A cinematic artist in the gaming industry gave harsh critiques of this Halo Campaign Evolved cinematic on LinkedIn: “It's hard to believe that this Cinematic for one of gaming's most iconic levels is what Halo Studios is shipping, but it appears to be. From the original 18-second cinematic, which had: -A great establishing shot, showing the scale of the area, reinforcing the rings grand architecture -Sleeping grunts, foreshadowing upcoming ambush gameplay (you're making a game, remember?) -A quick gag of the grunts running scared We now have a bloated 30-second cinematic of: -A more constrained establishing shot. -Doorway framing, a cinematic language of its own not appropriate for a scene like this -Grunts awkwardly... arguing? Standing around? Flailing their arms? What are they even doing? Why are we watching them do this for so long? -A stupid compression-effect shot on the grunt, so clearly made by someone just ITCHING to make a shot like this -Inappropriate for Halo, an enemy, and for a character who you cant even see the face of. -The cherry on top is the fully disconnected lighting between the cinematic and the gameplay space as the cinematic ends Stuff like this needs to be rightly criticized, and all the more for remakes, which should have none of the confusion and cross-department bickering as new games might. You're remaking a game. You know the space. You know the story. You should know the intent.”

Average Phoenix sunset

First day of the World Cup. Good luck and positive vibes to all service industry staff, especially the openers.

June Jam fomo is real. I yearn for the playa.

All these new games look so terrible.

Putting wristbands on people is lowkey a top 10 stressful situation

Every normie EDM group chat this morning: “New Skwiwicks owbum!!”

My lofi usb is so much hotter than my club usb and she always pays me my dues.

My crew started doing these matinee coffee shop takeovers in Phoenix and in the last week I’ve seen ads for 3 other events trying to do the same thing. Word spreads fast.

They don’t know it’s sweet potatoes

Well there goes 20K down the drain

Neighbors are getting a new roof on Memorial Day 💀

Forza Horizon devs are diabolical for adding the Windows USB disconnected sound as an unlockable horn in game.

All the Phoenix house heads are at Jobot Coffee for Houseblend today!

Phoenix has been trying real hard to destroy my car this last year…

200 hours into Crimson Desert and I think this is the most time I've ever sunk into a single-player RPG. I'm only on Chapter 8 of the main story. Absolutely loving it.

We are NOT wishing dog moms a happy Mother’s Day.

Damn, Kyle from 1320 has passed away. What a shitty year for the car community. Literally one of the best OG content creators in the game. RIP.