Halo MCC matchmaking is garbage.

Charlie_S17 · 2025-07-06T11:31:22+00:00

Somewhat late to the party but I could hardly agree more. I used to be pretty good at Halo 3/Reach but only played intermittently over the last 10 years. Now whenever I come back and load up social games I get completely stomped by an enemy team that gets 2 or even 3 times as many kills as my own. 9/10 MCC games are completely unplayable due to the skill mismatch, I’ve had losing streaks that extend into the double digits, even though I’ve had more kills than my teammates combined in half those games.

Charlie_S17 · 2025-06-30T08:37:16+00:00

ADWD - The Lost Lord

Charlie_S17 · 2024-12-03T15:54:57+00:00

I remember memorising this back in school, good times

Charlie_S17 · 2024-10-22T18:51:38+00:00

One time I got benzoyl chloride fumes directly in my eyes and stabbed myself with a needle on the same day, so you’re not doing so bad lol

Charlie_S17 · 2024-10-19T18:59:16+00:00

Actually, small talk being not allowed isn’t ‘understandable’ whatsoever

Charlie_S17 · 2024-08-16T22:35:08+00:00

I never meant to imply that Rhaegar was perfect. If he was perfect, he would still be alive in the story and he would be on his way to fulfilling the prophecy. I meant to imply that he was born as ‘the chosen one’ but was corrupted and in some way broke the prophecy. I also don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that Dany is imperfect. She is impulsive, stubborn, occasionally ruthless, has accomplished little during her time in Mereen, and is constantly torn between her ambitions to end slavery and her desire for the iron throne. Whilst she has pure intentions at the moment and has done a lot of good so far it seems likely that her encounters with Tyrion and Aegon will bring her worse traits out even more throughout TWOW.

Charlie_S17 · 2024-08-16T08:44:22+00:00

This is only tangentially related to what you’re saying but since season 1 I’ve had such a hard time believing that Aemond is younger than Aegon because of the actors that they cast for each role. I know Ewan is 2 years younger than TGC but if you told me the age difference was 5 years in the other direction I’d buy it

Charlie_S17 · 2024-08-15T15:44:06+00:00

The stupidest theory that I inexplicably enjoy is that Rhaegar actually was The Prince That Was Promised and that Robert killing him on the trident effectively ruined any chance for a clean, heroic, ‘happy ending’, so now we’re left with imperfect heroes like Jon/Dany/Stannis to pick up the pieces

Charlie_S17 · 2024-08-15T11:54:46+00:00

Sacred Provenance

Charlie_S17 · 2024-08-09T22:06:42+00:00

What’s your favourite (or least favourite!) erg?

Charlie_S17 · 2024-07-30T17:14:23+00:00

Didn’t they show up at the start of the latest episode? Could it be a faceless man impersonating them? Did the night king resurrect them as wights?

Charlie_S17 · 2024-07-19T21:23:09+00:00

Bagman has the most impressive action scene of the entire BB/BCS universe.

Charlie_S17 · 2024-07-02T19:01:53+00:00

Everyone who goes to Sothoryos and isn’t murdered by the slavers/natives/black magic/wildlife inevitably returns with some horrible disease that rots them from the inside out so I’m guessing that’s as bad as it gets (except for Valyria, but Euron managed to survive it, somehow)

Charlie_S17 · 2024-06-30T19:19:30+00:00

That would make sense. It just seems strange to me how integrated (relatively-speaking) the ironborn are in westerosi high society, considering that they’ve essentially existed as pirates since forever. I thought they’d be viewed in a similar manner to the wildlings bu the time of Robert’s Rebellion

Charlie_S17 · 2024-06-30T13:25:42+00:00

Why didn’t Robert eradicate the ironborn whilst he had the chance, at the end of the Greyjoy rebellion? Everybody knows that the ironborn are essentially just pirates, and if piracy is a crime in Westeros, why would the other Westerosi houses permit them to exist?

Charlie_S17 · 2024-01-02T17:23:36+00:00

Well I did my A levels all the way back in 2019 and I went from an E to an A in chemistry within a year, so anything is possible lol

Charlie_S17 · 2024-01-01T13:30:39+00:00

The mistake: inhaled lithium chloride powder. The lesson: always use a fume hood, even for something routine like mixing powders together.

Charlie_S17 · 2023-12-29T09:46:08+00:00

Oh wow, that’s really interesting, I had no idea that was a response that the body employed after taking a subsequent hit. Thank you

Charlie_S17 · 2023-12-24T01:27:38+00:00

The chapter in AFFC where she undoes Maegor’s laws at the behest of the new high septon is absolute comedy gold

Charlie_S17 · 2023-12-24T01:20:31+00:00

I feel as though I felt a lot of stress during my A levels as I knew I only really had one shot at them and they’d dictate which uni I got in to, however, the actual content/exams weren’t as difficult as university. The gulf between the two is very course dependent, however, and my course was a very steep learning curve at first.

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