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[PA Comic] Monday, January 12, 2015 - Fulmination Re: Culmination
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[PA Comic] Monday, January 12, 2015 - Fulmination Re: Culmination
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Coors part is good tho.
I liked the one where they're in a Gamestop and Gabe shouts that he needs a teacher or something.
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I don't think so. The game itself apparently has some sort of post match celebration thing. Can't find any video though.
Either way I'm not sure what's wrong with what they're complaining about in the comic.
Unless there's a fiction surrounding the deathmatches, like it's a training exercise or something.
Basically, a less extreme version of this one:
What's so bad about Coors Light
4.2% ABV I'm assuming. It all tastes like bitterness to me anyway though.
I am guessing you have never tried a Belgian beer.
Alcohol of any type is bitter to me. The only thing that can even slightly mask this bitterness is fruity soda and even that needs a push with sweet n' sour mix or grenadine.
You assume wrong. There is no correlation between alcohol content and quality. There are great beers with lower ABV than Coors, and there are great beers with 10% ABV.
Coors just tastes like day-old piss.
Seems like they are questioning the verisimilitude of the game, in-context, and stating that it takes them "out of the game" to see what they think is a display of sports bros having sports bro party time after what would be a harrowing life or death situation.
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maybe a fist bump is featured, I don't remember
as 'brodowns' go it is fairly lackluster, to the extent that one might even venture that proper 'bros' would object to its characterization as such
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
That's actually exactly what it is.
Personally I think most wide availability beers are pretty swill tasting.
i do approve of the beer snobbery in this comic
i am conflicted
But my takeaway is that the celebration doesn't really fit the story line/characters. And they are pointing out how the multi-player component is so distant from the single player game that it is carrying itself differently.
That's not even a brodown! That's just celebrating.
To call Coors bad would be admitting it tasted like something. It's just one of the widely available beers in the U.S. and is basically near flavorless beer.
The good news is both they and Budweiser continue to lose ground to better beer.
Going off that video though they're just in an arena shooting at each other for fun. I'm not sure what part of the story it's conflicting with since there is none for that portion.
They're identical.
But in appearance they are still basically Master Chief. I get that there were other Spartans, but they didn't show up in the first three games and there wasn't really a lore explanation for multiplayer matches (as far as I recall).
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i really don't understand this mentality of "it tastes crap but its cheap that's why I drink it"
you are not OBLIGED to drink beer no matter what
i'd sooner drink something else like soda if the only thing available was cheap beer.
Yeah, this.
Given the choice, I'd much rather drink one really nice beer than a six pack of dreck.
When it comes to beer, quality over quantity every time.
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Wasn't the whole thing about the armor that only Spartans could wear it because of how much power it could exert on their body and would utterly destroy a regular person? The Reach book went into that, showing how the Spartans had their bones replaced with a ceramic composite and a general replacement upgrade for their entire biological body.
Also I'd rather drink soda than alcohol any day. Show me a fine lager and I will show you a fine Shirley Temple, with extra cherry.
But before Modern Warfare was a thing, we (in the Army) used to get a shit load of Cat-5 cable, connect all our X-Boxes together, and play Halo 1 all weekend long. We didn't drink beer though, since we only did this on weekends where we couldn't drink because we were on tactical standby. So we replaced alcohol with coffee and stayed up till 5am broing it up and talking shit.
Incidentally, this is also how I came up with the name Mild Confusion! Thanks Halo!
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Yeah Spartan 2's, like Chief, were raised from childhood to be genocidal killing machines and given all sorts of augmentations to wear the first versions of the MJOLNIR armour, so it would be weird for them to be broing down as it were.
Then the UNSC realised kidnapping and effectively brainwashing kids wasn't so great so when it came to Spartan 4's they got adult volunteers from the military, gave them some of the drugs, but none of the physical augmentations, and a weaker, more universal armour.
Yeah for 1,2,3 it was just generic multiplayer with no story. With 4 it explained them as being training sims for Spartan 4's and the Spartan Ops stuff had cutscenes going into more detail about the S 4's. I'm assuming it's the same for Halo 5, as I haven't actually played it, but it would make sense for them to carry on with that.
This is a pretty terrible thing to say dude. All kinds of people serve in the armed forces.
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