Forging home...

And I'm home...I've been traveling for work enjoying free booze and periodically checking up on the apparent "forge grenade" I dropped before I took off. The booze fortunately lessened the blow on some of the ridiculous backlash. Portland has some amazing Pinot, and Utah has some major nom Hefferveisen - thank you west coast!

 

You won't believe me. But I didn't see this coming. Sure, I figured a few people wouldn't be able to look past the bold opener and would be a little weepy. But I naively thought the majority of readers would actually digest my satirical treat and use it as a launchpad to nerd-out on all the possibilities of a new generation of forge. You know, think about it. Discuss it. I'm keenly aware of my relative inexperience with the Halo franchise vis-a-vis the average member of the site (thanks for the reminder though). So I spent several hours writing, re-writing, getting feedback, and researching - all while trusting the community to fill in the blanks.
 

 

Well, you can't win em' all. I read the audiance wrong despite feeling like I had just the right balance of postive insight versus snark to foster vibrant discussion. Knuck-dragging FTL. And I thought the "Your Mom" editorial would garner more heat being the more controversial of the two!

 

I have a feeling I could have ghost-written the article and hit my intended mark (at least closer), but that is bullshit on so many levels that I won't bother entertaining the thought any longer. I also won't give in to the egregious temptation of rebutting the few actual arguments that were made in response to the piece. And I'm putting a gag order on regaling you with all the sick burns I conjured up for the haters. It's hard.

 

But, I am standing behind what I wrote. To those that enjoyed it, my pleasure. For those that didn't... Go play Reach or something.

 

PS

 

I see there's a new Forge section of the forum. I hope you guys have a nice corner to come up with some good shit.