Life was right?
- willidiots 2y agoSmells like an ARG / marketing campaign. Their "want to talk" email is "truthorconsequences@", they have two "blog posts" and a list of vaguely related press pieces (none of which mention them), their logo is clearly a derivative of the "other" Black Mesa's.
- Thieve 2y agoThere's a countdown at the bottom of the page too. Which definitely makes me think it's an arg.
- willidiots 2y agoAhh good catch - counting down to midnight on October 1.
- tivert 2y agoAlso the logo is literally exactly the Black Mesa logo from Half Life (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mesa_Research_Facility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mesa_Research_Facility), except inside a badge/chevron shame instead of a circle. Either this is something Valve is running, or I bet whoever made this will get a copyright take-down soon.
- greenpizza13 2y agoThe class for the container of the countdown is "lambda-incident." Below that there is hidden text which says "Thanks Nothing Master ;)" and the following JS code which is heavily obfuscated and updates the countdown container: function _0x1a2b(_0x5c2d) { function _0x3b4e() { const _0x6f1b = new Date()['getTime'](), _0x7d3a = Math['floor']((_0x5c2d - _0x6f1b) / 0x3e8), _0x8b7f = document['querySelector']('.\x6c\x61\x6d\x62\x64\x61\x2d\x69\x6e\x63\x69\x64\x65\x6e\x74\x20\x64\x69\x76\x20\x70'); _0x8b7f['textContent'] = _0x7d3a > 0x0 ? '' + _0x7d3a : '\x54\x68\x61\x74\x27\x73\x20\x69\x74\x2e'; _0x7d3a > 0x0 && setTimeout(_0x3b4e, 0x3e8); } _0x3b4e(); } function _0x4c2f(_0x7f1b, _0x3d7e, _0x5b6d, _0x2f7a, _0x1e9c, _0x4b2a) { return new Date(_0x7f1b + ' ' + _0x3d7e + ', ' + _0x5b6d + ' ' + _0x2f7a + ':' + _0x1e9c + ':' + _0x4b2a)['getTime'](); } const _0x5c2d = _0x4c2f('\x53\x65\x70\x74\x65\x6d\x62\x65\x72', 0x1e, 0x7e8, 0x17, 0x3b, 0x3b); _0x1a2b(_0x5c2d); But all this really does is count down to October 1st, as stated.
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- apsec112 2y agoThis seems like a real company? They have a LinkedIn page with several dozen real-seeming employees: https://www.linkedin.com/company/black-mesa-technology/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/black-mesa-technology/
- stonogo 2y agoYou can post whatever you want to LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/company/aperture-science-enrichment-center https://www.linkedin.com/company/aperture-science-enrichment...
- apsec112 2y agoSure, but getting a bunch of apparently real people to edit their LinkedIn profiles to list this as their fake full-time job (in place of whatever real job they presumably have) seems like too much work for a prank
- yannickt 2y agoNow I have seen everything! The people section there is particularly creepy.
- nicofpunkt 2y agoThere is literally Black Mesa and multiple other Aperture companies at similar companies
- jncfhnb 2y agoI don’t understand how folks are missing the article with the head crab photo while talking about logos and javascript. > We love the Half Life community. In the last couple of days we've received a ton of messages of support and curiosity about Black Mesa. It's heartening to see that the internet can still be a place where people send inquisitive messages while staying respectful - thank you. Thank you as well to those who sent the thousands of fake inquiries on our website, they made us laugh. We loved seeing the creative messages. > As many of you correctly assessed, we're actually a real company in the Boston area. We're working hard to assure and secure vaccine and other biological manufacturing production. As much as we would be honored to be part of any Valve game - we do not work in this sector at all. We are not secretly working on Half Life 3, Project White Sands (whatever that is/may be) or any other Valve title - we're just nerds working to secure the global bioeconomy. > We <3 all of you, you've made us laugh quite a bit this week at a time where we needed it. We might put up a couple fun challenges and send the first solvers some swag. That is Black Mesa - the Boston biotech company swag. > Our love, > The Black Mesa team. > PS: Gabe, call us. You know where we are. Seems cringey as hell if they just decided to squat on the name and then pleasantly invite Gabe to call them as if that’s cool
- TehCorwiz 2y agoI think it's not so much "missing" it as it is dismissing it as a red-herring. ARGs often have fake-outs. And the site's code/logo lean hard enough into the fictional Black Mesa lore that people are skeptical of it.
- SCUSKU 2y agoMy friends at Aperture Science are displeased...
- carabiner 2y agoWait is this fair use? Aren't they just asking for a trademark dispute?
- NikkiA 2y agoI'm not sure 'Black Mesa', being a real place (well, 4 real places), is trademark-able.
- why_at 2y agoIt's not clear to me if this is a joke/game/whatever or a real company founded by people who are really big fans of half life as they claim. You can search for corporations in massachusetts where they claim they are located.[1] Surprisingly to me, there are 4 results for "Black Mesa" [1]https://corp.sec.state.ma.us/corpweb/CorpSearch/CorpSearch.aspx https://corp.sec.state.ma.us/corpweb/CorpSearch/CorpSearch.a...
- why_at 2y agoThere is a corporation registered under "Black Mesa Technologies" with the same executives btw https://corp.sec.state.ma.us/CorpWeb/CorpSearch/CorpSummary.aspx?sysvalue=_HQ3ku.qlnLpl8nUgbgbwS_ZHmpGWTQOFgh1PxfQUAs- https://corp.sec.state.ma.us/CorpWeb/CorpSearch/CorpSummary....
- ibobev 2y agoReading the title initially I was thinking about the Half-Life remake. :)
- cut3 2y agoSome weird Half life episode 3 marketing but whatever, lemme grab my crowbar