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So did the Combine just skip over Xen on their way to Earth, and some third party took control of it? I realize many story elements in the first game were lightly retconned, but what the hell does the G-Man mean when he says, 'The borderworld, Xen, is under our control?' After killing the Nihilanth, whose control could it possibly be under other than the Combine's? But there's no way he works for the Combine.Only when it became clear the situation was way out of hand did they bite the bullet and go for the nuclear option. They didn't want to risk potentially losing all that science (even if they gunned down the staff, they would still have access to prototypes, experiments, research notes, etc). As for why they didn't nuke Black Mesa right at the beginning? It's a research facility working on cutting edge technology.

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Firstly, the portal storms were caused by the Nihilanth holding open the crack caused by the Resonance Cascade, the satellite that Gordon launched was supposed to put a stop to it (the Superportal in Episode Two is actually shut down by the same satellite working in conjunction with the one Gordon launches in that game).Why not just nuke it from the get-go, then? I think they were just making it up as they went along.Chances are, Vorts were working their way into human society, portal storms were wrecking society, and then the Combine proceeds to invade, making it all a moot point. Of course, Gordon launching that rocket created the portal storms, but it's also shown that the military successfully invaded Xen. Step 4: Unknown, but likely 'Blame Terrorists'. Step 3: detonate nuclear warhead, as seen in Opposing Force. Step Two: Black Ops kill HECU and anyone that they missed, as seen in Opposing Force. Step One: Send in HECU, who is specially trained for this, to clean up Black Mesa.Okay, so what the hell was the US government's cover story for the Black Mesa Incident if they had kept things 'contained' at the facility? Better yet, how the hell were they planning on keeping it a secret considering how many witnesses, both Black Mesa personnel and HECU Marines, they would have to silence? Theoretically, they can kill the Black Mesa employees (which they tried) but how are they going to keep a random Marine from telling the press?.

It was a Gauss gun early in development, and Valve didn't change the name.

Actually, it's just called the Gauss gun because that's its internal name.

There's nothing that says it can't be applied to a electromagnetic coil-based particle accelerator.

A Gauss gun is just a nickname for a coilgun.

Fair enough, but it's still decidedly not a Gauss gun.

I understand that the files call the Tau Cannon a Gauss gun, but it still makes no sense to me.

Why does everyone call the Tau Cannon a Gauss gun? A Gauss gun shoots a projectile accelerated via electromagnetic coils the Tau Cannon shoots lasers.

Within the next two years, the video accumulated more than 140,000 views and 185 comments.

On June 18th, 2011, YouTuber BoyGeniusComedy uploaded a parody trailer titled 'Lens Flare: The Movie,' in which lens flares are portrayed as the villain in a film directed by JJ Abrams (shown below).

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On August 15th, 2010, a page titled 'Lens Flare' was created on the trope database website TV Tropes, noting that it was often used in cinema as an example of the 'coconut effect,' in which unrealistic elements are inserted into films because viewers have become conditioned to expect them. Within the next four years, the video received over 340,000 views and 840 comments.

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On May 4th, 2009, YouTuber partmor uploaded footage from the 1970s Star Trek television series edited to include many lens flare effects (shown below). On July 19th, 2009, LiveJournal user truthiness submitted a post to the ontd_startrek community page, in which he claimed to have counted 1,013 lens flares used in the Star Trek film.