To the hardworking and underappreciated Halo 3 Matchmaking Veto Gods,
I know it can’t be easy coming up with a new gametype after the initial one is vetoed. You have only seconds to appease a finicky crowd that was clearly displeased with your first choice. Day after day, night after night, playlist after playlist, gametype after gametype, I’m sure it’s a daunting task that slowly wears you down. I would like to offer you a few words of advice after noticing a trend you have recently been developing. Lately after vetoing Territories, I have been getting Land Grab. Or after vetoing Land Grab, I instead get Territories. While I have tried to be forgiving since in theory they are actually different gametypes, last night you pushed me too far. Our room successfully vetoed Shotty Snipers only to then get Shotty Snipers. If I wanted to play that crappy gametype, I wouldn’t have fucking vetoed it! FIX YOUR SHIT ALREADY! kthxbai.
Much love, bs angel
Posted by My7hos on October 14, 2008 at 1:45 pm
ROTFL.
Hehehehehehehe.
Posted by ODST Alpha on October 14, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Ouch. Reminds me of the multiple times I vetoed One Bomb only to get Multi CTF. Then someone didn’t load the map, and it went straight back to One Bomb.
What. The. Heck.
Posted by CrazedOne1988 on October 14, 2008 at 2:02 pm
I vetoed a gametype, and got sent back to the player searching screen……
The veto gods practically gave me the middle finger on that one.
Posted by disco on October 14, 2008 at 2:03 pm
right on!
Posted by SonofMacPhisto on October 14, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I’m still hoping for ’slappers’ on Sandtrap.
XD
Posted by Rhamsey on October 14, 2008 at 2:17 pm
ODST Alpha, we must have been in the same game cause that exact thing happened to me. i was pissed. stupid one bomb
Posted by Captain Spark on October 14, 2008 at 2:20 pm
I’m with SonofMacPhisto on this one, errr, what is “slappers” again?
:)
Posted by ODST Alpha on October 14, 2008 at 2:27 pm
@ Rhamsey
Actually, I think I remember you.
And yeah. I was like ‘What the he– we just vetoed this!’
MM Gods, I feel your wrath!
Posted by Das Kalk on October 14, 2008 at 2:45 pm
“thee who hath been smoten repent your sins and I shall spice thine things upeth” – Veto God (Chad “Shishka” Armstrong)
He-eth hatheth spokeneth
Posted by SonofMacPhisto on October 14, 2008 at 3:25 pm
@ Spark – It was the ‘melee only’ game type for Golden Eye on N64. :D
Posted by Handmade Hero on October 14, 2008 at 3:30 pm
it is decided, We shall play Slappers,….on the next forum night
Posted by Shaggydeath on October 14, 2008 at 3:45 pm
I was struck many times by the Veto Gods while playing the other night to the point that I gave up and went to sleep.
Good vetoes and the alternate was worse, nearly the same, or Identical to what was vetoed. Voices of the masses were not heard!
Besides I was tired.
Posted by PikminGod on October 14, 2008 at 5:51 pm
i love when i veto splasers only to get rockets or when you veto shotty snipers and get snipers…
the worst is when it shows a good map/gametype, then suddenly changes it to 1 sided VIP on Anvil, your like hey wtf? there was no veto…then a veto pops up and you veto Anvil only to get landgrab on boundless…i loathe you o veto gods
Posted by Atomic on October 14, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Amen!!!
On a totally off subject though, I’ve noticed that recently, I’ve been saying Fix your shit a lot in daily life, or variations of the statement. Like in choir class, I turned to this guy and was like “Learn your shit”
ilovehaloscommunity:)
Posted by Rift on October 14, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Why WOULDN’T you want to play Shotty Snipers?? What’s wrong with you?
Now if you had said Territories, then yeah, it’s okay, but only in moderation.
Posted by MR Jones93 sk8 on October 14, 2008 at 8:21 pm
The veto gods need to leave me alone.
Posted by pwkwsfi on October 14, 2008 at 8:47 pm
if your grammar and punctuation weren’t so eminent, I would accuse you of taking this from a Bnet post.
Posted by bs angel on October 14, 2008 at 8:50 pm
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Posted by Das Kalk on October 14, 2008 at 9:35 pm
OMGLOLZ. Angel, what the shit does that mean? it looks like your computer decided to type itself…
Posted by bs angel on October 14, 2008 at 9:41 pm
I cut and pasted the original post into a 1337 speak translator and that is what it gave me. I can read 16 words of the translated text! LOL, …
Posted by Skibur on October 14, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Ouch… You’re going to hurt someone’s feelings with that :O
Posted by Crazyeye0 on October 15, 2008 at 12:09 am
I remember a lot of times like this, it was loading up team doubles and I said to my friend “I bet we get something terrible like Snowbound” like I usually do, and then it came up with Snowbound, we moaned and groaned, and then it magically decided to change itself to team slayer on Guardian ^_^
It happens the other way around to, “I bet we get something terrible like Snowbound”-Team slayer on the Pit…loading….loading….SNOWBOUND >_<
Posted by Das Kalk on October 15, 2008 at 4:30 am
Link me to this magical 1337 5p33k translator!
Posted by pwkwsfi on October 15, 2008 at 7:19 am
hah!
Posted by Xor1an on October 15, 2008 at 8:59 am
I believe that the veto gods punish you fro vetoing with something worse. (Well, OK, I don’t really believe that, but it’s a fun superstition to put forward in the pre-game lobby when the post-veto choices are less desirable than the pre-veto ones.)
I have long wished that you could see what you would get if you vetoed before you vetoed. So rather than simply saying “not this” and getting some other random game and map it would be “pick A or B”. Of course it would be even better if you could independently pick between the two choices for the map and the two choices for the game type.
Posted by ODST Alpha on October 15, 2008 at 10:44 am
I’d like to see something along the lines of this:
VIP on Snowbound
Press X for Multi CTF or Y For Vahalla
Posted by Kato on October 15, 2008 at 11:53 am
I once vetoed so hard it threw me into a Halo 2 match.
Posted by the Light Show on October 15, 2008 at 6:07 pm
hehe
on a obscurely related note (not really), i got a chuckle outa this:
Posted by DareDizzle on October 16, 2008 at 11:39 am
HOW CAN YOU HATE SHOTTY SNIPERS!!! Its so much fun!!!