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Thursday, September 1, 2005 |  |
The Halo Theatre Digs Deep
You gotta love the horn-self-tooting... a new Halo blog focused on machinima, The Halo Theatre, asked me a few questions about the subject... it may or may not be worth a read. (There is not a single shot taken at KP, so some of you might decide to skip it.) Lucky for me, comments don't seem to be enabled - you'll have to find other ways to take snide potshots at me. (Louis Wu 18:25:47 UTC) (permalink)
Speedrunning SC, revisited
Last year, we hosted the Going Nowhere Fast competition - taking speedrunning to a new level. It inspired the creation of highspeedhalo.org, a website devoted to Halo speedruns. A couple of days ago, over on the MLG forums (you'll have to be registered to see that thread), insidi0us posted a new run for Silent Cartographer - and though he does it on Normal (rather than the GNF-required Legendary), he beat goatrope's GNF-winning time by 25 seconds - an astounding feat when the total time was just over 4 minutes to begin with. I was impressed enough with the run that I wrote up a short analysis of the places where he gains time over goatrope's run - and now that it's not the end of the month any more, we've got the bandwidth to host this puppy, so you can watch it, too. WMP9 version is 44.2 mb, QuickTime version is 46.6 mb. Thanks to l3Dl SHREK 2 for bringing this to my attention in the first place. (Louis Wu 17:10:32 UTC) (permalink)
Katrina relief fund charities list
A followup on yesterday's 'Help Katrina Victims' post - Dennis Powers, of the GearboxGameZone, has compiled a list of charities accepting donations for Hurricane relief from the FEMA website (I'm impressed; I went there and looked around, and the only obvious link was to the Red Cross). Check it out, do what you can. (Yeah, I know. This is a Halo website, not a Katrina one. Sometimes, though, we need to remember that part of being a community is helping out those in distress.) (Louis Wu 16:22:43 UTC) (permalink)
When The Truth Hurts, Violence Ensues.
Another vid for you that passed the MPRRS recently - it's called 'Boot Camp Short: Episode I.V - Attack of the Critics', and it's a nice shot at the MPRRS itself. (Well, sort of.) These guys submitted their first vid to the system - and it failed. Rather than rework it, however, or give up altogether, they decided to make a film showing what happens when a vid fails... it's a nice satire. The reviewers thought so, too - they passed it with flying colors. WMP9 version is 43.3 mb, QuickTime version is 39.8 mb. Enjoy! (Louis Wu 14:57:19 UTC) (permalink)
Thursday Fiction
Thirteen new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section - Day 8 in the life of a noob made me laugh. Go read! (Louis Wu 14:02:25 UTC) (permalink)
Making Hurricane Relief Fun
Bonekin started a thread on our forum last night - you have to read the whole thing to get all the details right, but here they are, as far as I understand them: he's planning on playing online tomorrow night (Friday), 9 pm Central time, on Xbox Live - he will play a series of 7 games, and will donate $1 for each kill he gets in those games (with a minimum of $117 in case he falters) to the Red Cross for Hurricane Katrina relief. Anyone who wants to participate can send him a friend request. (Louis Wu 13:17:53 UTC) (permalink)
Noobs Gone Wild 3
A couple of days ago, BoneKin's 'Noobs Gone Wild 3', a testament to the dumb stuff you can do in Halo 2 multiplay, passed our Movie Peer Review Rating System - but we were out of bandwidth, and couldn't really afford to put up mirrors yet. It's September, now, though, and we've gotten a fresh shipment of nice ripe bandwidth - so go grab a copy. It's available in both WMP9 format (47.8 mb) or QuickTime format (40.2 mb). The funniest parts are all the things that can go wrong with a plasma grenade... (Louis Wu 12:38:23 UTC) (permalink)
Dizzzequilbrium.
Goodness. That poor Stuntmutt - he slaves over Google, hunting for hours to dig up only the best puns, only to have the jokes forgotten about by the lazy web guy... yesterday's One One Se7en is FINALLY posted. Sorry about that. (Although, after reading it again, I'm wondering... nah, never mind.) (Louis Wu 11:21:03 UTC) (permalink)
Wednesday's news in brief:
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My daughter's named Katrina - coincidence? I wanna see the mark of shame. I'm hiding. How about you? Pinker Than A Baby's Bum |
Tuesday's news in brief:
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Remaining MMP maps now freely available Coming Soon - A Thumb President Not2old2type Community Building Twelve Year Olds on a Sugar Rush Bow chicka bowwow... |
