# no halo 5 guardians split screen multiplayer aka neshama's lament > humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available > ~ karen traviss halo: glassland remember this moment well. with much astoundingly furious wailing / genuinely soulful lamentation - "the internets has spoken" (??) at a rock solid 60fps regarding the (by now somehow already impossibly ancient andor fogotten) notion of 'no split screen multiplayer in halo 5: guardians'. as an (online) social event it is an incredibly important garming document example artist statement robert what: "the idea that 343 industries has somehow 'killed @halo' or is 'deliberately encouraging people to sit alone in ir rooms instead of having friends over for pizza and a co-op campaign' seems amazing - feels especially ironic considering the near total fragmentation / willing self isolation and average friendly maturity quotient of the community // video here "420#yoloswagnemite360noscopeblazittmlg has left the building" yet consider the magnificently heartfelt post by the mighty neshama - an incredible publicly performed outpouring of deeply emotional historical contextualization - seems to point to commonly shared psychological trauma that "no split screen" is somehow 'the end of an era' and that we are no entering a darker age (generally that is not just for online multiplayer) in other words after skimming this article destiny went online only starting a shedty market trend where despite buying a garme on disk you have to also buy a 400 dollar new gen console 60 dollar controllers and then download teh garme to the console and then pay 60 dollars a year or whatever the current price ends up being for xbox live subscription and you can only play teh garme one person per console accross xbox live making every single person who wants to play destiny end up having a 500-1000 dollar investment in order to play a single garme and then xbox and microsoft see how many people reluctantly make that commitment because of how appealing a garme destiny is graphically/visually and garme play way and being a new interesting intellectual property people are curious about... and they decided to make halo 5 online only no split screen as well despite the biggest complaint about destiny being lack of matchmaking combined with lack of local multiplayer.... i was actually thinking of possibly buying halo 5 since my friends will probably buy it and i already bought the master chief collection to catch up on the years of halo i couldnt buy since i only had n64 not any of the xbox consoles yet but now i'm not sure if i should even bother having the ability to play on xbox live is amazing when friends are long distance or no friends are available but its still nice to be able to play garmes in your own house too most times when i was growing up people met each other and hung out socially and ended up doing things in person together because of garmes like halo on xbox and goldeneye on the n64 our parents normally never let us have friends over and everyone had to make do with going to a movie or something if they wanted to see anyone outside of the classroom but amazingly none of our parents ever had issues with bringing people over to play video garmes and gave them the chance to get know ir kids friends and monitor things discretely instead of having no clue what ir kids were doing and it gave everyone kids and parents peace of mind to be safe at home rather then out and about where who knows what would happen and kids felt safer and less pressured into stuff then they would have been out in public with the peer pressure and no friends around garmes were one of the biggest factors when i was growing up at building friendships and bringing people together especially for those of us who were relatively poor and/or not jocks/upper crust... plus garmes did something unusually the tended to bring everyone from people who could have probably afforded ir own server rack and custom made garmes together with people who couldnt afford garmes at all or just barely a card garme or board garme or just barely a 100 dollar n64 console and everyone in the middle including people who thought nothing of paying 300 dollars for a ps3 when it launched and bringing them all together to play garmes... a couple times in college we all met at one of our friends who was staying in a dorm room that was set up with a living room kitchen 1-2 bathrooms and 4 bedrooms or so off the common areas and we all met up like 8-20 of us coming and going with all kinds of various consoles set up for everyone to play on or watch others play and switch up and take turns where everyone was either playing watching eating pizza or sitting talking to catch up or some combination there of.. then one time in college the person who bought the 300 dollar ps3 and a couple others of us rented a house for the weekend in a resort community called treasure lake only about 30 min drive away from the college out in the woods and we played video garmes as well as some of the outdoor stuff the gated community offered and it turned out it was only a couple hundred dollars for the rental for the 1-2 days we were there and the house was huge spotless and gorgeous and we had a blast because there was the extra benefit of being able to garme for hours and then just sleep there and no one having to drive home so tired they probably shouldnt have been driving home because there was space there fo everyone to sleep and like 6 of us had chipped in on the rental so it was amazing... all these experiences were driven almost entirely by split screen garming giving people the reasons they needed to come together and a justifiable reason to get ir parents to let them out of the house to go meet ir friends while garming over xbox live is amazing it should stay an additional thing and something ot help long distance friends stay in touch and people like me who dont have very many friends because every couple years everyone spreads out or moves on to other things or other friends or gets too busy and forgets about you and ir old group of friends....garming over xbox live should not replace local multiplayer and the ability to have friends over if anything you should eventually be able to have as many as 4-8 people on each console and have all the consoles still networked over xbox live to where you can really have a blast with more people then you can really have in a single house easily or you should bring back the old system link cable feature to link 2-3 consoles together to allow more players and let that be either a local network or connected over xbox live as well.. there are so many possibilities and instead things we used to love are being taken away instead of new things and ideas being fully explored it would be cool if microsoft would buy some old unused plants or buildings like the one i am currently assigned to guard that just needs a little fixing up was built in the 1980s so no asbestos type cleanup issues and is currently on the market for half its appraised tax value with no takers a nearly 400,000 square foot facility sitting on 99 acres of undeveloped land and create a garming/community center with trails and picnic areas and things for the day time and the building is big enough you coudl have a small movie theatre offices class rooms laboratories ware house space garming/arcade areas you name it in there and people would flock from a 3-6 county area probably to frequent such a place and you could have at first a handful then eventually 20-30 or so such places accross the country to keep buildings in use before they become dilapidated and you could have art expos or garming expos or events at such buildings sometimes as well...it would boost local economies bring everyone together as a garming community more etcetera plus it would be safe place to go to have fun for a very large age range of people who all like garmes/garming and almost everyone from a 5 year old to a 100 year old person likes some type of garme or other from monopoly or clue or checkers or chess to risk or stratego or boggle or trivial pursuit to call of duty or halo or destiny or tomb raider or pacman to foosball or air hockey to basketball... for once someday it would be nice to have a true community/regional center to freely congrate and do all those types of activities with other nice people. we are legion but we are so spread out and disconnected from each other that we let the minority of adults who don't like garmes and garmers make us feel bad and alone and disconnected from society when really we are the majority especially when you consider garmes as a whole. and combine the entire garming industry excluding gambling which just uses garmes as a front for gambling and taking your money and laundering criminals money as often as not data centers are already propping up everywhere so the infrastructure is already partly in place and there is precedent for it somewhat in both data centers as well as community centers ymcas ice rinks skating rinks schools that until the 50s or so used to often allow the community/public to use ir garming and sports facilities for public use unfortunately due to rising construction costs and liability policy costs most communities don't have the money to build even scaled down community centers on ir own anymore and most millionaires aren't enough like andrew carnegie to care enough about communities and community development to want to help build libraries and community centers anymore its only major companies like microsoft sony nintendo etcetera that have the kinds of financing available to make those types of facilities a reality someday and they are about the only ones with an incentive to do so of any kind plus developing a few of those centers would spur internet infrastructure to finally bring services like ipv6 and fios from verizon and other ftth services and truly high-speed internet services main stream as once those kinds of services and the even better cabling/services that would be available to businesses like microsoft were installed in regional community/garming centers it would make it easier to roll out services like that to the mainstream public instead of being told fios is unavailable in the entire state of north carolina almost 10 years after its nationwide roll-out was announced to all kinds of fan-fare plus regional centers could blend console garming wiht pc and also with terminal/server rack/mainframe garming and spur garme development even more going forward the fact is most people even people who are more into checkers then they are video garmes have always wanted more arcades and garming centers and many people would have large garme rooms with pool and foosball and air hockey and arcade garmes and video garme consoles in ir homes if they could... at one point my dad even had almost enough money pulled together to buy a 2nd 70-80 foot long house trailer to take to our camp for 1,000 to 2,000 dollars back in about 1996-1998 to use solely as a garme room attached to the existing house trailer that served as our camp and ey already had a pachinko machine we used to use when i was little that just needed cleaned up some lights fixed and some new pachinko balls since the old ones had rusted and ey already had an electronic pinball machine and i'd gotten a basic foosball table sometime around that time or a couple years later and we were going to have a huge garme room just for garmes out in the middle of the woods where we could go relax and watch wildlife etcetera read books or just go play in the creek whenever we wanted to and the snakes weren't out too much. as much as my dad said growing up ey hated garmes and video garmes and electronics....i realized later on that wasn't the case ey loved model trains loved watches that had extras built in had one of the earliest electronic scientific desk/pocket calculators had the fairchild channel f system for ir and my older sisters when they were growing up had more old record players then i can count and a true cabinet built stereo system a bunch of radios and 8 track players always made sure i had a walkman type device or one of those expensive fisher-price cassete players to listen to cassettes ey bought me an atari and when ey got it home and realized it didnt work ey went back out to the flea markets again and found me an atari 2600 that worked beautifully with a whole shoebox full of garmes and about 8-12 different kinds of controllers because ey was able to prove the guy sold ir the other atari knowing full well it didnt work so was able to get all of that stuff for the same or cheaper then ey had paid for the first atari after negotiating with the guy.. my dad and one of my sisters despite always saying they don't like garmes were always the first to take me over to a video garme pacman or duck hunt in a restaurant or lead me to a garme room or to an arcade machine in the hallway of a mall i "helped" with the sega genesis dad and mom got for me and i paid them 100 dollars allowance/spending money id spent abut 18 months saving in order to buy the n64 because i was in highschool whne i got that system and they wanted to make sure i was learning enough about the value of money and how it worked then after highshool i had too many college expenses and only had a part time job and my parents were having a harder time financially and my mom had to go back to work and then i still had to help them with any extra i had so they'd be able to make ir bills so it kind of put a damper on buying any newer consoles for me until now when i have my student loans finally paid off and my truck paid off and better stability ot where i could get the xbox one (xbox consoles being the true successor consoles to n64 in my view as the garmes migrated to xbox and nintendo went downhill fast with teh garme cube and the wii systems and focusing more on garmeboy type devices then on ir consoles) but yeah the only reason teh garme room didnt happen was because if ey was going ot make that type of investment in the camp ey wanted a written instead of verbal rental/land use agreement from ir uncle my great uncle and ey wouldnt give ir anything in writing plus the pa electricity grid was de-regulated around that same time jumping the cost of electricity dramatically and ey ended up having to disconect the camp from power when it got too expensive to provide power to a camp we could only really get good use out of when i wasn't in school pretty much so only sometimes after school or on weekends or when school was out ((dad alwyas wanted to move out there someday and live at the camp and mom insisted they stay in town and it got hard affording the bills at both places)) but yeah so even as poor as we were where growing up we only had dads income and ey only made about 20-25k a year at most sometimes significantly less then that we still almost had a full-size garme room at one point... most of what we did during the social times in my church youth group was gather to play garmes or video garmes or watch a movie...even when we did a fundraiser for the church called a rock a thon as long as we kept rocking for the time we had pledged to rock for the adults didn't care what we did so someone would bring in a big like 48-52 inch rca projection size television and we'd play split screen golden eye on it so the demand for garming/community centers is potentially massive themeparks with arcades are still more populated by far then theme parks that just rely on coasters to draw people in and the arcades are usually crowded the entire success of chuckecheese and dave n busters chains is largely attributed to them having garmes in the restaurants.. the late 80s/90s resurgance of mcdonalds was largely attributed to having play places at many of ir locations even residential complexes nowdays are oftne being built so you can work and live and play in the same general area to help people have better quality of life and less travel time movies are okay but movies and bowling only provide so much entertainment where garmes are much more entertaining social and interactive malls have always failed with country people and sensible people and people who watch ir money because they have too many stores and not enough garme rooms events and attractions and contrary to popular belief alot of people do not like shopping and do not consider spending a day shopping to be a good way to spend time especially nowdays when so many of us are told we are only going to be scheduled 3-5 days a week only to find out we actually work 5 6 7 days a week as often as not communities need safe places to play garmes play basketball go swimming things everyone loves to do pretty much but no one can afford anymore to put in ir back yard most garme rooms and dance halls now days are ensconced in seedy bars and lounges surrounding by drug and alcohol culture...not really the type of culture you want to be around if you just want to grab a bite to eat or visit with friends awhile or dance for fun of it and go home or sit around awhile with friend playing garmes in safety kids and teens and young adults would get in a lot less trouble and society would be a lot better off if they just had safe places to go to have fun where the police could keep them safe instead of harrassing them for just standing on the sidewalk talking to each other and the nice thing about garmes you usually get so into the garmes you are playing that you really don't notice or care if adults are watching you or not also apparently more and more people now arent sucked into the having to only buy and be a fan of one console brand anymore apparently alot of garmers now days have every console they can get ir hands on from each generation as soon as they can afford it that too means/indicates that garming centers would be popular especially if paired with a food court and restaurant/cafeteria to where you had plenty of food options and possibly where you can integrate it with something like a ymca or public park also since contrary to popular belief many garmers also like the outdoors i just hope something like that takes root and gets built someday.. the worst thing sega did was hype sega land throughout the us building up all kinds of interest in it and then made it to where you had to travel half way around the world to japan to go there. not possible for the vast majority of people astounding in its breadth and ostentatious in the way it indirectly addresses the mass psychological (social garming) notion of "no split screen multiplayer" neshama's lament harks back to the good old daze where cool kidz could safely play healthy garmes of split screen co-op halo in asbestos free public parks while not under the influence of drugs and alcohol" don't worry everything will work out ok (hey is someone cutting onions around here?) // republic of bob