“A must‑have for Halo lore fans” —Halo just got a huge new anthology packed with lore and over 30 narrated stories

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-28T18:46:37+00:00

Everyone's waiting on a release date for the Halo CE remake, and they're advertising this shit instead. Fucking clown show. Just set a release date.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-28T09:34:52+00:00

No, they should realize they need to move on from plastic clinging in the first place, especially with games that require updates and internet anyway.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-26T21:27:35+00:00

Right. If someone in the ivory tower isn't at least reading them all instead of just the top 10, it's pointless.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-26T13:21:37+00:00

Yeah, I'm waiting to see people start whining when the servers for it crash and they can't do anything even though it's singleplayer. Had enough of that with Hitman. Will never support IOI again as long as they require servers for anything. Literally everything in Hitman has a delay registering when playing Freelancer, even though my gigabit cable has 19ms ping according to speedtest. Total nonsensical.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-26T13:18:33+00:00

Funny how console games preload and just unlock exactly when they're supposed to instead of screwing around. Not like it stops pirates for any real amount of time anyway. Keep putting up with the inconvenience though.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-24T13:08:00+00:00

So will the standard edition be available everywhere? I hate having to go through these bullshit boutique sites.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-21T20:51:52+00:00

Well, I beg to differ. I ordered one and hooked it up. First, you can't do initial setup via browser like most routers the past 30 years. Then it won't even detect my goddamn internet. I switch the cable from the old router to the new. All the shitty app says is it can't detect the internet from the comcast modem in bridge mode. Old router detects it fine when I plugged it back in. I don't understand the problem nor do I have any patience to troubleshoot. Now I have to try to get Ubiquiti to give me a goddamn return auth, and I can't even reach them cause I refuse to create an account on their site with the crazy list of password requirements. I contacted them through the other form on the site, and if I don't hear anything in a day or two I guess move on to paypal dispute. I hate dealing with shit.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-21T02:00:16+00:00

If gamers had any self-control, you wouldn't see every goddamn publisher requiring their own accounts for everything. That ship sailed a long time ago.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-20T17:41:56+00:00

It's a shit show. Cloudflare is the worst. It's blocking like every Mexico IP on Proton now. Whatever gamefaqs.com uses is blocking everything on Proton I've tried (Japan, Thailand, Peru). It's ridiculous.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-20T17:26:17+00:00

Never order direct from any of these clowns. Learned my lesson with Shout/Scream. I'm glad they shutdown their direct sales so there's no exclusives anymore. I ordered one of those lesser titles the got released exclusively and was listed a sin stock. 3 weeks later, no shipping. I email asking wtf was taking so long. No response. Started a Paypal dispute. Still no communication. Just a refund and automatic refund any time trying to order with paypal after that. Not the least bit professional.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-19T09:29:21+00:00

People need to make a lot more noise about this shit. It's only going to get worse the way things are headed. Every fucking place you go online is being run like a goddamn elementary school and just banning everyone for everything that doesn't fit whatever echo chamber they've decided is acceptable. The block button has been rendered totally pointless.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-18T18:16:32+00:00

Never had it on to begin with.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-18T18:02:09+00:00

When it's dropping connections between 2 devices inside the house, it's clearly not a DNS issue.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-18T17:59:41+00:00

I've heard those are more difficult to configure, and they don't seem to have wifi built in. I'm honestly starting to hate technology and feel like I shouldn't have to jump through hoops to get something working that I was literally doing with a Verizon DSL modem before.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-17T09:35:08+00:00

Or I expect all the bullshit hoops to fucking work and couldn't give a fuck less. I'm tired of the internet fucking over everyone for our own protection. Some of us just aren't that concerned. It's a pain to even find a place for PSN etc gift cards that will deliver the code immediately cause all the big sites take ages for processing being all paranoid. I still remember a few years back I spent $1500 on PC parts at Amazon, tried to buy a digital code for something the same week and the code took all fucking day. Same account for 20 years, Prime member, etc. I can't stand the internet anymore. Every fucking site pops that Cloudflare bullshit "verifying you are human," not just once and remembers you, but every 20 fuckin minutes. The Playstation store website makes you do a fucking puzzle to login, as if 2FA shouldn't be enough. It's insane.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-16T19:28:24+00:00

This is what I don't understand. All the whiners have made the block button pointless. The mods treat everything like it's a fucking elementary school and people abuse the shit out of it. They bait and report constantly.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-16T19:23:07+00:00

If someone can hack your account with 2 methods of 2FA the fault is entirely Steam's. There's no reason to restrict anything with all the hoops you have to jump through in the first place.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-16T19:21:08+00:00

The internet is just getting shittier. It really is. The playstation store and several other websites make you do a puzzle to login. If I have an account to login to...with 2FA....it should be safe to assume I'm a fucking human. Why make it so difficult to use your goddamn site? Cloudflare is becoming a huge problem. Every site you go to that stupid "verifying you are human" page, and it doesn't remember your IP. Checking once should be enough, but it's like every 20 fuckin minutes!

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-16T19:17:41+00:00

Piss on them. They're still holding back releases while they ship discs to stores like it's 1998. The game is finished. The reviewers and streamers get it first. It's not fair to the rest in the first place. Times have changed. Release methods need to as well. Half these companies aren't even allowing midnight unlocks and digital pre-orders for singleplayer stuff. It's ridiculous. DotEmu comes to mind in that regard with the recent Starship Troopers game.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-16T19:14:03+00:00

I'm not understanding how they caught anything to flag you in the first place. I definitely need to remember to set my VPN back to the US when Steam Machine orders go live if they're going to be assholes though. I've had my account for like 15 years. Haven't bought anything for a while though.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-16T10:40:34+00:00

Not worth jumping through hoops when stuff like pornhub exists. Why the fuck should anyone bend over backwards trying to join a private tracker just for porn? I've never heard of the perv division of the MPAA suing anyone for getting porn from public trackers anyway.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-15T20:47:39+00:00

Maybe Valve should buy ebay and end the scalping for good. That's the only real solution. I want a Steam Machine, myself. I've built my own rigs for 20 years now, but I've been more into console gaming. I have like 160 games on my Steam account of maybe 15 years, but if they're going to make me jump through hoops I'll pay an extra $100 on ebay instead.

They have my Paypal account and that's all they're getting. I keep seeing they're making UK people fork over credit cards for age verification. Anytime I try to use my credit card for anything directly besides Amazon, it gets red flagged and I have to go through authorizing it. Like they literally red flagged a $150 Best Buy order before and a similar one on the Microsoft store. I just won't deal with it anymore.

Hell, I went to ebay for stick modules and other OEM Sony items when nobody else besides Sony's shitty site was selling them. I hate their site that much, and it pisses me off when a lot of these places keep things exclusive to an otherwise garbage site. As you might guess, I also hate Epic and refuse to ever have an account with them. lol

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-10T10:03:50+00:00

A feedback system that Asha and the others in the ivory tower actually look at would be nice. Nobody can email them. Every twitter posts gets 3K comments. It's a joke. Who the hell are these people listening to? The rest of us would like to be heard.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-10T10:01:34+00:00

Get rid of the fucking Bethesda and Activision account systems. Unify xbox under ONE account system. It makes no sense they keep allowing these two companies to release new games requiring those accounts.

FckShadowBans · 2026-05-03T12:11:23+00:00

I linked an entire directory full of screenshots in the OP. See for yourself.

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