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@NilesSankey IMO Halo has been ideologically captured by a specific "anti-bungie" demographic for some time. The community has been astroturffed by the "modern Halo Fan" - unironically supporters of Ubuquitous profit churning "products". Its not incompetence as it is more so regime change.

I suffer most from "mild annoyance". There's just so much incompetence in the corporate world on a basic level. Like imagine you have a multi-billion dollar IP that's clearly struggling to resonate w x% of the fan base. Wouldn't you at least TRY to contact former designers and say "Hey you wanna chat for an hour, maybe do lunch? We'd love just to hear your perspective". Not saying I have the answers.. but wouldn't you at least make a basic effort at due diligence?? I would have spoken w them for free.

@TobiMidnight Quite the contrary - if you recall from the Developer Commentary, it was Joe Staten who (jokingly) contended with Marty working w/ bands Incubus and Breaking Benjamin in fear it wouldn’t be “On Brand”. Marty actually speaks highly of working with both these groups in particular

@JAGtheJager @art_rube Steve is legendary; its just disingenuous as *the* iconic voice of gaming to suddenly posture this way bcs his likeness was used by "The wrong team" - despite Halo's life cycle taking place during the PEAK cultural pantheon of Mid-East War Propaganda.

@chris_p901 @art_rube Like I said, he's an actor. The work he did was for Bungie was intended for a video game. His voice is his own. NOT intended to be used as blantant propaganda without anyone involved's approval. It's a violation on their right. People like you don't mind being a puppet.

steve downes is talking about real life and ppl rly think they can clown him because halo is about war

@JAGtheJager @art_rube My contention is that a voice actor to a war machine, had years of Mid-east war propaganda to be *publicly outraged by* yet suddenly his likeness being used is inflammatory bcs the political context is convenient. (Bungie was acquired by MS Game Studios from 2000-2010 btw)

@chris_p901 @art_rube Bush was also a Republican you idiot. He worked for Bungie, a company making a game. The United States is stealing the imagery and possibly his voice to promote war in Iran. It's not the same, you idiot. Note how Bush & Obama didn't do this. The difference is that Trump did.

@testinprodcap He is a Chinese Limited Hangout

I still can't tell if professor jiang is CIA, MSS, Mossad, FSB, or just a guy with some ideas.

@HaloClassicHCH Where did you find that e3 Earth City Map to port over to OG Xbox??

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Last night we had 24 players across 2 Xlink Kai lobbies playing a new Halo 2 Mod Pack on Original Xbox! Thank you for keeping this community kicking in 2026! #halo #halo2 #gaming

@TheConnorDawn @gold_athena_ Art that survives ideologically diverging points of view, usually is art *worth preserving and appreciating* As famously put; "A work should be judged by its internal coherence, not the character of its maker..." - Kant

@gold_athena_ "The recognition they deserve" "Marty O'Donnel" I get it, I just despise the man

I've recreated the original Halo 2 credits in-engine for Halo 2: REBALANCE!! MCC Halo 2 doesn't show the original credits by default, instead just skipping to the post-credits scene. So I took it upon myself to give everyone who contributed the recognition they deserve! Not pre-rendered, fully recreated by hand from scratch based off eyesight alone. Yes, it was exactly as tedious as it sounds. I originally planned to just import the original video, but it turns out the Bink (pre-rendered video) player for MCC Halo 2 is broken, so I had to manually set up dozens of slides and effects as textures/models in-game. At 4K resolution too, so even higher quality than the original! Slide transitions and effects are all handled via game script and like a million different object function variables. I'd then time each slide/transition so that it all matches the original video. It fits right in exactly where it should, between "Finishing this fight" and the Cortana/Gravemind scene. It's a massive shame that the original credits for not just Halo 2, but ALL the games in MCC are missing. People spent years of their lives working on these games and are probably proud of their work, only to have the modern versions of them move their credits to a website that 99% of players won't see (and won't even work offline!). I couldn't imagine how frustrating it must be to have worked on these games and not get any recognition. So, at least for Halo 2: REBALANCE, the original developers, voice actors, and everyone else involved can get their due credit.

@Chettlar @thiccdotexe @LateNightHalo He was responsible for over half of the campaign workflow and lvl design for H1 & H2. He literally is the "30 seconds of fun guy" lol

@thiccdotexe @LateNightHalo He could easily have never been born and halo would nevertheless have been made. This is very silly.

Some of the people who made our favorite games are unironically this stupid when they arent making games. isnt that sad?

@Kashiiera We need to get @_IISEV_ out of retirement to get this lighting ported into the Rebalanced project somehow lol

@thesbscribe @RealEmirHan You're right. I must've forgotten there was nothing exposed and that no revelations of any kind were made in a movie where the entire 2nd and 3rd act is about uncovering a vast elitist conspiracy, which per the source material, was based on free-masonic ritualism lol

@chris_p901 @RealEmirHan So, what exactly was “exposed”? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Insane

Stanley Kubrick died just days after finishing Eyes Wide Shut It fueled conspiracies about the film exposing secret societies. Even Tom Cruise was stunned: “I went to the funeral thinking it was ridiculous. Deep down I thought it wasn’t true.”

@thesbscribe @RealEmirHan Had there been nothing to expose, then thematically there’s no purpose including an entire subplot demonstrating the sexual proclivities of elites. This film is a soft disclosure, veiled in a book adaptation. Many over analyze the lesser and avoid what you call “fantasy”

@RealEmirHan Conspiracy theories are easy when people don’t truly understand something, but the film was inspired from a German novella, so when people start talking about it “exposing” something, I think that just ends up being the fantasy in their head they’d love to be true.

@SteveDownes117 @PGATUOR Its a parody account Chief don't take the bait!

@PGATUOR Jack Nicklaus, arguably the greatest golfer who ever lived. His best score at age 79 was a 72, playing the front tees at Augusta. Anybody who believes this nonsense is an idiot.

President Trump shot a remarkable 68 alongside Brooks Koepka, Wayne Gretzky, and Bret Baier.

@Chickenbreast34 What a unironic self admission of you own Intolerance to discredit those capable of producing creative excellence, simply because of differing opinion. You're a great example of performatively not distinguishing Art from the artist, In virtue of demonstrating your "correct" views

@InfiniteGrunt This is a great example of performatively not distinguishing Art from the artist, In virtue of demonstrating your "correct" views - Its an unironic self admission to your own Intolerance towards those capable of producing creative excellence, simply because of differing opinion.

Fucking loser.

@ChoukaiKaiNi My big ask for the modding community would be to figure out how to take this mission geometry and splice it into the metropolis mission in Halo 2. It would totally complete the original "Earth City" mission Bungie had intended

The H2 E3 demo city is just so cool The KING HIT campaign will feature Human cities prominently because of this

@trybloo I bought two bags, noticed the coloration changed to an almost brownish greenish color when coming to contact with water. Is this normal?

Have you tried bloo?

@meowsandstuff @gold_athena_ @RubyofBlue Ironically the shot where the lighting is "borked" does a better service portraying that E3 look - IMO it helps with the continuity of chief being lit by that screen inside pod. Would be interesting to see a middle ground where there's less red saturation. Nonetheless keep it up!

@chris_p901 @gold_athena_ @RubyofBlue That shot isn't the best to compare with - the lighting was borked at the time, instead of being darker like the rest of the HEV pod shots. I did end up fixing it, though - here's how that shot looks currently.

One of my primary roles on @RubyofBlue's Halo 2: REBALANCE is polishing up the cinematics. A key part of that: dynamic lights! Halo 2 suffers from a lack of self shadowing and shadow casting by default. Using 3-point lighting, the quality of cinematics can be VASTLY improved.

@gold_athena_ @RubyofBlue Would upscaling texture resolution improve the way lightmaps interact with newly placed lighting? If Johnsons textures, for example, were higher res - would shadows orientate themselves better, resulting in sharper surface detail? Or would this not work