6 Absurd Questions Gamers Went To Great Lengths To Answer

And speaking of gooey abominations in PC shooters, Half-Life 2 featured a cast of masked enemies who would have been a lot scarier if they'd shown their faces.

They're modeled after one of the artists working on the game ... whose face was also used for the main character, Gordon Freeman. Which means we were playing as one of the creators of the game and killing our albino twins the entire time? And they same games aren't art.

If Stanley manages to stay true to his principle -- not letting babies die in fire -- the game ups the ante by adding a cute puppy, who will also be killed if you don't press a different button. Eventually, most players just give up, content to let two adorable things die in exchange for a heavy-handed metaphor about office work.

But what if you really did stay there, pushing buttons until the end of time?

One guy did it. He programmed a macro that had poor Stanley pressing those buttons automatically. And after four hours, something marvelous and mysterious happens. A magical monolith appears and rips open your understanding of the universe, starting with an explanation of what happens after you die.

If you're currently high right now, or simply want to watch the closest a computer can get to being high, the full video is here:

For 20 seconds Chris boxes that rock. And after that lunacy, it almost makes sense when your sexy, brainwashed colleague in a cat suit tosses you two rocket launchers so you can kill your manager while he's waist-deep in lava. Remember, again, Chris is just a regular human in this game. While most of the cast is infected with a baffling amount of super viruses, Chris is just a guy who enjoys the gym. But is it possible to enjoy the gym that much? How strong would a person need to be to punch this thing out of the way?

If you're looking to move a boulder with punches you're in luck, someone on Reddit did the math. They assumed the boulder was a common volcanic rock, basalt, then looked up Chris's height, 185cm, and used that to estimate its size. They reasoned the boulder weighed about 150 tons. That's 23 fat African elephants squeezed together into one giant ball. It's like shoving a blue whale. And Chris punched it in the stomach. If you want to keep it in nerd, that means Chris is 15 times stronger than Spider-Man and twice as strong as The Thing. And in human terms, he's about 27 times stronger than the strongest man who has ever lived.

Chris is so strong that if Resident Evil truly went nuts and he found himself fighting a zombie elephant he could drop his gun and suplex it. If he fought a zombie blue whale, he could knock it right the fuck out with a solid uppercut. But surely even Resident Evil would never get that ridiculous...

One player, Pokemonfan4000, set out on this grand experiment. He held down reverse, cranked the wheel, and drove that shitty truck right into the history books. Soon he reached 700 mph -- faster than sound. The game itself couldn't handle the speed and the camera lagged behind, creating a herky-jerky time-lapse effect.

He kept going, bravely, into the unknown. At 1,000 mph, the truck starts weirdly teleporting around the map, as if the game's own life was flashing before its eyes.

Just like he did 3,999 times while trying to find the perfect username, Pokemonfan4000 kept going. His truck reached 5,000 mph and was now merely a flicker of truck images on a field of gray nothing. What was once a meaningless game about trucks was now truly losing all meaning.

At half a million mph, the game became a flat gray landscape with even the truck itself gone. Though it did make a brief cameo, as it raced to a million mph:

Shortly after the million mph mark, the truck disappeared for good. Our puny mortal eyes are either not capable of perceiving it, or it went so far back in time that it never existed at all.

Though the truck no longer exists in our plane, its speedometer does. So we know when it hits a billion mph -- a speed significantly faster than light -- which means its mass should now be infinite. Frankly, these truck ramifications are staggering.

And it keeps going -- a trillion, a quintillion, faster than Star Trek's ships, faster than a Star Wars Hyperdrive. This fucking truck, in reverse, hit one undecillion mph. Oh, you've no idea what an undecillion is? Neither did we. It's 36 zeroes. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 mph. There is simply nothing that fast that has ever existed. Except for in a badly made game about trucks from 2003. And even still, our brave explorer kept driving. Nothing of note happened until the truck's speed hit the unprecedented 12.3 undecillion mph. And then:

It turns out this was not a secret victory screen reserved for the driver courageous enough to take a truck to 12,300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 mph. He was actually going so fast that he was simultaneously at every location at once, including all the race checkpoints. So Pokemonfan4000 did something no one ever expected. He "won." And speaking of Pokemon ...

One obsessive Pokemon fan, Kyle Hill -- though we'll call him Pokemonfan0001 -- decided to settle it once and for all: Who is the best starter Pokemon? When he finally finished his research, he published it for his sad group of followers in ... wait, Scientific American magazine? OK, this is apparently some serious shit.

The different starters have different strengths and weaknesses. Charmander is a fire type, so he burns plants, but he hates water and rocks. Squirtle douses fire and erodes rocks, but hates electricity. And Bulbasaur beats rocks and water, but is just a mess at every other aspect of life. So every starter will fare differently against the game's 12 bosses (the eight gym leaders and the Elite Four). Every gym leader specializes in a different type, so Brock's rock types are good news for everyone who isn't Charmander, but the reverse is true for Erika's plants. Then there are the Ghost and Dragon trainers, ignoring how their only choices were Gengar and Dragonite, and ... dear god, is this what it's like to go insane?

This chart suggests yes:

On the chart, green means your starter is good against that boss's Pokemon. If it's red, that means you'll probably be destroyed. Now that you've carefully studied this vital and important research, you'll see Squirtle and Bulbasaur have three gyms where they have an advantage, and Charmander has only one. Furthermore, Squirtle has the advantage against three boss Pokemon that none of the other starters do, while Bulbasaur has two. So ... Squirtle is the best? Oh wait, we're not taking defense into account.

As you can see, Squirtle has two gyms where he'll encounter a weakness -- the electric and grass gyms -- and three where he actively resists them -- water, fire, and ice. Whereas Charmander is weak to three and resists one, and Bulbasaur is a three/three split. Why, according to these findings, all this information has replaced everything you once knew about the human orgasm. What is it? How does one get it?! Is it weak against grass?

Back to the scientific findings. If you're attacking, Squirtle has a slight advantage over Bulbasaur, who has an advantage over Charmander. And from a defense standpoint, Squirtle has the fewest weaknesses. So ... hold on a second, we think we did it. We think we did it!

Objectively, Squirtle is the best starter Pokemon!

This just doesn't feel like a victory.

Ed Stevens doesn't care what science says -- Charmander is still the best, and he will fight anyone who says otherwise. Tiago Svn will answer all of your silly gaming questions on Twitter.

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