iirc One of the first things Humanity and the Elites did after the war was organize joint control/protection over Delta Halo, so it's not too farfetched.

In fact, Warfleet confirms that there's usually 24 SoS personnel attached to the Infinity, and if the UNSC trusts them enough to allow access to such an important asset it's not out of the question they'd work with them on a Halo.

wet, sloppy, grandma's way

Hint: This is the same way listed thrice

It made news in my town when a guy found some kind of dead animal in his drink at a Waffle House a while back.

I've been avoiding Waffle House ever since... by which I mean, that particular Waffle House.

They've also got some real bitchin burgers IMO

Like be it breakfast, lunch, or dinner, I invariably order a burger before giving thought to waffles or what-have-you (and that's not even denying they've got a hell of a waffle too).

soldiers for drinking out of a dead mans fake leg at a Fat Lady's Arm

What a thing to read

That line always gets me in Lord of War.

"They say evil prevails when good men do nothing. What they should say is: "Evil prevails"."

Fantastic film, if you're a sucker for feeling all the hope in your heart fade to ash.

"I meant High Charity."

Bet that's their excuse, too: "No sleeve can contain the fearsome fury of our battle-hardened biceps!!!"

Meanwhile Jul sits in his Shipmaster's throne, fuming to himself over how empty their sleeve budget always seems to be (and his dead wife, I suppose).

Punched? He bitch-slapped that SOB

"You can't even afford SLEEVES!!!"

:,{{

Always did think the Predalien was cool as hell

Shame his big feature is AvP:R

Somehow I've only just now realized the irony of the Covenant believing the Halos are the holiest objects in the universe, when in reality they're abominations that are antithesis to the spiritual beliefs of both Forerunners and Precursors (the closest thing to actual deities in this universe) and ultimately wipe the galaxy clean of all traces of "divinity" (neural physics constructs).

Man, the Covie translators really fugged up, their department of philology must have been led by some real stupid sons of--

Cut to a fish-eyed drooling Mercy

Title says Nosferatu, comments say Yoda, but I see a Skrull.

The original artist is doing flips in his grave.

Similar situation when I was ~6, except I found the spider sitting right in the middle of my chest.

Pretty sure I woke up some astronauts on the ISS with my shriek.

True, but still probably a good idea to make sure some NOVA-tier explosive isn't just floating around

I'd probably make sure there were absolutely no alternative through which the hostile element could be surgically neutralized with precision that avoided excessive collateral damage before resorting to drastic measures.

Maybe I'm just cynical but I have a feeling most governments/militaries would probably consider that a waste of time in favor of "let's just drop a bomb on it, if anybody innocent was nearby we'll tell their smoldering corpses we're reeeally sorry".

One leaves searing, painful wounds on your flesh.

The other leaves searing, painful wounds on your heart and feelings.

:,)

Ozymandias raises an eyebrow

That'd be an interesting Forerunner/Covenant career: Reviewing after-action reports and AI records after battles to keep track of shots/projectiles that missed their mark, head them off via FTL, and neutralize them before they potentially ruin somebody's day.

Another dream job I'm thousands of years too early/late for...

Of course you can: Treating people like property or terrifying your children so much they run away when in trouble (not even mentioning in trouble for something like standing up to a bully) has, is, and will always be a shitty thing to do.

I will agree that context is absolutely crucial when considering a person's actions, then and now. But you can't say something like, say, "X owned/sold/beat slaves but we can't judge him as a bad guy because he lived in 18XX": Even people back then were horrified and thought poorly of such things, considering they were trying to abolish it.

A far different time, but populated by people at their core no different from now.

Selling an enslaved woman's children was more acceptable in times past, but do you think the mothers felt any happier about it than one would today? Beating your wife or children was more acceptable in times past, but do you think it hurt any less? Do you think these and other customs are frowned upon now because they just went out of style like clothes? Or perhaps because people started wising up that, whether it happens now, a century ago, or a century from now, it has and always will be wrong to hurt and abuse people (including treating your kid as property)?

The fact that a 13 year old kid preferred to run away for several years rather than facing his pissed off dad should tell you something

Le Thanos: "Hõhõhõ, you should have aimed for la head!"

La French: "Battre mon record, hon hon!"

Pretty smart tbh but it's gonna fuck a whole load of people.

"Do as I say, not as I do"

I loved the Forerunner Saga to the point they're possibly my favorite Halo books, but I agree with him in part: They should have continued to utilize Forerunners as they always did in most every other piece of Halo, while still having the Saga to characterize them.

The ultimate ending of the trilogy is to take this universe that is near-completely different from the "main" era, build it up and characterize it, then emphasize how fundamentally true the quote was from Captain Keyes all the way back in Combat Evolved -- "Whoever controls Halo controls the fate of the universe" -- by destroying it. Wiping away this vast and unimaginable era spanning millions of years, and leaving what amounts to a few pitiful drops from what was a vast ocean for those who come after to find.

Every tidbit of that era should be a gamechanger, a tiny piece of something the beings of the 2500s could barely begin to comprehend... not something you pick up off the ground, yell "I got the Forerunner Shotgun thing!", before diving in to a fully-revived army of "highly-advanced" Forerunner war machines to effortlessly slaughter them all.