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Big Halo news.
Moving to Unreal Engine 5
343 industries are done. Its now Halo Studios.

Not sure why people are getting their hopes up so high about that. That studio rebrand is like cutting off somebody's face, putting another over it, and calling them a different person. I don't think it's got good chances of panning out.

Pure hopium at this point. Though they did do a 180 with MCC so they are capable of  making something good.
The switch to UE is positively received because new hires won't need to spend a lot of time understanding the legacy engine.

I am betting you the MCC is going to get shut down at some point. Maybe not on PC, but I feel like as time goes on, the likelyhood of servers getting canned on consoles goes up. That only makes more sense if we take a muh profit approach. So you've got the rebrand of the studio conning some people, you've got the switch to unreal to attract graphics coomers, and I'd be willing to bet in order to make a couple extra bucks, pull the plug on the MCC to shove what's left of the Halo fanbase onto the new launch because there won't be anywhere else to go unless they divert over to PC.

Or, god help us, they remaster MCC for unreal engine and sell it again as MCC:R, simultaneously chopping the legs off the old games with the plug pull and leaving them to the dustbin while funnelling everybody into the new games, which can now be as bad as a port/remaster as they want. (Which to be fair at the beginning MCC had all those issues and still has some)

Killing console servers is an inevitability, that's part of the push that made me get into PC gaming. I think a lot of console producers (except Nintendo) have realised this since publishing and re-releasing games out on Steam or on their own PC Launch Platforms.

MCC on PC kicked up because of the Halo Online ms23 piracy that was going on that released Halo 3 MP for PC before MCC was even out. I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to re-release MCC in UE eventually, but not for another few years, possibly a decade. Maybe by then they'll add a microtransaction thing to buy all the Spartan Points you need to unlock all the MCC Catalog content.

Ayy decidedly average



I thought we were back to the good old days when I saw Verb posting threads'worth, but then I realised the date.

Biden vs Trump; whoever wins, America loses

(again)

Not to say France, the UK, or anywhere else having elections this year look like they would fare much better.

Last.fm says this is what I've been playing a lot of this year:



But I've been inot my remixes lately. This is a remix of John Martyn's 'You Know'

I wonder what MetaCognition is up to.

Would he be voting Reform and what his opinions on UK politics atm would be interesting.

Is Death still here? The Mormon that had to go on a year's mission and then came back maybe once?

There's always the morbid curiosity of what happened to the more fucked up members who left - I can only think of Dustin atm though.

I second .net

Halo died for me when I got the Limited Edition H4 for '360 for Christmas in the release year.

Blitzed the campaign in like 4 hours, moved to online. Wiped the floor in the game for like 5 matches, then ejected it.

I don't remember what the campaign was about and I didn't have any fun.

MCC got my interest back, but only in playing CE/2/3/Reach.

Will they give you a refund or demand extra soul-change for this request

Isn't the Obits usually posted by someone else? Someone would have to know you died and post here.

I don't really think about it, but I would assume a small few who have visited here have died since the site's inception. The longevity of this place means it's up to chance, but it's increasing everyday the site is still up. Wouldn't even have to be common like age, or some mental health related self harm, could get hit by a car or gotten unlucky with Covid.

I think the last part I mentioned is the real problem though - I don't think I'm 'connected' enough to anyone else here outside of this website. If I died, I'd just stop posting, my discord would be offline, and on Xbox Live I'd just be 'Last Seen >365 days ago' . I'm sure that applies to many other people here too.

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We just wait for a new post to come in and then all show up.

It's because most of everyone left are people that don't make threads.

Also at this point, what else is there to talk about.

Political debate died in Serious when most of the Brits left and the US is having old man elections 2 boogalooOAP at the moment. All the wacky controversial shit we have left, no one is bothered to argue over (again).

Gaming is Verbat's collection, and I don't think enough of us even play Destiny or Halo anymore or play in the same system or games to organise something.

And Offtopic is... Off. We all wait for a new thread that rarely happens, or SecondClass does their mad thing of the month. And we don't talk about anarchy.

There's only ghosts and nostalgia left, and I really hate to say that.

Should be interesting since I never got into GTA until SA, so I never saw Vice City.

A lot of the old leak material is getting spammed up everywhere, which I imagine is pissing off Rockstar since the game is probably a bit more done since then if the trailer is anything to go by.

Photography.

The problem is film is expesive for the cameras I enjoy so I don't get to shoot as often as I want, and I don't get the same fun out of a digital camera.

If I worked a better job I'd have more money, but then I woudn't have the time to do it, so... Catch 22.

https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/263362964?sort=0&page=0

Groups are getting shut down this month. From Duards himself;

Within the past six months, out of the 5.1-million Groups that have been created, only 65 were active with at least one post in them. Breaking that down further, only 16 were active in the past month, 10 of those had over 10 posts in them, and only 3 broke over 100 posts.

This decision did not come lightly, and we’ve been postponing it for several years. But with our website’s future hosting multiple IPs, we must upgrade and begin the process of shutting down older features that no longer see usage.

So if for some godforsaken reason you like hoarding and backing up conversations, now might be a good time...

Never actually owned a Sony phone, but my partner has lent me one to put my UK SIM in since swapping countries.

It's a really old model from 2014 , an Experia M4/E2303.

It's not half bad for a phone from that time considering it's that time of Samsung-Apple patenting every fucking design feature and ever other brand having to make do.

It does suffer from sort of CPU overheating but I'm thinking it's due to age since the battery life is also terrible on this after nearly 10 years.

I just miss basic things on phones like replaceable batteries, headphone jack, and not everything being coated in easily smashable glass. My mobiles have never been the latest, and I keep my Samsung S8 chugging purely for the headphone jack.

- Heavy taxes on Holiday homes, 2nd± Homes, and whatever AirBnB's are.
- Heavy Tax on property investors and multi national rental agencies which goes directly into council housing construction programs.
- Council taxes on the wealthier estates go to council property buybacks of places given out in the 70's and 80's (for countries that sold all the council housing).
- Council house construction mandated in every district or suburb. Reduce the ghettofication, stratification of class housing, and stigma of living in a council estate.
- Actual fucking livable council housing. Alterlaa in Vienna is fucking neat and it's better than most private homes in the area.
- Rent control and financial assistance for the poorest and/or minorities and/or disabled who have had a harder time getting a place.
- Abolish 'student housing' apartments. They're intentionally shit and then overcharge rent for cramped conditions when inevitably no student will bother with them.
- Landlord accountability by having them live in the same region as the rental property, contact information and their properties on public record, and government housing advice for renter's rights
- Tax the rich, offer mortgage support for first time buyers and particularly those who have only rented in their family.
- Restrict or outright ban foreign investments into housing markets unless they can prove they will also use 25% of profits to build more affordable properties in the area.
- Landlords who fail to pay mortgages on 2nd homes will have the property repossessed into the respective bank's "rental division", allowing the renter to continue living there at a negotiated rent rate, or even to take on the mortgage themselves. Alternative is government buyback programs mentioned above.
- Landlord purge day, (date to be determined), landlords are rounded up and...