i wonder now if anyone in RP has been recovered after being headcrab'd
i know it severs the spine but that's definitely survivable IRL
i remember a kind-of grim event in helix 3 when me and braker's rebel shot some really tiny zombie's headcrab off just to find out it was some underage girl who was still alive because her head was too small for the crab to fit in fully or something except she was actively writhing on the ground in unspeakable agony
we mercy killed her on the spot
its amazing how desensitized we are to headcrab related body horror these days. i wonder if we'd be more tolerant of similar things if valve went ahead with their more
colorful concepts way back in the day too. (*cough* mr friendly * cough*)