The Director

If you missed it, check out the Announcement Thread! Bear in mind previous totals are reset. So we are starting fresh. If you want to join in, go here. The Totals as of 7/14/2014 The Director: 9210 Azaxx: 20000 Sikslik7: 29000 Bnus: 640 Total Mayh3m: 13470 Butch Flowers: 40000 Yoshi1176: 10390 BeckoningZebra1: 9680 Rockubot: 30690 Maestro9318: 4810 Delpen9: 860

Alright, so we are bringing back the Good Samaritan Award. How do you get it? You donate 20000 grains of rice to the UN's World Food Programme. How do you do that? By using this: http://freerice.com/content-group/343iorg-community-forum You join this group and play under the group. You play with the group so that I can keep track of your total. When you get to 20k, you get the award. That's 2000 questions. Sounds like a lot, but it's really not. What is Freerice.com? This site uses ad revenue that it gains from you playing a rather simple game to donate rice to those who need it. For every question you answer correctly, they donate 10 grains of rice. This adds up rather quickly, and is a nice way to do some good and pass the time, especially if you are bored. You don't have to click the ads, you just have to play the game. For every question you get right, 10 grains of rice are donated. No surveys, no personal information gathering, no scams or tricks. Just answering elementary school questions and feeding people. 10 grains of rice doesn't sound like much, which is why I'm raising public awareness of it. If you and 10 friends answer one question, that's 100 grains. If 100 people answer 1 question, that's 1,000 grains. If 1 million people answer 10 questions, that's 100 million grains of rice. As you can see, it adds up fairly quickly. All you have to do to donate is go to answer the questions for a while. This site isn't blocked in most schools, and may not be blocked at your work. You don't even have to create a profile to donate. The profiles are so that you can keep track of what you've donated so far, which is how you get the Good Samaritan Award. In case you can't read it the picture of the website 1. This is where you keep track of what you've donated. 2. This is where you answer questions. 3. This is a little graphic representation of what you've donated so far. Above this is the group selection. Pick the group to play under or else your rice won't count. 4. This banner ad only appears when you've answered a question correctly. It's what pays for the rice. See? *the text below this states [sponsored banners displayed on correct answers pay for the rice donated]* 5. These are blogs, player activity trackers, and news stories that are related to hunger. There will be a topic in General Discussion that keeps track of everyone's totals. It will be updated every week, and will be locked. So, get out there and feed some people, and have fun doing it.

This is literally the correct answer to a post like the OP. 343i wasn't going for competitive multiplayer with their first Halo game. They were going for fun multiplayer. While competitive CAN be fun, most of the time it's frustrating. Especially if you aren't naturally gifted at it. If you get ticked that you can't seem to get a kill, you tell your friends the game sucks. Then your friends don't buy the game. Then Halo doesn't get the record sales it needs after switching companies. Unfortunately these days multiplayer is the whole reason people buy FPS games now. It's gotten to the point where some games that could have had an AMAZING single player campaign (Titanfall) had the single player element removed completely. As a result, more attention is payed to the multiplayer aspects of games these days, resulting in a mindset of "What can we add to make it more fun for the majority of people?" Thus, Halo 4 multiplayer was born. Since this topic has been beaten to death, then beaten into a pulp, then beaten into atomic particles, and then beaten some more I'm going to lock the topic.

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What I would like to see in the Campaign is the following: A Mention of The Flood The flood was pivotal in Halo CE, Halo 2, and Halo 3 so a mention of what's going on with the flood would be nice. There are several other Halo installations where the flood still exist (in dormant states), so it would be nice to have a little easter egg showing a status report on the flood or something. Hidden Skulls Skulls in Halo 2 and 3 had to be found to be activated. This lead to awesome quests to find and collect the skulls within the campaign. Which made the campaign a bit more fun. In addition to this, I'd also like to see the return of the Bandanna skull. There should also be a thing that makes challenges/achievements unlockable while this skull is active (because it's a cheat). Mention of Blue Team (or whatever they are called now) Blue Team has a long history of not being talked about in-game. This can easily be an awesome easter egg or they can actually be characters in the game. This would make canon-lovers have wet dreams about the H5 campaign. A Distinct Lack of Quick Time Events Quick Time events would be cool, in theory. In practice, not so much. The quick time events in Halo 4 were kind of laughable, and turned what could have been an epic boss battle into an eyebrow raising disappointment for me. That being said, more interactivity with the environment would be awesome, but quick time events are generally annoying in FPS games if they aren't done near-perfectly. More Interactivity with the Environment This is more of a wishful thinking kind of thing, but I always get a kick out of being able to flush toilets and stuff. Completely unnecessary? Yes. Kind of cool? Also yes. FPS + RPG = amazing, every time. Anyways, that's what I would like to see. What about you?

It's a legitimate strategy.

This is only half true. For instance, the following members were newer than I was when they got MoM. 1. EGYPTIANGHETTO 2. Quantum Matrix 3. Mr.Biggles 4. Donut 5. 343iBot 6. Azaxx There was literally only one MoM who joined before I did, and that was Twinreaper. Not to mention the fact that at the time I had more posts than Quantum, Donut, and EGYPTIANGHETTO put together. The only one in that list who had more posts than I did was Mr.Biggles, and Azaxx and I were competing with post counts. The reason I didn't get MoM sooner wasn't because I was newer, it wasn't because I was inactive in the forums, it was simply because I went unnoticed for quite a while. The main reason is because I didn't go to playdates and I wasn't in the shoutbox very much. The secondary reason is because most of my posts were helping new people in one way or another. By the time I got MoM, I had posted every achievement to every Halo game and how to get them, three separate tech help guides, and posted on hundreds of "omg I need help" topics. What finally got me noticed was the Ask The Director thread. To recap, I had to be on the site for a full year, have over 1k posts (I think it might have actually been 2k), and have at least 7 topics that had over 50 replies before I finally got MoM. So it isn't a case of new people being ignored.

Who said that they don't?

Yes I do. I began using 4chan in 2004 and have been using it ever since. I originally stuck to /a/ for quite some time, but then I began using /sci/. It wasn't until late 2005 that I began posting on /b/, which to this date remains my favorite board.

Changing the staff warning: Staff Response Please be civil while discussing this topic. If you cannot remain civil and on-topic this topic will be locked and disciplinary action will ensue.

Ahhh, the Pinocchio Paradox. This is a version of the Liar's Paradox (This statement is a lie) that counters the solutions to the original paradox. For instance, a resolution to the original paradox (Liar's Paradox) is to assume that the person saying, "This statement is a lie" always lies and is doing a double bluff lie. A lie with a grain of truth, as it were. In the case of the Pinocchio Paradox, the fact that his nose grows only when he lies eliminates the previous resolution. That being said, since your question is a paradox there is no answer to it. The answer has to be yes or no yet it cannot be yes or no, therefor there is no answer. Depends on what you are using to raise the chicken. Easy way to tell is to use a tape measure. Grif. Grif is actually my favorite character because he is the comic relief of the show. Doesn't matter how dark and twisted the plot gets, as long as Grif is in the scene there will be lulz.

I don't have kids, so no.

It's due to the way IP Boards work. It's called a group because at any given time there has the potential for more than one Admin/Site Mod. Children love cinnamon toast crunch because it has sugar covering it.

Dibs. I will not be on OS. I don't believe in rebellions.

Unless we figure out how to move the planet. Which in a couple million million years might be possible.

The United States of America. Eventually. The Frieden Rebels Yes they do. 1. Not really, as the purpose of the thread is primarily to assist people with questions but has a secondary purpose of entertaining people. 2. My own measure, and I wonder how you are coming about the assumption that I think that I'm the most intelligent member of the forum. From wherever you are getting that assumption, I urge you to reexamine it. 3. See answer 1. 4. It takes some time to get a reply because I have a life and cannot be on the forum for every second of every day, and I also have moderator duties to attend to. This is literally something I do for my own entertainment, and it just so happens to entertain others. I don't think there will be a unit of measurement for the year when the Earth finally ends. The first time I got a perfection medal. I was in Big Team Battle on Halo 3 and managed to get into a scorpion. And oh, did I slaughter. "You know nothing" Rather presumptuous I think. Obviously you can know quite a lot even while you haven't read a couple of books. I also do not claim to be a psychotherapist who put too much stock in symbolization. Also I haven't read Far Journeys but I have read Journeys Out of the Body. It wasn't quite my cup of tea and it didn't encourage me to read it's sequel. However, that was a good 7 or 8 years ago. I might give the sequel a try.

The Insurrectionists?

There isn't one. That implies that questions can be measured in difficulty on a scale, however they cannot. Not to mention the "difficulty" of the question is completely dependent on the person being asked the question. For instance, someone who knows how to read and write but doesn't know mathematics would be able to answer "How do you spell ____?" quite easily but will have difficulty answering "What is ____+____?". The vice versa applies as well. I don't offer a premium service. If that's what you are asking.

The right one, because my girlfriend likes to sit on my left and cuddle.

It literally couldn't be one.

Indeed I am.

The sign up thread is here: http://www.343industries.org/forum/topic/35884-tgfw-faction-sign-up-thread

I haven't had a chance to play it as of yet, however it sounds fun. From your second question I can only assume that there must be a plot twist. I bet the guy from the first two games is in it. Of course.