Gordon Freeman. The coolest doctor of them all. This esteemed doctor of physics had to put down the test tube and pick up the crow bar in Half-Life. I'd like to see Steven Hawkins perform the same feat. I think we know who's smarter now. Many of us think that physics is pretty cool anyway, but Freeman ramped it up a notch by bringing a goatee into the equation. Still, when does he actually work anything out? There's never a mission where you have to scribble at a chalkboard with a furious look on your face, stroking the magnificent goatee. Has his work ever been cited by other scientists? Probably not. Advantage Hawkins. But that's not a doctor, no, no. Not a proper doctor. When you think doctor, you think a doctor of medicine. It takes years to become a General Practitioner. Even then, only the best end up with brain surgeon. Someone has to end up being a proctologist after all. But you never were going to become a doctor anyway, because blood grosses you out. We've moved to a stage in gaming where we could pretty much simulate anything we wanted to. Some jobs in real life just aren't a barrel of laughs. Telling the relatives that their loved one is dead because you tried to remove their pancreas with a radio, is one of them.
