Most, maybe all of the bashing I see, is when Halo comes around. I think it is because of the "KEEP IT INDY BITCHAZ!!!111one" mentality around here. Everytime someone does something amazing, or really cool, some people get up in arms about it.
Lumivel, I don't know if your new to the community, but the reason you see this happening just with Halo, is that in the last few years he's made some statements that were bluntly arrogant, pompous and degrading to the work of many other people here. That's why people are a bit more hostile towards him. I don't have to jump on him because he did something incredibly amazing, because frankly, he didn't. If he hadn't had such a forum history however you would have seen, for example like when filax posted his terrain screenshots, that the community would have responded in a much friendlier way. Don't be worried about the Halo flaming, it's no more then natural. It started around the time he declared himself god and told people that the blitz community wouldn't have gotten anywhere if not for him.