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Like I said; there's nothing saying that the shrivled brown slaves (I.e. stalkers) were once human. We CAN make some logical conclusions based on what we do know, though. :)

Highly convenient? I talking about stuff that's directly quoted from the games. :P Breen used the Dark Energy reactor instead of a Xen method, but really, it was close by and would protect him from Freeman. Unless he got the Combine to set up a "ball" teleporter in near his office (Which...

What the heck are you talking about? Xen Relay != Teleporting to Xen. Teleporting to Xen is just a standard teleport; the Xen relay is aiming a teleport, that would otherwise have arrived on to Xen, to slingshot back to the dimension of origin. Again, as I said, the method of teleportation...

Again, there's nothing showing any race other than Humans know how to use Xen as a relay. Teleporting on other dimensions leads to Xen; Earth found a way to, at first, rebound the beam from Xen back to earth and then later how to aim the beam so that it slingshot the signal from Xen to Earth...

Aside from the cybernetics the Nihilanth has (Along with possibly the collars/shackles of the Vortigaunts). The cybenetics would have to be the way the Combine keep the nihlanth under control which would probably also account for how the Nihilanth keeps in touch with the Combine if the...

Here's the thing about Aftermath; there's nothing preventing Valve from mailing people box'd copies like how they did Half-Life 2 gold. :) I would be surprised if they don't offer Aftermath on some sort of a physical media. Just because it's not going to be in stores doesn't mean it's not...

I actually agree with this; but simply because Breen ain't Mr. Hivemind. He just puts a happy face on the Combine and kept the population placid until Gordon starting stirring things up; and he’s ultimately replaceable. As far as what the Combine do, they use Cybernetics to take control of...

It seemed to me that you were being contradictory by laying an argument down and then saying "But I don't think this is an arguable subject," which basically means if someone DID find it an arguable subject, you'd have an argument ready to debunk them. I apologize if I mistook that. First of...

Who's selective? I was demonstrating how your were in error, which you were. Actually you did base something on it (Using the the loops on the HL2 model as reason it can't be the same from HL1). Regardless of your next statement, you WERE in error on the first, hence why I corrected you...

The collar thing (Which, upon reading the Xen/Combine thread, you even go as far to use the reasoning of "Nihilanth doesn't seem to be the type to chain people up, so the HL2 collars can't be his." as strong evidence), and the fact that the Xen-relay conundrum you continually mention DOESN'T...

So, even when I corrected a few of your statements, that wasn't "fresh counter-argument?" See you there, I guess.

How am I being obtuse? I was asking why you didn't bring up any "strong evidence" during your argument. Everything you mentioned I presented arguments against and you never brought them up again, so I figured you gave up on argueing those points, ergo the evidence your brought up can't have...

Then how come you didn't mention any of this strong evidence in the argument we had in this thread?

Okay...? More along the lines of the feeling you get when you argue with a brick wall.

Actually, the military is authorized to shoot civiliians in the case of quarentine. As for an alien invasion, between NDA's and making people dissapear, it makes sense use the MUCH LARGER standard military rather than wasting the super-elites (who there are far, far less of) on combat. You...

Now who's making the fanfic? There's nothing ANYWHERE that says that the military in Half-Life in anything more than standard marines. (In fact, the only thing that states they have anything beyond standard training is the Opposing Force manual, which mentions they've had more urban combat...

Except that it makes more sense than the military arbitrarily killing everything. This is the US goverment in a conspiritoral setting we're talking about. "If there's a dime to be made..." so to speak. Shipping samples and witnesses out of Black Mesa can provide vital intel on what the hell is...

What fanfic? The military's orders were obvious (Silence the facility (As seen by the fact that they're, hey, silencing the facility! Imagine that.) and, as seen in Blue Shift, they're also shipping alien samples and witnesses out of Black Mesa through the trainyards. The Black Ops were...

$60, actually, since it comes with with the Silver package.

All Half-Life: Source is, is the original levels, monsters and sounds running on the Source engine. This means metal has specular effects on it, water looks better, we have source caliber shadows (IE: they all point in the same direction), and there's physics sprinkled here and there. (Things...