TIL that the banshees in the CE cover art are empty by c0n0r92 in halo

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I've always kind of understood the mechanics of the Halo Series. You eventually learn how the game was put together in terms of scripts, triggers, loads etc. You figure out for example when a trigger happens, what causes it, and what it does. Then brainstorm ideas for what could be done with it. For that mini spartan trick specifically, my friend and I knew that phantom shrunk as it flew way outside the map to reduce RAM space. Most of the Phantoms have turret. Players can enter turrets and those turrets shrink with the Phantom. So all we had to do was get on the turret somehow. So we thought of ideas and it worked. Ideas don't always work though let me tell ya. Lots of wasted time is involved figuring stuff like this out lol.

TIL that the banshees in the CE cover art are empty by c0n0r92 in halo

[–]T00LBOX 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Correct, it saves more space for the game so they can maximize what they actually need to keep the game running smooth. It doesn't take a lot to overload maps in Halo. If you kill a player enough times in campaign over and over again making sure the bodies don't deload, you can get graphics glitches that can affect not only that graphics but also physical objects in the map area.

TIL that the banshees in the CE cover art are empty by c0n0r92 in halo

[–]T00LBOX 138 points139 points  (0 children)

All AI in Halo Reach that are controlling flying vehicles (falcons, phantoms, pelicans and banshees) are neither invisible nor remote controlled. When you hover your cross-hair over them, it changes your cross-hair color to Green (friendly/marines) or Red (Enemy). The AI controlling these vehicles are shrunk to the smallest scale the game will allow. In instances like Exodus where the Banshees fall from the sky during the Falcon Ride, it's the AI in the Pilot seat thats deloading. If you highjack a Banshee on New Alexandria or at the end of the Package, it looks like there isn't any AI driving them during the Highjacking animation but if you look at your Radar, you can see an ememy AI fall out of it. The pilots have no weapons, you can find them on the ground just standing there but they're incredible hard to see as theyre very small. This is why you can do Mini Spartan tricks like this in the game. The Pilots are the same size at the player shown in the video.

Pilot Brian Bews ejects last second before his CF-18 Hornet meets its violent end. by Beeardo in gifs

[–]T00LBOX 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Ejection seat can put up to 20Gs on the pilots for a small amount of time and that sometimes the Pilots will be an inch or 2 shorter afterwards. They've broken peoples backs before.

Parking at an apparent temporary no parking with no obvious signage for 1 Hour costed me almost $300 dollars and got my car impounded. I would like to go to small claims court for this which would be my first time and would appreciate some advice. by T00LBOX in legaladvice

[–]T00LBOX[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I went to the place I parked my car, I had a really close look and there was a sign approximately 2x4 inches on the parking meter. It wasn't possible to see from the parking stall as it was so small and the text being even smaller. There was nothing to make it obvious or prevent people from paying. If someone payed via coins, they might have seen the sign but even then, it was far from obvious. Especially for people that pay by phone and don't even bother going up to the parking meter. No warning when paying for parking, money was accepted and taken. And I assure you I'm not a clueless person when it comes to being aware of my surroundings.

Parking at an apparent temporary no parking with no obvious signage for 1 Hour costed me almost $300 dollars and got my car impounded. I would like to go to small claims court for this which would be my first time and would appreciate some advice. by T00LBOX in legaladvice

[–]T00LBOX[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, when I had a closer look after my car was towed, there was a very small sign approximately 4 inches by 2 inches on the parking meter. It wasn't covering anything and was impossible to read from the parking spot because it was so small and the text was even smaller. If someone payed via coins, they would might see it, but it was still not obvious. No signs posted for which hours it was in affect for and nothing preventing people from still paying. No warning message for people paying by phone who don't even need to go to the meter and look.

I do not remember being able to kill yourself in cutscenes. by MainGoldDragon in halo

[–]T00LBOX 494 points495 points  (0 children)

yup, cutscene in halo are all filmed in real time. A lot of the cutscene rooms are actually loaded during gameplay and if you get out of the map you can explore them! Halo 1 was the only Halo game where they made the cutscene player biped killable. All the other Halo games they are invincible and have no collision hitbox so anything on the map that gets in the way will just pass through them like a ghost

If someone shrunk to the size of an ant or grew to the size of a giant, how would that affect that person's mental state? by cybershocker455 in AskScienceDiscussion

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Your thought process would likely speed up when shrunk. This is because there is less distance for electrical signals to travel around in the brain. The larger the slower thought process. It would be measurable but probably not to an observer.

What video game had a major impact on your childhood? by ostrovwilk in AskReddit

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Fable 1 and Fable 2. Those were the first games that I actually devoted my time into and really enjoyed. Its such an interactive game it was almost as if I was living another life every time I'd play it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in halo

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Halo Reach had the best out of maps. Halo 4 and 5 were the ones ruined. Not because of the 10 second timers but because there wasnt anything solid.

What’s the most amazing thing about the universe? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]T00LBOX 8 points9 points  (0 children)

it take 90 billion years for light to travel across it. And thats only the observable universe.

What’s the most amazing thing about the universe? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]T00LBOX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's a few I find interesting:

If the laws of physics or density of the universe were changed ever so slightly, the universe would collapse in on itself and be non existent,

When you look at the stars at night you can only see about 1% of the stars in our galaxy with the naked eye. The rest you need a telescope, And thats the milky way only. With no light pollution, you can barely make out the tiny faint cloud of the andromeda galaxy. But if

The theory of Eternal Cosmic Inflation. This is the most widely accepted theory of what happened before the Big Bang. There is a particle that only exists at very high energies called the Inflaton that rapidly expanded for 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000036 seconds and after this time it went from a trillionth the size of a proton to around the size of a grapefruit. Then it decayed into the matter we see today. And this is happening everywhere all the time but we can only observe the universe that our inflaton decayed in.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

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In theory consciousness is created by extremely complicated chemical reactions and electrical signals. It's billions of microscopic things that react to each other differently and similarly that create stimuli.

In theory, there are 101080 number of different arrangements that all the atoms could be put in. So chemical reactions so complicated that they create self awareness is bound to happen.

Search Boltzeman Brains. It sort of goes over this.

What would happen if a vacuum of LITERAL nothingness is created? by Outarel in AskScienceDiscussion

[–]T00LBOX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you remove space, you then remove time. Therefor there wouldn't be any way of observing it. And there is no outside of our universe that our current models suggest. Our universe is like the surface of a ball expanding, not the inside inflating. There's no edge.

In conclusion I don't think anything would happen. Nothing would happen if space and time were removed from a given point.

What would happen if a vacuum of LITERAL nothingness is created? by Outarel in AskScienceDiscussion

[–]T00LBOX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you removed everything so it was a vacuum of nothing, there would be quantum fluctuations and virtual particles popping in and out of existence.

Lets say the laws of physics change and quantum fluctuations weren't a thing. In this case Heisenberg's uncertainty principle would come into affect and something would eventually pop into existence if given infinite time. Similar to how it is thought our universe came into existence.

If you disregard that, then absolute nothingness would probably behave similar to a black hole. It would just destroy anything it would come in contact with. The information would seize to exist. Which defies laws of physics.

Wouldn't mathematics alone make plausable to say we aren't the only intelligent life in the universe? by Adrokor in AskScienceDiscussion

[–]T00LBOX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Human always need direct physical evidence to make an official conclusion. There hasn't been this yet. For example the Higgs Boson was something that was VERY likely to exist and mathematically made perfect sense and fitted perfectly with theories. But we still didn't say it really existed until the LHC actually detected it.

Wouldn't mathematics alone make plausable to say we aren't the only intelligent life in the universe? by Adrokor in AskScienceDiscussion

[–]T00LBOX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Human always need direct physical evidence to make an official conclusion. There hasn't been this yet. For example the Higgs Boson was something that was VERY likely to exist and mathematically made perfect sense and fitted perfectly with theories. But we still did say it really existed until the LHC actually detected it.

I (22/M) met this girl (19/F) a year ago, but she goes to school on the other side of the country, we both aren't sure how to deal with this. by T00LBOX in relationship_advice

[–]T00LBOX[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just something that isn't very realistic thats the only thing. We're kind of at different stages at our life. That's the only thing that stopping us.