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Map review of Black Mesa Training Simulation: Resonance Cascade
by [[[mapper:Isaac "Iggy" Kleiner]]] | October 10, 2024 | 2940 characters
As part of my yearly training I am required by management to file this review. I don't know why they keep making me perform the 'Resonance-Cascade' safety training exercise. I've been working here for at least 15 years now and 8 of those years they've made me undergo this training. The so called "Resonance-Cascade" they're so worried about is a complete and utter fantasy invented by fresh MIT graduates and by people who are otherwise woefully unqualified to make such broad claims. We've run the harmonic frequency simulation hundreds of times now and there simply isn't even an iota of a chance for anything substantial to happen. At worst it might put some strain on the testing equipment but it's nothing that a multi billion dollar research facility can't handle.
Even if a larger resonance were to occur it is extremely unlikely that it would cause "teleportation of Xen fauna" into the locale. The fact that they even present those creatures as a tangible threat is preposterous. More importantly, continued reference to these highly classified subjects presents a massive security and informational hazard, as it would only take one stray visitor with a camera to have our benefactors shutting the entire site down and dealing with a massive international media frenzy.
In conclusion, I plead that we stop with these ridiculous tests, or at least cut back on the frequency. Keeping up with administrations' expectations is already difficult enough as is, and the sick days needed to cover the physical strain of sending us older science team employees through a combat exercise is becoming excessive. This is something that would be better given to trained operators such as the facility security team.
- Signed, Iggy.
Pros:
- Should such an unlikely event occur, this exercise is sufficiently detailed to cover all possible bases.
- Lifelike recreation of our offices. Alarmingly so actually. How did they know about the contents of my filing cabinet?
- Significantly cleaner directional maps this year than last year's exercise. I'm no longer trying to read one of Otis' used napkins.
- Witnessed Dr. Magnusson get sent straight to the med bay falling down a vent ladder. Serves him right, that miserable hack.
Cons:
- Exercise experiences brownouts due to high power draw every year at around the same parts of the simulation. How has the engineer team not dealt with this yet?
- The gear puzzle part of the simulation is still far to complicated for the lay person to comprehend. It would do much better with some, perhaps, excessive yellow paint and large glowing hud elements?
- Hostility from the military is simply preposterous. Surely they would be here to rescue us wouldn't they?
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