>Let me read a letter I recently received. "Dear Dr.

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>I find it helpful at times like these to remind myself that our true enemy is Instinct. Instinct was our mother when we were an infant species. Instinct coddled us and kept us safe in those hardscrabble years when we hardened our sticks and cooked our first meals above a meager fire and started at the shadows that leapt upon the cavern's walls. But inseparable from Instinct is its dark twin, Superstition. Instinct is inextricably bound to unreasoning impulses, and today we clearly see its true nature. Instinct has just become aware of its irrelevance, and like a cornered beast, it will not go down without a bloody fight. Instinct would inflict a fatal injury on our species. Instinct creates its own oppressors, and bids us rise up against them. Instinct tells us that the unknown is a threat, rather than an opportunity. Instinct slyly and covertly compels us away from change and progress. Instinct, therefore, must be expunged. It must be fought tooth and nail, beginning with the basest of human urges: The urge to reproduce.

>We should thank our benefactors for giving us respite from this overpowering force. They have thrown a switch and exorcised our demons in a single stroke. They have given us the strength we never could have summoned to overcome this compulsion. They have given us purpose. They have turned our eyes toward the stars.

>Let me assure you that the suppressing field will be shut off on the day that we have mastered ourselves...the day we can prove we no longer need it. And that day of transformation, I have it on good authority, is close at hand.


Were the combine redpilled /pol/?

Do you think if a device existed today which could supress sexual urges, it would benefit humanity?

>>139364173
Laidlaw have zero creativiy as in he just shuffles around some popular themes but brings nothing new to the table.

Drugs in water supply is nothing new. Not new at all.

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>>139364173
>Do you think if a device existed today which could supress sexual urges, it would benefit humanity?
100%

The Universal Union of the Combine is a metaphor of the European Union.

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>>139364144

The Combine are the most redpilled faction of any fictional universe.

If they showed up and invaded Earth tomorrow, I would be the first to pledge my allegiance to them and voluntarily submit for memory replacement.

>>139364935
I rather not have to experience "permanent offworld relocation".

>>139365345
>Tivo
>2005
Has it really been that long? Glad I was never into TV or TV shows.

Depressing af. No wonder Gabe killed the series.

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>>139365255

>not taking the once-in-a-lifetime chance to travel to another dimension

cuck

>>139364381
It was through a suppression field, not drugs in the water.

>>139364935
What a cuck.
Vigilo Confido motherfucker

>>139366133
They take you to be some slave creature on another planet.

The combine is what the left is moving toward.

They are suppressing human sexual desires. That's what the pornography and xenoestrogens are for.

>>139364144
>>139364173
I understand the resistance and I have no qualm with the actions of Gordon but Breen did nothing wrong. He saw what the combine were and wanted humans to become an allied species.

>The combine were too innumerable to kill in the end even with the mcguffin
What was HL Ep 3 trying to say here? Because it seemed pretty pro-nihilism. All that fighting for nothing.

>>139370034
not necessarily nihilistic but the humbling cosmic insignificance of earth.

it also just makes logical sense. if the combine are interplanetary, which is what we're told in HL2, you could never defeat them in simplistic videogame terms like "blowing up the big thing at the end"

>>139370034
HL2 always had a partially Lovecraftian take on the "true" Combine.
It's always implied that whatever we see in game and what wrecked Earth in 7 hours were a glorified SWAT team for the Combine. The rebellion is only semi-successful because they manage to fuck the galactic portals at the right time (with the help of the G-man).
The real Combine are basically overpowered. Which is why Breen (the one man that saw them) wants humanity to join them even if it completely goes against our instincts of remaining 'human' (as you can see in the discourse posted in OP).

>>139370034
Part of the reason is because it makes a lot more interesting / unpredictable of an ending that you just easily defeating them all.

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>>139367881
Haha planet...
>tfw you wont need your eyes to see

>>139364800
EU is a metaphor for USA

>>139364144
The Combine were not redpilled. Breen was a great puppet leader because he he could sell the Combine. But the Combine weren't putting up suppression fields because they would improve humanity. They were doing it so that they could use humanity as slaves without fear of reprisal. The only humans would eventually be allowed to reproduce would have been solely for the purpose of creating transhuman synths. Breen was the only the human the Combine intended to spare, and even then they intended to eventually implant him into an advisor body.