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Cranster

Prophet of Truth
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
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So a user by the name of Moses_FPS brought up an issue regarding one of the nameplates in the current flight for ODST firefight and H3 hit registration fixes and one of them are police sirens. Of course in the ODST campaign there is not only police vehicles stranded throughout the game but also a secondary story regarding the corrupt New Mombasa Police Department that connects to the main story, so the nameplate wasn't really out of place. But at the sametime with the current political climate 343i decided to remove it from the flight and possibly the final release.

As expected though it has caused a stir with certain groups within the halo community.

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And these are the kinds of posts he makes.



This is probably the biggest thread on this subject.



In addition other Halo youtubers and EmpressCortana (who made false allegations against Stinkles and other 343i employees) have also jumped onto this alt right boycott. Eitherway going by the reactions I think 343i made the right call. The nameplate would have went well with my gamertag, but seeing these kinds of reactions, I think I agree that these types of players would use this nameplate to harass others.

This halo youtuber is saying 343i overreacted, meanwhile he made a rant vid complaining about Halo 3 being released early on PC.

 
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PMS341

Attempted to circumvent ban with alt-account
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Oct 29, 2017
6,634
Lots of people showing their ass with those responses, lmao. It's almost as if the police are universally terrible and their supporters are almost as bad (not to mention just bad-faith actors in the first place).
 

DorkLord54

Member
Oct 27, 2017
4,465
Michigan
"There are police literally in the game."
... Pretty much all of whom are antagonists.

Also, love that they can't stay mask off for even a second.
Is there even a BLM plate? I see a panafrican symbol which is not the same thing...
I think it was added during the George Floyd uprisings, so for most people it's the same thing unfortunately.
 

Deleted member 56306

User-requested account closure
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Apr 26, 2019
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"There are police literally in the game."
... Pretty much all of whom are antagonists.

Also, love that they can't stay mask off for even a second.

I think it was added during the George Floyd uprisings, so for most people it's the same thing unfortunately.

The only other one is the Black History Month nameplate.

Thanks for the info y'all.

Is it empowering to Black people? Then to them it's the same thing.

We can't have anything lol.

Racists will cling onto anything.

Pretty much what I was expecting.
 

Pasha

Banned
Jan 27, 2018
3,018
Why are you signal boosting some rando Twitter asshole with 300 followers and making it out as "The Halo Community"?
 

boi

Member
Nov 1, 2017
1,768
343 making the right call. I love Halo and playing Halo online and I generally perceive the community as very friendly. With that said - these pieces of trash can fuck off.
 

Deleted member 11626

User requested account closure
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Oct 27, 2017
4,199
This is why I don't tell people that I don't know that I'm into video games. Alt-right fuckwads have essentially become the voice of video games for the general public. Sick of these asshats. I had to finally start muting people in Modern Warfare because my clan tag is BLM, and that led to a lot of dudes talking a ton of shit and deliberately targeting me at all costs. Gaming is absurdly toxic.

Glad that 343 took a little bit of initiative here, because the message those guys need to hear is that their views are not welcome in our medium.
 

Zomba13

#1 Waluigi Fan! Current Status: Crying
Member
Oct 25, 2017
8,898
Snowflakes whining they can't be all "blue lives matter" without getting shat on.
 

Ashlette

Member
Oct 28, 2017
3,254
If I grew up thinking about what my bullies thought of me every second, I would go paranoid.

Just ignore those babies.
 

Trup1aya

Literally a train safety expert
Member
Oct 25, 2017
21,308
Black power and BLM is polarizing because racists hate equality.
 

Storm

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,026
The Halo community is absolute garbage. I'm not surprised.

343 really need to do something to try combat it for infinite.
 

Slayven

Never read a comic in his life
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Oct 25, 2017
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"It's not about hate"

Then proceeds to post racist memes
 

Storm

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Oct 25, 2017
1,026
Don't throw the whole community under the bus. The majority of Halo fans are against this kind of shit.

I love Halo too, but just saying what I've seen based on MCC matchmaking and stuff. The amount of times I've seen the n-word or homophobic slurs used in game, to report them and have nothing come of it etc.
 

nekkid

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
21,823
I love Halo too, but just saying what I've seen based on MCC matchmaking and stuff. The amount of times I've seen the n-word or homophobic slurs used in game, to report them and have nothing come of it etc.
You see and remember that stuff because it's shocking. You don't remember the 95+% other people you encounter who don't go around being bigots.
 

Storm

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Oct 25, 2017
1,026
You see and remember that stuff because it's shocking. You don't remember the 95+% other people you encounter who don't go around being bigots.

Maybe, it's just a little disheartening to see and report something, then run into the same gamertags a few weeks later doing the same stuff.

Anyways, I don't want to derail the thread anymore, I hope 343 don't respond to the backlash.
 
Oct 25, 2017
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That Bring Back Halo guy OP linked is utter garbage, just part of the dogpile of YouTube Halo accounts that just thrive off negative 343i content. For reference he made several videos about how them releasing Halo 3 on the MCC on PC (you know a 13 yo game) half a day early was a bad thing cause he took time off first to play it, was called out then double downed on his crappy take with longer and more terrible videos.
 

Deleted member 3017

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Oct 25, 2017
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Anyone that considers Black Lives Matter to be a polarizing statement is a racist and can safely be seen as irrelevant to moving humanity forward. Their views should be crushed.
 

nekkid

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Oct 27, 2017
21,823
If you're going to meme faces on anything, can we get this guy's avatar onto the face of Billy Steele?
 

KG

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Oct 12, 2018
1,598
Racists won't play the game anymore? Nothing of value was lost. I bet the Halo community improves if the racists are not taking part of it anymore.
 

Bobbyleejones

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Aug 25, 2019
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No matter what medium, racists always show themselves. It's like breathing for them 🤷‍♂️
 

newmoneytrash

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Oct 25, 2017
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Melbourne, Australia
i get wanting to highlight this, but these are tweets with tens of likes and a video with a couple of hundred reviews. this is, ultimately, a small thing currently happening that runs the risk of being signal boosted to all of the worst people by people trying to """expose""" them
 

Prevolition

Member
Oct 27, 2017
478
This kinda stuff makes me shudder with disgust and sadness. How is it okay to use Halo to make fun of George Floyd's death but then get up in arms about a removed nameplate? This isn't even ignorant racism, it's overt.
 

.exe

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Oct 25, 2017
22,206
Good on 343.
Fun responses. "It's about the principle." Right, right, right.
 
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