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Sunday, October 27, 2002 |  |
Sunday's reading
Weekend Fan Fiction:
- Halo 2: Return of Death,, part 4, by Lord Dagon
- 'GET OUT!', by Neile Pederson
- Justification, part 2, by Rixor
A word of advice to fan fic writers: If you decide to use a font that 95% of your readers do not have access to (like, say, Tengwar Sindarin), be sure to submit any text in that font in GRAPHIC format (take a screenshot, save as a gif). This is the first and last time I'm going to be downloading fonts to do this for writers; in the future, any text that comes in in a totally random font will be displayed in the default font (which will, I promise, make it look really stupid). (Louis Wu 18:12:08 UTC) (permalink)
Fear and Wonder
We received another movie from Jiberish Halo Productions. This one's called 'Fear and Wonder, and it's a 3:21 long, 13.8 mb gameplay film. There are some great moments in this film (the dismount/mount at 0:40 is fantastic), but I'd like to make something clear... this movie (and more than a dozen like it that have been submitted by various people in the past couple of weeks) is the kind of movie that we wrote the Posting Guidelines for in the first place. It's pretty cool to watch, it's well made, for the most part... but it really doesn't add anything original to the corpus of Halo movies. :( I'm letting this one through, for a variety of reasons, but I want to make it clear that from this point on, movies like this will NOT be hosted by us (or more accurately, by those that supply our bandwidth) any more. Please don't ask, because I hate saying no. Likely, I'll just point you to this news post. [Movie sidenote: Someone uploaded a movie called 'Red Star's Halo Secrets'. There was a readme attached... but there was NO CONTACT INFORMATION in the readme. The movie is not watchable (either the upload failed midway, or it uses some strange codec I don't have access to), but I have no way of contacting the creator to ask for another copy, or more information. If you're reading this and you know who created this movie, please let us know.] (Louis Wu 17:26:26 UTC) (permalink)
Wallpapers
Pair of desktops for you today. (One was submitted probably as a logo enhancement... but it's wallpaper-sized, so I'm putting it here.) Check our Wallpaper section. (Louis Wu 16:10:36 UTC) (permalink)
Getchyer Bungie Screens Here!
We've added the three map views from Bungie's recent Team Tournament Strategy Guide to our Screenshots database. (Louis Wu 15:58:21 UTC) (permalink)
Saturday's news in brief:
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HCC comes online again Only one? Whoa. Gotta love that red guy Muted Desktop HBO AIM theme available Hang 'em Hign, for Unreal Bungie posts strategy guide |
Friday's news in brief:
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Story Page's Level Transcripts updated Friday's Fan Fiction Watch it, Marine... |
