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December 8, 2004 Link to this post
Escher? Gesundheit!
Hehe - I gotta say, I had the same impression as Stuntmutt expresses in today's One One Se7en... once. This should bring a smile to your face. (Unless you're just getting out of Botox treatment, in which case you CAN'T smile.) (Louis Wu 17:24:57 UTC)
December 3, 2004 Link to this post
He's behind You, Idiot.
New guest strip over at Halo Babies - done by Bluestone, of 343GS. Hehe - I've seen this a few times myself... (Louis Wu 19:57:17 UTC)
December 2, 2004 Link to this post
Prime SOMETHING, anyway.
Hehe - you thought the Covenant came to Earth to kill us. Calvin has learned otherwise, in today's Calvin and Halo. (Louis Wu 15:03:47 UTC)
November 30, 2004 Link to this post
Buy it. They'll love it.
Hehe - amidst all these doom-and-gloom articles about how Halo 2 will cause your child to become a Satanist, it's nice to see that SOME places are still recommending it. People Magazine has a Top Ten Games to buy your kids for Christmas - and Halo 2 is #8. Thanks, Alexander. (Louis Wu 15:05:29 UTC)
November 24, 2004 Link to this post
They thought you'd play better, Stunt.
Hehe - Stuntmutt bemoans the audio shortcomings of Halo 2 in this blog entry - thanks, Rampancy.net. (Louis Wu 19:18:29 UTC)
November 22, 2004 Link to this post
Active Camo - in a bedroom
Hehe - retsamolah was playing with After Effects, and managed to make himself go away. Movie is 1 mb, QuickTime format, no sound. Nice work! (Louis Wu 10:40:10 UTC)
November 22, 2004 Link to this post
Turning a gamertag into an online pariah
Hehe - if you're going to try and manipulate game outcomes in Bungie's Optimatch system, you should be careful who you're playing before you start dropping. There are times when taking the loss would be preferable to making the wrong people angry. (Thanks, KP.) (Louis Wu 09:16:39 UTC)
November 15, 2004 Link to this post
Halo/XBL egg
Hehe - we're holding off on most tricks/glitches/eggs until the joint HIH/HBO site is up and running (in the meantime, remember to submit your stuff to High Impact Halo!), but this one was too good to let go. Mike Basus was looking at his HDTV screen, waiting for matches to start in Live, and noticed that one of the lines of what looks like alien text is actually the lower half of text in the Halo font. He's decoded this much so far:
"DAVID CANDLAND IS THE GREATEST UI DESIGNER EVER"
[then there are 13 characters he doesn't understand:] "LIVEINTREEISI"
"HIS WORK IS ASTOUNDING AND HE IS VERY HUMBLE"
I gotta wonder - did Dave put this in, or was someone yanking his chain? Nice find, Mike! Update: Confirmation from a close relative of Dave's clears up that this was, in fact, added by Dave, and as late as October, had not been noticed by the majority of Bungie employees. The best kind of egg! (Louis Wu 10:25:55 UTC)
November 11, 2004 Link to this post
If you can't beat 'em...
Hehe - went to read the MS press release on GameInfoWire this morning... and was pretty amused by the advertising choices. Realize that all the black text (headline included) is part of the actual press release - GameInfoWire inserted a text ad in the middle (the red text near the top - 'Shop for...'). Bizarre choice, or brilliant marketing? (Louis Wu 13:21:08 UTC)
November 8, 2004 Link to this post
Lock and Load
Kevin634 writes to point out a Halo 2-themed comic in the Toronto Daily Star. Hehe, that is SO my son right now. ;-) (mnemesis 05:05:10 UTC)
November 2, 2004 Link to this post
Halo2.com goodies
Hehe - Bomber of doom found a nice little egg on the Halo2.com site. It was noticed a few days ago that if, after viewing the console and contents, you closed down the holo link (pressed the purple button below the screen), you'd see a pair of covenant craft take down a human battlestation. When it first appeared on the site, it was marred by the absence of the Earth graphic in the background (once the battle started, the earth went solid white). That's been fixed, and you can watch the station be destroyed, and then burn up in the atmosphere. If you click the top covenant craft after the destruction, though, before the pieces hit the atmosphere, you hear Joe Staten taunting... well, humans, in this case, I guess. (Turning the console on and off again at this point will produce one more small animation - that of a Pelican burning up in the atmosphere.) Lots of nice work there! (Louis Wu 11:39:16 UTC)
November 1, 2004 Link to this post
I wonder what the logo looks like?
Hehe - Nick Atkinson points out that there are lengths you can go to to express your love for Halo that will be recognized only by like-minded individuals. Check out the official name of his Cabinetmaking business. (Louis Wu 15:29:56 UTC)
October 25, 2004 Link to this post
Random Images
I was cleaning out my inbox (in preparation for clearing out the art queues, once again woefully behind), and found a few images that don't really have a place to go in our heirarchy, but are worth showing anyway. ragereset sent in a pair of photos (here and here) showing a bus he saw in downtown Sydney, Australia a couple of weeks ago. The second one is blurry because rr drives a manual transmission car, and it's hard to photograph and drive at the same time. And linus wanted to show us the depths of his love for Halo 2 - he actually painted a Halo 2 logo on his retainer. Wow... (Louis Wu 15:53:27 UTC)
October 24, 2004 Link to this post
Dialogue Databank - useable again
Payoff! The Dialogue Databank, an underused but rich resource of HBO, has been ported to a far more robust backend; you shouldn't run into any more problems using it. (Hehe - famous last words.) Extra bonus - it's much faster now. (Louis Wu 23:22:21 UTC)
October 21, 2004 Link to this post
Follow - up for your ears
Over at nilerogers.com, there's a new snippet available from the Halo 2 soundtrack - this one is Odyssey 1st Movement, from Incubus. Looks like the web team there has learned their lesson - figuring out the direct URL to the mp3 isn't as easy as it's been in the past... and it's doubtful that this one is longer than the snippet itself. Hehe. Anyway - go listen. Thanks to Alex Cross, Eric Biro and Zachary Hahn, who let us know within seconds of each other. (Louis Wu 00:16:22 UTC)
October 13, 2004 Link to this post
Protect the Coolbox!
Hehe - G-NOx points out a Dutch Halo 2 contest - beat the Cherry Coke monsters, win an Xbox Halo 2 pack (crystal Xbox, Halo2). You have to be Dutch to win - but anyone can play; it's just Space Invaders. I hit 55,000 before I got too bored. :) Read the post on how to find the game. (Louis Wu 20:23:11 UTC)
October 13, 2004 Link to this post
The Art of Halo - thoughts from the author
Hehe - Eric Trautmann described being fully paid for his work on The Art of Halo, due out in early November, in his blog. (If you're near Olympia, Washington, on November 13, you can get it signed, even.) There's also a nice ramble about how he feels about this whole process, and the Halo fan community as a whole. Eric wondered how long it would take a fansite to notice this update; Rampancy.net had it posted about 3 hours after it went up. We, unfortunately, are lagging a bit; we're 12 hours behind them. I'm slipping... (Louis Wu 15:46:25 UTC)
October 8, 2004 Link to this post
Hero to Goat - in just 3 hours
Hehe - rule number one about trolling: know your audience. thunderhawk555 (who's been around our forum for quite a while, but just today earned his Trolling stripes), posted a note purporting to contain information from the upcoming EGM issue (due out to subscribers soon, and on store shelves by the 14th or so). In it, he discusses a gametype that many people have proposed over the years - and describes how Frankie tells the EGM guys all about it. Folks were drooling... until Frankie himself stepped in and stomped - HARD - on both the rumor, and the fact that it was included in EGM. Hehe - and now it looks like thunderhawk555 was simply parroting information he found on the XBLGamers forum (a host for multiple false rumors) - and passing it off as his own! Moral of the story: if you're going to make stuff up, make sure you're doing it in a place where folks can't fact-check you. (Louis Wu 17:56:28 UTC)
October 6, 2004 Link to this post
Hey! I want some of that!
Hehe - Koolice sent us a screenshot (108K) of his MSN Messenger client from last night - looks like Anim8rJB (John Butkus, one of the Bungie Cananimators) was on XBL, playing... what? How could that be? Is it done? (Louis Wu 16:21:50 UTC)
October 6, 2004 Link to this post
Conker can read?
Hehe - look where the Master Chief is showing up these days... (Full article is here.) (Louis Wu 15:09:33 UTC)
September 29, 2004 Link to this post
Someone get MacLain!
Narcogen, over at Rampancy.net, noticed a new update to the blog of Mat Noguchi, ToolMaster for the Halo 2 team. (I think I heard someone shortening that a bit, at one point...) Sounds like they're really winding down - we're close to the Gold announcement! An interesting 'bit of trivia', as well: "Legendary is hard. Really really really hard. Adamantium hard." Hehe - I wonder if we'll all feel the same way in 2 years? (Louis Wu 20:57:34 UTC)
September 29, 2004 Link to this post
Wait - there are OTHER games?
Hehe - this is sort of funny. IGN Xbox is running a poll... "Most Anticipated Xbox game besides Halo 2?" If you can't beat 'em, rule 'em out. :) Thanks, Pete. (Louis Wu 15:04:35 UTC)
September 28, 2004 Link to this post
The banner changes - and Marty speaks.
Hehe - the power of fan outrage. The banner on the top of Sumthing's main page has changed; all the band names have been removed. (Again, I've linked a local copy, in case of more changes.) Note - I don't think this means that the involvement of those bands has been terminated - I think it just means the info was a bit premature. Thanks, op_ivy. And whoa - just as I was about to post this, Marty himself jumped onto the forum and posted a pretty interesting piece - absolutely worth a read if you're worried about the musical tone of Halo 2. Thanks, Marty! (Louis Wu 20:41:11 UTC)
September 26, 2004 Link to this post
You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
Hehe - Devin Olsen decided to try to cross the Shaft gap... without a warthog, and with only two grenades. Oh, yeah... and a Hunter. He made it. Watch the vid and smile. (3.9 mb, WMP9 format, hosting courtesy of Brian's new Mythica Uploads server. Which, btw, rocks, and now works with b.net forums and HaloPlanet forums. Ka-bam.) Update: QuickTime added - see original forum post. (Louis Wu 00:09:52 UTC)
September 22, 2004 Link to this post
Why MS Office 2005 will have bugs
Hehe... Microsoft Watch, a site devoted to - well, watching Microsoft - recently pointed out a blog entry by a Microsoft employee who commented on the huge percentage of Microsoft employees who participated in the Beta program that ended recently... and speculated about what that might mean for Microsoft's overall productivity in the days immediately following November 9. Way to go, Bungie - you're dragging the entire planet down! (Louis Wu 15:23:00 UTC)
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