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Thursday, July 22, 2004 |  |
An Ocean of Green Fizzy Stuff
Slothboy posts his non-winning pics in the Mountain Dew contest (and a link to a thread on Bungie.net that has pics of the winning entries)... all I can say is, these guys drank a LOT of Dew. (Louis Wu 21:43:01 UTC) (permalink)
Calling All Fans - One Last Time
Dan Chosich reminds everyone that today is the last day folks are able to submit content to the Fan Art section of the Making of Halo DVD. If you have content you want the team to consider, send it today or you're out of the running! (Louis Wu 21:07:31 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Delight
ShotgunGoBOOM found a Flash video called 'Halo Delight' on Flashplayer.com. MC gets down to the 80's hiphop sounds of the Sugar Hill Gang. Surreal. (Louis Wu 18:30:01 UTC) (permalink)
Spec-Ops are ALL black now
Update on yesterday's elite skin, from Xavier - he's found a way to make ALL Spec-Ops Elites black (some were coming out with a blue layer over the skin); the downside is that it changes the blue of the regular Blue Elite. Information and the new ppf can be found on the Halo: Modding Evolved forum (and I've added a local copy of the 'fixed' ppf here). (Louis Wu 18:04:34 UTC) (permalink)
Halo50k3 Team Listing
Dolbex writes to point out that all 61 teams registered for this weekend's Halo50k3 event in Atlanta are listed up on the MLGPro.com website. If you aren't sure if your buddies are going, check this out! (Louis Wu 16:29:44 UTC) (permalink)
But that IS a valid reason for upgrading
I think all of us who've suffered over bad internet connections can sympathize with Calvin and Halo today... and I'd like to take this chance to mention that Warbow has chosen to take the rest of the summer off; there won't be any more Warbow-generated Calvin and Halo strips before fall. (It's unclear whether Blackstar will continue posting one per week, on Thursdays, or whether he'll double his output to two per week, to keep up the current schedule, or whether he, too, will take a break, giving Calvin himself a rest for a couple of months. More when we know it.) (Louis Wu 16:26:25 UTC) (permalink)
343GS now available for direct download
A tad later than usual - but never fear, we get to stuff eventually. The Direct Download links for the sixth Going Nowhere Fast video (343 Guilty Spark) are now posted on the Status page. If you aren't one of the 900 or so BitTorrent downloaders, go grab a copy of this 49.4 mb run via http! (Louis Wu 16:20:07 UTC) (permalink)
Administrivia
The Comments function for the Fan Fiction section has been turned off for the time being. Shame how the actions of a few can ruin it for the many. (Before anyone who actually USES that section goes ballistic on the individual who caused most of the trouble, be aware that IGNORING THE SITUATION would have made it stop a lot sooner (and likely wouldn't have gotten someone spoofing ME, which is what set this off).) Stories will still be posted, you just won't be able to comment on them until someone suggests a better way of maintenance. (Louis Wu 15:47:28 UTC) (permalink)
There's that skin again
Captain Spark took a couple of very nice pics of the Xavier/Tina Leyk Elite skin on AotCR today - check 'em out! (Louis Wu 15:03:21 UTC) (permalink)
A Tribute to RvB
Wow - that's unique. ][-][awaiian pig has taken the Megabattle screenshot technique in a new direction - he's reproduced 'set pieces' from Red vs Blue episodes. Don't think I ever would have thought of that one... (Attention to detail is amazing.) (Louis Wu 13:48:46 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 2 Movie Ad now Viewable
So the big news of the morning is that Microsoft has made a small version of the Halo ad currently showing in Loews theatres available to the public. The astoundingly frustrating part of this is that the page is viewable ONLY on a PC - Macs can't even see the teaser. This seems unreasonable, for content that was designed to be advertising in the first place. Even on a PC, the video is only available in a streaming format - and only, in fact, on Internet Explorer. Halo Orbit has made a downloadable version of this footage available - but it's in asf format, and it's a tad funky (the time data is wrong; Windows Media Player thinks it's about 15 seconds shorter than it really is... it'll play the whole thing, but the progress bar gets pinned at the end for the last third of the movie), and this screws up the program I'd normally use to convert this to a mac-friendly format. (It's also not readable as is in the MacOSX version of WMP9.) Because of all this, I grabbed a local copy myself, from the MSN page; you can find it (2.1 mb, QuickTime format) on files.bungie.org. Here's hoping a larger version, more cross-platform-compatible, will be released from on high. (Louis Wu 11:38:25 UTC) (permalink)
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