Yeah. it's just internet whining. It's because none of what Halo Reach did affected existing canon - at best it was a minor footnote, like Halo ODST. Probably some whining was involved because there was an interview with someone at Bungie I think that said they'd break canon to deliver a better...

Well, I meant I could use a lot less of it - Halo 4 seems to use it to a huge extent - to distraction really. The other games tend to be far more conservative, and even the Source demo didn't make it so your entire screen washed out in glare. Of course, I suppose I'm missing the "sunglasses"...

I dunno, I could live without the HDR, lens flare and bloom to be honest. Though, I really miss the old-style Bungie grunts. Gruntpocalypse is just that much more fun with the irrelevant commentary the grunts add. These Covenant remind me more of Halo 1 enemies than anything else. And yeah...

The "problem" with Halo is it's a multi-media type story. There's a lot of Halo books that serve as backstops ("The Fall of Reach" is a prequel to Halo 1 - "Halo Reach" takes place around the later part of this book), book versions of the game ("The Flood" is Halo 1 in book form), followed by...

I didn't mean I wanted to buy my way in, but I like some of the stuff in the higher tiers - would be nice if I could have a choice and give 'em all a try to see what I'm more suited for, but have them in the hangar for the heck of it :).

Yeah, I want the wingnut package, but want to pledge more... I want the higher pledge level stuff AND the lower level stuff like many Kickstarters...

I suppose it's a really stupid question - but any option to pay more and get the ship at that level and the HOrnet?

Most movies are done in scope these days - I can't remember if the WC movie itself was scoped or not. Then there's the audio thing - there's a stereo optical track along the side (you can clearly see it) - you do need to correlate the audio as it can be a few frames ahead or behind depending on...

Perhaps, though I know I switched when I switched from my old PC to a newer one many years ago (about a decade ago). I guess I just gave up on it when others were doing what I wanted, and that Xchat was free versus shareware and could do multiple servers on one client. Got kinda fed up having to...

On Windows, I use a free version of XChat compiled for it (it went shareware for Windows a while back, so a bunch of people took the GPL'd version and compiled it for Windows. This is what I use - http://www.silverex.org/download/ - it calls itself "YChat". A more maintained version is Hexchat...

The actual RANK doesn't matter, it's the relative rank that matters. Eventually we'll be properly graded on a curve (which can apply to not only when grades are low, but when grades are high. Piss off a professor and see that A turn into a D when they decide to apply the curve).

Well, if you take it literally, yes. In this instance, it means more "rip your heart out with our teeth and spit it out" but it doesn't have the same ring. It technically is a grave insult since spitting out food is a sign of dislike and distaste. It's when killing them isn't enough, but you...

If he's hogging the bandwidth, have a chat with him and his parents - because you're going to be held responsible for what he downloads. Remember all those RIAA and MPAA lawsuits? It'll be *you* getting the letter and having to show up in court or paying the settlement. If you can put up with...

That sounds right if they were created on a PC platform, but the 90's had tons of work done on Unix as well - video editing and the like, and maybe even the Amiga for video. Or hell, a Mac even, since they all practically came with SCSI ports by default. I think there was a previous recovery...

Aww, and none of you could relink it to a cute cat video on YouTube or something?

Interesting - no comment on the SOny deal that was basically killed just before they signed on the dotted line. There it was to delay the release for a year or so so Star Wars would've been a distant memory...

According to the book, it's the other way around. Fox wanted to release it (with Star Wars trailer), Chris wanted to delay it to fix up numerous issues. Sony agreed to the delay (in the end, it was perfect - Chris got his delay, Fox got its guaranteed profit, etc), but Fox killed it in the end...

Well, I was reading this book "Generation Xbox: How Videogames Invaded Hollywood" and came across an interesting background in the WC movie (if you have the book, it's pages 154-160). The book's gist is about Videogames and movies - both as movies based on videogames, videogames based on...

Not that odd actually - a lot of software distribution formats do that - they adjust the floppy timing so that they can fit more data on the outer tracks of the disk (like a hard drive). It's how the original Mac got 800K on a 3.5" floppy, for example. They can do this because a floppy...

Still need to find the receipt to do the RMA, even though it's probably under a year old...