The closest real-life equivalent to Half-Life’s Black Mesa facility may be CERN, and that connection became even stronger when a photo of the Large Hadron Collider showed a Gordon Freeman look-alike standing by it.

Alarmed gamers at Reddit took the initiative of contacting CERN and the scientist in particular, giving him a wrecking bar, headcrab hat and Half-Life strategy guide.

Quite unusual for a physicist, the doppelganger proceeded to don the role of Freeman to defend the facility from alien forces which have been captured in all its pictorial glory.

Hit the jump for another picture.