Hal Robbins Half-Life and The Columbia Crash

From: "Rev. Err." <x@x.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Feb 5, 2003 7:56 PM

or stuff I didn't know but knew you probably knew unless like me you
didn't know but probably wasn't that exciting anyway.....

Being a relatively fresh faced Subgenius I am slowly discovering the
mysteries of Sub-G's of the past and present.

On wallowing about in some old Sub-G soundfiles I hear something
pertinent to the Columbia crash from media barrage 12. (posted to
a.b.s.)
These pronouncements are by Puzzling evidence and a certain Dr. Howll
AKA Hal Robbins. All I know of this guy is the nice drawings he did in
Revelation X and the odd mention of his name here and there.

I listened to the sound file and heard his voice for the first time.
Something stuck in my mind. I knew his voice from somewhere. How or why
I didn't know but I found his voice to be quite distinctive. To me he
sounds like he has a perfect English accent but is using an American
voice box (if that makes any sense)

I'm usually pretty good at finding the source of samples in records
i.e. an old british band of my studenty days PWEI (pop will eat itself)
did a track called "bulletproof" probably the only thing by them I've
ever liked. There's a short high pitched whooping laugh part the way
through. Some months later whilst watching one flew over the Cuckoo's
Nest as Jack Nicholson enters the asylum he's laughing and bingo it's
the same whooping laugh. I'm amazed that things like that stick in my
mind but they do. Other vital information like what I did yesterday or
where I hid the treasure tends to elude me.

So where have I heard Hal Robbins voice before ? and enough times to
recognise it. I don't watch much TV or many movies and it certainly
wasn't off a cd. Then *Click*.

I play a LOT of Playstation 2 games. Although old (but still good) news
to you PC gamers out there. The First person shooter Half-Life has a
PS2 incarnation and jolly good fun it is too. But Where did I recognise
that voice from ?

For those of you who aren't into games Half-Life is your standard run
around and shoot everything affair. You play a scientist and the game
starts with your first day at work in the top secret Black Mesa
underground research facility. Suffice to say it all goes pear shaped
and you have to shoot all the hoardes of alien scum that come your way.

As well as alien scum there are security guards scattered around the
place and other scientists. Scientists with VERY familiar voices. So I
grab the booklet from the game case and look for the credits in the
back and sure enough credited under Voices is a Mr. Harry S Robbins.
The voice of nearly all the scientists in Half Life. Not a revelation
of epic proportions, but for me it was certainly fun to join the dots.
Like fight club our Sub-G Black ops stealth homework assignment should
be to infiltrate the fringes of the worlds media implanting those
trigger codes in time for the day of reckoning.

WHEN WE SHALL ARISE.....

You might want to get those novelty souvenir orders in early, it's
strictly a one show deal.

--
The Reverend Error
Subobscurus Veneficus Ex Trux Turpis Templum
Subservio - Pipe Sucking "Bob" club
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