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An unpleasant warning
My local connection is having problems; the one of the routers here is seeing lots of errors. My service provider needs to do some 'intrusive testing' to nail down where the problem is; what that means for you is that everything on that connection will be offline from roughly 1 am eastern (5 am UTC) through as late as 5 am eastern. This includes the forum - but does NOT include the main site, or the Story page. (It includes the fan fiction forum, though not the fan fiction section, and it includes the clan forum.) I'm sorry - but the end result should be better for all. (Louis Wu 22:03:52 UTC) (permalink)
ItWasLuck - Scion PotY nominee
Over at MLGPro.com, there's an interview with ItWasLuck, another Scion Player of the Year nominee; go see what drives him! Thanks, 3Suns. (Louis Wu 21:42:35 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 3 Documentary - now Mobile
Mintz writes to point out that the Behind the Scenes vid is now available at Halo: Portable, in pocket-sized versions; 33 mb for PSP, 18 mb for iPod, 13 mb for Pocket PC. Go grab a copy! (Louis Wu 21:44:38 UTC) (permalink)
Halo's Golden Rule Episode 3
A movie passed the MPRRS this morning - it actually passed for the second time. The first time, it passed the reviewers, but I refused to host it because the submitter had been part of a couple of plagiarism incidents in the not-too-distant past, and I wasn't even willing to look at it. However, he seems to have learned his lesson - we recently hosted a nice montage he did, because everyone deserves a second chance. He decided to resubmit this vid - and it passed again (I'm not thrilled that one of his clanmates reviewed the film - and gave it a well-above-average score - but the film had a passing score even without that). Halo's Golden Rule Episode 3 is a look at a 1v1 match between the submitter and a trash-talker... and while it seems a little petty to make fun of someone who trash-talks without being able to back it up... it's still pretty satisfying to see the other guy get beat. Go watch - WMP9 format is 62.1 mb, QuickTime format is 63.3 mb. (Louis Wu 20:22:10 UTC) (permalink)
Would That Make Her Katana?
Today's One One Se7en, riffing on a line from the Halo 3 trailer, made me laugh out loud. Then I smacked myself in the head with a board as penance for encouraging Stuntmutt. Go read. (Louis Wu 19:16:37 UTC) (permalink)
A look at the USA Networks/MLG deal
NewsFactor Network wrote up an article on the upcoming TV presentation of MLG matches, and what it might mean for the future. Thanks to CoB Icu, who noticed it at MLGPro.com. (Louis Wu 17:02:49 UTC) (permalink)
Exploding Unicorn Deconstructs Halo 3 Trailer
Joe Larson shows that he's got sharper eyes than all a' yas with his biting analysis of the Halo 3 trailer - there's some good stuff in there. Give it a read! (Then yell at him on our forum.) (Louis Wu 16:52:30 UTC) (permalink)
3D Screenshots - almost
c0ld vengeance and sorahn have both been playing with Xbox7887's trainer again - this time, they've created '3D screenshots' - sort of. (They're actually just QT movies that walk through a rotation around the shot - but it's close enough.) Vids range from about a meg up to about 6 mb. Definite coolness. (Louis Wu 16:40:57 UTC) (permalink)
Cheap Action Figures at Amazon
Clefton Twain pointed out that there are a couple of real bargains in Halo 2 action figures at Amazon right now; you can pick up either the Series 3 Ghost with Brute or the Series 3 Spec Ops Invisible Grunt for $5.29 right now. Nice deal! (The other $5.29 figures Clefton mentions are the Johnny Lightning minifigures - that's a normal price for those.) (Louis Wu 16:14:14 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 3: Behind The Scenes
Occasionally, they release me from the chains that hold me to this desk, and take me outside to see the sun. (Or the stars, depending on the hour.) And as welcome as these breaks are, sometimes they come at... inconvenient times. Tonight, Bungie released Halo 3: Behind The Scenes, a new piece from Jim McQuillan. (Jim's the guy behind Film Oasis, the company that made the Halo 2 Making Of documentary that shipped with the Limited Edition Halo 2 discs. Bungie liked him so much they hired him fulltime.) Our forum is awash with discussion, but in case you haven't already seen it, you should go grab a copy - it's seven minutes long (!!), available in WMP9 or QuickTime, in sizes ranging from 320x180 (about 25 mb) up to 1280x720 HD (about 400 mb), and it's fascinating. Go grab the biggest copy you can handle, and see what Bungie themselves think about Halo 3! (I'll toss out a potential warning; it's possible that the QuickTime HD version has its last 20 seconds corrupted; it was that way for me, and for several others. Bungie is aware of the issue, and checking to see whether the file on the server got corrupted during upload; if it did, it'll be replaced soon.) (Louis Wu 03:53:08 UTC) (permalink)
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