JUST

FUCK

MY

>>388370732
>O MY DYSON SPHERE
Was there a more bullshit ending in a vidya game?

>>388370979
no matter how many new games come out the answer will forever be ME3

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>>388370732
Not surprised they didn't make this it fucking blows as a story

>you lose
>we still haven't explained G-man or anything because we don't actually know ourselves lmao

>>388370917
SHIT

UP

>>388370732
>Living on the INSIDE of a Dyson sphere
>Earthlike geography that would end up being hundreds of millions of miles long

>>388370979
The point is that the Combine is many times larger than Gordon or any of the Resistance dared to imagine in their worst nightmares. It's the realization that the regime they have been so desperately struggling against on Earth could hardly even be considered their janitors.

>>388370979
Fuck off mate. The sphere is best part of it. If you're going to bitch about something at least complain about Alex going nuclear.

>>388370732
>Brainlets jizzing themselves over hearing about a dyson sphere for the first time
Oh man such kino amirite?

>>388371423

Not everything needs to be explained. Some things are better left in mystery. G-man wouldn't be half as interesting if his origins, motives, and what-not were exposed. It would probably ruin his character desu.

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>>388371793
It's impossible for any civilization to build a Dyson sphere, no star system has enough building materials to actually make a structure that encompass a whole star.

>>388371423
>wanting g-man explained

Combine : just fuck my dyson sphere up

Gordon and the vorts : say no more senpai just give us some time

>>388372665
No ones this dumb right??? Right???

>>388372665

It's built over generations with materials from multiple solar systems dumb fuck

>>388372665
why not take more materials from other systems?

Or in the Combine's case, other dimensions?

>>388372901
>Why deplete your dimension's resources when you can deplete others
Genius idea, why aren't we doing this?

Living on the inner surface of the Dyson sphere would actually be fucking amazing

>>388373007
because unlike the imaginary sci-fi empire from half life, we don't know how yet

Random question, how would advanced sci-fi civilization deal with water problem that comes with increased population ?

>>388373343
Synthesis it from other compounds, also recycling and purification like on the ISS

>>388373343
hydrogen is the most abundant thing in the universe, I'm sure they'd figure something out.

>>388373343
Advanced races would be deeply ingrained in drinking their own recycled piss. Their much too busy to think about 'ugh icky my own pee pee'.

>>388371423
Because it wasn't the ending to the whole franchise, it was just for episode 3. It was a pretty deliberate set-up for Half-Life 3.

>>388370732
so why are they taking earth's resources if they basically infinite energy?
Just to fuck around?

>>388372665
it's a question of thickness

/v/ - Dyson Spheres

>>388373524
One planet, one sun, one galaxy, one universe, it's not enough, the combine always need more. The combine doesn't exist so some fucking bigshot alien can get a new palace, the combine exists to grow, consume, conquer and combine. As long as there's an unclaimed pebble floating in a universe somewhere, the combine will not rest. When they've conquered all the dimensions of the multiverse, they'd probably find a way to make some more.

what could have been

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What was the better idea, the dyson sphere, or gigantic factory producing citadels by the thousands.

>>388374337
a gigantic factory that produces citadels by the thousands that's then revealed to be just a speck on the dyson sphere

>>388372557
then why not leave the combine to mystery then ayy lamo dyson sphere, but we can't do portal technology lel

>>388371423
How would they even begin to explain him, he is operating on levels you can't hardly comprehend and covers his tracks. Not to mention you are just his little sockpuppet that will be disposed when you outlive your usefulness

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Wait, so the combines can teleport between dimensions, but can't teleport within a dimension?
kek

>>388370732
It's so sad to see that we will never see this as a game.
They went for something that others wouldn't dare - you losing in the end.

That's why ME3 sucked so hard because it was a cliche we win with a superweapon against the way more powerful enemy. Why not just having a bitter ending?

>>388374580
because if there's no scope of the combine's reach there's always room for a victory, and thus another game

the writer wanted to get across that 3 was never happening, and what better way than to completely demoralize the protagonist by showing him how insignificant the human race is compared to their enemy?

>>388371423
Look at the reapers and tell me explaining him is a good idea.

>>388374748
You could say that his motives are quite complex.

>>388374901
The final battle at the borealis, with the ship phasing in an out between space-time/dimensions while humans fight the combines would be a pain to develop.

>>388371793
dyson spheres arent hollow earths you fucking retard. their designed to harness the energy of a large mass AKA the fucking sun. GOD FUCKING DAMMIT

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>>388372665
There is enough mass in 1% of the sun to make a dyson sphere several times over. It's not impossible to capture solar material at all. It just takes a lot of time and people. Similar to building the great wall of china vs building a wall of rocks .

>>388373413
And oxygen is the most abundant material on rocky planets. Most hydrogen that isn't in gas giants or the sun gets blown away, but oxygen sticks around planets because it's heavier and because it combines with shitloads of things, like iron.

>>388375385
I think he realises that, dude. Hence why he calls attention to it.

So the Combine on Earth was basically the equivalent of the U.S. Military sending Paul Blart to occupy a shed?

GORDIN FREEMUHN IN THA FWLESH, OR RAFVER, IN DA HAZURD SUIT. EYE'VE TAKIN DA LIBURTY OF RELEEVING YEW OV YER WEPINS, AZ FUR THE SOOT, EYE THINK YEW'VE URNED'IT.

>>388372665
It's impossible to keep it stable, never mind the material requirements. Any other answer comes from objective brainlets.

>>388373343
There's tons of ice in asteroid belt and similar.

>>388375796
nah, it was sending paul blart rough up some stray dogs that lived in that shed and then training one to keep the other dogs in line

>>388373435
piss is just impurities in solution, if I was a combine hyperintelligence with near-total mastery of all forms of science and genetics in particular, I'd just secrete those impurities out as a little pellet that I put in my pocket

>>388376006
You can keep it stable so long as it isn't literally a solid sphere.

>>388376286
>You'll never be an interdimensional master race that forces enslaved races to pick up your peepee pellets.

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>Try to type "sphere"
>Always end up typing "shpere"

Is this happening to anyone else?

>>388372108
It's like the imperium of man realizing how big the tyranid fleets actually are, or hearing ork chatter outside of the galaxy.

Why do you even care?

Half life was a linear, cinematic, scifi based FPS. So is Halo. However, Halflife comes off as one of those bad Halo knockoffs "early Far Cry and Killzone" even though it's first game predated Halo in the 90's, or as I like the call it "the time when there were no good FPS's".

Halo got 3 games because it was a good series that did the linear cinematic scifi FPS correctly with interesting characters, interesting lore and good SP and MP.

HL died because the only people who really liked the originals were privledged white kids who could afford gaming rigs way back before they were accessable and treat "liking halflife" as if its a privledge status like owning a mazarati.

Fuck off with this sob story.

The tradjedy still remains of what valve did to the L4D with L4D2, not your crappy boring FPS.

>>388376369
And how do you keep it in place around the star? It wouldn't be bound by the gravity and would need constant adjustments as the star moved through space.

>>388371793
>>Living on the INSIDE of a Dyson sphere

And? Nothing weird about that. If you need a place to live that's bigger than a hundred billion planets but fits in one convenient solar system, that's totally a way to do it.

>>388376006
I like how some idiots always assume that all science has already been invented by humans living right now. There's an infinite number of possible discoveries that would enable this shit. You're one of those people who went THERE'S NO WAY PEOPLE CAN FLY, IT IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE in the 1800s.

>>388373010
It would actually be unlivable unless the sphere was impossibly hueg.

@388376695 [u]

>>388376727

So constantly adjust it. You already have near-infinite energy at your disposal from the sphere itself, work it out.

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>>388376695

>>388370732


I'm just glad the original writing talent could provide closure to the story.

After what Blizzard did to Starcraft, Diablo and the Warcraft series, do you really want to see Valve try to make a sequel?

>>388375097
That's not an excuse. They're a game developer, (or were) their whole purpose is to develop games.

>>388376556
Ork chatter outside the galaxy is just from Orks who landed on the really far out planets that are basically in deep space.

Also, the nids can't be that big. The art works make it look like they're as big as a fucking galaxy. There's no way that's possible.

>>388376785

"Impossibly huge" is kind of built into the concept of a Dyson sphere. You cannot make a small one.

>>388376785
there's no reason to live on the inside anyways unless you are a fucking solar panel, if anything you'd live on the outside or within the shell itself
gravity is not needed for post-human life forms

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>>388376897
Nah, it's easier to make hats

>>388376841
>let's waste all the power we generate to constantly thrust a megastructure through space

wow great idea anon

>>388376742
>no gravity
>no atmosphere
>nothing weird about living inside that

lmao @ brainlets

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>>388373480
>it was just for episode 3. It was a pretty deliberate set-up for Half-Life 3.

>>388376937
I don't think you quite get how enormous it'd need to be to be livable on the inside. It would need to be so big it would go way past mercury's orbit in diameter. Living on the inside is a stupid design.

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>>388376727
The effect of neighbouring stars on the solar system is negligible. Pic related is an extended view of the Solar system that goes out to the Oort Cloud, which is a sphere of rocks orbiting the sun. A dyson swarm, made of many space stations, would look just like this, but denser.

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>>388371423
>G-man hasn't been explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgYzOLQ8sU8

>>388377080
>all
You wouldn't need all the power to do that, stop being a retarded.

>>388377350
you're right, you'd need more

fucking retarded brainlet who has no idea how space propulsion works lmao just stop posting in this thread with your retarded thoughts

>>388371423
He was a watcher or something like that.

>>388377272
no one's talking about a dyson swarm you fucking brainlet, we're talking about a sphere

jesus christ don't even bother responding if you're too fucking retarded to know how to read

John Freeman VS Dyson Sphere

Who wins?

>>388375758
fuck i am the retard

>it wasnt supposed to end like this

>>388377580
Does John Freeman have wepon or just his bear hands

>>388377580
its a good day to do what has to be done by me and help my brother to defeat the enemys

>>388377350
You'd need two or more stars to generate enough energy to move a structure that big. The tensile strength of the structure would also have to be absurd if it's to actually keep its shape.

>>388377493
>applying our current technology to fix more advanced civilizations' problems
Just stop, you're making a fool of yourself.

>>388377560
Well actually, if you foolow the reply chain up, you'll see the post I made wherein I stated that a dyson sphere would be stable, "so long as it isn't a solid ball". Of course, I was refering to the concept of a swarm, but that should have been self evident.

>>388377580
John Stalvern > John Freeman

>>388377580
Do you think the dyson sphere sends out the message "u shudnt come here"?

>>388378307
pssh its just a big metal rig around the sun, what's it gonna do, float there?

Okay, why are dyson spheres being posted on 4chin all of the sudden? What happened?

>>388378548
you literally just missed the sticky that was up for two days

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>deliver the crystal that opens the portal to xen because I feel like it
>hinder and help people whenever the fuck I feel like it
>guy who stops some dumb alien did a pretty good job so I basically kidnap him to use a jobber for whatever the fuck I feel like
>plop him in serbia 20 years later and have him topple an alien empire because I feel like it
>use his girlfriend to deliver a message to her father that he's going to die just to fuck with him because I feel like it
>as the dumb jobber nears the alien headquarters steal his girlfriend to use as my butt-slut and laugh at him for being a retard and doing what I wanted just because I fucking felt like doing it
>mfw

>>388372557
>>388372690
>>388374748
>>388374991

Woah..it's almost as if Half Life story isn't actually particularly interesting and all the good parts are just X-files style hinting at a larger mystery that they will never really expand on

>>388378548
http://www.marclaidlaw.com/epistle-3/

>>388378660
>Have the power to destroy the Combine with one fell swoop
>Don't
What the fuck was his problem?

>>388378838
He's bored and just havin a laugh m8

>>388378838
He wants teleportation to remain a monopoly.

First he had Gordon and Alyx fuck the citadels shit up to stop the combine from coming back to earth

Then he tricked them into blowing up the borealis

Next are the vorts

>>388379021
Oy vey

So what was the story with Gman. Did the guy reveal what his purpose was?

>>388379021
The entire plot of HL1 was G-Man wanting Gordon to do pest control on Xen for him, so you may be onto something

>>388379021
He's a human from earth then.

>>388374748
It's known that the Combine are currently in a war with another unknown force that we haven't seen yet, and Laidlaw's plot seems to imply that G-Man is a third party trying to end this war by removing ALL methods of teleportation from the universe. The Borealis was a big one, and removing it from the equation also removed Gordon's usefulness (but not Alyx's). He disposes of Gordon, but the Vortigaunts step in and save him with their own time/space manipulation, setting up a Half-Life 3 where we learn the truth about G-Man and potentially end the series for real.

>>388379138
We have a general idea of his ultimate goal, but that's it.

>>388378660
>the gman is to the combine central ultrahypermegasupercluster intelligence what the combine are to mankind
>as it piloted the experimental dyson sphere into the heart of the gmans blinged out space palace with doorways the size of universes, somewhere in the quintillions of lines of code in the strange matter-based combine god-brain, an if clause was activated for the first time since the routine test in the ur-combine computer lab all those millions of years ago, and the central system felt an unshakeable sense of futility slowly creeping in

>>388379329
what the fuck are you talking about

>>388379138
The leaked plot implies that he's trying to remove all sources of time/space manipulation and teleportation from the universe and end the ongoing war between the Combine and another unknown force. He succeeded with Nihilanth, failed with the Vortigaunts, but the Borealis was a HUGE piece in his plan.

>>388378050
>future people will be able to generate more power from a system than they put in

holy fuck what's it like being clinically retarded? does the government pay you just to exist you fucking retarded wellfare baby?

>>388379401
hes taking the train of thought that gordon had about the futility of fighting the combine and applying it to the combine fighting the gman

>>388379329
Wew. Scary shit. Well done.

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>>388376006
>>388372665


>imagine being this triggered about a work of science fiction

>>388379715
>scary
>"blinged out space palace"

>>388378465
It's a testament of the capability of the civilization in question. They expected to find their homeworld and wreck it with a megaexplosion, not a behemoth the size of a planet's orbit.

>>388372665
Gee it's almost as if the whole point of the ending was to realize that the Combine empire is beyond your fucking comprehension godlike all powerful.

>>388379928
Well besides that part. The notion of "doorways the size of universes," and the image of the ruthless Combine that conquers planet after planet feeling the instinctual fear all lifeforms feel to keep themselves alive for another day is a helluva thing how I imagined it.

so basically if I fuck bitches, I'll get money?

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>>388370732

On a partial side note while we're talking about Mega structures, does anyone here think Tabby's Star actually has a dyson-something being built around it?

One of the most popular recent 'guesses' as to why its dimming so much is some sort of gigantic ringed planet with a swarm of comets in the same orbit, which sounds weird as fuck but hey, its space, weird shit is going to be here and there

>>388372665
Dumb reiposter

>>388380038
well, thanks anyway anon

but seriously, I'm really interested in the sort of governance the combine has, I'm not sure it would be anything like the more typical, human sort of AI like glados, more like a problem solving algorithm that developed in a far more abstract direction, yet unimaginably more powerful and sophisticated.

Half-Life is one of the worst series in vidya. They were made by people who brought you Steam Greenlight.

The weapons and models were garbage. The story is garbo as well.

>>388380649
>more like a problem solving algorithm that developed in a far more abstract direction, yet unimaginably more powerful and sophisticated.
The Patriots?

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>>388380719
>how can I make myself stand out and look unique?
>I know, I'll call a game I've never played garbage on an internet forum

>>388380814
I've only played metal gear rising

>>388380914
Well you just described MGS4's villain, and it makes sense the more you think about it. The Patriots in MGS4 learned to continue its reign on humanity by stimulating war between countries. Now replace The Patriots with the Combine:
>The Combine learned to continue its reign on everything by stimulating war between planets

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>>388380203
yeah man that sounds really hard to believe

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>>388381065
1984 did it first

>>388381135
1984 were just a bunch of assholes in love with power

>>388381179
they were kept in power with propaganda in which they simulated war with other countries constantly to keep people in a blind patriotic fervor

So do you think someone will make an Epistle 3 mod?

>>388376897
*used to be

>>388376527
no, youre just retarded

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>so many threads about dyson spheres out of nowhere
what the fuck did i miss

>>388381892
A two day sticky

>>388381892
Half Life 2 episode 3 ending was posted by an ex-writer, ending had a combine dyson sphere

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>>388381103
WHAT THE FUCK, I LOVE JUPITER NOW!

>>388381892
half life 3's story being posted by the head writer.

>>388372108
They still have the gman on their side, and I don't think he's just some small-time entity

>>388381892
Closure on Half-Life 3.
Laidlaw did what Valve refused to do.

Just imagine the shitshow that would have happened had Episode 3 come out around 2012 or 2013, long enough that the wait was still ridiculous but not long enough for most to have been burnt out and no longer even care.

>>388381287
If Valve can't make it no one can.

I have to question the wisdom of any post-Singularity civilization that decides that capturing the energy of a single star is an effective use of THE ENTIRE LIFETIME ENERGY OUTPUT OF MULTIPLE STARS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB8vk8Zrwak

>>388381991
*Episode 3

>>388382025
No, they have the Vortigaunts. The G-Man, if he has any affiliations, is with a third party entirely.

I don't understand this shit. If you have the power to go backward in time, why can't they just prevent all this shit from happening?

>>388382205
same thing, isn't it? I mean half life 3 and episode 3.

>>388372108
>The point is that the Combine is many times larger than Gordon or any of the Resistance dared to imagine in their worst nightmares.

Everyone already knew that though. But then you go and add a Dyson sphere which makes them look less threatening...

>>388371423
For the last fucking time it's not the full ending to Half-Life, it was just supposed to be episode 3. That's why it ends with another cliffhanger. It doesn't end with YOULOSELOL since it was intended to set the story for Half-Life 3.

>>388382241
Not the same thing. Most likely, Episode 3 would have been folded into Half-Life 3.

>>388382241
No, Episode 3 is what was actually planned to follow Episode 2. The wait became so long that the idea of a Half-Life 2: Episode 3 coming out was ridiculous, so people began asking for Half-Life 3 since that was the most logical thing now.

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Never played the HL campaign, just goofed off in multiplayer.

What did I miss /v/?

>>388382358
The gold standard for single player FPS games.

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A..at least the series is being left on a good note instead of it continuing with risk of turning to shit.

Fuck you Kotaro Uchikoshi for this turd of a game

>>388382340
>>388382293
oh, well, close enough anyway.

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>Alyx has joined the 'Stuck in G-Man space without any future closure' club
Will he EVER get to kill cumbines?

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>>388378660
you sure like using the term "butt-slut", anon. I've seen you do it in other threads. are you okay?

Was Earth saved in the end?

>>388382205
Didn't valve state at one point that ep 3 was going to be absorbed into half life 3? or am i making that up

>>388381243
i'm not sure what the war stimulation the other guy was tlaking about was

all I know is that the combine would be less like GLADOS and more like some overgrown stock market bot the nerds in data science are cooking up these days, or a colony of bacteria, or a neuron

those combine dudes breen was talking to? They're not the real combine, nor some common lackey, they're a tool made by the combine superorganism to converse with sentients. Intelligence, personality, words, thoughts, concepts, it understands all of these, it can parse them within the vast problem-solving circuits in its processing units, yet does not have them. They lowered themselves to make a hand, just so we could hold on to it.

>>388382509
>butt-slut
What does that even mean?

>>388382516
According to Portal 2's ending, yes

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>>388382509
I've been found out fuck

Valve needs to make this goddamn game now. Im tired of their bullshit excuses that no one wants to work on the project. Get a team together and tell them to make the goddamn game or fucking quit and hire some people who do want it made.

This concept of letting the employees work on what ever they want is fucking stupid. Of course its easier to sit on your ass all day and collect money from fucking hats and other jew micro transactions.

>>388370917
ASS

>>388382518
They never said a single peep about Episode 3 after it missed its initial release window.

>>388381984
Jupiter is arguably the only reason the Earth exists as it does. It's our silent protector from thousands of impacts every year.

>>388382516
Yes, the combine portal was closed.

That said, there are still assloads of combine troops on Earth, and even if they were all killed off, the entire planets ecosystem has been assfucked six ways from Sunday. The earth will probably never recover.

>>388382519
This.

>>388382518
Episode 1, 2 and 3 are Half Life 3.

>>388382516
Depending on your definition of saved. Gordon makes it back to Earth in the future, so the planet must still exist. The state of the combine and resistance are not clarified.

Portal could also be a different dimension/universe/timeline Earth from Episode 3.

>>388382516
In the sense that the Overwatch is cut off from reinforcements and the Combine doesn't have the I Win button that the Bootstrap Device would have been for them, yes.

>>388382518
Don't know, but let's be honest, it would have been.

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This story was garbage and contradicts the entire Half-Life 2 story
>aliens come
>start stealing earth's resources
>oh but they have dyson spheres and unlimited energy so their entire conquest of earth was pointless
>oh this civilization capable of producing something capable of encapsulating a star and siphoning unlimited energy needs to steal the borealis since they can't figure out what 2 aperture science hobos came up with inside of a luxury liner
Yeah, Marc should stick to retweeting IMPEACH DRUMPF articles instead of writing Half-Life 3.

>>388379241
Fuck Valve

>>388377191
It's the truth retard.

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>>388382624
>tfw you think jupiter is scary as fuck
i become physically uncomfortable by looking at it

>>388382719
>making it your personal mission to shit on half life because you're a contrarian that can't handle people enjoying things

>>388382719
>>oh but they have dyson spheres and unlimited energy so their entire conquest of earth was pointless
A star doesn't produce limitless energy, you can always find more. Them conquering earth was like eating a cornflake.

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>>388382719
>dyson spheres == unlimited energy

>>388372665
>Dimeonsion crossing sphere building empire

>is beyond our comprehension

>nu uh its impossible by us dumb humies!

>>388379241
What makes Alyx any more useful than Gordon?

>>388382829
>not like poor stories
this ending makes absolutely no sense based on the events put forth in half-life 2 and its episodes, so i don't like it. there is no personal vendetta.

>>388382896
>>388382205

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>>388382784
For you anon

>>388382953
that's cool/spooky as fuck, where is it from?

>>388382934
She's not under the Vortigaunts' protection the way Gordon now is.

>>388382257
How does it make them look less threatening? It's a good show of power, the premise that they're so advanced that they could actually make one, and the implication that there's a thousand more out there. The fact that a civilization would need a thousand dysnon spheres is insane.

>>388382949
What? I didn't see any plausible argument in that post.

>>388373007
Funnily enough this idea is half a century old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Themselves

>>388382939
You just posted in another thread saying Half Life 2 was bad. If you didn't care about the events in that game then what does it matter to you what happens in episode 3?

>>388383017
She could just as easily become a part of it, they healed her after all.

>>388378660

I still say GMan threw Earth under the bus just to get the Combine slugs trapped for some reason or other

>>388381103

Well shit seeing this Jupiter looks like it dims the sun in a similar fashion if viewed from outside our solar system

>>388383014
Dunno got it during the No mans Sky shit posting storm. It was relevant because the game had no gas giant planets.

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>>388382886
>earth's energy output is relevant to aliens who can siphon fucking stars

>>388383029
The part where making a Dyson shell, capturing all the energy a single star puts out for the rest of its life, would require all the energy multiple stars would put out over the course of their entire lives.

>>388382274
What does it matter? Donut Gaben will never touch the series again, nor will he ever let someone else do shit with it.

>>388383181
They want Earth for its water, not energy. They'd have factories and shit if they wanted energy from Earth.

>>388383181
If you were a millionaire and I offered you a free $100, would you turn it down? Plus the main resource that the Combine drained from Earth is water, something you can't get from a star.

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>>388382772
>he doesn't know that the episodes are hl3

>>388383089
>implying I said Half-Life 2 is bad
I said it was overrated and I didn't like the forced story elements of 2. I still enjoyed them and would like to see it properly ended, but not in a way that makes no sense.

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>>388383181
>You can siphon liquid water and gaseous oxygen out of a star

>>388383014
>>388383174
I think it's from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH3c1QZzRK4

>>388382719
>>388382939
You seem to have a fundamental misunderstand of what the Combine are and what they do. They are not your typical Alien Invaders who fly around space causing trouble. They are an entity capable of traveling to alternate universes, and their goals are total subjugation of everything they can touch. The singular reason that they don't wide out humanity on day one is that we possess technology they don't, the ability to teleport in-universe. If it wasn't for that they would have just strip mined Earth and moved on.

>>388383206
>would require all the energy multiple stars would put out over the course of their entire lives
Source?

>>388383181
>a glucose molecule is relevant to an organism that can eat fucking cakes and hamburgers
the combine invasion force was the equivalent of a mitochondrion breaking down molecules for energy

>>388383181
>>388383424
>>>/sci/

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>>388383274
>They want Earth for its water, not energy.
There are billions of gas giants in the universe that are also composed entirely of water. Neptune is pretty close to earth, so why did they go through the effort of conquering Earth which is a rock with some water on the surface?

>They'd have factories and shit if they wanted energy from Earth.
That's literally what the citadels are.

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>>388383206
If you are talking a planet thick literal shell then yes, that is ridiculous. That all there is though, you can just swarm solar panel equipped satellites around the entire star and you are golden, we could do that right now given enough time and dedication.

>>388377580
John Freeman taking down the Combine is the canon ending to the Half Life series.

>>388383629
>we could do that right now given enough time and dedication.

No, we absolutely could not.

>>388383628
The citadels are basically siege and occupation machines. They're teleported in and house most of the army garrisons of the combine, which then flood out and directly conquer population centers.

The combine is so massive earth is a footnote of a footnote to them. Even if they can get water elsewhere, they use human soldiers as infantry support. All the combine aliens (strider gunship etc) used to be aliens and are now cyborgs in their armies. There's no loss for the combine to just shit out some citadels on earth and every few years send some soldiers and water back home.

>>388383795
Name one thing stopping us. We can build solar powered satellites, and we can put things into orbit around the sun. All we need to do is build enough of them, which is just a matter of scale not technology.

>>388383206
Not to mention the time it would take to do so would be in the billions of years, and the amount of material it would take to make ONE would strip the material out of millions of solar systems. By that time, your star is well past its prime.

>>388383628
>That's literally what the citadels are.
I'm pretty sure they just glow and smoke

>>388383949
>which is just a matter of scale not technology.

These are the same thing, especially with limited resources.

Creating anything of use is also difficult, given the immense difficulties and unsolved problems in storing, cooling and transporting any notable amount of energy.

>>388383949
For starters, how would one get all that energy back to Earth? It's literally a big fucking whoop idea.

>>388383949
Not enough materials to make the satellites or put them into space. If we had better methods of getting into space then we could maybe mine some asteroids for materials.

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>>388376909
>Also, the nids can't be that big. The art works make it look like they're as big as a fucking galaxy >There's no way that's possible

>>388383979
> Anders Sandberg estimates that there is 1.82×1026 kg of easily usable building material in the Solar System, enough for a 1-AU shell with a mass of 600 kg/m2—about 8–20 cm thick on average, depending on the density of the material. This includes the hard-to-access cores of the gas giants; the inner planets alone provide only 11.79×1024 kg, enough for a 1-AU shell with a mass of just 42 kg/m2.[14]
the combine can literally burn holes between universes, some wacky ultrathin nanofibre material would be childs play to them

The Combine are a type 5 civilization, it's entirely possible that they could harvest enough resources to build a few miles thick Dyson sphere around a star.

>>388384136
We can land on asteroids, so mining them is a small step from there. We can just assume that we can do that.

>>388383628
>Neptune is pretty close to earth, so why did they go through the effort of conquering Earth which is a rock with some water on the surface?
How do you know that they didn't take Neptune as well? They could be really desperate for resources, sure they can make a dyson sphere but doesn't mean they'll always have limitless resources.
Keep in mind that they're from a different universe all together as well and the only reason they could access this one was because they abused the portal storms from the resonance cascade.

>>388371423
If you think that every mystery in a piece of fiction must be explained to the viewer, then you are underage or just don't understand storytelling.

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>>388374812
Yeah, makes no fucking sense, especially since a trans-dimensional space empire can't figure out something that a 1998 research firm figured out in like a day and a half.

>>388384294
>The Combine are a type 5 civilization
Dyson Sphere is Type 2

The scale refers to ability to harness energy. Hopping between dimensions doesn't make you a Type 5. If they really had true, complete mastery over the multiverse the games would never have happened because such a species would never need to "invade" a planet because the concept of planets would be irrelevant to them.

>>388384692
maybe it's just one of those cosmic accidents, or maybe the G-man had something to do with it

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>>388384082
>>388384092
I only said we could do it, not that we could effectively use it for much of anything. Though there are plenty of theoretical options for transmitting the power across space. One thing we could use it for right now with no new technology is build a giant laser gun to propel starships to near-lightspeed.

>>388384136
We already have all the technology required to mine asteroids, just no reason to as of right now since getting everything we need out of the ground is still cheap and easy enough. There is more than enough raw material in the asteroid belt to build a Dyson Swarm.

>>388384692
We only know how to do it because the G-man gave us that space crystal thing at the beginning of HL1

>>388384772
>beam power through space with lasers
>I don't know what the inverse square law is, one of the most basic formulas in all of physics, but will continue to opine on the topic anyways

please just stop posting, you're basically retarded and it's tedious to read your trite

>>388384772
>One thing we could use it for right now with no new technology

Theories and small scale experiments with ideas do not equate to known science and technologies that we can scale up.

>>388384854
Aperture Science developed Portal Gun and the Bootstrap Device independently of Black Mesa's exploration of the Xen borderworld

Black Mesa brought the Combine to Earth but it's Aperture's invention they really want

>>388372665
I guess you really didn't think this post through, huh?

>>388382953

What would happen if you fell in there?

>>388383014

nu-Cosmos

>>388385206
you'd keep falling, and die of poisoning, suffocation, radiation, friction, ambient temperatures, pressure and pure fear at the same time

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>>388382953
I wanna put my dick in it

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>government funded high tech research facility administrated by some old guy that ends up a slug
>created a portal that ruined the world

>shower curtain company founded by a guy that snorted moon dust and turned his waifu into a robot
>created instantaneous portals and a boat that can time travel and teleport anywhere at any time

>>388382719
>>oh this civilization capable of producing something capable of encapsulating a star and siphoning unlimited energy needs to steal the borealis since they can't figure out what 2 aperture science hobos came up with inside of a luxury liner
Given what we know about Aperture Science this isn't entirely surprising.

>>388385206
You would fall until you hit the crush depth and died

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>>388385348
for a second there I read "fiction" instead of friction and now I can't stop laughing for some reason

>>388384967
No, you stop posting. Putting up with your strange authority complex when you actually have no idea what the fuck you are talking about is tedious. Please show me a single scientist or engineer who think wireless power transmission or beam-powered propulsion are impossible.

>>388385512
Isn't in Jupiter where you can find liquid metallic hydrogen because of the pressure?

>>388385683
My dad works at science and he says you're a fag

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>>388385683
>>388385751

>>388385683
>beaming power across a room is the same as beaming it across space
>I still don't know what the inverse square law is

lmao brainlet please don't challenge someone of superior intellect, it's just embarrassing for all parties and extremely tedious for the more intelligent party -- that's me just because you seem to have issues with basic tasks like reading comprehension -- so just stop posting now, thank you child

>>388378660
>the virgin gordon vs the CHAD gman

>>388385206
If you're wearing a pressurized suit then either the temperature shifts or the pressure would kill you.

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>>388384969
The only thing preventing us from scaling up lasers is power delivery and heat management. Wire a giant laser into the energy produced by a Dyson Swarm, build it into an asteroid which you can use as a heatsink, and you solve both problems.

>>388386117
>Wire a giant laser into the energy produced by a Dyson Swarm, build it into an asteroid which you can use as a heatsink, and you solve both problems.

Neither of these are feasible with current technologies. There's more work to do than just "build it, transport it and hook it up"

https://twitter.com/marc_laidlaw/status/901647787854462976

HOLY FUCKING MADMAN

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>>388387012

>>388387012
Note: open the link and read the whole thing, he replies to this a dozen times

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>>388387012

>>388387012
>What if the final explosion powers a huge timeloop singularity that puts Gertrude back on the Green Valley Science Factory Inbound Train...
FUCK THAT

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>>388387012
So it essentially turns the Half-Life story into sci-fi One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. That is pretty underwhelming.

>>388387012
This all reads like panicked damage control
>And then what do you do if the brilliant actress who plays Wanda Bree...dies?
Turn him into a grub?

>>388387905
yeah these were my thoughts too, if he were a grub culp couldn't voice him anyways because he's a fucking slug, just have some fat guy rasp out the lines

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>>388387012
>What if the final explosion powers a huge timeloop singularity that puts Gertrude back on the Green Valley Science Factory Inbound Train...

>>388372665
If you make a really thin shell (like a tens of cm thick, which is nothing on something of that scale) you definitely can.. Just look at our own star system, you have massive objects lying around that have currently no use whatsoever, like Mercury or Ceres. Dismantling them to make solar panels sounds like a stretch with our current technology, but it's probably child's play for the combine.

>>388376727
It would definitely be bound by gravity. How the hell do you figure WE are orbiting the sun? A dyson sphere works on the exact same principle.

>>388383263
Well if you make a retarded assumption and take it as fact, it kinda does matter

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>>388387012
>What if the final explosion powers a huge timeloop singularity that puts Gertrude back on the Green Valley Science Factory Inbound Train...

NO FUCK YOU STOP FUCKING WITH US FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>388387880
>>388387905
He's just pointing out the obvious: the story outline he posted was in its early stages. HL2's story and setting went though drastic changes as the game itself was developed.

Why did the Combines wanted Apertures tech when they already had a Portal connecting Earth to their homeworld?

>>388388821
>>388374812

>>388388821
They didn't know how to teleport within a universe, only move from one dimension to another. Their whole empire is probably strung out across a multitude of universes, one planet or sun at a time.

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>>388387012
>le neverending loop meme
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA STOP IT STOP STOP STOP