ADM S Osman

Yesterday was September 14th the same day halo reach came out in 2010 so Happy Birthday to the game that really started all the storytelling experience we know today. Happy Birthday Halo: Reach!

I am interested in seeing this through!

I think its worth checking the Discord API to see if we can indeed connect threads/topics to Discord. This may be something we can ask InvisionByte and Kirill to look into.

Can you share where you are seeing that? She is apart of the Halo TV Show and head of Halo trans-media for the franchise. Transmedia being mixed media and transitory storytelling apart from the game. To my knowledge she is a community favorite here but she did ban quite a few people from a very long time ago for good reason. She was very active on Bungie.net and is a pretty interesting person when you look at her achievements and interests on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiki_Wolfkill

Please be respectful. Bonnie Ross is a leader to me, a role model to me and pushed diversity and always pushing boundaries at 343 Industries and Xbox. She is the epitome of a career women many others look up too for generations to come. I’ve had the chance to work in her philanthropic venture with Microsoft Women in gaming community and saw her generosity through others helping each other and inspiring young women to follow into gaming, technology and science careers. I myself work in the STEM field after playing Halo being curious since Halo 4 of the art design and UI direction from artists she employed tactfully. To me, I owe my inspirations to her and she will continue to be one of my heroes regardless of what anyone says. I really wish her the best in her future endeavors and am excited to follow whatever next ventures she finds in the gaming industry or beyond it. I wanted to share this here, because I want everyone else to really look back and see all the good she has done here. Having filled the shoes of a role that is now split between 3 people, she pioneered a new model being the first innovative leaders for women and helping diversity both in the story of Halo and its studios internally. Her history and career In 2005, Ross was a general manager for Microsoft Game Studios (now Xbox Game Studios). When Halo developer Bungie split from Microsoft in 2007, Microsoft created a new internal team to oversee the franchise. Ross recalled that her colleagues felt Halo was a waning property and looked at contracting an outside company to produce new games, but she argued differently.  Ross had first become acquainted with the franchise through the tie-in novel Halo: The Fall of Reach. The deep backstory and universe in the novel appealed to her. Ross' pitch won over Microsoft Game Studios general manager Shane Kim, and she was put in charge of the new studio, 343 Industries. Beginning in late 2007, 343 Industries started with a staff of roughly a dozen people. Bungie staffer Frank O'Connor assisted in the transition, and expected Ross would be an executive with no knowledge of Halo or its appeal. Instead, Ross impressed O'Connor with her deep knowledge of the franchise, and O'Connor quit Bungie to join 343 Industries as franchise director. Ross' vision for Halo also impressed art director Kiki Wolfkill, who joined the team as a studio head. During the transition, Ross worked with the company Starlight Runner to interview Bungie staff and compile a centralized story bible for the universe. 343 Industries also worked with Bungie on their last Halo projects, Halo 3: ODST (2009) and Reach (2010). 343 Industries has also collaborated with other studios to produce Halo games, such as Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo: Spartan Assault, and Halo Wars 2. Noticing how few women attended gaming events like E3, Ross helped found a networking group that evolved into the Microsoft Women in Gaming community and a yearly event. She believes gaming can serve as a way to get young people interested in STEM careers by relating it to something they enjoy. Ross has worked to hire more female game developers so more women can find role models within the industry, and worked with the Ad Council's #SheCanSTEM campaign. Head of Xbox Phil Spencer said Ross' profile helped attract female talent to the company. Ross told 60 Minutes she believes more diverse teams result in more innovation and creative output. Pierre Hintze is a product of that. Bonnie Ross has led 343 Industries and the Halo franchise at Microsoft for 15 years, having worked for the company for the past 27 in and around Xbox. Bonnie Ross worked within Microsoft's games business for the best part of three decades, working on franchises like Gears of War, Alan Wake, and even third-party publishing deals on titles like Jade Empire and Mass Effect. Most famously, she took the reins at 343 Industries after pitching her vision for Halo, against a Microsoft corporate climate that felt as though the franchise was in decline. Both before and after the creation of 343i, Ross and her team collaborated to ship several acclaimed Halo products, including Halo 3: ODST, Halo Reach, Halo Anniversary, Halo Spartan Assault/Strike, and Halo Wars 2.

I looked up some, I do not know Admiral Thrawn for all these quotes. Also is this a voice actor?

Why does he think the domain is worth $30,000?

I just checked opening a private window, it is inaccessible

This is sure to be an success with the experience and talent behind this project. I hope they do not become over ambitious and stressed out by these anxious times for the franchise.

I've been reading very strong emotional opinions to #fire343 and #fireBonnieRoss which have been all baseless to say no more than people are dissatisfied with Halo again. While I also am not happy with where Halo is I think its important to open this discussion on where and how Bonnie could be responsible and what speculative information we have to work with. A big argument to Bonnie Ross still being employed is the considered bad optics of firing a female industry leader. This is an even more troubling issue of poor mismanagement at an higher level than the studios, if its considered true. In 2014, Fortune listed Ross as one of "10 powerful women in video games", which noted that she was "responsible for defining the vision and leading the Halo franchise". While this is almost a decade ago already I don't believe Bonnie Ross is at fault, having personally spoken with her at several events. It is a very interesting question to raise why is she not held responsible. Many are commenting in the hashtags I mentioned that Microsoft does not care about Halo but we actually see it the other way. Microsoft as a corporation is trying to secure a profit margin by Bonnie & 343 Industries and so long as they meet data-driven goals set by Microsoft there is no real reprecussion. Unfortunately this same data is internal company information and not easily accessible to make informed opinions on but it could be the only reason Bonnie is also successful. TLDR; the metrics to measure success are in her favor whatever public opinion there might be and that should be welcomed and okay. Halo might just be the first of many games where the community is being marginalized by Microsoft standard business practices, I think this would be a great thread in itself considering Microsoft is acquiring so many other studios.

I want to apologize to everyone for the lack of presence, I am overworked in the creative industry and while some of you may have caught me playing Halo Wars 2 recently the reality is that I do not have more time to enjoy Halo as much as I did before. With 343 Industries recent announcements and even our sources inside of the studios and with Microsoft confirm that the recently revealed roadmap is the expected timeline for everything up until June 2023 I cannot help but think what community there is to build as others tear each other down. I am exhausted from arguing with others on where Halo should be, what Halo could be and why Halo is the right game to build a community. To not stray far from the topic title, with this games release I have made up my mind to leave this community and start a new one, a theme or faction in the Harry Potter universe. Hogwarts Legacy is the dream game I have always looked forward too out of any game studio and I am genuinely excited to try it out even in its overly ambitious features and high risk to under deliver on many of its promises. TLDR; I am a bigger fan Harry Potter and it has made me realize that I am not openly making time to play Halo, as part of staff its my responsibility to open my position to someone else as I realize my goals in gaming. Prior to its release, you can already interact with their site. Connect your account for in-game rewards! [ https://www.wizardingworld.com/legacyconnect ]

Anyone currently using Windows 11?

The video is age-restricted and only available on YouTube. Very tragic event, I cannot imagine the fear those marines had.

All popcorn buckets are exclusive to Japan. You also really did not enjoy Nintendo World? I liked it, the interactive wrist band is actually a coy to spend more money. You do not need to be a kid to do the interactive bits around the world. My only thing I did not like was that despite it being new it does not include any Luigi Mansion or mentions of Daisy and Super Mario Galaxy which I would have thought had potential for story and rides. I was there before COVID lockdown too and it was crowded.

Flights are still $1500 to Japan, you have 8 people who could pay $1000 to stay for 12 days? It is already well out of anything I would want visiting Japan.

Ah was just typing something up myself. In my philanthropic work of our local home state of Seattle I find it absolutely intolerable that this happened. However as I understand it the 'Bonobo' tool automatically named the emblem after itself. 343 Industries is very, VERY actionable and over enforcing when it comes to discrimination and I can think of one of the funniest bans I've seen of you actually where you called Snickerdoodle, Snickerdoodle in an asian cup ramen stereotype reference and watching them kick and ban you from the Halo discord server. While that might have been isolated and other people like XLR8 are still in 343 Industries as a moderator or other. I don't think they did this on purpose. The apology was relatively quick, the update for the game too which I am surprised it did not take another month to release a fix and close 343 supporters defended this incident with the revelation of this Bonobo tool. The same apology though I do not think it is enough from Bonnie Ross. She owes us more engagement in the direction of the franchise being the founder and head of 343 Industries. She should be apologizing for being inept in addition to allowing racism, in its unperceived impact.

It is interesting. I definitely agree that the politicians now far outlived the use to its population, being completely several generations away from the current highly contested and ultimately subjects that call for leadership.

This is really nice.. but its $30k entrance fee and than an $8k yearly membership fee... I am sorry but that is unaffordable. Also this isn't the right forum for planning.

Do you have any other features to add that is already out there like this one?