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Thursday, August 1, 2002 |  |
Watch that guy...
Fan Fiction submissions are once again light - just one... but it's a good'un. Vector40 submits 'The Old Man and the Warrior'. Check it out. (Louis Wu 21:50:41 UTC) (permalink)
Movie Mirrors Begin
The Matrix movie went live this morning without the usual Psyjnir.com hotline link - apparently, Psyrixx is out of town. It wasn't clear exactly where... but I think the Psyjnir Webmaster's Mom is involved (and there was something about email porn links... it's all rather fuzzy). Anyway, the Webmaster was kind enough to give me permission to put several files up at the Psyjnir Hotline server; If you navigate to Halo -> Movies, you'll find all three resolutions of the Matrix movie, and Dan Chosich's 'Reminisance' (an 86 mb WMV file). Hot dang! (We're still happily accepting mirror offers for any of these files.) (Louis Wu 21:30:52 UTC) (permalink)
Stop the Presses!
Whoa. Not too often that Marty O'Donnell is proven wrong in print - but eric has pulled it off. A couple of days ago, he stated that his favorite quote from the Halo dialog archives was 'What kind of a**wipe are you?' (a line from one of the underground Engineers on the level Halo). Marty corrected him, stating that they'd never have put a line like that into Halo... but eric persisted. Upon reconsideration, Marty retracted his denial - and Jay Weinland provided an explanation of how the unthinkable could have happened. Bottom line - if you think you're right, you just might be. (Louis Wu 21:07:44 UTC) (permalink)
How big is your hard drive?
In our Movies database, there are over 100 films listed. Almost 70 of them are fan-created... but only a handful of those truly stand out as groundbreakers; BungieLove, Warthog Jump, A**hole, a few others. Well, welcome the next entrant to that elite class: The Matrix (Halo Remix). Bill Paetzke has meticulously recreated the opening scene from the movie 'The Matrix'... and he's done it with s7yle. There are three versions:
- a HUGE 120 mb version shows you the action at 720x480 - but at present there are only a pair of mirrors for it. (There will hopefully be a few more showing up today - but as of right now, this is it.)
- A midrange, 42 mb version; it's 360x240, but pretty high quality. The only source for this is Bill's server at the moment.
- A budget, 20 mb version, also 360x240. This is quite watchable... and at the moment has several mirrors (with more coming). For those not sitting on a very large pipe, this is the recommended version.
All of these (and any new mirrors people want to tell us about) can be found on the Matrix Mirror page. And if that wasn't enough for one day's movie quota... Dan Chosich has announced that his sixth Halo vid, Reminisance, is up for grabs for today only. It's in .WMV format, and it's 86 megs large... and I hope that as soon as the bandwidth crunch caused by The Matrix dies down, we can put a copy up at mythica.org (because it's a masterpiece of editing). Feast or famine, folks! (Louis Wu 17:07:01 UTC) (permalink)
Artistic Expression
Thursday's Miscellaneous Art:
- Checkov's Elite Drawing - a sketch
- Infectus, by BOLL - a Half-Life model of a Halo character (minor spoilers here)
You'll find this stuff in our Miscellaneous Art section. (Louis Wu 14:54:06 UTC) (permalink)
Wednesday's news in brief:
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Light Reading for Wednesday More Tricks Spread the wealth! 10,000 strong... and growing Not porn, we promise We're famous! Where's Shel Silverstein when you need him? They're supposed to be FUNNY. |
Tuesday's news in brief:
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Stories for Summer Hold Everything! Halo's all the (Biz) Buzz The Albatross' Left Wing Monsters at Play reviews Halo New Logo Treatment Evolutionized |
