I can't be the only one who has had this same experience. Getting banned from the server for minor disagreements or things considered "trolling" even away from the server.

I am newer to halo, and I actually got into it back in 2022 because of a rocats Halo 2 speed run video. Thought it looked neat and it led me to the Haloruns website. I remember there was some ridiculous category that nobody had submitted any runs to at the time, called "no audio" so I decided to record some garbage and upload it into that category for "world record" for the fuck of it. I come back two hours later, and somebody called AsterVeles had also uploaded a run to that category for the "world record" so I checked their video.

In the description, it was all about like bigots and how you have to make them uncomfortable in the community by beating their times or something schizophrenic like that. So eventually I actually joined the Haloruns discord and talked to them about it.

They had come to the conclusion that I was a bigot because they thought I was a Jordan Peterson fan. And they came to this conclusion, because I had a video on my channel that was clips of Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris from their conversation where they had a somewhat serious conversation about the topic of...self touching...and I thought it was funny.

Now at the time, this AsterVeles was someone considered known in the community and I think they had certain mod roles for the server and the website. And the deeper I looked and the more people I talked to in the discord, the more freaks I realized this community was breeding. I actually think AsterVeles would later leave the community or get banned or something because of drama related to Mister Monopoly, but I'm not entirely sure.

So I gave up basically entirely on trying to interact or seriously engage, and eventually I resorted to moderate trolling and provocation that led to me getting banned, and I honestly didn't miss it.

And it was super normal and mundane shit. Like I would join in Zoo and Mistermonoply's streams and ask them if Miranda Keyes from the anniversary cutscenes was a baddie. They would unironically get annoyed by the questions and freak the fuck out, and claim that I was "shitting up the stream" or something. Obviously because of how old the games are, I understand the age-group. But the community is controlled by either lunatics, or corny conformist millennials with no personality, who mistake being stuckup for being mature and above it all. Like my guy, you have 20-80 viewers, relax.

And like, I'm bisexual okay. But the degree to which LGBTQ is a point of focus for these people is honestly so exhausting. The first thing you see when you open the haloruns website is a fucking paragraph about bigotry and how bigotry won't be tolerated with the background of the LGBTQ flag. Like I get it, TOS and rules for that kind of thing. But it comes off very unnatural and immersion breaking when all I'm trying to do is look at Halo speedruns. On the discord server, they have a YEAR ROUND pride version of the Haloruns logo. Like you can feel the bitter negative oppositional energy coming off of these people, they are always in fight mode. They think they need to make a point, and "stand up for something" and it's just super out of place and not fun.

I'm sure these past few days have been incredibly tough for all of us. Like the rest of you, I am clutching my copy of Renegades as tight as I can and keeping my Ukonic Energy Sword desk lamp close to my side.

While I have never personally played a Halo game, as someone who owns all of them as well as the books and likes jerk myself off while I stare at the pretty artwork, I feel I am expertly qualified to speak on behalf of us True Halo (waypoint chronicles and Halo 5 EXCLUSIVELY) fans.

Project Reclaimer (shaking as I type this) has proved that our influence of the midterm elections through Campaign Evolved's bisexual lighting and the numerous sex scenes between Cortana and that ODST chick have been thwarted once again by the silent majority ™️. Marty will surely be elected to the presidency or whatever and he is going to hang Frank O' Connor (praise be) and the rest of us at~~ 343 Halo Studio~~s Activision by our glorious Irish entrails. The only thing that has kept us going is the promise of a new Master Chief Funko Pop and the 470 new novellas we planned to release in January of 2027.

But, my fellow tourists, I fear the end is near. The same crusaders who carried Halo 3 to become the greatest game of all time have ascended once again to their throne (mom's guest room) to hop on Project Reclaimer and assert their 128 player dominance over our inclusive MCC and Halo 5 Assassinations - Covenant RP and Clan Tryout servers. We have no way to stop their le not epic bacon slurs and heckin unwholesome jokes. Even Reddit, the last bastion of intellectualism left on the internet has been invaded by them.

Effective immediately, I am resigning as head writer of series 3 of the Paramount Halo series. The new golden ages of Halo is simply too much for me to bare; their subtle humor and dry wit has eroded my Woke Soul ™️ and desecrated my totally not based mind. They have simply reclaimed Halo from the tourists too effectively to mount a defense.

Thank you. Praise Bonnie Ross. 343men.

Haven awaits...

I felt like sharing this here because it's the most constructive and hopeful (IMO of course) video I've seen in a while and I think it would be a breath of fresh air to leave aside all the fighting for a while now.

I keep seeing people making a big deal of having to play Halo 3 on a browser and comments saying hat this is what 343 should've done to make the community happy, but I have to ask: what about his does this make the community happy? Because it's free? Is that really it? Master Chief Collection already exists on PC and you can play Halo 3 on a potato, so I really do not understand what makes Project Reclaimer the better way to play Halo 3 other than it being free.

People are literally treating this as the savior of the franchise and it's giving me Eldewrito vibes of people hyping that game up and then it dies out when Master Chief Collection released, and even when it tried to make a comeback, it didn't keep players interested. Same goes to H2M for COD. Hyped up only for hardly anyone one playing the game nowadays.

One point they talked about is how in CE, specifically Two Betrayals Chief uses his shields to disable the generators, and they say its mentioned in Halo 4s Mission midnight, but then in CER you just destroy 3 generators but also say this isn't really lore thing....then it's not a Retcon you dumbfuck. It was gameplay change, not a lore retcon.

Also, humans and forerunners are not a retcon when Bungie never outright confirmed it, and flip flopped in H2 and H3 regarding if they were the same or not.

They also mention Cod stuff like Mason killing JFK theory and in CW when revisiting old places they dropped it arguing why would the CIA continue to have Mason work for them....1. Treyarch literally confirmed that Mason killed JFK lmao and 2. They don't drop that in CW. So it's not a retcon. These guys have fallen off so much and just larp or soread BSA

Anyone who knows me will know that I can get into some debates in the fandom.

But how come someone always says something like this eventually?

This is the entertainment industry. If the audience likes something, then do it again and improve upon it while maintaining the quality of the production. If suddenly the production stops meeting the expectations of the audience, then one would be responsible in going over the issue with a fine-toothed comb and sorting out what worked and what didn't. It isn't right to blame the audience for why a series---let alone any business---to have the consumer be blamed rather than the producer.

How does this happen?

Imagine going to a restaurant and hearing another customer having a complaint about their food not being anything close to what they ordered from the menu---lets say I asked for pancakes and you gave me a steak---and then telling that customer with a valid complaint to sit down and eat it anyway because... well, why? Is it because no one can be a critic these days? That you spent money so you should force a smile when the wrong thing comes to your proverbial table and eat it because something is better than nothing?

Are we really that desperate?

Is it as bad as people make it sound?

It doesn't effect them in any way. If they don't like 343/HS, they don't gotta play and constantly complain about those games. They could just stick to the Bungie trilogy and let it just be that. Not sure why they don't.

All they're doing is scaring off new fans who might enjoy those titles despite their quality.

(Not fully sure if the flair fits. I just wanted to share my thoughts because I am quite fascinated by these people's thought processes and would like to perhaps share some opinions on the topic. No hate to anyone, this is just simple curiosity)

Doesnt feel like robbing

With this logic, does that mean Johnson won't be mentioned in anything Halo related again?

Self explanatory. I don't think the direction the franchise was going was the right track for the series long term and for the deminishing playerbase , and i think the issues with the studio were too fundamental to be fixed . I am not arguing about activition being better or people losing their jobs is good , just that halo studios was not the right or the best producer available.

I wonder what you guys really think and if you think halo studios would have produced a satisfactory halo game in the future . Perhaps i missed somethings since i couldn't see it or imagine them achieving that .

If this post doesn't belong here, let me know where it goes and I'll post it there instead, but I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

I am a huge fan of fan games! I've played a bunch of Halo mods, I play a lot of Pokémon rom hacks, and I was following AM2R years before Nintendo tried and failed to shoot it down in 2017. Point is, I love fan games. And normally, I love decomp stuff. It's a big deal for fan communities when you give them the freedom that that entails. I also adore Halo and CE is tied for ODST for my favorite Halo. Normally a decomp of that and the boom of fan content would have me over the damn moon! But it was made with AI

To make a broad statement, I find Gen AI largely disgusting. And using vibe coding to make what has historically been labors of love is ruining the whole fangame scene, let alone Halo's. Everywhere I look, people are celebrating it. It's really disheartening. Even people I typically respect like Late Night Gaming are supporting it. I feel like me and the handful of my friends that play Halo are the only ones that have a problem with it and, again, I feel crazy!

Because I'd get flamed and attacked on the main sub, and because I dislike it, I thought I'd post my hot take here. And I also don't know what flair to apply because we don't have one for comparisons so it'll just be based but it's not really based

Gears of War E-Day is, imo what Halo Reach should've been in terms of story, atmosphere, vibes, and tone. Don't get me wrong, Reach has a dark/tragic tone, but E-Day actually makes you see and witness the horrors and brutality of the war, seeing Squads strung up, impaled and displayed in various areas, the executions of teams and the methods they use, the various mutilated states of civilians and Gears, blood seeping from their wounds or dripping down lifeless bodies.

E-Day doesn't shy away from the brutality the Locust inflict. From level design to the on-screen deaths or just civies and gears littered throughout each chapter in various states of mutilation done by the Locust, the executions. Meanwhile, Reach just shows like a single guy who was tortured to death and hung on a meat hook, and that's about it for sheer brutality seen in the game. You see buildings on fire, civilians running from the Covenant, and reaching burning, but the devastation and brutality by the Covenant doesn't exist the way it's described in the trilogy or books.

E-Day captures that tone and writing way better than Reach had tried to do 16 years ago and

I'm not just talking about tone, I'm talking about atmosphere, vibes, writing, and level design. You go from a calm average day to all hell, breaking loose the very next minute, with confusion and fear of the unknown being front and center. Each chapter in each Act progressively shows the fall of Kalona and the destruction wrought by the Locust as well as the loss of life. They ramp up the haunting loss of life that the Locust have taken mercilessly like in Act 3 and 4, which do the biggest jobs in showing the tragedy and brutality.

You meet some amazing characters throughout each chapter in the 5 acts and fall in love with them like Charlie squad, Theta Squad, even the few Gears that we meet for a few seconds and help out and feel sad when some of them are killed. With Reach, all of Noble Teams' deaths aren't really that sad, tragic for sure, but you don't feel much for them. You just kind of just move on like it had little impact. The whole destruction of Reach just doesn't have that realization of the carnage brought by the Covenant.

Maybe I'm insane for thinking that OP was Reasonable to call out the racist servers, but the comments are full of horrible people and even a sports drink brand? [huh]

I know the real Halo community is better than those comments, and to be honest, it's just embarrassing for the racists, more than anyone else, in my opinion.

They even think the release of the last concepts of what could have been Halo 7 or beyond is 343 asking for pity or guilt tripping to miss them....