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Saturday, May 18, 2002 |  |
Saturday's reading material
Saturday's Fan Fiction:
- Effusion, part 9, by Tursas
- Fight for Her, by Omniscient
- The Aftermath part 1 and part 2, by Gasmask
- Last Hope part 6, by SSJBRK
Rainy weekend here - good for reading. (News will probably slow down - lots of family stuff to attend to. Not to mention the service outages that have started up again, thanks to the weather...)
The most awkward ruler in the galaxy
xbill has developed a new measuring technique - initiated here, a couple of days ago, he has now used the NavPoint™ Warthog to measure the height of the cliff outside one of the blue beam structures - it's about 438 meters, for those of you dying to know. Anyone with some serious patience can measure distances on several levels with this tool. (This technique was first seen (by me, at least) in Frogblast's 'Mapping Silent Cartographer', posted a couple of weeks ago.) (Louis Wu 11:33:43 UTC) (permalink)
Two new 7th Column Themes out
Bungie's Seventh Column site has news of two new themes for use by chapters - a Master Chief theme created by Stosh, and a Tru7h theme created by Jonah Friedman. I picked a random pair of chapters sporting these themes - you can see the MC theme on The Elite Enforcers' site (they're a central Florida team offering $200 if anyone can beat them on both Blood Gulch and Sidewinder), and the Tru7h theme is in use for the Central Florida Halo chapter, another CF team headed up by forum regular PCDestroyer. Check 'em out! (Louis Wu 11:19:57 UTC) (permalink)
Rockers love Halo
cman writes to point out that the newest issue of Rolling Stone (the one with Kurt Cobain on the cover) contains an article about musicians and their favorite video games. Halo features prominently - Jack Black, of Tenacious D, says
"Tonight we're gonna rock a sold-out show, and then we're going to play some Halo. I'll see if i can find some Halo groupies - everybody loves Halo. I'm a full-time Halohead."
There are several other good bits - once this issue is off the stands, we'll be posting the article in our Press Scans section. In the meantime, go buy the Dead Tree edition! (Louis Wu 10:32:25 UTC) (permalink)
Closeup screens finally finished
Whoa - FINALLY! Way back on March 6, Bungie posted a series of closeup screenshots, and challenged fans to decipher them. Most were figured out within the first couple of days... but scrn_081 has baffled the community... until now. xbill gets the kewpie doll, according to Dave Candland, the devious creator of the challenge. W00t! (Louis Wu 00:10:01 UTC) (permalink)
Friday's news in brief:
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Pictures for your screen redin is gud Project MJOLNIR changes hosts |
Thursday's news in brief:
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YDA wants you Fan Fic For Fourthday |
