The Official Off-topic Thread 7

> Still without power -______-
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> I just want to continue trying to 100% Watchdogs. I’m at 90% too and almost have every achievement… I just want to go home after work today and see the power works all of a sudden.

Still a more emotional story than Twilight.

> Longbow looks like it was born to have a Falcon on it. Ragnarok, not so much.

Even Longbow seems a bit small for a Falcon. On the other hand, the Falcon would have been great for any of the forge maps, especially Forge Island. I think it’s safe to say that 343i may have more time to put UNSC air vehicles in the next game. :smiley:

Speaking of Vic and Ragnarok, Vic made most of the map if I remember correctly. Except the skybox and forerunner textures I think. They experimented with the diamond pattern texture on the structures I think. It was funny because he told me about the bug in which banshee’s kept getting stuck in Spartan ops, and soon after he mentions that, the banshee’s get stuck on the tower.

Falcons would have been nice, even for machinima and thematic forge stuff. If there was a halo with a lot of additive stuff, having the sandbox be big, custom games have lots of options and lots of kinds, then that would be awesome. And being able to fine tune stuff? Yes so. There is this game called war craft III. It’s an RTS and has a map/custom games editor. One of the custom games involves a parasite hiding among humans. It takes place mainly on a ship oxygen and power can be shut out, there are suits that grant suit specific abilities and weapons. You can place mines. There are turrets. The point of the game is for the humans to figure out who the parasite is, or for the parasite to kill the humans. It would be fun to make that in halo. Doesn’t work well enough in reach and halo 4. 4 would have been ideal if it hadn’t thrown out a bunch of options and restricted the little options. Flood not being able to use normal model, or wield guns? That doesn’t help. Loadouts and armour abilities are essential to make that gametype. Having equipment too would have made it nicer. Halo 4 has a map which is set in space. that would have been great. But sadly, halo hasn’t been very additive.

I feel like I haven’t been doing so great in halo 4. I’ve been focused on other stuff… I feel like I’ve been getting ‘rusty’. This is not good. I’m supposed to be amazing. “I want to be, the very best that no one ever was.”

I had such a cool dream. I had powers, two other people too. It included the ability to levitate stuff, it was so cool. I think I lifted the school at some point.

Must, not, get, discouraged, by, less, than, positive, comments. Must, focus, must, not, give, up. Must, excel.

Latest set. http://erickyboo.tumblr.com/image/90529111776 the top is based off real stuff but with some added stuff. Bottom, I had to improvise on what I could remember. Kind of feel like it looks funny but, iconic, if you will in it’s own way. Tried to go a bit for, hiking like a bit. Still a bit unsure but ill not sure. One set remains.

Ooooh, man… it just feels so good when, in the last minutes of a CTF match, your team pulls of a clutch defense move, protecting your flag for three minutes when it is no more than five meters away from the goal, then winning the match.

Normally when that happens, I’m on the other team…

@Erick:
Sets still looking good.

So today is the best day ever. I’ll list why in the spoiler below.

I KILLED THE DAMN RUBY AND EMERALD WEAPONS! This is one of my greatest achievements in gaming. I killed some of the hardest superbosses in the RPG genre. And without cheating. Just pure 38 hours of grinding to lvl 99 and mastering most Materia.Also, this is extremely surprising.

Hello everyone, how are things going?

I just watched the movie ‘1984’, and i have only 1 thing to say about it.

Jesus.
H.
Christ.

It was great because it had so much truth in it.

So I decided to participate in a steam hardware survey. Figured it would just be my computer and or internet specs.

And then I got to the part where it said “the following information will be sent to valve” and started listing every application that I have installed on my computer. Well first of all, that’s software, valve, not hardware. And second of all, why the heck do you need to know what I’ve installed on my computer?

> So I decided to participate in a steam hardware survey. Figured it would just be my computer and or internet specs.
>
> And then I got to the part where it said “the following information will be sent to valve” and started listing every application that I have installed on my computer. Well first of all, that’s software, valve, not hardware. And second of all, why the heck do you need to know what I’ve installed on my computer?

Ask Steam support?

I honestly don’t know much about that since i don’t participate in such things.

> So I decided to participate in a steam hardware survey. Figured it would just be my computer and or internet specs.
>
> And then I got to the part where it said “the following information will be sent to valve” and started listing every application that I have installed on my computer. Well first of all, that’s software, valve, not hardware. And second of all, why the heck do you need to know what I’ve installed on my computer?

Probably because some software that may be installed on your computer could have conflicting issues with the software needed to run Steam.

Just spent literally 45 minutes on the Halo scale images.

Anybody seen Transformers yet? Feedback?

> So I decided to participate in a steam hardware survey. Figured it would just be my computer and or internet specs.
>
> And then I got to the part where it said “the following information will be sent to valve” and started listing every application that I have installed on my computer. Well first of all, that’s software, valve, not hardware. And second of all, why the heck do you need to know what I’ve installed on my computer?

Exactly why I don’t use Steam and why I am anti-DRM. Though I expected better of Steam. This is something EA does.

> Anybody seen Transformers yet? Feedback?

Not worth watching.
Not enough robot fights, annoying human characters and the movie was kinda boring.

> > Looking at most of Halo 4’s maps at launch, I can also see why. The Falcon would have felt so cramped on those maps.
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> > Longbow and Ragnarok was the only maps I could see it working on, and I think with the amount of vehicles already on Ragnarok (Banshee, Mantis, Hogs, Mongooses, Ghosts), it would have been pretty cramped.
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> Makes sense I guess, although I don’t see why they just didn’t remove some of the vehicles from the maps to make room for the Falcon, and that’s not taking Forge Maps into account.

The maps were still really small to even consider adding a Falcon :confused:

> > So I decided to participate in a steam hardware survey. Figured it would just be my computer and or internet specs.
> >
> > And then I got to the part where it said “the following information will be sent to valve” and started listing every application that I have installed on my computer. Well first of all, that’s software, valve, not hardware. And second of all, why the heck do you need to know what I’ve installed on my computer?
>
> Exactly why I don’t use Steam and why I am anti-DRM. Though I expected better of Steam. This is something EA does.

Its kinda funny how its illegal here to buy a CD and then create a copy of it, transfer the content to a computer or a USB stick and you aren’t allowed to mess with it’s files if its a game.

> Anybody seen Transformers yet? Feedback?

Varmah and I had a discussion about that earlier… here’s what we thought: (Be careful! SPOILERS!)
https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2962651_The-Official-Off-topic-Thread-7.aspx#post2962651

https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2962474_The-Official-Off-topic-Thread-7.aspx#post2962474

https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2962607_The-Official-Off-topic-Thread-7.aspx#post2962607

https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2962618_The-Official-Off-topic-Thread-7.aspx#post2962618

The second one doesn’t have any spoilers that aren’t hidden in it…
Oh, and anyone else still love this song? I continually sing the map part of it out of habit.

SO MANY LINKS.

> Still without power -______-
>
> I just want to continue trying to 100% Watchdogs. I’m at 90% too and almost have every achievement… I just want to go home after work today and see the power works all of a sudden.

Have fun with the drinking games :wink:

I don’t not sure why i like these WILL IT B0RE? videos.

It might be because its so great to see BL2 bosses getting killed in just a few seconds.

Oh, and those who don’t know what b0re is:

B0re is an Assassin ability in Borderlands 2. Its effect is:
Your shots pierce through enemies. If your shot hits an enemy after piercing an enemy, it causes massive Bonus Damage. B0re does not work with rockets and some special projectiles. Also, while Deception is active, your visor will highlight enemy crit locations.

Also, the video contains swearing.

> > Still without power -______-
> >
> > I just want to continue trying to 100% Watchdogs. I’m at 90% too and almost have every achievement… I just want to go home after work today and see the power works all of a sudden.
>
> Have fun with the drinking games :wink:

For a moment I thought you were talking about real life implying that’s all I could do without power. I considered it. I’ve beaten 2/3 that are required for the achievement. The last one I have is In Pawnee which is the hardest one.

I wish I had a book or something in this power outage… Now would be a good time to retread the forerunner novels seeing as I have a better understanding of them now.