by Matt | Nov 11, 2001 | Imported Entry
From PlanetXbox AND PlanetHalo:
Q:What platforms will Halo be developed for, and in what order will they be released?
A:Halo will be developped for the Microsoft X-Box, the PC and Macinstosh . The X-Box version of Halo will be released first to promote the release of the X-Box, with subsequent versions of PC and Mac following shortly thereafter.
Halo on Xbox Release Date: November 15th, 2001.
Halo on PC & Mac Release Date: Early 2002
Q:Why does it Halo’s packaging say “Only on Xbox” on it? Are they not releasing PC/Mac versions?!
A:There will be Xbox, PC and Mac releases of the game. It has been stated and re-stated by Bungie many times, but some people still don’t believe it. “Only on Xbox” is much like movies advertise themselves as “only in theaters”, it’s just to promote the Xbox. I’ll quote Bungie’s Matt Soell to confirm this: I will take this opportunity to remind the more easily shaken members of the community that THERE WILL BE MAC AND PC VERSIONS OF HALO, no matter how many posts you might see from malicious dolts who “confirmed with a Bungie developer that Mac Halo is dead” or whatever. Don’t let anonymous jerks ruin your day with lies.
YAH!!! Now all I need is a computer upgrade 🙂
by Matt | Nov 11, 2001 | Imported Entry
When you browse web sites now a days you have to expect some level of crap ads. Today however, I did see one that caught my eye. It was an ad for http://www.pc4free.cjb.net . Now, it was advertising a free* pentium 4 system. I was slightly interested and decided to click. I was reading further into the site and finally came across the catch. You get a free system from them and in return, they send you monthly surveys for marketing reasons and tons of junk mail. That and you have to pay a small setup fee. $25-$100 I think, depending on what you get from them. Now, it would seem to me that this company was seriously hosing people for marketing data. BUT, that you could also hose them in return. It’s simple. They made the mistake of opening payment to “PayPal” and Money Orders. All you need to open a Pay Pal account is a valid email address, and you can create a fake one over at hotmail in no time. So, you create a real but fake email address, get a paypal account, send a money order with your fake name on it to paypal, then order your system with your fake name and pay for it with the fake account. Then all you have to do is get the system send somewhere other than where you live. Like a buisness you work for, a PO Box or something to that end. The PO Box would probably be the easiest since you could simply close it and disappear. True, thats a few hoops to jump through, and I’d never actually bother setting all that up to rip off a company thats ripping other people off, but I thought the idea was interesting just the same. But hey, if you get bored and feel the need to “get one back for the little guys” or just “do some damage to the system” then there ya go.
by Matt | Nov 11, 2001 | Imported Entry
Suck… I’m bored. Not with life or anything, just with current computer games. This winter is going to seriously suck for us PC gamers, all the attention is on the new console war. X-Box vs Game Cube vs PS2. I could really care less. The X-Box is to over priced for me, the Game Cube is simply going to suck and the PS2 will still win with it’s large developer support and already huge game library. I wouldn’t mind any of the three… if I got them for free that is. I simply don’t have the cash flow to get back into console gaming again. Anyway, that brings me back to PC games. I’m bored. Have I mentioned that? I’ve played CS to death and cheating little ass wipes are ruining it for us true believers, I’ll wait for CS:CZ or HalfLife 2 to play again. In the past few months, since this summer, I’ve beaten Diablo II (again), Red Faction, Grim Fandango, Operation Flashpoint, Max Payne, UT: GOTY edition, and an entire season of Triple Play. I’ve also played Tribes 2 to death and have been killing time by playing HL mods like Day of Defeat, Box Wars and most recently The Opera. I’m not big into Online RPGs, so what does that leave me? Nothing. All the games my buds are currently playing are things like Acherons Call (sp?) Everquest and Dark Age of Camelot. Thats good for them, but like I said, I’m not really into online RPGs. I like RPGs enough, but I don’t have the extra time to become addicted to something like that. Someone please suggest something to play! I’m a half step away from dusting off my Total Annihilation and Rainbow 6 CDs!
by Matt | Nov 11, 2001 | Imported Entry
fixed’em. comments work again. 🙂
by Matt | Nov 11, 2001 | Imported Entry
How odd, comments seem broken again. WTF?
Anyway, yesterday was very productive. VERY. I spent 8 friggin hours in the darkroom printing my final. I got there at noon and didn’t leave until after 8pm. I did get a lot of cool sutff done though, and I am a slight step ahead since I won’t have to panic and try and get things done at the end of the week. Go me!
It’s kinda funny, but you learn so much from being in a darkroom for that amount of time. For example:
-Girls take more “nudity” pictures than guys do. I’m serious. Over the past 3 years, more than 2/3 of the people to like working with “skin” have been girls, at least in my classes. Some of them even go so far as to reinforce the “super model” stereotypes and display other women as the preverbial “piece of meat”. All I know is, there were 5 people printing “portraits” last night. All of the photographers, with the exception of myself, were women, all of the subjects were women and all of them were nude except for mine. Who’s reinforcing stereotypes huh?
-Also, the more caffine you drink, the more you can see in the dark… or at least think you can. On the same note, Blue KMX still isn’t as good as Orange KMX. Good, but not as good.
-Techno, preferably trance, is the perfect music for the darkroom. PVD’s – Seven Ways double CD, Sasha – both Global Undergrounds, all awesome darkroom music.
-Lastly, try not to over-print things at the begining of the semester. That way you avoid running out of paper when you need to for a final.
Ok, I’ll get around to posting some of the prints for my final in a little bit. But, right now it’s food time. Later.
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