oh eem gee first ever ggefc13 fan theory (or not, idk)

So, yk city 17 is like the center of the combine's powers, so we can assume city 13 and other cities aren't getting as many high-tech cmb technologies and stuff
And that's where the goofy ahh low poly houses come in.
Well, let's assume that city 13 is actually a really small settlement, and the combine hides it via one of their technologies that projects an image (a lowres one) of these houses near every living block in city 13.
And as simple as that i made these 2004 ahh textures look at least a teeny tiny bit logical

(before reading this, play xenogenesis at 1 minute and 1 second please)
tysm for reading (or not) this giga mega super duper epic ggefc13 fan theory, have a good day and etc