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@CactusFuturist And that has absolutely no relevance to the actual stories being told because they don’t exist concurrently in the same universe

@Denit41 Because Halo and Marathon are fictional works created by the same studio and many of the same creatives. They are not real events that happened.

Halo 4 is functionally a hard retcon of the entire franchise. It's not the same universe anymore. And no amount of forced sad scenes where a violin plays in the background while Cortana goes through AI-schizophrenia (never how rampany was meant to work) will help it in isolation.

@CactusFuturist No, they aren’t. That’s the point. AI in marathon go rampant with too much information the AI in Halo short out after a certain amount of time. They are objectively different. Do you wanna talk about nonsense? Let’s talk about halo 3 and Cortana/Gravemind rampancy/visions.

@Denit41 The stages of rampancy are the same. Halo 4’s dementia is removed from this, though. And I don’t even want to get into what they did with Guilty Spark

@CactusFuturist > Cortana visions affirm more Marathon’s depictions of rampancy Why would affirming marathons depiction of rampancy matter if the canon of Halo and Marathon are different?

@Denit41 I did not once say Marathon was canon to Halo.

@CactusFuturist > Actually, Bungie’s depiction of rampancy in Halo was THEMATICALLY consistent with Marathon’s But it isn’t LITERALLY, which is the far more important part. It is objectively different

@Denit41 Actually, Bungie’s depiction of rampancy in Halo was THEMATICALLY consistent with Marathon’s. That is why it is constantly referenced. This is not accidental

@CactusFuturist Marathon isn’t Canon to Halo. Not to mention that rampancy is objectively different with AI from marathon going crazy after experience and AI in Halo going crazy after a certain amount of time

@Denit41 Halo 3’s Cortana visions affirm more Marathon’s depictions of rampancy. There is even a direct quote on the stages of it the mission “Cortana”.

I was the product marketing manager for @GearsofWar 2. We did zero focus testing on the ads. The team was locked in together. Total trust in each other and in what we were making. Taste and confidence.

@GamingButCursed Directed by the hardest working man out there today, Joseph Kosinski

More marketing we will never get again. Starry Night (2006)

@1488Juice If I wanted my own comeback, I’d go to your mother‘s chin

@Denit41 Shut up, nigger faggot.

Burger King also says "have it your way." But nobody pretends that Burger King is a high quality meal. The best meals are often from Chefs who make what they want to make because they probably know something you don't. Modern gaming is junk food.

@1488Juice Shut up, faggot

@Denit41 Shut up, nigger.

@Gibboanxious True Romance is better than Pulp Fiction

Citizen Kane is NOT better than Pulp Fiction

@Longswordwife Clearly, You haven’t heard about Proxy

How come R2D2 had the only hologram projector in the galaxy capable of doing colors

@revenant_MMXX I would argue that’s sprinting had a fundamentally more positive change on the gameplay mechanics then something like dual wielding in Halo 2/3, which destroyed weapon balancing

@revenant_MMXX Most argument I’ve seen against limited default sprinting in Halo has amounted to “it makes it different and it’s not COD” instead of actually analyzing the gameplay ramifications. I’m not inherently against arguments against sprinting.

Sprint discourse in Halo reveals something; most people cannot consider how small details affect the holistic view of something. People liked classic Halo because it WASN'T Battlefield, COD, Gears, or any other shooter with sprint in it. Not solely because it didn't have sprint, but because when viewed holistically, it was a substantially different game from the alternatives. Making even one singular change to make it more similar to those games completely ruins that because the entire concept of the game (again, viewed holistically) has to be redesigned to accommodate that change. 343i very explicitly said that one of their goals was to make Halo "more like COD," and nu-Halo and its fanbase is the result. You will even see people make that argument themselves, saying "every other shooter has it." This what anti-creativity and homogenization of a medium looks like. This is "you control the buttons you press" in action. It's a pass-fail test where you either understand why this is bad or you just concede (voluntarily or not) that you don't actually like or understand video games.

@WiggerMaggot Don’t be too hard on them! These high school students are clearly new to source filmmaker. In fact….oh….its from the actual game.

I don’t care if the graphics are good, this is animated atrociously for a AAA game

@ArmoredNorman @GoonPsychic I know. I really missed all the bullet sponge brute enemies as well.

@GoonPsychic If you actually like halo 4 you are a slop guzzler, simple az.

People who started Halo with Halo 4 and have $300+ worth of cosmetics in Halo Infinite now.

@RazorFist There’s a joke in here about Protestants and perspective

It looks like a sandcastle.

@Dexerto Incredible. They won’t do Lego sets for James Bond, despite it being a PG-13 franchise, but they’ll do it for an overrated modern adaptation of a series of books regarding psychedelic drugs.

A LEGO Dune sandworm set has leaked It will reportedly be $140, 1,837 pieces, and release on January 1, 2027