"Yeah,Barney about that CAT?"

Antlion Hunter · Feb 10, 2005

What in the hell did Alyx/Barney mean about a cat in chapter 2?Any good ideas?

Hazar · Feb 10, 2005

Listen to the dialog at the begining, when you get to kleiners lab.

Antlion Hunter · Feb 10, 2005

He said something about it when he said he was teleported a while ago

TheAmazingRando · Feb 10, 2005

It was one of their test subjects for the teleporter. Obviously the test didn't go so well for the cat.

ShadowX · Feb 10, 2005

Yeah its kinda obvious.. Alyx didn't know that a cat well.. probably died in the teleporter and they tried to keep it a secret.. thats pretty much it, no need for theories.. thats just it.

Reginald · Feb 10, 2005

It must be some in-joke at Valve because there is a huge cat texture on Hammer.

Jenga · Feb 10, 2005

I wonder if someone can put up a mod with an exploding cat in the teleporter.... lol

Missingno. · Feb 10, 2005

maybe CAT was squashed by DOG hehe

Blakeb155 · Feb 10, 2005

I reckon the cat was teleported and returned all deformed, crossed wiht other animals and things.

Fina · Feb 10, 2005

I've always imagined that the cat turned inside out, and then exploded.

Anyone else see Galaxy Quest?

bboymatty · Feb 10, 2005

its fricken obvious, when kliener was using the teleporter in test mode he tested it with a cat and it must have been destroyed in front of them.

case closed. go for a run.

AJ Rimmer · Feb 10, 2005

Fina said:
I've always imagined that the cat turned inside out, and then exploded.

Anyone else see Galaxy Quest?

"No no, the teleport went just fine captain!"
"But the animal is inside out."
KA-BOOM!
"And it exploded..."

CREMATOR666 · Feb 10, 2005

There's a very high propability that the cat might be turned inside-out in the experiment, in regards to some theories I once came across and entanglement. Cant remember where that was...hmmmmm.

Antlion Hunter · Feb 10, 2005

Hey the inside out theory mustve come from The Fly 2 where they teleport a dog and it comes back inside out.............

Antlion Hunter · Feb 10, 2005

but when u say deformed thats probably it cuz barney said it gave him nightmares.......OR it couldve been a VERY RARE Xen species or whatever the hell works with u.............

azz0r · Feb 10, 2005

God does no-one listen to whats going on in games anymore.

Antlion Hunter · Feb 10, 2005

and whats that supposed 2 mean....................................................

azz0r · Feb 10, 2005

Im not particulary suprised by that responce

ShadowX · Feb 11, 2005

Antlion Hunter said:
and whats that supposed 2 mean....................................................

Well, this doesn't call for a theory, they pretty much told you what they meant if you listened to them talking.

Jenga · Feb 11, 2005

ShadowX said:
Well, this doesn't call for a theory, they pretty much told you what they meant if you listened to them talking.

Of course it doesn't call for a theory. We're just having fun speculating what happened to the cat. The conversation was generalized, leaving only enough details for the PLAYER (and Alyx) to imagine what horrible fate befell the cat (beautiful scriptwriting by the way). Which is what we're doing.

Don't take it seriously man, we're just having an entertaining conversation here. We're not slow or deaf or anything. We know what they meant. :thumbs:

Pai-Mei · Feb 11, 2005

its fricken obvious, when kliener was using the teleporter in test mode he tested it with a cat and it must have been destroyed in front of them.

case closed. go for a run.

While that may be so, I think that theres more to cats than just this... remember right after you rescue Barney, he asks you if you just heard a cat, and insists that there is one following him?

Why is he so afraid of it? I would think that a guy who was in Civil Protection and probably knows about a lot of the foul things being done to humanity wouldn't get THAT shaken up over a deep-fried kitty cat.

hi_ted · Feb 11, 2005

Antlion Hunter said:
Hey the inside out theory mustve come from The Fly 2 where they teleport a dog and it comes back inside out.............

Or Fly, where they do it to a baboon.

DEATH eVADER · Feb 11, 2005

Now the only question is, did your goatee get fried whilst in the teleport

ríomhaire · Feb 11, 2005

Pai-Mei said:
While that may be so, I think that theres more to cats than just this... remember right after you rescue Barney, he asks you if you just heard a cat, and insists that there is one following him?

Why is he so afraid of it? I would think that a guy who was in Civil Protection and probably knows about a lot of the foul things being done to humanity wouldn't get THAT shaken up over a deep-fried kitty cat.

"Do you hear a cat? The damn thing still haunts me!"
OMG. Are you going to come up with a massive conspiricy theory now? The cat was just mutilated in the teleport. And do you think they would show stalkers and stuff to CP? Not a chance in hell!

bvasgm · Feb 11, 2005

When Barney says that, he just means that the cat is haunting him because of the accident. It's just a joke really, and has no meaning in the game whatsoever. Its only purpose was to add a bit of humor. HUMOR, you do know what that is right...a joke...something someone says that generally makes people go

...ok?

ríomhaire · Feb 11, 2005

bvasgm said:
When Barney says that, he just means that the cat is haunting him because of the accident. It's just a joke really, and has no meaning in the game whatsoever. Its only purpose was to add a bit of humor. HUMOR, you do know what that is right...a joke...something someone says that generally makes people go ...ok?

I know. People go crazy over such strange things.
What's next, a huge theory about the picture of Kleiner on the "young scientisc" magazine. (For those of you who don't know where that is look at the notice boards in Kleiner's lab.)

Antlion Hunter · Feb 12, 2005

You put a pretty good point but as Jenga says its just an entertaining conversation about what barney said and how ****ed up that cat mustve been...........

Great Grizzly · Feb 12, 2005

lol, galexy quest, mmmmm fried bacon,

bboymatty · Feb 12, 2005

yeh.. comic relief...mmm...clowns..

FireCrack · Feb 12, 2005

Yeah, humor. Just like the

"You get alot of use outa your MIT graduate, flippin' that switch nad all"

or somthing to that effect.

cabbs · Feb 12, 2005

b: "are you sure? cos' im still having nightmares about that cat..."
a: "what cat?"
k: "Nonsense Barney, we've made great strides since then... great strides..."

If you listen, Kleiner stresses 'great strides' in a quiet voice that gives you the impression he is remembering something horrible. Perhaps the 'accident' involved the misplacement of certain limbs? certainly would make you remember if you said 'great strides' out loud...

DrunkPanda · Feb 12, 2005

i think the cat had transcription errors like in timeline. it escaped from the lab so it's not dead. that's why barney has nightmares about the cat. he's afraid it will come back and kick his ass.

The Monkey · Feb 12, 2005

It's not dead. Maybe it dissappeared. "Did you just hear a cat? That damn thing haunts me!"

ghostdancer · Feb 12, 2005

maybe the cat is "out of phase " with our universe can see but cant be seen and is trying to get barney to open a tin of food for him/her ?
this sort of thing happens all the time in the various star trek series seem to remember a transporter accident in TNG involving Geordie and ensign RO LAL

FireCrack · Feb 13, 2005

mabye only the molecular bonds of the cat got transfered so after teleport attempt it just degraded into a pile of blood and mush, gross!

Antlion Hunter · Feb 13, 2005

Or u could think about it as in Predator where it is a invisible yet living animal that is tracking barney.And sorry if this post doesnt make any sense.I have some pretty back speaking/social skillz.

Wraith · Feb 13, 2005

Antlion Hunter said:
What in the hell did Alyx/Barney mean about a cat in chapter 2?Any good ideas?

you're a retard

furiousV · Feb 13, 2005

Wraith said:
you're a retard

now thats uncalled for
its only fair to bring up a discussion

cabbs · Feb 13, 2005

Wraith said:
you're a retard

Let the flaming begin! yes.

Wraith, the question was asked in order to start a discussion on the nature of the incident involving the cat. And, quite clearly, as indicated by the 2-3 pages of posts, it was successful.
I fail to see how asking that question constitutes to having a mental deficiency or retardation.

on topic someone please! im out of cat based ideas...

Antlion Hunter · Feb 13, 2005

he's right.we should stay ontrack.this thread was started so questions(or in this case question)could be answered and its just 4 fun!Not to call otthers childish names!Damn!

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