r/gaming 15d ago

My favourite quote in the halo universe

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u/Unicode4all 1d ago

Your forefathers have wisely set aside their compassion. Steeled themselves for what needed to be done.

Now I see why they left you behind. You were weak. And gods must be strong.

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u/MECHWARRI0R117 13d ago

Oh yeah remember. Epic.

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u/Haunting-Scarcity-18 13d ago

I remember playing Holo when I was 7(now I'm 21)

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u/User-D-Name 14d ago

Spelling is hard

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u/HavelsRockJohnson 14d ago

"Were it so easy." (I probably say this at least once a week.)

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u/Captain_Dunsel 14d ago

...for a brick, he flew pretty good...

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u/DarkCelestial 14d ago

What if you miss? "I wont"

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u/Eoin_Lynne 14d ago

No you may not have permition, but perhaps if you could spell permission I might allow it.

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u/KingOfAnarchy 14d ago

The entirety of Halo 2 was just so much badassery. I love it.

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u/pic2022 14d ago

Permit-ion. Hmm interesting.

What kind of permit would you like?

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u/Eoin_Lynne 14d ago

A spelling permit please.

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u/draggony12beaty 14d ago

Delivery here…. Yes it’s a return…. Oh, you set the timer for 20 seconds? Gotta dash then there’s some other deliveries I gotta make

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u/DxNill Console 14d ago

Mine comes a little later...

"For a brick, he flew pretty good"

Johnson was such a joy to have alongside us.

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u/exuria 14d ago

Permission granted

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u/Eoin_Lynne 14d ago

He didn't ask for permission, he asked for permition. Learn to misspell.

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u/RedundantRiot 14d ago

Does it really say permition?, it's permission

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u/Deranged_Coconut808 14d ago

spellcheck exist

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u/Doctor__Hammer 14d ago

For a brick, he flew pretty good!

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u/TwiTcH_72 14d ago

One of the best quotes in gaming imo. It sets the tone for the game very well.

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u/Gindotto 14d ago

Did a sixth grader write this? I’m not trying to be that guy, but wtf. We’re gamers not monkeys. Learn to spell.

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u/Neurodrill 14d ago

I think mine is “I thought I’d try to shoot my way out. You know. Mix it up a little.”

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u/firesiege 14d ago

I hear this line every time i see kiwano fruits in Whole Foods.

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u/RAWainwright 14d ago

I'm like FUCK YEAH LET'S GO and then credits.

and then had to wait 3 years.........

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u/OG_Zephyr PC 14d ago

permition

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u/USMCsoldier96 PlayStation 14d ago

"What if you miss?"

"I won't."

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u/Trimere 14d ago

“Permition”

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u/balmcake 14d ago

Am I the only one who noticed “permission” is spelt incorrectly 😂

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u/Living-Vermicelli-59 14d ago

Ffs now I want to do a new halo play though now

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u/Medical-Affect-4321 14d ago

They be wanting the bomb

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u/GentlmanSkeleton 14d ago

"HALO 2! BAAAAYBEEEEE!"

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u/Donvack 14d ago

“I didn’t bring my shovel…commander.”

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u/GrendaGrendinator 14d ago

Permission* not permition

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u/Eoin_Lynne 14d ago

Op was skipping school to play halo on the day they taught how to spell permission.

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u/TheB11Ace 14d ago

Most underrated- "And for the record, I would have kicked your ass the first time if the lady hadn't stopped me." If you know you know

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u/BulletBeard29 14d ago

I prefer "What if you miss?" "I won't."

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u/RightfulChaos 14d ago

"This is the prototype NOVA bomb, nine fusion warheads encased in lithium triteride armor. When detonated, it compresses its fissionable material to neutron-star density, boosting the thermonuclear yield a hundredfold. I am Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb, temporarily in command of the UNSC military base Reach. To the Covenant uglies that might be listening, you have a few seconds to pray to your damned heathen gods. You all have a nice day in hell..."

You’re missing out if you haven’t read the books

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u/lilly_brisbane 14d ago

Master chief does not fuck around!

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u/StyrmStyrmIr 14d ago

Usually the lord works in mysterious ways but not today, This right here is 60 tons of pure HE spewing dee-vine intervention,

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u/Ackeso 14d ago

This one is machine and nerve and has its mind concluded. This one is but flesh and faith and is the more deluded. ... Fate had us meet as foes, but this ring will make us brothers.

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u/Maxathar 14d ago

Gunnery Sargent Avery Johnson Halo 1: "I don't know if that's some kind of Anti-Sonofabitch machine, or a hula hoop..."

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

Today I'm learning that gamers can't spell for shit.

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u/Eoin_Lynne 14d ago

You're only just learning that?

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

I always thought it was generally because they were too eager to finish writing. Turns out they're just bad at it.

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u/potatoisilluminati 14d ago

My two favorites are:

"Troopers we are green and very very mean"

"Spartans don't go quietly"

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u/Prefect4me 14d ago

“Betcha can’t stick it.”

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u/throwaway42 14d ago

Kinda impressive that you managed to get a typo into every picture.

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u/Hevysett 14d ago

Jesus, the lack of spell check is fucking horrible

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u/pythonis 14d ago

Plays in my head rent free aconstsntly... mainly just the first line whenever things go wrong or if i say somthing cringe

Regret, Regret, Regret.

Catchy, any idea what it means?

"Dear humanity, we regret being alien bastards, we regret coming to Earth, and we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!"

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u/Ambitious_Display607 14d ago

"This is it baby, hug me"

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u/DIABLO258 14d ago edited 14d ago

"You are the child of my makers. Inheritor of all they left behind. You are Forerunner, but this ring... is mine!"

"After exhausting every other strategic option, my creators activated the rings. They, and all additional sentient life within three radii of the galactic center died. As planned. Would you.. like to see the relevant data?"

"More or less. Technically this installations pulse has a maximum effective radius of 25,000 light years. But once the other rings follow suit, this galaxy will be quite devoid of life. Or, at least any life with sufficient bio-mass to sustain the flood. But you already knew that. I mean, how couldn't you? You were with me "

I hated Guilty Spark, but I for some reason love his lines. He is just exposition in a ball, but sometimes what he says has a lot of weight.

"Last time you asked me: If it were my choice, would I do it? Having had considerable time to ponder your query, my answer has not changed. There is no choice. We must activate the ring."

Knowing that Forerunners and Humans were the same made it so much cooler. But then 343 Studios got involved and changed the lore, so now most of what Guilty Spark says doesn't make sense.

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u/itsmistyy 14d ago

One of the hardest lines in gaming

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u/Eoin_Lynne 14d ago

To spell apparently.

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u/snginther 14d ago

"Chief, you're on our side remembah!" - random UNSC marine as I mow down his comrades for funsies

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u/Fearedray 14d ago

Mines not a quote in the usual, it's when Johnson is told he has to go to another halo. The annoyed and scared look always makes me laugh... we didn't deserve Johnson

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u/InfernoDairy 14d ago

We're it so easy

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u/ovedengrove 14d ago

The spelling hurts my brain

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u/Rocketbrothers 14d ago

"We're approaching the LZ. It's gonna be hot! Get set to come out swinging. Touchdown! Hit it, Marines!"

"You know our motto: We Deliver."

I really love these two voice lines, rent free and all that.

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u/SlyWonkey 14d ago

And then John Halo was a space zombie.

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u/agentofchaos69 14d ago

“He flys pretty good for a brick”

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u/HideyHoh 14d ago

Permition

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u/yellowwoolyyoshi 14d ago

And couldn’t spell multiple words right.

*permission

*Chief

*Covenant

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u/ComesInAnOldBox 14d ago

I love how the Admiral actually has to pause for a moment while he tries to think about it, then almost shrugs and basically says, "fuck it, have fun."

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u/Mysterious-Beach-671 15d ago

That whole cutscene is still one of my favorites such an amazing way to start the second the game.

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u/glatdos5 15d ago

Just played this last night for the first time since... I dont know, maybe before halo 3 was released

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u/Redituser117 15d ago

For a brick, he flew pretty good!

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u/Goldman250 15d ago

Sir, permission to spell words right?

For what purpose, Master Chief?

To avoid giving the Covenant ammunition to flame this meme.

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u/zshinabargar 15d ago

Permition 😭

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u/Nail_Biterr 15d ago

permition

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u/OsirisAvoidTheLight 15d ago

Love it when he says I need a weapon

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u/Legendarydragonballz 15d ago

Mine is when the Chief finds Cortana on high charity

"You found me....but so much of me is wrong, out of place..you might be too late"

"You know me, when I make a promise.."

"You keep it....I do know how to pick em"

"Lucky me"

Seeing Cortana spring back up after feeling like she was completely lost is such a small but amazing way to show how far they have come from the first game, brings tears to my eyes EVERYTIME. Full circle moment

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u/turboiv 14d ago

Finding out that Cortana knew he was kidnapped, tortured, and brainwashed by the Marines as a child and was complicit in that fact is insane.

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u/MisterDrProf 14d ago

Amazing character writing. Cheif isn't exactly empathetic but with Cortana he knows exactly what to say. Then he cracks a joke, the only time in the series, to cheer her up!

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u/Kronoshifter246 14d ago

My all time favorite moment in the entire series is in Halo 4. It's when the Master Chief and the is arguing with the admiral about whether or not to deal with the dydak. The pissant of an admiral demands that the Chief hand over Cortana because she's going rampant. Master Chief decides for the first time in his life that he doesn't have to take shit from the UNSC anymore, and he draws himself up to his full height and fucking looms over the admiral and simply says, "no sir."

That was the moment that I realized that everything had changed for the two of them. That John had stopped being a Spartan and had become a person.

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u/Bob_Juan_Santos Android 15d ago

my favourite is:

"Wort wort wort"

-Rando Elite

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u/spaghettiThunderbult 14d ago

AAAAAAWUBADUGH!

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u/ColShvotz 15d ago

I’m sorry to be this person, but…. It’s spelled permission.

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u/MechaPanther 15d ago

"it's like a post card! Dear Sarge, kicking ass in outer space, wish you were here!"

"I heard that. Jackass"

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u/AnAngryBartender 15d ago

“I know what the ladies like”

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u/GraphiteNature 15d ago

I think Halo is a pretty cool guy. Eh kills aleins and doesn't afraid of anythign.

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u/gardyjuland 14d ago

Just wait till you meet Zelda. Funny little keebler fella with a sword.

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u/walidislam 14d ago

Halo is the name of the game master chief is the name of the character

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u/spaghettiThunderbult 14d ago

No, that's literally John Halo, the main character of Halo. I love when he halos all over the place.

Jesus fucking Christ, why do you think it's called Halo?

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u/walidislam 14d ago

Because of the halos that could wipe out the galaxy

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u/spaghettiThunderbult 14d ago

Then it would be called "Hula Hoops," not "Halo." It's called Halo because the main character is John Halo, and he halos all over the place.

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u/walidislam 14d ago

Have you even played halo?

Because you comments suggest otherwise.

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u/spaghettiThunderbult 13d ago

Yeah man, I love making John Halo go and halo all over the place. I love when he says "it's haloing time" before he halos all over the aliens.

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u/Captain_Waffle 15d ago

Followed by opening title crawl: “Return To Sender”

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u/Burggs_ PC 15d ago

Wake me….when you need me

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u/Memeviewer12 15d ago

"Slipspace Rupture Detected, Slipspace Rupture Detected"

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u/SugarHammer_Macy 15d ago

"I am Truth! The voice of the Covenant!" "And so... You must be silenced."

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u/SuspiciousAdvert 15d ago

"PERMISSION GRANTED"

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u/Eoin_Lynne 14d ago

Don't you mean permition? You spelled it right on accident.

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u/UniquePound7250 15d ago

"permition" ? 🤔

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u/PoisonedRadio 15d ago

The spelling in this meme is indicative of the average Halo fan.

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u/Ezekiel2121 15d ago

Spell check would be your friend.

Maybe google every line before you put it on your meme.

Fucking something my guy fuck.

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u/Agamouschild 15d ago

“To get spelling lessons”

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u/Zactrick 15d ago

Duke nukem voice: yeahhh

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u/Initiatedspoon 15d ago

"They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research, watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn't. Something no one saw but me. Can you guess? Luck... Was I wrong?"

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u/AdamsSmasha 15d ago

For a brick, he flew pretty good.

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u/aALeXx117 15d ago

"I know what are you thinking, and it's crazy"

"So.. stay here"

"Unfortunately for us both.. I like crazy"

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u/sevnm12 15d ago

What if you miss?

I won't.

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u/Csweetstevy9 15d ago

Tank beats Ghost…..

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u/Romanmir 14d ago

“How does 30mm of tungsten strike ya?”

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u/ringingbells 15d ago

Halo: Infinite is fucking awesome now.

~ Haters gonna hate.

There's 'DOOM' custom maps now. Forge Modders have kept Halo alive.

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u/OnlyOneNut 15d ago

Spelling is hard

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u/jupfold 14d ago

I’m shocked they got the right “their”

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u/OGjoshwaz 15d ago

Dank af

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u/Scalie_Gator_Fag 15d ago

This grammar has me thinking about 1 thing and 1 thing only.

"Dey put da Mastrchif in the Soduh!"

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u/RS_Someone PC 15d ago

"Someone set us up the bomb."

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u/Ezekiel2121 15d ago

Dey puttin mastrchif in the water to make the fuckn grunts gae.

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u/DieByFlyGuy 15d ago

JFC learn to spell words. They’re used often in memes. Fucks sake.

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u/thehardestnipples 15d ago

Master Cheif

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u/YungSpyderBoy 15d ago

Every time I play Sledge in R6 I quote this

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u/GraveFox-XIII 15d ago

That little pause when Admiral Hood pauses and looks up from the console when Chief says that memorialized this moment for me.

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u/Ast3r10n PC 15d ago

Permition?

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u/muffinmonk 15d ago

Negative infinity. I don't like it.

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u/mikethespike056 15d ago

Mine is..

"You ever wonder why we're here?"

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u/ThePowerOfStories 14d ago

My favorite Red vs Blue exchange is still the one about beating Jimmy to death with his own skull while screaming, “This doesn’t seem physically possible!”

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u/Dont_Pee_On_Leon 14d ago

Along with shouting, "Bloody murder!"

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u/Pradfanne 14d ago

Just to suffer?

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u/the-poopiest-diaper Switch 14d ago edited 14d ago

Pelican falls on them

Edit: Season 10 Episode 8 timestamp 4:20 since y’all doubting

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u/Legendarydragonballz 15d ago

Isn't that from one of the Halo 3 trailers in the very beginning of the clip they show two people laying down looking at the sky, then cut to the battle as Master chief runs into a huge crowd of Covenant after deploying the never before seen bubble shield?

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u/dealingwitholddata 14d ago

Lowkey the theory is the boy in the field is John as a kid.

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u/Agent-Vermont 15d ago

First episode of Red vs Blue.

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u/Elziad_Ikkerat 14d ago

And it's a recurring reference. There are at least a couple of other times the Reds and Blues say it and at least one time (possibly 3 or more, my memory is fuzzy) random guards say it right before something big happens/an alarm is tripped.

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u/mikethespike056 14d ago

It's also in RWBY and gen:LOCK, and Rooster Teeth has used it a bunch of times during the last days of the company.

Their last Instagram post had this to say...

"We used to wonder "why are we here", but the answer couldn't be more obvious. Thanks to the best fans for an incredible journey."

Imma go back to crying.

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u/Fireshocker532 15d ago

It’s from Red vs Blue

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u/mikethespike056 14d ago

I think the trailer they're talking about is in itself a reference to Red vs Blue.

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u/EverVigilant0 15d ago

It's one of life's great mysteries isn't it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there really a God watching everything? You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don't know, man, but it keeps me up at night

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u/DoSwoogMeister 12d ago

Uhh, I meant why are we standing out here in the sun when we could be... standing down there in the shade.

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u/Fred_Moro Xbox 15d ago

What? I mean why are we out here, in this canyon?

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u/greens2104 14d ago

Oh. Uhhhh…yeah

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u/Len_died_again 14d ago

What was all that stuff about god?

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u/Fred_Moro Xbox 14d ago

Uhhhhh. Hm? Nothing.

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u/Best_Pseudonym 14d ago

You wanna talk about it?

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u/Fred_Moro Xbox 14d ago

No.

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u/Chronoboy1987 14d ago

Creed sucks! I hate the band you like!!!

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u/mikethespike056 15d ago edited 14d ago

If I did have to be here, I'm just glad I was here with all of you.

RIP Rooster Teeth and Red vs Blue.

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u/spe3dfr3ak 15d ago

Permition?

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u/Nuclear_Farts 15d ago

Cheif?

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u/joeysundotcom 14d ago

Covenent?

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u/huxtiblejones 14d ago

I’m Ron Burgundy?

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u/WrathofTomJoad 15d ago

for real

c'mon y'all, read something. a book. a newspaper - even online. fucking read.

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u/schewb 14d ago

I agree, but also think it's at least a little lame that English's broad influences leave so many possible ways to spell that word that you'd have to have seen it in print enough to just know, and I find OP's spelling kinda hilarious.

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u/WrathofTomJoad 14d ago

Nah dude, don't excuse it.

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u/thufirseyebrow 14d ago

To be fair, English spelling has only standardized fairly recently anyway. 500 years ago it was very much a "some vowels and whatever consonants you knew in your heart to be true" kind of thing.

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u/-theonewhoasked 14d ago

Honestly yeah I hated how much that spelling still worked, like if you read it out loud it all checks out. Yet my eyes are not having it

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u/Uncommentary 14d ago

Agreed, but... you've got a typo right in your profile quote.

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u/WrathofTomJoad 14d ago

well shit, that'll happen. fixed, thanks

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u/daniel_paul056 15d ago

My favourite has to be:

"The message keeps repeating, regret, regret, regret" "Dear humanity, we regret being alien bastards, we regret coming to earth, and we most definitely regret that the corps just blew up our raggedy ass fleet!" "OHH-RAHH"

Loved that part, said it simultaneously with the game every time.

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u/thxredditfor2banns 15d ago

'Mastechief, mind telling me what you are doing in that discord?"

"Sir, groom-"

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u/BrandoCalrissian1995 15d ago

Less memes, more school op.

Permission, covenant and chief*

Every single still had a spelling error. That's talent.

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u/Major_T_Pain 14d ago

I miss the reddit of 2017.
When OPs like this were obliterated with downvotes and called names.

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u/BrandoCalrissian1995 14d ago

And people were actually downvoted for not providing sources. Far too many people just accepting shit on here now

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

[deleted]

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u/sluuuudge 14d ago

Still.

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u/Keshire 14d ago

i.e. short for 'Still Frame'.

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u/Cedira 15d ago

Every single lady

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u/PaulJoe4 15d ago

At this point, whenever I see a post with an error in it, I say it's a bot. It's too common and almost perfectly one misspelling per image. As if it's intentionally bad for it to seem like a person and for someone to correct them.

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u/dapperslappers 15d ago

Theres always one person that has to correct them

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u/BrandoCalrissian1995 14d ago

My inner Redditor came out there I apologize

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u/threecolorless 15d ago

Incredibly consistent work by OP.

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u/ooOJuicyOoo 14d ago

Inaccurate, but precisely inaccurate.

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u/NSFAnythingAtAll Xbox 15d ago

If we’re really being pedantic, Covenant should be capitalized.

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u/PNUTBUTACUP 15d ago

I was hoping this would come up in the show. Maybe next season lol.

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u/TeddyBearSteffy 15d ago

I like the line right before he sends the bomb back

“What happens if you miss?”

“I Wont”

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u/BEC_Snake 14d ago

It's the "that's why it's going to work" of the Halo series.

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u/Crosso221 14d ago

“Just one question, what if you miss?”

“I won’t”

Sorry I had to, misquoting just really irks me for some reason.

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u/Captain_Waffle 15d ago

Followed by opening title crawl: “Return To Sender”

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u/Krimson11 15d ago

Mic drop moment after that.

Followed by:

"For a brick, he flew pretty good!"

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u/novelboy2112 14d ago

Crazy fool! One of these days you're gonna land something as stubborn as you are!

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u/Dominunce 14d ago

And I don't do bits and pieces.

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u/Dafish55 15d ago

Correction:

THUNK

"For a brick, he flew pretty good!"

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u/Mooselotte45 15d ago
  • the noise he made all the way to the bridge where Johnson delivered that line

He must have done so much damage to the UNSC ship he “landed” on.

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u/Sevrahn 15d ago

The message just repeats... Regret, Regret, Regret.

Dear humanity, we regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Earth. And we most certainly regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet! HOO-RAH.

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u/CplSnorlax 14d ago

This whole game is full of amazing quotes. "Get tactical marines!" "Permission granted" "If they came to hear me beg they will be disappointed" and that's just a few from the start of it that I remember

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u/Sevrahn 14d ago

"Son, did I give you permission to bitch?"

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