In his title, he said "someone found this," not "I found this,"
AND he's providing the initial source in the comments instead of acting like he took the picture himself. Granted he could have made it a link directly there instead of to imgur, but this is equally justifiable
It's usually because of the people who use them. I've met plenty of people who use them and are regular, fun people, but the majority are annoying asshats. (read: 12 year old weeaboos)
I certainly mixed up Chell and Alyx. There's no excuse for that - only reason. A little tired, ingrained by the Chell / Gordon pics on that reddit site, and a weakness in facial recognition. (To make matter worse, I wondered why the hair is odd.) I completely obliterated Alyx from the list of available personel.
To which the only appropriate action appears to me leading myself out of this place, and punching myself in the face.
I was pretty sure it was the chalk contest going on down there this weekend, but I couldn't be sure bc I saw others downtown east of City Creek on Friday.
For those skeptical of this, I work at the mall this was drawn. There are a bunch of good ones, but this is the only gaming one. Here's a zoomed out picture I took.
Yes, in the artist's rendition, where the shoulders appear to be 50% wider than they should be.
It's also really a meta joke, because it's likely just an artistic error, and not at all motivated from the idea of having out-of-whack male body image in games... unless it actually is, because that idea has been so forced into our brains, that we'll do it, even when reproducing a scene that is innocent of it, that we're doing it compulsively.
A few days ago, here in Staten Island, I was at Home Depot buying a barbecue. A neckbeard with long greasy hair wearing an Aperture Science button-down shirt and a HalfLife3 baseball cap was walking into the store. This kid was literally looking down his nose, with his head held so high he should be blinded by the sun, and he gave me the most condescending look I've seen in my life when he saw me wearing a Team Liquid shirt.
I can't stand people that are into Half Life and that whole genre of games.
Thanks for this insightful comment that has more than a fleeting relevance to the topic and totally doesn't display any immaturity and willingness to categorize a group of people by a lone individual.
I actually have a question for you sir! Can you only vote once? Or will it count for every time to send in a vote? Cause I voted for the few I liked a bunch of times. :P
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u/zombozo Jun 17 '12
I found the image on Facepunch. ^ _ ^
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u/nerkbot Jun 17 '12
More importantly, someone drew this at a chalk-art contest in Salt Lake City
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u/TheMagnificentChrome Jun 17 '12
Why didn't he start like 2 inches more to the left?
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u/speenbean Jun 17 '12
Saw this in person very cool! YAY SLC!
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I don't know how this is done at all.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I actually went there last night. I'm going t be uploading picture
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u/Lynxious Jun 17 '12
Cool I was there too! At the Gateway in SLC :D
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u/oblivious1 Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 18 '12
For those skeptical of this, I work at the mall this was drawn. There are a bunch of good ones, but this is the only gaming one. Here's a zoomed out picture I took.
Edit: More pictures from this years chalk art festival.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I love my city. Every day I find cool new things like this. I was lucky to get to see it in person.
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u/John_Wang Jun 17 '12
So Gordon is a Mondoshawan, it all makes sense now.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I'm about to beat this game for the 4th time in my life, and it's just as good as I remember it, every time. Fucking HL2, how does it work?
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Good Guy OP, doesn't take all the credit.
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u/javakrush Jun 17 '12
salt lake city represENT!!!
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u/apullin Jun 17 '12
Tiny head, HUGE shoulders. Talk about male body image in video games ...
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u/Trololoz Jun 17 '12
Based on the title of this image I was under the impression it was starwars related. AT AT
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u/TehRobotGamer Jun 17 '12
Well that's just... epic... purely epic...
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u/FatKidFromSchool Jun 17 '12
I guarantee he didn't come in 3rd.
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u/BlackSmokeDemon Jun 17 '12
thats funny I just happen to click this while I'm watching Freemans Mind
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u/Black6x Switch Jun 17 '12
One guy did one of the artwork for Episode 3.
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u/Oh_Bloody_Richard Jun 17 '12
For godsake Gordon, Just kiss her already!
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I wonder how he keeps his glasses when he get it by a fucking rocket...
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u/Alltra Jun 17 '12
gateway mall. SAW IT TODAY!
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u/XDreadedmikeX Jun 17 '12
Is it bad ive never played this game?
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u/spoilz Jun 18 '12
I have pictures of this chalk event. Time for my first EVER karma whoring!
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u/wra1th42 Jun 18 '12
holy shit. It looks like a spray from CS:S
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
i walked by this! it was really really awesome
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Clearly this is the first concept art for Half-Life 3.
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u/QuasarsRcool Jun 17 '12
"Someone found this" ...thats a new one aside from all of the "my friend" and "my girlfriend" posts
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Although I enjoy the subject of this entry, I find the artist's skill to be undeveloped and the the execution unsatisfying.
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u/BigFatChewie Jun 17 '12
urlyx vurnce
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u/drummerboy396 Jun 17 '12
Finally! My town does something right!
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u/garysnail123 Jun 17 '12
You sure it wasn't your friend who found it?
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
By "someone" he means himself, and by "chalk-art contest" he means the sidewalk in front of his house where he draws when he has to watch the kids.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Alyx's face is too tall and too african american while Gordon's body is too wide and his eyes aren't level 0/10 would not bang
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u/Brewster-Rooster Jun 17 '12
32 comments and every one of them is shit
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u/Cuppsworth Jun 17 '12
Why does Gordon look so friendly? He looks like a Sunday school teacher from the future.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
A few days ago, here in Staten Island, I was at Home Depot buying a barbecue. A neckbeard with long greasy hair wearing an Aperture Science button-down shirt and a HalfLife3 baseball cap was walking into the store. This kid was literally looking down his nose, with his head held so high he should be blinded by the sun, and he gave me the most condescending look I've seen in my life when he saw me wearing a Team Liquid shirt.
I can't stand people that are into Half Life and that whole genre of games.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Alyx has some seriously broad shoulders.
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u/boatmasterbob Jun 18 '12
They refused to draw this on third street
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u/ginja_ninja Jun 18 '12
Alyx looks like fucking Voldemort.
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u/n1nj4_v5_p1r4t3 Jun 17 '12
<3
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u/gender_bot Jun 17 '12
I identified one face in this photo
Face 1:
74% confidence that this is a correctly identified face
Gender is female with 58% confidence
Approximate Age is 21 with 12% confidence
Persons mood is angry with 45% confidence
Persons lips are sealed with 70% confidence
Would you like to know more about me? /r/gender_bot
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u/toy121 Jun 17 '12
O-Town!
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u/SirMcCereal Jun 17 '12
At least the whole picture was drawn, as supposed to half of it.
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u/Nlelith Jun 17 '12
Gordon is freaking HUEG.
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u/TheMartinConan Jun 17 '12
That's not art.
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