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Re: The mistake we all made about Halo 2 (vid link

UrsusArctos — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:12:58 GMT

By: UrsusArctos <ursusarctosl71@gmail.com>
Date: 6/6/25 12:12 pm
: Aha, I see your reply! 'Twas delayed by a mere six months, heh heh. Nothing
: to quibble about. Things do move a bit slower in these parts nowadays.

My apologies. I'd plumb forgotten that I'd gotten into a conversation here. Heck, I sometimes forget how much time I spent on this site, and it's a little spooky to realize how empty it now is. I suppose the only reason I returned was for my little nostalgia trip about the lyrics in the Mausoleum Suite (which I may have [i]finally[/i] heard right), but the days when Marty used to pop in are long gone.
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Re: The mistake we all made about Halo 2 (vid link

Captain Spark — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:59:50 GMT

By: Captain Spark
Date: 6/4/25 5:59 pm
: Could be. But even I'm off the boil just at the moment. Haven't needled a
: Grunt for a good few weeks now. Shocking.

Same here. Although, my wife and I played through several Halo CE maps last weekend, and then we switched over to ODST Firefight. Good times.
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Re: The mistake we all made about Halo 2 (vid link

Rockslider — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 08:04:01 GMT

By: Rockslider
Date: 6/4/25 4:04 am
: I think you and I are the only people still playing Halo CE?

Could be. But even I'm off the boil just at the moment. Haven't needled a Grunt for a good few weeks now. Shocking.

Bad Cyborg

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Re: The mistake we all made about Halo 2 (vid link

Captain Spark — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 23:21:37 GMT

By: Captain Spark
Date: 6/3/25 7:21 pm
: Aha, I see your reply! 'Twas delayed by a mere six months, heh heh. Nothing
: to quibble about. Things do move a bit slower in these parts nowadays.

I think you and I are the only people still playing Halo CE?
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Re: The mistake we all made about Halo 2 (vid link

Rockslider — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:18:13 GMT

By: Rockslider
Date: 6/3/25 9:18 am
: Alas, I have long since lost my old desktop and old Halo PC setup. It's been
: too long...

Aha, I see your reply! 'Twas delayed by a mere six months, heh heh. Nothing to quibble about. Things do move a bit slower in these parts nowadays.

Bad Cyborg

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Misheard lyrics

UrsusArctos — Sat, 31 May 2025 11:10:47 GMT

By: UrsusArctos <ursusarctosl71@gmail.com>
Date: 5/31/25 7:10 am
: Marty has seen the video, and seems to have given it his approval. I always
: thought that Mendicant Bias was a bad fit, since what we know from Halo 3
: and Contact Harvest indicates that he was wandering around for a lot
: longer than three thousand years.

: The idea that the voice speaking was the role of the Arbiter is never
: something I would have guessed, even though it fits. I guess I'm just too
: literal-minded to think that way.

If the chanting is a reference to the Doors song "Unhappy Girl", perhaps that's the mistake in the transcript of the lyrics that Marty mentioned 18(!) years ago.

I reheard all of it, and I don't know if this is an accurate transcript -

I have walked among men and angels for three thousand years
Time has no end, no beginning, no purpose
I wander the earth seeking forgiveness for my horrible crimes
Against God and Men
I live to seek death, destruction, over the light
But the light cannot be extinguished
I live in a prison of my own device
I am lost in time

Unlike the first instance where it's quite clearly men, I'm still not sure about whether the second instance is man or men, but it sounds like the latter. The Mary-marry-merry merger across much of North American English complicates things a bit.

The Doors lines in "Unhappy Girl" include "In a prison of your own device" and listening closely it's a V instead of an M, meaning that the Doors line has been referenced verbatim. The Doors song repeats three different variations of this, "You are locked in a prison of your own device", "You are caught in a prison of your own device" and finally "You are dying in a prison of your own device". "I live in a prison of my own device" seems to most closely match the last of the three instances, paralleling living with dying.

Putting aside the entire question of who or what this is supposed to be for the moment, is this finally the correct set of lyrics?
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Re: The mistake we all made about Halo 2 (vid link

UrsusArctos — Sat, 31 May 2025 10:41:22 GMT

By: UrsusArctos <ursusarctosl71@gmail.com>
Date: 5/31/25 6:41 am
: You did, in a 2009 email, and I pointed out that a bridge descent wasn't
: necessary. Just if you wanted to do some advance prep.

Alas, I have long since lost my old desktop and old Halo PC setup. It's been too long...
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Revisiting Halo Reach

Lawnmower172 — Sun, 18 May 2025 02:28:58 GMT

By: Lawnmower172 <martinwegner@gmail.com>
Date: 5/17/25 10:28 pm
HiddenXperia has a compilation video looking at some of Reach�s early level concepts, weapons, and other ideas that Bungie was exploring that ultimately didn�t make it into the game.

Interesting look. Check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZtEiacGq2o

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AR & pistol VID

Rockslider — Fri, 09 May 2025 16:19:40 GMT

By: Rockslider
Date: 5/9/25 12:19 pm
My fourth instalment brings in some pistol work: BCM575.

Bad Cyborg

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Needler & plasma pistol VID

Rockslider — Mon, 05 May 2025 10:32:14 GMT

By: Rockslider
Date: 5/5/25 6:32 am
Next instalment: BCM574.

Bad Cyborg

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Thanks NM

Rockslider — Sun, 04 May 2025 09:23:23 GMT

By: Rockslider
Date: 5/4/25 5:23 am

Bad Cyborg

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Plasma combo VID

Rockslider — Sun, 04 May 2025 09:22:15 GMT

By: Rockslider
Date: 5/4/25 5:22 am
Next up, plasma weapons: BCM573.

Bad Cyborg

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Re: Glasshouse battle x3, launcher & AR VID

Captain Spark — Thu, 01 May 2025 20:28:52 GMT

By: Captain Spark
Date: 5/1/25 4:28 pm
: Been a while since I did any glasshouse battling, so let's get back to the
: 38-covie set-up I was last using. The carnage begins with a rocket
: launcher and AR (a favourite combo), in BCM572 .

Good stuff. This is one of my favorite encounters in this map. Lots of targets to torture.
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Glasshouse battle x3, launcher & AR VID

Rockslider — Thu, 01 May 2025 12:54:11 GMT

By: Rockslider
Date: 5/1/25 8:54 am
Been a while since I did any glasshouse battling, so let's get back to the 38-covie set-up I was last using. The carnage begins with a rocket launcher and AR (a favourite combo), in BCM572.

Bad Cyborg

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Last two VID

Rockslider — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:45:46 GMT

By: Rockslider
Date: 4/22/25 11:45 am
Last two plays for that pyramid megabattle save: BCM571.

Bad Cyborg

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Two more, including rocks rampage VID

Rockslider — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 15:54:34 GMT

By: Rockslider
Date: 4/20/25 11:54 am
Another two plays in BCM570. In the first I start with some long-distance work, and in the second I go in hard with shotty & needler, rampaging around some rocks.

Bad Cyborg

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Another two plays VID

Rockslider — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 09:59:24 GMT

By: Rockslider
Date: 4/18/25 5:59 am
Pistol, rocket launcher, needler and shotty. All used in BCM569.

Bad Cyborg

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Re: Twin bridges Banshee flipping trick VID

Rockslider — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 20:59:49 GMT

By: Rockslider
Date: 4/16/25 4:59 pm
: I play this area the same way and it's always fun.

It's hard to resist rocketing that Ghost when it cruises in from the far end. Such an inviting target.

Bad Cyborg

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New pyramid megabattle set-up VID

Rockslider — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:50:40 GMT

By: Rockslider
Date: 4/16/25 9:50 am
Back to the pyramid megabattle now, but with the Wraith in a new place. See BCM568.

Bad Cyborg

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Re: Twin bridges Banshee flipping trick VID

Captain Spark — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 01:47:42 GMT

By: Captain Spark
Date: 4/14/25 9:47 pm
: My new article Twin bridges Banshee flipping trick and tutorial BCM567
: cover an old trick in AOTCR, where you use a rocket to flip a distant
: Banshee. And of course, there's some fun along the way!

I play this area the same way and it's always fun.
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