#tw dereality

I don’t think we talk about how the “Gordon” the science team knows and loves is technically not real. He’s a character played by a streamer. The most important person in their lives is someone they barely know, a facade for content. To the point where in the Half Life 2 act one stream he says he needs to “be Gordon so the AI will recognize him.” Is that not kind of terrifying. It makes the wall between Wayne (the guy in character playing hlvrai, not the real guy who writes the series) and his AI friends even larger. What happens when the gnome series comes into play and the identity of “Gordon” is forced on him and the lines start to blur. Why have I seen no one talking about this I feel like I’m losing my mind. Let’s not even START about it Alyx because that’s a whole other can of identity worms. The meta layers to this series gets so confusing it terrifies and intrigues me to no end.