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rb to give your mutuals a silly little paper valentine card and a red heart shaped lollipop 💖

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French Halo made me revisit Italian Halo for a little bit because I wanted to hear the characters again so I’m sharing Italian Thel and Rtas

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thank goodness, i wouldn't want to use outdated enchilada-reheating strategies

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update: my clients are so niceys to me

Telling my clients I'm going on leave and then jumping into the bushes.

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genuinely insane how difficult it is to participate in your own life

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cleaning along desire paths

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Looking around for female Jiralhanae in Halo lore and stumbling upon this concept art image from a cancelled Halo MMO..

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the heterosexual buffalo dip tweet is bad enough but as an italian-american it was especially triggering to see a dining room table get used for beer pong

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you can leave the house with a bare face and suffer no consequences btw. if you're a woman you do not have to wear any makeup

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Microsoft XBOX - HALO

Title: HALO / ヘイロー

Developer: Bungie

Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios

Release date: 25 April 2002

Catalogue No.: K43-00002

Genre: First Person Shooter

"Combat Evolved" describes things very well. HALO was the killer app that Microsoft needed to sell consumers on the XBOX platform. The combat in HALO is indeed a step up from most FPS' and is challenging and fun. Enemies will duck and dive for cover, engage you in a variety of ways, and generally put up a good fight. What may even be more amazing is that your own team is not entirely useless. It may be one of the ground-breaking features of Halo that your own team actually puts up a good fight and helps you out by making themselves useful. No standing around looking curiously at the primed grenade at their feet or running into your line of fire (well at least not too much). They actually engage and kill the enemy effectively! On the other hand, maybe this says more about the incredibly sad state of AI in gaming than it says about the AI in Halo.

The vehicles are also very well done. It's immensely fun driving around in the Warthog with a gunner while fighting aliens or laying down the pain from a Banshee fighter. The Warthog, fun as it is, has somewhat odd driving characteristics though; it skids like Bambi on ice even when you drive on dry concrete.

Halo also has my favorite type of cut scene: the in-game engine cut scene. Not only that, they're also reasonably well-directed with a certain flair that gives them a movie-like quality. No talking heads here.

One positive thing that actually surprised me was Master Chief himself. I had expected a DOOM-style mute hero, but it turns out Master Chief talks and actually has a personality. Granted, he doesn't have the "charm" and "charisma" of Duke Nukem but he's no Gordon Freeman-style mute either. I really don't care much for the personality-free protagonist style of Half-life and DOOM. It works in DOOM because there's really no one around for your character to talk to but when people are talking and addressing you and your character just says nothing it just gets a bit weird.

The Covenant is an interesting collection of alien races with unique traits. I almost feel bad every time I shoot a grunt. With their runt, short appearance, high-pitched voices, and the clumsy way they carry their weapons, especially when panicking, they have a very child-like appearance to them. In some ways, the grunts are more disturbing than The Flood. Unfortunately, we get to know almost nothing about the Covenant and its alien races other than "they want to kill all humans".

It's also a plus that there are no boss fights, just increasingly difficult battles.

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halo elite moodboard

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Some sleepy Johnsky snuggles for @infinityactual

(This is absolutely how they fall asleep in this short fic I wrote.)

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So I was writing, and ended up getting questions about things, and then that ended up on me reading about a lot of Sangheili related stuff, and then I came across this and—

Bruh I’m gonna cry, little baby Rtas just going around in the ocean, catching his sea creatures, im- my heART 😭🥺❤️

it’s so innocent and cute ahhhhhh

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Two Corpses in One Grave

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Judging elite

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bad Sangheili worst Arbiter

Ripa ‘Moramee u were a terrible Sangheili. honor? what’s that??