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  • I wouldn’t know, actually. Halo 4 is the last game whose campaign I played - since H4 is in the MCC, H5 is not on PC, and H:I costs too much for my opinion of it.

    Halo 5 is infamously more book-dependent than Halo 4, and …

    (spoiler block that I should have used in my previous comment)

    the two things in H:I that follow from H5 are cortana bad and Infinity runs away

    … , so IF you want to skip Halo 5, worst case, you may be missing how you ended up where H:I begins.
    There may be a reference to a certain Spartan Locke here or there, idr.

    I don’t want to spoil your fun, so I’d say you should run through H5 if you’re planning to play Infinite and if (unlike me) you wouldn’t have to buy an Xbox to do so.

    To answer your first question: I can’t say too much about a game that I only vaguely remember from watching a playthrough on YT, but from what I do remember, H:I is somewhat more self-contained.


  • Would’ve bet my money on that exact outcome *^*

    The fact that you didn’t really understand the plot is not your fault: 343I Halo games until H:I have an obsession on requiring you to read books to straighten up the story.

    If you have questions such as:

    1. Why are the covvies the baddies again?
    2. What does the Halsey cutscene have to do with anything?
    3. Who the hell is the Didact?
    4. Why the hell is the Didact doing things?
    5. Who the hell is the Librarian?
    6. Spartans on the Infinity? Wasn’t 117 the last Spartan or something?
    7. Was that ending a QTE?

    … it’s because none of those questions are answered within the main plot of H4.
    Some answers (3,4,5) you can find in books, some (1,2,6) in Spartan Ops (I never even played those), some (7) here on Lemmy - yes that was absolutely a QTE for a final boss in a Halo game.

    If it’s any consolation for Cortana’s death being undone later offscreen, SPOILER AHEAD, her death’s undoing is also undone later offscreen.

    … on second thought, I lied a bit. Halo 4’s main story does answer the first question in the list above, and the answer is “A lot can change in 4 years”.










  • I just use Zsh’s command history, coupled with a bunch of functions and aliases to set up different HISTFILE values for different workflows.

    I keep HISTFILEs clean by prepending a whitespace before commands that I don’t want to remember, which unfortunately gave me the habit of doing that on Bash when Zsh isn’t available (which is ineffective at best, and actively annoying at worst).




  • I saved this post hoping for a useful answer, alsa alas, there seems to be none.
    I’m not an audiophile so I’m more or less spreading misinformation, but I think you’re looking to configure ALSA’s device gain rather than going through pipewire.

    kusivittula here mentioned alsamixer, and I found a StackExchange answer saying that you can save its current state using alsactl store (with sudo or write access to /var/lib/alsa/asound.state).
    Alternatively, you can edit /var/lib/alsa/asound.state yourself.

    It doesn’t work if your problem involves audio streams (so *I* am SOL), but making changes through alsamixer seems to lower my headset’s volume so that I can comfortably set it to 100% through wireplumber - I imagine that would also apply to mic gain.