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Halo |OT16| Oh Bungie, Where Art Thou?

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Ghazi

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$20 says that by the end of the Reclaimer Saga we will know John's last name and the name of his firstborn with Palmer.

Calling it now.
 
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Latvian Hitman

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randomrosso said:
I'm not entirely knowledgeable on the subject, so say it's true, what's the difference between the nextbox's Windows 8 OS which is developed by Microsoft and the OS system already on the Xbox 360 that has had few (if at all) security problems?
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The 360 has a custom-built, non-Windows OS.

Probably have my focus in the wrong place, though. When it comes to consoles and MS, the hardware design has historically been the problematic thing rather than the software...
 
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no bullets hans

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I remember playing Halo 2 way back in the day and thinking that the character models for Keyes and Cortana were too similar to be ignored (aside from the former not being blue and naked).

It reeks of Star Wars, though. Like, of course all the main characters would be super duper intimately involved with each other. Why would a story set in a universe with billions of people have main characters that had nothing to do with one another? That would be normal.
 
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Hypertrooper said:
Need more Palmer in your life? There is a comic coming!


http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/04/halo-initiation-comic/#slideid-55784
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I wonder what the women of 343 think of Palmer. Do they think she's as poorly written and borderline insulting to powerful female figures as I do? It's not like any of the new characters in the campaign and SpOps are well-written, but listening to Palmer speak is aural torture. At least give her a Word-Of-The-Day calendar in an attempt to increase her vocabulary, ffs.

Wahrer said:
Why is she in prime dick riding position?
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I'm actually kind of surprised that there's none of that awkward head-and-ass pointed at the camera pose that's so popular among comic book artists.
 
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no bullets hans

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squidhands said:
I wonder what the women of 343 think of Palmer. Do they think she's as poorly written and borderline insulting to powerful female figures as I do?
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Plus what they've willingly done to Halsey, by turning her from a brilliant, independent woman into a bitchy, self serviing war criminal.

It wasn't enough that they're shitting all over the women already in the franchise, they're bringing in new ones to make them dog shit awful as well.
 
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squidhands said:
I wonder what the women of 343 think of Palmer. Do they think she's as poorly written and borderline insulting to powerful female figures as I do? It's not like any of the new characters in the campaign and SpOps are well-written, but listening to Palmer speak is aural torture. At least give her a Word-Of-The-Day calendar in an attempt to increase her vocabulary, ffs.
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How does Palmer's character make you feel as a woman?
 
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no bullets hans said:
I remember playing Halo 2 way back in the day and thinking that the character models for Keyes and Cortana were too similar to be ignored (aside from the former not being blue and naked).

It reeks of Star Wars, though. Like, of course all the main characters would be super duper intimately involved with each other. Why would a story set in a universe with billions of people have main characters that had nothing to do with one another? That would be normal.
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Keyes and Halsey make sense, but yeah I agree that if you have too many reveals of that nature it starts getting into "of all the wretched hives of villainy in the galaxy, she walked into mine" nonsense.
 
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Nope.

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE.
 
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MaximumFlipFlop

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Talents said:
I thought Spartans had like no sex drive.
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In 343's attempt to further humanize Chief, new augmentations have been developed to reverse the ill effects caused to Spartan IIs. No longer will their true emotions be suppressed. Hormones can once again flow freely through his body. Chief can finally be free from the shackles placed upon him in his early teens.
 
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Steelyuhas

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Latvian Hitman said:
One of Thurrot's rumors:

"Windows 8 Core. The next Xbox is based on the "Core" (base) version of Windows 8. This suggests a common apps platform or at least one that is similar to that used by Windows 8, and further than Microsoft could open up this platform to enthusiast developers. (That last bit is supposition on my part.)"

This idea doesn't sit well with me. I'm assuming (hoping) we're just talking about a Windows 8 kernel and low-level application layer. If this console is actually running the core version of W8 as it's OS, it's going to be an absolute train wreck.
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Sharing the kernel is absolutely a good thing. It's a related constrained diversification strategy, which in Microsoft's case is the absolute best decision to make. By having the same core in their OS's, it opens up the related operation systems to each other, making communication and collaboration between platform much easier, and development for different platform becomes much easier. It even opens up the future possibility of a single ecosystem across all platforms and form factors.
 
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Omni

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SltyPoison said:
In 343's attempt to further humanize Chief, new augmentations have been developed to reverse the ill effects caused to Spartan IIs. No longer will their true emotions be suppressed. Hormones can once again flow freely through his body. Chief can finally be free from the shackles placed upon him in his early teens.
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Halo 5 is about Master Chief's personal battle with excessive masturbation and porn subscription websites. He's about to get through it all, and then at the end of the game he sees Palmer's ass. Halo 6 is about exploiting her father issues to try and get her into bed before the Precursors return.
 
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Latvian Hitman said:
Because the Windows brand doesn't exactly have a sterling reputation when it comes to making stable, secure operating systems. Now, I'd expect stability on a closed system like a tablet or console to be fine, but from a security standpoint? Let's just say I'm leery.

I may well be, but keep in mind that Windows tablets and phones don't carry the market share to make them targets. A successful game console might draw a lot more attention in the long run.
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Don't you think that the 360 / PS3 have drawn this same attention? Those updates where there are no noticeable changes and MS is tight-lipped on the details? That's them taking care of shit that was found, both security and stability. The core that the new Windows "brand" is built around has been designed from the start to run on lots of hardware and be as closed as necessary (see WinRT or WP8). They've built a very solid ecosystem and whether people believe it or not, MS are very good at software and have only gotten better. The shared core should, in theory, make it easier on developers to make multi-platform (PC/NextBox/Mobile/etc) apps/games with much less effort while taking advantage of the hardware available. I've not developed for these platforms yet myself, though, so take this at face value.

EDIT: uhas'd. Fuckin' slow ass work internet strikes again.

Latvian Hitman said:
The 360 has a custom-built, non-Windows OS.

Probably have my focus in the wrong place, though. When it comes to the original 360 and MS, the hardware design has historically been the problematic thing rather than the software...
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FTFY. Original Xbox and the 360 S are solid.

heckfu said:
Does anyone wanna play FIFA or Halo 4?
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I'll be home in 4.5 hours. You gonna be on then or later?
 
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Steelyuhas

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I think the original 360 model is the exception to MS' hardware history.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of hardware they've made outside of the original 360 that wasn't a solid piece of hardware. The 360 is something that MS themselves admitted was rushed in order to get it out in 2005.
 
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Hydranockz said:
Halo 4 is the TITS! I think I'll play in about an hour or so. Gotta move the box and tv back upstairs.
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tits ass titties boobs vagina xxx porn

I wonder what else the school internet filters

oh, and Halo 4 is fun too, in the right playlists cant believe some of you nerds go to bloom halo.
 
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Latvian Hitman

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YourExWife said:
Don't you think that the 360 / PS3 have drawn this same attention? Those updates where there are no noticeable changes and MS is tight-lipped on the details? That's them taking care of shit that was found, both security and stability. The core that the new Windows "brand" is built around has been designed from the start to run on lots of hardware and be as closed as necessary (see WinRT or WP8). They've built a very solid ecosystem and whether people believe it or not, MS are very good at software and have only gotten better. The shared core should, in theory, make it easier on developers to make multi-platform (PC/NextBox/Mobile/etc) apps/games with much less effort while taking advantage of the hardware available. I've not developed for these platforms yet myself, though, so take this at face value.

EDIT: uhas'd. Fuckin' slow ass work internet strikes again.
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The PS3/360 aren't running any flavor of a Windows OS. But I see your points here, and my fears are allayed. I'm more of a hardware guy- software development is not my thing... It's just a knee-jerk reaction I've been conditioned to have any time I hear that something is "powered by Windowz!"

YourExWife said:
FTFY. Original Xbox and the 360 S are solid.
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This is true- the OG Xbox and the 360 slim revision are decent pieces of HW. That still leaves about four-and-a-half years that they were in the supply chain with their flagship console carrying an inherently defective design, which they spent upwards of two years trying to deny.
 
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