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World’s Funniest Home Videos
Elnea stopped by with Halo Action Figure Theater 94 – what do you do with a zombie? That’s right – you use a Barbie videocamera and film it.(Louis Wu 04:56:16 UTC)
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A Contest Needs a Way to Enter…
DOH! Somehow, I managed to announce the Guilt O’ Lantern contest without activating the upload folder – not sure if this affected anyone, since we didn’t get any emails saying “the upload doesn’t work!”, but it’s working now. Sorry!(Louis Wu 23:57:18 UTC)
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Straight up.
Ducain pointed out a thread on the High Impact Halo forum in which ||| Tyrant ||| shows off an amazingly simple technique for climbing vertical walls in Halo 3 – as long as you’ve got a corner around. Awesome for exploring! Man, that’s easier than Jackie Chan’s method…(Louis Wu 18:41:45 UTC)
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Send in stuff for this week’s show: Customs and Creations!
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It’s Monday and that means we’re looking for stuff for this week’s show! This week is the return of customs on the podcast but now it’s multiplied by infinity with all the new options, forge, and fileshare. We’re looking for your favorite custom games and forge variants to get out there in the Halo Nation. You don’t have to be the creator, but if you send one in please either put it on your fileshare or send us a link for the show notes. Of course let us know your gamertag so we can give you credit and find the game in fileshare. Spread the word, let’s make this a really fun show with a bunch of cool customs and forge variants! Just click the big green button on the right side of the page to send yours in. Deadline is Tuesday night at about 6pm EST.
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A Bug In The Game?
Stuntmutt looks at one of our larger Halo 3 foes in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 16:39:39 UTC)
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Bnet Fixes Afoot
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This morning there will be some interruptions in File Sharing and stat services as we add capacity to our Bnet and File Sharing servers.
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What advertising is supposed to do
Anton P. Nym points out an article at Adweek that looks at a bunch of mediocre ad campaigns in September… and then gives props to the Believe campaign. Nice!(Louis Wu 15:39:18 UTC)
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Legendary discs – available on their own
I’m not sure I understand where these are coming from – but ResilientMonkey pointed out a store on eBay that is selling the bonus discs from Halo 3 Legendary Editions (they currently have five sets for sale). Buy it now price is $14, WELL below the $70 price differential between Legendary and Standard editions. (Of course, you’re not getting the helmet or the storyboards, either…) The part I don’t get, though, is why folks are selling these; how many people bought the Legendary Edition JUST for the helmet? If you’re one of the people that wanted copies of these discs, that mystery doesn’t matter much – it should be good enough to know the discs are available.(Louis Wu 14:44:47 UTC)
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That must have been fun.
Spenser noticed a vid at GameTrailers, showing an in-game, non-orchestrated Killtastrophe. (I found the game link, so if you want to you can download the film clip and get views from other angles.)(Louis Wu 14:33:30 UTC)
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Blame the Master Chief.
Advertising Age wonders if low ticket sales at the movies recently can be attributed to many moviegoers playing Halo 3 instead… interesting question.(Louis Wu 14:32:57 UTC)
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Halo Podcasts
Big Goalie Dan let us know that Podtacular 130 is up – interview with Luke Smith, call-ins, and Tales from the Foxhole. 1:22 long, 28 mb. And Sigafoos pointed out The Riot 69 – 32 minutes, 13 mb, filled with news of a new beta from halo3.junk.ws (a stats aggregator) and the new streaming video service from GamingTV. Go listen!(Louis Wu 14:24:34 UTC)
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Cyclomite Confirmed
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The Wide Load points out the latest newspost at Wideload (boy is that going to be a hard distinction to keep making) that confirms the announcement of Wideload Shorts’ web-based game Cyclomite debuting on GarageGames’ InstantAction site early next year and already previewed by 1Up.
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When you just can’t wait to earn ’em fairly…
CVG has an article about ‘Achievement whores’ – folks who are entering the Lone Wolves playlist specifically trying to get others to help them gather up the Halo 3 online achievements. Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 19:12:28 UTC)
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Is This Ring World 24 Karat?
ZZoMBiE13 is back for another Guest Sunday One One Se7en – I think he has something to say about the power of commercialization.(Louis Wu 15:34:32 UTC)
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Episode 130: Callins and Tales from the Foxhole
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It’s Sunday and that means time for another episode of Podtacular! This show has a rich awesome center and has a whipped topping of awesome sauce. LoneBananaFone returns to the show this week with one of the funniest shows in quite a while. We also have an interview with Luke Smith at the Best Buy launch event in Seattle, voice mails from the community naarated by CapnKrunk, and more! Don’t miss the outtakes at the end… those will explain this lol-podart by StickyGerbils. 🙂
Speaking of which, after this we’re going to use the best user-submitted screenshot of the week for pod art. If you have a cool one, be sure to submit it! Oh and here’s a link to goozex.com that we mentioned in the show.
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File Share – A Source of Joy
We’ve got word of a couple of interesting clips that have been FileShared. One came from this thread at High Impact Halo; as far as I can see, the Halo 3 engine somehow thought that a doorway was a solid wall, because of precise placement of the sniper rifle barrel and probably the speed of the slug as it crossed the plane (a bug, but a mighty funny one, as long as it’s not you getting hit by a bullet that takes a 90 degree turn in midair…) – grab the clip “headshot???” to see an amazing ricochet. The second is hilarious, even if it was totally misinterpreted by the guy who grabbed it; there’s a Brute Chieftan on Covenant who’s actually taking a leak as you come in, and Sierra John 117 grabbed a film. (He thought the guy was doing something else, though…) Spin the camera around to the front on this one; even though he’s just miming the actions (Bungie kept his pants on), the modeling is pretty darned close to reality – SOMEONE took their time on this one. It’s touches like these…(Louis Wu 14:43:02 UTC)
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The road to Voi
Heh – DigitalPh33r (the guy behind the ‘Master Chief sucks at Halo‘ series) posted a vid called ‘Road to Voi’, looking at the Master Chief and the Arbiter’s journey to save Earth. Language definitely needs a rating, but it’s pretty funny! You can watch it at Machimima.com, where it was originally posted, or YouTube, where it has a bigger audience. Thanks, Angelo Ferrara.(Louis Wu 14:38:33 UTC)
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Section 3 Issue #6
V10L3N7 JAY stopped by with word of another Issue of Section 3 – looks like things are about to heat up!(Louis Wu 14:36:43 UTC)
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Prophecy News
Lordstemplar1 is back, with another Prophecy update. (Search our news if you don’t remember this project – it’s been in the works for a while.) There’s also a wallpaper linked in the post.(Louis Wu 14:33:57 UTC)
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