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Subject: Theories/Proof?!?!?!?!?

Poll: Theories/Proof Threads....Truth or Nonsense  [closed]
They are nonsense:  80%
(8 Votes)
They are the truth:  20%
(2 Votes)
Total Votes: 10

Well to be honest i'm getting quite annoyed about those theories etc. these days.
It's like everyone post a theory about: I know all the Spartans/Proof that Reach is the planet in the Halo 3 legendary ending....
So the point is: do you want to make yourself look smart or something???? it's really annoying to post things like: proof this, proof that, definitive proof, time travel bla bla.
I do mean almost all that i've read are complete nonsense so please stop with it..
and to get the opinion of the masses i've put a nice poll with this.

  • 06.18.2009 10:47 AM PDT
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of course it's complete nonsense because we know squat about the game.

people just want to be right and since we have a while until halo reach comes out, let the speculations begin.

  • 06.18.2009 10:50 AM PDT

your right, right know its just speculation. All though I do have my beliefs on what I think the game will be like. Frankly I'm tired of arguing with people. The only people I will argue with are the time travel theories, they are just ridiculous.

I will not vote based on the fact that I have my opinions. I think at this point every one has an opinion of what they think the game will be like.

  • 06.18.2009 11:01 AM PDT

Posted by: Skiracer93
your right, right know its just speculation. All though I do have my beliefs on what I think the game will be like. Frankly I'm tired of arguing with people. The only people I will argue with are the time travel theories, they are just ridiculous.

I will not vote based on the fact that I have my opinions. I think at this point every one has an opinion of what they think the game will be like.


Well it's more or less the fact that eventhough I love argueing and destroying their arguments I still find it even foolish to think some of those things based some superficial knowledge

  • 06.18.2009 11:08 AM PDT

I am flatterd that you botherd to look at my signature.

occasoinaly you will see a post that might be on something...but it usely gets buried by time travle theorys.

usely the ones that seem legit don't go into the story they only ask questions and say that surtain things are a possibility not a fact.

most people don't know what a theory is...hell on the science channel they don't know.

  • 06.18.2009 11:13 AM PDT

With B.B. gone, the passion of Bungie.net has lessened.

I'm disappointed that there are only two choices here. The theories, annoying as they may sometimes be, are neither truth nor nonsense. They're theories, hypotheses, opinions, etc. If you don't like them, ignore them, or post a counter-argument and try to convince the OP of the thread that he's more likely to be wrong about what he thinks than you are.

Unfortunately, most people posting here seem to know nothing about the philosophy of arguments. What constitutes as proof, what's mere opinion, why something is likely versus why something isn't. Most of what we get are opinions stated as closer-to-fact than they should be, and not a lot of evidence to back them up.

For example, since the time travel theories are numerous, annoying, and very poorly-argued, we get people proposing these theories on the basis that what we see of the darkside of Reach in the announcement teaser is visually similar to the planetoid we see at the end of the legendary ending of Halo 3. This doesn't hold up in any real argument in a philosophical sense, and though the similarities are evident, they don't come close to proving anything if you understand what "proof" means.

What those people should be doing is looking at evidence of time travel in the Halo Universe in Eric Nylunds First Strike, or even take a nerdier route and try to explain that time travel in a futuristic, fictional universe is entirely physically possible with Einstein's theory of special relativity. You can make pretty sound arguments for a time-travel storyline in Reach if you don't mind reading a bit before you do so.

  • 06.18.2009 11:44 AM PDT

Armor Lock isn't overpowered. You just suck at Reach :)

Reach isn't bad, you're just a BK :)

For my gamertag, look up "Ghoulishtie"

I agree. I am sick and tired of all the theories, mainly the time-travel ones.

  • 06.18.2009 11:45 AM PDT

Posted by: Shai Hulud
I'm disappointed that there are only two choices here. The theories, annoying as they may sometimes be, are neither truth nor nonsense. They're theories, hypotheses, opinions, etc. If you don't like them, ignore them, or post a counter-argument and try to convince the OP of the thread that he's more likely to be wrong about what he thinks than you are.

Unfortunately, most people posting here seem to know nothing about the philosophy of arguments. What constitutes as proof, what's mere opinion, why something is likely versus why something isn't. Most of what we get are opinions stated as closer-to-fact than they should be, and not a lot of evidence to back them up.

For example, since the time travel theories are numerous, annoying, and very poorly-argued, we get people proposing these theories on the basis that what we see of the darkside of Reach in the announcement teaser is visually similar to the planetoid we see at the end of the legendary ending of Halo 3. This doesn't hold up in any real argument in a philosophical sense, and though the similarities are evident, they don't come close to proving anything if you understand what "proof" means.

What those people should be doing is looking at evidence of time travel in the Halo Universe in Eric Nylunds First Strike, or even take a nerdier route and try to explain that time travel in a futuristic, fictional universe is entirely physically possible with Einstein's theory of special relativity. You can make pretty sound arguments for a time-travel storyline in Reach if you don't mind reading a bit before you do so.


you are right I should've made more answers but I just wanted to keep it simple :)
And convincing is very hard when people think they are right..

  • 06.18.2009 11:48 AM PDT