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Psyrixx under lights
The Junkyard has turned the Spotlight on Robert Sogomonian, better known as Psyrixx, of Psyjnir.org. Swing by to read what makes this guy tick. (Be aware that although it looks like psyjnir.org is finally coming back online, most of the internal links aren’t working at the moment.)
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Ze words, boss, ze words!
There wasn’t any Fan Fiction updating this weekend… so we’re back up to older numbers. 22 pieces for you today:- Prophecy, by Daan Timmer( I’m Dutch)
- Too Close To Home Chapter 1, by phil451
- The Second Ring (Part 4), by Jason
- Desecrating Providence (Chapter 1), by Marty
- Neu Haven: Chapter Two, by Blue Jaguar
- Super Weapon Bowl, by Steve
- Halo:Sgt.Johnson’s War Chapter 2:revenge, by Sgt.Johnson
- The fight for Omega Centauri. Part three: assuming command, by Aonghus Maher
- In Light of Destiny II: Death and Liberation, by Jinkaiden-XI
- The return to Halo, by Covenant Prophet aka Grunteater
- Halo Installation 01, Chapter 1, by FOrunnER
- Spartans Return to Earth (Entering the City), by Tommy Miller
- Forced Betrayal (Chapter 6: Tears of Blood), by CoLd BlooDed
- Earth’s Darkest Hour, by Divination
- Halo: Speed of Darkness (Prologue), by Thanatos 117
- A Series of Wierd Events – Sequel, Part Eight[H_K], by Hunter_KIller
- Halo: The War of the Grunts (Part 1), by David Li
- Never trust a Forerunner, by Daan Timmer
- Redesignation 1of 2, by Stuntmutt
- Redesignation 2 of 2, by Stuntmutt
- Eldar Counsels Log Epilgoue Pt.1-Dreams of Eternity, by Blue Angel
- Underfire, by Puck Nny
You might recognize a name near the end of the list – a name not normally associated with Fan Fiction. Let’s say he brings the same dry wit to writing that he does to his art.
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MacAddict reviews Halo
Blackstar points out that the March 2004 issue of MacAddict magazine contains a nice review of Mac Halo. It got 5 bullets (‘Awesome’ – I miss the Max days of ‘Freakin’ Awesome’, but what can you do?) and does something very few other reviews have done – it adds spoiler-laden pics and descriptions of the later game elements. We’ll post this once it’s off the shelves.
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Range… 20 yards.
Today’s Calvin and Halo is from Warbow – and I’m tempted to get away from this computer and go outside. Really.
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Technical Difficulties.
Today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from SHARPE – and looks at hardware incompatibilities. If you ask me, them Covenant are pretty silly…
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More Lanfest stuff
Dan Chosich has updated his Tetraboxing reminiscences with a writeup, to accompany his movie. Looks like today’s Dan’s birthday, too – Happy Birthday, Dan! Update: Blood, as well, has updated his content – there’s now a text writeup to go with his pictures on Bloodgulch.com.
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Halo may be cut from CPL summer event
The Cyberathlete Professional League is threatening to cancel the Halo portion of its Extreme World Championships 2004, to be held this summer in Texas. Angel Munoz, president of the league, sent out an email to registrants warning that if registration didn’t pick up by Friday, February 13, they would cancel the $50,000 Halo tournament. The admission discount period has been extended until that point; $60/gamer for the 5-day event will increase to $80/gamer after the 13th. Thanks to synide, of Cooked Gamers, via Rampancy.net for the heads-up.
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RvB on G4’s Pulse
tsudico points out that Red vs Blue is on Pulse on G4TV this week. Next air date is today, 2 pm.
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The Bungie Pentathlon Writeup
Yesterday afternoon, Frankie posted a writeup of the Bungie Pentathlon, an event that takes place annually and pits the employees against one another in mortal combat, divided among seniority lines. Frank brings his own inimitable style to the writeup, but fails to obscure the fact that his team (the Newbies) got soundly thrashed by everyone else there – in fact, I haven’t seen such ownage since the 49ers trounced the Broncos in Superbowl XXIV. We got a lot of mail about this one, but the first note came from Pete Brown.
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Yahoo Block To Be Removed
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The following missive was received this morning from Yahoo. Yahoo has been blocking mail from Synfibers for more than two months now following abuse of one of our proxy servers by spammers. Unlike many other blacklists, Yahoo does not re-test open relays for at least 60 days, which is why the problem was not resolved before now:
Thank you for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.
We have retested the IP address you submitted and it appears that the open proxy/relay situation with this IP has been resolved. We have now removed the block from our servers for this IP address and will begin accepting connections again within the next day or so.
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More tidbits… from those who KNOW.
Our Halo Story Page wizards got the pair of Erics, Nylund and Trautmann, to sit down and answer a few questions about the Halo backstory. (I’m pretty sure their methods involved duct tape and a cattle prod.) The result can be found in our Miscellaneous section, to be filed one day on the Interviews page.
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Because it’s there.
Hehe – people are STILL going where nobody’s gone before. Ducain jumped into our forum with a pictorial explanation of a climb he did on Silent Cartographer. I’ve never seen pics of anyone getting up to that particular spot before. Glad to see folks are STILL exploring!
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Playable Pelican
Still catching up… Nick posted a link to a movie of a Pelican in Death Island (Halo PC) a couple of days ago. Looks pretty neat – you can jump in through the front, but vehicles bounce off. Seems like a pretty gnarly assault vehicle; no offensive weapons, but imagine flying 6 or 7 teammates across the map to the opposing base at Pelican speed! Movie is 20 mb, in .rar format; uncompressed, it’s a WMP9 file.
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Halo music used in political video
Mooreburg found a rather strange report – apparently, according to the Palestinian Media Watch organization, the Palestinian Authority is using Halo’s theme in a video aimed at promoting the Palestinian cause. Microsoft has made a statement that the use of the music was wholly unsanctioned. If you decide to participate in the forum thread on this subject, please remember that political discussion is simply not allowed on our forum; keep your comments Halo-related, or the thread will end up locked. (The wider topic is pretty incendiary, and we simply don’t need it here… we’re a game site.)
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Dolbex and 2070Wired weigh in
More Tetraboxing material: Dan Chosich has posted a 25 mb QuickTime movie about his experience (a bit over 2 minutes, movies and photos combined), and Dolbex has posted his own writeup of the trip (Georgia to Connecticut and back in 60 hours – with a LOT of Halo in the middle!) on the Been Mawed site. Good stuff!
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Another word that angers me
Reimagined and its various forms. Holy chirst, can’t these people have the balls to say remake?
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Another word that angers me
Reimagined and its various forms. Holy chirst, can’t these people have the balls to say remake?
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The Llama Speaks
bentllama, the Bungie animator and master of offtopic bizarreness on our forum, sent along a cool link to the CGTalk forum, in which he posted some preliminary (non-Bungie) work on some 3D models of Wonderboy in Monsterland, an old platformer that got released on many, many consoles. (Here are a pair of Commodore64 shots.) With all the time he has to post about pancakes on our forum, and slick models like this one, you wonder how he’s getting those Halo 2 animations finished… can we blame that Fall 2004 date on him?
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One One Se7en visits the Miniature Halo set
SESpider has sent in another episode of Miniature Halo – the set gets a visit from another HBO denizen. It should make you laugh!
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Funny’s Cousin.
One One Se7en looks for new talent for the jokemaking. Whether it’s successful is totally your call.
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft