Fundamentally cannot have a good faith conversation. I guess it should be no surprise that the coward who's throwing insults is the one who locks his tweets.

Lmfao he blocked me for this

You fail to realize that the One interpretation you are stripping is the most important, the Artists! Why is everyone else's interpretation more important than the one you made it? I've never claimed you CAN'T have other interpretations of media, just that you shouldn't completely devalue the Artist's vision to have your interpretation. As for the Didact, I'm pointing out your hypocrisy. You keep telling me to ONLY look at the media at hand, Halo CE, but then use a character from later media, Halo 3 (or 4 if you consider 343i's Didact). Again, He can still refer to Chief, but that doesn't change why Guilty Spark would assume Chief already knows this information.

It's in the art design too!

Again, you're username proves accurate. You can also criticize the application of that intent, themes, etc. Great example of that is the Starship Troopers movie. Paul Verhoeven set out to make a satire of a book he didn't even read. The result is that his satire generally failed in the eyes of the average movie-goer. A good deal of understanding media or art in general is understanding what the artist was going for, and contrasting that intent with how well it translates to the finished product. Art without an artist is soulless, and can thus have any meaning applied to it, regardless of fact or even the media itself. This is obviously the case by the amount of shipping fandoms that exist for children's shows or games. It's also clear this is how you handle Halo, arbitrarily applying retcons from other media, to media that doesn't feature them. I haven't forgotten you bringing up the Didact, someone never mentioned what-so-ever in Halo CE, yet you used him in our last thread as the explanation for Guilty Spark's sentence in CE "Last time you asked me..." The fact is, that line was written with the intent that he assumed Humanity already knew about their ancestry, and it made no logical sense to him that we wouldn't. Nowhere in that cutscene does he state or imply he thought Chief was someone else, much less the Didact.

I understand what Death of the Author means perfectly well, unfortunately it is used like a cudgel by people like you who can't accept when an author or artist has a vision in mind. It's disrespectful to the artist or artists involved, regardless of whether you agree with them or not. It also takes far more mental gymnastics to say "The people who made the media are wrong and I'm write about the media!" Yes media should be judged on it's own merits, but often the Artist's intention and vision can give great insight into their art and reveal much of the meanings behind their work. You need only look at LoTR or Narnia for great examples. To divorce Tolkien from Middle Earth would strip Middle Earth of all it's life, themes, and meaning. Such is the case with stripping Bungie from Halo.

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My friend we had a whole thread about this, he was written to think Humanity already knew about their ancestry and the rings. And because you keep bringing up Death of the Author, I'll address it. It's a concept only used by people who cannot reconcile with their own cognitive dissonance. It's for people who simply cannot fathom that they might like something made by someone they dislike, or that the author had put their own creative input into their art. You fundamentally cannot separate art from the artist without losing a great deal of the art.

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The one writing that terminal is Mendicant Bias, an AI. His masters are the Forerunners. Once he betrayed his masters, now he speaks to the player about not betraying you (I wonder why he refers to you both the same way) It's never implied to be a separate species, and its been stated explicitly not to have been bu Paul Russel. Mendicant Bias also says this of Reclaimers in Contact Harvest:

Thanks for making it obvious you can't read. Nowhere does it say they are a separate species. Infact, check out this quote from one of the devs regarding the terminals:

Doesnt matter how many times you get proven wrong, you're gonna keep spouting misinformation.

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Except it was not a theory regarding the Forerunners. Infact that screenshot from Paul Russel is quite the opposite, explicitly saying what the Terminal story was about, and what the Forerunners were. I mentioned the castaway theory because it pertains to this and is a good clear example of what Bungie was going for with their story.