: Yeah, if it's too difficult to figure out how to make an account here, odds
: are you might not be someone who needs to share their thoughts...
: Generalizing, of course, but come on, all it takes is a tiny bit of
: reading (although some folks who never should have figured it out pretty
: easily).

Again with the "I don't want certain people to be here". You guys ever think maybe that's part of why there aren't so many people here?

: Yeah. It was a recent point of discussion that 99.9% of anyone with a
: worthwhile thought has long left this forum (Most folks are on DBO now).

Most of the people who have posted on HBO left before DBO started.

: There are some great folks that still lurk here, and it's always
: a joy to see them pop up from time to time (see Ducain's post above),
: and Gr1m hasn't quite given up on this place (but maybe that's
: because he has to deal with the Waypoint forums), but for the most part,
: it's sad that the forum has become a small echo chamber for
: the "that's offensive" Tumblr crowd and Snipe crying about
: the good old days.

I keep seeing this and I don't get it. There have been occasional comments, but not a lot, especially lately, and a lot of them were because of what you said, and a lot of the rest were because of Snipe said. (Yes, offense is kind of a wasted emotion and wasted energy, but if you get right down to it so are most emotions.) I know a ton of times I wanted to say something and didn't so as not to cause a fuss and single myself out.

: And that bums me out, but it was inevitable once the gaming
: landscape changed. The sad thing is that Halo 5 might be the
: beacon of hope that merits discussion, dissection, and community creativity,
: but most people that I talk to about it aren't going to get it, and it's sad,
: because many of those were fantastic community members. Some of it is
: 343's fault, some of the fault lies in better games coming out, and
: some of it's just franchise fatigue.

It is sad.

: Who knows. Some of us are holding on to hope, though, and this has always
: been our relevant base of operations. So we'll see.

: Yeah, for the most part that's true (of course sometimes we have to deal with
: trolly retards like Car-15, or someone like Bounce-A-Gon who contributes
: pretty much nothing but snark and subject-only posts),

What's the opposite of rose-tinted glasses? Bounce-A-Gon posts those things, and too much, but also about new stuff, and I don't see you doing that much-- and I know you can, you contribute like that over on DBO, but here you just want to bitch and troll despite saying you're hopeful and want the best for Halo and HBO.

: some of the old guard haven't given up. We love the Universe that
: Bungie created and built, and we hope to reconcile that as best we can
: with the dudebro that now owns the deed to the Universe.
: 343 may have a lousy record with Halo, and they may have added many nails to
: the coffin (death of LAN, split screen, and probably campaign films), but
: if the community can create, and the stories begin to be interesting again
: (they have Staten back, for what that's worth), then Halo may come back to
: life for many folks. And at this point, what more could one ask for?

Staten's not back on Halo, but I agree on the other parts.