I think I accidentally found the Half-Life 3 release date ☢️
Okay, this is obviously a joke, but hear me out.
I noticed something funny about Half-Life: Decay.
Half-Life released on November 19, 1998, while Half-Life: Decay released on November 14, 2001.
That's:
2 years, 11 months, 26 days
And I specifically chose Decay because a half-life is the time it takes for half of a radioactive substance to decay.
So I decided to use the Half-Life → Decay interval as my completely stupid "Half-Life decay constant."
STEP 1: THE DECAY CONSTANT
Half-Life → Decay = 1,091 days.
There are 7 Half-Life games in the set I'm counting:
- Half-Life
- Opposing Force
- Blue Shift
- Decay
- Half-Life 2
- Episode One
- Episode Two
So:
1,091 × 7 = 7,637 days
Now add that to the original Half-Life release:
November 19, 1998 + 7,637 days = October 17, 2019
And here's where it gets WEIRD.
Half-Life: Alyx was announced on November 21, 2019.
That's only 35 days later.
I didn't choose the formula to land near Alyx. It just... did. 💀
STEP 2: WHERE DID THE 28 YEARS COME FROM?
Then I tried another version.
Instead of simply multiplying the Decay interval by 7, I looked at how far each Half-Life game had released from the original Half-Life.
Approximately:
Half-Life → 0 years Opposing Force → 1 year Blue Shift → 2.56 years Decay → 2.99 years Half-Life 2 → 5.99 years Episode One → 7.53 years Episode Two → 8.89 years
Add them together:
0 + 1 + 2.56 + 2.99 + 5.99 + 7.53 + 8.89 ≈ 28 years
28 YEARS.
And what happens if you add 28 years to Half-Life 1?
November 19, 1998 + 28 years = November 19, 2026.
Which is...
NOVEMBER 19, 2026 🚨
The 28th anniversary of Half-Life.
So the completely insane theory is:
The Half-Life → Decay interval predicted a date only 35 days before the Half-Life: Alyx announcement.
The cumulative release timeline gives us 28 years.
28 years after Half-Life = November 19, 2026.
Therefore:
HALF-LIFE 3 — NOVEMBER 19, 2026?
Probably absolutely not.
But if Valve announces it that day, I'm going to become INSufferable. ☢️💀
