What?  Why?  You can go get a Series S right now, just load up amazon or best buy, add to cart, and buy it.  Those were also being scalped but it appears Microsoft has met demand for that product.  The scalpers aren’t wiping those out now, why would the PS5 or XSX be any different?

My dude, “cracker” comes from the term “whip cracker”. As in a slave owner. A racist, white supremacist piece of shit. It’s not even that some people have attempted to USE it as a racial epithet, it’s that the only people truly offended by “cracker” are disingenuous blowhards who can’t ever win the oppression…

The only reason the scalpers exist is because the chip shortage is preventing Sony and Microsoft from meeting demand. There’s a huge difference between “our customers had to wait a month to get our product” and “our customers have been trying to give us money for over a year and still can’t”.

I mean, Microsoft did this with the 360 faceplates. Yeah, there were plenty of them available but they definitely still went with full limited edition consoles. I’m sure Sony will do that still too, they’ve gotta do something with every working PS5 they get back from a retailer return.

There is an easy way!

They’re also going to be endlessly compared to one of the most beloved and deep fiction universes in the history of pop culture. There’s no way the narrative of Destiny was ever going to live up to the deep lore of Halo.  

If this isn't sarcasm, this might be the absolute worst take in the history of Kinja.  Holy shit.

Very true. The foley artists have their work cut out for them and the believability of this is going to come down to how the characters sound when they interact with the world.

Bobby Kotick said he’d consider resigning if he couldn’t fix the problem.

I still don’t have any good strategies for the last battle when you fight three at at time. That just sucks.

I initially really enjoyed the fight against the Warden.  Initially.  The one outdoors at the end of that one level, that was okay, but then the three at the end?  Woof.  Way to take a neat idea and just plow it into dust.

I’m guessing it’s less to do with the open world and more to do with the feature progression. What level boost, or grappleshot, or drop wall do you give the player if they start up the first mission or the 12th?

The absolutely wild thing about all of this is that everything that’s obviously wrong with the game has just about zero to do with the actual gameplay. There’s nothing fundamentally broken about Halo Infinite, it’s moment to moment gameplay is stellar, there’s nothing about this that isn’t fixable and the god damn…

Well, I mean, it’s Halo.  12 year old boys (literal and figurative) are definitely the target demo.

For sure, but it would also make me completely ignore it as something I’d already seen a thousand times.

I mean, that’s probably also true?

This is so, so, so, so... sad.

I don’t know that I saw any “silver lining” takes at the beginning of the pandemic along the lines of, “Well at least GRRM can finish Winds of Winter!” but it would not surprise me in the least to know they exist.

“You should just feel so lucky you live in America where you have these freedoms, and just never fuckin use them”

Yep, I totally agree. Anything that incentivizes players to actually play the damn objective is going to create such a better experience outside of the slayer game types.