I’ve finally decided to start streaming Halo. Been doing this for about a week now. From now on, my plans are to stream every time I’m playing Halo.

To check out the stream, go to twitch.tv/halofanforlife.

I mostly play ion the evenings Eastern Standard Time.

As for the chat during the stream, I likely won’t be able to respond to that so quickly as I”m using an iPad to view it while gaming. The text is tiny, so it’s a bit hard for me to read it. I’ll do my best until a better option is made available though. If you chat via XBOX’s Twitch app, I won’t be able to see that at all as I don’t like having apps snapped. It takes up too much of the screen for my tastes.

Wow, it’s been nearly a month since a post has been put up. There are reasons for that though.

It started off with me downloading an update for WordPress. Along with that, I had been looking into changing a little bit of the look to the blog. That required me changing some code…. That is where things went wrong….

The update for one really slowed things down for me on the backend of the site. It was taking forever to upload graphics for example.

The big issue came though when I went to change just a few lines of code. I thought I had the right code and in the right place. Nope…. This in effect not only halted me being able to post, but actually shut me out of my site for about 2 weeks. I tried desperately to get help from WordPress and was given so many different answers that I didn’t know which was right or not.

I called up my hosting service and after talking with 6 people finally found someone who was versed in WordPress. He was able to help me get back into my site. For those of you following me on Twitter, you may have seen my post that said blogging would be back to normal. Well, I thought it would have been then… That didn’t happen as planned. I still needed to fix coding. Yikes, this got very frustrating.

Thankfully, over the weekend, I finally got things straight. Had another update to do and was a bit apprehensive about doing that, but I did. So now things are working and I can post again.

My sincere apologies for those of you who look to HFFL for your Halo news. One lesson I’ve learned is to NOT change code.

Anyway, now that things are good, I’m going to be playing catch up for the last month’s worth of Halo news. So forgive me if you’ve already read those bits of news elsewhere.

Sincerely,
Sal

Apologies for not putting out articles today. Not feeling so well. Should be back to it tomorrow.

Now that we are past Christmas, I’ll be reviewing the Halo related stuff I got. These will include:

• Halo Mega Bloks
• Jakks Pacific Master Chief
• Sandboxr 3D Printed Spartans
• Boomco Halo dart guns

On that note, if YOU received Halo related gifts, please feel free to send me pics at sal@halofanforlife.com. I’ll post those here on the blog to show what other fans what you folks received for the holidays.

As well, now that Forge has been out for a little bit, I’m going to post a series of tutorial videos from ForgeHub. I’ve dabbled in Halo 5’s Forge myself and will give a some text commentary after each video.

-Sal

I feel the need to bring this up as last night a fan of two years decided to no longer follow me, due to my age policy.

First, the blog itself is kept at a PG-13 rating as best as I can. There have been a few rare exceptions.

Second, when signing up to be a subscriber, you should be 18 one older. Now some may ask why that is when I maintain a PG-13 blog? Well, simply put, it is for those times when I might post something not suitable for below 18.

Now, I’m not going to kid myself here. I know that teenagers and younger kids have heard all sorts of bad language or seen violence in video games, movies, etc. However, as an adult, I feel I need to be responsible in that I not perpetuate those things to those younger than adult age.

This brings me to my point regarding the now, lost fan. Continue reading →

Over the last week, I’ve put in no less than 8 hours a day playing Halo 5. Last night until just minutes before I posted this, I had a marathon  13 hours session of Halo 5.

So apologies for not posting much lately.

I’ve just been so into Halo 5’s multiplayer.

Last night to today for instance, I played a good mix of Warzone, then Breakout, the Slayer. Then…some BTB, CTF, more Breakout and capped the night/day off with Arena or was it Slayer? LOL….So much Halo!

Well, I’ll be catching up later today folks. Lots to post. Right now, I need to take a bit of a nap as I’ve been up for nearly 24 hours.

There will be a mix of:
• Waypoint reblogs
• a massive UNSC model
• current Halo merchandise deals that can still be had
• a McFarlane Halo action figure product review
• and if I can get to it, a Halo Mega Bloks review

Also, over the next few days, I’ll be posting articles on REQ items. I need to post one section from the originals that I didn’t get to yet, then another article detailing more of the Battle of Shadow and Light items.

I’m going to have a couple big announcements as well. Both YOU can be a part of to different extents.

Well, as if you couldn’t guess, I too have been playing Halo 5. I’ve got a LOT of catching up to do.

I’ll be posting articles for:

• Hunt The Truth
• The Sprint
• My Halo 5 Review
• Halo Mega Bloks Reviews
• McFarlane Halo Action figure review
• A more detailed look at REQ Packs
• HFFL’s Spartan Company
• HFFL is looking for writers, you tubers and more
• And…a long and winding road to a new console (condensed though)

So let’s get to it!!!