Ashlet: Combat Evolved (@ashlet.northsky.social)

I'm going to have a Hell of a time sealing my map when it's all done. I'm merging like 5 different BSPs into one fully sealed Halo map. Why did I decide to do this? 😭

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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I love it when I try something in Blender and can see the proverbial [Blender Skill +] above my head.

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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I'm a sick lil critter, might as well work on my Halo map.

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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God damn I love them.

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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She told me "CNC is a third date kink." 😭

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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It should have been me 😤

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waking her up from a nap with warm breath and gentle kisses on her back 😌💖✨

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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Evil thoughts attacking 🙃

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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AaahsidvIGsuavOVa I FUCKING LOVE WOMEN. I FUCKING LOVE MY PARTNERS. I FUCKING LOVE TRANNIES.

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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Y'all ever notice that the people with the worst fucking opinions imagineable can't formulate a coherent sentence to save their fucking lives? It's all run-on sentences and zero punctuation sandwiched between the mosy hateful, ignorant shit.

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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I didn't learn a semblance of good grammar until I was an adult. Something is horribly wrong with education and we're just letting it happen. We could simply just not be raising a generation of knuckle dragging bigots but our alegiance to billionaires prevents us from having good things.

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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Went to r/fascistsandmassivecunts and I asked anyone if they knew you and they all said "no, I've never heard of her before, by the way give us your address, we want to hate crime you, you stupid f****t." and I said "Whoa, what the fuck is with the hostility?"

chelsea bridge 🩸@secretaboutbox.bsky.social

went to r/gaslighting and everyone told me i was making you up

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and I said "I can't discern tome through text and while you may be acting in a facetious way, it's indistinguishable from the genuine deal." and they said "That's actually some very useful feedback. Thanks. We may introduce a rule to institute manditory tone indicators moving forward."

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and I said "Cool."

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chelsea bridge 🩸@secretaboutbox.bsky.social

went to r/gaslighting and everyone told me i was making you up

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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and they said "look at the name of the sub, dumb ass" and I said, "oh my bad. The sub's picture is similar to a sub I frequent. My bad." and they said "It's all good. The name is a bit anyway, we're not actually fascists and massive cunts."

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Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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Literally braver than the troops.

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LLMs aren't conscious until i can crack their eggs using only sissy hypno and redgifs links

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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Passport has now arrived. Soon I'll have that gorgeous overalled wolf-goddess enbie in my grasp. 😤

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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Too easy.

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Wife says I look nice for our anniversary. I don't see it.

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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Wife says I look nice for our anniversary. I don't see it.

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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OH MY FUCKING GAWD FINALLY!! Time to wrap it up, boys. This is what I was sticking around for. There is quite literally nothing left for me to do on here. It was a good ride everyone but all good things etc.

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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I keep seeing wire frames every time I look somewhere else. Maybe it's time to take a break. I've made much progress today.

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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Okay, I'm getting better at my "Make sure the BSP isn't fucked up before making changes" game.

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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Halo Hot Take: The cassette futurism aesthetic of the first three Halo games were peak. Holograms should be reserved for moments of great importance. Let screen displays be on screens and let Cortana be a hologram.

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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Also screens should be cheap looking. Why would a military dish out money for high tech glass projection monitors when a 720p LCD monitor gets the job done fine?

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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Halo Hot Take: The Spartan Laser is awful but so is the stupid fucking spike launcher from Infinite. Give the spike launcher the charge up time of the laser and make it actually stake enemies to surfaces on a direct hit.

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FPS Hot Take: Vehicles should be nigh indestructible to snipers but weak against even lesser explosive types.

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FPS Hot Take: Dual Wielding is cool, but good.

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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I have some very firm opinions on first person shooter design, and I have yet to be shown why I shouldn't hold those opinions. Hot take: Shotguns should be "overpowered." Meaning they can kill from medium range with relative ease.

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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Doom 2016 had incredible multiplayer and I'm tired of pretending like it didn't. There was a throwing star that you could use to teleport, it played exactly like Quake 3 and had better character customization than your favorite Halo game.

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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Y'all really think it's cute when I type out my thoughts about Halo. Here's one: Cutting out secondary use cases from weapons and turning them into equipment is just plain silly. Repulsor on projectiles and grenades was already an effect of the gravity hammer.

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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Repulsor jumping was done with a shield trade off in the form of grenade and rocket jumping. The grappleshot is just a beefed up version of how the energy sword works in Halo 2 but with a third of the charges. active camo and overshield were just pickups. thrusters were inate in Halo 5.

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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The shroud could've been a grenade type. Hell, half of the equipment in Halo 3 could've just been new grenade types. The bubble shield was originally meant to roll. Remember what they took from you.

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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Hot take: The grappling hook in Halo Infinite should have been a weapon, not equipment, and it should have been the energy sword.

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I wish I had stuck with it, but I had some preliminary data on Halo Infinite that I was collecting on auto starts (AR and magnum) vs precision starts (BR and AR.) The data was trending towards players not trading up weapons in exchange for their BR in most matches.

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after the match to determine player placement and swap frequency. This was done in both auto and precision starts playlists across and accounting for multiple gametypes. Conclusion*: A small sample of players showed more willingness to trade out weapons in auto starts, often times for a precision-

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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Also player placement seemingly had only a minor increase on weapon swap frequency. With higher placements being slightly more willing to swap weapons.

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weapon, but also for non-precision weapons with more frequency in auto starts matches than precision starts matches. Maps swayed results marginally, but the trends remained consistent. Possible issues with the methodology: Choosing to compete but not swap weapons could skew results as the average-

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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number of available weapons on the map was higher without me being involved in the process whatsoever. A possible way to fix this bias is by finding willing participants in a cohort of players selected at random to represent a population and spectating the behavior of two full teams.

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Observation: Players seemingly trade out their weapons less frequently with precision starts than auto starts. Research: Seemingly no research has been done into the causal relationship between starting weapon and weapon trades. Competetive community typically asserts a higher swap frequency.

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Hypothesis: Auto starts trade more due to the lower performance floor. Thus slotting the BR into a mid tier power weapon category. Methodology: To minimize bias I played matches without swapping my weapons ever, only measuring per capita among participants that weren't aware using theater mode-

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The hypothesis was that the BR seemingly slots in as a mid-tier power weapon and trivializes a quarter of the weapons sandbox. When it's something to be fought over it makes for a more varied match, encouraging different playstyles.

Ashlet: Combat Evolved

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I like to think my methodology was fairly solid with some minor flaws, and what data I did collect showed a trend. Precision starts creates a bland gameplay loop. Everyone holds onto their BR and doesn't swap out weapons, even for other mid-tier power weapons.