I was so sad to see that Natalie removed all of her older vids around the same time she uploaded Shame, some of them were pretty enjoyable and hilarious. I understand that she may have done it because it causes her an unbearable amount of dysphoria to see them, but I wish there were somewhere I could go to rewatch classics like Pickup Artists.

Reviews for the Halo Infinite campaign are rolling out as of December 6th, 12:01AM PT. This is your last warning to go dark to avoid spoilers.

We’ll be compiling a ton of reviews from various press outlets and linking them, their score and a brief quote from their content here.

It goes without saying that there will be spoilers in these reviews. While the press have been asked to keep some details under wraps, it will still include major and minor plot details. We ask that anyone wanting to discuss Campaign spoilers do so with well-marked spoiler tags, or to not do so at all.

Review Aggregator:

OpenCritic - 86 average - 94% recommended - 107 reviews

Critic Reviews

AltChar - Adnan Kljajić - 8 / 10

>Halo Infinite multiplayer is truly a love letter to old school shooters and a proper return to the qualities that originally made the series famous. Whether you are looking for smaller, more organised, matches or all-out warfare with vehicles, you have a lot to enjoy in this game.

Area Xbox - Kevin Arbelo - Spanish - 9.7 / 10

>The Master Chief's latest adventure feels very solid and has quickly become one of my favorite titles of the year. It is difficult to find FPS with better sensations at the controls than those that Halo Infinite has transmitted to me. From its gunplay, through its artificial intelligence, its performance and of course its spectacular sound section. Without a doubt, an adventure designed for the enjoyment of the player.

Areajugones - Alfonso Cánovas - Spanish - 9.2 / 10

>Halo Infinite's compendium is a remarkable one, a game that excels in all areas and that properly shows the hard work that 343 Industries has put in the game. The campaign is cool and th

Hey guys, I’ve watched the series almost 4 times now, looking for clues, and damn if there aren’t a few great ones in the very early diner scene with Tai and Shauna. I watched that scene, and then the other episodes, from the perspective of our survivors trying to hide from the remaining survivors. Instead of trying to avoid “what happened out there?”, what if they’re really hiding from the others, not just the press and “cannibalism” (I agree with many on here that the cannibalism, if it happened, was secondary to the ritual.)

Watching from this angle changed the way I thought about a lot of things going on. I believe that our survivors are not really friends at all, just those who escaped the cult (thanks to Natalie?)

Thoughts?

Spoilers for episode 10 and discussions of suicide in this post.

During the final scene with Nat, when she's in her apartment ready to commit suicide, she very clearly presses down on the trigger. All the discussions I can find about that scene say she is "about to pull the trigger" when the cult breaks down her door, but she does pull the trigger before they come in.

The timestamp is 55:56 - she distinctly pulls down on the trigger and it makes a clicking sound. Her facial expression also changes to one of stronger despair/anguish after she pulls the trigger and nothing happens.

My initial thought was that the powers of the cult caused the gun to malfunction and not go off, perhaps because they need Natalie alive for some reason.

After going back and rewatching, though, I think that what happened (whether it was influenced by the powers of the cult or not) isn't that the gun malfunctioned. I believe that Natalie forgot to take the safety off - the same way she forgot to take the safety off when she tried to kill her father.

I apologize if this has been discussed before or was super obvious. I couldn't find much online discussing that she actually pulled the trigger, just that she was close to committing suicide.

Alien-Nation Chapter 82: Entente

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Hello all. Work has been busy, I hope I haven't kept you waiting too long. I'm aware this chapter isn't quite in straight-chronological order, but this was done by design- I have to cut back a few minutes when I jump to Elias's perspective- and more on that at the end. For now, I hope you enjoy this chapter. [Hi kids, do you like violence?]

"You may not have any reason to trust or believe me, but I need your help.”

Amilita knew the voice well from studying his propaganda films.

“And why should I help you?” The audio tape device continued whirring, and an answer was not forthcoming. Amilita realized it was just a recording, not a live signal.

“You may not believe helping me is in your best interests, and will reject my offer out of hand. But consider my deeds so far: I have executed traitors to mankind’s best interests, spoken nothing but truth in all my broadcasts, and have killed a predatory governess who trafficked children, a slaver by any other name. I performed the deed of killing her with my own hands, as would you if she had taken your own son, and then providence gave you the chance to make vengeance where time could never restore what was lost.”

Amilita had to admit he was right. Nothing would have stood in her way if anyone had kidnapped her son. She glanced over at the static hologram on her desk. Her son had just turned five, and he was opening presents while surrounded by his sisters. She watched the image change to one of him reaching for a fruit on a vine while riding on her husband’s shoulders, both of them smiling warmly. But…how had he even known she had a son? Adopting those new communication protocols at the base was looking wiser and wiser, even if they’d led to the disaster today. The chances of a sympathizer were low, but she’d seen women do a lot of stupid things to win over a male.

“*I am not a monster, Lieutenant Colonel Amilita. I am a man of my word. So when I say that I wish these hostages to be returned unharmed, and that I will honor any agreement we come to, you know that I will

Meme here

Oh, and some fan-art of Elias (note: costume isn't exact- it's a re-work of the original image, so don't mind if it's not precisely as-writ.)

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(I Promise this is the end of 'Award')

#Alien-Nation Chapter 78 (Award IV)

Amilita led me from the bathrooms, back outside to where the catering was, and true to our prediction, the cameras followed closely, bobbing along as we walked down the front stairs together.

“So what now?”

She said a word I didn’t recognize, not even looking down at me, instead forward as we strode past where the cameras were waiting, and back out into the sun.

“Sorry, what was that word?” I asked politely.

“I’m told it’s like your version of ‘Smile and wave’,” Amilita supplied, stopping at last once we were on the steps, looking out over the enormous grass lawn and the afternoon’s proceedings. I made a quick note that the table of books had been completely picked through. “I think Natalie just ate too much and got nervous. She doesn’t have the…” The Officer searched for words before settling on: “...the toughest constitution. I’m sure she will be fine.”

I forced myself to calm down, and gazed down at my new omni-pad. I wanted nothing more than to run back to the bathroom, to hell with everything else, but… it was kind of true. I wanted to point out how she’d trucked Jordan way back at the track party, but it was true that she was absolutely dwarfed by almost every other Shil’ in attendance. Was she naturally given to panic? How much did I really know about her?

I felt a little warmth in my chest, remembering how she’d held me at the covered bridge.

I know enough.

I spoke the words ‘translate Smile and Wave’ in English into my omni-pad, holding down a button to activate the microphone. I watched it automatically pull up its ‘translation’ feature, and the device pulse in its bright, rainbow colors from the center. The information came up much faster than on the one I’d been given by Talay, and even more impressive, the translation was fully nuanced, rather than a direct series of translations of ‘smile’ ‘and’ ‘wave.’ The middle framed a phonetic sounding for me, with all the little nitty-gritty details of the word’s etymology underneath. This was all way, way more information than I’d had access to before.

I experimentally tried the word out silently a few

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Introduction

Every year in December a predictable pattern of memes appears claiming Christmas is a Christian hijack of a pagan festival. These memes are inconsistent on the details of exactly what was hijacked. Sometimes it's the seasonal solstice celebration, sometimes it's the Roman festival Saturnalia, sometimes it's the memorial of the Mesopotamian god Tammuz, sometimes it's the festival of the Roman god Sol Invictus and Mithraism. But they all agree on one point; Christmas was invented as a Christian takeover of an original pagan festival.

For a five minute video version of this post, go here.

Why this bad history persists

Certain standard reference works, such as the New Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of World Religions, actually support this claim with soberly written and referenced articles.

>"The reason why Christmas came to be celebrated on December 25 remains uncertain, but most probably the reason is that early Christians wished the date to coincide with the pagan Roman festival marking the “birthday of the unconquered sun” (natalis solis invicti); this festival celebrated the winter solstice, when the days again begin to lengthen and the sun begins to climb higher in the sky." [1]

Internet fact checker Snopes agrees; Christmas was invented to provide an alternative to the celebrations of Mithraism, a rival pagan religion which threatened Christianity.

>"The idea of celebrating the Nativity on December 25 was first suggested early in the fourth century CE, a clever move on the part of Church fathers who wished to eclipse the December 25 festivities of a rival pagan religion, Mithraism, which threatened the existence of Christianity." [2]

This is supported even by more scholarly online sources such as The Conversation, "an independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research community".

>"It was chosen by Pope Leo I, bishop of Rome (440-461), to coincide with the Festival of the Saturnalia, when Romans worshipped Saturn, the sun god. ...Leo thought it would distract his Roman congregation from sun worship by celebrating the feast of Christ’s birth on the same day. ...It is true to say that the west

The nurse asked the rabbit, “what is your blood type?”

“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.

Well, the 40k limit strikes again. Had to cut some stuff until next chapter. Life's been busy as heck, but the next chapter's mostly complete, should drop it in fairly soon, then we can get to death, explosions, and more fun.

It's been such an issue that I can't even 'next' in Award pt. I because it is at that 40k limit. I can't put the link in. (Something in there has to go. I eliminated the "First" chapter link in it- but yeah. It's being a major fly in the ointment. Award was always a doozy to write, and tedious, but important. It has always been about setting the stage. We'll see what shakes out.)

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Alien-Nation Chapter 76: Award (pt. II)

I’d been inside Archmere’s presentation hall, once. The ceiling was like a coloured sky of stained glass, spots of radiance obscuring white clouds on a blue background. Rays shining through to reach the outskirts of vibrant spots before the stained glass ended, greeted by brassy metallics, wooden beams and ceramic tiles. The human natural and ancient materials, and even a fountain in the center of the room gave the whole inside a very intimate, and human-scale sense of proportions.

It also was far too small to be used for the sheer number of visitors, apparently. Which meant this whole affair was set to be carried out on the wide grassy lawn in front of the building. I couldn’t even begin to count the number of people sitting in front of me now, waiting for me to open my mouth and either make a fool of myself or carve out my footnote in history. The odd proportions of the chairs and the female Shil'vati dwarfing the humans sitting beside them threw off any estimates I could have hoped to make.

I took a deep breath in.

Don’t even try and count them, we don’t have all day up here.

I launched into it in High Shil’.

“Gentlemen and Ladies, thank you all for coming. I admit that it’s a considerably larger audience than I’d been assured would be in attendance, but it is still excellent to see all of you gathered here today.”

I could hear a few murmurs of breath as I spoke in High Shil’, and, if everything was going to plan, an English translation should have appeared on the display screen behind me. I reminded myself to raise my voice a bi

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

Last week, me and my working fingers brought you a Wild Card Mailbag, replete with all the gimmicks and gags that drew some of you into the BS vortex to begin with. I'm grateful for the rave reviews I received from a lot of you, but more importantly, I'm grateful that we ended up on the plus side last week despite my stupid, stupid, stupid Steelers pick (more on that later). Now we're entering the Divisional Round, where Bill's most recent column covered the growing rift between Bill Belichick and Tom Brady back in early 2018 that Simmons took very seriously, giving full respect and credit to journalist Seth Wickersham for his reporting, which turned out to be accurate on almost every count.

Wait, no, just kidding, he lampooned Wickersham, and questioned most of his claims, for eight paragraphs. And then the Pats blew the Super Bowl (to Nick Foles, whom Bill refers to in this article as "Farson Wentz," because he's a farcical Carson Wentz, great joke)...and then Brady and Belichick rode a Dee Ford netural zone infraction to the Super Bowl...and then Brady threw a pick-6 (on his last pass as a Patriot) to the nobody-believes-in-us Titans...and then Brady won a much less fluky title with the Bucs last season. Oh, and, once again, Wickersham nailed the piece and Bill decided to johnny-come-lately it and pretend like he had always accepted Wickersham's version of events. Not true. The internet is forever, Billy boy.

I spend this time dragging Simmons a bit because that seems to be exactly what you heathens want. Earlier this week I opened up my DMs to you, the r/billsimmons faithful, to share your own mailbag questions. I'm going to keep your identities secret (names and towns below will be fake; questions will be real), but it's probably no secret to you that the primary topic of conversation was laughing at those same Patriots whom Wickersham reported on those four short years ago.

I heard all week about Belichick's genius defensive gameplan being the x factor in Pats/Bills. Then the Bills offense took the field.

--Patrick, Ohio

This was hilarious. I remember listening to Nora on the Ringer NFL Show suggesting that he might just have some kind of magic solutio

Game Information

Game Title: Halo Infinite

Platforms:

• PC (Dec 8, 2021)
• Xbox One (Dec 8, 2021)
• Xbox Series X/S (Dec 8, 2021)

Trailers:

• Halo Infinite | Multiplayer Season 1 Cinematic Intro
• Halo Infinite | Campaign Gameplay Premiere – 8 Minute Demo
• Halo Infinite | Campaign Gameplay Trailer
• Halo Infinite - E3 2018 - Announcement Trailer

Developer: 343 Industries

Publisher: Xbox Game Studios

Review Aggregator:

OpenCritic - 86 average - 94% recommended - 93 reviews

Critic Reviews

ACG - Jeremy Penter - Buy

>Video Review - Quote not available

AusGamers - KostaAndreadis - 8 / 10

>In the end though it’s hard to fault what 343 Industries has accomplished with Halo Infinite. It’s very much the spiritual successor it purports to be -- with forward thinking design and elements that flow in a way that reminds you of the timeless nature of the fluid, stylish combat of old. The lack of co-op is something you feel, but in terms of cinematic spectacle this is the Master Chief carrying the flag once more for Xbox. Albeit in that new-school form of being able to jump in and, well, play anywhere.

CGMagazine - Khari Taylor - 9.5 / 10

>Unencumbered by the baggage of the upcoming story campaign, Halo Infinite Multiplayer is arguably the definitive incarnation of the franchise’s online competitive component and is strong enough to stand on its own despite its F2P leanings.

COGconnected - Garrett Drake - 76 / 100

>I’ve shared many gripes I have with Halo Infinite. I’ve shared them meticulously because I love this franchi

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

The doctor says it terminal.

Do your worst!

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.