Halo: first contact, power armor, and how does master chief poop? w/ Daniel Barker

Published: Feb. 4, 2020, 7:45 a.m.

Importance \n\n

Nostalgia: wow Halo has really been around for a minute. Hundreds of hours of that one level of local multiplayer but never playing the story. Turning an RTS into a TPS and then an FPS and then getting that Microsoft money.

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Figuring out the importance of Halo CE in the history of gaming. PC gaming master race. Tank-controlled console FPS games. Unseating Goldeneye. Establishing a timeline of FPS quality on consoles and PC.

\n\n First Contact \n\n

Humanity honing its warfare skills by just being jerks to other humans. Settling 800+ planets! \u201cGlassing\u201d enemy alien planets.

\n\n Put a ring on it \n\n

Ringworlds! But less a ring \u201cworld\u201d and more a ring \u201cweapons platofrm that also is fairly liveable.\u201d The Drake Equation and the Fermi Paradox through the lens of Halo.

\n\n Armor \n\n

Master Chief vs Doom Guy. Measuring Hell energy. Mjolnir armor - a half ton and costs as much as a destroyer to produce. \u201cSmart\u201d and \u201cdumb\u201d AI delineations. Neural exoskeleton integration. PRedictive algorithms. Relating Master Chief to Upgrade. What about just putting an AI and some batteries inside of the Mjolnir armor? Falling from space.

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