Halo CE, Halo 2, and Halo 3 are great. Then the franchise was purchased by 343 and everything since has been a soulless COD clone with a Halo skin… and a random RTS.

I’ve heard and experienced WAY too much supporting anecdote to just wave it off as confirmation bias. Official statements by telecoms and such be damned, this shit is 100% happening.

And you better not do it again - or else!

Image search pulls up Masters of Albion

Higher res shot:

Well you were right. That definitely rubs the wrong way lol.

Thank you!

If you don’t like that, you’re really not going to like what they call downvotes …

Don’t leave us hanging like that!

Every time I read a warning from Russia, my brain fills in the space between sentences with a sitcom laugh track.

Spyware, now in rainbow!!

…and step 2 is up to Ukraine.

Anyway what’s the latest on the long range missile limitations?

Iirc (edit - apparently incorrect) Halo was the first to use left joystick as forward/backward and left/right strafe; and right joystick as look up/down and pivot left/right.

I even recall articles counting it as a point against the game due to its ‘awkward controls’ …but apparently after a tiny learning curve, the entire community/industry got on board.

What game does sex scenes? Usually it just fades to black

Witcher III is the only one I can think of off the top of my head. I vaguely recall Fable 1 doing the fade-to-black thing, but then staying black and playing out some cliche moaning, which is kind of the same thing from the voice actors’s perspective.

Whole category of dating sims and basically soft-core-porn games, which I’m sure have a high demand for acting out these kinda of scenes.

“I love my unborn children far too much to bring them into this dumpster fire of a society.”

My parents were pestering the wife and I about when we’re going to give them grandbabies. Hit em with that line a few years ago, and they haven’t brought it up since.

The idea of having a kid in today’s world just seems cruel.

But also, even if a human were to grow a third booby, it would probably be above or below one of the normal boobies, along a vertical line called the “milk line.”

If anyone’s curious, this is called “polythelia” or “supernumerary nipple” (SFW - seriously). Per the wiki, it’s WAY more common than you’d probably expect, but they tend to go underreported bc people think they’re just a mole.

“Dreamcast” is probably the single best gaming console name of all time, too.

Same page. There are other reasons, but cooking the kid alive is the #1 deterrent.

Same thoughts on adoption too. Can’t afford a kid either way right now, but if and when we’re able and willing, adoption is the way.

Climate collapse is largest factor in my / wife’s decision not to have kids. We’ve always had the understanding that by the time we’re old and crusty, shit will be bad enough to be uncomfortable, but that’s kinda it; it’s the generations after us that are really fucked. This shit is accelerating faster than expected. Kinda thinking we were wrong about shit becoming ‘only uncomfortable’ in our lifetime.

Definitely happy about our decision not to have kids… every time a friend or family member cranks one out, I can’t help but feel sorry for the little bastard. Shy of several miracle-tier scientific breakthroughs like RIGHT NOW, those babies are in for some serious strife.

We really ought to just respond to all of Putin’s bullshit warnings with that exact same warning, but about staying in Ukraine.

“By remaining in Ukraine, Russia risks triggering a cold war-style missile crisis!”

“If Russian forces stay in Ukraine, there will be dire consequences!”

Etc.

Feed him his own word salad and don’t put any more thought into it.

I have a Thera Cane, it’s about the only thing that does any good on my chronic shoulder pain. (I should specify- scapular muscle pain. A Thera Cane won’t do shit for shoulder joint pain)

The trick with things like this is don’t keep them in motion - find the spot that hurts, put as much pressure as you can tolerate on it, and hold that position for like 5 mins. You’re basically squeezing the blood out of the target area, causing that muscle to become nutrient starved and thus chemically incapable of remaining contracted, so it FINALLY relaxes and the pain fucks off for a couple hours.