Rasq' writes

Stealing this one and pinning it.

@wulfeart I would never stop glazing this mod

@RealDexterGrif @wulfeart @poisonvirgoo So be it.

@wulfeart @poisonvirgoo Every AAA game company does this. Every single one. You would have to boycott every game from every single major studio. Good luck!

I will not be buying Halo Campaign Evolved at this time, and I don't think anyone who reads this should either. We need to put our foot down as a community. The game we love and the people who work on it have been illegally mistreated for years. Enough is enough.

Hello. I am a big old tank of pressurized argon with a defective pressure release valve. Hello. I am a Steiger Quadtrack pulling a dilapidated Great Plains seeder. (This one would have taken a few minutes, and hurt the whole fucking time I was dying) Hello. I am a cropduster whose flight path and altitude almost made my landing gear intersect the cab of your tractor.

Reawakened.

@cortana_m @TheCountofS has noticed that Halo's art sensibilities are a unique mix. Like if Gundam was directed by James Cameron. That might strike a cultural resonance on that side of the Pacific.

海外のスパルタンたちにお願いがあるんだ。 HALOを知らない日本人にHALOの魅力を伝えて欲しい。もちろん日本にもFPSプレーヤーはたくさんいるよ。だけどその中にはAPEXやCODはプレイするけどHALOはプレイしたことないなんて人がいっぱいいるんだ。彼らにぜひHALOを勧めてくれ!

@UnwantedBlog @ImKingGinger I'm trying, boss.

@ImKingGinger As a distinctly non-Christian person... Christians *need* to stop making these horrible movies. They insult both Christians AND non-Christians. *Good* Christian movies ("Ben Hur," "Passion," etc.) have been done and appeal to nons as well.

The Truth About Why Christian Movies are So Bad. I’ve spent the last four years building a streaming platform and talking to people at the very top of the faith-based entertainment industry. Studio heads. Distributors. Producers. Investors. And I’ve come to a conclusion that I think is going to make a lot of people uncomfortable. Christian movies are bad on purpose. The talent is out there. I’ve met them. I’ve sat with them at 3am over whiskey and cigars listening to pitches that should have been picked up immediately. So that left a question that any Christian filmmaker could quickly answer. If the talent is there, why is everything so mediocre? It starts with an avatar named Bookstore Betty. I’m not making that up. When the faith-based film industry was being built out, it was done in partnership with Christian bookstore executives. They weren’t asking “how do we make great cinema.” They were asking “who walks into our stores and how do we sell them a movie the same way we sell them a devotional.” The target was a 35 year old woman. The tone, the casting, the conflict resolution, the soft lighting, all of it was reverse-engineered to appeal to Betty. Not to a general audience. Not to men. Not to teenagers. Just Betty. Every major Christian film you can think of relies on distribution deals with secular studios. The same studios that blacklisted almost everyone who worked on The Passion of the Christ and refused to distribute Kirk Cameron's Pro Life movie. Think about that. Passion made over $600 million on a $30 million budget. The most obvious play would have been to duplicate that movie hundreds of times like it was the MCU. But instead of greenlighting more, Hollywood blacklisted the people involved. So what did they do instead? They set up a system where they get to be the gatekeepers. They only greenlight the safest, most formulaic, most non-threatening stuff possible. Because if Christian films ever started consistently competing with mainstream entertainment, those studios would have a real problem. So they make sure that never happens. And the church helps them do it. Christian movies don’t need word of mouth. They don’t need to be good. They need pastors to bulk-buy tickets. You make a movie with a “message,” market it to churches, and pastors subsidize the whole thing by buying hundreds of tickets to hand out on Sunday. You don’t have to compete in a fair market when your distribution model is guilt-driven generosity. And the funding is even more rigged. Most of these films are funded through Donor Advised Funds, which means donors get a tax write-off for their “investment” regardless of whether the movie makes a dollar. There’s no market pressure to make something good. The donors got their deduction. The studio got their budget. And Betty got another movie about a woman who finds a journal in the attic. What would happen if someone actually came along and made faith-based content that created pop culture instead of reacting to it? I think it would instantly expose how low-effort the current industry is. It would be like when Uber showed up and embarrassed the taxi industry overnight. The monopoly only survives because nobody has disrupted it yet. The talent is there. The audience is there. The only thing missing is capital that wants disruption instead of a tax write-off.

@ChoukaiKaiNi That can make or break a story in the process of being born. Especially for a writer like me, who is allergic to infodumps and exposition in the narrative.

Biggest prose challenge I'm having right now is trying to convey as much meaning and information in as little amount of words and dialogue as possible. Trying to make sure there's no 'filler' but also running into issues with pacing things in a way that feels natural

Understood. Twitter is... you know, I never actually thought about posting stories directly to Twitter. Huh. I do wonder how the engagement is different for written content versus art. Most people on here don't want something they have to stay with for longer than thirty seconds. But maybe that longer engagement is deeper engagement? I'll have to think about this.

@ChoukaiKaiNi @RasqWrites I'd post stories here if it didn't require me to buy a blue checkmark or set up a doc of some kind (and then you have to convince people to click the doc-) it's. . . . just not as fruitful in returns as posting a render or an illustration.

An OC with no story is incomplete. He is as interesting as a story with no characters. This is why I don't talk about my OCs. I prefer that the stories or the shitposts they star in bring them to life.

Never let airmen do anything unsupervised.

@hirotonfa Loved the Ghost old portrait

@WeaponNR It used to be written like a myth, but the current epoch borrows more from superhero stories. A lot of the war drama was left out, and what remains only exists in pastiche.

Halo used to be written like a myth. Now it's just a war drama.

家の近くの肉屋、急にバーベキューの肉がバカ売れして理由もわからず困惑してたのまじ面白い

🚨 BREAKING: The United States Heritage Air Force Squadron has just announced plans to resurrect a Convair B-36 from the Boneyard and restore it to full flying condition 🇺🇸✈️ The legendary "Peacemaker" will take to the skies once again as part of America’s 250th anniversary celebration, culminating in a massive airshow this September at Brookley Air Force Base, Alabama. Sources say it may be the loudest comeback in aviation history. History isn’t just being remembered… it’s about to fly again.

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@RasqWrites Nah mate, many tried to justify the $60 price tag for ODST. Just pointing out the hypocrisy of these people. Willing to overlook ODST & tear apart Infinite. When in reality we can see both shouldn't have been $60. Coming to that conclusion, many still continue the justification

Yeah, we bitched about that too. And the guys at Bungie were livid because they pitched it as a $40 game, both to Microsoft and to the fans when they revealed it as Halo 3: Recon. But you know how daft that argument is, or you wouldn't have protected your replies.

This is a load-bearing tweet right here.

@tkcqd516 "Oh, I know what the ladies like."

HALO民！！どうやらスコーピオンタンクがキット化されるみたいです！　ありがとう、UNSC万歳！！　試作品を特別に頂きました！　素組みしかできませんでしたが案外大きくてズッシリしています。

I'm not mad. I'm just puzzled by this weird gotcha you're trying to pull. Nobody is glossing over it, and judging from the quote tweets, nobody really forgot it either. Bringing it up in the context of Infinite's price point sounds like you're doing that "You don't like [thing]? Well, I guess [thing] was alright when Bungie did it!" shit that 343i stans do. When in fact, it wasn't alright when Bungie did it.

@RasqWrites Idk why you're so mad. I'm talking about how people today forget it even happened. Glossing over this controversy because of Nostalgia. The audacity of repackaged and resell Halo 3 multiplayer to the fans with a short campaign for $60. Crazy stuff from Microsoft.

@roikfbuwgc254 I married one. Down here in the American South, they love their mayonnaise. Where I'm from, not so much. We're still trying to calibrate how much mayo is acceptable in the coleslaw. I had no idea that it was a popular condiment in Japan.

想定外 アメリカにマヨラーはいない？ 常にカバンの中にマヨネーズのチューブを隠し持ちあらゆる食べ物にマヨネーズをかける連中 一般人に擬態し食べ物の話題から必ずマヨネーズの話題にする 危ないな すでにBBQブームの中にマヨラーが紛れ込んでる可能性が高い 誰か日本人からBBQのソースにマヨネーズを勧められた人はいない？ 気をつけて 彼らはカレーが白くなるまでマヨネーズをかける

@capnkaba My criticism is that the Banished from Infinite already have a problem where their visual identity is just "The Red Covenant". If HS goes back and gives the actual Covenant the same weapons and armor that the Banished used, that visual identity gets even less distinct.

That being said, they are apparently trying to give the Halo world a more uniform look, so I do see why they would for example use Infinite Marines as opposed to remaking CE’s, because we never saw that look again. Is it lame? Yeah. But do I get it. Also yeah. (2/2)

I think there are valid criticisms to be made in not making the world look more like the game it’s remaking. But criticizing them FOR reusing assets is dumb. If they made new models that weren’t 1:1 with the original, it’d still be a problem. (1/2)