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Half-Life 2 Roleplay => Topic started by: Blue Haze on April 18, 2012, 04:29:00 PM
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LAMBDA, often seen in it's lower case form, in Half-Life relates to the lab/area of Black Mesa that the resonance cascade happened in. The logo it self did not have any relevance in the city to people unaware of Black Mesa (Other than the rebel outposts relating to the movements started by the main characters in Half-Life 2). Therefore, using the Lambda logo it self in character, without any knowledge from others with authorization to know about it, would be metagame. It is also against authorization rules to request the knowledge. Also, in the game it self, the Black Mesa resistance movements started mainly in City 17, and wasn't well known until Gordon Freeman got involved for a week.
(http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110622151255/half-life/en/images/9/92/Lambdaspray_2a.png)
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Well SOMEONE in D6 must know about it, There is a lambda spray over by the D6 apartments. It was made with the map, but hey, I think the admins should let like a certain amount of people know about the lab/black mesa shit because there is a lambda right by teh D6 apartments.
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People should just rp it as the "Resistance Logo" because that's what it generally is to be honest.
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There are two characters on outlands who know about Lambada and Black mesa. One more then the other.
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Exactly. Which is why nobody should know about it other than them and people THEY'VE told and so on.
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I love how you associate the symbol with the Resistance (don't get me wrong, it is their little 'symbol'), but it's a Greek letter.
The logo it self did not have any relevance in the city to people unaware of Black Mesa (Other than the rebel outposts relating to the movements started by the main characters in Half-Life 2).
It does have relevance to people as it's used in physics - v=f lambda. Yes, if you use it in some rebel propaganda or some shit it's metagaming, but if I ICly do a physics equation it's also apparently metagaming. I doubt you really need authorisations to know a letter of the Greek alphabet.
*cough* You might want to edit your post and state that the usage of lambda in rebel propaganda is metagaming, rather than usage of it altogether...
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I love how you associate the symbol with the Resistance (don't get me wrong, it is their little 'symbol'), but it's a Greek letter.
The logo it self did not have any relevance in the city to people unaware of Black Mesa (Other than the rebel outposts relating to the movements started by the main characters in Half-Life 2).
It does have relevance to people as it's used in physics - v=f lambda. Yes, if you use it in some rebel propaganda or some shit it's metagaming, but if I ICly do a physics equation it's also apparently metagaming. I doubt you really need authorisations to know a letter of the Greek alphabet.
*cough* You might want to edit your post and state that the usage of lambda in rebel propaganda is metagaming, rather than usage of it altogether...
In the city. I know that it is used for other things, but I clearly stated it had no relevance in the city. It meant as much as a picture of a hat.
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To be perfectly honest I don't see why this thread is here its a picture get over it, it's not like we are changing the map or anything IMPORTANT.
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To be perfectly honest I don't see why this thread is here its a picture get over it, it's not like we are changing the map or anything IMPORTANT.
It's because there are MULTIPLE people that are VERY decent roleplayers, yet they have Lambda Tattoos and spray it on walls and what not after a while, not analyzing the point of the logo it self.
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unless CG has malformed the HL2 timeline it wouldn't be "metagame" to use the lambada symbol, it should just not be used by well behaved citizens and rarely used between anti citizens, any "rebel" that is in "the" resistance would be aware of the symbol, and as "the" rebel groups make contact with smaller resistance pockets towards the Citys they would see and be told about the symbol too
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unless CG has malformed the HL2 timeline it wouldn't be "metagame" to use the lambada symbol, it should just not be used by well behaved citizens and rarely used between anti citizens, any "rebel" that is in "the" resistance would be aware of the symbol, and as "the" rebel groups make contact with smaller resistance pockets towards the Citys they would see and be told about the symbol too
Which you must have authorization to know, if you haven't met someone IC that does.
Meaning that HAS to happen before you can use it as a resistance icon.
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If we're going to argue over an orange 32*32/64*64 transparent decal, I think we should be finding better ways to utilise our time.
Nobody in the City knows of Lambda as the Resistance movement. People with physics/science knowledge will obviously know that it's the greek letter for resistance.
Argument settled, yes?
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Well crap... So why do all the rebels have it painted on thier armbands (the rebel npcs not the people rp'ing rebels)?
What would a good spray be?