{"id":47426,"date":"2026-11-14T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=47426"},"modified":"2026-11-14T17:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T22:53:46","slug":"skibidi-toilet-detainer-astro-toilet-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/11\/skibidi-toilet-detainer-astro-toilet-addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Skibidi Toilet: Detainer Astro Toilet addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Anti-Mass Spectrometer from <i>Half-Life<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hlams1.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"360\" alt=\"The Anti-Mass Spectrometer, a series of angular devices stacked inside a large, rusty, barrel-shaped room, firing electricity at the ground.\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>So where are the <a href=\"\/yo\/skib2dat.php\">Astro Detainer's<\/a> arms? They're not there.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Here's a close-up of the AMS' emitters, which in the game seem to just float freely in mid-air:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hlams2.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"360\" alt=\"A series of stumpy obelisks, in vertical pairs, floating among the lightning.\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>That's the way they looked in 1998. However, here's the same part of the device, as seen in the official fan remake, <i>Black Mesa<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hlams3.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"360\" alt=\"The emitters are now held in place by large clamps instead of flying on their own.\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>You can just spot the arms in question holding up the redesigned emitters. Once you know they're there, it's easy to spot them <a href=\"https:\/\/static.wikitide.net\/tikipediawiki\/f\/f3\/Download.gif\" target=_blank>even when the device is in motion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"ATFC '12 - Day 3: NECA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/atfc-12-day-3-neca\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">ATFC '12 - Day 3: NECA<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Gordon Freeman addendum\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/gordon-freeman-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Gordon Freeman addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #135.2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/06\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-135-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #135.2<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Team Fortress 2: Meet the Pyro (not!)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/team-fortress-2-meet-the-pyro-not\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Team Fortress 2: Meet the Pyro (not!)<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - January '13\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/flippin-through-previews-january-13\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - January '13<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Anti-Mass Spectrometer from Half-Life: So where are the Astro Detainer's arms? They're not there. &lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Flippin' through Previews - February '13 Barbie is canonically a Portal fan Congratulations NECA! You're apparently racist! Flippin' through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/11\/skibidi-toilet-detainer-astro-toilet-addendum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-47426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47427,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47426\/revisions\/47427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}