Setting the record straight: I'm a vicious lore gatekeeper who thinks you should do whatever you want forever. I shill hard for 343 and Bungie and would kill both of them in a pistol duel. Halo is my brother. I'd convince Halo's son that the wildebeest stampede is his fault.
@itsbasilbasil "there needs to be something that feels fun to do in the game even if you die constantly to other players, otherwise most 'bad' players will choose to play something else instead of practicing in the game that isn't fun" is a controversial idea i see. interesting.
Commander is an enthusiast format that was only "casual" to the type of person that showed up to Modern tournaments, and throwing it at brand new players has made them worse at Magic AND caused a free for all format with varying unspoken social rules to take over the playerbase.
@rockisinfinite not to talk about magic the gathering but: this is why the arguments around commander format in mtg are also insane. the "casual format" is still pvp and people still do want to win, but now you just have a weird unnegotiated social contract fence around it.
@itsbasilbasil Using AI to make video thumbnails tells me 1) you care enough that you're insecure/worried about it looking bad without doing SOMETHING but 2) you don't care enough to put the time in and figure out how to actually make it look good, or aren't smart enough to. Not great!
if halo studios declared the forerunners were human and deleted all story material after halo reach, even if you don't count the people who would be furious about that the "winning side" would start killing each other over different old lore arguments INSTANTLY.
so many people in halo fandom think they are united when they are really truly not, they just have a handful of things they are overarchingly mad about in common.
and if those things were not there, they would fall on each other like starving dogs in a matter of minutes.
Halo has lore and that's a genie you can't rebottle. While there can be speculative enjoyment in thinking about how to curate it, I am uninterested in doing that. I'm really busy figuring out how to get along with the genie. There's all these hijinks and shenanigans.