"I remember micspamming Thirty Seven After Six in a Hell Let Loose match, and this guy near me told me it was his birthday, and how he enjoyed the song a lot and would like for me to continue playing"

gabby

This man

all lambda-adjacent insurgents are reactionaries

love you

FUTURISM

You ever notice how in some old PK appeals the person overseeing it will put a ton of formatting and stage play into the delivery of the verdict? Big, bold letters, either in bright green or red?

"It's just shit Marc Laidlaw thought would make the character recognize them as the main antagonist + whatever 1984 elements Willard threw in"

"Stabilitocracy"

Most fascist states historically didn't revere sheer loyalty and reactionary conformity to the State as much as the HL2/Willard occupation. "Stabilitocracy" is a great word to describe it, as the entire basis of the system is built on "how much of a quisling you can be". The end result is a...

Real ones know headcannon that The Combine is a conglomerate of 'megacorporations' and that Advisors are the equivalent of foreign tech personnel absorbed into the fold to produce technology and manage holdings.

"I blame Breen, personally" - I.e., 'The Combine' itself as the actual extradimensional alien force is completely unknown to us and unknowable to us on the grounds that it's so interconnected and organizationally alien that a human could never comprehend it in full.

I'm a liberal IRL and think Nick Land's retarded. Also Metadynamism =/= fascism.

Yes, Edward Miles Urey is ordering You, Citizen, to have sex.