general-chat

[crystal glade]

Thats cringe

[candid solar]

The most I've ever used it professionally was literally to give me something to criticize for a writing class.

[crystal glade]

I get it you dont like AI

[molten pelican]

still cannot tell if trench likes ai or not

[candid solar]

I make it hard to tell.

[normal owl]

You just described humans. As with managing a human team, you can't take AI at its word without evaluating its output. Rather, you reap the efficiency of a "team" coming up with ideas, which you then have to use your human judgment to validate before using.

[crystal glade]

Yeah

Exactly

[valid portal]

I'm firmly in the belief that ai does more harm than good
And also i trust my fellow brotheren more than, a machine that can't tell what's sarcasm

[crystal glade]

I can tell when AI is wrong

[candid solar]

I barely trust other people, let alone a bot.

... At least when it comes to information.

[crystal glade]

Well then good for you

[normal owl]

And when the stakes are low enough, definitely you can delegate a task all the way to publishing to a team member. The higher the stakes, the higher the scrutiny before something leaves your 4 walls.

If you must craft everything soup to nuts for all priority level tasks, then you are bad at leadership.

[crystal glade]

And bad leadership is no leadership

[candid solar]

I'd argue that bad leadership can actually be worse than none.

[valid portal]

I was referring to ai as a search engine shortcut (because you dont get to see the sources its pulling from) but fair

[crystal glade]

You don’t? Are you sure at the bottom of most AI search results i see what sources it pulled from

[normal owl]

Yeah AI is no substitute for research of the reliable sources. But it's a lot more efficient: asking a librarian who's read all the books to help you locate what shelf a needed book is on is more efficient than guessing the name of a book and hoping it has what you need.

[candid solar]

I don't think a system that sometimes tells me 13+13=1313 because it has a bad data table is all that reliable.

[faint mantle]

Wasn't that only locked to when they have internet search access?

[candid solar]

Plus-it's still offloading responsibility. I can hold a librarian accountable, I cannot hold a chatbot.

And if there's one thing I think the world is already deficient enough in, it's accountability and responsibility.

[crystal glade]

https://imgur.com/a/Bm5zF5F

[normal owl]

Humans make mistakes that are just as dumb (source: all around us these days). At least within certain parameters, AI is cheaper, learns faster, and has no pride barrier to improving output in response to query refinement.

[candid solar]

Well, no intuitive pride of its own. Its defenders, on the other hand...

[normal owl]

You can't hold a librarian responsible; you can just be upset at them.

[valid portal]

AI cannot tell what is sarcasm and what is the truth

[crystal glade]

It cant tell what your voice sounds like through the mic!

[normal owl]

Then don't use it to generate your stand-up routine?

[candid solar]

You... Can? Easily?

Like, they have names. Faces. Jobs. People they report to.

[normal owl]

They don't work for you.

[candid solar]

Yeah, and if they consistently do a crappy job I can inform their manager.

[crystal glade]

It just reads the words not voice tone

[normal owl]

You must have very nice and accommodating public employees where you are then.

[candid solar]

They are real, tangible people.

[crystal glade]

And searches on that

[normal owl]

Who may not be agreeable, who may be resistant and stubborn, who may refuse to comply.

[candid solar]

That's more a scathing condemnation of the aformentioned lack of accountability I mentioned than a defense of AI.

[normal owl]

So why would I ask you, with your argumentativeness, for content when AI would make faster progress?

[candid solar]

Faster=/=Better. Faster=/=Soulful. Faster=/=Equal.

Faster=/=Accountable.

[crystal glade]

What

[normal owl]

Maybe it simply depends on the task whether humans or AI are optimal, not that one is inherently to be suspected and bad until proven sanitary.

[candid solar]

=/= means "Does not equal".

[crystal glade]

I know

I didn’t understand what you typed for a second

[normal owl]

^ =/= equivalence

[crystal glade]

Maybe I shouldn’t have said something about how I use ChetGPT

Yes I said Chet

[normal owl]

Trench, by your own admission, you are biased against AI, so you are not trustworthy as a source of content on AI's use. ...unless despite your imperfections, there is something valuable to be had depending on the case at hand?

[crystal glade]

https://tenor.com/view/the-universe-tim-and-eric-mind-blown-mind-blown-meme-mind-explosion-mind-explosion-meme-gif-18002878

[candid solar]

It's not an inherent bias. It's a loathing that comes from evidence, reading peer-reviewed studies, and a logical understanding of the concept of physical and mental accountability.

[normal owl]

ChetGPT's answers unfortunately always surface yachting and polo shirts.

[candid solar]

In other words, I trust AI to be awful for the same reasons I know vaccines are reliable.

[crystal glade]

Yachts and polo shirts??

[normal owl]

...so I should just trust you.

[crystal glade]

Oh finally minecraft loaded

[candid solar]

Is that what I said?

[crystal glade]

It took that long

[valid portal]

Bias is opinionated
Trench's reasons for not trusting ai, is facts

[normal owl]

I was imagining Chet to be some sandy-haired privileged guy who was born into money and can't understand why people can't just all spend the weekend on their yacht lol

[crystal glade]

Ahhh

[normal owl]

It is indeed: you declared that you are not prejudiced, but rather objective and your opinion is the culmination of sound and complete research.

[crystal glade]

So we just trust you

[candid solar]

Trust, but verify. Always trust but verify.

[normal owl]

Trench is saying they're based on facts, and he's saying they are facts.

[crystal glade]

Yeah

[candid solar]

I don't like it when people blindly trust me, I've been wrong before. But this opinion of mine is gleaned from objective and peer-reviewed evidence.

[valid portal]

Trusting without evidence, even if it genuinely is the truth, is never a good idea

[normal owl]

No one is going to convert and agree here, but at least let's not judge and look down on others for using tech and tools in a way that's not harming someone directly.

[crystal glade]

So what do you want us to do then huh?

[crystal glade]

This

[valid portal]

Anyways let's discuss why windows suc-

[crystal glade]

HAHAHAHHAHA

[candid solar]

My recommendation? Utilize AI less and do more proactive study than not.

[faint mantle]

Yesterday I installed Pop OS and tried to install Space Marine 2 but it wouldn't run, Linux bad

[normal owl]

Drop it guys.

[amber mirage]

As someone who's studied AI, I find that the people with the strongest opinions in either direction tend to be more naive and less informed. It's a very complex field and not one easily diluted into simple it's good or it's bad.

[faint mantle]

We're not going there

[candid solar]

KK.

[obsidian wyvern]

I was wondering if that was a wild rok

[normal owl]

Good to see you man! Hope life is good.

[candid solar]

There are usages I acknowledge as being beneficial, but that's because they existed long before the current environment of scams and grifts that are aiming for another dot com bubble.

[obsidian wyvern]

but it was only a grok

[granite sky]

i just wanna invest in a good AI stock so i can be rich in 10 years

[amber mirage]

It's good. Been keeping busy.

[candid solar]

Pop.

[crystal glade]

What

“Pop.”???

[candid solar]

Context clues. I brought up the dot com bubble.

What happened to the dot com bubble?

[granite sky]

funko pop?

[dreamy stirrup]

how about video games.

[faint mantle]

I need to play Husky

[crystal glade]

Anyone here who says video games sucks should just leave this server

[candid solar]

Yes'm. Bideo Bames.

[crystal glade]

This server is about a video game

[fossil skiff]

Looking forward to Friday

[candid solar]

I'm looking forward to the Sixth.

[crystal glade]

Looking forward to Tuesday

[candid solar]

I saw that pretty little Orion helmet, so.

[faint mantle]

Thursday I have a day off, would've been perfect for the update

[jade gust]

I need to get my hands on the MA5K Avenger customisation ASAP, I need to make it yellow!

[candid solar]

I honestly just want to give it the Halo CE AR kit.

[fossil skiff]

Still curious what the blue/green bullet trail thing was in the trailer

[candid solar]

Actually, I wish I could set up customization by variant.

Like, having a different customization preset for tracker vs normal vs fuel rod rockets.

[granite sky]

it's cool if you script give the ma5k a weapon combo it gets that yellowish skin. ma5k + impact commando is good

[jade gust]

I've seen that but I wanna make the whole thing yellow

[granite sky]

indeed i like yellow

[cedar turret]

Snow?

[jade gust]

I need to see it with Industrial Preparedness on it

[valid portal]

a video game Series with the majority of its titles having more violent language than what's allowed here

Ima stop with this ranting attitude before i get kicked or get seen as "The Complaining Guy™️" for the rest of my life

[jade gust]

https://tenor.com/view/dandadan-dumbfounded-momo-ayase-ayase-momo-ken-takakura-gif-14575386895602202640

[granite sky]

🍌 💛

[candid solar]

https://tenor.com/view/rick-gumball-skip-to-the-end-gif-15453179

[trim saddle]

its in the trailer they dropped today

[candid solar]

Wait, is it?

[trim saddle]

so less than a week

yup! the MA5K is blue on the part where the 4 spartans are standing next to each other

[candid solar]

This part?

Or do you mean in the video trailer?

[trim saddle]

in the video trailer

[muted rose]

Agrynas armor is in the trailer as well

Kit if I had to guess

[trim saddle]

about 7 seconds into the short

on the right side

[dry lintel]

video games sucks

[fickle drift]

😦

[bronze breach]

Played too much destiny 2 today like 40 games xD

[fresh crane]

Whats the armor on the left?

[jade gust]

That's why I said that

[candid solar]

No idea.

[gusty sparrow]

[granite sky]

oh that short is interesting i was hoping for more pve stuff

like for mini campaigns. maybe im psychic or they are ahead of me

[trim saddle]

raider from h4/5

[candid solar]

That's the right silly

[trim saddle]

oh, THEIR right. our left.

left is EVA C from H3

oh no thats the back one

idk what the left one is.

[dreamy stirrup]

left is ||i'm not telling lol||

[trim saddle]

TRICKSY LITTLE HOBBITSES

-smeagol noises-

[autumn forum]

yeah its 100% a kit for mk vii

[dreamy stirrup]

why are we so hype for toyotathon lol

[obsidian wyvern]

I knew it

[hasty zinc]

wait, toyotathon is BACK??

[rare cedar]

nobody PANIC

[hasty zinc]

https://tenor.com/kymc73Ztgr9.gif

[fickle drift]

Halo 4

[velvet bough]

I heard toyotathon

[hasty zinc]

https://tenor.com/btHbc.gif

[rare cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/school-of-dragons-dreadstrider-mystery-class-toyotathon-httyd-gif-9686724921085328522

[pliant hatch]

that car was brand new, but still looked bad, lol.

[worldly sedge]

What’s Toyotathon?

(I’m not a car person)

[granite solar]

343 needs to add map voting, or better yet Veto. Because I'm sick and tired of played the new BtB refresh only to get high power, or deadlock.

Let me play the NEW maps you added to BtB or at least get to have a say in which map I DO get put in.

[worldly sedge]

Oh yeah I do miss map voting sometimes

[hasty zinc]

https://tenor.com/bUpay.gif

that's you on a bike and not in a toyota

[meager linden]

Damn, it's already May
Time really goes so quickly

[fickle drift]

Already

It’s still April for me

[dry lintel]

Literally just a sale

[glass crest]

https://tenor.com/view/doom-gif-25908805

[fickle drift]

So sigma Joey

[hasty zinc]

"just a sale"

https://tenor.com/bJmJF.gif

[dry lintel]

Idk maybe it’ll be more exciting when I’m 40

[nocturne niche]

Cinema

[fickle drift]

Why is Halo 4 a dlc?

[hasty zinc]

all of the games in MCC are categorized as DLC

[fickle drift]

Are any of the games good?

They're all worth playing and deciding for yourself

[gusty sparrow]

They’re all good. But it’s subjective.

[molten pelican]

ayo toyotathon

Nice

[hasty zinc]

https://tenor.com/biHmN.gif

[glass crest]

Halo Infinite x Doom I really wanted it I want those armors and weapon skins

[safe dawn]

Just mod it in frfr

[hasty zinc]

make it happen, cap'n

[molten pelican]

https://tenor.com/view/bartek-ear-muffles-toyota-formel1-formula1-gif-16563563

https://tenor.com/view/truck-privileges-removed-gif-7930455409494891417

https://tenor.com/view/cinderblock-pickup-truck-gif-26600700

I need a hilux

[dry lintel]

Is that a supra?

[molten pelican]

No

https://tenor.com/view/supra-toyota-amazed-gif-12738514

Bruh what the grammar

[worldly sedge]

Taaaaaake oooon meeee

[tawdry hawk]

Hello Spartans

[fickle drift]

Wort Wort Wort

[warm brook]

spartans

i have hit exactly 117 headshots

in halo infinite

https://spartanrecord.com/service_record/Buboo O A

[meager linden]

Good warm morning people of Halo

[glass crest]

https://youtu.be/zptzXFVU1eg?si=V5nJG6AgvyIMZjHb Let's rock n roll spartans

[crystal glade]

Take on me

[tidal karma]

Wort Wort Wort

King Yap yap speaking here, I think all grunts should be promoted

[warm brook]

sry if im slow but is this a joke or is everyone saying it at nighttime in a different timezone than me

[floral pollen]

He's far ahead in timezones

[dry lintel]

He’s ahead of his time

[signal wedge]

The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. A day gone by

the earth rotates on it's on axis as it rotates around the sun

[waxen rose]

when the earth rotates it really makes my day

[waxen rose]

He’s a day cycle hacker, trust

[meager linden]

I'm living out of time🗿

[pearl laurel]

4 parallel universes ahead of us

[ornate spindle]

Hey, is it just me or does MCC put the pro players on the same team and all the bad players on the other team? Havent played multiplayer in 2 years and i suck, and all 20 of my matches today, all the good players are on the enemy team and absolutely stomp my team and I. I admit i did ragequit, but i was tired of losing every match and not even getting close to a win once.

[azure atlas]

Good morning Spartans

[faint river]

hi

damn.. slow mo on chat

[pearl laurel]

Thats to prevent the covenant from glassing our chat

[steady jolt]

^ accurate

[mellow berry]

type W chat if you're ready for...

[rain forge]

https://tenor.com/view/facts-brother-so-true-my-friend-halo-wars-spartan-meme-gif-26451791

[cedar hound]

[jagged locust]

[rare cedar]

[empty sable]

Heard this a lot about pvp, seems to be a thing with halo infinites special matchmaking system. Personally I stopped playing pvp and went full time firefight after they removed bot bootcamp.

[rose valve]

No just mcc been getting new player the mmr matchmaking system sucks

[cedar hound]

[covert dove]

[trim saddle]

Good Morning spartans!

or whatever your timezone dictates

[trim saddle]

[meager linden]

Yeah, good warm day

[pure yoke]

This is off topic but does anyone play bo6

[thorny briar]

Yeah but why are you asking here lmao

[obsidian wyvern]

🛌

[thorny briar]

Also why the hell is MCC so buggy

They reset my progress on reach lmao

[pure yoke]

MCC was always buggy lol.

Not as much as it was at launch but still

[thorny briar]

Guys that’s what happens when you run 6 games in one

[pure yoke]

I honestly don't know what to do. Infinite is dead and all there is to play on MCC is the CGB and the socials in it which aren't worth playing since you get spawn killed

[thorny briar]

I didn’t even know it was dead tbh

They should add 24vs24 to revive it

[pure yoke]

I tried to find a slayer match a few days ago and it took me 10 minutes to find a match

[thorny briar]

Wait wasn’t there something about a battle royale mode

[pure yoke]

I mean maybe it'll come at some point but idk

Surprised the mutilator wasn't added yet (the double barrel shotgun that got leaked like 2 years ago)

[thorny briar]

Wasn’t that announced to come out soon?

[pure yoke]

Yea

[thorny briar]

Yeah the first event of the halo summer update

So after prefect?

[pure yoke]

Probably

[thorny briar]

Has master chief ever canonically worn a different suit of armour?

[pure yoke]

Wasn't halo 4 chief confirmed to just be an upgrade

[trim saddle]

its "been the same suit" just upgraded, to my knowledge. There are people that dig deep into this stuff in #lore-and-universe that will have a lot more confidence in their reply than I do.

[dry lintel]

CE to 2

[meager linden]

Halo CE Mark V Mjolnir
Halo 2-3 Mark VI Mjolnir
Halo 4 Mark 6 Gen 2 MOD
Halo 5 Mark 6 Gen 2
Halo infinite Mark 6 Gen 3

[pure yoke]

Do y'all think a HW3 will ever happen? I mean I know it was planned but it got cancelled

[meager linden]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[pure yoke]

Eh, those games are mid anyway and I don't hate it just because they're RTS games but I don't like the stories. Although the banished are really cool

[fickle drift]

I’m sick 😔

[pure yoke]

Damn

[meager linden]

Yes, while Chief was in cryosleep after Halo 3, Cortana used nanomachines to recalibrate his Mjolnir

[meager linden]

That's so wrong
I hope you will be good

[fickle drift]

It’s missable

[thorny briar]

So not some secret experimental suit that he wore in some obscure comic or book

[jade gust]

I find players just fine in Infinite, also adding in a 24vs24 mode isn't somehow going to attract more players than the dedicated playerbase Infinite has right now

[thorny briar]

It might bring some back

[jade gust]

Chief has worn multiple different versions of Mjolnir, the one he's worn the most versions of is Mark IV since it was iterated upon the most during the Human-Covenant War. The most notable versions of it Chief wore are the versions seen in FuD, The Package and the Fall of Reach animated series. The only time he ever wore a fully experimental suit that we know of was when he wore Mjolnir COLBALT VC.117

[jade gust]

You're overestimating the ability of upping a player count

Plus like, it's not some simple thing to impliment

[thorny briar]

Sure it is just change the number 16 to 24

[steady jolt]

Yeah, it's a difficult thing to try and gauge - do you spend time and resources building something in the hopes that your engagement might increase, or do you build for things you know that players will be invested in

[jade gust]

https://tenor.com/view/arbiter-were-it-so-easy-halo-difficult-gif-16171194

[steady jolt]

It's unfortunately not that simple. Quite a few things need to be checked, like, dare i say it 😅 , UI support for a large number of players

[jade gust]

Plus like, this isn't even getting into the fact that none of the maps are designed to support teams as big as 24 people, meaning entirely new maps would need to be designed, tested, given art passes and iterated upon just for 24v24 modes

[meager linden]

How it's going, people of Halo?

[steady jolt]

Saying that, though, 24v24 could be cool within Halo

Sounds pretty carnage-y

[jade gust]

It'd definitely be something I'm open to being experimented with

[thorny briar]

Just stick em in the old maps it’ll be fine

[jade gust]

But for the next game, I don't think it makes sense to try and made modes like that for Infinite at this point

[jade gust]

It would be anything but fine

[steady jolt]

Maps would still ned to be updated to support a larger number of players. You need to account for spawn locations and groups

[thorny briar]

Surely that big ship in firefight is big enough for 48 people

[jade gust]

And at that point, you're basically gonna be doing the work needed to make an entirely new map

[meager linden]

Ardent prayer?

[jade gust]

That map is a recreation of a campaign environment in Reach, which was designed to at most, feature four players moving through it

[thorny briar]

Yeah

[thorny briar]

Are you kidding me? That thing is huge

Wait no, how about that bridge map on CTF

[meager linden]

Castle wars maps are good, but they are small

[jade gust]

Like, as cool of a map as it is, since recreating a campaign environment so well was never really possible until Infinite Forge, it'd be horrible with more than four players to play. Maybe it could work with eight players but then you risk it being too easy for the players

[jade gust]

Those maps are also designed around a specific mini-game and aren't indicative of the core gameplay of the game

[thorny briar]

That’s what they want you to think

[drowsy coyote]

Every day we get closer and closer to just making Halo br

[jade gust]

I studied level design at university, I think I have a pretty good idea what goes into making a level/map in a game. This isn't some conspiracy which I've fallen for

[thorny briar]

You gotta think outside the box

[jade gust]

The battle royale trend has plateaued at this point, there's nothing interesting Halo could bring to the genre at this point to stand out. Let the dream go

[thorny briar]

Halo is what they’re bringing to the genre🗿

[jade gust]

That's part of being a level designer, you get creative with the tools and mechanics you have at your disposal. I'm not someone thinking inside the box for having a good idea of how level design is

[jade gust]

There's nothing new Halo could bring to the genre, shields have been done by other BR games, as have vehicles, which I'd say would be the two things Halo could've brought to the genre

Dropping in via drop pod would just be jumping from the Battle Bus/back of a plane mechanically

[meager linden]

Battle royale trends are already tired, a lot and a lot of companies are trying to make their own battle royale game, but they all already are failure almost on start

[jade gust]

Pretty sure Concord wasn't a Battle Royale

[meager linden]

Overwatch, Fortnite and PUBG the only who succeed in battle royale genre

[jade gust]

Overwatch is also not a Battle Royale game

[meager linden]

Oh come on

[jade gust]

Overwatch and Concord are both hero shooters

Both involve two teams fighting over objectives, such as payloads

[meager linden]

You spent too much time on the internet

[jade gust]

Marvel Rivals is another good example of a hero shooter

I have a degree in game design, I kinda need to know things like this

This has nothing to do with how much time I spend online

[meager linden]

As you wish, your majesty

[thorny briar]

Over watch is a bad game, that’s what it is

[fickle drift]

Don’t we all

[jade gust]

Like, if I called Super Mario Bros a shooter because you shoot fireballs, I'd look like an idiot since it is not a shooter

[meager linden]

I haven't played, can't say it

[meager linden]

Maybe

[jade gust]

The quality of the game doesn't matter in this discussion, calling it a genre it clearly isn't is the issue here

[cedar hound]

[obsidian wyvern]

tbf thats just common knowledge lol

[meager linden]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[jade gust]

Thanks Rev for the backup

[obsidian wyvern]

but this is also true lol

[jade gust]

Still wasn't important to what was being discussed

[obsidian wyvern]

and first party game prices are going up to $80

[thorny briar]

Is that last Xbox upgraded?

[obsidian wyvern]

?

[thorny briar]

They say 2TB special edition like the last one had 1TB or something

[obsidian wyvern]

idk what u mean but the xbox one gen consoles had a 1tb option, and the new gen do as well

[thorny briar]

Oh

[obsidian wyvern]

then theres also the 2tb new gen option

[rare cedar]

Superior

[jade gust]

Now open it up for a cold drink

[thorny briar]

Master chief, do you mind telling me why you’re an Xbox

[trim saddle]

"Sir, series-ing my X"

[thorny briar]

Do elites even speak backwards now

[jade gust]

The Elites speak in English in most Halo games, including Infinite

Pretty sure CE is the only one where the alien dialogue was other dialogue played backwards

[steady jolt]

I love what they did with languages for the TV show, that was damn cool

[thorny briar]

What did they do in reach then

[meager linden]

What about Halo 4 and Reach?
They don't speak English in those games?

[jade gust]

Made up alien languages

Like, it doesn't need to make sense as a language but so long as it sounds alien, it works

[thorny briar]

Did grunts speak English in CE

[meager linden]

Yes

[meager linden]

No, iirc

[steady jolt]

For anyone that didn't watch or see the extras, they worked with the guy/people that created the Dothraki language for game of Thrones, and built a new language. Some of the cast learned to speak it

[jade gust]

Ok, that I didn't know for the Halo TV show

So when can we learn the Covenant language like we can Klingon?

[meager linden]

I hope that in a new language we will not learn in future

[steady jolt]

https://www.halopedia.org/Sangheili_(language)/Silver

Bless Halopedia

[thorny briar]

Aren’t all the outfits in MCC rendered in the same engine but they use their old engine in game?

[steady jolt]

There's some videos of Charlie Murphy recalling some key phrases, which is cool

[steady jolt]

The menu rendering for customisation uses Unreal, in-game it's native engine rendering

[thorny briar]

No they did I just checked

[meager linden]

Never heard, or I'm killing them too fast

[thorny briar]

They mostly just exhale but sometimes they yell “not again” or “NOOOOOO”

[thorny briar]

Can my Xbox do this

[jade gust]

There we go

[rare cedar]

Go for it

im not responsible for any voided warranty’s

[thorny briar]

Instructions unclear, took out the internal components

[rare cedar]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

I have the mini fridge version in storage

[empty sable]

Money

[rare cedar]

Works great

[empty sable]

Can't wait for £100 games that don't even need shipping or importing since its digital.

[fickle drift]

Awesome

[meager linden]

Looks good

[empty sable]

We need the whole xbox kitchen selection.

We need an xbox washing machine.

[meager linden]

Smart Xbox kitchen

[empty sable]

The sink has wifi features and everything

[rare cedar]

Game development costs are not associated with hardware costs via tariff increases

[empty sable]

The cupboard can be remotely accessed

[meager linden]

If only kitchen furniture can be washed by itself, great life

[empty sable]

Honestly, why have tariffs in the first place. I'm personally all for free trade.

You can teleport your clothing into the washer dryer.

No need to be at home to do your washing.

[meager linden]

Teleport is far away with our level technologies, but smart machines like robots already existing

[empty sable]

Ngl the invention of teleportation would absolutely destroy the transportation business lol

[meager linden]

Just hoping that skynet will not attack humanity in one day

[normal owl]

but it would be incredible for the health care industry: so many more people would be obese from burning zero calories.

[empty sable]

Depends on the country.

[normal owl]

If I see teleportation is about to reach public use, I'll pile more into HC sector stocks.

[empty sable]

NHS would be swamped in that case.

[candid solar]

Not overnight, tbh. Teething issues would mean a lot of safety would need to be ensured for whatever you're sending. I wouldn't even rely on it to send prepared raw materials for decades for fear that the pallets of raw steel might fuse, let alone a complex organism.

[meager linden]

Drones already exist, they can fly, and they can also work in the delivery system

[rare cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/can-i-pet-dat-dawg-pet-dat-dog-can-i-gif-16736731

[hasty zinc]

They're so cute

[fickle drift]

No

[rare cedar]

No way

He’s here

[empty sable]

Imagine answering the door and a parcel gets dropped on your head

[steady jolt]

banned

[meager linden]

But sadly, they are not powerful enough to fly from another country to another

[rare cedar]

[empty sable]

"Enjoy your free shipping"

[fickle drift]

I re-joined

[empty sable]

But did you pre-join?

[molten pelican]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-meme-funnt-cat-black-cat-sleepy-cat-gif-16409614852005252877

[fickle drift]

I mean, I sort of helped waaaaaay back in the day on the planned rollout for this server… so I guess?

[empty sable]

Yes.

So early we were still using Halo Waypoint on the xbox 360.

[fickle drift]

Hi spork

[meager linden]

Good cold evening people of Halo

[molten pelican]

Hi

[fickle drift]

[rare cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/hat-tip-hats-off-respect-boy-yankees-gif-17680220

[waxen rose]

Good rainy morning

[vivid ether]

i like my marines

[remote spruce]

cant wait for weapon

[fickle drift]

Mostly Sam’s baby though with Uny.

[vivid ether]

they deserve not to be killed by a suciced grunt

[waxen rose]

Amen

[rare cedar]

This is definitely Sam’s baby 🤣

[meager linden]

If only I should also had the damn raining
Ground too dry

[waxen rose]

Day not rainy? Day ruined.

[meager linden]

No, yes

[vivid ether]

sad to see marine not follow me to the next section only to be despawned

[waxen rose]

Mosquitos have crawled out of hell and im about to crash out

[vivid ether]

wonder if they went to heaven

or purgatory

[rare cedar]

Lunch break

[vivid ether]

who knows

[rare cedar]

Change socks

[vivid ether]

okay

[meager linden]

MOA burgers?

[vivid ether]

kebab

[rare cedar]

With the moa flavored pringles

[vivid ether]

kebab flavoured kebab guys

[rare cedar]

I had a kebab for lunch today actually

[vivid ether]

with spicy sauce or no spicy

[rare cedar]

No spicy

Garlic sauce

[vivid ether]

u gotta block out the onion taste dude

[meager linden]

My beloved

[rare cedar]

I ordered the medium sized, should’ve gotten the large

next time

[meager linden]

Okay, see you all soon

[rare cedar]

[forest lagoon]

and we're just the unsupervised and undisciplined toddlers ruining around the daycare

[vivid ether]

wish you can play as a marine in halo like battlefield 1 or something

[waxen rose]

Me when ODST

[meager linden]

Halo 3 ODST

[vivid ether]

odst is awsome

but like grunt marine not spec ops in the concreeat jungle

like in the trenches

[rare cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/dancing-dance-dancing-baby-baby-toddler-gif-5478110

[vivid ether]

https://tenor.com/view/amigo-orhan-turkey-turkish-tackle-jump-gif-16347981

[waxen rose]

Got put in timeout for eating all the playdough

[vivid ether]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/782324740735631400/1282664983704113184/gear.gif

[rare cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/no-gif-no-gif-perms-gif-27679658

[forest lagoon]

Why? It says right there on the canister that it's non-toxic

[vivid ether]

😬

give me perms i promise i wont send guys shaking their butt

[forest lagoon]

I mean sure, it says "not intended to be eaten" but it doesn't say that it can't be eaten

[forest lagoon]

That's just what someone that would post guys shaking their butt would say

[vivid ether]

idk where to find those gifs anyway ha

or do i

no i dont

[forest lagoon]

https://tenor.com/view/rvb-dancing-roosterteeth-gif-4978886

[waxen rose]

Average boy dinner🤤

[vivid ether]

more like white monster with kebab and halo 3 odst on the xbox 360

[waxen rose]

I love Donut he’s so silly
I imagine he has the eyes of a sad hampster

[jade gust]

I've heard some people call that girl dinner too

[empty sable]

Caboose just vibing.

[vivid ether]

and ufc in the background nick diaz vs gsp

[empty sable]

Such a missed opportunity for a MK VI core with all the Halo 3 customisation.

Heck could have even introduced a new version of the vid master challenges with it

[waxen rose]

Girl dinner is the rotting corpse in the back of a freezer with a Starbucks iced Macha cherry chai

[waxen rose]

Omg hes so cute 😭

[jade gust]

Honestly would've loved for the Mark VI Gen 3 to have been a full core, but alas, the time for that to happen is long gone now

[empty sable]

Honestly, I preferred it when the campaign armour was the default armour.

It encouraged people to make their own spartans since there was no speciality in looking like master cheeks

[jade gust]

That only really happened in Halo 3 and Reach, but even then, Reach's campaign armour is your armour

[vivid ether]

one time i joined a server in mcc reach where it was just death animations but there was a stirp club in the back

[empty sable]

Halo 1,2,3

Reach is a bit of a debate.

[jade gust]

You didn't exactly have anything but armour colour in CE and 2

[waxen rose]

Sounds reasonable

[empty sable]

Indeed but it was the campaign armour

[vivid ether]

i just left since not good for soul

[empty sable]

Reach is in an interesting one since Bungie basically went with the Noble 6 is you type of thing.

[jade gust]

Like, you were just Master Chief in blue or yellow or lightish red (Or a generic Elite)

[waxen rose]

Halo CE armor is the best why would you wanna change it smh (/j)

[empty sable]

Bit too bulky for me.

I love the MK V helmet.

[waxen rose]

Im fighting you to the death for that

[empty sable]

But the torso not so much.

[meager linden]

What the hell is that spring
It's not ever warm, it feels like late October

[empty sable]

Fighting me with what? Breadsticks? Lol

[waxen rose]

If any armor is bulky I think the halo 4/5 master chief armor is

[empty sable]

Didn't like halo 4's chief armour at all.

[jade gust]

His Infinite armour is just as bulky

[waxen rose]

Yeah but in halo infinate he has a snatched waist so it makes it okay

[trim saddle]

I feel like chibi chief should have a frozen Baja blast instead of a frozen coke

[jade gust]

I will maintain that had the Mark VI MOD design been introduced after Halo 4, people would've been more accepting of it

[molten pelican]

Still wish chiefs armor was changed in a different game than 4, didn't make sense

[vivid ether]

master cheese

[meager linden]

Yes

[empty sable]

Personally, I always liked the halo reach style however it just looks off in infinite.

So I just vibe with the MK IV core with the recon helmet.

[obsidian wyvern]

its because the visors are so reflective

[empty sable]

No its more the proportions.

[jade gust]

Likely the lack of the decals you see all over the Reach iteration of the Mark V[b] too

[molten pelican]

I actually might like Halo Reaches armor the most tbh

[empty sable]

I can't wear any other torso apart from the one with the knife on it.

[waxen rose]

Master Coke I need you

[empty sable]

Like ehh, it feels odd without the knife.

And the shoulder pads feel lower down in infinite compared to reach.

[meager linden]

Here we go again
Nothing changing, usual day in Halo discord

[forest lagoon]

They make a cherry flavor?

[jade gust]

Like, the proportions are different to match the rig for the player character in Infinite (Which is the same skeleton for all the cores and kits in Infinite)

[empty sable]

Most likely that.

MK IV though looks amazing in infinite.

[waxen rose]

Yes its so good omg but its limited time only get it now

[vivid ether]

the elephant shouldve been in halo 3 campiangen

[empty sable]

The elephant needs a return lol.

[obsidian wyvern]

meh

[empty sable]

So fun on sandtrap

[jade gust]

The Elephant is tragically my least favourite drivable vehicle

[waxen rose]

I remember that glitch on the elephant map where the entire terrain wouldn't load in so I fell through the earth 💖

[empty sable]

Couldn't blow it up.

[jade gust]

Like, I get the concept of the Elephant, it's meant as a drivable base, but it just doesn't really work as a base

[vivid ether]

it was in odst

[jade gust]

Plus like, the thing felt horrible to drive

[empty sable]

I still can't believe that we were robbed of a halo version of helldivers 2 before helldivers 2.

[vivid ether]

but weird varient

[empty sable]

I've always wanted to spawn back in via ODST drop pod

[vivid ether]

they where gonna use the halo 5 concept armour so not so good

[jade gust]

Those were the garbage truck variants

[empty sable]

Oh god no not halo 5

[vivid ether]

no they where swat trucks

[jade gust]

Concept art isn't always reflective of the final product

[waxen rose]

Can't Spartans canonically flip over the Elephant...

[empty sable]

Can't have anything fun. The Halo 3 style was perfect for the ODST.

[jade gust]

They were garbage trucks in ODST, not SWAT vehicles

[empty sable]

Also when do you reckon they will add the halo 2 ODST set to the exchange/store?

Since I literally just missed out on that pass.

[vivid ether]

they where sournded by abbndoned police cars tho

[jade gust]

Being surrounded by abandoned cop cars doesn't mean they're SWAT vehicles

[vivid ether]

mkay

[jade gust]

They also literally say NMWM on the side

Which is New Mombasa Waste Management

[empty sable]

Does NMPD even have SWAT?

[vivid ether]

their wear swat uniforms tho i assume

[empty sable]

I can't think of any other country apart from the US that have SWAT.

[vivid ether]

like with the helmets\

[dry lintel]

that’s so cap

real elephant drivers wya

[vivid ether]

australia have similar thing to swat

[obsidian wyvern]

[empty sable]

All other nations use different names and styles for their specialist officers.

[jade gust]

Pretty sure that's just their standard gear, not SWAT gear

[jade gust]

https://tenor.com/view/hannibal-buress-right-booing-gif-13861878

[empty sable]

For example CTSFOs are my countries equivalent

[dry lintel]

No way that got blocked lmao

[vivid ether]

why my text go away

[empty sable]

Can't swear in this discord.

[vivid ether]

wth

dumb

[empty sable]

Yea no swearing allowed.

Thou shall not blaspheme. This is a Holy Halo Discord.

[vivid ether]

stupid moderator rules crap

[empty sable]

Are you not blinded by majesty?

[vivid ether]

no

[calm fiber]

For server moderation concerns, please send a direct message to @bleak yoke.

[empty sable]

Heretic!

[vivid ether]

i shall be a heretic on this matter if it means

[vivid ether]

no haha

[rare cedar]

[molten pelican]

https://tenor.com/view/avellom-gif-21351229

Inappropriate and violent!

[jade gust]

Anyway, I will maintain my stance the Elephant was horrible to drive and was not great at serving its purpose of being a moveable base

[dry lintel]

When the 2 elephants run into each other and start to arc upwards, I mean that’s just peak fiction man

[molten pelican]

Actually lame opinion eon

[vivid ether]

had two cannon and u can fit the entire team on it plus vehicals

[dry lintel]

Counterpoint, the elephant was FUN

[empty sable]

Honk honk

Ah yes, Pre-2013. When videogames were designed to be fun

[jade gust]

One of those machine guns isn't built into the thing and that doesn't redeem it in my eyes

https://tenor.com/view/bart-simpson-simpsons-gif-21258017

[vivid ether]

some1 should make a map where each team has an elephant and the battle it out like the pirates vs the british

[vivid ether]

u reply to urself?

[waxen rose]

No more saying cuss words!!

[jade gust]

I didn't reply to myself

[fickle drift]

The Wars version makes more sense in-universe, being altogether faster and with a proper lockdown mode.

H3’s was really fun gameplay wise, redeemed Sandtrap which was otherwise mid imo

[rare cedar]

I’ll never forget during a Bungie Podcast episode, they played the horn of the Elephant as a tease of a new vehicle’s horn. The forums went nuts speculating about what it could be

[vivid ether]

og halo wars underratted and was really fun when i was younger

[dry lintel]

That’s awesome, didn’t know they teased stuff like that

[rare cedar]

Weekly podcast leading up to H3 launch

[empty sable]

I remember playing the halo wars demo version on the 360

[vivid ether]

nice

[empty sable]

Idk why but halo wars 2 just didn't feel as fun as Halo Wars 1.

[molten pelican]

I bet that was fun

[vivid ether]

didnt get the grasp of halo wars og power

[jade gust]

Personally, I feel like the Elephant is just a bandaid fix for the problems Sandtrap has, it basically is the whole map's gimmick to have the Elephant as something the player can use. Like, all Sandtrap has really is just vibes and aura to redeem it overwise (And a mystery language which likely doesn't mean anything)

[empty sable]

Local units, all units

[vivid ether]

odst incoming something like that

[trim saddle]

isnt that how a mongoose is born?

[dry lintel]

Yes. It’s a sacred mating ritual

[jade gust]

Heck, thinking about it, Sandtrap doesn't have the fact it appeared in Red Vs Blue to help it like Blood Gulch does. Like yeah Sandtrap was used in RvB, but nobody goes "It's the map from Red Vs Blue" when looking at Sandtrap

[rare cedar]

“All units”

Marines on the battlefield

https://tenor.com/view/ultrasad-gif-23310565

[jade gust]

Now that is true

[vivid ether]

roblox Napoleonic wars roleplay tomorrow at 6pm WAST

[obsidian wyvern]

and still blood gulch is the worst map (I don't know what point was being made here)

[vivid ether]

note this down

[waxen rose]

The voice of god (unsc) calls upon thee

[dry lintel]

Yeah I don’t exactly need my BTB maps to be micro celebrities in a machinima to enjoy them

[jade gust]

Blood Gulch is only iconic because of Red Vs Blue, I agree it's not a great map

[vivid ether]

bro what

[trim saddle]

BLASPHEMY

[fickle drift]

I think I should be able to use a series of directional pad inputs to call down a Siege Turret 😤

[waxen rose]

TO THE PIT WITH YOU

[trim saddle]

Eon is not a toy

[valid portal]

I've never played it because the friend groups I've been in never had enough players for big team battle, only enough for free for alls (usually 1v1v1's)

[vivid ether]

guess no one wants to do roblox napoleonic wars roleplay

[waxen rose]

Im making him into a marketable plush rn smh

[jade gust]

Halo 3's Pit or Halo 4's remake, Pitfall?

[dry lintel]

I’d rather file my taxes

[jade gust]

Or one of the many remakes in Infinite?

[trim saddle]

so easy a caveman can do it

[vivid ether]

ok

[cyan loom]

Hello

[trim saddle]

theres like 5 now? its bonkers

[vivid ether]

halo

[waxen rose]

Blood Gulch is so good I dont play any other map that isnt Blood Gulch

[jade gust]

And if I said I knew someone who has mocapped characters who have been made into marketable plushies? What then?

[valid portal]

You should play some halo 2 and 3 maps
Or some of the insane stuff done in reach and infinite forge

[jade gust]

5? Last I counted, there was 3 in Infinite?

[waxen rose]

I would if I still had Xbox live but my money is going to gas rn💖

[rare cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/caboose-rvb-sheila-gif-14270817

[jade gust]

I do quote that often

[trim saddle]

put THAT on a tshirt for the merch store "6 pedals, 4 directions"

[waxen rose]

Be prepared to see yourself on a walmart shelf

[valid portal]

You don't have mcc on pc?
Oh, xbox

[jade gust]

Pretty sure Rooster Teeth did at some point

[jade gust]

Jokes on you, I don't have Walmart here in the UK

[trim saddle]

thats a threat I told my kid when he was acting up at the store. /s

[waxen rose]

LOL

[valid portal]

with rooster teeth being bought out by Warner Brothers if I'm remembering correctly, how much of a nightmare was it for them to communicate between Warner and Microsoft

[fickle drift]

Hi recon father

[waxen rose]

I will just expand the Walmart empire into Europe

[trim saddle]

OHAI!!

[trim saddle]

the /s means sarcasm right?

[jade gust]

It was interesting from what I remember hearing about from a former friend, but there wasn't too much communication between Warner and Microsoft, it was mainly 343 and Rooster Teeth

[rare cedar]

Yes but I’m calling just in case

[waxen rose]

Yes

[valid portal]

Ah ok

[waxen rose]

/s is sarcasm
/srs is serious

[trim saddle]

OH ok good -whew-

[molten pelican]

It would be funny if it wasn't sarcasm

[waxen rose]

“Im selling my kid at walmart /srs”

[jade gust]

I know there was one joke made in RvB Family Shatters which got changed, but I don't know if I can say which joke because I don't know if it's public that joke got changed before the episode released

[molten pelican]

Say the joke

[trim saddle]

i mean i DID say that to him but he just laughed about it because we were laughing about a weird lookng toy that he wanted to get away from so I said ill put him on the shelf with it.

[jade gust]

Which side note, Family Shatters was a good fun non-canon spin-off season

[meager linden]

Just won a used tank ammo shell, I always wanted to get it

[molten pelican]

I can't stand people talking about a joke but not actually saying the joke, it's an insane pet peeve

[jade gust]

I remember spotting a bunch of small details and speaking with my former friend after each episode release and talking with one of the producers on Twitter about it too

[rare cedar]

So an elephant walked into a bar

[waxen rose]

The warthog said “why the long face” I forgot

[molten pelican]

https://tenor.com/view/halo-halo-3-forge-custom-games-halo-3-elephant-gif-5202972376818325871

[jade gust]

I can say my favourite jokes were in episode two of Family Shatters, especially the last joke

[vivid ether]

one one like ufc

[waxen rose]

Y'all like my car? Is it cooked?

[trim saddle]

and the bar broke?

[valid portal]

My pc when running ksp and discord at the same time

[jade gust]

Ok but how many birds does it take to change a lightbulb?

One can't but Tucan

[molten pelican]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-badum-tss-drum-joke-unimpressed-gif-7770998

[rare cedar]

No

[jade gust]

https://tenor.com/view/eto-bleh-gif-14618428694469046242

[rare cedar]

He asked for some peanuts to go with his drink

The bartender said “we don’t have peanuts, only mixed nuts”

So the elephant left

[molten pelican]

I like it because it's practical and somewhat realistic

[vivid ether]

HOW IDD THAT BLOCK

[molten pelican]

A man walks into a bar

And orders a drink

Once he finishes

[meager linden]

Madness

[molten pelican]

He leaves the bar

[waxen rose]

Dont drive home!!!

[vivid ether]

heretic

[jade gust]

To be fair, he never said what the man got to drink

[vivid ether]

pedal to the metal

[jade gust]

Could've been a glass of orange juice

[vivid ether]

guys

[waxen rose]

Why are you going into a bar to order oj.

[molten pelican]

No it was beer

Lots of it

[trim saddle]

its like the joke about the line for drinks being too long, the wait for the punchline takes a while.

[rare cedar]

Only icky orders hot oj at a bar

[vivid ether]

is mastercheif green becuase he like that zaza

[jade gust]

Some of us stay away from alcohol

[waxen rose]

My chosen addictive substance is coffee💖

[molten pelican]

Hot oj on the lava rocks sir yes I am 21

[meager linden]

Hot oj Is heresy

[dry lintel]

halo player rite of passage

[rare cedar]

Drinking age in Japan is 20, I’ll allow it

[jade gust]

Try a Strawberry Sunrise with one of those little umbrellas on top

[waxen rose]

He gets so high that in halo 3 he sees visions of cortana thats why that happens

[vivid ether]

and the voice of some old elite guy

[molten pelican]

That sounds so happy lol

[trim saddle]

i offer you halo 3 rat in these trying times

[vivid ether]

halo reach rat vs halo 3 rat who wins

[rare cedar]

Let’s move on from talking about that plz

[molten pelican]

My God

Oh yeah lol

[vivid ether]

😭

[jade gust]

Anybody here hope they finally make Unggoy Farmer real?

[dry lintel]

no

[waxen rose]

Yes

[molten pelican]

It is real

[dry lintel]

^

[jade gust]

Weak

[dry lintel]

im 2 steps ahead of you

[jade gust]

https://tenor.com/view/the-batman-pattinson2021-gif-18213870

[vivid ether]

thats what nickacardo avocardo said

[trim saddle]

I want Glibnub strapped to the hood of my warthog and he talks crap as i drive around the map

[rare cedar]

Goodnight chat

[trim saddle]

rest well panda

[rare cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/wake-me-when-you-need-me-halo-gif-10152920

[trim saddle]

[fickle drift]

Wow

[trim saddle]

one for the road

[molten pelican]

Japan moment

[dry lintel]

sweat dreams

[waxen rose]

Rest in peace

[trim saddle]

my goal to keep that number a 0

[jade gust]

We will be free eventually

[molten pelican]

Shipping you a mantis night-light

[dry lintel]

good thing it says O days

[fickle drift]

It will always be 0

[trim saddle]

need a tbagging mantis alarm clock

oh my god i just had a very good idea.

[waxen rose]

Oh no

[trim saddle]

OH YES

[dry lintel]

cmon microsoft wheres OUR alarmo

[obsidian wyvern]

https://tenor.com/view/captain-america-i-understood-that-reference-look-back-gif-14556485

[molten pelican]

https://tenor.com/view/i-have-an-idea-croods-grug-the-croods-gif-9990053463233283167

[fickle drift]

💡

[meager linden]

Any good ideas for Halo Infinite campaign challenges?

[worldly sedge]

[waxen rose]

First to whip and nae nae wins

[obsidian wyvern]

quit to desktop
open titanfall 2
populate the dying game

[dry lintel]

rev whats ur faction of choice

[obsidian wyvern]

its either marauder corps or barker

[dry lintel]

MRVN for me

[fickle drift]

⬇️ ⬆️ ➡️ ⬅️

[obsidian wyvern]

ive just never spent credits to get mrvn early on lol

[meager linden]

I haven't played HD2 for long so i forgot which stratagem is it

[dry lintel]

I just feel for my robot bros

[obsidian wyvern]

ngl though, pc players only using kraber has put me off

[fickle drift]

Gatling Sentry, closest to the Wars Siege Turret ig

[obsidian wyvern]

xbox had its fair share but at least everyone used different weapons, its just not fun getting 1 tapped all the time

[dry lintel]

im not afraid to admit that I just ran cloak and spitfire whenever we were getting ran through

[meager linden]

Yes, its gatling sentry

[molten pelican]

Same, I hate that I can't give him a high five tho

[dry lintel]

society

[molten pelican]

It kills me every time

https://tenor.com/view/marvin-titanfall-titanfall-2-phoenix-shannon-sharpe-gif-16338833460499427626

[dry lintel]

why is he so ominous

[molten pelican]

Eh cool guy

[trim saddle]

whatever happened to the titanfall thing that was supposed to go for apex?

[forest lagoon]

Hi Friend

[trim saddle]

-looks at EA-

[dry lintel]

huh

[meager linden]

Greed

[dry lintel]

go for? like compete?

[trim saddle]

there was supposed to be a titanfall crossover thing for apex.

[obsidian wyvern]

there was a caustic skin

[trim saddle]

but clearly that kinda just, didnt happen?

[dry lintel]

"crossover" its the same universe man

[jade gust]

Isn't one of the characters in Apex a character from Titanfall?

[trim saddle]

i wouldnt know, dont like either game lol

[molten pelican]

Apex pulled a lot of things from titanfall

[obsidian wyvern]

ash yes

[dry lintel]

and then valk is vipers daughter etc etc

[obsidian wyvern]

and valkyrie is vipers daughter

yeah

[molten pelican]

Same universe

[dry lintel]

wasnt bangalore going to be a pilot?

[trim saddle]

I knew they were related but the same universe is kinda cool

[molten pelican]

Never actually played apex tbh

[dry lintel]

or was she just an IMC grunt and Newcastle was the pilot

[obsidian wyvern]

cant remember

[dry lintel]

I clocked a healthy 700 hours or so into apex

stopped at season 10

game got insanely sweaty, the skill gap is huge now

[obsidian wyvern]

apex was fun till i played titanfall

[dry lintel]

real

kinda miss apex tho, really did love the lore. half the reason I played

[obsidian wyvern]

i hope it dies lmao

[dry lintel]

well they're planning a 2.0

[trim saddle]

well EA tossed out about 400 people now?

so, well see what projects drop and what doesnt.

[obsidian wyvern]

they got rid of the person who helped make the brand new legend that came out this week, nuts

[dry lintel]

300, of which 100 were respawn

correct me if im wrong

[trim saddle]

ok good im glad its less than i imagined.

[jade gust]

Honestly feel for them, wish this industry wasn't so rough on those of us who just want to make games

[dry lintel]

that has to be so dejecting

[jade gust]

It is

I've seen so many people get laid off, and got laid off myself, and it genuinely is soul crushing

[dry lintel]

so how about those microsoft price hikes

[trim saddle]

I was laid off here once, and then they called me to come in for the IT / 3D CAD tech job and havent caught a layoff since.

[dry lintel]

(https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-raises-the-price-of-all-xbox-series-consoles-xbox-games-confirmed-to-hit-80-this-holiday)

[oak ibex]

You know what. I use my gaming pc only for adobe and blender

[silk beacon]

Loll

[fickle drift]

Crimson 321D

[jagged escarp]

if I could be cleared to play Matchmaking again that would be cool. Not sure why I'm banned, it won't let me play arena or anything. GT: Salwop

have a good weekend thanks

[faint mantle]

Ma'am this is a Discord server

What do you expect will happen?

[silk beacon]

King Shark

Wsg

[fickle drift]

Sup

Yo

[dusky wasp]

the guns in the next halo better not be goofy i need halo 5 quality

[obsidian wyvern]

https://x.com/Dexerto/status/1917916260542668875?t=V7bnDsF3TGNL2FV-N3v86w&s=19

Dexerto (@Dexerto) on X

The writer behind a new Apex Legends character, Sparrow, was laid off one day after the character was publicly revealed

X · May 1, 2025, 12:17 PM

[tame coral]

Revenant

[waxen rose]

Ngl id crash out if I were that author

[trim saddle]

this should be a sign for anyone wanting to work for EA.

[silk beacon]

ANYONE EXCITED FOR BORDERLANDS 4??

[waxen rose]

I hope there are more bromance scenes in borderlands 4

[dry lintel]

no but i'll probably try it

[silk beacon]

Since when did bl have bromance

[trim saddle]

i hope they keep ANY of that stuff out of videogames.

[silk beacon]

I've been maining Borderlands2 for months on end now

[silk beacon]

💀

[dry lintel]

I played a fair bit of the first two games, never tried bl3 because I heard it was just a dated meme fest

[silk beacon]

Yeah

[obsidian wyvern]

yo

[silk beacon]

bl3 sucks

[trim saddle]

i think i stopped playing that series after BL3

[silk beacon]

BL2 is my personal fave. I just got myself a 4k texture pack

[dry lintel]

I think I got up to the hyperion city

never finished a BL

[silk beacon]

Nice nice

That's like 80% through

I'm going until I max out Zer0

[waxen rose]

Gave both my bl disks to my cousin because I just couldn't finish either 1 or 2

[dry lintel]

damn I should go back. I think I got kinda stuck because of leveling, just wasnt doing enough DPS

[trim saddle]

Tiny Tina was a good voice pack I had on my phone for notifications.

[silk beacon]

Tiny tina.......... 🤢

Hilarious DLCs

[trim saddle]

she was funny when she first dropped, i think shes grown up now?

[dry lintel]

kinda hate the little girl that is violent trope

[silk beacon]

Dang no wayy

[dry lintel]

marvel rivals has it with the announcer

[waxen rose]

It only works if the character is actually written good

[dry lintel]

for sure

[silk beacon]

Tell me one that's written well

Tiny tiny ig. But any others

[waxen rose]

Whats that one little girl with blonde hair from a animated show I forgot her name

MANDY

[dry lintel]

Ed edd right

[waxen rose]

Gaz from Invader Zim too

[dry lintel]

its been awhile merty

[faint mantle]

wym? I was here yesterday, and the day before, and the day before...

[trim saddle]

Merty The Eternal ™

Was, Is, Ever will be.

[dry lintel]

That’s not….nevermind

[waxen rose]

We accept that other Merty too…

Goodbye Eiffel tower 2024, hello Merty The Eternal 2025

[dry lintel]

Looking forward to Merty: The Dark Ages

[waxen rose]

gotta wait 5 years, sorry

[fickle drift]

I’ll wait

[silk beacon]

I won't

I only have to wait 6 months for bl4 😎

And then I spend all the money to buy it and it ends up being a genshin impact spinnnof

[waxen rose]

Close… enough?

[faint mantle]

Master Builder is a very neat superpower to have, def a cool party trick

[trim saddle]

Lion Wars? Star King?

[fickle drift]

That’s so awesome

[waxen rose]

Star King sounds like a Disney villain, it kinda fits

[pliant hatch]

I thought it was a slice of pizza when I first took a quick glance.

[rose valve]

THE FORCE IS WITH YOU

[jade gust]

You're a few days early with that

[meager linden]

Good warm night people of Halo

[coral cove]

So.. For like 5 updates in a row the Ghost's front guns are invincible.. You can shoot them endlessly with the skewer, sniper, Really any weapon and it will do NO damage to the ghost.. Ive made tickets.. ive posted on their twitter.. tried to report this issue every way i know how..

Are we aware of this?

[jade gust]

Are you trying to shoot the guns off the Ghost?

Because most people are just gonna shoot the body of the Ghost to deal damage, which would lead to something like that being unnoticed

And like, you can't disable the weapons on the Ghost by shooting them off

[forest lagoon]

huh, that's interesting

[waxen rose]

Bed time!
I wish it was my bedtime…

[fickle drift]

Go to bed then

[waxen rose]

Can't, im at work making that bag💔

[fickle drift]

🧳

[coral cove]

No its not for the purpose of shooting the guns off.. I mean that the guns on the ghost are not connected to the HP pool of the ghost. ANY damage hitting the guns does not contribute damage to the rest of the ghost.. So a stray sniper round.. a skewer shot that hits in the guns instead of the body.. AR bloom fire that hits the guns.. Any potential damage that hits the guns does nothing. They are a completely invincible areas of the ghost.

No other vehicle has this issue.

[candid solar]

Have you submitted a ticket?

[coral cove]

Multiple times. This has been an issue for 4 or 5 updates now.

[candid solar]

Cool. Submit it again.

[coral cove]

Oh i will.. Just posting so people can try it and report it as well.. I dont think they listen to me lol

[hasty zinc]

What did you say?

[coral cove]

XD

[dry lintel]

can confirm they are invincible

strange

i'll submit a ticket

[coral cove]

ty

[jade gust]

I'll get a video of it in a bit

[worldly sedge]

My hype thrusters are ready for tomorrow’s stream

[jade gust]

I wanna see the new armour, the level design for the new Linear Firefight and the Mutilator in action

[worldly sedge]

Pretty much the entire Summer Update, which by the way my birthday is coming up in 30 days

[drowsy coyote]

ok but how do i shoot the turret gun on a halo 2 wraith?

[jade gust]

You don't and we were discussing the Ghost in Infinite and its weapons not having damage hitboxes

[trim saddle]

theres a way to get in the AA wraith at least, also I played as an elite in 2 which was a lot of fun.

[obsidian wyvern]

[thorny briar]

What do y’all think I’d the coolest looking elite rank

[fickle drift]

Hey anyone wanna play some FireFight

[calm fiber]

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

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[meager linden]

From when "Hydra" now calls MLRS "Hydra"?
It's like being added recently but I didn't even notice when it was added

[jade gust]

It was called the MLRS-1 in Halo 5. Infinite's is the MLRS-2. Hydra is a nickname for the weapon, like how the Spartan Laser isn't officially called the Spartan Laser, which is called the Weapon/Anti-Vehicle Model 6 Grindell/Galilean Nonlinear Rifle (Or W/AV M6 G/GNR for short)

[meager linden]

I'm just asked when it was renamed, you tell me the whole Hydra history

[jade gust]

The Hydra wasn't renamed

We just got a newer model in Infinite

[fossil skiff]

H5’s hydra was nasty

[silk beacon]

EW we don't talk about that

[trim saddle]

no we can say parts of a game were fun or good

just like i didnt enjoy 4/5 as much as the others but there were still fun parts to it.

like warzone was fun, and warzone firefight too. the diverse set of weapons were enjoyable.

[obsidian wyvern]

??

[fickle drift]

The Hydra in H5 was definitely more fun to use. The gun didn’t have to 2-Factor authenticate every round you loaded.

[silk beacon]

H5 hydra

[obsidian wyvern]

halo infinites hydra looks bad and plays bad

halo 5s one was so nice

[silk beacon]

I'm just not a fan of the hydras in general

Btw where's spork at

[trim saddle]

i want faster reload with the hydra plz Halo Studios?

[candid solar]

H5 Hydra best Hydra

Get me out of this XM-25 hell, I want the real Hydra

[obsidian wyvern]

they took the simplified looking guns too far with the hydra

[fickle drift]

Heracles could still beat it though. 😤

[trim saddle]

the rounds charge for shipping and handling and my spartan doesnt have enough credit to afford the fees.

[fickle drift]

You’d be faster mailing them the rockets ngl

[trim saddle]

thats funny because day one air mail

[jade gust]

I swear I heard the Flash make this same joke once

[fickle drift]

I think I got it from Tucker in RvB

[jade gust]

The Infinite design looks like a beefier AR while Halo 5's had a pretty distinct silhouette which really gave it character

[jade gust]

Huh... I may have to rewatch all of RvB then to find that line

[fickle drift]

I think it’s from the H2 days if that helps lol

[jade gust]

That does indeed help

[silk beacon]

I know nothing from those UNC ages 💀

[trim saddle]

ouch

[jade gust]

But first I have Spartan Ops Legendary solo to continue, I think I have a strat which will work for episode 7 chapter 1. Tested it on Heroic and it worked fine there

[silk beacon]

... Lol

[candid solar]

The sole upside to Infinite's design is that one of the variants looks like a fish.

[trim saddle]

[remote spruce]

Please bring back the sweatness of halo 5. I miss those days

[jade gust]

I'm so glad we have great screenshots to do a side by side comparison of the two Hydra models. Just look at how much more character there is in Halo 5's

[trim saddle]

Id like them to bring back some parts of it at least.

[silk beacon]

Tbh, I think I got them mixed up

[remote spruce]

The Halo 5 one was just fine

[silk beacon]

The H infinite was the trash one

[jade gust]

Aye. Like a coating which adds an additional colour or two helps it a little bit but it just isn't as strong of a design as Halo 5's

[silk beacon]

H infinite is too simplistic

[jade gust]

The only thing I want back from the Infinite version is the decals it features all over. Those would look great on the Halo 5 iteration

[tight remnant]

Halo 5 hydra is so great, both design wise and gameplay wise

[silk beacon]

Halo 5 is so great, both design and gameplay wise

[jade gust]

Agreed. Being able to just fire a volley of missiles made it really feel like a good alternative option against vehicles

Meanwhile Infinite's is ok at best most the time when used against them

[fickle drift]

It sounds better in H5 as well, just to add.

[silk beacon]

Everything does

[balmy pagoda]

If you get hit once while lock on it zooms you out and breaks the lock on

[jade gust]

Agreed

[silk beacon]

The Pllk in h5 was glorious

[tight remnant]

I like when you lock on, look up, fire a volley of FAST firing missiles, then watch as they home in like an ICBM and bam

[balmy pagoda]

We both play different it seems lol

[remote spruce]

"boom""boom""boom""boom""boom""boom"

[jade gust]

I remember when they posted a clip of it being used that way in the Halo 5 beta. I think that's when it clicked to me how it should be used

[remote spruce]

Literally the hyrda

[tight remnant]

The reload time is definitely painful in infinite

[jade gust]

Aye. Which I'd be more forgiving of if it was a proper power weapon. But it isn't