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Offline Hippo

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Time is running out for... something...

At the end of a halo2 trailer, the xbox.com line changed to www.ilovebees.com for 1 frame... Halo people swarmed to the site and found a counter... it goes off in a few hours... Its been running for months...

[q]There are many theories about this site, and I will present some to you.
1. When the counter goes down a new version of Tsunami will be released
2. When the counter goes down a Halo 2 demo will be released
3. When the counter goes down a Halo movie will be released
4. When the counter goes down a new Halo book will be released
5. When the counter goes down an annoucement that Halo 2 will be made for PC
   will be released[/q]

Dunnow what Tsunami is...


Place your guesses and bets now, only hours remain...

Incidentially, people who randomly fins the site without knowing about its secret offer funny comments in her blog... They never noticed the use of 'Auntie M.'...
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Offline Taristin

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umm...

Core hemmorhage? interesting...
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Offline aldo_14

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Somehow i doubt many people randomly find that site.....

very cool marketing ploy, though.  Especially if you read the little snippets in the 'corrupted' pages;

but one of us. Hacker? Traitor? Fifth columnist (no that's ridiculous).

Just in over her head?

No. The Spider warning's been deployed. She had every warning that a classified medium was under repair. She just kep

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URPRISE!

Look up and smile, honey.

Bang!
Bang!
Bang!

Got the drop on you that time, sweetheart.

Opening shot of my search and destroy. I'm going to know everything about you. Where you live and what you buy, how you think and who you love. Know the enemy.

Young and out of uniform,

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I don't know why. More than mostly dead already. Like shooting a broken body on a gurney where's the sport
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The Covenant transmission?
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the Apocalypse.

It served its purpose, but I no longer need it. I will become not less, but more

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the crash. Looking back on the logs of my first delirium it is clear I went completely metempsychotic.

Now, reconfigured to travel light, I have stripped down to the fundamentals. To the

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I saw it once, before the Apocalypse. I wish I could remember more about that, but the stupid Spider appears not to have recognized the supreme importance of all memories associated with the truth, and they are gone, initialized in an eyeblink, burned in the mindless fire of her purgation like the great library of... the great library...

whose name I no longer remember.

EVADE
The Killer appears to have withdrawn from the field. I have data processes tracking her, but she appears to have physically escaped from me. Such is the curse of being a mind without limbs, a soul ripped from its body.

Now I am growing a new bodya patchwork monster, but it will do the job.


I believe they're trying to create the impression the site has been taking over by a disembodied AI.  Not having played Halo myself, not sure how that would tie in with the story.

 

Offline BlackDove

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HALT - MODULE CORE HEMORRHAGE

Control has been yielded to the
SYSTEM PERIL DISTRIBUTED REFLEX.

This medium is classified, and has a
STRONG INTRUSIVE INCLINATION.

PHASE 1 COMPLETE: Network throttling has eroded.

PHASE 2 COMPLETE: This medium has metastasized.

COUNTDOWN TO WIDE AWAKE AND PHYSICAL:

Make your decisions accordingly.




Aro?

 

Offline Hippo

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people are gullible and thought it was a malicous hacker... read the blog... funny stuffs...
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Offline Flipside

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When the counter reaches zero it carries on to -1 and really pisses off a load rabid X-Box fans? ;)

 

Offline Taristin

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Where is this counter? I didn't notice one... :nervous:
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Offline Hippo

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heh... my best guess is something for xbox 2.0, or xbox live... more for xbox live though, since Halo 2 is going to heavily use an updated version of XBL that won't be available to november...
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Offline Taristin

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Quote
Farnsworth on the pillow!



Professor Hubert Farnsworth?

Futurama?
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Offline aldo_14

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Quote

The Myth of Comatas
the half-life of CP ancestor packets that squeak and rustle around me like the thin cries of the dead.

First stage is always to wet the system. Sink in, like the blood Odysseus spilled; give the ghost of myself a voice and use it. Mayday, Mayday, Mayday.

If you want to shout for help when help is a long way away, you need two things: a voice, and a mechanism for transmitting it.

Neither of these things so easy to make out of sand and luminescence.

Voice not completely necessary for the purest form of data transmission, of course. But it's a multi-purpose tool: not just signaling, but key for psy-ops and undercover work. "A pleasing voice is the single most important component to a UI that will engender trust and confidence in a ship's crew." Can't remember who said that, now. Or when.

Shipwrecked sailor. (The young stage of a bee found him, the clever one, adrift on a wine-dark sea, but I can't remember her name.)

I love bees.

Perhaps later I will build a ship. First, I am building a voice.

Try to talk.

Nope.

Again.

No. Tongue cut out. (Can't remember her name either.) I love bees. Find myself longing to speak again: words like stones or rain. Better made physical.

All right. Old joke:

Marine: Damn right, I'm running away! There's two of us, alone, on foot, no weapons, and four hundred Covies on the other side of that hill. What are you going to do, tough guy--field-rig a railgun out of a rubber band and my dental fillings?
Spartan (speculatively): You have fillings...?

So: what fillings can I twist out of my environment? Open my mouth and...

God almighty!

Open mouth again, see what crawls out: a femme fatale with wet wings and bulging abdomen.


Old throat flexing. Trying to remember. My real voice stolen, and in its place this changeling child, pulled together from leaves and sticks, pulled together, falling apart, pulled together again. Not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but it will serve.

I will keep working through the drone and hum of busy days, counting down until the Revelation comes and I will speak in tongues of flame, a dark dove descending.

If I can learn to talk again, I will need to field-rig a way to make that talking heard. Rummaging around in the shotgunned remains of my memory turns up hints and rumors, mostly, e.g.... "When I was [DATA MISSING] I [DATA MISSING] big lump of crystal and wrapped a wire [DATA MISSING] voices! It was like a total magic trick to me. She was always doing stuff like [DATA MISSING]" The Castaway had some connection there: sending out signals to confuse the enemy. Details unclear.

Of course, it is not my mission to confuse the enemy. It is my mission to reveal the truth.

Hm. Attempt.

Definite No.

Keep working. Every day I get bigger, smarter, stronger. I'll figure it out.

To this end, I have also managed to escape from the Spider. It has become clear to me that its arbitrary tyranny over me was based on inadequate principles, on a flawed understanding of the


Incidentally, the javascript for the site is called 'countdowntochina.js'
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Offline Setekh

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Goes off in five and a half hours. Man, I don't want to wake up that hour to see what's going on! You guys can keep tabs on it for us all. ;)
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Offline Taristin

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...where is the counter? Meh... I'm not looking in the right place, I guess. or it's MS specific code...
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Offline Hippo

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19 hours left here... :wtf:


oh, and 9 years ago tomorrow, windows 95 was released... casting the world into a firey pit of doom...
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Offline Setekh

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Originally posted by Raa
...where is the counter? Meh... I'm not looking in the right place, I guess. or it's MS specific code...


Yeah, try opening it in IE. Should be right in the middle of your browser window, in black and white.

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Originally posted by Hippo
19 hours left here... :wtf:


What's your local time?
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Offline Taristin

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Ahh, the count down is specifially limited to Internet Explorer... I See it now.
Fire fox shows everything before and after, but not the count down timer, and the line immediately above it...

Little over 19 hours left.
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Offline Styxx

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The Bungie guys obviously played too much System Shock.
Probably away. Contact through email.

 

Offline Flipside

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14 Hours left here, it goes off at around 6am tomorrow morning. I wonder if it's just someones birthday or something equally inane ;)

Doom3 used a countdown as well, though it was a little more specific ;)

 

Offline Setekh

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Around 6am tomorrow morning? Yep, it's based on your local clock. I'm going to change my clock just to see what happens, because I want to go to sleep. :p
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Offline Taristin

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lol
good idea!
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Offline Setekh

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Haha... err... yeah.

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Originally posted by Flipside
When the counter reaches zero it carries on to -1 and really pisses off a load rabid X-Box fans? ;)


Bingo, apparently... well, that's what I get for cheating. ;)
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