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new year’s project (and ½ of anchorcell with @lydiaportrait)

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@AgentLouisianaF @GnySgtKabar it's *ridiculously* accurate though, it's easy to forget you're not just playing Reach

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@AgentLouisianaF @GnySgtKabar it's just a mod adding Reach maps, weapons, HUD and making it feel like Reach. it's still the same Halo 3-ish engine underneath

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@benoski73 @TheRealQuenny the player count can be quite rough too yeah. there's at least a 6-10 player lobby for a few hours every evening though and people will come online if you ask in the LFG channel on the discord. it's probably way better right now with all the twitter chatter about it too :>

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@benoski73 @TheRealQuenny still got capped framerate at 60, stuttering even on powerful PCs, and quite a few players who talk like it's xbox live. but if you can put up with a bit of that, there's so much stuff now that's impossible in any other Halo game and it's great fun

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@halo5isswag @TheRealQuenny Halo Online's codename was eldorado, so the mod Wunkolo and co made to get it to load maps was called ElDorito. and when people got MP working ElDewrito was just another corruption on it. but yeah, it's not really a good name lol, it just feels less weird after living through it

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@Majora__Z @TheRealQuenny yeah, a bunch of gametypes use the scopeless DMR, or the gold more powerful variants. and Fiesta includes all of them.

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@zimpogynyNNN @TheRealQuenny "the game files got DMCAed" being Halo Online - the ElDewrito mod on its own was never DMCAed. 0.7 is only shipped pre-packed with Halo Online though so it's a bit more brazen

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@zimpogynyNNN @TheRealQuenny they were asked to "pause development" (in those words) and some copies of the game files got DMCAed. the game never stopped working though, there just weren't updates and it became a little harder to get. 0.7 is by a substantially new team who I guess are willing to risk it

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@Majora__Z @TheRealQuenny most of the custom equipment and microtransaction weapons and the maps of HO are still there. but the points of ED now are expanded Forge, and mod syncing - you can join a multiplayer server and autodownload the mods it's running and it can be basically a totally different game

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@ClassyDeathclaw @TheRealQuenny the devs of 0.6 were asked to 'pause development' while MS worked on MCC but they weren't C&Ded or anything and they weren't told to stop forever. development paused for a few years and the 0.7 team is substantially composed of different people continuing from that code

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@GlitchyBomb @TheRealQuenny that's Wacky Races, servers still have it in rotation :>

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@SaffronSugarie @TheRealQuenny the 0.6 dev team were asked to "pause development", but not C&Ded. a few were invited to an advisory board for MCC (although apparently that just consisted of a couple of Discord calls). the 0.7 team is different to the 0.6 team too, although there's probably some overlap

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@the9thbreaker @TheRealQuenny no mod sync server browser on MCC though...

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@TheRealQuenny @exultedfish It uses the camera track from the multiplayer beta menu I believe :> https://t.co/tp815E5uGe

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@TheRealQuenny @BigSister_TAE there's people on every evening UK/US times basically, but I guess weekends are probably especially active. it's generally just one busy lobby at any given time though :)

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@__cybernews @bee_fumo those are probably way too old to run anything modern (you need XRandR and stuff) :( hopefully this inspires people to port/write a modern X server for 9x though :>

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@moratzzuu @MakoFukasame they can't just pick any website and get it, the site has to be vulnerable to something (maybe some old software with known exploits, or custom software written badly), or they have to trick someone into giving them access.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran.

This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war.

Tehran is a city of nearly 10,000,000 people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons.

I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspended my duties so as not to be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it is too late.

Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested “No Kings” in the United States. The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us.

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@hottrashbabe oh hell yeah, this is kino

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@TheBobPony @q8jx_ and then if emulation's okay and you're going for earliest you could always get System 1 :p

(or 10.0 if we're saying macOS = OS X)