Serious HL2RP∞ Screenshot Thread

['77 East]

people probably just started using Universal Union way back when because its a cool sounding name

the 'way back when' you're referring to is around 2012 when people starting doing dumb shit like selling 'UU-branded clothes' and reinforcing the idea that it meant something more than a one-liner of propaganda

 

[ovxy]

they now think its canon

theyve been thinking its canon for over a decade, now

the overwiki and fucking wikipedia of all things has been feeding people erroneous information because hl2rpers got their grubby hands on it and decided to write that "universal union is combine government name! breen say it once!"

Overwiki and Wikipedia actually never mention the term “Universal Union” for their respective Combine pages, at least in the English versions.
The only HL2 (not HL2RP) wiki mentioning “universal union” is the Fandom wiki in the context of a descriptor.

Describing itself as a universal union, the Combine is comprised of many enslaved species, spanning multiple universes in the Multiverse with countless enslaved worlds under its control.

Google is the only search engine that returns the Wikipedia article for the Combine after searching the term “Universal Union” probably due to the fact that Google bots infest hl2rp communities and detect the terms as interchangeable.

Bing and DDG only return the Fandom wiki due to its use of the term.

 

[Appetite Ruining Kebab]

this is also the time of shit like "metropolice force" / MPF or hell, even OTA which we still use; from what we can tell from other Nova Prospekt lines, the TA (not OTA) is more akin to a 'sub-branch' (albeit a very dominant one at the time of hl2) of something called the 'Stabilization Force' (which falls well under lines like 'stabilization delegate', 'stabilization team', etc.) which is what the soldiers are derived out of

makes a lot more sense in early occupation when you think about it. any army guy fresh off the resonance cascade would want to do their part in 'stabilizing' the planet. the transhuman arm would come later as an add-on and doesn't necessarily replace that organization

my interpretation is that SF is the name of the organization and nova prospekt is simply one particular branch of it. so there's a city 17 stabilization force, city 14 stabilization force, etc.

 

[CRISPRCas9Conservatist]

this is also the time of shit like "metropolice force" / MPF or hell, even OTA which we still use; from what we can tell from other Nova Prospekt lines, the TA (not OTA) is more akin to a 'sub-branch' (albeit a very dominant one at the time of hl2) of something called the 'Stabilization Force' (which falls well under lines like 'stabilization delegate', 'stabilization team', etc.) which is what the soldiers are derived out of

makes a lot more sense in early occupation when you think about it. any army guy fresh off the resonance cascade would want to do their part in 'stabilizing' the planet. the transhuman arm would come later as an add-on and doesn't necessarily replace that organization

 

[ovxy]

this is also the time of shit like "metropolice force" / MPF or hell, even OTA which we still use; from what we can tell from other Nova Prospekt lines, the TA (not OTA) is more akin to a 'sub-branch' (albeit a very dominant one at the time of hl2) of something called the 'Stabilization Force' (which falls well under lines like 'stabilization delegate', 'stabilization team', etc.) which is what the soldiers are derived out of

makes a lot more sense in early occupation when you think about it. any army guy fresh off the resonance cascade would want to do their part in 'stabilizing' the planet. the transhuman arm would come later as an add-on and doesn't necessarily replace that organization

my interpretation is simply that SF is the name of the organization and nova prospekt is simply the particular branch of it. so there's a city 17 stabilization force, city 14 stabilization force, etc.

Dispatch has a radiovoice line (for metrocops) which addresses the team leader as “stabilization-team leader”, so it is safe to say that the entire armed branch of Overwatch falls under the “Stabilization Force” with Civil Protection, the Transhuman Arm, the Airwatch Augmentation Force, and unnamed ground synthetic forces as it’s sub-factions

 

[Revanox]

Dispatch has a radiovoice line (for metrocops) which addresses the team leader as “stabilization-team leader”, so it is safe to say that the entire armed branch of Overwatch falls under the “Stabilization Force” with Civil Protection, the Transhuman Arm, the Airwatch Augmentation Force, and unnamed ground synthetic forces as it’s sub-factions

OR yknow, assigned to stabilize the current situation idk and Gertrude Freemont

 

[ovxy]

OR yknow, assigned to stabilize the current situation idk

Me thinking up a sensible headcanon just to start all over again

 

[Erkor]

Overwiki and Wikipedia actually never mention the term “Universal Union” for their respective Combine pages, at least in the English versions.

You have @Cindy and I to thank for this.

edit:

until some fucker changes it again and the combine wikipedia page wars are rekindled

 

[Appetite Ruining Kebab]

Dispatch has a radiovoice line (for metrocops) which addresses the team leader as “stabilization-team leader”, so it is safe to say that the entire armed branch of Overwatch falls under the “Stabilization Force” with Civil Protection, the Transhuman Arm, the Airwatch Augmentation Force, and unnamed ground synthetic forces as it’s sub-factions

always just figured that was the result of lines being recycled interchangeably due to Rule Of Cool

but the moment we get into "Uhm. Valve Didn't care.. dev oversight..." we lose track of everything as is

 

[Trains]

the 'way back when' you're referring to is around 2012 when people starting doing dumb shit like selling 'UU-branded clothes' and reinforcing the idea that it meant something more than a one-liner of propaganda

yes east, people can refer to 11 years ago as “way back when”

 

[Appetite Ruining Kebab]

yes east, people can refer to 11 years ago as “way back when”

me, an immortal, watching your attempts to quantify time based on your momentary existence (i have lost all conception of past present and future)

 

[Postal]

Overwiki and Wikipedia actually never mention the term “Universal Union” for their respective Combine pages, at least in the English versions.
The only HL2 (not HL2RP) wiki mentioning “universal union” is the Fandom wiki in the context of a descriptor.



Google is the only search engine that returns the Wikipedia article for the Combine after searching the term “Universal Union” probably due to the fact that Google bots infest hl2rp communities and detect the terms as interchangeable.

Bing and DDG only return the Fandom wiki due to its use of the term.

it's just a made up term when someone made up the idea of cwu when everyone was in school

 

['77 East]

yes east, people can refer to 11 years ago as “way back when”

sometimes newer people call 4 years ago 'the old times'

like dude, old for you maybe but for @Rabid that was tuesday and for the rest of us, really not that long ago

 

[Trains]

sometimes newer people call 4 years ago 'the old times'

like dude, old for you maybe but for @Rabid that was tuesday and for the rest of us, really not that long ago

aight man

 

[Tinbe]

like dude, old for you maybe but for @Rabid that was tuesday and for the rest of us, really not that long ago

I say this with the credentials of someone that did play in 2012.
It was a long time ago. "Way back when" is a completely appropriate thing to say.

 

[Rod]

i'll make a thread for this at some point

anyone got any "Legendary" HL2/HL2RP characters they want in?

need a 7/7 antlion guard with trample

 

['77 East]

I say this with the credentials of someone that did play in 2012.

I was there too.

How is me ascribing a date to his term:

the 'way back when' you're referring to is around 2012

somehow cancelling out what he was saying?

All I did was put a date on it, give an example, and that was that, both of you are acting like I'm shaming the guy for being newer than some of us.

It was a long time ago. "Way back when" is a completely appropriate thing to say.

Missing the point entirely here, because I was talking about four years ago:

sometimes newer people call 4 years ago 'the old times'

for the rest of us, really not that long ago

 

[Alexander The Great]

Who?

UU branded Kot face

 

[Flop]

me when i see a member of orsted walking around rp ineu valley 2

bro the hell them noises

 

[Seb'ster]

bro the hell them noises