Operation: Black Mesa mod for Half-Life 2

Cheers all around for the awesome Christmas update. It was a real holiday treat. But I think you guys deserve a bit more than mere congratulations given what you've had to deal with as of late.

I've been following this project since 2011. I have been waiting in anticipation for it for nearly 15 years now. I have been rooting for you guys to succeed in making this throughout that entire length of time, and I always will. And let me tell you - if you guys keep at it and continue on with your awesome work on this as you have been for all these years, then the day that the dream finally becomes reality and this mod releases will be made all the more legendary by not just how you managed to complete it after nearly 2 decades of dedication, but how you managed to persevere through all the disgusting, nasty, entitled, moronic, and utterly worthless POS comments that I've seen posted on this page. And given the overwhelming space these comments have wasted on this mod's page, I think it's more than fitting for me to take a little time on this fine evening to write a nice lengthy rant about it. And I really don't care if the rant is long, either, since it's not like I have to worry about losing anyone halfway through when most of the clowns I'm referring to here probably can't even read to begin with. You can't really blame me for being loud enough to be heard over all the clown music that's been playing in this comment section lately.

I'm completely unapologetic and I do not care how many feelings I am hurting here, because somebody really ought to call this out for what it is. So do keep that in mind as I say that these people leaving these comments are actual slime, actively working to discourage and demoralize these devs who have been working passionately on this entirely free fan-made labor of love for almost 20 years. It really gets more and more infuriating the longer you think about it. Instead of cheering on these devs for their efforts and showing gratitude for all their years of hard work thus far, these individuals are instead spamming them with bafflingly stupid and infuriatingly ignorant requests that absolutely reek of entitlement, such as asking these devs to throw away large portions of the work they've already done in the name of benefitting other similar fan projects that have been around for a miniscule fraction of the time this project has been in development for. Some of these people have even written what are basically full-length open letters on here with the sole purpose of outright demanding that these devs give up. Absolutely insane. You can't even make this up.

It really staggers the mind to even begin to consider that these people have actually chosen to spend any time or effort on something this comically low. Actual textbook loser behavior. To say these people should be ashamed of themselves and how pathetic their lack of respect and appreciation are would really be an understatement, as they should really be embarrassed to even show their faces on a site like this that exists to give a home to these kinds of free, passion-driven fan projects in the first place. I sincerely hope the efforts of these losers backfire and these devs are instead only more motivated to work towards a release that will show these people how obnoxiously wrong they all were in the most deserved way possible. And at the end of the day, it's a lose-lose for these people. If the project reaches completion, then they're obviously all proven to have been clowns once and for all. If the project dies, then they're still not proven right because nobody will ever know for sure how much of a self-fulfilling prophecy was at play in these people pushing the devs to give up, while they also kinda deprive themselves of the chance to play and enjoy something awesome at the same time.