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GrifballHub hosts Ricochet Mixer
Goose Checka let us know that GrifballHub will be celebrating the release of the Ricochet gametype with a night of customs – if you want to learn more about their mixer, visit this page, and if you want an invite into the games, post your gamertag in this thread. Tuesday promises to be a fun evening! (Louis Wu 23:47:42 UTC)
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Dustbowl Megabattle Setup Demo
Rockslider stopped in with a new video – this one shows how to set up a megabattle against 40+ covenant enemies on Normal on Truth and Reconciliation. Looks like fun! Go watch.(Louis Wu 23:39:56 UTC)
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Weekend Webcomic – Difficulties
Weekends and webcomics go hand in hand, and there’s no better day to celebrate that relaxing ritual than on Sunday. Today’s Halo-themed Weekend Webcomic is brought to you by DairyBoy Comics. Enjoy his Halo-themed strip, and if you have a comic you’d like to submit for possible future inclusion, send it to bsangel[at]halowaypoint.com!
by: DairyBoy Comics
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The Week’s Fails and HORSEs
We’re late, but hey… weekends can be rough. AchievementHunter has their standard releases for the week – Fails of the Weak 152 is visible on both AH.com and YouTube, and shows off a lot of vehicle-assisted fails. They’ve also got Joel vs Miles in the office Halo HORSE tournament – again, AH.com or YouTube – episode 140 fills the second seat of the finals. Thanks, as usual, to Nikko B201.(Louis Wu 23:59:17 UTC)
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ASE Ep. 50: Unpfhorgiven M1 lvl 19
Failing to find him among the humans on the Marathon, Durandal has sent us back to the Pfhor scoutship to try and save Bernhard Strauss. There’s still no indication of which one of these exploding BoBs he was; the Pfhor are keeping the real and fake ones all mixed together, which adversely affects their life expectancies.
This podcast uses:
Aleph One, free and open source versions of Marathon for Windows, Mac and Linux at http://source.bungie.org
Remixes of the Marathon soundtrack by Craig Hardgrove at http://themarathonmusic.com
Subscribe to the YouTube channel for Anger, Sadness and Envy video podcasts:
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Subscribe to the iTunes channel or RSS feed for video and audio podcasts:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/anger-sadness-and-envy/id266991411?mt=2
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Music used in this episode:
“What About Bob?” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (intro music)
“New Pacific (Reprise)” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (gameplay background music)
“New Pacific (Reprise)” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (outro music)For more information on this level, visit the Marathon Spoiler Guide:
http://marathon.bungie.org/spoiler/m1/18.shtml
For complete Terminal texts, visit the excellent Marathon Story Page:
http://marathon.bungie.org/story/
There you can read faithful and complete reproductions of all of terminals in Marathon and its sequels, plus Facts and Puzzling Things About all sorts of characters, places, and concepts in the Marathon universe, as well as a forum where stalwart fans continue to argue the finer points of interpreting Marathon’s story nearly twenty years after the game’s release!
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GI’s Top 10 Secret Organizations
GameInformer has a list of their Top 10 Secret Organizations… the Halo universe’s ONI makes the cut. Thanks, Morpheus.(Louis Wu 19:53:20 UTC)
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Last Man Standing: a Halo 4 1v1 Tourney
SlashingArbiter stopped in to announce Last Man Standing, a Halo 4 1v1 tournament with some interesting rules. Read his post, and then swing by the forum of the Spartan 1 Project, where all the details can be found, along with rules and a sign-up page.(Louis Wu 19:51:06 UTC)
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Custom themed Halo grips on a real gun
A poster on Reddit modified a Beretta M9A1 to feel a lot more like a Halo weapon – it’s really slick! Check out the pictures. Thanks, serpx. (Louis Wu 19:47:32 UTC)
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PGCR 174 – plus thoughts on cheating
Robowski let us know that the latest Post Game Carnage Report has an interesting discussion about DLC – past, present, future. How has it affected the Halo playing field up to now – and how will this change going forward? Also, he points out a blog post from Gagnon 30 discussing the recent revelation that a co-founder of the AGL has admitted to cheating in the Halo 4 Global Challenge. Go listen, go read!(Louis Wu 19:45:00 UTC)
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Halo 4 Friday Caption Fun 17
Last week, for our Friday Caption Fun festivities, you provided quips for an image featuring a rather flexible Spartan. Here are the top captions you left for that particular image!
“It appears that this Spartan in particular misunderstood the concept of twerking.” –The Little Moa
“Always need to stretch before carrying the team.” –ICantSpellBro
“No, dude. I’m telling you, I can totally do that weird walk from the Exorcist. Just hang on…almost got it!” –Julian Grubb
“The new thruster pack seemed a little overpowered.” –CrazedSpartanII
“I knew farting in zero gravity would have bad results when laying down!” –Cerilium
“The first prototype of the Backflip Armor Ability was not entirely successful.” –Prophetic Onion
“I know what the ladies like.” –snickerdoodle
“It was then that Greg realized he had popped, locked and dropped a little too hard.” –Wesley Dowdy
“Are you saying I can…dodge rockets?!” –Marco Ama To
“My body is ready.” –Austin7934
Now that we’ve wrapped up that picture, let’s start a new one. Up for your captioning pleasure this week is an image featuring Mongeese. Er, Mongooses. I mean, Mongi? Regardless, soak in the screenshot, then leave your witty and relevant quip in a comment. Off you go!
Author: RECEPTOR 17
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Halo 4 – Fails of the Weak 152
From Rooster Teeth:
Jack and Ray are here for this week’s Fails of the Weak.
Editor’s note: Language is mature. Proceed with caution.
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Tyrant’s Halo 4 Mythic Walkthrough – Reclaimer
From MythicTyrant:
This video covers the fifth mission in Halo 4 on Mythic Difficulty (also known as true LASO). Legendary All Skulls On with no deaths or saves. Also, be sure to lookout for the written portion of the walkthrough which is now available on halo.bungie.org!
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ASE Ep. 49: Deimos Anomaly
Blackstar and Narcogen’s experimental teleporters have malfunctioned, stranding them in a strange world where the only constants are deadly green slime and being shot at by everything and everyone they encounter. Where have they gone, and how can they get back?
This podcast uses:
Aleph One, free and open source versions of Marathon for Windows, Mac and Linux at http://source.bungie.org
Remixes of the Marathon soundtrack by Craig Hardgrove at http://themarathonmusic.com
For recording Doom gameplay we relied on Chocolate Doom, which preserves the original game’s ability to make demo recordings of multiplayer games, including co-op games.
For Doom demo playbacks, we used PrBoom+ for its OpenGL rendering and free camera feature.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/prboom-plus/
Subscribe to the YouTube channel for Anger, Sadness and Envy video podcasts:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIof4Cp3-cam7bAFzDEwK_wzSSEya050i
Subscribe to the iTunes channel or RSS feed for video and audio podcasts:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/anger-sadness-and-envy/id266991411?mt=2
http://feeds.feedburner.com/AngerSadnessEnvy
Music used in this episode:
“What About Bob?” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (intro music)
“Aliens Again” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (gameplay background music)
“New Pacific (Reprise)” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (outro music)For more information on this Marathon level, visit the Marathon Spoiler Guide:
http://marathon.bungie.org/spoiler/m1/17.shtml
For complete Terminal texts, visit the excellent Marathon Story Page:
http://marathon.bungie.org/story/
There you can read faithful and complete reproductions of all of terminals in Marathon and its sequels, plus Facts and Puzzling Things About all sorts of characters, places, and concepts in the Marathon universe, as well as a forum where stalwart fans continue to argue the finer points of interpreting Marathon’s story nearly twenty years after the game’s release!
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Podtacular 387: Spartan Ops Survey Results
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This week on the podcast, we enter the last week of the Halo 4 Global Championship online qualifier. We take a look at the upcoming matchmaking update in this week’s bulletin to introduce some of the tournament gametype/map combinations into the Rumble playlist and the preparation of the Champions Bundle dropping next week. We have special guest Molten Slowa on to talk about the results of his Spartan Ops survey, which turn out to be really interesting. Enjoy
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Halo Bulletin, August 14
The Halo Bulletin went live last night, as it usually does on Wednesday nights – this one contains details about the Champions Bundle, gives extra details about the Halo 4 Global Challenge, and provides you with a bunch of Green-themed screenshots. As always, a local version is available in our Halo Bulletin Archive, for those seeking lightness. (Louis Wu 20:38:49 UTC)
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The word on Halo: Initiation #1
Halo: Initiation Issue 1 is on comic store shelves now – and there are a bunch of reviews out there if you want to know what you’re getting into before you buy.- GeekTyrant has a short summary (thanks, padraig08)
- IGN took a look, and was unimpressed
- On our own forum, Grizzlei did an in-depth writeup to help you decide
Check them out, and then go looking for a copy!(Louis Wu 20:28:59 UTC)
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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
