UFOs definitely exist. People I trust with my life have seen them on multiple occasions. Some of them were clearly human test vehicles. Some of them appeared to violate physics.

I don’t know about any little green men but something is going on.

The fact that the government and media have lock-step admitted to their existence stinks to high heaven.

Yes, I saw the news release and am anticipating a gigaF**Kton of patches to download the next time I boot up my WinDOZE partition to slaughter my way through the Covenant. (Which I’m rather hoping will be this weekend, actually.) This is very good news.

I am not in the camp that hates H:CEA because of its graphics. I like the lighting and the improved weapons sounds – it captures the power and the beauty of the original game, but Saber Interactive tried to do something with that remaster that the technology 10 years ago probably didn’t support very well. They basically tried to create a separate graphics layer on top of an existing game and then synchronised the two, and that generally didn’t work too well the first time they tried it. I think they did a much better job the second time around with H2A.

The big bugbear that I have with H:CEA’s graphics is indeed the cutscenes. The animations there are just BAD – much worse than they should have been, given that Microsoft released HALO Wars with fully rendered mo-cap cutscenes two years prior. Given that HW was a second-tier attempt and something of a lazy cash grab (that actually turned out to be pretty decent in the end), it’s inexcusable that Microsoft messed up the remaster of their mainstay killer app so badly.

If they ever do an H3 Anniversary edition (I rather hope they do not), then they’d damned well better overhaul all of the graphics for the cutscenes FIRST, and THEN worry about the in-game graphics (which were and are GREAT).

All of that said… I am really looking forward to HALO Infinite. Everything that I’m seeing about it indicates that 343i and Microsoft have taken fan concern seriously about the graphics and sound design, and now that they’ve ditched Brian Reed’s idiotic influence over the storyline, we should see some good results.

We did Dirk Benedict about 3 months back, actually.

Quasi reliable source said that he would always stop to hug a kid who recognized him but he hates jive ass mofos enough to kick ass.

Yeah, he basically has (or had) this huge over-the-top persona, but he’s actually just a big teddy bear with a heart of gold.

Yeah, Mr. T is just an all-around legend.

There’s something in the zeitgeist around the extra-terrestrial phenomenon. I have been skeptical of the whole community for years.

I am also pretty sceptical of the whole thing. I’m not saying aliens cannot possibly exist, but I do wonder why any species advanced enough to achieve rapid interstellar flight would bother with a bunch of hairless near-apes inhabiting a very average world around a very average star that is more interested in the gigantiferous ass of Kim Kardashian than in colonising worlds and bending the laws of physics.

The fact that this whole “Da TROOF is out there!!!” stuff is suddenly making such a big comeback, right when the whole Kung Flu scamdemic is receding, the whorenalists and presstitutes are belatedly coming around to the reality that the Chinese probably created that abomination, the narrative around the Not-Election continues unravelling, and people are finally waking up in America and the UK to fight back against the tide of cultural Marxism that has threatened us for so long, strikes me as odd, to say the least.

There’s that old saying about how once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action – and four times is a puckering feeling in the rectum. We’re up to strike FIVE already.

Enter what is a really fun fictional book by a Biblical Scholar, Dr. Michael Heiser.

I do like his work a lot. I referenced it extensively in my podcast from Sunday.

With your current living arrangements, do you have the opportunity to own and drive a vehicle or is it all public transports?

Sadly, no, at the moment I’m stuck with my own two feet and the public transport system around here – which is not bad, actually. But I know what you mean about the joys of driving. America is a wonderful country to drive through, at least as long as you live in a state with decent roads (i.e. not New York or New Jersey). I really loved driving while I was there – was a great way to relax and unwind during the weekends.

That’s going straight in the next week’s compilation for sure.

https://www.retrorgb.com/halo-combat-evolved-classic-graphics-in-mcc-gets-fixed.html

Looks like I can finally retire my OG XBOX. I like Anniversary as a “Star Wars Special Edition” take on the game, but IMHO the remastered graphics are WAY too busy. Plus, the original just has a charm to it that IMHO hasn’t aged poorly like a lot of other games from that era.

Noodle is a goofball, but he covers it pretty well in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyeCb99cb2Q

I met the guy at SLCC #1, and he thinks that new Starbuck is hella funny. Went specifically to meet him and Sorbo, was worth it.