Oh I'm about to look like a huge hypocrite but I love Moscow mules. I seem to just pretend it has anything other than vodka in them.
Thanks for the advice on the scotch! I'm off all week so I may as well give it a shot.
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Oh I'm about to look like a huge hypocrite but I love Moscow mules. I seem to just pretend it has anything other than vodka in them.
Thanks for the advice on the scotch! I'm off all week so I may as well give it a shot.
BeamImpact
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nvm
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Deputy Moonman
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Do you think it was really him? Very uncharacteristic of him. So different from his normal posting that i wonder if a friend somehow got his account info and pranked him. But who knows. Maybe he finally snapped. I know i have before lol.
Syphon Filter
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back with the classic avatar i see.
That was most good
FUNKNOWN iXi
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Hmmmm.. two games of CE with "near host" bullet registration.
Yo, CE is the only game with terrible spawns yo.
I never had tons of terrible spawns in later Halo games.
Later games were such an improvement with spawns.
This was only one game, but it happens all the time. I should start saving more of these. At least I can defend myself with the Pistol sometimes if I spawn in a terrible spot ;]
Also, can confirm improvements to CE. Some CLIPS:
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Yo, CE is the only game with terrible spawns yo.
I never had tons of terrible spawns in later Halo games.
Later games were such an improvement with spawns.
This was only one game, but it happens all the time. I should start saving more of these. At least I can defend myself with the Pistol sometimes if I spawn in a terrible spot ;]
Also, can confirm improvements to CE. Some CLIPS:
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That new Bonnie interview with Bloomberg is pretty interesting. I wonder what they meant about how the early script had women villains slain by the male protagonist? Also, it seems they've tried to roll whatever GamerGate is into the article and Halo itself. Pretending that diversity didn't exist in the series, or how they've taken it further, now adding another bald space marine in Locke, but this time he's black. I mean, did these folks not play Halo CE, 2 and Halo 3? Some of the crowd favorite characters are Halsey, Sargeant Johnson, Miranda Keyes, not to mention other characters like Captain Dare or Kat in Reach. If anything, 343 has done a disservice to diversity with how they handled Halsey and Palmer. Palmer was honestly poorly written, and they turned Halsey into someone who is supoosedly worse than Hitler. Now she's a one armed villain bent on Revenge.
It's hilarious how they expect the series to last 30 years, when I'd say the series is in even a more dire position than before MCC was announced. Plus, Halo 5 has the potential to turn off a lot of fans even more.
Deputy Moonman
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I downloaded the patch but havent had a chance to try it. Looking forward to it later tonight. If youre online ill send you an invite.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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You're a bad person.
I had to move to vodka. Now I drink at least a bottle and not a hangover In sight.
You're good people.
If Halo salt is enough for you to breakdown. Well jesus I don't know what to tell you.
Poodlestrike
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343's Halsey is honestly a much better portrayal of the character than Nylund's, though obviously both beat the hell out of Traviss'.
I wouldn't read too much into that interview, or buy anything Bonnie isn't talking about. It seems directly like a piece the reporter wanted to write, and crafted a story around (whether or not the facts aligned.)
And I agree with Poodle--I've appreciated Halsey's portrayal as both more nuanced and sympathetic, even if I also understand why particularly Traviss' portrayal irked them.
As for dire positions, you must not have been a fan of any other franchise. People are always screaming doom. Yet things persist...
Yeah, I'm feeling that way too, wanted to push a certain story, and tried to fit Bonnie and her interview around it. I don't know, I can appreciate the nuance they want to add to Halsey, but I don't know, the war criminal aspect and then her vowing vengeance against the UNSC and ONI was almost comical.
I don't know, after Halo: Reach, Halo 4 and now the MCC launch, plus how radically they're trying to change Halo 5, there are no guarantees. MCC is working much better but it seems people don't even want to start it again. I tried convincing a few fans, some of who even took days off for MCC to try and play, and they just don't want to.
buddha0991
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I always thought Halsey was just manipulating Jul 'Mdama
I definitely have to admit that I let my own opinion bleed into HaloGAF tweets. Then I pulled it back and used it for retweeting GAF threads and developer tweets. I couldn't highlight many tweets because I don't have the time to follow the threads as much as I used to. But I did try to highlight other GAFers on Twitter to give the followers of the account an idea of where the community was leaning toward one subject or another. And I did catch a solid, constructive post here and there. But you can't please everyone; one person's opinion may be "trash" to the next guy which results in that guy scoffing at how the account is being run. So the only "important" people you can highlight without getting a negative reaction from anyone is Stinkles or David.
Thanks for the response. I think I more or less responded above.
It's all good man, the state of Halo currently, minus the HCS, is pretty depressing anyways.
Some deserved, some not. One can't REALLY blame you for a bad retweet here and there because I know and understand the frustration that comes with seeing your most loved and cherished (at least for me) franchise being killed in front of your eyes.
I, in no way, think we are witnessing the death of Halo but I do think we are in for a rough return this next year.
Really hope Halo 5 brings it back. I just wish people would give it a chance. I know and agree sprint doesn't work in Halo's past. We have never tested a sprint with negative consequences in Halo yet though, so who knows. Maybe it'll be a great competitive shooter and a decent Halo game.
Bregmann Roche
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My favorite part of the clip: the pacifist sniper rifle doing its damnedest to get away before you could use it to hurt anybody.
Slightly Live
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Who runs this and can they not make it embarrassing?
I'm late but, If Heckfu running the HaloGAF twitter produces this, then keep it coming.
Amazing.
Poodlestrike
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That was my read on the situation as well.
That's my thought as well.
Halsey in Spartan Ops was one of the best parts of the entire story. She gets pretty much the biggest focus outside maybe Thorne and Lasky--she's a criminal who's treated like dirt but is also begrudgingly acknowledged to be necessary; she provides a good contrast with the new Spartans; she's (IMO) unfairly punished for her mistake talking to Jul; and she ends up on the wrong side of a summary execution order because Osman is just pissed off.
343 has been deliberately pushing the shadier side of the UNSC and ONI to the forefront; it's not inept storytelling on their part. Where and when this stuff is going to come to a head is up in the air.
Fata1moose
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Yesterday I had a game of BTB where it was 6v6, we voted on a map and before the game started a 13th player was randomly thrown in and it became 7v6. Can't believe stuff like that can happen, especially after voting on the map.
Rum seems to be my one of my favorite alcoholic beverages so far.
I tried straight Vodka and that put some hair on my chest. I'd imagine mixing it with something is recommended. Haven't tried Scotch.
I tried straight Vodka and that put some hair on my chest. I'd imagine mixing it with something is recommended. Haven't tried Scotch.
What's going on in Sydney?
I'm not supporting the tournament or the game, really. Sure, indirectly.
What I DO support are the pros and the community surrounding the pro-scene.
Irongaming, despite being one of the worst run events I've ever seen, was a blast to watch. Some intense matches, amazing plays, good amount of trash talk, I don't see what's wrong with supporting the pro players.
But I guess I'm gonna be given shit for watching tournaments now too huh.
Sigh.
Yeah, I don't give a fuck about H2A at this point but I'm definitely gonna support the pros.
The cheaper the Vodka, the harder it is for me to drink straight. Something like Grey Goose, Belvedere, Ciroc is easier for me to have with just ice compared to a smirnoff or something.
Hard liquor is bane for me as well. Mostly just social engagements, but during my party times, was mostly always mixed stuff. Crown and coke, Rum and come, Jack and coke, vodka/seven up, Vodka/energy drink etc. Hard to develop the taste for straight with little to no dilution with water or ice.
Sydney had a terror/gunman hostage situation that ended tragically with 2 dead and 4 wounded before police took down the gunman.
Welfare
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Been like that since day 1.
Do you, I'm just saying that I personally can't get behind it. I'm not even sure what 343's involvement was in the tourney, but I don't think they should be pushing the HCS until the game works properly. Just my opinion.
It's funny because after Halo 3, so much speculation was about the future if the series, and people used to joke that now the Covenant are finished, the next game will have humans fighting humans again, Spartans will be used once again to quell rebellions or stop separatists, and instead, we're probably going to see some kind of human civil war type story with UNSC vs ONI vs colonies probably. You could see the mistrust between the Sedrans and ONI and how ONI views themselves in Nightfall.
Yeah, it's a shitty situation for sure. Not gonna make excuses for 343, at all, ever, but I really want HCS to take off and I think it's a high point in an otherwise low, loooow situation.
As far as I can tell the companies are completely private/separate and are running a tournament while being well aware of the current issues.
I think it's pretty important to keep it going to lead into Halo 5 where it will be huge (at the start) and if the game is good, will continue to grow.
I see you in the chat all the time! Was a rough tourney, but worked out well in the end. I really think 343 should suck it up and host all the lan tourneys. MCC invitational was infinitely better than IGC. We need that production value and the prize pools need to be MUCH higher. They need to take after Sony with their 480K bump of the prize pool (not saying every tourney needs to offer 500k), but it needs to be bigger.
Yeah the only time I can see myself drinking straight vodka or hard liquor is when I'm trying to get drunk. If I'm just looking for a nice buzz I'll mix it.
What do you think of brandy? I had some Cognac and Coke with my flatmate and it tasted kinda gross to me.
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That's a shame what happened in Sydney.
I hope they come out of it alright.
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Same thing seems to be happening for me whenever a CE map pops up. Each game really needs at least one dedicated playlist or else the few playlists that have said game are always going to get picked.
Indeed. Which is interesting, because as a story guy I've always thought we should get more of that... but at the same time part of what separates Halo from a lot of games out there is its humans vs. aliens setup. Fighting humans might make it feel "samey" to the uninitiated, and for some there's a psychological thing about shooting human beings--and humans compared to Covenant and Prometheans are fairly limited, gameplay wise, unless we were going up against Spartans. We've only ever had a single enemy human in a Halo game (two, if you count the crazed Marine). It was certainly verboten during Bungie's time; we'll see how it plays out.
A possible out is that from Escalation we've seen
ONI essentially using Covenant as proxy fighters; maybe that would solve the story issue of the player going up against humans, without necessarily fighting lots of humans.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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But in Halo 4, I can shoot people from more than 10ft. away
foooooooooooooooookin rekt, son. Halo 2 sucks. Halo 3 sucks. H4 >
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but seriously tho..
Enter The 36 Chambers
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Scust at calling brandy gross
Deputy Moonman
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343 better add a CE playlist soon. Getting really sick of H3 being voted for and playing bad maps like Orbital and Snowbound.
Halo 3 has probably been the most intense matches for me so far. Even teams, no lag, things like BR's on Standoff, Team BR's orbital etc. Halo 2 classic has probably been the worst for me in this collection. Maybe I just need more time to get into it. Halo 4 is whatever. It's in so few playlists, I think I've had maybe two matches so far.
Deputy Moonman
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It's just lame that there is literally a H3 and Classic H2 specific playlist, 3 H2A playlists, and the only way I can get a CE match is if the map gets outright majority vote. It's nothing but a pisser to CE fans.
To be fair they took it out because it played unacceptably. Now that it plays pretty great they're going to add the playlist very soon (as confirmed by Ghostayame on Twitter). I'd expect it in the next week.
Fata1moose
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I would like Halo 4 in the team slayer playlist if they had gametypes without armor abilities, set power weapon drops and no load outs. Haven, Adrift, Skyline, Pitfall, Vertigo and Monolith are all fairly decent maps that I'd like to see in there.
Do you guys think we'll ever fight humans in the games? So far it's always been fighting the Covenant in some form. Even in H2 as the Arbiter you were always fighting Covenant or Heretics.
lol Got any recommendations? I've heard Cognac is only sort of considered a Brandy.
It seems like all I play is CE. So irritating.
aHebrewMenagerie
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Agreed, it'd be nice to break up the monotony of it essentially being a second Halo 3 playlist.
EDIT: CE feels incredible, I can confirm. Why are we playing anything else?
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