I'm gonna catch all my little black stray kittens and bar the back door to my place tonight to keep them inside the back part of mien restaurant.

Friendly black cats with no fear of strangers on Halloween in a town full of bored teenagers and kids?

That'll be fun.

Re: Is your trash your property?

It is when I scrounge it and make it my own.

The guy giving shit was a bit of a tool though. I doubt the garbage can was his and if it was on the sidewalk then it wasn't even on his property. But I'd consider it rather impolite to go rooting around in somebody's trash can in broad daylight though.

Guy's dumb for giving shit and the scrounger should have upped her game and simply showed up at night instead.

Quote from: Préhistorique on October 30, 2015, 08:27:20 PM

Anyways, here are my thoughts. Just beat the game like 10 minutes ago so wait a bit for the full, coherent review.

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This game fucking sucked.

I'm not trying to hate on the game, but goddamn, it is bad. Not over(under?)selling it, it's probably the worst Halo to date so far.

Fan-fiction story, poor voice acting, TERRIBLE dialogue, uninteresting and generic characters, and boring level design all just leave a taste of disgust and want for something a little more substantial.

Nothing even happens over the course of this game. It's like Spartan Ops -- go here, shoot this, listen to dialogue. Repeat. Blue team's missions were a bit better, but Osiris missions were GOD AWFUL.

Probably didn't help that, from what I've heard, the story was written by the guy who did Spartan Ops for 4. <.<

I mean, I wanted Spartan Ops Season 2...but not like this.

EDIT:  Fun Fact:  Spartan Thorne was supposed to be on Osiris, but 343 threw him into the trash bin for  Buck.

LOL THORNE IS STILL GETTING CHASED BY A LONE JACKAL IN THE COMICS

Quote from: Deadtrap on October 31, 2015, 11:13:03 AM

No, Verb.

I have to write zombie stories for Halloween.

>not spooky scary skeletons

Sandy, pls

Dis one time, I wrote about skeletal zoombies

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Quote from: Préhistorique on October 30, 2015, 09:50:07 PM

Quote from: Septy on October 30, 2015, 09:44:51 PM

"These Guardians can police an entire solar system"

Can't even kill a few Spartans

I fail to see how governing an entire solar system is even that big of a threat. Humanity at this point IIRC is spread across the galaxy. Ooh, you can destroy 25~ solar systems if we say no.

The Covenant had the Orion Arm. Humans had not even a percentage of that.

The galaxy is still mostly unexplored - so i'm sad she doesn't list any species we haven't seen yet in the last mission.


Also lol the yonhet got mentioned before the jiralhanae.

Meanwhile the Drones are still being ignored

And all the prophies fell into some dark galactic asshole.

I'm always a little bit outside of these discussions about masculine or feminine qualities.

I live in an environment that actively tries to kill me for 7 months of the year, and severly injure me for the remainder. I can't actually afford much in the sense of fashion. Just give me tough pants, shoes, and a shirt, and off I go.

With some of the women out here, it's the same deal.

Ching Shih was a prominent pirate in Qing China who terrorized the South China Sea in the early 19th century. She commanded over 300 junks manned by 20,000-40,000 pirates. Another estimate has Shih's fleet at 1,800 and crew at about 80,000 men, women, and even children.

She challenged the empires of the time, such as the British, Portuguese and the Qing dynasty. Undefeated, she would become one of Asia's strongest pirates, and perhaps one of the most powerful pirates in history. She was also one of the few pirate captains to retire peacefully from piracy.

Cheng I belonged to a family of successful pirates who traced their criminal origins back to the mid-seventeenth century. Following his marriage to Ching Shih, "who participated fully in her husband’s piracy", Cheng I used military assertion and his reputation to gather a coalition of competing Cantonese pirate fleets into an alliance. By 1804, this coalition was a formidable force, and one of the most powerful pirate fleets in all of China; by this time they were known as the Red Flag Fleet.

On 16 November 1807, Cheng I died in Vietnam. Ching Shih immediately began maneuvering her way into his leadership position. She started to cultivate personal relationships to get rivals to recognize her status and solidify her authority. In order to stop her rivals before open conflict erupted, she sought the support of the most powerful members of her husband's family: his nephew Cheng Pao-yang and his cousin’s son Cheng Ch’i. Then she drew on the coalition formed by her husband by building upon some of the fleet captains’ existing loyalties to her husband and making herself essential to the remaining captains.

Once she held the fleet’s leadership position, Ching Shih started the task of uniting the fleet by issuing a code of laws.

First, anyone giving their own orders (ones that did not come down from Ching Shih) or disobeying those of a superior were beheaded on the spot.

Second, no one was to steal from the public fund or any villagers that supplied the pirates.

Third, all goods taken as booty had to be presented for group inspection. The booty was registered by a purser and then distributed by the fleet leader. The original seizer received twenty percent and the rest was placed into the public fund.

Fourth, actual money was turned over to the squadron leader, who only gave a small amount back to the seizer, so the rest could be used to purchase supplies for unsuccessful ships. The punishment for a first-time offense of withholding booty was severe whipping of the back. Large amounts of withheld treasure or subsequent offenses carried the death penalty.

Ching Shih's code had special rules for female captives. Standard practice was to release women, but J.L. Turner witnessed differently. Usually the pirates made their most beautiful captives their concubines or wives. If a pirate took a wife he had to be faithful to her. The ones deemed unattractive were released and any remaining were ransomed. Pirates that raped female captives were put to death, but if pirates had consensual sex with captives, the pirate was beheaded and the woman he was with had cannonballs attached to her legs and was chucked off the side of the boat.

Violations of other parts of the code were punished with flogging, clapping in irons, or quartering. Deserters or those who had left without official permission had their ears chopped off, and then were paraded around their squadron.

The fleet under her command established hegemony over many coastal villages, in some cases even imposing levies and taxes on settlements. Ching Shih robbed towns, markets, and villages, from Macau to Canton. In 1806 a British officer reported on the terrible fate of those who resisted Ching Shih's pirates; the pirates nailed an enemy's feet to the deck and then beat him senseless. Contemporary reports from the British admiralty called her "The Terror of South China".

The Chinese navy lost sixty-three ships in the attacks. Even the hired navies of Portugal and Britain could not defeat Ching Shih. Finding it hopeless to defeat her, in 1810, amnesty was offered to all pirates. Ching Shih and Cheung Po Tsai wanted to take advantage of the amnesty but negotiation at sea between Cheung Pao Tsai and the government official Zhang Bailing hit a deadlock. Besides the fate of the loot, one sticking point was the government's demand that the pirates had to kneel before them. For the pirates to consider kneeling in front of their previous defeated foe was too much to accept.

Ching Shih took 17 illiterate women and children and walked into Zhang Bailing's office in Canton unarmed and began negotiation. She got everything she wanted including keeping all her loot. The kneeling deadlock was solved by Zhang Bailing acting as a witness at the marriage of Cheung Po Tsai and Ching Shih (officially, Cheung Po Tsai was still Ching Shih's son, so a government blessing was needed). The two had to kneel to thank him. That was accepted as part of the act of surrender.

She ended her career that year with all her loot. Cheung was given an official position in the government. After he died suddenly, Ching Shih went back to Canton with her young son and opened a gambling house.

She died in 1844, at the age of 69.

I've got no preference for either kind. They both have their ups and downs.

You know that could easily be applied on the flipside right?

Funny though. Somebody called me a hipster once, for wanting to build my own house, on land that I own, out in a wilder spot away from people.

Some people do stray away from mainstream stuff for the sake of being contrary. Others do it because they want to. It all comes down to personal preference. And, likewise, just because it's mainstream, doesn't mean its good.

Quote from: Deadtrap on October 30, 2015, 02:48:42 AM

Let's also not forget that colossal damn cliffhanger where Earth falls completely under Cortana's control in about 30 seconds.

This ain't even Covenant invasion or Flood tier. She can access just about any communications technology that exists and shut down the entire planet in one shot.

There's gonna be some fucking serious magic out of a hat bologna to even try and fight that.

Seems like 343 took too big of a jump there.

To be fair, she has about 90% of the AI's/technology on her side, which is like our smartphones and technology.  If they shut down at once, lots of people would be freaking the fuck out.

Oh and the Guardian Ex Machina can send out a sonic pulse that is also a giant EMP I guess...which is an asspull, considering Osiris should've lost their HUDs or communications when the pulses went off in their vicinity.

343 is probably jumping the gun because they wanted something big, and they knew the hype was real.  So we're all left with nothing but questions and disappointment.

You're mistaking things again. Two kinds of pulses.

The ones it gives off when it activates, which are seismic based. They're more like a concussive blast wave, which is why it knocked ships out of the air and leveled sections of the planet.

And the one it fired at Earth in orbit, an EMP pulse.

Double post derps.

Cheers to rainbow bob marley guy.

Happy birthday!

The idea that Chief is the "Culmination of a thousand generations of forerunner planning," or some shit like that, is retarded.

"Dude like 100,000 years ago I planned out your birth, everything that would ever happen to you, and also Cortana, who had nothing to do with your birth, so I actually planned out all of Halsey's life, too. Also, this means I planned like hundreds and hundreds of generations of human family trees lmao. You're welcome for planning 9/11, that was some funny-ass shit right?"

It's ridiculous, even from science fiction perspective.

Maybe you don't understand that context being talked about here.

She doesn't mean John specifically. Nobody could plan that far ahead. She even said it herself. She planted seeds for an "eventuality."

Everybody talking about this "John is the chosen one" shit needs to rethink what was said. John himself, was never specifically chosen because he was John himself. He simply happens to be the person who fills the "Chosen one's" boots.

Librarian didn't have specific people in mind otherwise that would mean that she'd be capable of something on par with fucking time travel. She planted traces of instincts and variables in human beings that would eventually emerge in the form of either people, or people able to create technology that would propel Humanity along the right set of steps, in the right direction, to reach a certain stage in which they would eventually find the rest of the path laid down by her.

She didn't look 1000,000 years ahead and say, "Hmm, John looks like he can kick some ass, Cortana looks like a good buddy, Halsey looks like a good scientist."

She looked 100,000 years ahead at the patterns of the species development cycle and said, "I need conditions met that will result in a soldier of this quality. I need conditions met that will allow this species to create artificial beings that will lead to this dangerous outcome. I need conditions met that will allow a mind to help create both beings."

Remember. The Forerunners had the technology to de-evolve lifeforms and splinter them at the genetic level into different sub categories. It's only fair that likewise, they could plot ahead as well. This a race that existed for millions of years. You don't think that after a long enough period of watching and studying, they could eventually predict how a species would evolve and develop?

The fact that they reseeded the galaxy after wiping it out proves this point.

You see my point in this?

That's kinda lame, if that's his only purpose. I feel it kinda cheapens the whole karma system. All the negative karmic decisions you've made don't matter, because you can always just hand water to one old homeless guy and be considered a good person. Eh.

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Just killed a Yao Guai... they look a whole lot more fearsome than they are...

Don't worry. One of these days you'll fast travel and an albino radscorp will spawn.

Killing everything and everybody outside the gates as you try to helplessly to save them.