: Along with the usual picture and short comment we get in the middle of the
: week on Hunt the Truth, this week there's an article on the glassed
: planet Ben went to (Bliss), some additional details about how it and
: glassed planets in general are treated, and his thoughts and feelings on
: them.
: I like it. It has some good details, they're delivered pretty well, the style
: fits with Ben's style from the audio entries, and there's some moderately
: deep thinkin' about the whole affair. Now that I've said that, here are
: the nitpicks. The actual title is "From Manikata to Site #1774: The
: Silicate Industry and the Profits of Tragedy on the Outskirts", which
: sounds more like a term paper than something you'd find in a magazine or
: blog, and the title as far as the site is concerned is
: "BENJAMIN_GIRAUD_ENTRY_0384", which is put over the other title
: in bigger letters and is even worse. I think he makes a bit of a jump,
: especially if you don't take all of his audio logs into account, in the
: way and degree that he sides with the people who want to separate from the
: UNSC and UEG, going so far as to imply armed conflict might be good and/or
: the natural end result. I'm also not fond of them using "BXR Mining
: Corporation" like this-- it's a good easter-eggy name in the games
: and kind of cool to see referenced elsewhere, but for the first half of
: the article or so I couldn't really take it seriously because I kept
: thinking "get BXR'd noob!" and the like. Aside from those, I
: think it's a solid if small entry to the textual canon.

Ben's thinking reminded me a lot of Halseys own personal dilemma. She was a pragmatist, cost benefit, greater good thinker when she began Spartan II, but later changed to see the value in every single life. Idk, like I said while reading this I kept being reminded of that.