TheMightyEthan

That's a human installation, not a Forerunner one, or I'd agree with you.

Apparently in the future humans don't need to breathe air (pics from a late-game mission, but no explicit story spoilers):

I agree with that to some extent, but with any prejudice I believe there are three stages of portrayal, and with LGBT (or at least LGB, T might still be in the first) we're in the second stage: 1) It's acceptable to portray them negatively because that's just how people think of them. 2) You can only portray them positively because they're human beings and you don't want to reinforce prejudicial attitudes. 3) You can portray them negatively again because now the prejudice is eroded enough that it's acceptable to acknowledge that even though it's not bad to be a member of that group, those members are still human beings with flaws.

343 nailed it. I don't know if it was my favorite Halo, but it was definitely Halo.

Trump ran for the Republican nomination and lost.

Kaiden's not bi in ME1, he's straight.

Unless you're making more than $250k per year the democrats don't want to raise your taxes.

The only playthrough I kept Kaiden for was the one where I romanced him.

Apparently 15% of people voting for Obama said that the main reason was because of his response to Sandy (which is obviously not true, that's just the thing that was in their head when asked the question). I'm calling it now though: Obama intentionally caused Sandy so he could react well to it and thus win the election.

He was just such a bland character. He was like Kaiden in ME1, except even less interesting.

And now it's showing $79.99 with no discount. Awesome find, FLD. Glad I jumped on it fast enough.

Actually no, the second was supposed to be referring to the Needler. The indications of being shot while in scope are pretty much the same as being shot not in scope. It's just the Needler that it's hard to realize you're being shot by.

I like how one of Trump's tweets is that the electoral college is a disaster for democracy, which implies that he thinks Obama lost the popular vote but won the electoral college. As of right now Obama is leading the popular vote 50.3% to 48.2% (I guess the other 1.5% went to third parties). Also, the Republicans do still control the House, but it looks like it won't be quite as wide a margin as before. Dems took a majority in the Senate, but they don't really have "control" because of the filibuster.

Well, here are my impressions so far, jotted down as I was playing. No actual story spoilers, but tagged anyway because it still gives away stuff about the game. I know it reads like primarily criticism, but overall I'm very impressed. For all my nitpicks, they managed to capture the feel of Halo, and I'm really enjoying it. If I didn't already know, I never would have called that it was made by a different team.

For what it's worth, I've been watching the gambling odds on the election for a couple weeks (traditionally they've been the best predictor of election outcomes) and they've had Obama a pretty strong favorite the whole time. And his odds margin over Romney has skyrocketed in the last few hours.

I'm a sucker for singleplayer DLC.

Just switched from the physical version preorder to this. That season pass is what sold it for me.

Yeah, it's likely that's the number of people who registered in time.

Yes, always wait to do the priority missions until you have exhausted every other sidequest.

Yeah, the official complaints were stupid. I thought the original ending was lacking, and good on EA and Bioware for addressing that, but I didn't think it rose anywhere near the level of false advertising.

Yeah, I know that wasn't the main issue, that's just a pet peeve of mine.

I think it should be illegal for storage manufacturers to use "1 GB = 10^9 B" in their calculations of space, because that's just not true and it's blatantly misleading. Bytes are calculated on base 2, you can't just use a base 10 approximation and say "good enough". 2^10 != 10^3, 1 GB = 2^30 B, not 10^9.

It depends. Usually about 10 or 11 PM Eastern time we have a pretty good idea, but if a key state is close then it might be the next day, or even several days later.

I think the reason 2 exploded Live was because it was the only decent console shooter at the time, and easy-to-set-up console multiplayer was brand new.