Half Life Alyx delights in presenting the player with a scary path and a non-scary path, knowing that the player will choose the safer looking path, only to later force the player back through the scary path later on; the dev commentary talks about it quite a bit.
![Mobile screenshot of a Wikipedia article reading: “In a piece published on March 16, he argued that the word "pandemic" is not to be used lightly and that the virus should be allowed to run its course, predicting there would be 500 U.S. deaths. In early June, the U.S. death total surpassed 100,000. On March 24, when U.S. deaths had already exceeded 500, Epstein added a "Correction & Addendum", in which he changed his forecast to 5,000 deaths without changing the underlying model that had led him to his first estimate. On April 6, when the death toll had already far surpassed his earlier predictions, he again revised that figure, with the "Correction & Addendum" section declaring under the inaccurate date stamp "March 24, 2020" that the "original erroneous estimate of 5,000 dead in the US [was] a number 10 times smaller than [he had] intended to state", implying that both "500" and "5,000" had been misprints for "50,000". After several news reports about Epstein's ever-increasing estimates, on April 21 an editor's note appeared on the website that explained the latest changes as an "editing error" and clarified that Epstein's original prediction had been 500 deaths.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oxybnkauxvn6ofqohztnz3d7/bafkreifxymhuqy35vghz4oea7m26ruyjkxxpxcy4lp7mtt3gt37ifmp7ia)
![Excerpt for the Wikipedia page on the Phaecians from the Odyssey. It reads: “The Phaeacians possessed remarkable ships. They were quite different from the penteconters, the ships used during the Trojan War, and they were steered by thought. King Alcinous says that Phaeacians carried Rhadamanthus to Euboea, "which is the furthest of any place" and came back on the same day.[4] He also explains to Odysseus what sort of information the Phaeacian ships require in order to take him home to Ithaca.[5]
Tell me also your country, nation, and city, that our ships may shape their purpose accordingly and take you there. For the Phaeacians have no pilots; their vessels have no rudders as those of other nations have, but the ships themselves understand what it is that we are thinking about and want; they know all the cities and countries in the whole world, and can traverse the sea just as well even when it is covered with mist and cloud, so that there is no danger of being wrecked or coming to any harm](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oxybnkauxvn6ofqohztnz3d7/bafkreiegt7w6g6biz6zp3xbljk7ku7xmdcjaa524ckjtvwlp3rwgbjse3i)