"we're your benefactors and we're only here to evolve you and give you strength and peace and help your species survive"

>"we're your benefactors and we're only here to evolve you and give you strength and peace and help your species survive"
>routinely brutalizes everyone in the population in front of everyone else

How exactly did propaganda ever work for them?

>Combine symbol is a dyson sphere
Holy fuck

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The combine is a bunch of aliens from a different dimension, they probably think humans like beatings

They hired Breen as the PR Guy

Probably not the brightest move.

It didn't, that's why there's stuff like the suppression field and the poisoned water so that they could try their hardest to maintain control. The biggest reason why nobody bothered to try sooner is because humanity still remembers being blown the fuck out in seven hours and everyone realizes that they're fucked in almost all cases of serious resistance.

I thought it was an abstract object being grabbed, to symbolize "we own you".

They made the citizens' lives shit so they would join Civil Protection.

Humanity, or any other species like the Vortiguants that wish to remain individuals and are not willing to be part of the collective combine, are in fact the real racial supremacists.

A real shame that fat Jew decided to just play it safe and sell trash on his store than risk some money on finishing the story. I think deep down he knew they just got lucky with the series and could never finish it as their aging engine was left in the dust.

Literally all they had to do was take us to the Borealis. Laidlaw already wrote the story. I don't see why they had such a fucking hard time.

It's a meteor isn't it? I routinely get drunk and replay Half Life 2, it's my favorite game. I go around taking screenshots of dumb shit and just looking at the levels. Sometimes something nice comes out of it.

It's supposed to be a claw according to Raising the Bar

Ah, neat.

There's some weird zombie-esque sounds here. With how drunk I was and with my headphones on it was spooking me the fuck out.

I really like this street for some reason. Really captures the whole combine + human tech synthesis

It didn't, so they just turned off everyones dicks and knicked the ocean.

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so how did the Xen wildlife integrate with earth? was it before the seven-hour war or after black mesa?

I thought everything was nuked after HL1?

Why is the Citadel so tall but the ride up to the top at the end of the game isn't very long?

I think it's implied you pass out.

I bet $10 they didn't liked the ending.

Their world domination plan was to make human beings go extinct instead of forcing a certain portion of them to breed for slave labor. They're obviously completely inept at being Tyrants.

Why? Gordon already got a 20-something year nap before he awoke. Bitch can handle being awake for his equivalent of 3 days...

Thin air? Exhaustion? Space magic? Drugs?

The death of the Nihilanth somehow destabilised Xen causing the portal storms across Earth. wildlife from Xen escaped followed then by the Combine.

They're not so bad. A truly brutal race would have just exterminated humanity immediately and looted the planet's resources.

This. They're more like jewish businessman than muslim hordes. They'll spare you, but only because it's more profitable for them with you alive and cooperative. As soon as you no longer show a profit for them though, you're gone. That's why Breen was trying to convince the combine that Humanity would make good soldiers, fit for both war and occupation.

Yup, and Gordon and the rest were too much of brainlets to realize they had no chance and were better being a transhuman branch of the combines forces.

I don't know, how did the same shit work in Soviet Union? Do you think people blissful ignorance? No. Everybody knew how shit it was and what would they do to YOU and YOUR FAMILY if you dared to stop pretending that everything is great.

>How exactly did propaganda ever work for them?
You can do whatever and people will ignore it if it doesn't fit their narrative. You guys know EXACTLY who I'm talking about.

>inb4 a group accusing another group when its actually both groups.

I don't know how to process this. Can you please pick a side? I have bullet points prepared for that.

This game ruled so much that they could have been talking about touching little boys pee lpee's and I wouldn't care...

They probably looked on the human internet for research to see what humanity liked, found a bunch of BDSM porn, and assumed everyone was into that.

>You guys know EXACTLY who I'm talking about.

Careful, throwing Soro's name around casually like that could get you in troubl

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Where do people get the implication they control billions of galaxies instead of interdimensional portals being their main method of travel?

Because they're called the Universal Union for one thing. And every creature from Gunships to Striders to the Combine soldiers themselves are conquered species forced into the union.

They invaded, placed a bunch of autistic slugs and human puppets in charge of this backwater ball of mud and went back to HQ. I don't think they really put any effort into Earth's occupation.

>the combine can't lie

Pretty sure from Gordon's Perspective, the moment the Gman walked off the train, it arrived in City 17. So he's been up for all the hours of Half-Life1 2, and episode 1, then he gets knocked out briefly at the beginning of episode 2.

>run-down suburbs with weird metal bullshit sat on top

This is just Toronto

>Modern architecture is just a covert Combine occupation
I FUCKING KNEW IT