explain how an alien race who is capable of building a dyson

There's a lot of stuff on Earth and it's all pretty big.

>>388852360
dude LEMONS XD

The aliens didn't care at all, they just wanted human pussy.

>>388852360
This is a good reason not to take that Ep3 summary seriously. The guy obviously put very little thought into it.

>>388852360

probably because hl2's plot is a mess overall and shouldn't be taken too seriously

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>>388852360
>Dyson Sphere is over the earth
>Aperture Science is under the earth

Maybe they didn't have alien x-ray machines

>>388852360
The robot AI is smarter than the alien race and built a portal between dimensions to hold all aperture labs around the world in it.

It wasn't a primary objective. If you live for millions of years then two decades is nothing, so you just wait until humanity is extinct/synthed.

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What's this talk about dyson spheres

because aperture science is underground in most likely some deadend state in america
why would the combine EVER look in a flyover state for secret science technology

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how can the combine even compete?

>>388852360
>he still expects half life 3 to come out
HA

>>388852360
They didn't want the portal gun, they wanted the technology that was inside the Borealis. Plus you are one of those dumb people who that think just because the Combine are able to construct Dyson spheres it makes them all-knowing.

>>388852773
>most likely some deadend state in america

You're right lol. The main facility is said to be in upper michigan and the sister location is on ohio haha.

Did you not fucking miss how the ending of portal 2 launched up in the middle of nowhere on some kind of run down farm? The facility is located deep underground and 20 years wasn't enough considering the combine does not seem to have any coordination and just tossed random alien animals everywhere like headcrabs to win.

Besides the real important tech like the teleporting time machine ship was sent in a different dimension and the combine did locate it and were trying to board it according that that write up

>>388852943
Why not just send out 50 animal kings and eliminate the combine?

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What does it mean to exist, /v/
Is random stuff in a black space all there is to existence?
Did we just happen to have consciousness in among all these meaningless objects in a meaningless space?

>>388852360
The combine only sent like 2 or 3 advisors to earth. They didn't feel the need to explore the whole planet.

>>388853260
Your consciousness is nothing more than a bunch of electrical signals shooting around between a bunch of random cells.

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>>388853260
>muh faux existential crisis

That's enough out of you.

>>388853191
Turrets cannot move

>>388853260
loldunno, just like playing vidya and get a THICC girl to stick my tongue up her bum

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>>388852360
>Explain how an alien race who was incapable of localized portal technology did NOT manage to locate the facility of people who specialize in localized portal technology

>>388853336
Except you're wrong, they had a bunch of them in the Citadel.

>>388853419
the question is
if you can do long distance portal technology like the combine were supposedly capable of doing, why the fuck can't you do localized portal technology

>>388852943
A gentle gust of wind? Throwing a rock at one of them and watching the rest of them helplessly topple over?

>>388853419
It's almost like this whole Epistle 3 debacle brought up all of these idiots who never cared enough about the story in Half-Life 2 to pay attention to the exposition dumps that happen in-game.

>>388853406
Just arrange them in a circle so they won't have to move.

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>>388853369
>>388853379
>>388853413
It's not even a joke, if we don't legit build a dyson spere or even become a type 3 civilization, at worst case, possibly the ONLY "conscious" part of this universe will cease to exist.

>>388852360
Why would they concern themself with the machinations of fieldmice?
At best they send a delegation or something to pilfer earth for unknown technology which is probably exactly what happend in HL.

The combine probably dont even KNOW aperture still exists. All they know is that the borealis exists and they want whats inside it.
Its interesting that Glados never tried to build a nee borealis / master the universe travel tech. She probably doesnt had access to it before chell opened the old facility.
If she gets hold on that tech she is a fucking demigod

>>388853498
The Combine were able to tunnel into other universes but once they were there they required local transportation. That's how their technology worked because that's how they developed it.

>>388853715
Glados only runs the Enrichment Center, and she only wants to test.

>>388853498
I think it's the opposite. The combine had no long range teleportation. On Xen we only see short distance teleport.
It takes the black mesa failure to open a portal to earth, amd it seen the portal is kept open from here on earth, not there.
They want the borealis to be able to teleport anywhere in the universe.

>>388852605
that's not what a dyson sphere is anon

>>388853715
Glados was literally made to have people/robots test stuff not fiddle with some weird shit

>>388853498
Different methods, probably. Combine probably discovered that they could bore through dimensions with enough power, and based their translocational technology off of that. Meanwhile, Cave Johnson mixed mentos with coca cola and stuck it in a microwave for ten minutes with an egg and a bar of soap and discovered a way to link portals powered by potatoes.

>>388853863
Imagine testing among all the universe, though.

>>388852360
because le cake is a lie XDD

#CAK3

>>388854096
This is why I thank God you people aren't in charge of the story.

Anyone find it funny that everyone relied on Kleiner as the brainy go to guy TO FIX THEIR SHIT? I mean once he died what the fuck were they gonna do?

>>388854096
i'm pretty sure shes smart enough to know that teleporting to a random ass planet is a bad idea

>>388853715
She probably doesn't even care. All she wants it to run tests and analyze data because it gives here that simulated high. Making new technology would have no interest to her.

>>388854068
Actually all Portal guns had a miniature black hole in them.

>>388853632
Combine will just send in cannon fodder until one of them can reach the turret though, that's literally what they do in Nova Prospekt unless the player stops them.

>>388854206
That's the point of the Resistance, people like Kleiner and Magnusson were gold because there weren't going to be any more MIT graduates.

>>388854096
>What is the Perpetual Testing Initiative?

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>>388854454
>no doujin where in Glados forces you to suck robo dicks or you get incinerated
why must God punish us this way?

>>388852360
They used stolen technology

>>388854464
Exactly, why would glados want to create her own perpetual testing initiative?

>>388854412

>eli dies
>alyx shoots mossman and gman takes her
>Kleiner and Magnusson are clearly up there in years and can't last forever
>gordon poofs away by the vorts

Wonder what they did after all that. Though I bet valve wanted to reset the cast and have gordon phase in to a new resistance with geniuses taught by Kleiner and Magnusson to fill in that role

>It ain't over til the fat lady sings
>Portal 2 ending shows a fat turret singing
Whoa

>>388854620
is there a valve doujin even

>>388853769
Wait, what are you talking about. The combine arent a multiverse empire, just a large galatic one. The fact they wanted earths long distance teleport technology.

>>388854650
Or stole the entire sphere.

>>388853971
Might be wrong here but wasn't it Nihilanth keeping the portal open? He couldn't open one himself so when the resonance cascade happens he can use it's energy to maintain it and create portals all over the place.

>>388854767
Did you just assume that turrent's gender?

>>388854841
Dimensions aren't necessarily other universes anon.

>>388852518
>The guy
Calling one of the main minds behind the plot of the games "the guy" is quite reductive.

>>388854841
No, you are dumb as fuck and don't pay attention to simple in-game dialog. There's no such thing as "long distance" or "short distance" teleport technology.

>>388854861
Thats the hl1 portal, and it seen even with his death it kept open.
In hl2 the portal is controled at the top of the citatel, when it blows up the portal goes wild and we shut it with a rocket.
The combine has no way to open another portal, so the remaining combines go after the borealis and try to open the way again.

>>388854767
did you just called a robot, fat?

Cave Johnson here.
>>388854987
Yes
>>388855129
Yes

Is multiverse stuff from p2 custom level canon?

>>388855127
This makes the most sense.

>>388853260
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qs26qv6C

Aperture Science.
We do what we must because we can.

>>388855127
Indeed, I read Xen and defaulted to hl1. I only played hl2 + episodes once so I only remember the general gist of it. Meanwhile I've played hl1 several times over the years. Anyone ever try Counter Life? Killing enemies gave money to spend on Healing/HEV recharge stations to buy Cs guns. It worked pretty well within the core game.

>>388853369
>>388853379
>>388853413
Mentally stunted individuals, incapable of thinking outside of the box.

How big is the enrichment facility anyway? The wiki says that the original lab is at least 4,5km deep. With 9 main testing shafts that are around 700m wide. Thats roughly 8 or 9 kilometers far and wide if you count in the connections between the shafts. And now the modern facility on top of the old environment is even bigger. How do you control the airflow and temperature in such a space without beeing noticed for centuries?

>>388853379
Not even him but
>Nobody is allowed to have conscious thought about existentialism because it's mainstream
>Just stop being introspective bro

>>388855365
>This video does not exist

>>388855552
>How do you control the airflow and temperature in such a space without beeing noticed for centuries?
Portals

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>>388853369
really fires up those good ol neurons, innit?

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>>388855752
I-I... fuck I didn't think that through. I should go to bed

>>388852360
Non canon.

>>388855562
Dude fucking reddit fedoratheist just stopping having thinking about logic and that gay bullshit, God did it. It's all because of magic I mean faith. Just turn your brain off bro and turn to Jesus.

>>388855667
Many apologies
https://youtu.be/qs26qv6C-38

Are the Combine even actually bad guys? Or do humans just classify them as evil do to a woefully limited worldview?

>>388852360
They know where it is, just too brainlet to complete the tests and infiltrate

>>388852360
>Conquer a race who built a Dyson sphere
>Enslave the race and turn them into subservient husks to maintain it
The clue's in the name. The technology they employ is a combination of all the planets they conquered.

>half life is mostly grounded on a grim, serious and mostly realistic setting
>Portal has fucking miniature blackholes ignited by miniature grenades that shoot portals, and developed and almost mastered a fucking TARDIS, all because of shower curtains.
>In a parallel universe cave Johnson did master the universe travel tech and found a universe made of money.
Mixing franchises was a mistake.

>>388852360
AS have a special kind of autism where the stuff they make are too advanced for their civilization.
These kind of autists only show up 1 in a billion civilizations i think.

>>388855980
Woah..

>>388854620

But there's lots of stuff like that

>>388854262
Glados is lonely, if she reinvented the tech she could have billions of test subjects

>>388852360
Why don't the combines go into abandoned salt mines?
Gee I wonder.

>>388856645
Isn't that exactly what she did with the coop Initiative? Replacing humans with robots after portal 2?

>>388852767

Combine is so advanced they manage to encapsulate an entire sun to use as energy source.

>>388852767
https://pastebin.com/q9DMFa7c
Laidlaw (former lead writer for half life) wrote this, and people here have been tossing the term "dyson sphere" around as though it were a toy.

>>388855942
>Being atheist rules, you don't have to worry about Jesus senpai rejecting you and going to hell instead of heaven

>>388853260
ya

>>388852360

aperture > black mesa

>>388856921
She made robots because they are easier to maintain, but she wanted to have human subjects again. Various control groups is never bad for sake of testing.

She does find some humans but she manages to kill everyone in less than one week, and goes back to the robots.

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>>388857449
>She does find some humans but she manages to kill everyone in less than one week.

Well that's just a price you gotta pay for successful testing

>>388857904
She was trying to turn them into weapons like "her", (chell) but everyone failed miserably.
All that because she was under attack of a bird.

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>>388852360
Literally explained that glados deliberately hid the facility.