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Discussion in 'Halo and Forge Discussion' started by ForgeHub, Jul 12, 2013.

  1. Preacher001

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    DUDE, THERE WAS ****ING MAGIC KNIGHTS WITH SWORDS MADE OF LIGHT!!!!!

    Depends on how old you are. Some young people have fallen in love with it but I could understand if they didn't. For those of us that were around during the original trilogies theatrical release it was more than any kid could ever have hoped for. These were visual and auditory spectacles. There was literally nothing that had been that advanced in the way of special effects, and the story was magic Knights with swords made of light and Cowboys in space. Hell even if it was a new movie just created and you told me it was Magic Knights and/or Cowboys in space I would race out to see it.

    Sure it's losing it's edge but that's mostly because it seems the film industry as a whole has forgotten how to capture peoples imagination and invoke passion. It doesn't help that movie goers have become spoiled with all of the fancy CGI.

    You only need to look as far as the original Halo trilogy to see an example of how less can be more. I also feel it's a good example of how it's not about the quality of the music but the passion it captures in the listeners. I don't particularly feel the original Halo or Star Wars trilogies music is overly good, but they do a great job at capturing our passion. Most later pieces are technically better but mostly forgettable. I won't even get started on how poorly utilized the more recent music for Star Wars has been. I think the last Star Wars song I got addicted to was:

     
  2. Xandrith

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    Man, when it comes to composition, who cares about technical talent. Sure you want the players to be able to play with a certain level of ability, but composing is all really about the layering.

    For me, the soundtrack from Halo 1 was the best. It was a lot more abstract than the next two (not that I don't LOVE the halo 2/3/reach/odst soundtracks)
     
  3. Preacher001

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    LOL, the footnote halfway through got me

     
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    The way Marty blends classical style with newer-age instruments gets me wet.

    Inb4idc
     
  5. HeX Reapers

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    Even though it's my least favorite of the Bungie soundtracks, I applaud Reach for successfully capturing the feeling of action-packed intensity during some of the songs. Two of my all-time favorite Halo tracks are a good example of this:





    (The beach raid was the coolest part of the campaign btw)
     
  6. icyhotspartin

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    That’s kinda the thing - you may not be able to bond as tightly with future wife after banging many chicas.

    As for reproduction, yeah I mean that’s the purpose of sex. It is of course enjoyable, especially within an intimate interpersonal relationship, and reproductive at the same time. But in that context it still won’t be 100% reproductive - the pleasure is the biological Bait to breed.

    I started on this like 5 hours ago but yeah, child needs stable home. Stable home needs loving parents. Loving parents need to pairbond. Pairbonding requires a moral, contractual, intellectual, and ideological (fight me) foundation upon which to thrive. ‘Empowerment’ of short term gains over long term benefits - eat away at the foundation in both moral and genetic terms. This effect folds in (has, anyway) on itself every generation since the enlightenment.

    “Can’t go 50/50 with no H0”
    - Drake
     
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  7. MULLERTJE

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    To me ODST is the best soundtrack with CE a very very close second. I also think ODST is one of the better campaigns.





    Somebody stop my stupid opinions.
     
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  8. MULLERTJE

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    Adultery and polygamy aside (which are wrong in my world) I believe sex is just a natural thing, an animal lust which will show his face sooner or later. You can have sex that isn't romantic love and I don't believe there's anything wrong with that when it's a clear understanding between both parties. The way you were raised, your values and morals etc will be a key factor in how you tackle these feelings.

    And being an alpha male and try humping every girl that looks your way is not what I'm talking about lol.
     
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    Your beliefs are so fundamentally opposite and harmful to what I believe is truth and it makes me sad. Feels like I'm reading my Twitter feed full of some young 20 year olds everywhere talking about how body count doesn't matter, sex is fine no matter what, etc. It strikes me as such an awful and perverted mindset, I really hope you reconsider .
     
  10. Buddy Jumps

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    WAYWO? More like WAYFO...

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  11. MULLERTJE

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    Sex isn't fine no matter what. I'm sure you didn't get that from what I said.

    Just because we are so liberal it doesn't mean we are all awful and perverted lol. And I'm not a minority, we just deal with all kinds of issues way differently and I don't expect you to understand.
     
  12. qrrby

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  13. Xandrith

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    Why is adultery wrong if marriage and therefore relationships in general aren't to be considered sacred?

    And why is polygamy wrong if sex is nothing more than animal Lust?

    We live our lives everyday, constantly supplanting what is natural with what we consider to be right. If nothing outside the material world exists, then this seems a little odd doesn't it?
     
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  14. MULLERTJE

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    Well you don't need marriage to have a healthy relationship with love, trust, respect, honesty, commitment and equality.
     
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  15. no god anywhere

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    My own life advice when speaking to endgame where youre planning to maintain a happy sex life and loving relationship:

    Screw multiple people before deciding to settle down with one or eventually it WILL create strain on your ability to remain faithful if youve only ever been with one person. Keeping sex sacred by saving yourself for one will only have the adverse effect when you realize theyre rotten in bed or its not not everything you hoped for. It WILL mind**** you and you'll start question if its true love or not. Sex usually creates irrational feelings of love so if you dont fool around with a few people first youll probably have trouble differentiating between lust and true love. Finally dont listen to any ****er that says you should save yourself to make it special. **** a hundred people... if you deeply and truely love someone it will still be ten time better than any time before.

    Marriage is whats sacred, not the sex. You put **** to the test before you commit and marriage is the ultimate commitment. You should only ever make that commitment once so dont be a ***** and **** it up because some dweeb said you should only ever screw one person.
     
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  16. Xandrith

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    What Is Oxytocin?
    Oxytocin is a powerful hormonethat acts as a neurotransmitter in the brain. It regulates social interaction and sexual reproduction, playing a role in behaviors from maternal-infant bonding and milk release to empathy, generosity, and orgasm. When we hug or kiss a loved one, oxytocin levels increase; hence, oxytocin is often called "the lovehormone." In fact, the hormone plays a huge role in all pair bonding. The hormone is greatly stimulated during sex, birth, and breastfeeding. Oxytocin is the hormone that underlies trust. It is also an antidote to depressive feelings.

    For all its positivity, however, oxytocin has a dark side. Or, more accurately, it plays a more complex role in human behavior than is commonly thought. As a facilitator of bonding among those who share similar characteristics, the hormone fosters distinctions between in-group and out-group members, and sets in motion favoritism toward in-group members and prejudiceagainst those in out-groups. Ongoing research on the hormone is a potent reminder of the complexity of biological and psychological systems.
     
  18. icyhotspartin

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    Oxytocin and mylenation of neural pathways work in tandem to facilitate pairbonding. If you stimulate the good feelies too many times with too many different people, you will need that much more of the hormone to effectively pairbond; it is going to be exponentially harder to accomplish. An intimate relationship without pair-bonding and without the love that can transcend any initial fumbling in bed is one destined to fail.

    Sex is part of the marriage contract. You don’t have to save it, all your decisions are yours to make, but cheapening its value by treating it a disposable resource is not what should be done, ever. If this is the ‘clear understanding’ between parties, then this makes it that much worse.

    How is caring about those you love* a ‘dark side’, exactly? I know why it’s there, but doesn’t that seem a little.. wrong?


    *i assume one loves oneself enough to value the similar characteristics in others, and be able to appreciate those that are different- people with self-love-hate complexes factor in and are likely why the similar characteristics cannot be valued, or is ‘dark’ to value them
     
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  19. Xandrith

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    It doesn't take the study of neurochemicals to understand that the tradition of strong family units has created historically unprecedented peace and advancement.

    Every time some douche gets a girl pregnant and bails because he never actually cared about her, and every time some chick decides that she doesn't need no man and ****s 3 dudes a day while tweeting Bible verses, our incredible societal progress takes a step backwards, and the way forward is clouded by lukewarm, trend following hypocrites.

    Isn't it odd that "progressives" want us males want to stop objectifying women, and think the way to get us to stop is with more casual sex? You couldn't make this stuff up
     
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  20. HeX Reapers

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    I just want to go back to the map design arguments and **** jokes, man.
     
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