>>737108327
Has anyone ever made porn of a strider?

>>737108781
Yes.

>>737108781
>>737108869
this better not awaken anything in me...

>>737108327
these things always looked silly to me but holy shit the sense of scale you get in HL2VR drives home how scary they are. something that large shouldn't be so agile

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>>737108327
>implying the japanese flu
>the 7 hours war

I bite better than those things

>>737109246
Agreed
Even first looking at the Citadel when leaving the train station you really get a sense of how utterly massive it is.

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>>737108781
:3

>>737112456
I kinda like it for different reasons but that's still Strider-themed girl, not a Strider.

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>>737108781
yeah
>>737112456
this is not porn of a strider

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>>737108327
1v1 with a Garg who wins? I always assumed it would be purely matter of it the strider had time to use its warp cannon. Otherwise the Garg would pick it apart like a hungry lobster

One might look at the strider and think
>some developer really liked The War of The Worlds movie
but the Cruise flick actually came out after

>>737112456
That's a penis in a thong.

>>737108781
The Gunship stuff is hotter

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Bullsquid is cute.

>>737113765
more like bullshit

>>737108327
The explanation for the strider kind of erodes the mystery imo. For the longest time I thought the Strider was a proper alien species that is mangled beyond what's biologically possible by the Combine. As it turns out they're merely a synthetic copy re-designed from the original species.

>>737113341
Gargs were practically immune to weapons fire, it'd almost certainly win

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>>737112456
It's barely morning and I think I've had enough internet already today.

>>737108327
So they are photocopies? I thought it was more disturbing that they were engineering actual living creatures to be born with bionic implants rather than creating a clone with it in

>>737113341
Gargantua:
>Flamethrower hands and shockwave likely ineffective from ground level.
>Has similar speed and the brute force advantage, being several times larger than DOG who was able to physically incapacitate and kill it by knocking its legs over.
>Is bulletproof, which likely includes the Strider's pulse machine gun, but it definitely cannot survive its warp cannon.

Strider:
>Has the height advantage against both of the Gargantua's ranged attacks.
>It's machine gun would likely be ineffective, but its warp cannon would be an instant-win option.
>The power balance changes drastically if the Garg manages to get in melee range however.
>The Gargantua's weaknesses are electricity, energy weapons, and explosives weapons, but there hasn't been a situation where it would be struck with the leg of a strider itself.
>However, by the time it even raises a leg to do so, the Garg could've already knocked over its other leg and knock it down to burn it or physically smash its body.

Conclusion: Strider's range advantage and warp cannon make it more likely to win by default, as the Gargantua would require significant cover and environmental advantages to approach the Strider safely enough to knock it down

>>737113341
Considering you need sci-fi macguffin orbs to down a strider i'd say it wins

>>737113836
Take it back. Don't say that about Bullsquid.

>>737113341
Kinda want to see Gargantua in HL games again. It supposed to be in HL2 where it tried to fight the train and got smashed up.

>>737114732
i take it back and i apologize

>>737114774
One of the neat things about HL:Alyx were the times you went into areas which had been infested with Xen shit. Outside of the Combine held areas, most of the world had been having portal storms and alien incursions, that stuff is everywhere.
Never really saw it much in HL2, beyond the Antlions.

I hope we see more of that in the next game. I wonder if there's Gargantuas and stuff out in the wild still.

>>737115786
Guess the Combine has pacified the flora stuff. There's been a fan theory recently that the brown radiated goop in the HL2 games was made from all the Xen stuff being liquified by Antlion acid as part of Combine decontamination effort. That sounds kinda neat actually.

>>737116521
That is a neat theory, I like that.

>>737113486
>but the Cruise flick actually came out after