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I never knew the Halo Extended Lore when I played Halo 3 back in the day (well, okay, watched a friend play it because I didn't have a 360) before this LP filled me in on it, but now knowing the history of the SPARTAN program I find Cortana/Halsey's line at the beginning about Master Chief being lucky funny because (hot take incoming  ) imo being kidnapped, horribly experimented on, and forced into military service on borderline suicide missions would be the definition of unlucky. I mean I guess he's still alive so silver linings I guess? 
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Well we can't be done with the Flood yet so I'm curious to see if Half-Jaw is just real lovely at glassing planets or what.
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Dec 27, 2021 01:49
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BlazetheInferno posted:I think the clear implication is that the man simply snapped under the horror and pressure and went murderously paranoid. Yeah that's the way I read it. Talking about how they hadn't turned but how he could see the Flood under their skin or whatever. Poor guy's mind just snapped in the middle of this zombie movie he's living in.
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Dec 29, 2021 00:27
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Aside from like one more cutscene and the very ending, we're officially past the point where I know anything about Halo canon so I'm real excited to see where things are going from here.
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Jan 9, 2022 09:59
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Samovar posted:It's HIT that big rear end ramp! No, Kibayasu was right FrenzyTheKillbot posted:Is that from Blood on the Sand? Indeed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgSXldDcLdY
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Jan 22, 2022 07:21
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Forerunner tech authentication sucks. Like, we've seen this twice now with Keyes in Halo 2 and Johnson just now; they both resist activating rings but all it takes is someone forcefully jamming their hand onto the big glowing button to start up the doom system. The Covenant (and Spark) keep saying they need the humans to activate the rings but really all it looks like is that they need to cut off a human's hand to activate... I don't know, I guess a fingerprint scanner?
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Jan 31, 2022 21:18
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Outpost22 posted:What kind of tests? Guess the dice roll, pick a card from a deck? Win the lottery? The Spartans' orange face visors were inspired by one kid's sweet sunglasses that he wore when he just dominated the
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I have no idea how Frenzy knew where they were going on the way back out of the High Charity. that is one of the biggest TMI dev notes I've seen in all of video games TwoPair fucked around with this message at 09:13 on Feb 6, 2022 |
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Feb 6, 2022 09:09
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Very convenient for Master Chief that apparently his chunk of the Forward Unto Dawn contained cryo-pods and a console for Cortana that apparently have independent power sources
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Feb 12, 2022 05:33
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I wonder how often the ODSTs hear that "nice of you to drop in" joke (or some variation of it), and how quick it takes them to get sick of it.
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Mar 19, 2022 07:46
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Man, ACAB to the extreme
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Ablative posted:I mean, if you ignore the part where the Covenant is a theocratic dictatorship that started a genocidal war because its current leaders found out they weren't actually gods-to-be and decided to kill the newly contacted to keep this a secret and themselves in power, sure. Yeah, you do not in fact, gotta give it to them
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May 15, 2022 17:32
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I was gonna say "you guys are a little obsessed with using the MAC blast" but then I remembered that the entirety of me playing Starcraft back in the day was just forcing my way up the tech tree until I could build Battlecruisers and spam Yamato blasts, so I'd be a total hypocrite.
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Sep 5, 2022 17:19
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I'm honestly surprised you didn't do an all-Scorpion run but going whole hog is a bold move
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Sep 17, 2022 01:47
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I think the Elephant was getting guns on lockdown to make it more like, well, a base. Or to draw a parallel to a game I actually know, like how when a Siege Tank in Starcraft goes into siege mode, it's range expands.
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Sep 24, 2022 03:05
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I'm sure it's not that hard if you're good at RTSes but man that whole "Kill all the flood bases at once" seems like it'd be very difficult
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Oct 1, 2022 03:00
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I like that every time you highlight a Cyclops that's doing repair work it still registers as "Building Killer"
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Oct 22, 2022 02:44
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For being so advanced, the Forerunners really should have put some safeguard in their tech against it just taking like, a handprint or a voice command from a human to activate, like the multiple times in the series the Covenant have made humans activate doomsday weapons under duress.
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Nov 1, 2022 02:58
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I gotta say, "blow up the sun" is a big step up from the classic "nuke whatever planet/base/etc you're on" Halo ending
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The idea of a prequel game being in a conflict you know you'll lose is a very novel one. I mean, I'm sure they didn't invent that but I can't think of many games, particularly more action-y ones, that are like that. Well aside from there probably being a CoD game out there set in Vietnam...
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Dec 2, 2023 18:19
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Jorge: "Hey new guy, you remind me of this guy I used to know, John. He didn't talk much either."
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Dec 3, 2023 05:06
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*Six leaning in* "Dude, Jorge, your mom suuucks"
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Dec 9, 2023 01:44
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Yeah normally I frown upon the idea of an unregulated militias but if I lived in a world where genocidal aliens are a known threat, I would be loaded up like the loving Punisher. edit: oh since I mentioned Punisher, another story of insurrectionists having hollowed-out asteroids is Asteroid M, an asteroid converted into a space station by Magneto as a base/hideout for the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
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bunnyofdoom posted:My question is this. Are we sure Jorge is dead? Remember when Kat explained what happened to the colony ship. They just subspace jumped away a portion of the carrier. The cruiser Jorge is on is still completely intact. What's not to say he commandeered it, and jumped it somewhere else. There's only one Spartan that gets to live through things that really should kill him, and his name is
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Would they have survived the deorbit like Noble Six did, not being Spartans themselves? If they had armor lock on at the right time
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biosterous posted:"do you have it"/"i have it" feels like it's an officially required response thing, like "you are relieved"/"i stand relieved" I feel like it's more of an overly dramatic thing like "you do know that has the last hope of humanity right? This ain't any other objective, you cannot gently caress this up even a little." The only problem with the moment is after the Covenant showed up by the shitload and started glassing cities, we're well past the point of the "poo poo just got real" moment, so it rings a little hollow.
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Jan 27, 2024 20:59
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Yeah I don't really like the Cortana retcon. I mean I guess it's kinda neat that by creating/merging her with this Forerunner tech it makes her more of a unique AI, but having her finding Halo be planned (while feigning it being a random jump and seemingly not telling Keyes or Master Chief anything for... reasons?) as some 5D chess play by her (and I guess Halsey kinda sorta) feels dumb. Anyway, RIP to Noble Six, sorry about the worst first day on the job in history, buddy.
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smax posted:For what it’s worth I have always liked your intro videos, you do a good job summarizing what’s going on between the games. Same. It's a nice throwback to see what some of the circumstances were that led to the games being how they are.
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