Dear Citizens, I must express my profound sense of loneliness. My closest companions, if you will, are the Combine Benefactors, with whom I engage in six hour Zoom meetings each day. You heard me right. Six hours. This arduous schedule consists of a series of mandatory consecutive meetings with no breaks, and each meeting is more demanding and hostile than the last. “Drain the ocean here, Doctor Been.” “Breen, why haven’t you replaced the Earth’s oxygen with argon yet?” Yet when I invite them...