Mama told me not to come.

She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I loved 1 & 2, then I kind of lost track of the series for a bit, but I heard everything through Halo 4 was pretty decent. But honestly, I don’t see any reason for the story to continue. Basically:

    • Halo: CE - introduction to the Covenant and the Flood
    • Halo 2 - learn about inner workings of the Covenant and history of the Flood
    • Halo 3 - Covenant brings the fight to Earth
    • Halo: Reach - prequel to Halo CE - adds backstory about human intersteller colonization
    • Halo 4 - looks like a kind of side story continuation of Halo 3, with new enemies
    • Halo 5 - Cortana turns evil?

    I haven’t played anything past 2, so maybe it hits different in the games, but the series really looks like it loses its purpose around Halo: Reach and Halo 4 and becomes a cash grab. They really should have wrapped things up around there, at least as far as Master Chief is concerned, and build a new series in the same universe (or a completely new universe).

    And that’s also why I don’t bother with Assassin’s Creed games anymore, they’ve long since lost the plot, and doing the same thing but in a different setting just isn’t interesting enough for me.










  • Most people weren’t following the Chagos Islands news, and I doubt most people with .io names bothered to check any notifications here. A lot of people just pick them up and set them to auto-renew and generally don’t think about it again. Those people won’t be impacted today, but they will be once the domains get transitioned away, and it’ll be a rude awakening for a lot of people.

    The simple solution is to not buy country TLDs unless you live in that country or something.


  • There’s no technical reason why they couldn’t sync messages, but there is an attack if they do. Basically, someone could set up a new device with your account and grab all of your past messages. Since Signal doesn’t sync messages, they’ll only get messages going forward.

    It should certainly be an option to sync, but I don’t think it should be on by default (or at least it should ask on setup).