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Halo |OT16| Oh Bungie, Where Art Thou?
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There's really no particular standard for horizontal resolution. 720 pixels/line is a fairly common number used by various standards and a lot of capture hardware. Some standards, like VGA, go for a square pixel grid, and thus use exactly 640x480 for 4:3 480-line video.
Oftentimes there isn't even any such thing as a pixel, as in the case of the old analogue TV standards. In that case, it's up to your TV manufacturer to decide how fast it wants to sample from the signal (in the case of SD CRTs with simple analogue signal filters, this is basically just the horizontal pixel count of the screen's phosphor mask). This results in some absolutely bizarre results on low-quality SD CRTs; usually video games look less aliased on lower resolution screens due to "free" supersampling (i.e. if you play Reach on a good 480-line display, you get 1152x720 downsampled to 480-line video), but with a low-quality CRT you could easily convince someone that a game is being rendered at a much lower resolution than it actually is. Not sure why you'd want to, but there you go.
He'd eventually rage quit.
Der Flatulator
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That's not quite what I call it. (Think BSG expletives)
HiredN00bs
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if they hire him in a dream he better wake up and apologize
Don't worry, we all saw you lose to Greenskull in that FFA.
The Real Napsta
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He only claimed to be good.
The worst outright "damage" to the canon was perpetuated by Bungie themselves, who then basically hired Nylund to rationalize what they wrote that trashed his story. That to me feels like a dick move. Compared to that Traviss hasn't made Master Chief a 20-year old hipster with a knitted sweater and a fixie.
I enjoy Traviss' Halo stuff (haven't read any of her other work), but I do agree that her attitudes regarding the universes she writes for is... annoying. I appreciate wanting to bring something fresh, but her attitude towards ignoring the universe she writes for besides the basic notes tips the line to smug superiority in my book. At the very least I'd prefer that if she does that 343i keep a tight leash and make sure she's not introducing simple errors that are easy to fix. It happened plenty during Dietz and Nylund's books too, but now that you've got a true franchise overseer it's really not that defensible anymore. 343i raised the bar and expectations.
In my idea world, I'd assemble a Halo writer out of all the previous ones; I think I like Staten for pure prose, Nylund for the attention to detail and tech-fi feel, and Traviss for shaping her characters. Greg Bear is great, but I kind of like him lending an alien feel to anything ancient in the universe. I haven't really read enough Dietz to get a handle on him; I certainly don't think The Flood being boring in spots was his fault, he did what he was told, and livened up plenty of sections of the game (Keyes' death as seen in the CEA terminals is still one of the best moments in the series.)
I agree with everything but the bolded. Neal Stephenson is alive and well. He's a Frank Herbert-tier sci fi writer, IMO. Check him out if you haven't. Especially the book Anathem.
Special Arbiter Level DLC incoming
BlueScrote
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I just got destroyed two games in a row in rumble pit by a guy with the carbine. He had laser precision with that thing.
I wish rumble pit pro had heavier weighting.
I wish rumble pit pro had heavier weighting.
The Real Napsta
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What's your rank in rumble pit?
they're not maps they're giant sprawling rock labrynths. they would suck without any of that.
to be honest, in terms of maps, gameplay > looks.
imagine if something like harvest was reskinned to a covie theme.... it would still stink.
They wouldn't be great by any means... all I was saying is that they'd be a lot better.
How 343 can fix the map issue, hire this man: https://twitter.com/fourzerotwo/status/164774719915180032
Oh yea. I think that was the one where I was using all the weapons and shit.
I was definitely holding my own here though. Got a sweet overkill on Ninja, dropped a ton of kills a few times. Competitive for sure.
So much shit talking going on too. Loved it.
gAg CruSh3r
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You did great as much as I seen! I bet you had a blast!
ElzarTheBam
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I will be doing some Halo 3 customs, starting an hour from now.
Join me.
Join me.
Wish I could have saved it. Bunch of nades but it was sweet. On Onyx.
Bro I was shitting in a bunch of games. Like, most kills in multiple games. Playing on LAN again was godly.
Gabotron ES
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lol @Over's avatar
ElzarTheBam
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On Halo 3 now.
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A kid I babysit is online and making me play Invasion. He says it's better than Halo 4, lol.
Gabo?
Colon problems?
Now that's unhealthy.
like, the length of the time on the toilet? or are you comparing the size of the product to the duration of the stream...those metrics aren't compatible.
Dongs Macabre
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Well, perhaps if you compare them to the length of an average stream and the length of an average poop.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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Tashi's been contaminated and can no longer be trusted.
Well I'm sure he's a nice guy but the stream having terrible, horrible quality means the opposite of "knocking it out of the park"
E: Yes, unknown has detected the source of compliments. He has been corrupted. No longer in trust list.
No like it's easy to sit from far and shit on the stream because of a bitrate/resolution issue (I'm not saying it sucks because it totally does) but I saw the prep for this thing with my own eyes and it's an insane amount of work. The live stream was certainly a highlight for me.
Welcome to the legion. Your slurp keycard and name badge are in the mail.
Wow they got you good.
HiredN00bs
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Tashi Station has been compromised. Evacuate all power converters.
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