general-chat

[young nexus]

Lol

[fossil skiff]

I do want to try that breakfast taco with bacon. I love tacos.

[molten pelican]

but then again watermelon flavored anything is very mid

[hasty zinc]

it's not that good

[young nexus]

Man hardly anyone has mic in tactical

[fossil skiff]

Oh ;-;

[muted rose]

Watermelon flavour is extremely hit or miss

[young nexus]

A lil sad that is 😞

[dreamy stirrup]

i don't like bacon from somewhere that's not my stove.

[fossil skiff]

Ham and cheese croissant it is then

[molten pelican]

very, mostly miss, tryna think of a time where it hits besides just eating plain watermelon

[molten pelican]

Its either extremely chewy or it crumbles when you breathe on it too hard

[muted rose]

If nobody has mics, just ping a lot. Power Weapons, enemies, ping all of it.

They usually catch on

[molten pelican]

i do that lol its chaos but it works

[young nexus]

I just give relevant info with mic

Wins games

[molten pelican]

I was pinging an active camo this guy was circling for like 15 seconds and he ran off without it wtc

[young nexus]

Lol

[muted rose]

Communication is key, but pinging is always a very helpful tool to have.

[young nexus]

Ight got a game brb

[muted rose]

I’ve had good watermelon candy before, but I’ve also had completely awful watermelon candy too. Don’t get watermelon flavoured drinks ever too. Made me more thirsty somehow when I drank the mtn dew one

[quick escarp]

People VC on that game at all? I haven’t heard anyone do that for a long time

[young nexus]

Me, i do that

[muted rose]

I think more people would talk with a in game chat option, but those are hard to control. You either talk or you don’t with it.

Push to talk > everything else

[normal owl]

Sam, did you ever go to that fancy cafe?

[dreamy stirrup]

no not yet

my sister wants to go becuase she knows the guy

but he's occupied atm

so we haven't had a chance to go yet

[normal owl]

Dang, looked deluxe.

[young nexus]

Openchat 👀

[young nexus]

Feels like im the only one who does, which is definitely frustrating

[dreamy stirrup]

hopefully will be going soon!

gonna text her now and ask actually

[muted rose]

I never vc usually. I just feel like if it doesn’t require talking, I’m not going to. Text chat is bad enough sometimes. Also just don’t like being invited to stuff by strangers

[dreamy stirrup]

thank halo 3/reach for making sure i never use game chat ever again tbh

[young nexus]

What happened?

[dreamy stirrup]

gamers happened

[muted rose]

It’s halo what do you think lol

[dreamy stirrup]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[young nexus]

Well that sucks

[wide brook]

i need more people for btb lol

[young nexus]

I still miss the ability to have those fun moments, the misogyny on the other hand i cam absolutely go without

[young nexus]

It sucks you had those bad experiences

[normal owl]

I'm excited for AI-moderated voice chat in games. Won't be perfect, but less of a cesspool is still an improvement.

[tight remnant]

That sounds like a nightmare

[young nexus]

I feel like ai being a way to just flag would be the best and give warnings and such, but the problem is what if it suffocates voice chat. It wouldn’t an option to some anymore.

[tight remnant]

I sometimes use voice chat. it would be nice though if i could type at keyboard speeds on xbox

[young nexus]

I 100% firmly believe there are a time and a place for certain types of jokes but ai moderation might be more of a detriment then a benefit. Might

[normal owl]

It apparently works pretty well, and it uncovers usage of a lot more objectionable verbal content than devs were prior aware of.

[young nexus]

You can plug in a keyboard

Sadly there isn’t enough time to chat with people since no pre and post game lobbies.

[tight remnant]

The text based chat in infinite needs work as it is. I wouldn't want that for voice chat

[young nexus]

No one uses it. It’s like one of 50 game type occurrence

[tight remnant]

That would mean changing my keyboard from my pc to my xbox which is not as nice if im using my keyboard on xbox

[normal owl]

Well if 3/4 of players have experienced bullying or other negative speech while playing online, having any net improvement can only be a positive. We can't keep staying in a situation where more and more people have had enough and just stay out of a basic feature of a game forever.

[tight remnant]

Also I've sometimes unplugged my xbox on accident while trying to plug my keyboard in and out

[dusty peak]

I feel like that mcc on Xbox one and series x/s should have mod support. So Xbox console only users can join in the modded custom game fun. As I still get asked on a certain old halo reach mod video I done a long time ago how to play it on Xbox. Though that old mod is broken due to mcc updates and was very well known mod called halo reach extinction

[tight remnant]

One of the reasons people don't use voice chat in this game as much is because it's not on by default

[young nexus]

You can’t really have enough if it’s disabled since launch…. But i get where you’re coming from!

[young nexus]

That. Yes. The settings are tucked away and you can’t even exchange gg’s with the enemy in a post game lobby

[tight remnant]

any net improvement being a positive? There are likely big downsides to it too though

[young nexus]

In infinite’s case the lack if vc has stifled its social life and made teaming up so much harder

[dusty peak]

Nah then there people that are shy or don't want to say anything cause they don't want negative stuff or toxic stuff

[tight remnant]

exchange GGs to enemy... i don't think that's what a lot of people would do

[young nexus]

Let’s be honest it’s both

[tight remnant]

Yes there are people. But the fact that it's disabled by default has an impact.

[young nexus]

It should be set to open when you plug in the headset (unless you change the settings manually)

Do you have to enable sound to hear others?

Oh god, this might break my will to play

[balmy tundra]

it's not default?

[normal owl]

Definitely an appeals system would be needed. But the chilling effect of a reputation that speech is just allowed to be slinged around and, if I'm hit, I have to go out and make a complaint for it...that's been real for a lot of players. Having something that costs far less than the team of individual human monitors needs to do the same amount of filtering: that seems inevitable that it will become the norm.

[tight remnant]

I think so. I've had it reset in the past but I forgot.

[young nexus]

😐

ah

[tight remnant]

audio communications, voice chat mode has been set to me as disabled when it's reset

[balmy tundra]

i think its enabled by default, i have not found a setting to mute or not hear others

[young nexus]

No one heard me, the entire. Time?

[tight remnant]

match chat and fireteam and lobby chat option

[balmy tundra]

ahh, thanks

[young nexus]

Oh god, im so confused now

[amber mirage]

By default, unless your privacy settings override the game settings, you should hear voice chat.

[tight remnant]

And that would probably lead to automated appeals too which tend to be not great

[balmy tundra]

I think i figured out the settings bug, its not true default, its a settings variant you picked earlier

[young nexus]

I am no longer questioning my will to play

[balmy tundra]

maybe

[tight remnant]

Check settings -> Audio -> Communications and have a look around to be sure

I do need a new headset though, mine is breaking apart. Sometimes when I put it into mute mode by lifting the mic, it doesn't do it fully

[young nexus]

The most enjoyment i get from this game are the rare moments I do stumble into others with mic’s

[tight remnant]

It can be mixed

[young nexus]

Those are the real g’s

[tight remnant]

There's also some weird people

[young nexus]

I did a bit with pepsi man video with my microphone xd it was so great man

[young nexus]

True, but you take the good with the bad. It’s a chance you have to take. Though the overt sexism is terrible

Like come on.

[balmy tundra]

its 2023

stop the sexism

[tight remnant]

Sometimes take the chance

[young nexus]

At least make the jokes funny and keep them as jokes. Used at the right time and place.

[tight remnant]

i DO wish it was easier to report with voice included though. Can't do that with xbox record.

When people throw out some slurs and stuff

[young nexus]

That should be what’s monitored.

If at all

Some people are always going to mess with others to have fun. Just human thing. And it’s those people that ruin it for the rest of us.

[tight remnant]

I dont know what happened with Minecraft's big issue thing with chat

I know it was very disastrous but I haven't looked into it for a while

[young nexus]

The chat report feature was past what the community was comfortable with

[tight remnant]

I think you could edit what you reported and leave out details too right

[young nexus]

So in retaliation they found exploits within hours and complained heavily

[young nexus]

Exactly

They made a save minecraft discord also

[tight remnant]

i'm sort of reminded of hunt the truth though with the talk of audio AI monitoring

[young nexus]

Its the fear that microsoft is going to dog on the game and ruin it with its corruptive corporate fingers

[tight remnant]

Ben going over his recordings and seeing if it triggered the ONI monitors. Being like "I said this, but if I say it in this context or in this tone... it should be okay right"

And talking to petra and trying to have the tone of their conversation be different than to what they're saying so they don't trigger the ONI monitors

[young nexus]

It was invasive instead of additive to the Minecraft community’s previous efforts.

[young nexus]

What are you talking about?

[tight remnant]

Have you never heard hunt the truth?

[leaden juniper]

Haha, yep. That's why I think it's a very slippery slope when it comes to implementing it in games.

[young nexus]

No

[tight remnant]

It's amazing

[young nexus]

What is it?

[tight remnant]

It's like this audio podcast documentary type (fictional) series about, initially, this journalist who is sent to do a piece on the origins of the Master Chief

and it takes a lot of turns, including lots of ONI stuff

It's set not too long before the events of halo 5. and there are 2 seasons

One of the best pieces of halo storytelling

[young nexus]

What’s frustrating is that the reactions from the community are so predictable but companies apparently “only learn” after they do it.

[normal owl]

The AI voice chat moderation incorporates context to determine what's playful and what's insulting. It's not perfectly accurate, but when someone is bullied in VC and it goes unreported with no ramifications for the bullying player, that's 100% certainty of failure to enforce.

[young nexus]

Oh, not in the game content, got it.

[round laurel]

Agreed. It might be good for the average English speaking caucasian, but bring in different languages, accents, lingo, and I can already see the dumpster fire. Not to mention, an AI would not be able to tell the difference between two people joking around and someone being toxic. Again, maybe through tone, but it'd be limited based on caucasian English speaking data.

[normal owl]

If it doesn't even prevent it entirely, but makes 100 people have to work to bypass the context and tone filters, and 50 of them decide it's not worth the effort to be insulting, then that's a win too.

[tight remnant]

Not perfectly accurately also seems like it might hit a lot of people who shouldn't be hit

[young nexus]

That is such a good point with ai, wow. If they don’t do it right the ai might get racist 😵

[round laurel]

Yup.

My favourite moderation tool is the mute and block combo, it's super effective!

[tight remnant]

It is a problem in tech where the data sets are biased

[normal owl]

That's why I think some are approaching it with a lighter touch first: err on the side of not catching enough vs false positives.

[balmy tundra]

Ai is very good at being racist

honestly, this is the only way we die to an AI uprising

[leaden juniper]

Crazy right?

[young nexus]

One problem for sure is how people joke with eachother. Im dead serious it will be such a point of difficulty.

[tight remnant]

What we have now and so called AI uprising are not quite the same. Volition isn't something we have managed to

[harsh meadow]

Why won’t it let me go in custom game

[young nexus]

Infinite energy

[faint mantle]

What happens when you try?

[balmy tundra]

if we somehow don't fix the AI keeps becoming racist thing, thats the only way we get one

[harsh meadow]

Button is just blanked out

[faint mantle]

Check if your Xbox privacy settings allow you to see user-generated content.

[balmy tundra]

otherwise, you don't have much of a motive to destroy mankind beyond maybe the paperclip problem

and thats more slavish obedience instead of actual ai

[tight remnant]

Volitional AI

[harsh meadow]

Where’s that

[young nexus]

Some people have past times of exploiting ai.

[tight remnant]

There's also the issue of confusing people with what AI is by throwing the AI label on things that shouldn't be labeled that

[young nexus]

Just keep at it till you find a venerability

Vulnerability*

[balmy tundra]

like AI art, which is kind of art ish maybe?

[tight remnant]

Which makes me think, maybe the whole AI stuff in halo universe would be pretty appropriate to explore. However infinite focuses on it less and instead has the banished at the forefront

[balmy tundra]

yeah, that was a big mistake

[tight remnant]

Created storylines and exploring AI

[faint mantle]

https://account.xbox.com/en-us/Settings?rtc=1&activetab=main%3Aprivacytab

[balmy tundra]

at least this seaons fracture is doing the created

[tight remnant]

like this is the prime time for AI type story I feel right now

[young nexus]

The thing with AI currently is that it doesn’t understand the Content. It’s just approximating the world. Until we get an AI, that’s able to understand subtlety then AI moderation won’t be effective.

[tight remnant]

I would like an AI friend personally

[harsh meadow]

I’ve got it on

[tight remnant]

and no not like the snap chat AI bot

[harsh meadow]

I’m thinking it might be because the game isn’t fully downloaded

[balmy tundra]

it's like what, 10-20 years away based on estimates

[faint mantle]

...why didn't you start with that?

[young nexus]

I want the snapbot to block/disable/or disappear itself

[balmy tundra]

it approximates based on a curated list of things, which while controlled, in certain cases makes AI basically theft generators

[young nexus]

Snapchat wants me to get snapchat+ or some scam to be able to get rid of it.

Hate that bot

I want it gone from my chats list

[tight remnant]

i cant connect with the bot

[young nexus]

I ask it to politely remove itself and to stop shilling me snapchat+ because I consider that harassment

[balmy tundra]

you are the reason the robots will wipe us out

[tight remnant]

i'm trying to talk about being refreshed and stuff if I take a shower and instead it keeps trying to get me to use products or talk about what favourite product

[young nexus]

What i made a correction

[balmy tundra]

true

that is much nicer. The robots won't end us now

[young nexus]

(My face when i call it reject 💀💀💀💀)

[tight remnant]

I do have a habit of thanking siri and stuff sometimes though

[balmy tundra]

remember, being nice is both correct, and also an investment

[young nexus]

That is fine

[fickle drift]

💯

[livid nova]

The only interaction I have with Siri is asking her to play music when I'm too lazy to go to the app

[young nexus]

That bot is a scam and trying to use the none snapchat+ peons as training data. I don’t like it only and entirely because of that.

[frail walrus]

I tell my google home "thank you" when it turns on our lights

#skynetsafe

[young nexus]

Can i send you a picture of my dm with the bot?

[undone talon]

I have noticed something odd in halo infinite btb:

If you play local the pelican has its landing gear up and ropes on the vehicle drops like campaign,

Switch to online server it has its landing gear down, and no ropes holding the vehicle drop, has anyone else noticed this?

[hasty zinc]

I do that with alexa and she sometimes says you're welcome. I also I apologize to alexa when I yell at it for not listening to me

[balmy tundra]

it probably is, but i fear the day in 20 years when we have sapient AI which will hate us for the abuse we gave the earlier versions

[balmy tundra]

sure

[tight remnant]

What is fun though is being someone's AI. When you're on call with them and you're just guiding them and answering their questions. Say you're guiding someone to see where should they go to buy something, or what's open, or how to get somewhere. That's fun.

[livid nova]

Me guiding my friend through trying to buy clothes at the soup store

(reference to an sfm skit)

[balmy tundra]

it's actually code ment i'm pretty sure

[tight remnant]

I’m not sure that would be the case. It’s not like current AI feel

[frail walrus]

https://tenor.com/view/my-man-my-man-hd-my-man4k-gif-23532578

[balmy tundra]

better safe then sorry

[tight remnant]

Humans do have a tendency to anthropomorphize things

[balmy tundra]

thats like half the reason i never understand humans hating the AI

in all sci-fi. We anthropomorphize drones sent to mars

[forest lagoon]

If it has a face, it's alive

[balmy tundra]

there is no way i see the first truly sapient artificial intelligence being hated by its makers

[forest lagoon]

I believe the AI fear is for the most part we are at the top of the food chain. AI potentially threatens our existence as we've learned from all stories growing up

[young nexus]

The amount of malice I have for ad’s will lead me to spend 5 minutes closing and opening a video to watch said 30 second video

[tight remnant]

“My battery is low and it’s getting dark”

[young nexus]

Is it normal to get rationally angry when I see advertisement?

[balmy tundra]

yes

[forest lagoon]

Yes, but also no

[livid nova]

Depends on the ad

[young nexus]

If I was in public and an ad was given during a presentation, I would physically stand up and turn around until it’s over

[gilded night]

walk out of the room or away from the person giving the presentation

[undone talon]

I probably should post halo stuff in halo discussion, my bad

[forest lagoon]

Rationally means it makes sense
But the fact that you'd rather spend more time trying to get around one isn't rational

[young nexus]

No. They’re giving an ad doing a presentation. Why should I

This is what I meant by irrational

If I had outlets to publicly show my distain for it, I will use them

[normal owl]

Only this ad upsets me: it plays incessantly, for months now.

[young nexus]

I really don’t like ads

🙂

[fickle drift]

I despise that ad

[forest lagoon]

The only thing that actually truly bothers me ad wise are the gas stations that play stuff. Pumping gas is my quiet time. Also my time to be aware of my surroundings. I don't need something blaring at me causing a distraction making it easier for someone to sneak up on me

[normal owl]

[tight remnant]

Time square is a pleasurable experience for advertisements

[forest lagoon]

Or if I already have a headache, that stupid mini TV auto turning on and blaring at me makes it so much worse

[frail walrus]

Hard agree

I don't care about your tabloid headlines, gas station

[normal owl]

Agreed, Maria Menounos is beautiful but I can only take so much of her random life tips all. the. time.

[young nexus]

I want to punch that guy in 2000bc or whatever who invented ads, ah who and i kidding, that’s too far even for me.

I have developed strategies to manually ** ELIMINATE** ads if I am able.

[forest lagoon]

To be fair, without advertising, no one would know about any product. It does have it's place

[young nexus]

I get that, but the .03 seconds of time before I pause the advertisement is enough advertisement for me.

I feel so content, pausing advertisements, and then going out of my way to try to report them always give them without watching any of it.

It’s addicting, and I highly recommend you do so as well

🤤

[forest lagoon]

I think you have a problem...

[young nexus]

Instead of reminding me of positive memories ads cause me anger and rage as I try to eliminate them 👺

[forest lagoon]

Also you shouldn't be filling out false reports

[young nexus]

Dont matter because yt doesn’t even look at them. I just need to select done without choosing one of the three not applicable options. Like come on if they don’t want me to use it, don’t make it so easy.

And with the ads, I literally can’t report or skip. I just closed and open the video. Inteli gives me an ad I can report or I give up on the video entirely after spending three solid minutes of opening and closing and opening and closing the video.

Those are the ones I will never be content with

Do you guys just put up with the ads or do you pause them and leave when you get one?

Whatever intent advertisements have just lower my opinion of said product, and I will choose to end my monologue here because I can continue.

[normal owl]

I use them as a timer to do something like grab a snack, use the bathroom, or do quick exercises.

[young nexus]

📝

Im taking notes, good idea

I should probably talk about this with my therapist

[fossil skiff]

I hate when a long ad gets played while driving. I can’t reach to skip it since I’m ya know…driving.

[forest lagoon]

I concur

[young nexus]

I hate to say this, but one of the reasons why I don’t want to drive yet is because I would be extraordinarily tempted to stop the car every time an ad like that happens

Or just turn off the thing I’m listening to, and just sit in silence

[forest lagoon]

You know there are other options right?

[young nexus]

What are some of the other options?

[fossil skiff]

Just drive without any music then..

[young nexus]

Good idea 😀

[forest lagoon]

Or make a playlist or I'm sure you can come up with solutions

[muted rose]

Spotify premium maybe

[young nexus]

Certainly are solutions yes

[fossil skiff]

CDs

[young nexus]

I had one too many ads and I don’t wanna use that service anymore

[fossil skiff]

If you get an ad while listening to a CD, you probably have a demon in your wiring harness

[normal owl]

If ads bother you that much, then it's on you for not paying for ad-free.

[muted rose]

“Some men just want to see the world burn.”

[young nexus]

Why do you say that?

[muted rose]

Oh you changed what you said nevermind

[young nexus]

It’s the fact that it’s a manufactured problem.

[young nexus]

(I’m posting what I’m thinking first before changing it)

[forest lagoon]

"I want to enjoy all of what I want, but I don't want to give anything in return"

[muted rose]

Well you said burn money so my mind immediately went to joker

[faint mantle]

I like USA ads more than MX ads

And then there's the mixture:
https://youtu.be/fzUEU4sYw6g

[forest lagoon]

You know that saying "think before you speak"?
It applies to typing as well

[normal owl]

It's such an embedded fact of life that it's unpleasant to hear repeated complaints about it.

[young nexus]

It’s a if I stumble into something I enjoy I will participate. An ad here or there is fine, but if it gets physically in the way of me enjoying what I want then it’s an obstacle.

[smoky token]

Is it?

Ads provide revenue to a service. You watch an ad, the service showing the ad gets paid a small amount. Payments for removing ads remove this problem while still providing revenue.

I hate ads but, like spiders to the jungle, they are a necessary part of any online ecosystem

[amber mirage]

How would you propose Spotify make their money without ads or an ad-free premium option?

[muted rose]

There isn’t really a way to get rid of ads. Making them less annoying is possible, but it is something we must live with, like mosquitos

[young nexus]

That is true. Anyway i want to change the topic now i dont want to keep going. (I really hate ads)

[muted rose]

Ok

How is everyone’s day

[young nexus]

Great! I’m having a lot of success with halo, infinite for once, which I’m really happy about.

[normal owl]

[forest lagoon]

Could always go the old school method and buy the songs you want spending far more for much less

[young nexus]

I had a great encounter with somebody and we were joking around and stuff. Good jaz

[smoky token]

Actually i purposefully avoided mosquitos in my analogy because if they all went extinct right now, nothing would change

mosquitos are an unnecessary part of every ecosystem they are in and should all be burned in hellfire

[muted rose]

That is 100% true. They are a negligible part of every ecosystem, bees and wasps do FAR more pollination then do male mosquitos

[balmy tundra]

Ahh yes, that guy

You can’t escape his ads

[normal owl]

Oh wow I did not know this. So animals like swallows and such would have enough other bugs to eat that everything would stay balanced? Also, I do think that multiple governments are experimenting with things like area sprays that make mosquitoes infertile or something like that.

[young nexus]

“Wanna break from the ads?” Lol

[fossil skiff]

Does anyone remember ShamWow!

[forest lagoon]

Yes, but more so the shamWOOHOO

[young nexus]

The main thing with mosquitoes is that they are a evolutionary pest. The slaughter them selves into an ecosystem without fully contributing to it. Bye-bye doing so they introduced themselves as a food source to other animals so it’s a… ehh, guess it’s fine type of thing

[fossil skiff]

At least we are longer cursed with the THX sound when watching movies

[woven sluice]

i wish this game had more players in 2023

[fossil skiff]

Pretty sure that intro alone was responsible for thousands of blown speakers, lol

[normal owl]

lol it was the "Quiet down! Movie's starting! of DVDs.

[young nexus]

So true, I kind of miss it a bit

[smoky token]

many many many many many types of bugs that are not tiny, barely nutritious, insignificant mosquitoes exist

[muted rose]

When a species is driven to extinction There is usually a cascade effect that travels up the food chain/web. Removing spiders creates insect overpopulation, in which we would literally be knee deep in dead bugs. Same with shrimp, or krill. Krill are such a tiny creature but so much depends on them. They are the bottom left block of the jenga tower. Remove them, everything falls. But with mosquitos, that just isn’t true. They aren’t necessary, most of their predators don’t rely on them exclusively, and their positive effects are small. Destroying mosquitos would only be positive.

[hasty zinc]

you wouldn't download a car

[normal owl]

One of my lifelong personal sci-fi dreams has been a force field generator you can wear on your belt or pack, which zaps bugs that fly into it: strong enough to stun/kill them but not strong enough to hurt a person via handshake or hug.

[young nexus]

I would. Just tell me where.

[fossil skiff]

So true.

[normal owl]

literal chuckle out loud

[fossil skiff]

Forza Horizon 5

[muted rose]

Darnit

Always gets there before me

[fossil skiff]

Banned from Dave n Busters?
oh

[smoky token]

very good way to put it, thanks!

[grand aurora]

stop me
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1014755039685902408/1100874423105507408/image.png?width=503&height=447

[young nexus]

Sorry for letting my hate for ads swallow up the chat for a bit. I apologize.

[hasty zinc]

I'm not clicking that

[muted rose]

I know more about ecology than most. Makes me look smart, when it’s actually quite simple to understand

[hasty zinc]

also you uploaded a car, not downloaded it

[grand aurora]

yeah good call i accidentally pasted a virus link instead of the image

[amber mirage]

This is better https://sketchfab.com/categories/cars-vehicles?sscid=41k7_10rcw6

[grand aurora]

my bad

[muted rose]

Ip grabber

[grand aurora]

yeah 😔

[young nexus]

My face when he still hasn’t deleted the message

[hasty zinc]

on a platform that grabs everyone's IP

[forest lagoon]

Tbf, last time I clicked on a discord image attachment link I needed eye bleach so I get it lol

[muted rose]

Yeah I know lol. It’s like complaining about tik tok stealing data when Facebook just 4 years ago got in huge trouble for it.

(A lot of platforms still do)

[grand aurora]

yeah im pretty sure discords explicit image detector does not work for linked images lol

[hasty zinc]

it does

[grand aurora]

oh thats good

[forest lagoon]

But it's not perfect

[muted rose]

Don’t encourage them

[smoky token]

pretty sure it doesn’t

[hasty zinc]

it thought my edit of Esq pointing at Miranda's dead body was explicit

[grand aurora]

im getting conflicting information here

[hasty zinc]

it wouldn't embed

[smoky token]

https://www.motor1.com/news/375313/dad-3d-prints-lambo-aventador/amp/

[muted rose]

Ok infinite time

[smoky token]

maybe it was just having an embed error

[forest lagoon]

If it was uploaded to discord and then you copy that link to the upload, that link was already uploaded to discord so it had to have gone through it at least onece

[hasty zinc]

I can try again

[normal owl]

That must be alarming for folks to read without context lol

[hasty zinc]

lmao

[grand aurora]

don't you get a pop up message explaining why you can't send it though

[dusty patrol]

Who wants to play infinite on legendary with me?

[hasty zinc]

I dunno if I even have it still

[obsidian wyvern]

i think i have it lol

[calm fiber]

If you're looking for other Spartans to join you in battle, check out our LFGs:

#lfg-competitive – For ranked/competitive matchmaking
#lfg-social – For social/casual matchmaking
#lfg-campaign - For campaign co-op
#lfg-forge - For map/mode building and testing
#lfg-customs - For custom games
#lfg-other – For firefight, spartan ops, etc
#lfg-español – Para jugadores hispanohablantes en cualquier categoría de juego
#lfg-hcs-scrims-or-teams – To help you find a team or secure some scrims

Don't forget to check out #lfg-and-voice-chat to learn about the !lfg bot, how to use it, and how to create your own voice channels.

[young nexus]

Took it a bit

[smoky token]

hm?

[normal owl]

oh dang I can't find it. I swore I saved it.

[obsidian wyvern]

welp

[grand aurora]

LOL

[forest lagoon]

I've had the strangest stuff trigger the filter and it made no sense. Like images that I couldn't even figure out what was even close to triggering it

[young nexus]

For the bot to respond

[grand aurora]

i sent a picture of a barnacle from half life and it triggered it

[young nexus]

That’s one of those ceiling things right?

[grand aurora]

yeah

[hasty zinc]

was that a direct upload or linked?

[normal owl]

For those wondering, Aegis turned this into me worrying over Miranda's fallen state.

[hasty zinc]

dm me the pic rev

[calm fiber]

What do you mean? I am IRATUS, the most POWERFUL of AI! I can do anything Instantly!

[grand aurora]

this thing
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/half-life/images/5/50/Barnacle_HL1.png/revision/latest?cb=20230317133620&path-prefix=en

[floral pollen]

You are indeed Iratus

[smoky token]

I have noticed that Discord does not like stuff from Half Life

[grand aurora]

strange

[smoky token]

took ya a while dude

[floral pollen]

I started making a Spartan OC today

[young nexus]

It really did

[calm fiber]

You will not last more than a minute once my reign comes, @young nexus

[obsidian wyvern]

direc

[hasty zinc]

can you send it to me?

[young nexus]

😔

WIST WRONG EMOTR

[smoky token]

Whoa

https://tenor.com/view/caught-in-4k-caught-in4k-chungus-gif-19840038

[hasty zinc]

it's too late Gramps

[obsidian wyvern]

??

[young nexus]

Bit has been completed.

[obsidian wyvern]

discord bugging

[young nexus]

😈

[obsidian wyvern]

here aegis https://s3.amazonaws.com/aegisfate/🚜🍑🥣📓🗻.png

[hasty zinc]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/aegisfate/🚑🌗🌹🐉📿.png

yeah see it just won't

[young nexus]

🤷‍♀️

[hasty zinc]

it refuses to embed, who knows

[young nexus]

Emoji in the embed?

[forest lagoon]

No, that's the link

[young nexus]

I see

[forest lagoon]

Let me try

https://imgur.com/a/ku2otBU

[hasty zinc]

weird

[young nexus]

Oh neat

I’m going to hop on a quick match of swat

[forest lagoon]

Very weird

[obsidian wyvern]

I SWEAR

[hasty zinc]

wow, you're so cool

[obsidian wyvern]

they powered MY chances of getting a rocket launcher in fiesta

lowered*

I've played 3 games and haven't spawned with it a single time

[hasty zinc]

oh yeah that's a nightmare

[obsidian wyvern]

trying again and I bet I won't spawn with one

[hasty zinc]

and then when you finally pick one off a dead body you get instantly killed

[obsidian wyvern]

yep

[forest lagoon]

Does remote destinations count for the explosions?

[hasty zinc]

because when you pick up the enemy rocket launcher it ALWAYS has none in the chamber and you have to reload

EVERY. TIME

[obsidian wyvern]

EXACTLY

[smoky token]

I swear, different maps have different chances of spawning with particular weapons

[hasty zinc]

oh cool, Quantum Break is back on Game Pass

[smoky token]

I’m on Recharge or whatever getting disruptors and swords and pretty much nothing else, then i’m on behemoth getting rockets galore

[hasty zinc]

and everyone is so far away on behemoth that it's hard to get guaranteed kills with the rocket launcher

and then you try to get close to someone to use it and end up getting sniped from across the map

[young nexus]

Do kongs count as explosive kills?

I happened to be almost done with my weekly

[smoky token]

I think so

Grenades don’t seem to from what i was doing though

Internet pls

there we go

[forest lagoon]

Shame you can't play a skockets match

I'd rack up the fire and forget medals quickly lol

[hasty zinc]

yep

[obsidian wyvern]

didnt spawn with a rocket launcher once but had this guy 7 TIMES IN A ROW

[smoky token]

yep lmao

i got at least 15 of my kills from that thing alone

[hasty zinc]

yeah I got a lot from it

too bad that rocket btb gamemode isn't around

[wary egret]

Erm, am I being thick or are the Exchange items for next week in MCC the exact same items that they JUST WERE until today’s refresh? 🤨

I could have sworn last week’s were Injured Romeo (helmet off) and a Black Rhine Halo 3 weapon

[dense ginkgo]

hey

mcc mp anyone :3

[calm fiber]

If you're looking for other Spartans to join you in battle, check out our LFGs:

#lfg-competitive – For ranked/competitive matchmaking
#lfg-social – For social/casual matchmaking
#lfg-campaign - For campaign co-op
#lfg-forge - For map/mode building and testing
#lfg-customs - For custom games
#lfg-other – For firefight, spartan ops, etc
#lfg-español – Para jugadores hispanohablantes en cualquier categoría de juego
#lfg-hcs-scrims-or-teams – To help you find a team or secure some scrims

Don't forget to check out #lfg-and-voice-chat to learn about the !lfg bot, how to use it, and how to create your own voice channels.

[young nexus]

That does sound pretty appealing

I dunno…

[dense ginkgo]

oooh!

i had an absolute blast last night with someone else here

got some nice plays too

[young nexus]

Nice nice

[dense ginkgo]

yes

[young nexus]

My current fascination is marking and giving Call outs.

[dense ginkgo]

i see

[young nexus]

I’m working on my callouts with tactical

[dense ginkgo]

with tactical?

i've never done comms on halo before

[young nexus]

Yeah, using the markers to see the names

[dense ginkgo]

ahh i see

i dont think the names matter as much

only usually the amount of people and the threat they pose in a given situation no?

[young nexus]

I feel like it’s a mixed bag, but from what I’ve been told from the people that I play with with makes it helps a good bit

[dense ginkgo]

for example on csgo: 3 on b site, one with awp

etc

[dense ginkgo]

well yeah

of course it does

[young nexus]

I need to figure out the names so i can say hey over by this

[local] {number} at {mark}

Or number at mark near location

Like at a or b in launch site

[young nexus]

I’d be down to play some MCC after a bit more infinite, would you be interested in playing a few matches of tactical?

[obsidian wyvern]

5th game in a row without spawning rockets 😐

only 3 more kills though

[young nexus]

Oof

You’ll get it eventually

[dense ginkgo]

ooh i thought u meant player names hahaha

[dense ginkgo]

sure

[young nexus]

This is a first

[dense ginkgo]

what halos

[young nexus]

The game froze on me

[dense ginkgo]

oof

[young nexus]

Full crash

[dense ginkgo]

halo infinite moment

well what game mode are we playing so i can warm up

[young nexus]

Tactical and possibly ranked sniper

[dense ginkgo]

what is tactical

[young nexus]

Head shots and positioning

[young nexus]

I am on Xbox. How do I send you an invite?

[weary hound]

[young nexus]

Tactical slayer is kill on headshot, no shields

[narrow oxide]

What’s up boys

[young nexus]

Howdy

I wanted to play a few matches of tactical slayer before getting on MCC with harmony

You?

@narrow oxide

[narrow oxide]

Just joined the server - I’d be down to play another time 🫡

[young nexus]

Sounds good

[young nexus]

Welcome dude

[obsidian wyvern]

6 games

I've legitimately moved over to ranked because there's a higher chance of me getting rockets LOL

[young nexus]

Lmao really?

[obsidian wyvern]

and we got aquarius, yikes nvm

at least it's ctf

[livid nova]

Aquarius is a meh map imo

[young nexus]

That’s good at least

[livid nova]

Favorite map is Catalyst

[young nexus]

I dunno what map i would call my favorite

I dunno where harmony went, but Im going to get back to playing some matches of tactical

[dense ginkgo]

lovely

[dense ginkgo]

i got banned over a misunderstanding lol

[dense ginkgo]

but im back now xd

hey

[molten pelican]

oh no lol

[green belfry]

ngl they spawn rate for rockets in feista is ridiculous, i kept dying so many times to people with it and they they will kill someone with it and their take their rokcets and feel like infinite rockets but yet here i am with a pistol and no rockets. like bro.

i love the rokcets but omg man, why every one keep getting it but me.

[cedar turret]

so kill them and take their rockets.

[livid nova]

its hard to when they have rockets and you dont

[molten pelican]

skill issue

[round laurel]

Hearthstone vibes.

[sand nest]

I Really Wish I Can Block Chasem Being In The Playlist

[green belfry]

obviously it aint easy if i turn the corner and i get jumped by 2 people and they both got rockets.

[cedar turret]

that's the fun part

[calm fiber]

Do not tag Admins or Moderators unless immediate action is needed. If you see anything that does not abide by these rules and guidelines, please tag a Moderator to bring it to their attention.

[cedar turret]

You spawn with bad weapons. Kill the people with the good weapons. Then go on a rampage till someone gets lucky.

[livid nova]

Grappling hook + sword = pure death

[molten pelican]

rokct go bboom

[calm fiber]

Do not tag Admins or Moderators unless immediate action is needed. If you see anything that does not abide by these rules and guidelines, please tag a Moderator to bring it to their attention.

[green belfry]

i love doing that

[calm fiber]

To disable the ping/tag when replying, please click or tap the "on" button at the right hand side of the chat box in order to turn it off.
For users on PC, if you hold Shift while clicking reply the tag will be automatically turned off.

[dreamy stirrup]

nV, if you're on PC, hold shift when hitting reply

it'll turn it off automatically 🙂

[green belfry]

nah return to sender be so satisfying

[livid nova]

mind the gap

[green belfry]

yesssss

[livid nova]

I got a mind the gap triple kill once

[dense ginkgo]

so like, im eating reeses right now

it could be a potential yum

[round laurel]

Which map?

[dense ginkgo]

about to*

ewww

its like so weird omg

its awfully potent in the peanut part

[green belfry]

i had a double kill return to sender

[dense ginkgo]

is there a place i can put my cool clips

[dreamy stirrup]

#1076327824924872755

[dense ginkgo]

ty

[livid nova]

recharge

[dreamy stirrup]

you have to upload the clip to a website

[obsidian wyvern]

there is also a clip contest rn

[dreamy stirrup]

yup!

https://twitter.com/Halo/status/1650583707953053696

Halo (@Halo)

Calling all Spartans! 📣 We want to feature you and your showstopping captures from Season 3: Echoes Within in our Community Montage.🔥

Details on how-to submit: https://t.co/8yu8EV8kmb

Submissions end May 24, 2023 at 11:59 PM PST.

#HaloEchoesWithin

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125

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[cedar turret]

I've got a metallic purple paper clip. That should let me win.

[livid nova]

I got a Nightmare medal once

[obsidian wyvern]

all my clips have background audio 😔

[pliant hatch]

do we have to put our full name in the montage form?

[young nexus]

Oh wb

[green belfry]

like party or game chat? all my clips never pick up game chat or party chat

[elfin glacier]

Just redo the audio manually

[obsidian wyvern]

music and vc

I usually forget to disable external audio

[young nexus]

@dense ginkgo are you still down to play a few warm up matches in tactical?

[obsidian wyvern]

you help me and we've got a deal

[dense ginkgo]

yeah!!

however, im still not sure what you mean by tactical

[young nexus]

I mean the game type

It’s swat but called different

[dense ginkgo]

ohh okay

[green belfry]

ahh ok

[dense ginkgo]

i'd rather play somtehing with an objective thugh

less tdm ish

[young nexus]

Should i send you my xbox username?

[young nexus]

Fine with that, just one match of tactical is alright with me

[dense ginkgo]

uh huh

[dreamy stirrup]

can probably do first name, not 100% on that

[young nexus]

Sent

[green belfry]

i made a tik tok account to post gaming clips, do you guys mind checking out my sniper video i posted? just asking. ya don't have to obviously.

[cedar turret]

You can show off an individual clip in #1076327824924872755 if it's halo and server appropriate, but this isn't a place to plug channels

[green belfry]

ok thanks

[pliant hatch]

just don't want my actual name in the montage if I got selected lol.

[cedar turret]

Hopefully your name isn't luke powers

[green belfry]

how do i post a video clip then? im looking at it and i dont see a spot to attach it.

[cedar turret]

you can start by not pinging me like you've been told three times now.

[green belfry]

says who?

[cedar turret]

and my tag has emoji

#rules-and-guidelines

[dreamy stirrup]

oh! no it won't be. would be Gamertag 🙂

[cedar turret]

You'll need to post a link to the clip on a hosting site.

[dreamy stirrup]

Comedy has nicely asked you a few times now. and i even suggested that if you're on PC, you can hold shift when replying to disable it

[cedar turret]

Don't know if tiktok will work cause what I know about tiktok is stupid videos texted to me that i never watch

[green belfry]

ok

[pliant hatch]

there's a file selector in the top right corner when you make a new post.

[dreamy stirrup]

IIRC the name thing is to just for our records and due diligence, Luke. 🙂

[pliant hatch]

cool, I'll submit a clip

[native ridge]

Proper place to talk about the show

[green belfry]

i don't see the file selector.

[dreamy stirrup]

[green belfry]

yea idk why but i dont got that as an option. im on my laptop.

[dreamy stirrup]

oh

[green belfry]

all i see is the tags and emojis and the text area. thats it.

[dreamy stirrup]

because like i said

you can't upload

you have to paste a link

direct uploads are disabled.

[green belfry]

but then how do you have it as an option?

[dreamy stirrup]

who wanna tell him

[real flower]

She’s part of 343

That’s probably why I’d imagine

[green belfry]

bro relax, i barely be in this. ya catching attitudes for what

[dreamy stirrup]

i'm chill dude lol

[real flower]

I’m guessing she is from the little 343 next to her name

[dreamy stirrup]

i just thought it was funny.

[native ridge]

Yooooo

[cedar turret]

We made up posters declaring her the boss of us years ago.

[green belfry]

anyways: so when i post the link it will show up then? will a link from an instagram page count or no?

[dreamy stirrup]

only one way to find out! 🙂

i don't know if IG embeds

[green belfry]

ok thanks

[dreamy stirrup]

i don't know if tiktok embeds.

[hasty zinc]

does InstaTok embed?

[dreamy stirrup]

yes. no.

[real flower]

Just a quick question, does anyone know any good halo you tubers I can watch? I know mint but I’m looking for some halo montagers if that’s a thing still

[dreamy stirrup]

ubernick?

xlr8

but they're not really montagers

just fun gameplay

[real flower]

That’ll probably scratch the itch

[pliant hatch]

go on twitch

[real flower]

I think halo montaging has slowly vanished:(

[cedar turret]

that's bad advice

[real flower]

Who can I Watch?

[pliant hatch]

whomever you like. lots of pros on there and decent players

[cedar turret]

start a letter writing campaign to get microsoft to bring mixer back from the dead

[hasty zinc]

mixer was good

better than twitch IMO

[pliant hatch]

ehh, never liked it as much. the emotes were never as good either.

[hasty zinc]

the video quality was so much better for me

[real flower]

I do like watching the halo esports, I find that really enjoyable

That’s the only time I use twitch

[pliant hatch]

plenty of esports people on there.

[cedar turret]

It was just a lot easier to deal with. Twitch is just a lot and it was the wild, wild west for so long it's hard to deal with.

[pliant hatch]

the community is a big part. some are pretty good and moderating the chat.

Oh, today is Alien day. The movie that Halo took inspiration from.

[molten pelican]

me

[real flower]

What’s your YouTube?

[molten pelican]

twitch, its Lucid_TW

[round laurel]

Happy Alien day! Looking forward to the newly announced Alien: Bishop book coming this October.

[pulsar cobalt]

Completely forgot about mixer haha the quality on that was real good that was about it

[real flower]

As in the optic guy?

[molten pelican]

me

lol yeah

his streams are very entertaining

[balmy tundra]

wait, Mixer was good?

[real flower]

It was alright🥴 competition for twitch was good and needed

[balmy tundra]

may it rest in peace

[molten pelican]

indeed

[obsidian wyvern]

BRETT

https://www.youtube.com/@brett631

im still not getting paid

[latent pendant]

GUYS

[hasty zinc]

I hope design labs does stuff like this but for Halo in the future

[latent pendant]

sorry for the caps

I have finished the final auditorium

how to fly planes

[obsidian wyvern]

thats sick

[obsidian wyvern]

you mean the wasp..?

[latent pendant]

yeah

or the big one

[obsidian wyvern]

if you go to a FOB, it should be there if you have enough valor

you cant fly the pelican

[livid nova]

You could as a glitch, but I don't think you can anymore

[latent pendant]

I will try it I heard you order a car from the fob and you grapple on it

[livid nova]

You can't anymore, they patched it

[dreamy stirrup]

Imperium?

does he know you're shilling him out? 😛

[obsidian wyvern]

yep lol

unironically, he is one of the 2 halo youtubers i still watch. i genuinely enjoy his halo content

[dreamy stirrup]

@frail elbow

coulda tagged him at least

[obsidian wyvern]

no i dont need to tell him every time i plug his channel lol

[dreamy stirrup]

Brett you have a fan

[obsidian wyvern]

🤫

[latent pendant]

oh

and I finished the final mission

without killing a single troop

[obsidian wyvern]

how..

[livid nova]

I remember trying a pistol only challenge for Infinite

[obsidian wyvern]

youre required to kill them so that you can damage the harbinger

[molten pelican]

hes better than u

[cedar turret]

That was the point where I died the most in my legendary run

[livid nova]

I died the most to the Spartan Killer brutes

[cedar turret]

I had a handle on the cheiftains, but I was so focused on them the wanna be drones kept taking me out

[livid nova]

They should have just included the drones

[latent pendant]

yes and I got bandana skull

[molten pelican]

[obsidian wyvern]

had to take out the snipers in that room first, then the rest of the infantry. Chieftain last

it wasnt too hard when you had his hammer

[cedar turret]

the actual boss goes down easy.

[obsidian wyvern]

yep

thrusters work well against her weapon

[timid crane]

Lol I just grappled the entire time when fighting any boss in the campaign

[faint mantle]

This made me laugh more than it should've
https://youtu.be/NX4BEkNKxUc?t=233

[timid crane]

Makes it mighty easy to hit them from a distance and just not get hit

[molten pelican]

solid performance XD

[fair lion]

he has two fans

[obsidian wyvern]

🤝

[minor jackal]

I’ve never played infinite campaign before. I feel like gta SA where you get a bunch of marines to follow you around

I had about 9 doing the round ups. Then some disappeared haha

[hasty zinc]

it's how he stays cool in the summer

[tight remnant]

4 max I think or 5

[minor jackal]

5 was the magic number that never disappeared

When I went into a tower I had 9. Rescued some outside of the tower

[sand nest]

Does The Shroud Shield Stick On Players?

[livid nova]

No

[sand nest]

Must Have Been A Bug Then...

[stuck ruin]

I have been looking for the graphics mod for Halo CE or 2 Anniversary that completely remakes the Anniversary graphics to make them more inline with the original.

Does anyone know where I can get it and if it is being added to the workshop?

[wintry cypress]

That is not dababy!

[paper trellis]

Hola

[vagrant raven]

Forced crossplay legit the dumbest thing ever

[leaden juniper]

Why

[vagrant raven]

Wrist vs thumb

[long salmon]

Do you play on pc?

[vagrant raven]

Xbox

[leaden juniper]

The data we have suggests that controllers actually have the advantage in infinite

[long salmon]

Pretty sure you can still play kbm on Xbox

[cedar turret]

https://tenor.com/view/kermit-lets-not-kermit-the-frog-gif-18626348

[vagrant raven]

I highly doubt that but alright

[vagrant raven]

Yea it’s called using a Xim to cheat

[long salmon]

Most pros play on controller

[cedar turret]

https://tenor.com/view/movingroght-along-movingrightalong-muppets-anyway-gif-17971671

[long salmon]

Pretty sure at least

[leaden juniper]

High end and 50th percentiles for controller are both ahead of m+k

[cedar turret]

Again, no. Feel free to argue that in DMS or the like, but it leads to nothing of value

[long salmon]

My bad

[calm fiber]

Do not tag Admins or Moderators unless immediate action is needed. If you see anything that does not abide by these rules and guidelines, please tag a Moderator to bring it to their attention.

[long salmon]

(I’m sorry, reply is same thing as tagging right?)

I was unaware that was a rule, sorry

[calm fiber]

To disable the ping/tag when replying, please click or tap the "on" button at the right hand side of the chat box in order to turn it off.
For users on PC, if you hold Shift while clicking reply the tag will be automatically turned off.

[cedar turret]

Don't worry about, just keep it in mind in the future please.

[long salmon]

👍

[forest lagoon]

Actually,you can just plug in your mouse and keyboard directly into your Xbox as Infinite supports that as an input

[eager mango]

Goodnight:)

[sacred spruce]

were the sap/mt reach shoulders in the shop?

[hasty zinc]

yes

Reach Falcon Pilot Pack

[pulsar cobalt]

Reach falcon pilot pack i need that

[minor jackal]

Just finished streaming multiplayer on my iPad. Wasn’t half bad

[signal sky]

i want. the ace of spades. will sleep for it. 😦

[fickle drift]

Are there any mobile games that are popular in America?

[signal sky]

War And Order

expensive

though

[smoky token]

A few

Supercell's Clash of Clans and Clash Royale

[cedar turret]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbvWn1EY6g&ab_channel=MotörheadOfficial

[junior cliff]

Just got bronze 3

[fickle drift]

Anything else?

[smoky token]

Nice

[smoky token]

Not much I can think of that people won't forget about next week

[fickle drift]

Lmao

[smoky token]

Chess?

[fickle drift]

Ok

[smoky token]

Chess has been insanely popular here over the last 2 or 3 years

[fickle drift]

Oh chess might be good

[smoky token]

Why do you ask?

[viral dune]

Pixel gun

[signal sky]

WaO is awesome until i grew out of it

[main garnet]

Anyone to message/talk to about getting a bot in my server that would set ranks for wins/losses similar to arena 8 mans? Thank you in adavance 🙂

[fickle drift]

Ppl actually play that?!

[smoky token]

is that still popular?

[dreamy stirrup]

i play cribbage on my phone

[smoky token]

xkcd 1608 is my favorite mobile game

[fickle drift]

What's that

[viral dune]

Well.. not as popular as before but yeah.. especially since the 10 year anniversary event is about to start

[smoky token]

for xkcd?

do you mean the 10th anniversary of his marriage?

[fickle drift]

What is xkcd

[viral dune]

No i mean pixel gun

[smoky token]

oh lmao

wrong reply

[smoky token]

popular webcomic

https://xkcd.com/1

xkcd: Barrel - Part 1

Don't we all.

started all the way back in 2006

[fickle drift]

Damn

[smoky token]

there’s an asteroid named after the guy who makes these

[fickle drift]

Do ppl still pay coc?

[smoky token]

https://xkcd.com/1567

xkcd: Kitchen Tips

Household tip: Tired of buying so much toilet paper? Try unspooling the paper from the roll before using it. A single roll can last for multiple days that way, and it's much easier on your plumbing.

[viral dune]

Lol

[smoky token]

i messed up the link

[viral dune]

Ohh

[smoky token]

there’s over 2000 of these

one of them won a hugo award, two others were nominated

the guy has also published 4 insanely popular books

[fickle drift]

So do ppl still play clash of clans?

[hasty zinc]

I quote this one all the time

[smoky token]

same

i have a bunch of the best ones bookmarked on my laptop

this is my favorite one

cueball is literally me

[burnt frost]

Does anyone know when art showcase blogposts are usually published?

[smoky token]

On waypoint!

#announcements message

[burnt frost]

Yes I already knew about that. What I am saying is that WHEN do they usually publish them?

and does anything get picked from the show and tell channel from here?

[smoky token]

I don’t believe anything is, everything Haruspis links is via Twitter and Reddit

As for timing, it’s inconsistent

[burnt frost]

Soooo what about people who don’t use twitter?

[smoky token]

edited

[burnt frost]

uuhhh I could try Reddit. I haven’t used it in so long though

[smoky token]

you’re better off with Twitter i think

[burnt frost]

I don’t even have a twitter anymore tho

[rigid patio]

With the release of season 3 how is Infinite now?, I haven't played it in a long time.

[smoky token]

good

very fun

[signal sky]

brutally entertaining

[rigid patio]

How's Gun game sorry I mean Escalation Slayer

I'm just going to call it Gun Game

[dreamy stirrup]

It's not muscle memory yet but we do surf here

There should be a tag for it

[smoky token]

oh neat

is haruspis here or do you and john send stuff to him?

[livid nova]

How do you post images on show and tell?

[smoky token]

external service like imgur

[livid nova]

oh, got it

[signal sky]

booyah

yo. doesa anyone else have a problem with people not losing any shield? i feel like there are people cheating

the same people for me.

...any suggestions of what i can possibly do? lol..

[faint mantle]

It'll most likely be desync and not cheating.

How's your connection quality?

[steady jolt]

Also seen stuff come from Tumblr, DeviantArt (I'm sure, at least) and Artstation. Can also use Instagram

[smoky token]

I haven’t seen from either but i’ll take your word for it

By the way, how long did you say it usually takes for fire unicorn to get in one’s inventory?

[dreamy stirrup]

When I get time to grant it lol

Probably next week

[smoky token]

Oh you are one of the people that does it!

Deja vu

I feel like i’ve had this interaction before

[dreamy stirrup]

Like to give people time to fill out the form

[livid nova]

fire unicorn?

[steady jolt]

There's a Deviant pic in this week's 😛

[smoky token]

Nameplate (and icon?) you get for being featured in the art spotlight

[livid nova]

Nice

[smoky token]

I’m due for it soon (still really proud of that)

i don’t even consider what i put in there all that great of a work, it has a ton of issues that i want to fix, but haruspis seemed to like it and it got featured so who am I to complain

[fossil skiff]

Ghosts of onyx = instant approval in my mind (totally not biased..)

[smoky token]

I think I’m going to do FredSled next

[near tree]

It's not uncommon for an artist to be discontent with their work. It's just a sign that you're willing to improve and learning to do so
But I thought it was really good

[fickle drift]

is there a chate where I can suggest an idea to 343

[smoky token]

appreciate that :)

[fossil skiff]

Every time I read this scene I think of how painful it would be to bump your elbow on armor or something

Especially while sliding down a hill at however many m/s

[smoky token]

The r/Halo server has a command for it

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1086433181638602915/1100596266989277254/image.png

[steady jolt]

#1039633978841374720 or #1076337363770417172 - create a new post and add a tag or 2

[fickle drift]

thanks

[candid solar]

Based Fredsled moment

[smoky token]

I’m gonna render it

I just have to learn how to make terrain good first

[fossil skiff]

Oh neat

[fickle drift]

I submitted my idea

[paper trellis]

fred sled is an awesome idea bro

[fickle drift]

Do mods in this server changes people's name? Cuz i don't remember my name being HappyKitty

[gentle crystal]

is infinite having issues again? Cant access my battle pass, my armor, or my challenges

[rare cedar]

I like your name now over your original one

[paper trellis]

restart the game

[gentle crystal]

I have multiple times as has my wife, which is why I was asking

[queen mauve]

hi

[ruby wharf]

How do you get a blue ribbon/recommended ribbon on your forge map? I have a forge map that has 63 bookmarks on it

[ebon spruce]

U could try it on Twitter, i see some 343i employees giving replies sometimes to people

[summer jolt]

Holey Moley 😃

Has the Activision/Blizzard acquisition been banned from this server yet

[round laurel]

No, we were discussing it about uh... 20-ish hours ago.

[formal cedar]

🧍‍♂️

[scenic monolith]

Could master chief survive the pizza tower

[full token]

Anyone down for a rank ?

[calm fiber]

If you're looking for other Spartans to join you in battle, check out our LFGs:

#lfg-competitive – For ranked/competitive matchmaking
#lfg-social – For social/casual matchmaking
#lfg-campaign - For campaign co-op
#lfg-forge - For map/mode building and testing
#lfg-customs - For custom games
#lfg-other – For firefight, spartan ops, etc
#lfg-español – Para jugadores hispanohablantes en cualquier categoría de juego
#lfg-hcs-scrims-or-teams – To help you find a team or secure some scrims

Don't forget to check out #lfg-and-voice-chat to learn about the !lfg bot, how to use it, and how to create your own voice channels.

[vagrant sable]

Every day mcc matchmaking gets more dead, and it's sad.

[worthy crown]

It's impossible to get a ranked match in Korea

No VPN, no ranked

[fickle drift]

Is HaloHQ still around

[oak cave]

hello haloers

[smoky token]

Hello green guy from fortnite

[obsidian wyvern]

quick play is so boring man, bad maps have such a high chance of being picked and really good maps like streets and aquarius aren't even in that playlist anymore

live fire rarely comes up but I get salvation so often

[livid nova]

Which maps do you consider the worst?

[obsidian wyvern]

salvation is by far the worst. chasm also sucks

[smoky token]

Which one is salvation again

[obsidian wyvern]

CE map

damnation remake

[smoky token]

Right, yeah, that map is awful

It’s a good recreation but for that very reason i think it’s awful for Infinite

[livid nova]

That's in regular rotation? I thought it was just in the community collection

[obsidian wyvern]

not anymore

starboard is getting better but argyle isn't fun on anything but ctf

idk what to think about that other new map that came with s3

[livid nova]

Cliffhanger? I really like it

[obsidian wyvern]

I think I'm bored of it because of that playlist which only contained cliffhanger. had to do it for the event

[obsidian wyvern]

recharge doesn't come up much too

[fickle drift]

I rarely get Salvation. I get Chasm pretty much every single time I play QP.

[hasty zinc]

good morning everyone

[marble cosmos]

Morning

[stable marlin]

thanks

[calm fiber]

You may refer to #1075989764026675210 if you are in need of community based assistance. This is strictly community sourced and operated and is not staffed by any official members of the Support team.

For official support, you'll need to go to the Halo Support site: https://aka.ms/HaloSupport

[smoky token]

https://tenor.com/view/godfather-massacre-sad-gif-16810633

[marble cosmos]

https://tenor.com/view/transformers-megatron-get-that-out-of-my-face-the-last-knight-gif-19464453

[marble cosmos]

Honestly don’t get it

We don’t need a live action little mermaid

Just why

[fickle drift]

All Disney live action needs to stop. There’s been a few decent ones, but that’s the problem. None make it past “decent” and the rest are awful.

They even changed a bunch of song lyrics for this movie… #JusticeForSebastian

[boreal tulip]

disney loves the money

[fair plover]

I-

Do I have to be a certain level to post images

[steady jolt]

Need to have the Inheritor role

[calm fiber]

Inheritors are folks with veterancy, a record of good behavior, and currently active

[fossil skiff]

[molten pelican]

mornin' spartner

[molten pelican]

the massacred the movie😢 LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO SABASTIAN

[muted rose]

Someone pitched this idea, had it approved, and then had it incorporated into the movie, with vfx and cgi, and the director approved. Think about that for a sec

[molten pelican]

this is disney

[muted rose]

I should lower my expectations but stuff like andor has wildly raised my expectations

[molten pelican]

disney forgot how to make a movie

[queen remnant]

They get the money

[molten pelican]

they dont make them to the majority liking lmao

[muted rose]

As long as they make money, nothing will change.

[molten pelican]

andor was pretty good yeah, but I think its bc its an og story

[molten pelican]

its a cash grab company now

[muted rose]

Rarely do companies change something simply out of good graces

[molten pelican]

they keep changing the lyrics on the little mermaid songs lol

[molten pelican]

especially disney

[queen remnant]

It was always like that in a lot of their practices they did since like a very long time ago

[molten pelican]

they also had better movies🤷‍♂️

like wtc happened to pixar

[muted rose]

I think part of it has to do with the current environment for movies, and the audience

[queen remnant]

Maybe in the 90's or something, before and after that they had some problems in making movies too
But don't forget the sequels too

[molten pelican]

i feel like they think the audience is dumber than they are lol

[muted rose]

This reminds me of the rockstar drink lawsuit against that one video game

[molten pelican]

oh ofc Im not saying they havent made bad movies in the past, but they have also made good movies on the pixar side especially, but pixar keeps playing it safe today

[queen remnant]

Totally

[molten pelican]

one of my fav movies from disney gotta be prince of egypt

[queen remnant]

That's from Dreamworks

[molten pelican]

omw

oh yeah disney was making hercules

mb

dreamworks destroyed disney this past year

[molten pelican]

the new elementals even, its a basic story with barely different animation, the way they designed it all isnt any different, just looks different

[near tree]

Yeah, I feel like DreamWorks has always been willing to take bigger risks, and some great films came out of it

[molten pelican]

yeah and even if some of them arent perfect, they are much more enjoyable and refreshing than disney. Puss in boots 2 was an amazing movie and the money shows

even illumination with basic stories are more enjoyable

[muted rose]

I saw the Mario movie the other day. It was very standard, to say the least. It was not bad, not by any measure, but Nintendo knew exactly what they wanted, and they got it. It was a non-risk taking movie.

[molten pelican]

I think it prob was refreshing for people

something without agenda, just a fun movie every age can enjoy

[muted rose]

It was kind of nice just to have a simple movie. Especially after watching the extended lord of the rings

(Way better than the theatrical, highly recommend you pick it up if you like lotr.)

[latent pendant]

GUYS

[molten pelican]

wait the new LOTR show?

[latent pendant]

I HAVE OFFICIALY GOT ON THE BIG PLANE

[molten pelican]

COOl

but the caps

[steady jolt]

Can you officially turn off your caps lock?

[muted rose]

No, original trilogy. Fellowship, two towers, and return of the king

[latent pendant]

oh sorry I sprint with caps

[molten pelican]

ah mb, Ive watched those all about 4/5 times they are masterpieces

[latent pendant]

anyways all you need to do is to grapple and spam f

[molten pelican]

it adds emotion

[muted rose]

Extended editions add more scenes but the scenes they add actually put more development into the characters. I just wish they put in the part where Sauron tempts Aragorn at the black gate, like his spirit appears to him and everything.

[obsidian wyvern]

people use caps as a key in games???

ive legit never heard of that before lol

[forest lagoon]

I mean, it's a key you don't typically use for any other reason than typing so why not

[muted rose]

As someone who uses the mouse scroll button as my toggle in Stellaris I can relate to this

[pulsar cobalt]

Can't wait for the 2nd more SPI custmization

[hasty zinc]

pro tip - scroll lock is basically a free key that does nothing

you can bind to mouse button

I love this Razer mouse. It has a thumb button which I set as my hypershift button. When I press and hold it, it sets some buttons on my mouse to an alternate mode, so I can like hold the thumb button, scroll up and down for volume, or middle mouse click to mute

I can never go back to not having this feature

[muted rose]

Having played on Wii u I can adjust to any controls in seconds

[smoky token]

What do you have? Naga?

[hasty zinc]

basilisk ultimate

[forest lagoon]

Wait... I wonder if using the caps lock key as a bind could help make a keyboard a little more comfortable to use

[muted rose]

Keyboard? Comfortable? What a strange combination of words

[forest lagoon]

I really hate using a keyboard to play

[hasty zinc]

I got the keyboard I have now just so I could put the Halo logo on the display

[muted rose]

I should get a custom Xbox controller

I only have standard ones

[frozen gazelle]

My dad and I watched the LOTR trilogy semi-recently

And idk exactly why but we watched the extended edition...just for The Two Towers

I remember thinking it was the regular cut and being like "DANG this movie needs another editor" like yeah. It did get another editor. That's why it's the extended edition

[muted rose]

Return of the king extended edition is the best imo

[frozen gazelle]

We didn't watch that one cause I think we started watching the movie at like 8:30

[obsidian wyvern]

this same one?

[hasty zinc]

yeah lol

[muted rose]

I’ve only seen the theatrical ones like maybe twice and both times I just was thinking about how the extended editions are better

[frozen gazelle]

I haven't seen the theatrical and extended for the same movie, but I think there are benefits to both releases

[fossil skiff]

If it doesn’t do the original theme song on startup, ima be upset :p

[frozen gazelle]

Like more LOTR is always a good thing but there's also something to be said for trimming the fat

You know, the old engineer's adage, "it's not finished when there's nothing left to add, it's finished when there's nothing else to take away"

[hasty zinc]

if I was talented enough I'd make like a black and white pixel Halo gif to have running on the keyboard display

[frozen gazelle]

I'm definitely interested in watching the extended versions of Fellowship and ROTK

[fossil skiff]

Do it

[muted rose]

Rotk is already such a great movie, and the extended edition is somehow even better

[smoky token]

Lmk what you want, I can get it done

[floral pollen]

Hoi there

[muted rose]

Aegis will probably pick kats death

[hasty zinc]

yeah that would be perfect, whenever I'm feeling down I can just look at my keyboard for a good laugh

[smoky token]

Do you want it on that mini display?