What are some good books to learn about military discipline, language, tract, and tradition? Doesn't matter if they're English or from other European countries. It really bothers me how contemporary western writers seem to be incapable of portraying these aspects in their own fiction, everyone acts like a dudebro teenager or some uncultured bum which seem completely at odds with the reality of personnel I met over the years.
>>65370165It's bollywood and anime that caused this. I won't suggest any particular novels but books written by Submarine Captains have always captured my interest. They are incredibly professional given the disgusting living conditions.
>>65370165> everyone acts like a dudebro teenagerBecause most of them ARE dudebro teenagers or dudebro twenty-something’s.
It's cultural incest. writers et al are increasingly removed from reality>1st generation of filmmakers were visionaries and weirdos and veterans of real life>2nd generation of filmmakers were similar but now also inspired by their predecessors >decades pass>current generation of filmmakers are people who grew up on films, learned everything they know from film culture, and are now making more films through increasingly distorted lenses with little influence from reality
>>65370201True, it's a problem even in Star Wars. Originals were inspired by Kurosawa, samurais, WW2 aerial combat footage and a bunch more. Sequels had other sources of inspiration, so they feel different, but not necessarily worse depending on your preferences.Then sequels, that were mostly inspired by other Star Wars media, which is why they look alright, but feel so hollow and washed out, like fanfiction.I imagine it's the same for war movies.
>>65370227Prequels had other sources of inspiration*
>>65370165Show based on a bookI assume the book was good too
>>65370201That's an argument I've been using for over 20 years, though I've primarily used it to describe fantasy and anime.It used to be good or decent, because it was written by people with real life experiences, and who also had specific knowledge in certain fields (Tolkien being a history and language professor who fought in WW1), but most of the shit we get today is several generations removed from reality, with authors basing their stories on fiction based on fiction based on fiction, etc.Another major problem is the cultural shift to the left, and most people growing up spoiled, with childish, superficial, feminine values.I suppose the irony here is that I actually miss the dudebro trope, because today we're only left with the radfem version of that, where everything is essentially the opposite of reality, rather than an exaggeration of a real life stereotype or phenomenon.
>>65370241It was. The show actually had to be toned down in some parts because they felt like it wouldn’t be believable.
>>65370165>Halo games post Halo Reach
>>65370165The ODSTs are Space SAS, they're not exactly known for having amazing discipline.
>>65370265>Halo Reach is the last good Halo
>>65370271compared to the last 16 years, yes
>>65370269ODST glaze is horrendously gaythey're more like space SEALs, where one of their two known deployments resulted in all of them dying almost immediately, yet they won't shut the fuck up about how cool they areit's absolutely retarded that an 8ft tall half-ton supersoldier walks in and your reaction is>"haha what's up bitch nigga? i bet you're gay, fuck you, eat shit.
Reminder jews are to blame fpr this
>>65370265There was never a good Halo, faggot. There's a reason it was known as babby's first fps up until the 2010s.
>>65370165the death of male relationships, rot of modernity, and consequential siloing and isolation of professions caused thiswriters are typically feminized men in the sense that they've never been through traumatic situations, live somewhat pampered lives, don't have strong relationships with other men, and consider what defines them as what they think are rather than what they do or who they areif you're lacking the shared experiences that tie a lot of men together culturally, you'll never be able to write itlike a foundational experience for a lot of men is getting really hurt in a way that you know is an actual problem, in front of other men and knowing you have to just suck it up. like sending a brad through your hand from a nailgun but knowing you can't freak out so you swallow the abject panic and yank the nail and calmly walk into another room to lose your shit privately. You can't write that kind of complex interaction without having had it
>>65370290nah
>>65370293browncoded post
>>65370315>Someone doesn't like my videogame>THEY MUST BE BROWN!Is this some actual kneejerk mental illness when this becomes a goto response to different tastes in consumerism?
>>65370320So what kind of brown are you? Sea monkey?
>>65370320You didn't say you didn't like it, you said it was objectively bad. Now you're trying to weasel out by switching to subjectivity.
>>65370352NTA
>>65370360That's even worse. You're not even paying attention to the situation you're jumping into lmao. What a brown retard you are.
>>65370201>writers et al are increasingly removed from reality>>65370243>cultural shift to the left, and most people growing up spoiled, with childish, superficial, feminine values./thread
>>65370271Reach have us absolutely redonkulous femSpartan ass, so it can stay.
>>65370241Good series if you want to start hating americans.
>>65370243>>65370227I believe this effect is huge in education, and can go far to explain a lot of problems in schoolsthe average school teacher has never existed outside of an educational institution. they're raised in school, go to college, and then turn around and immediately return to school to begin teaching. For worldly experience, at best, they have experience in some unrelated part-time job or they briefly smoked weed in college. Whatever signal school perpetuates gets endlessly strengthened by the feedback loop of teachers directly rearing the next generation of teachers.
>>65370315PC master race coded post, rather. Halo has always been a mediocre fps lauded by console peasants.
>>65370436>"The graphics in Halo are the best in the world: you can shoot a gun, and then look down, and all the bullet shells are there on the ground"average schoolbus conversation circa 2002
>>65370201I agree with your premise and think this is largely what results in the self referential irony writing we get nowadays, otherwise known as millennial writing. The reason being that since a lot of these younger writers haven't experienced anything in life other than trying to be a writer, they get trapped in changing tides of their own thoughts and have no basis on reality to anchor them in what they are writing, so naturally because they are only thinking about their own thoughts, they write in an ironic self referential way that's super annoying over time. Unfortunately I don't think there is an easy cure for this as I think to get people who have real experiences and creativity to actually start writing again you need a more gentle society where it's easier to be economically well off, or at least have the collective stress of financially keeping your head above water to be substantially less so that these people have the free time to organically take up something like writing. Alas, in the age of the arrested development adult, that is not possible
>>65370315actually this. The huge majority of the Halo playerbase was America and the UK. Shouldn't be surprising since, ya know, 99% of brownoid posters from South America, India, etc. didn't even have internet access let alone access to Xboxs.
>>65370293it's only undeniably the best scifi shooter trilogy of all time. Contrarian fag.
>>65370417i hate Halo 5 with a passion... butt...
>>65370436literally the only people who said this shit were people with no Xbox that played Quake 3
>>65370424
>>65370575>it's only undeniably the best scifi shooter trilogy of all timeI deny it. Halo was a boring corridor shooter with some good parts and the rest of the franchise goes downhill fast>Half Life>Half Life: Blue Shift>Half Life: Opposing Force>Half Life 2>Half Life 2 ep1>Half Life 2 ep2>Dead Space>Mass EffectI'd rather play any of these than play through Halo again
>>65370441>average schoolbus conversation circa 2002 for master race FPS gamers"what gun is best in Medal Of Honor Allied Assault / Counter Strike 1.5?">>65370587lol no
>>65370315Whites were busy playing Counter-Strike and Tribes 2.
>>65370293>it was known as babby's first fps up until the 2010s.because it was one of the first shooter games that featured a really strong aimbot. it had to because it wasnt mouse controlled. other than that halo was pretty much a typical boomer shooter. the cover shooters that followed were arguably worse. and the hero shooters that came after that can barely be called shooter games.
>>65370618>Tribes 2Truly the best of times.
>>65370604>half life>half life 2they always go for Half-Life. Only because it's a PC game>Dead Spacegreat game, not a perfect trilogy desu>Mass Effectpretty ok but we all know that's not a perfect trilogy either.Halo 1-3 is iconic and was more hyped than any of those games honestly.
>>65370165>everyone acts like a dudebro teenager or some uncultured bumsounds spot on to me, all it needs is weeaboos too.
>>65370165>booksretardhow about you have an actual lived experience instead.every person who ever wrote a book on the things you want to lean learnt it by living it not by reading about it
>>65370582Absolutely ridiculous volumes of badonkadonk. Badonkulous, if you will.
>>65370201Yup. They have lived their entire lives in the cave and are strongly incentivized to never leave or question it.>>65370424wut
>>65370165>everyone acts like a dudebro teenager or some uncultured bumIn the military? Gosh.
>>65370165>women fighting worth a shitIt was stupid in the original bang shooty games and its still stupid now. Pretty funny if all the aliums were just blown apart by an infinite wave of autonomous self-replicating EFPs on robots but then John Halo wouldn't be needed to save the day. I guess maybe it made sense since Earth was run by a faggy overbearing UN which wouldn't know efficiency if it crawled out of a black hole and bite them in the ass.
>>65371992Yes but they act like politically correct(aka faggy) dudebros. No casual racism, no hard drug use, no drunken brawls, no random extra judicial killings, no fun of any kind.
>>65370424why mad mr whopper jr? lol
>>65370582I can never decide if Linda or Kelly is best girl.
>>65370282>>65370265Reachfags think that if enough bad games come out reach "becomes better" like we're grading on a curve. They're always trying to cozy up to trilogy fans like "how do you do fellow CLASSIC halo fans" when their game started all the trends that grew into what Halo is today.
>>65370265The ending with Captain Keyes and the way he talks, his voice, the way he conducts himself is what motivated me to make this thread. I could feel the sense of professionalism in Reach.
>>65371955That's a great idea, and would have been my preferred method were I not physically disabled by the time the examiner's office called me up to determine whether or not I would be added to the army reserves. So oral and written history and spectating from a distance is all I can do.
>>65374547anon you are being such a miserable philistine faggot, you need to stop that
>>65371992not every army has the same level of discipline
>>65374587You were always a gay usurper. An intruder on the franchise.
>>65370315I can't think of Halo 1 and ignore the absolutely fucking psychotically half-baked "level design" they allowed into it. I would rather take an old school maze over the goddamn Control Room level.That being said, the music and atmosphere is transcendental.
>>65370201>>65370227You're not alone, it's an trend which has been known since the 1960s (Debord about spectacle) and 1980s (Baudrillard, who officially summarized the four stages) and 2000s (Japan coming to terms with the end of their anime greats)"The first stage is a faithful image/copy, where people believe, and may even be correct to believe, that a sign is a "reflection of a profound reality", this is a good appearanceThe second stage is perversion of reality, where people come to believe that the sign is an unfaithful copy, which "masks and denatures" reality as an "evil appearance—it is of the order of maleficence". Here, signs and images are inaccurate, though they may have references to realityThe third stage masks the absence of a profound reality, where the sign pretends to be a faithful copy, but it is a copy with no original. Signs and images claim to represent something real, but no representation is taking place and arbitrary images are merely suggested as things which they have no relationship to.The fourth stage is pure simulacrum, in which the simulacrum has no relationship to any reality whatsoever"
>>65372025Halo was plagiarized from the Vang trilogy of books, in the order book 2-3-1. In the original books, humanity was enslaved by the covenant and freed by someone discovering the Starhammer (a halo) and then the next two books happen centuries later and are about the Vang (flood). They're actually good reads for being generic scifi.
>>65374844The main character of Halo is the Arbiter.
>>65370604>judging Halo based on the goddamn campaign missions>no multiplayer>never LAN partiedShit-ass opinion.
>>65370201This was basically what Miyazaki meant when he said "otaku ruined anime."
>>65374547Halo Reach is a good game despite retconning the one book and bullet magnetism
>>65370201This is certainly true of videogames. One of the big issues with the current crop of devs is that theyve never done anything else, they've played videogames throughout their childhood then went to some college and gotten a video game degree and then join a studio to produce ouroboros self-referential shit. Compared to golden age (mid 90s to late 2000s IMO, though obviously opinions will vary) devs who often were just generic CS coders who had lengthy careers and external hobbies before they got into games; like gabe newell who worked on early windows releases for a decade before founding valve, or the Pokémon guy who created it in an attempt to get more kids into his own insect collecting obsession, or the dark souls guy who worked for Oracle until he was 30 and built the franchise off of a childhood of being unable to read English fantasy novels and just guessing what they were about based on keywords and cover art. Having other interests and experiences gives you something to draw upon, while if you only play games then your only point of reference is what has already been done.
>>65370618>heh, back up kid. im an ARENA SHOOTER gamer.>what games do i play now? runescape and deus ex
>>65370165Starship Troopers
>>65375079>Its all about the multiplayerYou really want to go down that road eh?
I just want to say death to 343 Industries, now rebranded as Halo Studios due to their abhorrent reputation.
>>65375079Halo is for faggots regardless of how you play it.
>>65375989Massively shit taste confirmed
>>65372025>tfw can do pull ups nowMad respect to that amputee btw
>>65376055Amputee can do pull ups while women remain in pull ups. It is the way of things!
>>65370179bollywood? Only Indians watch Indian movies I highly doubt bollywood had any effect on western writers
>>65370307i can agree with the content, but the framing doesn't sound manly and even less desirable>like a foundational experience for a lot of men is getting really hurt in a way that you know is an actual problem, in front of other men and knowing you have to just suck it up. like sending a brad through your hand from a nailgun but knowing you can't freak out so you swallow the abject panic and yank the nail and calmly walk into another room to lose your shit privatelyi do this because it is the reasonable thing to do, to resolve the immediate issue and to lose my shit later. i certainly don't do that because of fear of losing my face in front of other men. i'd do the same alone
>>65375978nobody seriously calls them halo studios. Everyone and their mothers knows it's just the exact same band of incompetent retards who spent a decade and a half ruining halo. It's like a tranny calling himself lilith or something and then complaining about deadnaming when his parents call him george.
>>65376405>lilith It's fucking creepy how many troons call themselves that. >deadname It's called that because that's the name that's going on their headstone.
>>65375835The book was great and the game story was shit, I hated it playing iot because the book sold me on so much lore they then ignored and side steppedFucking hacks
>>65374809There’s literally arrows on the floor pointing where to go, if that’s too complex for you idk how to help you. I could literally do that level with my eyes closed, it’s so simple to navigate.
>>65376562the game story is better
>>65376078My dumbass mother watches jeetshit. Whenever I'm at her house, the telly's always on some jeet channel, which always has low effort, nightmare fuel AI generated bumpers between movies.
>>65370572God's we were strong back then
>>65374552>Negative, I have the gun.
>>65370201We are living in a cultural dark age, and I've been repeating myself with that.
>>65370201Oh gawd the replies to this post hahaSome good shit is still being made like in one medium as 2026 is shaping up to be a great year, maybe even better than the preceding couple years. I’m not going to say what medium that is for obvious reasonsAnyways, the creative process isn’t going to make sense unless you are actually part of it and make art yourself, aka the replies here seem to be critics ergo armchair generals /pol/ posting in a manner that is I guess “safe” or weirdly compliant in a manner that conforms in a silly way.Firstly, it could take a long time. You could easily spend years on a script or writing some stuff (I’m about 200k words across a few scrivener projects for one idea, but I’d only like around 20k of those words.) Secondly, even if everything is done well it can end up as abject failure when everything is put together. Or somehow, the audience loves something that the people that made it thinks is bad. There is a bunch of asscheeks stuff released but we’re still pretty lucky that things are still made. We're even luckier that, I’m not even talking about ai but conventional means to create are incredibly accessible compared to before. Which begs the question, why do we invest so much time into making fiction and reading or watching or playing the stuff. What people create sort of reveals stuff about themselves, it’s like a mirror and you see their reflection just as what you see connects with yourself and your life. >>65370165I’d read older books and hang out with older (respectable) people who could impersonate people older than themselves as they’d reminisce stories and people of their life. >>65374572I wouldn’t worry about living “real”experiences as much as the brain changing when you’re about 30.I’d also pay no mind to other posts in this thread. There is a tomorrow; we make our choices, we have freedom. The issue is they make sense but the ideas can’t really be put to the test
>>65375861Neither Tribes nor CS are arena shooters. Well, Tribes 2 had an arena mode, but everyone just played CTF.
>>65377102>Some good shit is still being made isn't that the exception that proves the rule? *Everything* should be constantly getting better year by year as the state of the art progresses.
>>65377102>Some good shit is still being made like in one medium as 2026 is shaping up to be a great year, maybe even better than the preceding couple years. I’m not going to say what medium that is for obvious reasonsOf course, because in your heart you know its actually all mediocre so you hide behind ambiguity. Frankly your whole post reeks of the very toxic positivity that can only produce garbage.
>>65376944>...Good luck to you, Spartan.
i'm a reach baby. why is reach bad? also here is my lust provoking image :)
>>65374547Agreed, Reach was trash. The slower than semi-auto DMR being the only gun anyone used in multiplayer. Forge mode meaning most of the new maps post-release looked all the same.The stupid story where every single spartan has some sort of epic suicidal sacrifice except for the stupid tough-guy woman. Armor lock.
>>65377663Just /v/ermin being tasteless contrarians as usual. Most people love Reach.
Man if Nu-Halo looks like that Ill just stick to listening to the books while I play ARMA reforger Halo.
>>65374838I have an image for this exact concept
>>65375835>>65376613>>65377663>Muh extra special NEW spartans who don't act anything like spartans are so much COOLER and REALISTIC!!!>H4 comes out continuing the trends of reach in lockstep>NOOOOO NOT LIKE THAT!!!!Desaturated designs, schlock faggot writing by retard materialists without the grandeur or mystery or mythology that defines the setting top to bottom, throwing away previous lore every game because you thought of a cool thing to do with your action figures, Sprint as standard, God it must be such a good time to be a reach fan, after all every single Halo game since Reach has just taken everything that defined reach and increased it. If you like reach, you'll love our even newer, even bitchier desaturated fake spartans and even MORE aggressive retconning of iconic designs.
>>65377355If I was to reply akin to other sentiment expressed here I’d argue the opposite on the basis of the prevailing dominant and emerging intellectual technology actively hampers thorough creative development.What determines adequate problem solving has been in decline, one could argue because we read less and I’d broach the idea, in the modern age people with diverging personalities (not mental illness like autism) are funnelled into a similar line of thinking to their detriment, when there is every capability to do otherwise.But back to your point, across the board in every aspect of fidelity the standard has risen tremendously. But that hardly should matter as the pursuit of realism id believe is similar to perfection, it’s just running away from failure.>>65377496No it’s actually great and several things have improved the last few years and some things have gotten really good, at least compared to before (duh) because I actually at least tried watching a variety of stuff in the last 40 years. I’m not saying to ignore the bad stuff here, it’s just terrible and obviously made to be terrible on purpose, and I am constrained here to say my true thoughts and such I’ll abstain as it doesn’t matter to me if I’m right or not. It’s just not relevant to mention and even if I should say, I wish to erase it from my memory and act otherwise while also be appalled at the bad stuff.I say this as in an actual fan faggot unlike the normalfags present here. To go further the bts reaffirms you don’t need insane hardware and software, or even skills and know-how to make stuff, but that’s also unfair to say when just maybe 5% of the global population are within the threshold of necessary computer literacy to even attempt to make this stuff. And then god knows how many of those people capable or bothered to get capable can into being creative. It’s not anything special, it’s just “can you be wrong and err” and do that forever.
Oop sorry guys just being the best Halo don't mind me
>>65375917I actually remember playing this map in Halo Custom and even Battlefield and Half Life (of course UT2004). This is UT2, right? I didn't have broadband until 2001.
>>65378203>excuse me chuds quirk chungus buffy the covenant slayer cumming thruuuuuuuuuuu
>>65370165>booksEnlist in your cuntry's equivalent of national guard/reservist/territorial guard/militia and learn it first hand.
>>65375851>or the dark souls guy who worked for Oracle until he was 30Fuck now the difficulty there makes sense, anyone who worked for Oracle at all was bound to start hating humanity trying to win at all.
>>65378078>H4 comes out continuing the trends of reach in lockstepNobody but you has ever concluded this, stop inventing and wasting replies towards the bump limit. Nobody who played Reach actually likes the complete left turn whiplash of the 343 games that followed. Whoever finished the games recently can attest to that. Now shut the fuck up with your off topic prattle and start talking about MACs and command officers not wearing protective gear in an active combat zone 500 years in the future.
>>65376930>India>Chinaif i ever want my day ruined, I just remember this
>>65378078>without the grandeur or mystery or mythology that defines the setting top to bottomlolwut? Reach is a game about noble warriors (NOBLE team) in hard times giving their lives for the fight. The game is about sacrifice and passing the torch to the next hero. That is what the game is centered around. It literally opens with an apocalypse and a broken helmet on a battlefield. If that doesn't give you mystery and grandeur right from the get-go I don't know what would. It also has the mystery and grandeur with the "birthright" (as said by Halsey) being given to Noble Team in the form of Cortana and her knowledge. >retconI actually don't even know what was retconned other than the general timeline of the war for Reach; Needless to say these changes are absolutely nothing in comparison to the retcons made by 343 Industries that broke the world of Halo (Humans are now the descendants of advanced ancient Humans and Forerunners are a seperate species and the Flood came from a fart that came from an ancient-ancient species and blah blah)
>>65378834This
>>65379319>Nobody who played Reach actually likes the complete left turn whiplash of the 343 games that followed.Nobody who loved the trilogy actually likes the complete left turn whiplash of Reach that lead to the fairly linear and obvious escalation of Reachism into the games to follow.
>>65378176holy obtuse word saladyou sound like a thesaurus trying to mask how dumb you are by using as many words as possible, to the point where they no longer have meaning
>>65381704It's a prequel game that leads into Halo CE. It's not a left turn at all. Halo 4 was a left turn by actually making sprint normal, having shitty enemies, weird ugly Forerunner guns, horrid Master Chief redesign, worse soundtrack etc.
>>65381704You're autistic.
It was a mistake to give any information on Forerunners. They were way more interesting as the mysterious precursor race.
>>65370424I actually wanted to be an American after watching this series.
>>65376590>No but follow the glowy sphere what's so hard?Every time I bring up Control Room, halofags just assume this is what I'm talking about.It's not hard to navigate, trivial even, it's just completely shitty and boring and unfun to navigate. The same room over and over is actual bargin bin unity asset-flip behavior, there's no excuse. And it's not the only level they do it with either.
>>65382159What don’t you understand or specifically lacks meaning, but I’d understand as the first draft ain’t always the best and more often than not it’d be “raw consciousness” more than anything haha. A major component of art is critique which is as important as research and refinement, and possibly I’d guess not enough time is spent in those critical areas nowadays. In your own personal work you have full creative authority and I’d find myself on and off for months mainly editing documents and making small subtle adjustments to 3d models as ideas propagate throughout the year. To do things properly u gotta know a bunch of stuff and sometimes it’s too much stuff like recently a friend told me, the language one speaks would could affect their face geometry like the shape of the lips, but I’m mainly just trying to make things look good and similar to a style. A few things I’ve omitted or changed was due to the post limit as I’m too lazy to make more than one. I’d actually consult a thesaurus after I write stuff to help figure out what I just wrote, or while reading as there’s always these random fuckin words like perennial, fluvial, reredorter, and basilica to name recent examples. Haha you’re right I’m such dumbass as it never ends. It would be nice to just read stuff without needing to look up to confirm the meaning in a few specific words as one could figure out the meaning by the surrounding context, but it’s also cool to find out to be sure.
>>65378078I wouldn't call pre-343 Halo particularly mysterious>OG humanity lost to a bunch of parasitic space mushrooms>built galactic genocide machines >reseeded itself on earth afterwards>aliens find their ruins and worship them>meet humans>decide to genocide them because humanity's existence would prove their religion false343 Halo, meanwhile, is more openly shounen shitty when it comes to writing>heh, you thought that the previous bad guys were the baddest and the strongest? >have this new ultra-strong, never heard from before bad guys who stick around for one game and are then forgotten
>>65384661Dude, I'm not reading all that shit. Trim the fat and learn to be concise.
>>65384900The mystery was in the entire journey of putting all that together
>>65384933You go big or go home
>>65384958If you can't explain something to a 5 year old, you are not wise on that topic, and your cultural contribution will be null.
>>65384992You talk of such frivolous things as if I’d care or should care about them. My only goal is for my ideas, my vision to become fully realised and nothing more. That’s been the case for a decade even in the earliest roughest of ideas haha Why? It’s fun to create.
>>65385083>i don't care>makes a whole ass wall of textyour ego is weak anonjust admit you fucked up
>>65385535KekRaped that freak
>>65383939>mysteriousThe original trilogy heavily hints at and then later explicitly tells you that humans are Forerunner.
>thread devolves into /v/ermin infestation with no relation to original topicReading capacity of this board is probably capped at panzer operations or something
>>65379352You have no idea, but you will.
>>65370165>"Surely the programs have taken effect. The humans are controllable.">"So thought the Rintar group.">"Those humans were half formed, brutish. They were unrefined and wild. The new races are much more malleable and well adjusted to technological controls. They are minimally dangerous and after the invasion the few that remain will be grateful for any bone we toss them."
>>65372025Instead of cheering for the guy missing three limbs they all look pissed
>>65375095This is more a problem with capitalism.>I want to make something great>But it also must be profitable
>mfw Anons are unironically fighting over some B movie level vidya gayme loreJesus Christ: Have better taste in media, guys!
>>65391108So an improvement over the original topic
I'm just gonna leave this herehttps://youtu.be/kkHVTAkaMdk
>>65393814Lmao at everybody now worshiping microshit because an indian is speeding up the goyslop manufacturing processGamers deserve to die
>>65370290It's actually the opposite because if you look at the head dev for Halo Campaign Evolved their profile is full of pali flags on twitter
>>65376008>t. squeaker
>>65370165I hate new halo so much.
>>65392364Grow up.
>>65392739Name 5 better medias
>>65398781anything made in the 90s
>>65370241Book was great, Fick's book "One Bullet Away" was also great
>>65370618>Tribes 2dont lie, nobody played that
>>65395971>Lmao at everybody now worshiping microshitBro what? They're universally mocked and maligned by games enthusiasts and have been for years.
>>65381704>Nobody who loved the trilogy actually likes the complete left turn whiplash of Reach that lead to the fairly linear and obvious escalation of Reachism into the games to follow.
>>65398920they hired a new indian CEO recently and she announced a bunch of structural changes, including gutting a lot of redundant layers of management that caused massive delays between releases and announced a bunch of layoffstodd howard was put on a tighter leash, which is nice to seepeople are now excited, including a decent amount of people on the right who think that this means xbox is going to be based againI assume /v/ is also happy, though I don't dare browse /v/
>>65370241I'd argue the book is better, and that reading Fick's book is compulsory after that, just to get an epilogue (pappy and the corpsman going to special forces, iceman getting a battlefield promotion, any misconduct inquiries getting dropped for the second tour, fick getting the fuck out of the military, his replacement getting killed in fallujah)
>>65396944Don't worry, it will only get worse
>>65398860>Halo at it's earliest was conceptualized in 1997based Halo keeps winning
>>65392053Because the Stupid envy the strong. Like, a smart weak person sees this and think "Oh wow, good for him, I need to do better."
>>65370246That is true with a lot of media. In The Death of Stalin they removed a ton of medals or some shit from Jason Issacs costume who was playing Georgy Zhukov. They had the real amount on at first but felt it was almost comical how many were there.
>>65377801>ARMA reforger Halo.Genuinely superior to nu-halo
>>65400728>Like, a smart weak person sees this and think "Oh wow, good for him, I need to do better."A weak person is weak because it's his genetics limiting him to be weak
>>65382350>It's a prequel game that leads into Halo CE. It's not a left turn at allWhy do you say those things like they're related>Halo 4 was a left turn by actually making sprint normal>Okay yes Reach invented sprint and made it the base ability in the campaign BUUUUUT
>>65404277Reach introduced sprint as an ability, along with plenty of other abilities. Halo 4 made that along with a bunch of other shit things normal. What is there to disagree with, you're just repeating things back to me as if i'm wrong.
>>65371992>>65370200Sure, there's large periods of nothing where discipline will fray in your typical infantry patrol a-la Generation Kill, but most writers nowadays don't know when to differentiate bullshit time from action time where nutting up and following protocols is how you don't die, and treating a firefight like Fortnite is how you do. It's like how the krauts differentiate leisure time from business time.
>>65399184>PicSaddam may had been a terrible human being, but I kind of sympathized with his desire to remake Babylon.
>>65374844The devs of Halo thought it was cool if the GDI from Command and Conquer fought Vang's Covenant on one of Larry Niven's ring worlds. I do not disagree with them.
>>65392053You can see by the way he acts at the end of the webm that he's goading them on to give it a go, there's obviously no bad blood involved
>>65375095Not only did he not say that, he was saying anime is made only by the talentless (except for his) in the fucking 1980s, when most people would agree anime was coming on strong. He's also a huge waifufag who basically built his entire career of selling tomboy fantasies only to pivot and shit on anyone else for it, which has lead to everyone in the industry shitting on him as the hypocritical lolicon that he is.Anyway halo died a peaceful death many years ago and you should really dismiss its puppeteered corpse out of hand. There's nothing here.
>>65370201>current generationIn movies, it's a 1970s problem.The problem of directors that are technically competent, but whose work mainly consists of references to older movies popped up in the Woodie Allen/George Lucas generation of movie nerd directors already.It is not a new or recent problem, if it's one at all. For Anime, the issue is that the adult whales are eating into the children's market, which is threatening the reproduction of their consumer basis. But there being no children around in Japan naturally also is part of the problem.>>65370165>What are some good books to learn about military discipline, language, tract, and tradition?The Art of War. For charismatic dudebro leadership, something like the Robert Young Pelton book's probably your best bet and should give an accurate enough impression on how to manage armed and violent retards.If you're interested in face-cultures that practice headhunting, I think Montenegrian history would be relevant. They oddly aren't simply about big dick energy maxxing, they also are concerned about how to properly spread the big dick energy wide enough to guarantee there's enough juice around to guarantee reproduction of their society. The Montenegrians and studies in Chinese Martial Arts history are an interesting case in how historic memory among such societies is a mixture of actual family remembrance and literal fanfics of pop culture stories they all agreed to acknowledge as real historic events, btw.
>>65370165This is EXACTLY what you wanthttps://www.amazon.com/dp/1594202028Because you admire irritating starch collar faggots.Great read though.
>>65370227You know what it really is with Star Wars? The books before the prequels were GOOD. Everyone's timeline was cool and detailed and about the only recurring horse shit was the many vader and emperor clones and the Empire Superweapon shit.Then you have the depressed self apologizing nostalgia slop disney.Compare them really. EU was cooler, more fun, and got weird. Disney is just Karen safe.
>>65370293This, you chose HALO or Battlefield/CoD. HALO was for stupid children. BF/CoD players can mog HALO only players in standard tournament games like CS:GO.
>>65370587I had a NIT card, a mere networking traffic controller, in that era that had more muscle than it's contemporary consoles had in total.Console peasant go, and stay go.
>>65405398Funniest part is how they didn't kill the negro boy first, but instead kept him around and pissed in his face in each of the movies.
Ceylon and the Cingalese, Vol. 1 & 2Henry Charles SirrA british army doctor serving in Ceylon hates the land, people, history, and customs in detail; a work in two volumes. With author's note "Fuck these poor ass backward nigger faggots".
>>65405412Finn should have peaced out and became a merchant marine officer punking Imperial boarding crews and smuggling.
>>65405407and all these years later youre still bitching because you didnt play Halo
>>65370227Fag
>>65370307Only post that makes some senseYou niggers actually feel stuff?
>>65375917Face was never good, and the UT soundtrack is significantly weaker than the Unreal 1 soundtrack.
>>65392026
>>65402790I bet you look prussian as fuck m8
>>65376930How do we fix this?
>>65374838>2000s (Japan coming to terms with the end of their anime greats)But all of the best anime series are post-2000.
>>65392364Okay but who decides what is "great"? A bunch of critics high on their own farts, or your audience? I for one can't fucking stand loldeep messaging or symbolism in my entertainment. I want to be entertained, not lectured or thoughfully provoked.
>>65411666Internet 2, Satan, with a global IP block from them and bots. Advertisers will still get to make their money from the hive.
>>65411666Return to NatureThat is: war, famine, pestilence, and death on a scale that will make the 20th seem like a boring century.And afterwards, for fuck's sake, learn your lesson and stop giving out free food and health care to thirdies. Feed vermin and then be all surprised your house is infested with 'm.
>>65411666Make indoor plumbing a requirement before being able to access the internet.
>>65376930>every neglects the part where nearly 6x more americans were also getting on the internetwe are also very very retarded. it's less about nationality or race and more about everyone who isn't me being a dumb fucking piece of shit.
>>65413059>it's less about nationality or raceNo, it's very much about these things
>>65370243I've almost stopped watching anime because I can't stand plotlines and stories that are extremely interesting in concept only to get ruined in half a second because the studio decided to make the MC a fucking Beta simp womanizer harem god. Oh wow, another isekai where the MC was a mid 30's salary man who died and is now your generic anime protag with black hair??? What's that? AND he's super awkward around women that are attracted to him like a magnet? Wow! I have never seen this before!
>>65414780>EEEEEEEEEEHH? SHE 1000 YEAR OLD BUTO ROOK 10>AAAAAAAAAJaps are retarded, but weebs are even more retarded desu
>>65392739>Have better taste in media, guys!Or better yet, stop consooming "media" and start becoming genuinely literate and not "media literate" like American social media addicts...
>>65416247As opposed to European social media addicts?
>>65379352the chinese are mostly self contained with a language barrier on top.
>>65376078They are a growing market for Western creative industries to cater to. It's the same as how China has influenced American movies, despite Hollywood not necessarily being beholden to the CCP or anything like that, or how Kpop often caters to foreign audiences. Those are the customers, so businesses want to please them. By the way, this is a big reason why newer American made stuff is so much worse now. It's not really made for Americans.
>>65418869>It's not really made for Americans.lol fuck no it certainly is made for my gen. Maybe not millenial but genZ eat that slop up.
>>65414780Don't forget how he always has to buy a slave, usually a little girl.I do not dislike the fact that every woman is dressed like some whore.]I can tolerate it since its isekai slop. Its the fact that their outfits don't match the setting's outfits and what people would wear that pisses me off.Cultivation stories are better anyway.A young master would buck break the entire cuck line of isekai protagonists
>see off-topic thread>know its off-topic>know exactly whats going to be talked about>still click on the thread and post in it about social war bullshitthere are other boards for this, you probably have them open in other tabs.
>>65421241>social warWhat
>>65375903Overrated
>>65414780The only Isekai ive been able to stand, and actually quite enjoy is Ascendance of a Bookworm, mostly because the MC is a socially retarded fucking nerd, in a society that requires a lot of social tact, and stays that way through the entire series. While she does become OP, it takes almost the entire LN series to become so.
>>65378834What if you're partially disabled?
>>65370265>reacharound >literally pioneered ALL the mechanics that 343 continued>shit all over the lore because a tranny had a meltie Fuck anybody who likes Reach.
H A L O was always gayGAYLO
>>65370618>>65370672>tribezFuck you faggots for killing Starseige, and now you get stuck with a shitty extraction shooter just as you deserve.
>>65372034>no random extra judicial killings Could you imagine the levels of based we could reach if infantry units/SF got the greenlight to conduct "training" in ghettos? They could practice MOUT, CQB, and raise property values all at the same time!
>>65426316This so much this!
>>65375095me on the right
>>65426309Is he high?
>>65427365He's dead inside.
>>65370241you can find the full series on bitchute fucking binge watched it something i rarely do
>>65379352we had it good wish I knew this was happening I would have been pussyfuckmaxing on aol chat rooms back in the year 2000
>>65393814AI dorkslop voiceover
>>65377825>food analogyI don’t even think it’s a good food analogy either
>>65378203Carried extremely hard by the saxophone and rain setting. Turn it off and its just repetitive and short. Which is why I don’t turn that off but still pretty much a gimmick
>>65370265>>65370271>Jorge dies in a spectacular sacrifice, befitting of one of the old school Spartan II >it is ultimately futile but represents the epitome of soldiering>Get down to Reach where shit is hitting the fan>FemSpartan gets domed by some jobber in a dropship driveby, dramatically falls>Sad music plays and there is a moment of "Everyone in the audience take your hats off she died with honor" type moment as the squad shoots impotently at a fucking spaceship they managed not to notice despite it comically hovering 500 feet from the hallway they are crossingthats when I knew that they were past the point of giving a shit and were just gonna start checking off the list of "war is hell yadda yadda halo verry srs" as quickly and lazily as they couldUp until that point it was just a vague feeling of lacking substance, but right there I just knew they simply couldn't be fucked to write the Fall of Reach with the gravity it deserved in the fans headsThe loreheads were frothing at the mouth because of the novel's descriptions and how it's a huge deal because its where all the Spartan IIs die in a pelican crash during a desperate defense action, instead we got dollar store magnificent 7 and I suspect that is the cause for some of the cope
>>65376930>still only a third of poos requesting the needfulGrim
>>65405398> The books before the prequels were GOODWhoa there boy. Let’s not pretend every published fanfic pre-2014 was written by Timmy Z. They did “somehow Emperor Palpitations returned” first
>>65426335This, but unironically
>>65427442>still only a turd of poos requesting the needfulFixed
>>65421215>CultivationThat's just the hero's journey and the antithesis of Isekai giving the MC all their powerup candy at the start.
>>65376930Japan, China, Russia, etc basically have their own mostly separate internet, like they just use their own websites. Why didn’t this happen with India, Southeast Asia, and other 3rd world countries with large populations? It’s not just 4chan impacted with this, I’m seeing ESL word salad everywhere now.
>>65430327Something something something commonwealth countries something
>>65426301>shit all over the loregames take precedence, Bungie made the game. Bungie decided Reach is canon, and it's more interested than Fall of Reach
>>65427437>as the squad shoots impotently at a fucking spaceship they managed not to notice despite it comically hovering 500 feet from the hallway they are crossingthey were running like 15 miles per hour and a sharpshooter got her when her back was turned.
>>65430327>Why didn’t this happen with India, Southeast Asia, and other 3rd world countries with large populationThey do. When there's a billion indians, there will be overflow.
>>65431467I KNOW you are not defending the fact that genetic anomaly drug enhanced hyperfast super soldiers crossed an open hallway straight up the middle without noticing a fuckmassive hovercraft going WUMWUMWUMWUMWUMWUM in direct LOSyou simply can't bewaitDo you... happen to write for game studios professionally?
>>65375903This
>>65392043"She" has a bigger bulge...
>>65427418I was. It was a lot of fucking work trying to pretend to be whoever the hell they wanted to fuck. And only like half were fun.
>>65432814the entire run towards the bunker took like 8 seconds. The Covenant started glassing nearby. They didn't hear it. They can't just detect any and every threat at any given second.
>>65432845Kino
>>65430327>Why didn’t this happen with India, Southeast Asia, and other 3rd world countries with large populations?It's called "Facebook".
>>65430327I was in Japan for a few weeks recently and I don't think I saw a single person using their phone in public for anything other than anime, manga, or X (twitter). Japs fucking love it ever since Musk took over, God only knows why
>>654303274chan isn't banned in china
>>65381704I wasn’t a big fan of Reach. I mean it was alright I guess, but to me personally- it was a big step down from the trilogy.
>>65438018Horrible mistake
>>65376764What the fuck
