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  1. Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved | The Silent Cartographer – Thirteen minute gameplay demo in ~games

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    I'm glad Playstation folks get a chance to experience it, if they didn't already on PC or something. I don't feel any desire to buy this for myself. I am curious about the new missions, but I'll...

    I'm glad Playstation folks get a chance to experience it, if they didn't already on PC or something.

    I don't feel any desire to buy this for myself. I am curious about the new missions, but I'll probably just watch someone play them on YouTube. I'm still satisfied with the Master Chief Collection on Steam. The game in the series that I think needs a graphical overhaul the most now is Halo 3.

    I'm not really interested in multiplayer anymore, so that's not a concern for me. I don't know how much I care about them adding Sprint. This clearly isn't an endeavour to preserve the exact original experience.

    Cortana lines were noticeably re-recorded, which probably will be great in some spots but be mildly annoying (like when a remix or cover of a song you like sounds wrong) in others. In this sample she seems more chipper. I loved her voice work in the original trilogy (was pretty annoyed with how much she got left out of 3) and I'd be happy if she keeps getting Microsoft money forever. Maybe the Cortana voice assistant will fully be a thing in the future. I just hope the changes here are good.

    The jackal shields don't look good to me. Too transparent, and too vibrant of an explosion when they pop. The blood on grunts doesn't look good either. Pre-release footage, yadda yadda, hopefully it improves.

    The allied marine AI still looked janky as hell. I'm somewhat surprised they showed it off. It was acceptable in 2001 but if you're modernizing things, you should really not have them stand around like morons while you yell at the screen "GET IN THE FUCKING WARTHOG, SHINJI!"

    You're going to get to use a bunch of weapons that you couldn't in the original. Picking up the energy sword off that gold elite would be pretty cool. The Assault Rifle is the 32 ammo one, which is disappointing to a lot of people. If they appropriately sprinkle the new weapons around to compensate I think I'm OK with it...I guess it mainly affects newer players in the early levels (edit: and The Library). If they are committed to remaking the other games, I could see having the weapons consistent across them as a positive thing.

    3 votes
  2. Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved | The Silent Cartographer – Thirteen minute gameplay demo in ~games

  3. Comment on Taskmaster Season 20, Episode 1 - '9x7.' | Full episode in ~tv

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    Really good episode. The Heist task is a lot of fun, and heightened a little by recent news The Technicolor Dribble task provides that "you don't see this on TV anywhere else" variety The Bop Alex...

    Really good episode.

    • The Heist task is a lot of fun, and heightened a little by recent news
    • The Technicolor Dribble task provides that "you don't see this on TV anywhere else" variety
    • The Bop Alex task is another wacky point system one. I'd say the 'name a unique food' aspect somewhat detracted from it, though I get the purpose of it.
    • The final task is free-for-all and sport-adjacent, which I think suit the live environment best. Greg's - errr, acting? - was also great

    The thing that has bothered me the most about this series is Reece and Maisie being too competitive - to the point of cringe, at times. I didn't notice any of that in this episode.

    4 votes
  4. Comment on The same-name club made up entirely of Shirleys is dying out in ~life

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    Jeff: Shirley(s), as much as it pains me to say it, you know what you have to do. Let Chang(s) join the group.

    Jeff: Shirley(s), as much as it pains me to say it, you know what you have to do. Let Chang(s) join the group.

    6 votes
  5. Comment on What is your 'Subway Take'? in ~talk

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    Maxim of Manner, submaxim 3: Well, there goes Tildes. Look what you've done.

    Maxim of Manner, submaxim 3:

    Be brief — i.e., avoid unnecessary verbosity.

    Well, there goes Tildes. Look what you've done.

    17 votes
  6. Comment on Gore. - Wrath (2025) in ~music

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    The band uses a period in their name. Since I couldn't make a tag ending in a period, might need to figure out a different one. Could be misleading if just left as "gore". They're relatively new,...

    The band uses a period in their name. Since I couldn't make a tag ending in a period, might need to figure out a different one. Could be misleading if just left as "gore".

    They're relatively new, with just 2 EPs out right now. One from this month and one from last year. People have compared them to Spiritbox and Sleep Token.

    A few other recommended tracks from me: Pray, Doomsday, Orbiting.

    Fun fact about the vocalist, Haley Roughton: she also works as an engineer for NASA(!)

    2 votes
  7. Comment on US Supreme Court allows order forcing Google to make app store reforms in ~tech

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    This part is still really strange to me. If I buy Google Play's listing of an app from the Epic Games Store, who gets a cut? Can Epic alter the price? Set their own sales? Does Epic mirror all the...

    make Play's app catalog available to competitors

    This part is still really strange to me. If I buy Google Play's listing of an app from the Epic Games Store, who gets a cut? Can Epic alter the price? Set their own sales? Does Epic mirror all the files and thus pay for the bandwidth costs for downloads and updates, or is it just more of a pointer to Google's servers?

    10 votes
  8. Comment on Elon Musk plans to take on Wikipedia with 'Grokipedia' in ~tech

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    What's wrong with good old conservapedia? Oh right, it doesn't have AI. Always best to have inaccuracies put in to your knowledge base at random, on purpose.

    What's wrong with good old conservapedia?

    Oh right, it doesn't have AI. Always best to have inaccuracies put in to your knowledge base at random, on purpose.

    23 votes
  9. Comment on Monsanto products potentially cause cancer in ~health

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    I use the DeArrow extension (from the maker of SponsorBlock) to make YouTube titles less bad.

    I use the DeArrow extension (from the maker of SponsorBlock) to make YouTube titles less bad.

    3 votes
  10. Comment on The video-game industry has a problem: there are too many games in ~games

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    I'm "old" and rarely use discord. How do you use it to discover games?

    I'm "old" and rarely use discord. How do you use it to discover games?

    3 votes
  11. Comment on Marvel’s Wolverine | Gameplay trailer in ~games

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    What's the CA in the title for?

    What's the CA in the title for?

    1 vote
  12. Comment on Jimmy Kimmel returns from suspension, late-night show reaches ratings high in ~tv

  13. Comment on Rhode Island’s ‘Taylor Swift Tax’ on vacation homes of the wealthy is influencing second home tax policy in other US states in ~society

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    Policy analysts say if you make the mega-rich mad you're only hurting yourself!!!

    Policy analysts say if you make the mega-rich mad you're only hurting yourself!!!

    14 votes
  14. Comment on Jimmy Kimmel pulled “indefinitely” by ABC after Charlie Kirk comments in ~tv

  15. Comment on I'm Not a Robot in ~games

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    It let me Verify straight through that one without a camera.

    It let me Verify straight through that one without a camera.

    6 votes
  16. Comment on I'm Not a Robot in ~games

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    Same. I don't even know what the combo was in the end, I was clicking through them and failing so fast.

    Same. I don't even know what the combo was in the end, I was clicking through them and failing so fast.

    1 vote
  17. Comment on I'm Not a Robot in ~games

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    Something that seemed to help a lot was to have an all-caps outburst. And don't repeat yourself or the bot.

    Something that seemed to help a lot was to have an all-caps outburst. And don't repeat yourself or the bot.

    2 votes
  18. Comment on I'm Not a Robot in ~games

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    Yeah it was pretty far up there. I quit on the Empire State building one. Had no idea how many levels there were. The parallel parking I found really finicky even though I haven't had any problem...

    Yeah it was pretty far up there. I quit on the Empire State building one. Had no idea how many levels there were. The parallel parking I found really finicky even though I haven't had any problem with it in real life.

    Spoiler for the chess challenge

    Every time you lose/reset, they give you an additional Queen (replacing a pawn). I can't remember if I needed 3 or 4 Queens to win but I just cringed at how in my failed attempts the AI was able to have such great harmony with their pieces and slowly trapping my Queens while I couldn't piece together any kind of attack.

    3 votes