general-chat

[smoky token]

https://youtu.be/polVVCu2miM

Overwatch, this is ANVIL-1, Viscon on malignant exogens, requesting permission to go Daggers Free

`ANVIL-1, STERILIZE MALIGNANT EXOGENS. HAMMER DOWN.

Code: Lock | Cauterize | Stabilize`

[obsidian wyvern]

I think I've heard forget about freeman, iirc I liked it

[fossil skiff]

Was gonna ask if you would join me in warzone ff

[smoky token]

can you tell i used to be part of a bunch of half life RP groups?

surface tension is good as well

[obsidian wyvern]

I used to pay attention to some of your status' and stuff, I was kinda on the right lines

[obsidian wyvern]

I can only play on my Xbox rn anyway, and it's too late for me to be bothered to switch it on

[limpid nova]

I finally did the mcc masterchief playlist but no "life story" achievement appeared

[obsidian wyvern]

oh yeah it still hasn't given me that odst achievement sol

after all that work we put in 😔

[fossil skiff]

Dang. Hopefully you do when we help H8 then.

I wonder why though??

Wait this means more clips of you slamming into a wall and dying

[limpid nova]

I've about 70 % done achievements but would've thought that would be a working one

[fossil skiff]

It does, he didn’t get it but the rest of us did

[fossil skiff]

What about Monday?

[obsidian wyvern]

I really thought I could fly through one of the holes but just splattered myself in the end

[obsidian wyvern]

idk, I can't guarantee anything atm

[fossil skiff]

Dang. Alright.

[south wing]

morning

[muted rose]

Overwatch

[lusty mason]

What's up y'all?

[south wing]

thinking if halo is good game. and witch is good....

[lusty mason]

We have no johnson stickers or emotes

This is an outrage

[dreamy stirrup]

Make me one

[lusty mason]

Gimme one sec

I will work on that

[near tree]

Go Johnson Johnson, go

Make us a grand emote worthy of the Sergeant Johnson name

[brazen grotto]

halo is awesome

[lusty mason]

I think I got something

It's simple but I think good

[orchid onyx]

WHOMST HAS SUMMONED ME TO CREATE THE JOHNSON STICKERS

Your welcome btw @lusty mason

[lusty mason]

Oh hell9

Unfortunately I don't have photoshop

[orchid onyx]

I wasn’t about to allow you to take the credit so I had to be petty

[lusty mason]

But this man does

I gave him the faces

He made the magic happen

This is also the man the myth thr legend I've been running all the halo games on heroic with

Anyway how are we doing this

[orchid onyx]

I would also like to know how to upload a sticker

[vague nexus]

1 or 2

[autumn bobcat]

NFT server 🤮

[rare cedar]

I’m in that server strictly for the emotes and stickers

[lusty mason]

But yeah we accepted the challenge and have the emojis we're waiting for further instruction

[calm fiber]

Please don't tag 343 employees. See #rules-and-guidelines for more information.

[lusty mason]

Why did you do that

She'll see it without

[orchid onyx]

Will she?

I forgor

[heady raven]

anyone else not getting any playlists to load in infinite mp?

[tight remnant]

one of the things i dont like about super fiesta and infinite's sandbox is how some of the variants are just worse than the normal weapons

did you restart your game?

[heady raven]

twice

[quaint knot]

Halo 3 is the best halo ever made and that's my opinion

[tight remnant]

My opinion differs quite

Hm, hard reset jd?

[heady raven]

idk im just gonna play mcc

[slate lantern]

Halo 3 is my second favorite, Halo: Reach with vanilla settings is my most favorite.

[tight remnant]

i prefer CU reach

Bloom feels gross to me

[slate lantern]

Bloom is basically SPREAD like in most FPS games, it's a good thing. I find TU somewhat unfair, I feel like I'm killing or getting killed too easily in most cases. Shield bleedthough works in the rest of the games but not in Reach.

[crisp zinc]

Yo guys, helped a buddy with LASO in Infinite. But he didn't get the achievement even tough all missions are listed with "mission complete+"

Any solution to this ?

[slate lantern]

Try asking this in #1075989764026675210

[tight remnant]

Randomness is what's unfair

[slate lantern]

In causal games, it's totally fine. I can see how it can be annoying in competitive, I think zero-bloom fits there.

[fossil oak]

Just realized Shroud said Halo 4 was the best halo

[fickle drift]

e girls 🤣

dont let e girls distract you from the fact that halo is love and reaal

[amber iris]

You know halo infinite is starting to pick up the pace

Everyone’s been saying when 343 does this or when 343 does that it’s gonna revive and that never happened

But looks like the movement update has set it into a solid territory

Now that people are looking imagine they do something big like cross core armor or a big map update or something of the sort

[amber iris]

Unbound plasma pistol

They did the plasma pistol dirty by taking away the vehicle EMP

But the unbound plasma pistol is somehow worse than a weapon that’s already bad

Which just makes it sting slightly more

Like all the bad guns or mediocre guns have WORSE variants

You’d think if a weapon has a lot to improve on then a variant would help it out but no

The ravager rebound manages to be worse than the ravager which I already hate

Of course the best variants are for all of the power weapons

I mean some of the variations make no sense at all

Like they don’t improve on a flaw they just give you a random upgrade

“The skewer’s weakness is its slow reload and small magazine size. To fix this, we made the bullets EXPLODE!!!”

Oh and sometimes the variants directly work against themselves

Like the rapid fire pulse carbine

If the pulse carbine’s main flaw is how quickly it overheats, the last thing I want is for it to do that quicker

Rapid fire carbine is still really good though

Didn’t realize I typed that much

[quaint vapor]

Dam bro

[brazen locust]

can one of the mods kick solomon out of our channel

[steady jolt]

You should be able to do it

See #lfg-and-voice-chat for info

[hallow pollen]

Damn gotta love it when I put on a xp boost just for the game and my whole computer to crash 🙃

[brazen locust]

yy

[fickle drift]

halo legends deserves a game, change my mind

[fickle drift]

Yep

Or some spartan lll suicide mission

With spi only

[fickle drift]

basicly headhunters lol

[candid solar]

It's mostly due to the way Reach's health works IMO.

[fickle drift]

i like sprint. I can run and circle them around smacking them then run

[ivory coyote]

I managed to get into my phone and get a backup done

i am so happy right now lmao holy

[steady jolt]

[tired wraith]

Good morning you ess aye

I gotta feeling that it’s gonna be a wonderful day

[noble solstice]

The sun in the sky

[tired wraith]

Has a smile on his face

[lusty mason]

Unga bunga

Good evening

[smoky token]

It smiles on you with eternal malice

[fair plover]

Is there a place within this server that I can post a link? Probably counts as self promo but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to ask

[obsidian wyvern]

for like a stream, YouTube video or art? as long as it's halo related you can in #1076327824924872755

[quiet stream]

What is this week's reward

I don't want to turn on my xbox

[obsidian wyvern]

pins in #1040734945125089280

[fair plover]

It’s a YouTube video, thank you!

[smoky token]

https://x.com/juckport/status/1694104698838511935?s=46&t=EsfAsdhUoldfJcyweGd1aw

Josef 🪗 (@Juckport)

This reminds me once when getting a tooth filled in or something as a kid they gave me laughing gas and I got to watch Lion King on a tv in the ceiling. When I came to my senses I learned there was no tv and I managed to coherently hallucinate the entirety of the movie for myself

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Twitter · Aug 22, 2023, 9:50 PM

[fair plover]

I haven’t been to a dentist in almost 10 years I forgot how scary it is and why haven’t been back in the first place

[obsidian wyvern]

x.com

[fair plover]

Well that and insurance and whatnot lol

[obsidian wyvern]

https://tenor.com/view/pepe-cringe-gif-24650353

[hoary stream]

Infinite is low key pretty good now

[fair plover]

I really like it I just get too mad at the smallest things so it’s hard to focus on the good things

But it’s a fun game and I am happy with where it’s at

[fair plover]

And when I say the smallest things I mean I am unskilled at the game so when I die I still rage like a toddler, nothing to do with the quality of the game itself

[pulsar cobalt]

I mean it always has been but yeah infinite is going places right now and i can't wait to see what season 5 brings

[brave helm]

just had someone in a h3 match do absolutely nothing while just being a radio lmao

reminded me of tf2 micspam bots

[winged heron]

lol i somehow beat the par time on halo my first ever run

(the h3 level)

but then again so much of that is just cutscene

[winter flame]

try to report them in-game for "AFK" so it flags them up to 343

[brave helm]

also checked their profile and im now certain its most likely a bot of some kind

its also only following one account so that must be the hoster

[tiny oar]

why do the ce elites sound like seargent johnson

[brave helm]

they reversed his voice lines for them

[tiny oar]

oh

[rare cedar]

Your opinion is factual

[muted rose]

2-player Fireteam raven stomps all of them

[steady jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/marvel-is-it-though-thor-bruce-banner-gif-14242312

[pure tangle]

Good morning

[rare cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/fronk-gif-27411031

[near tree]

Raven is good, but that's more than a mild exaggeration
Especially when you have to pay every time you die

[rare cedar]

Is that why campaigns cost $60?

[muted rose]

At the end of the day, it’s an arcade game, albeit just halo themed. My actual favourite is probably infinite or 2.

[ocean tinsel]

.

[muted rose]

I remember playing Star Wars battle pod, and just getting so angry that I couldn’t blow up this one tie interceptor, and then my dad just told me to calm down and stop feeding a rigged arcade game

[rare cedar]

Everyone stop what their doing and look at this bunny that was in my back yard

[near tree]

Respect

[near tree]

Possibly

[muted rose]

Bubny

[near tree]

So cute!
Let's eat it!

[muted rose]

Do not the rabbit

[storm summit]

Houngry

[near tree]

Rabbit stew, or rabbit pizza?

[muted rose]

Eat a granola bar or something

The rabbit is not for sale

[near tree]

But bunny

[storm summit]

[near tree]

Also, @muted rose, hate to break it to you, but as smart as Einstein is, the theory of relativity is straight up bull crap

[hasty zinc]

oh I did the squirrel thing the other day AND IT WORKS

[near tree]

The squirrel thing?

[hasty zinc]

if there's a squirrel you stick your arms in front of you and slowly wave them up and down

the squirrel ran up to me!

I was like NO WAY

[near tree]

No way
That actually works?

[hasty zinc]

my wife and daughter were like wtf

[near tree]

I saw that, and I thought it was just baloney for TikTok views

[hasty zinc]

that's where I saw it

[granite sky]

mybe they think its a tree branch in wind

[near tree]

Did you pet it?

[hasty zinc]

nah

[steady jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/james-franco-wait-what-wut-wtf-nani-gif-25479769

[near tree]

Did you feed it?

[hasty zinc]

I didn't have anythign to feed it, it was on my way out to the car

[near tree]

Did you make it into squirrel stew?

[hasty zinc]

lol

I was just shocked that it actually worked

I stopped because I didn't want it to jump on me

[rare cedar]

Aegis is now a certified squirrel whisperer

[near tree]

Did you have a philosophical conversation with it about the meaning of life? I've always wanted to get a squirrels perspective on it

[near tree]

Lame

[hasty zinc]

idk if they can carry diseases or ticks or something

I guess I'll just have to carry around food in my pocket all the time in case the opportunity arises

[forest lagoon]

[hasty zinc]

edited

[rare cedar]

But you alrea—

[hasty zinc]

poor choice of words

[forest lagoon]

So in general squirrels are safe to touch but if they bite you then you'll want to get checked

[hasty zinc]

can I bite them?

[forest lagoon]

Uh, I guess there's nothing stopping you there

[winter flame]

tbf u generally shouldnt touch wild animals even if they dont bite lol

[hasty zinc]

and it wasn't like he was running around on the grass, he was on the bottom of the tree trunk when he ran towards me

[near tree]

Always

[winter flame]

i see a lot of people on social media feeding foxes to the point they're becomming tame and they're so cute but man we're just gonna end up with wayyy more urban foxes

[forest lagoon]

They can be litter trained

[elder shore]

can someody help with a issue im having on infinite, im not getting any response from support

[near tree]

Coward

[near tree]

What did I miss?

[hasty zinc]

maybe try #1075989764026675210

[forest lagoon]

I don't think the bird seed I put out has been touched

[rare cedar]

[forest lagoon]

I should try some hummingbird feeders. I noticed the neighborhood across the bayou has some out because one almost hit me.in the head the other day

[winter flame]

we have hedgehogs but anything you leave out for them will attract rats

[hasty zinc]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ThisIsMashed-animation-animated-mashed-21JhXQ8IgVlVqdZbIW

[winter flame]

also hedgehogs are actually fast Sonic doesnt lie

[hasty zinc]

of course sonic doesn't lie

[winter flame]

when they dont know they're being watched they run pretty fast lol

sadly aint seen them roll though

[near tree]

What, did you think it was all fantasy like cod?
Sonic is just a dramatization of real life sonny

[forest lagoon]

I wouldn't be worried about mice/rats because there's a lot of neighborhood cats EXCEPT for there is a crazy lady who USED to live here but moved that comes Every. Single. Day. To feed them so they aren't hungry.
I saw a cat last year playing with a rat, it was in the cat's mouth and the cat was rolling around. Then the cat just spit it out, booped it on the head and walked away

[winged heron]

shoutout to the 800 lbs kebab man in odst

[near tree]

It's okay
My cat literally lost a fight to a vole

[hasty zinc]

was it a PPV match?

[rare cedar]

Payment came in pspspspspspsp

[obsidian wyvern]

gonna disconnect my Xbox account to the discord, I'm really hoping it doesn't kick me from this server because of that lol

[hasty zinc]

perseid meteor from earlier this month in front of andromeda

[hasty zinc]

I don't think it would do that

I disconnected mine

[obsidian wyvern]

ir said it might do

ok I lost one of my servers but I can't remember which one it was lol

one that I know of anyway

[lone turtle]

[molten pelican]

cat spawns

[obtuse marten]

do yall think there will be full campaign crossplay support for mcc in the future? 😄

[amber mirage]

They mentioned it taking somewhere along the lines of 6 months of work per game at a minimum, so if it does, it'll be a while.

[obsidian wyvern]

hoping reach is next

and then go from CE to 4

[amber mirage]

You want to play Reach?

[obsidian wyvern]

we don't tell anyone I enjoy it in coop

[amber mirage]

After the lagfest from just the two missions we did in 3 and ODST, I don't think I wanna play more co-op.

[winter flame]

you cant really do high ping co-op

[hallow oyster]

Ello chat

[winter flame]

it depends a lot on the hosts connection I think though

[stoic rapids]

god I hope starfield is good

[hallow oyster]

yup or bad wifi

[winter flame]

but i had a good experience with the host in Central US but as soon as we invited a guy in West US everyone experienced lag

which makes no sense to me since the host is the same but I guess its dependent on everyone's connection

[hallow oyster]

i have had bad ping issues while playing

fun thing is me and my friend both from eu

we also been realy geting folded by halo netcode for coop

i on my second playthru still we on break

[winter flame]

high ping isn't necessarily the issue since like I said playing co-op with my friend in Central US worked fine (im in the UK) but sometimes the latency is just so bad depending on who you invite

p2p just aint really ideal

basically without dedicated severs its never going to work for everyone i think

[hallow oyster]

realy hope 343 fixes netcode for halo ce and 2 maby one day

[obtuse marten]

well, how long is mcc released now on pc 😄

[obsidian wyvern]

I think that's because I was in Europe

and you 3 from were from NA

[obtuse marten]

we laso have lags everytime.. do you have your game on hdd and other dude on ssd?

[winter flame]

simply dont be in Europe Rev, easy solution

[obsidian wyvern]

when me and h8 played with icky and sol, the lag wasn't anywhere near as bad

[obsidian wyvern]

only reason to move to the u.s is for better ranked games

[obtuse marten]

we are in the same network - xbox and pc always lags

[winter flame]

i hear if you cap the FPS on PC to match the console player (60 or 120) it helps

[obtuse marten]

and also they should add aim asisst to mnk like they did in infinte

[obsidian wyvern]

since 2019 I think, but the first time they added cross platform coop was last year iirc

[obtuse marten]

ew.. if i play 60 fps im crying

[obtuse marten]

halo 3 only yep

[winter flame]

honestly stops looking choppy for me after 10 minutes

[granite sky]

how do i block youtube shorts i despisethem

[winter flame]

you dont 😄

[granite sky]

godammit

[obtuse marten]

cant go back to 60fps rather play with lags then but it shouldnt lag so hard

[winter flame]

you can hide them with a content blocker like uBlock Origin or a userscript injecter like Tapermonkey

[hallow oyster]

i feel u

[winter flame]

just google filter lists or userscripts for blocking youtube shorts, someone will have made one

a filter for ublock is probably easiest if you dont know what you're doing

[sharp totem]

why does it take so long to find a game in mcc

[winter flame]

not even close for me. i would take responsive 60 over latency any day

[granite sky]

custom games for mcc r best !

[winter flame]

half the reason i switched from console to PC is just because console has latency even in games with 120fps

if you're using VRR, 60 feels smooth enough after a little bit of time to adjust from what your use to

granted 60 without vrr or vsync is pain

but i mean these are games designed for 360. you can't expect p2p co-op to magically work across xbox and pc with your PC uncapped tbf

[muted rose]

Haha the reason my pfp and status in Einstein is a funny story, it’s doesn’t have anything to do with the whole “literally me” Kinda thing

@near tree

[obtuse marten]

imagine we could play splitscreen campain on pc :<

[muted rose]

Basically I was just messing around on a different server and I started to say silly stuff and then credit Einstein with saying it in the first place, we were making fun of Oppenheimer or something along those lines

And since I don’t have nitro I just changed my whole profile pic instead just that server

[winter flame]

true but i do think crossplay is the most beneficial thing they could do for co-op

[obtuse marten]

you can use nucleos coop mod

but an officall coop would be way nicer

[obtuse marten]

only halo3.. idk how many times i played halo 3 or reach .. wanna play h1 h2 h4

[hallow oyster]

2h my fav

[winter flame]

with hyperthreading now standard and much better integrated graphics i dont think split screen is a huge deal

other then the anniversary titles, the games will run on most newish hardware

[obtuse marten]

you just need like 32gb of ram and should be fine

[winter flame]

lol wut

[obtuse marten]

also like i mentioned you can play splitscreen pc with nucleus but yea

halo 4 takes a lot of ram

[winter flame]

you might need 32GB for nucleus but I'm pretty sure the games run fine with 8GB

[obtuse marten]

i dont say it will use all of the 32, you would be just better with 32 instead of 16gb

[winter flame]

i dont think so

[obtuse marten]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

halo 4 takes like 10 or 12gigs

also its 2023, 16gb is just to less

[winter flame]

its really not though lol?

[obtuse marten]

it is

[winter flame]

i honestly dont know a game that saturates my 16GB

[obtuse marten]

especially if youre using multi monior

its not the game, its the other things your pc does 😄

[winter flame]

are you sure you aint running out of vram and its spilling over or something?

[obtuse marten]

im still fine with 16gb but 32 will be the thing to go

[winter flame]

oh i just close everything when im playing games

[obtuse marten]

well, imagine you dont need to close all

[winter flame]

well it depends if its a game im trying to get the highest FPS or not

if its single player i will just cap at 90fps because with VRR I can barely feel much difference above that

but if its MP i will close everything and only cap to avoid CPU bottleneck

Halo 4 only using around 2GB of RAM

if its higher then that for you, it might be a memory leak issue

[stoic pulsar]

not full true

in mcc halo 4 and ce is good with mouse and keywoard

and infinite i think now is balanced

[winter flame]

dont take the bait mate, its just cope because he died to a kbm player

[empty salmon]

No one asked

[stoic pulsar]

also if you want full mouse and keywoard come to halo custom edition or h2v

and there is another one but Microsoft kill it

[forest lagoon]

split play half controller half mouse has entered the chat

[winter flame]

we are 😎

oh nevermind i thought you meant switching not using both lol

[forest lagoon]

Using the perceived advantages of both I shall take of and become full advantage!!!

[winter flame]

you are even more cool

[forest lagoon]

https://tenor.com/view/toradora-kitamura-glasses-heh-evil-plan-gif-21328862

I mean I switch it up a bit too. I gotta have some excuse for my mediocrity

[winter flame]

i just find first person shooters are generally more enjoyable on kbm but halo is exceptionally fun with a controller

whereas 3rd person i prefer controller because you can see your character and so being able to control how fast they move makes much more sense i guess

[stoic pulsar]

@winter flame nice profile

https://halotracker.com/halo-infinite/profile/xbl/Recon18/overview

your win ratio is 48.6%

[forest lagoon]

Hey look, you got a fan now!

[winter flame]

🤨

i blame swat for it not being 50%

[fossil skiff]

Halo 4 is 100% the best game for mouse and key in halo right now

Heck, even on a controller it feels amazing. Game was just made well overall.

[hasty zinc]

give me Infinite with the optimization of 4 plz

[fickle drift]

Actually you did. You said something in a chat so it’s pretty obvious that people are going to react to it

[winter flame]

somehow i get better performance in Infinite then 4

i guess it depends if your CPU or GPU bottlenecked

[stoic pulsar]

why you stop playint it 1 year ago?

[winter flame]

im more CPU limited and MCC in general seems to be quite CPU hungry on PC. Whereas Infinite is very GPU hungry

[winter flame]

because i couldn't win

and its swat

[fossil skiff]

🏕️

[winter flame]

i think i only have as many games as i have because in S1 in particular I was mostly jumping on to do challenges

[fossil skiff]

Same here ^

[stoic pulsar]

i remember i leave a year ago because the desync was brutal

since christmas i start again

[normal owl]

Did this also stir your emotions? @hasty zinc
https://youtu.be/Ek3I6_9c58E

[slim zealot]

Never been out br'd by a kbm player btw 🧍‍♂️

[hasty zinc]

it was a good trailer

[amber mirage]

It was. It no longer is.

[hasty zinc]

not a fan of that version of rocket man though

[fossil skiff]

Aegis did you see the news

[amber mirage]

About the Indian mission?

[fossil skiff]

India landed on the Moon’s South Pole

[hasty zinc]

yoooo

man everything cool happens the day BEFORE my birthday

why can't anything cool happen on that day

ugh

[fossil skiff]

Even doubly impressive since they lost the mission in 2019

[amber mirage]

They don't want to overshadow you

[hasty zinc]

pfft

oh my birthday is already overshadowed

stupid volcano

[fossil skiff]

volcano?

[hasty zinc]

I share my birthday with the eruption of Mt Vesuvius which killed tons of people in Pompeii

[amber mirage]

That's ancient history

The volcanic fumes aren't clouding up the sky tomorrow

[fossil skiff]

It gets even worse

August 24th is when Pluto was no longer an official planet

[hasty zinc]

are you kidding me

[obsidian wyvern]

all aegis fault

[hasty zinc]

also 24 Aug, 1814 British Burn Down Washington D.C.

WONDERFUL

[amber mirage]

And the Fall of Rome

[fossil skiff]

Hey at least the waffle iron was patented

[obsidian wyvern]

my bad

[fossil skiff]

Get you some Waffle House my friend

woah I haven’t seen that super reaction animation yet. Nice

[hasty zinc]

24 Aug, 1968 France Nuclear Power

1968 : France became the world's fifth nuclear power when it exploded its first hydrogen bomb.

my birthday is nothing but destruction

[obsidian wyvern]

lmfao

[fossil skiff]

I’m starting to think Aegis is a manifestation of Chaos

[hasty zinc]

24 Aug, 1992 U.S.A. Hurricane Andrew

1992 : Hurricane Andrew with winds in excess of 150 MPH ravages Southern Florida destroying 85,000 homes and leaving 1/4 million homeless. 38 people are killed and estimated costs are put at over $30 billion dollars.

[obsidian wyvern]

they're gonna build a real halo array on his birthday eventually

aegis, can you do Florida man and then your birthday

[fossil skiff]

343 is editing the date the array was fired as we speak

[hasty zinc]

Florida man punches elderly victim for ‘holding up the line’ after social distancing confrontation at Publix

[obsidian wyvern]

LMAO you're so right sol

[forest lagoon]

Specific day doesn't pull up much but the month/year pulls up some wild stuff for me lol

I mean Month/Day not month/year

[hasty zinc]

but noooo the 23rd gets all kinds of cool stuff like earthquakes and moon landings

[obsidian wyvern]

I was looking for your birthday a while ago sky, could never find it

now's the perfect time to tell me

[fossil skiff]

Where is this from I wanna see what I get

[obsidian wyvern]

just type on google

[hasty zinc]

just google florida man and your birthday

[fossil skiff]

Oh okay, brb

Florida man steals alligator from golf course, tries ‘teaching it a lesson’ by throwing it on roof of bar

[obsidian wyvern]

???

[fossil skiff]

Certified Florida moment

[forest lagoon]

Better than mine kicking swans practicing karate

[normal owl]

August 24 is also a day where dividing 8 by 2 yields 4, so that's one positive.

[obsidian wyvern]

(thanks?)

[fossil skiff]

[hasty zinc]

birthday confirmed

[fossil skiff]

should have been Canadian geese smh. Those guys are evil

[obsidian wyvern]

27th April by the looks of it

[hasty zinc]

or 26th

[fossil skiff]

I still hold a grudge from when they attacked me for cheez-itz

[obsidian wyvern]

damn it sky

[obsidian wyvern]

LOL

[hasty zinc]

geese are scary

[forest lagoon]

What the what

[fossil skiff]

just minding my business walking to a friend’s house and they took offense to my existence

[obsidian wyvern]

well it was the first result for 27th, and the first result for 26th was a guy attacking his mattress

[forest lagoon]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-dog-no-nope-no-way-gif-5196621

[fossil skiff]

that is cursed

[hasty zinc]

geese are cursed

[fossil skiff]

so are penguins

they cute until you see the inside of their mouth

So. Many…Teeth?

[normal owl]

To be fair, that's people too.

[fossil skiff]

Hah, you’re not wrong

[forest lagoon]

And they said beauty was on the inside

[normal owl]

[amber mirage]

The penguin's mouth looks a lot better than the goose's

[forest lagoon]

Elites are less scary

I forgot I named it spoiler so it auto spoilers it lol

[fossil skiff]

didn’t know discord could do that, neat

[hasty zinc]

I wonder when they'll start modeling in the elite tongues

[near tree]

😆

[fossil skiff]

[normal owl]

https://tenor.com/view/andrew-koji-ah-sahm-warrior-hbo-max-warrior-cinemax-hop-wei-gif-24964873

The gangs in the show Warrior are called tongs, and pictured is one of their elite.

So that's a successful pun.

[near tree]

Thank you
I would not have gotten it

[normal owl]

My pleasure.

[obsidian wyvern]

spoiler

skyfi lied to me

[normal owl]

And by the way, I am loving that Warrior show. So cool how they have homages to Bruce Lee moves/movies sprinkled in occasionally. Action is great, plot moves along, and it's so interesting to see that less-known part of history--particularly about my people--brought to vibrant life. On Max f/k/a HBO Max.

[near tree]

Where does it take place?

(and when)

[normal owl]

later 1800's San Francisco

[pulsar heron]

you have to name the file starting with spoiler to get it to work :p

[near tree]

Interesting

Sounds fun

[normal owl]

I think you'll really enjoy it. The characters are very interesting.

[amber mirage]

It's ongoing, right?

[near tree]

You say your people, did you grow up in San Francisco, or are you referring to the cultures that immigrated over?

[normal owl]

Yes they're releasing Season 3 currently.

[near tree]

Are you Chinese?

[normal owl]

The Chinese. My parents immigrated so our family wasn't here then. It was the period leading up to the Chinese Exclusion Act in the U.S.

[forest lagoon]

It's got to be in all caps like this SPOILER_

[near tree]

I didn't know you parents immigrated. That's kind of cool!
Have you and your fam retained a decent amount of Chinese culture?

[amber mirage]

Added it to my list. Might start watching after I'm done with My Adventures With Superman.

[hallow oyster]

cant wait get pc ugprade so i can play halo infinite

im sure my old cannot run it

[normal owl]

Oh yeah, and when I was a kid I would've said "way too much of it" lol. Dad did his best: served in the U.S. Army until Lt Colonel rank. But naturally the interpretation of "what's best for the kids" was entirely Chinese. It wasn't until more recently that I really understood how bifurcated a lot of my childhood was between what my family expected and what my friends expected.

[normal owl]

It's an excellent show to just pop on while eating dinner or to snuggle in with on a slow evening.

[quasi breach]

fair enough

[fossil oak]

Glad I don’t have to update my console every year heh

[normal owl]

And as an adult, when I've gone back to China, I'm instantly an "ABC" - American-Born Chinese, so there's an immediate distinction that native Chinese make about me as well. Very interesting aspects of sort of non-native-ness to both my ethnicity and nationality.

[hallow oyster]

ye my pc from 2016

[amber mirage]

Relatable. I imagine most children of immigrants have this experience. I know I have.

[hallow oyster]

damn it i ment to respond

but yeah rn my pc migth no be good enougth to run halon infinite

[normal owl]

Were your folks more or less encouraging of cultural assimilation?

[amber mirage]

Kind of in a weird in-between

[normal owl]

same lol

[open mirage]

where do i upload images

[amber mirage]

Direct uploads are disabled for most users. You need to post a link to the image.

[open mirage]

ah ok

[near tree]

Has that been hard?

[sharp quartz]

My halo was lagging in the lobby n showed a 12v12 event

[normal owl]

Sure we can always wish life was easier/more fun, but any difficulty in my life has been absolutely nothing compared to the challenges that many others face every day. I sponsor some kids in very poor parts of the world, and seeing their circumstances on a regular basis continually reminds me that I have nothing to complain about at all.

[sharp quartz]

SPOIleRS or nah?

[normal owl]

No please.

[sharp quartz]

I hope not my heart stopped a beat before I realised it was just misloaded

[normal owl]

haha you're all good!

[sharp quartz]

Restarted and it disappeared

[vapid siren]

gents

i come bearing something unhinged

[steady jolt]

"Florida man allegedly beat roommate's raccoon with hammer, threatened to kill neighbor with sewing needle"

[vapid siren]

https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/15yoykh/1080_nuclear_football_doubleunedited_version/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

god right i hate new reddit embeds

[obsidian wyvern]

bruh

[wind wharf]

god right i hate new reddit embeds

[sharp quartz]

NAUR

[winter flame]

do not fear recon is here https://packaged-media.redd.it/j8gsksfogrjb1/pb/m2-res_480p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1692813600&s=96dac9c9c2546066a729dde4703ef0f3a3b1abed

right click > copy video link for anyone wondering

[feral fern]

https://www.xbox.com/play/media/WCTTTZ5NBL

[obsidian wyvern]

whew

[feral fern]

Can ppl see my clip?

[sharp quartz]

Event? But No 10 level pass? Scarr Heavies is real?

[hallow oyster]

gaming

[obsidian wyvern]

event is next week, scarr heavies is rn

[sharp quartz]

Ok

[feral fern]

Do u know where I can see more of the event items than discord shows?

[obsidian wyvern]

it hasnt been released officially yet

[elfin glacier]

Ay low free

@obsidian wyvern hello dinp

[feral fern]

Ok, thanks anyway :/

[obsidian wyvern]

i was wondering if that was @ me lol

how are we doing siege

[elfin glacier]

doin pretty good, temperature today is reasonable in 343land

[obsidian wyvern]

its actually not raining here for once as well 😱

[near tree]

Why of course! Everyone can find something to be grateful for, if nothing more than the gift of life. Any you're here in America, the land of opportunity, and a lawyer too! And you've been given opportunities to serve others as well. Sounds like you have a lot to be thankful for. I wasn't trying to imply that you should be basking in self pity
But hardship can strike anyone, and often grows amidst blessings. There's no shame in it either

[elfin glacier]

it rained a bunch last night. not complaining, probably cleared a bit of smoke

[obsidian wyvern]

thats still a problem over there?

[feral fern]

Ya

[obsidian wyvern]

damn

thought it wouldve cleared up ages ago

[elfin glacier]

all day bro

[haughty crypt]

by not playing or understanding the Titanfall series, you're bound to have bad ideas for the series

[feral fern]

It's starting to clear up a few days ago, but we haven't had it very long

[pulsar heron]

i mean we can definitely see that you posted a link. if you'd like to share it somewhere specific, you can post it to #1076327824924872755 (:

[feral fern]

My bad

[pulsar heron]

good thing this is a halo server, then

[elfin glacier]

washingtonbro detected?

[feral fern]

Na, up near Vancouver

Bit west tho

[normal owl]

100%. Everything we gain from our experiences can be used to help someone else. We push forward so that we can turn and shine a light on the path for those who come after.

Except single-player games: for those, I'm in it just for me.

[elfin glacier]

dang, stay safe

[feral fern]

I'm off island (but most ppl don't know the area so I'm good, thanks though

On a island just not the mainland to be clear

[hallow oyster]

what happened

[feral fern]

The fires in the Vancouver area

[normal owl]

Cougar Central

[feral fern]

Ya, one time they were in my school yard

[normal owl]

That is wild! Here we get deer and bears and coyotes, but cougars seem much scarier with how fast they are.

[feral fern]

The deers are everywhere in my backyard, we have bears further out of the urban areas because they become a problem quick, and cougars leave us alone for the most part we just gotta be careful when they are around and in areas they would be

[normal owl]

Yeah the fact that cougars stalk prey is what would make me worry. Bears are large and dangerous, but they aren't hiding when you encounter them.

https://tenor.com/view/jurassic-park-world-velociraptor-clever-gif-25116052

[feral fern]

Ya, they are not an animal you want to encounter by any means

[feral fern]

Lol

That's exactly what we try to avoid

[fossil skiff]

Just throw meow mix at them problem solved

[normal owl]

Plus, bears sit like this. 😂

[feral fern]

🤣

[fossil skiff]

It’s so cute

I’d only be half mad if he stole my trail snacks

[normal owl]

I know! And they eat so fancily: if the item is small, they place it on the back of their paw and lift their paw up to their mouth to eat it.

[fossil skiff]

Didn’t know that. Makes me love them even more

[normal owl]

There's this place in Michigan where they rescue orphaned or injured bears and sometimes there are cubs and they melt you on first sight.

[fossil skiff]

Look at this absolute unit

[normal owl]

Ursine Chad. It turned out that there were multiple bears responsible for the break-ins initially pinned on Hank the Tank. The biggest culprit was actually female and is being shipped to Colorado I think hahaha.

[feral fern]

I have pictures of a bear cub by the side of the road but I can't share them (it won't send)

[haughty crypt]

no embed perms?

[feral fern]

???

[fossil skiff]

Wow lol. I just saw that. It’s like Ocean’s 11

[feral fern]

Wdym

[normal owl]

Hahaha such graceful movement too.

[haughty crypt]

the inheritor role is required for sending images

[fossil skiff]

laser hall dance scene just to steal a double cheeseburger

[haughty crypt]

which I don't have (of course I don't need that unless necessary)

[feral fern]

Ok

[feral fern]

Do u work for Xbox?

[hasty zinc]

before you ping me @obsidian wyvern I was in a meeting, posting daily now

[normal owl]

Not as an employee or contractor. But I work in order to earn money which I then spend on Xbox products, so in a way, yes.

[obsidian wyvern]

@hasty zinc

[normal owl]

In that sense, we all work for Xbox.

[obsidian wyvern]

ngl i hardly remember lol

[feral fern]

Oh ok

[hasty zinc]

idk why but Infinite is now prompting me to set my brightness and optional diagnostic stuff every time I launch -_-

[normal owl]

@feral fern For real though, there are folks regularly in here who in fact work for Xbox. It's neat that you can chat with them here!

[obsidian wyvern]

here we go again

[hasty zinc]

but it never resets settings

[feral fern]

Ya, it's super cool

[normal owl]

Aegis whinging? I know right

[hasty zinc]

just prompts me to set it

[haughty crypt]

BTW, should I simp for Crysis 4 (Ah, the video game series I used to play when I was a kid) because Halo Infinite despite good updates is still not so good, and Titanfall 2's servers haven't been fixed since DDoS attacks?

[obsidian wyvern]

never ending

[hasty zinc]

do I whine a lot?

[obsidian wyvern]

i think its because hes getting old. hes like 58 tomorrow

[normal owl]

very rarely, actually, or else I wouldn't have joked about it lol

[hasty zinc]

ah

I was going through past messages in my head

[normal owl]

Yeah first yesterday's apparent revelation about my pfp, now this. It's our duty to keep him happy and fed as he enjoys his golden years.

[obsidian wyvern]

joking with aegis is a little bit harder because i dont want him to think im being serious lol

[obsidian wyvern]

🫡 will do

[hasty zinc]

I'm too old for this

tomorrow I will be announcing my retirement from this server

[obsidian wyvern]

finally

omg i didnt realise how many of you there were lol

[normal owl]

--if you can even remember to do so.

[hasty zinc]

wow

[obsidian wyvern]

i always type aegis and never really see anyone but you

[obsidian wyvern]

lmfao

[normal owl]

I also only have eyes for Aegisfate.

[hasty zinc]

https://giphy.com/gifs/theoffice-HP7mtfNa1E4CEqNbNL

[normal owl]

perfect gif

[hasty zinc]

I try

maybe bethesda will surprise everyone by releasing Starfield early tomorrow

[normal owl]

I'm excited for the jokes about being old tomorrow. It's going to be a fun day of banter at the expense of someone whom we're supposed to be celebrating and making feel good.

Aegis can't wait!

[obsidian wyvern]

maybe thats a bad thing considering all the chaos that happens tomorrow in history

[hasty zinc]

trust me, I don't take offense to anything anyone says in here. Very rarely do I actually get mad at stuff people say, the other day for example

[obsidian wyvern]

this is a terrible name

[obsidian wyvern]

i cant recall

[normal owl]

Did someone besmirch Game Pass?

[hasty zinc]

eh, something about posting dailies someone said, don't want to get super into it

[obsidian wyvern]

now im gonna have to search this all up

[normal owl]

Aegis for real though, are you celebrating in some fashion?

[hasty zinc]

it's no biggie, just rubbed me the wrong way.

[hasty zinc]

Hopefully having my favorite food!

Manicotti

[normal owl]

Delicious!

Birthday dessert?

[hasty zinc]

I don't like cake

well let me re-phrase

[normal owl]

Well if you have cannolis then you'll be having a Cylinderfest tomorrow.

[hasty zinc]

I don't like grocery store, gritty icing and just bland kinda cake

[normal owl]

oh agreed, homemade cake is where it's at. Fluffy, perfectly balanced frosting.

[hasty zinc]

like a GOOD german chocolate cake

or something with cherries on it

but most of the time people get those gross sheetcakes and I'm just like nah

[normal owl]

and that nice resistance against your fork as you carve into it.

[hasty zinc]

where you have to heat up your knife just to get a slice

[normal owl]

Agreed. I've heard good things about Costco cake, but in general I feel like storebought cake isn't worth the exorbitant calories when homemade can knock your socks off.

Mannn now I want chocolate cake.

[forest lagoon]

Costco tres leches cake is worth it though

[normal owl]

Controversial opinion, but I wish I could eat cake every day and not gain weight.

[dreamy stirrup]

i have a dog that sits like this

@spice barn this is a Halo server.

Please do not come here to recruit for other stuff.

[hasty zinc]

my cat sat like that too on occasion lol

just mad chillin

but he would sit like that on the back of the sofa where he barely had room

[worthy ginkgo]

cute doggo!

[forest lagoon]

Looks like he's contemplating the meaning of life

[normal owl]

hahaha such a "Monday again huh" vibe

[hallow oyster]

im bored

[forest lagoon]

Hi bored, I'm Skyfi

[forest lagoon]

Boredom breeds creativity. Go forth and be creative! ONWARD!!!

[hallow oyster]

yus

[hasty zinc]

I was really proud of myself performing popsocket surgery yesterday. I had to get very creative to fix it

[hallow oyster]

nice

[forest lagoon]

What happened?

[hearty flame]

Costco tiramisu in the little glass jars, that's cash right there

[hasty zinc]

so the part that expands was separated from the little plastic piece that connects to the part that stick to the phone

and the hole to put that little plastic piece back in is very small

so I took a pair of tweezers and put them closed into the hole and then took a screwdriver in between the tweezers and then moved the screw driver up in between the tweezers to expand them and the hole and then with the other hand slipped one half of the little plastic piece in the hole

[spice barn]

I really don’t care

[hasty zinc]

then pushed down and used the tweezers to grab the other half of the hole to wrap it around the other side of the plastic piece

[forest lagoon]

Nice! Surgery is definitely an apt description of that repair!

[hasty zinc]

lol

[fossil skiff]

I agree

Frosted cookies are the bane of my existence

[hasty zinc]

yeah I had to transplant the little plastic piece from another popsocket because I accidentally threw it away when I took it off my old phone

and I wanted to save my enamel pokemon popsocket

[normal owl]

like the pink frosted animal crackers?

[hasty zinc]

or the iced oatmeal cookies?

[normal owl]

man I am so hungry now. I had cashews for lunch bc there was nothing else.

[hasty zinc]

bless you

[normal owl]

thank you

[fossil skiff]

These, but those are good too

[hasty zinc]

oh those things are AWFUL

[normal owl]

oh my gosh, the chewy bite

[hasty zinc]

that's just bad cake in cookie form

[fossil skiff]

:c

[forest lagoon]

They apparently changed the recipe from when we were younger and enjoyed them

From a Jordan the Stallion video where he shares the original recipe

The texture though, I remember the texture being worth the choking risk they came with

[normal owl]

There was something appealing about the plain magic of the sugar cookie.

[fossil skiff]

I just like meh frosted sugar cookies

[normal owl]

I totally get you. There is some magic tone for total immersive enjoyment that the right dessert just perfectly resonates with.

[jaunty yoke]

Yo the playerbase is coming back, nice

[fossil skiff]

Steam charts on the rise?

[queen remnant]

Steam numbers chart

[jaunty yoke]

Microsoft I demand you to reveal the Xbox numbers

[amber mirage]

They wont

The benefits of them doing that are miniscule compared to the downsides.

[fossil skiff]

I can hear the YouTubers doomposting already

[amber mirage]

Also, don't know if its just me, but I decided to check Steamcharts out of curiosity and its busted for Infinite.

[obsidian wyvern]

it's been mainly the opposite recently

[amber mirage]

Only goes up to November 30, 2022.

[jaunty yoke]

I mean it's Steam, everyone is playing Baldur's Gate 3 now

[obsidian wyvern]

idk why everyone changed their opinion all of a sudden but that's good ig?

[obsidian wyvern]

there is no correlation between what rok said and this

[jaunty yoke]

I would hope because the past 18 months of defending Infinite where it's worth have helped me to bring exactly 0 new players

[amber mirage]

I figured out I was using the wrong Steam charts

[jaunty yoke]

I'm sort of a freelancer Xbox marketing tool, I try to give them a good image online to bring more people to the family, mostly on Facebook and Twitter...
You know what, now I see why I haven't been effective

[fossil skiff]

[jaunty yoke]

I'm 21 years old, at the final semester of my college career, and I still don't have a job alright
I'm desperate

[amber mirage]

Just grind out those job applications

Applying for jobs is a full time job

[jaunty yoke]

I try my best

[queen remnant]

Haha yeaaaaaaa haha

[hasty zinc]

have to re-word applying for jobs so you can put that on your resume

[winter flame]

small wins add up pretty much

also changes people dislike get a lot more coverage then when they're reversed

[forest lagoon]

How could you word that to make it sound like a legit job on your resume

[jaunty yoke]

The difference that fans, media and bad press makes is insane
Sony had a terrible start with the PS3 and in just some years they were forgiven
Microsoft had a terrible start with the Xbox One and it's still suffering hate and consequences from that

[fossil skiff]

Specialized in testing responsiveness time of various corporations HR departments

[amber mirage]

That's a description I'd take another way

[fossil skiff]

Oh no. You are right. Woooops

[amber mirage]

That sounds to me like you're speedrunning HR violations

[fossil skiff]

[amber mirage]

Sounds like a good job, though, Making sure HR is up to the task.

[winter flame]

im honestly pretty amazed by how much playstation and xbox are still blundering. they pretty much only seem to care about market domination through spending money spiting one another rather then winning over customers by being more consumer friendly

[jaunty yoke]

It's because sales are all fans talk about
"Haha PS sells more therefore it's better"

[hasty zinc]

"Engaged in a prolific pursuit of opportunities through a comprehensive application strategy, demonstrating dedication to exploring diverse pathways."

[amber iris]

Hauh

[hasty zinc]

thanks chatgpt

[jaunty yoke]

If you are arguing against people with that mentality there's not much you can do

[amber iris]

I’m about to unlock the superintendent AI

I think the season 1 battle pass is very worth it

You get your head on fire

Cool stuff for the best core

And something about reach

[winter flame]

either company could easily earn the reputation for being consumer first if they wanted to. Valve have notoriously done this in the PC market

[jaunty yoke]

Sony fans also tend to jump on fights when it's not even warranted
LIke you saw how just one or two days ago they announced some vinyl wraps for the Series X to look pretty?
Well PS fans reaction was to say it was a cheap copy of what the PS5 already does, ignoring the fact that the 360 was already doing it back then

[winter flame]

believe it or not, "fans" of consoles are a tiny minority of people who play video games

[jaunty yoke]

I believe you

[winter flame]

so they aren't a big factor in which company is more successful. most people buy what appeals to them

[hasty zinc]

well with the PS2 you could flip the orientation of the PS logo on the device depending on the orientation of your PS2 #customized

[jaunty yoke]

I always thought PC was a bigger market than console, Google confirmed it
According to this site, console players currently round about the 611 million, while PC has about 1.1 billion users

[bold sparrow]

PC is where gaming began. It will always stay strong

[winter flame]

im basically just routing for Valve to push back into the console market after devs start paying attention to SteamOS

then Xbox and Playstation might actually start being a bit more consumer focused

in fairness to Sony, they're on top so they dont really have to care. IMHO Xbox should be doing more to regain share then just buying franchises

[jaunty yoke]

I'll always say Xbox is more consumer friendly as of now by encouraging backwards compatibility and "play anywhere"
But PS fans make of fun of that with things like "Xbox only has old games"

Or "PC has everything Xbox has"

[winter flame]

Xbox are definitely more consumer friendly I would say but there's a lot further they could go

Sony are basically Apple at this point with how they position the Playstation brand

[forest lagoon]

Not to mention that PCs are more of a consumer need than consoles which also have an ability to play some games. (Or at least PCs used to before tablets took over a lot of stuff)

[jaunty yoke]

But this is what frustrates me you know
Red Dead Redemption is backwards compatible and you can have it for less than 50 dollars, much better option than the recent Switch and PS4 ports
You see, things like that are positive Xbox points that people just gloss over
That's a major selling point if you ask me, and somehow the Series X is still in 3rd place, WHY

[pseudo egret]

I'm a PC gamer true and true (never have been a console gamer my whole life) and prefer Xbox games, studios and ecosystem, game pass in my country is so cheap that I'm just happy that I get to play Starfield like the big money guys do.

[pseudo egret]

Series X is in 3rd place because they fumbled hard during the Xbox One launch, and since people bought PS4s have digital and physical games and friends and trophies on it they just move up to PS5.

[haughty wraith]

Lets face it, theres toxic xbox players who think if you play PS you are a social outcast, the are PS players who think they're superior for being able to run roblox at 1080p, and alot of PC players make fun of console players even though their games are less fun imo

[jaunty yoke]

Also that lol

[pseudo egret]

They made the Series S for that specific purpose, to bring hesistant PS4-PS5 gamers back into the Xbox eco-system

[jaunty yoke]

As of now, the only modern console you can play Roblox on is an Xbox
Admittedly it plays much worse than the PC version tho

[haughty wraith]

Its on PS5

[jaunty yoke]

Finally

[haughty wraith]

Lol

[jaunty yoke]

And gosh

Having the Microsoft store and Steam versions of Stardew Valley be crossplay is too much to ask

[haughty wraith]

Oceanic infinite servers are impossible ig

[jaunty yoke]

And I have no idea what's going on now about Microsoft selling the Xcloud rights to Ubisoft

[pseudo egret]

2023 and especially 2024 is going to have so much games for Xbox, Avowed, Hellblade 2, Toweborne (really excited for this one), Flight Sim 2024, Zenimax Online's new MMO being worked on for 5+ years, Blizzard's survival game called Odyssey that is close to being finished, and possibly more.

[normal owl]

That got my money real quick. Got the Starfield one.

[jaunty yoke]

I am as excited as you for these games, especially Hellblade 2 and Fable
Question is, will they bring an audience

[pseudo egret]

So here is the deal, apart from the european economic zone, Ubisoft will have the cloud streaming rights to Acti-Blizz games and will licence them to Xbox for some amount of money per game, and can licence it to other cloud gaming companies but other than that every Acti-Blizz game apart from cod will most likely be exclusive to xbox and appear on Xbox game pass console and pc

[amber mirage]

I mean, Stardew Valley is a small indie game. It hasn't exactly been trivial for large teams, let alone small ones to implement crossplay solutions into their games.

[jaunty yoke]

Forza Horizon 5 got 10/10 review scores but it only brought more PC game pass subs

[pseudo egret]

They very well could, a game like Towerborne could be something like Stardew Valley, I could play test it soon and maybe talk about my impressions

[jaunty yoke]

They need to make something else as popular as Minecraft or Sea of Thieves

[pseudo egret]

Well PC is also Xbox territory since Linux is almost irrelevant apart from the Steam Deck.

[winter flame]

what we're seeing now is really just a result of having only two players in the high-end console market. their only real motivation is to get you to buy in based on how many titles they can offer you that the other console cant. If they both spent less money on stopping games being avaliable to consumers who dont own their console, maybe the quality of games wouldn't be at a lowpoint.

[jaunty yoke]

That is one thing they can show off

[winter flame]

but at the same time i guess it would be collusion for them to agree not to spend money on stopping games releasing on eachothers consoles lol

[jaunty yoke]

Despite being the most recent company of the big 3 (Nintendo is from like 1889, Sony is from 1946 and Microsoft is from 1975)
Microsoft has the most money of the 3, how did they do it? Idk, Windows sales

[pseudo egret]

Towerborne could possibly be that game, it's being published by Xbox Game Studios and made by Stoic who have been working on it since 2018 and will release on 2024 and they have around 80 employees most working remotely.

[jaunty yoke]

It looks pretty I'll play it

Games like 33 Immortals are interesting ideas

And just one question

[pseudo egret]

Same I signed up for it's playtesting and gave them my PC specs, so hopefully they let me innn.

[jaunty yoke]

I shouldn't have any reason to believe we will ever see a new Xbox exclusive that is actually exclusive, only on consoles?
Because yeah I really think everything will come out on PC from now on

[pseudo egret]

I thought every playstation player had a "banger very powerful gaming PC" that they could play Xbox games on, was I wrong?

[winter flame]

Xbox and Valve have some arrangement that Xbox is happy with. they have no reason not to release games on PC anymore since they will sell very well

[jaunty yoke]

My christmas goal as of now is a Series X
But I'm considering going for a gaming PC instead

[pseudo egret]

I could build you a pretty good gaming pc for around 600-650 dollars, RX 6600 or RX 7600 and a Ryzen 5 5600.

[jaunty yoke]

Hmmmm

[winter flame]

If I can hit 40fps+ with good visuals on my RX6600 I'm honestly selling the Series X

[pseudo egret]

AMD's RX 6600 is equivalent to the RTX 3060 and 7600 is equal to the 4060

[jaunty yoke]

I have no doubts the Series X is a beast but the media is right, the Series S parity release policy is holding it back

[pseudo egret]

I have a 3060 12GB and a Ryzen 5 5600, I could do ray-traced reflections at native 1080p almost highest settings at 120+FPS on Doom Eternal can't wait to see what ID Software makes next.

[winter flame]

Series X has a ton of graphics power but if games like Starfield are going to cap at 30 to hit pointlessly high resolutions it just feels underutilised

[pseudo egret]

It's not about hitting pointless resolutions they are hitting a CPU limit, so even if they were to drop the res to 480p it still wouldn't get a stable 60FPS

[jaunty yoke]

I'm a performance person
Games can look ugly, I won't mind, as long as they run good and are fun

[winter flame]

that's the big question really. i'll find out how CPU heavy it is because my PC has a weaker CPU then my Series X

[pseudo egret]

Watch this video on why Starfield is 30FPS by Digital Foundry : https://youtu.be/i9ikne_9iEI

[forest lagoon]

My 6750 has made me happy

[pseudo egret]

Than likely you will also play at similiar FPS

[winter flame]

i find it really hard to believe the Series X is CPU bottlenecked all the way down to 30fps and they couldn't even hit a solid 40 but no point speculating really

maybe they will do a 40fps mode who knows

[jaunty yoke]

From what I recall in the interview, Todd Howard said during playtesting, they saw that yes, Starfield could go higher than 30 fps on Xbox, but it couldn't maintain a stable rate, and they didn't want to sacrifice visuals and performance so they locked it at 30

[forest lagoon]

But things are still prettier with my Xbox because I have a better quality TV than I do for a monitor

[pseudo egret]

So the Series X cpu is not actually what you think it is for example in Flight Sim 2020 the cpu is 44% worse than a Ryzen 5 3600. they tested it's cpu on PC thanks to a China only release for Series X chips with defective gpus https://youtu.be/cZS-4PgD4SI the reason being is that the L3 Cache on the Series X/S, PS5 CPU is 4 times as less than a 3600 and 3700x

[forest lagoon]

I wonder how many calculations starfield is making on the CPU side to run. How massive is this game?

[jaunty yoke]

Even if I would have preferred at least 40
30 fps has one advantage: you can have more objects on screen
With Halo games for example, especially those with the Flood, if you have it running at 30 you can have almost double the amount of Flood spawned in the map as opposed to 60fps

[winter flame]

i know a Series X CPU isn't insanely powerful but it's not that bad

[pseudo egret]

Not just objects on screen though, NPC count, NPC interactivity, Animations and so much more

[winter flame]

we'll just have to wait and see

[pseudo egret]

Give a watch to that video in some games it's equal in some games it's not.

[amber mirage]

Something people forget it that framerates aren't just linked to graphics, but also overall complexity.

[jaunty yoke]

Indeed

[amber mirage]

I'm in the camp where I'd gladly sacrifice framerates for an overall more complex game.

[winter flame]

i doubt you'll even need a Ryzen 5 3600 to hit 40+fps in starfield though so im not sure what your point is

[pseudo egret]

We don't know, we'll see reviews are coming out in 31st.

[hasty zinc]

I'll find out on the 31st for myself

[jaunty yoke]

Have no doubts
Even with all the new technology, if you want a new Halo game where waves of Flood overwhelm you and the map, you're gonna have to set the game at 30fps for that

[pseudo egret]

The Series X has a very good GPU though so they can push high res even if they are cpu limited, Hellblade 2 for example will most likely run at 60FPS and so will Avowed and other games that don't have high NPC count and interactivity like Starfield

[pseudo egret]

I think they could manage it on Halo, Plague Tale Requiem devs managed to get 60FPS after tweaking some stuff.

[jaunty yoke]

Nice

[pseudo egret]

343/Playground Games, Turn 10 and The Coalition are actually kind of talented imo, I have no idea how they manage to get 60FPS on the Xbox One CPUs, those were actually terrible.

[winter flame]

at this point there's just so many great games you can play at 40fps+ with relatively cheap hardware i would just wait for an upgrade to play a game that i cant run above that. it was different when every open world console game was 30fps and you needed a high end PC to do better.

[jaunty yoke]

What hypes me the most and at the same time, worries me the most about the Starfield is space battles, but not those where it's just you and one other enemy ship, big conflicts with dozens of ships flying and shooting around
Hyped becaused it would be awesome, worried because it could kill the performance

[pseudo egret]

Nah the 30FPS seems stable, I saw a leak by a guy whole stole a lot of Starfield copies and the game is very smooth on Xbox

[jaunty yoke]

I pray everything goes well

This could be Xbox's new GOTY, we haven't seen one since 2006 😔

[winter flame]

they wont release starfield if the 30fps isn't solid mate, assuming Spencer isn't planning on retiring already lol

[jaunty yoke]

That's the double edged blade

[hasty zinc]

the good thing about space battles is your don't have to render environments really, space is pretty empty

[jaunty yoke]

They give Starfield all the time, care and dedication to ensure a stable release
But on the other hand, their last exclusive Redfall, was released without any care

[winter flame]

Redfall shambles is basically why Spencer wont let Starfield release in a bad state

he cant afford to

[normal owl]

That was a different studio that was tasked with going completely out of their element, which was unfortunate because Arkane is incredible at immersive sims.

[pseudo egret]

Hi-Fi Rush was very good though

[jaunty yoke]

Imagine a timeline where Halo Infinite released with all the content it had up to season 3

[pseudo egret]

Blame Zenimax leadership they forced all of their studio's to make live service games. Fallout 76, Wolfenstein Youngblood and Redfall

[jaunty yoke]

That's true

I played the Dishonored games, no doubt, Arkane is talented

[jaunty yoke]

That one's amazing, a shame haters like to pretend it either was bad or doesn't exist

[pseudo egret]

Though I played Fallout 76 recently and it's actually decent with all the updates

[normal owl]

Live service games are where it's at.

[jaunty yoke]

Now I see why they are called live service
Because they absorb our life force away

[amber mirage]

It would be nice if every game was given all the development time it needed before release, unfortunately, game dev isn't free and every extra month a game spends in development is hundreds of thousands of dollars being sunk into it. Most good investors understand sunk cost fallacy and don't have the benefit of hindsight.

[pseudo egret]

But making studios who traditionally made single-player games to make live-service is kind of a bad decision unless the studio heads want to do it. Zenimax already has a live-service studio called Zenimax Online studios which made Elder Scrolls Online and are working on a new game for 5+ years now.

[jaunty yoke]

Oh I do understand that

[normal owl]

Agreed, and Redfall was the result.

[amber mirage]

Maybe the studio did want to do it.

[jaunty yoke]

Every day your game hasn't released is another day the publisher is not earning money from it

[amber mirage]

Not just not earning money, but losing money.

[jaunty yoke]

The most recent live service I've been playing now is Exoprimal
And it's alright, but it has the same problem every live service has at launch, there's very little content

[pseudo egret]

I think they didn't because Raphael Colantonio the director and writer of Prey (2017) left to form his own company in 2019, so he probably wasn't happy with the game, but the other guy who I forgot his name who was the director of Dishonored 2 stayed for Redfall.

[normal owl]

Yeah a lot of folks don't understand that there's a tipping point for when it's estimated to be better to put out a half-quality revenue generator.

and Redfall could have been a badass game, is the thing.

Such a shame.

[winter flame]

you're not losing money if the money being invested into it will result in greater returns. But games get a lot of hype and the management just assume it can't flop pretty much

[jaunty yoke]

Yeah

[pseudo egret]

But you are right live-service games are where it's at right now, Sony's big triple a titles are actually not making that much money if at all, the money comes from people who use Playstation and buy other games and micro-transactios on it where they get a 30% cut of every purchase made on Playstation consoles. So they are now pivoting to making more live-service games

[jaunty yoke]

Vampire Survivors is real fun, it reminds me of classic Castlevania
And well, I'm a fan of roguelikes

[amber mirage]

The thing is, greater returns aren't a guarantee. You could invest more money and give it all the care it deserves and the game could still flop.

[winter flame]

yeah, balancing the risk of putting more money into an uncertain project with the risk of releasing too soon

[jaunty yoke]

It is a big risk

[tranquil marsh]

Earlier today i saw a one of those advertisments on the xbox dashboard and it was a Halo one. It had a bunch of game covers on it like Infinite and MCC and stuff. But the thing that is confusing me is that it had the game covers for the Xbox 360 versions of Halo 3 and ODST and more. When I clicked on it i was met with an error screen. Im not sure if this means they'll put the classic versions of the games up for sale again or the person who made the advertisement picture made a mistake.

[jaunty yoke]

But those who never risk never win, so eventually you have to jump

[amber mirage]

That could easily just turn into sunk cost fallacy

[jaunty yoke]

It probably was a mistake

[normal owl]

A part of me is sad about that as I have a lot of fond memories about that journey through an epic single-player self-contained game. But I understand how it's inevitable: the compensation for a quality traditional game is paying full price for it. The compensation for a live service game is paying for digital content once in a while. And we've more or less decided as a consumer base that we will not accept floating the shelf price up to actual inflation-adjusted amounts for games.

[jaunty yoke]

Was it like last week that the Xbox Brazil twitter account uploaded a picture celebrating father's day with screenshots of different games, including Final Fantasy 7 Remake
Which had me ultra hyped
And even though the account was quick to delete the post and say this doesn't mean anything
I will keep my eyes open

[normal owl]

but please keep them closed while sleeping.

[winter flame]

As that facebook guy once said "the biggest risk is not taking any"

[jaunty yoke]

That's true

[tranquil marsh]

I took a picture of it

[winter flame]

annoying good quote from someone i wouldnt usually want to idolise lol. im sure he read it somewhere else though

[jaunty yoke]

I enjoy singleplayer games, but it is rare that I play them again after beating them once

[fossil oak]

True

[hasty zinc]

didn't they officially state that was posted in error?

[normal owl]

And I honestly don't even fully finish many of them. Like I just got this diamond achievement in The Outer Worlds...just for being part of the <1% that played the game to that point and nothing else.

Sometimes I want to write developers and tell them that I can see how much work they've put into certain content and not to lose heart that 99% of people aren't playing it.
But they expect it anyway.

[fathom radish]

I am going to bring my Xbox out of the closet and outside even though it is 92° out

[normal owl]

Was on board with the first leg of that journey, but why bring it outdoors?

[fathom radish]

I am playing halo with the boys

[normal owl]

That's what's up!

[fathom radish]

I am also stress testing it

[obsidian wyvern]

laptop crashed during a windows reinstall, im sure I've lost everything

[smoky token]

as long as it wasnt a bios update you're fine

you did get all your info off the drive, right?

[faint mantle]

If he did I don't think he would have said "I've lost everything"

[jaunty yoke]

Uhhh guys

In Infinite, in certain Forge maps, bots have a hard time moving aroud, sometimes they get stuck, sometimes they don't move, and sometimes they won't even react at you

Should I be worried the same happens to campaign AI when they add it?

[faint mantle]

Hopefully it won't be a problem by then, though it may also depend on how the forge map is made

[jaunty yoke]

Alright

[rare cedar]

They react to boundries set by the creator

[steel cradle]

@RingstadTTV on Xbox.... Need 1 for ranked matches

[rapid pivot]

Anyone know how I get halo MCC controls back to before the most recent update?

[safe dawn]

sup

[safe dawn]

#lfg-competitive

[safe dawn]

what do you mean

[rapid pivot]

On halo 2 I gotta press Y to duel wield and use d pad to switch nades. I wanna go back to holding LB to duel wield and tapping it to switch nades.

When the latest update installed it changed the controls. Anyone to get it back to how it was before?

[amber iris]

What are some ways you guys get credits?

[safe dawn]

mcc or inf

[amber iris]

Infinite

I’ve been free to play for like 2 years

Someone gave me credits for a battle pass once but I bought the season 1 pass and it doesn’t have credits in it so I’m back to 0

[queen remnant]

There is no other way, unless you pay any of the season 2, 3 and 4 that those gives you 1000 credits each of those

[amber iris]

Ugh

Oh well

I’ve already maxed 2

I should have gotten 3 and 4 and then gotten 1

Or just never gotten 1 and continued getting the following passes

Oh well

Mark V is still my favorite core

[safe dawn]

its only $10 USD

[safe dawn]

check your keybinds

[rare cedar]

You can customize your keybinds, both KBM and Controller, on MCC

[amber iris]

Don’t got it

[rapid pivot]

Thanks.

So am I the only one this happened to? Was this not a feature of the update? some kind of glitch? It happened to my parents as well on a totally different Xbox.

They’re old and get confused by the changing buttons.

[rare cedar]

It may have been done to enable the customization for the keybinds.

[safe dawn]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[amber iris]

Season 4 pass is mid anyways

[safe dawn]

its not that bad

[amber iris]

Eh

[safe dawn]

it has a rather nice armor set tbh

[amber iris]

I do like hazmat

[safe dawn]

wasnt talking about that but ye

for mk7 it has the emerson tactical parts

[amber iris]

Oh

Thought you meant the featured core

[rapid pivot]

My mom is very slowly playing through Halo 2 solo campaign on normal. Which is pretty impressive since she’s been playing Halo and console games in general for less than a year. She recently beat Regret. After she beats the game (or gives up) the three of us will move on to Halo 3 co op.

[safe dawn]

meh, it would be better if it wasnt all behind the paid pass

[safe dawn]

nice

[rapid pivot]

Real bummer 5 and Infinite don’t have split screen since we planned on doing 3, ODST, Reach and 4 together. With two on one screen and one on another. Would have been fun to do 5 and Infinite that way.

[amber iris]

Nothing about 5 is fun except turning it off

Ok that’s a bit of an exaggeration

But I still don’t like it

I hate you Locke you stink

[rapid pivot]

Not a big fan of 4 and 5 either.

[amber iris]

I do like 4

[hasty zinc]

that makes sense, it's easy to like the best game in the franchise

[safe dawn]

i dissagree, 4 and 5 are awesome

[fickle drift]

Tbh halo 4 is the only halo game that I don’t like much

[safe dawn]

only problem with 5 is the lack of customization ability

[amber iris]

The campaign in halo 5 ruined the experience for me

[rapid pivot]

I enjoy both of them. Just not in comparison to the classics. I thought Infinite nailed it in a lot of ways and dropped the ball in others. But it feels true to Halo. 4 and 5 felt kind of like an insult to Halo. Changed art style, music style, character presentation etc. Became a melodramatic soap opera. Took the mystique of forerunners and squandered it.

[safe dawn]

that statement cannot be anything besides a complete and total exaggeration

[amber iris]

Ok listen

First of all, Locke can go die in a ditch

[hasty zinc]

[amber iris]

The writing for the story is honestly kinda pathetic

[rapid pivot]

I also despise how Halo went from a game where you could explore any place you could manage to reach - to a game that punished you for exploring and literally kills you just for trying

[safe dawn]

he actually might have

[amber iris]

Sick

[safe dawn]

bc infinite boss has his helm

[safe dawn]

booooo

[queen remnant]

That doesn't mean he is dead

Like at all

[safe dawn]

locke was a decent character

[queen remnant]

We still don't have any confirmation about it basically

[amber iris]

But there was NO reason to root for him

[rapid pivot]

But that started with Reach. Infinite thankfully barely has those awful kill timers.

[safe dawn]

if a brute has your helmet, it means you are most likely dead

[queen remnant]

Or not

[safe dawn]

:|

[amber iris]

I just do not like Locke at all

[fickle drift]

Like when Atriox crushed Douglas' helmet amirite
He's totally unalived now

[amber iris]

My favorite part of the game is when chief beats the crap out of him

[fresh urchin]

Brutes are known for being very merciful especially to Spartans

[safe dawn]

i said most likely

[hasty zinc]

suit gets damaged from battle, locke ditches it, grunts find armor, give to brute leader, brute lies that he killed him and tells grunt to spread the word via propaganda towers

ez

[safe dawn]

and atriox didnt keep the helmet

[amber iris]

Speaking of chief, did the writers literally just forget about him???

[queen remnant]

He might be dead or might not, so still no confirmation about it

[amber iris]

The main character of the franchise who has one of the biggest legacies in gaming history is in 3 missions of his own game

[safe dawn]

grunt woulda taken the claim for that lol

[hasty zinc]

oh we talking about Halo 2 now?

[rapid pivot]

In CE there are no invisible walls. I think there’s literally one in the entire game and you can even bypass it if you want. In 2 they started to add some but for the most part - you could go anywhere. 3 started to add too many barriers but still, you could explore a lot. Reach is when they added awful kill timers.

[amber iris]

I mean he’s in it but the spotlight is basically completely stolen

[queen remnant]

So Halo 2

Or Halo 5

[amber iris]

Halo 5 not halo 2

[safe dawn]

WHEEZEE

[amber iris]

The arbiter and chief share halo 2 completely half and half, both have compelling backstories, and gameplay differences

Meanwhile with Locke, he plays the exact same, lame narrative, very much a punk

[hasty zinc]

half and half

[queen remnant]

Say that to the people back then

[pliant hatch]

https://youtu.be/MTyl79jv1tY?si=Xfd3KDVxVNW68thw

[safe dawn]

arby had camo that lasted 10 seconds, chief didnt

[amber iris]

Yeah they both get 7 missions

[rapid pivot]

In Halo 3 on The Storm there are some invisible barriers in terrible spots where if you jump in certain areas you are pushed back down.

[amber iris]

But chief had stronger shields

[safe dawn]

its nto that bad

[safe dawn]

did he?

[amber iris]

Yeah he did

[hasty zinc]

length comes into play too, not just number of missions

[safe dawn]

^

[queen remnant]

One billion small missions for Arbiter

[amber iris]

The reason arbiter has invisibility is because if you get caught with your pants down in heroic or legendary you are dead on the spot

[safe dawn]

idk, it might have been the plasma weapons that made it feel stronker

[safe dawn]

also bc lore reasons