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  • Long Lasting Rampancy Bar

    Long Lasting Rampancy Bar

    DoomBatINC created this image for a SomethingAwful Photoshop Phriday feature fusing food and videogames. Certainly, the “long lasting rampancy bar” enriched with “Strauss protein blend” must be how an ordinary cybernetic security guard was able to face down the Pfhor and two rampant AIs over three games without ever once sitting down to a real meal.


  • Long Lasting Rampancy Bar


    Long Lasting Rampancy Bar

    DoomBatINC created this image for a SomethingAwful Photoshop Phriday feature fusing food and videogames. Certainly, the “long lasting rampancy bar” enriched with “Strauss protein blend” must be how an ordinary cybernetic security guard was able to face down the Pfhor and two rampant AIs over three games without ever once sitting down to a real meal.





  • Submit Stuff for Episode 81: Customs and Callins!

    Wow, time flies! I guess it’s because we’ve been really busy at Podtacular improving the show, working on our new fall 06 season tournament, lining up interviews and guests, etc. Ok, focus, Foo Mo, focus.

    I got this great custom called totem pole. Everybody stands on eachother’s head for 90 minutes! It’s a blast!

    Hopefully you have a better custom than this. If you do, send it in! Just click the submit news and tips link on the right and send in your custom. We read the top few customs of the month so if yours is good enough, we’ll read it on the show! Even if it isn’t we put it in the show notes so it will help someone out. Just don’t give us every single game option though, give us about a paragraph summary of the game with your gamertag. Gracias!

    Episode 81 with special guest host: you!

    This is the show where we play back the best voice mails for the month, so you can get your voice on the show! Just call 206-888-HALO and leave a halo-related message that’s 3 minutes or less. If it’s decent, we’ll play it for the world to hear!

    This one time I threw a sticky and it bounced off a wall and stuck me! ROFL!

    We’re looking for tales from the foxhole this week. Better ones than this. If you have a story of an awesome or funny thing that happened in a Halo game, let us know! Just send it in with your gamertag so we can give you credit.

    Deadline is Thursday Night

    and when I say that I mean I start putting show notes together at about 5:45pm EST. The earlier you get your submission in, the more likely it will get on the show. So hurry up and get typing!


  • Bananas… and screaming.

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    Over on Bungie.net, there’s a new Community Spotlight – KP sat down with Recon #54, known to most Bungie.net forumgoers (because he’s a moderator there) and to some HBO forumgoers (because he delurks here sometimes). Go read the story of someone who’s been part of the Bungie community since there’s BEEN a Bungie community (and no, that doesn’t mean 6 months before the release of Halo) – and you’ll come to understand WHY he’s stayed.(Louis Wu 21:19:38 UTC)

  • Submit Stuff for Episode 81: Customs and Callins!

    Wow, time flies! I guess it’s because we’ve been really busy at Podtacular improving the show, working on our new fall 06 season tournament, lining up interviews and guests, etc. Ok, focus, Foo Mo, focus.

    I got this great custom called totem pole. Everybody stands on eachother’s head for 90 minutes! It’s a blast!

    Hopefully you have a better custom than this. If you do, send it in! Just click the submit news and tips link on the right and send in your custom. We read the top few customs of the month so if yours is good enough, we’ll read it on the show! Even if it isn’t we put it in the show notes so it will help someone out. Just don’t give us every single game option though, give us about a paragraph summary of the game with your gamertag. Gracias!

    Episode 81 with special guest host: you!

    This is the show where we play back the best voice mails for the month, so you can get your voice on the show! Just call 206-888-HALO and leave a halo-related message that’s 3 minutes or less. If it’s decent, we’ll play it for the world to hear!

    This one time I threw a sticky and it bounced off a wall and stuck me! ROFL!

    We’re looking for tales from the foxhole this week. Better ones than this. If you have a story of an awesome or funny thing that happened in a Halo game, let us know! Just send it in with your gamertag so we can give you credit.

    Deadline is Thursday Night

    and when I say that I mean I start putting show notes together at about 5:45pm EST. The earlier you get your submission in, the more likely it will get on the show. So hurry up and get typing!


  • Community Spotlight: Recon Number 54

    We took some time this week to speak with Recon Number 54, long-time Bungie fan and one of our Master Forum Ninjas. Read about how he first became involved with the community and what’s kept him coming back all these years.

  • Colors

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    Crossfade, from QsKGlobal.Com, put together ‘Colors’, a vid that tells the story of a lone soldier who must leave his family and friends to go to war. The MPRRS liked the cinematic effects, and the editing in general. Check it out! 32 mb for the WMP9 version, 31.3 mb for the QuickTime version.(Louis Wu 19:29:11 UTC)

  • Halo 2 dress up doll

    I know you have all been waiting for this moment with intense anticipation. Refreshing the page every 10 seconds. Skipping lunch. Well the wait is over: the Master Chief dress up doll is LIVE! Now you can dress up the chief as a ninja, a tennis player or even a fairy! WOW! I can’t wait to make a tennis-playing ninja Master Chief! Thanks to Anjo Banjo for this awesome new Halo resource. Run, don’t walk over to cartoon doll emporium and make your own special master chief doll now!


  • Halo 2 dress up doll

    I know you have all been waiting for this moment with intense anticipation. Refreshing the page every 10 seconds. Skipping lunch. Well the wait is over: the Master Chief dress up doll is LIVE! Now you can dress up the chief as a ninja, a tennis player or even a fairy! WOW! I can’t wait to make a tennis-playing ninja Master Chief! Thanks to Anjo Banjo for this awesome new Halo resource. Run, don’t walk over to cartoon doll emporium and make your own special master chief doll now!


  • Showdown

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    xbryboyremix submitted ‘Showdown’ to the MPRRS – it’s a samurai movie. A lone samurai that confronts the enemy in a showdown for honor. Nice atmosphere, great camera angles, short, stays on point. Fun film! Grab it in WMP9 format (15.2 mb) or QuickTime format (15.4 mb).(Louis Wu 15:53:14 UTC)

  • Happy Birthday, CapnKrunk!

    CapnKrunk, our webmaster, just turned a year older today! The capn is the guy that created this web site and continues to improve it as time goes on. Let’s join in and wish him a happy birthday. Party at the forums! BYOBR!


  • Happy Birthday, CapnKrunk!

    CapnKrunk, our webmaster, just turned a year older today! The capn is the guy that created this web site and continues to improve it as time goes on. Let’s join in and wish him a happy birthday. Party at the forums! BYOBR!


  • Podtacular Ep 80

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    Foo Mo Jive points out that Podtacular Episode 80 is out (yeah, we were late on 79, but hey, it’s nice to catch up) – it’s a tip show, focusing on Lockout, and there’s an interview with the creators of the Codex machinima series. A bit over an hour, 57 mb. Get to downloading!(Louis Wu 13:59:32 UTC)

  • A Discussion of Halo

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    A fan calling himself Gravemind has written a massive (45,000 words) look at Halo and Halo 2, with an eye towards making Halo 3 a better game. Anyone interested in looking at the strengths and weaknesses of the first two Halo games, and how they might be optimized going into the third, could probably find SOMETHING they could learn from in this epic. Give it a read. (Narcogen has said he’s hoping to mirror it on Rampancy.net, and we’d be happy to, as well, so if this page goes down – it’s a GeoCities site, after all – there’ll be other options soon.) Comments can go in his forum thread. Update: Heh – went down faster than I thought it would. I’ve put up a mirror here (it’s 40% smaller, though it looks the same – I pulled out some extraneous html code).(Louis Wu 12:26:03 UTC)

  • RT: Out of Mind Part Five

    OoM Part 5, the final chapter of Out of Mind, is now available for sponsors to download. I hope that you are spending your holiday weekend somewhere less hot than Texas. I think I saw a rock melt today. That takes a lot of heat.

    If you find yourself in…

  • RT: Every Con I’ve ever been to…

    Hey it’s Saturday! I don’t know what plans you all have for the weekend, but I hope they include visiting us at either of the events we’re attending this weekend (CNE and DragonCon respectively). Joel won’t be at either event, but if he was, it would go…

  • RT: OoM V and the ATL




    The final episode of Red vs. Blue: Out of Mind is now available to the public. You can find it now in the RvB Video Archive.

    Geoff and I have been having a great time at DragonCon here in Atlanta, despite the absence of any real dragons….

  • RT: A little pick me up…

    First of all, thanks to everyone who came out to see us over the weekend at DragonCon and CNE. They were our last two conventions of the year, and it was nice to go out on a high note.
    Now, on to today’s comic…
    We like to put on our lab coats and “experiment”…

  • RT: Eternal Sleep

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    It’s Thursday and I’m grumpy for no reason. Anyway, today’s comic focuses on LACM (life after cartoon Matt), as we all try to pick up the pieces and move on. No doubt, you are all doing the same. I know we will all honor him in our own special…