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Oh man raft you guys got screwed. That picture with the MC's arm coming out of the TV is fricking comic genius. And the 2nd one is great as well. It's a shame such a lame picture beat yours.

On a side note I wouldve entered this contest but rececntly quit drinking caffinated stuff all together. I won't be a slave to the Dew any longer!

  • 07.22.2004 4:16 PM PDT
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Hey guys all of you send your pictures to jpeters@psyjnir.net and I'll throw them all on a website when I get home from work tonight.

-Cow

  • 07.22.2004 4:21 PM PDT
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DEW would only accept people who were extremely fit, and buff, and had no pimples, or freckles, or anything, and then throw in a black kid just to be politically correct.

You would have won if you were fit, and had a huge TV showing yourself playing Halo and sipping a can of Mountain Dew. And you can't even F-ing SEE a good shot of Halo in ANY of those pics.

Nightmare Armor could have won. Just dress up in armor, and pour DEW from at least 4 feet up in the air through a slot in your helmet. It would make a hell of a mess, but hey, these corrupt corporate -blam!-S only care about seeing THEIR product. Their Product = Green fizz that is amde of 90% caffeine, and 10% green.

  • 07.22.2004 4:22 PM PDT
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Wooly you think like me. When we went for 6hrs with no response from any of our e-mails or calls I started thinking the same thing. I think this whole contest is a bunch of horse-blam!- anyways. Who wins a contest and has to spend a ridiculous amount of money on getting their prize. ( And yes I did read the fine print, and its HORSE-blam!-! )

P.S. Not hating on bungie just the just pissed at the guys running the contest.

  • 07.22.2004 4:25 PM PDT
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I too have lost my respect for Bungie. Just make a great commercial, enjoy the millions you'll make from H2, and stop F-ing with these corporate -blam!-heads.

  • 07.22.2004 4:25 PM PDT
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Well, I'm pretty much considering never spending any of my money on a Pepsi product again. And I've lost respect for Bungie simply because they're allowing this crap to happen to their biggest fans.

  • 07.22.2004 4:26 PM PDT
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I like V8 better than Mt. Dew, so I think I'll give all my money to them now and never spend a dime on Dew.

  • 07.22.2004 4:31 PM PDT
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[quote][b]DEW would only accept people who were extremely fit, and buff, and had no pimples, or freckles, or anything, and then throw in a black kid just to be politically correct.quote]

LOL...I like the black kid part. It's funny cause we made jokes about that when we entered and my black friend Derris was 17 so he couldn't enter. When we submitted head shots of our entrants, I thought that we should have some random black guys hand holding a dew in the picture.

  • 07.22.2004 4:35 PM PDT
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Rip has already left but if we hear anything from the DEW people tonight I'll let you guys know. But dont hold your breathe.

  • 07.22.2004 4:35 PM PDT
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shoot... i told you guys! I'm hispanic, we need derris and get wooly or weephun's wife in there and a random white guy we would have made it!!!

  • 07.22.2004 4:38 PM PDT
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who cares about the people at MT DEW and there crappy product trying to take advantage of Halo Fans. Althought i know alot of people want to play Halo 2 now, but who wants to play an unfinnished version of it when you can enjoy playing it with million other people on November 9th finnished. I vote for playing it on Nov. 9 and enjoying it with my friends finnished and a great game.

  • 07.22.2004 4:46 PM PDT
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We should have gone with Space_Cowgirl's suggestion of paying a bunch of hot chicks from the mall to stand around in bikini's with us for our pictures. LOL!! Hindsight is 20/20 huh?

  • 07.22.2004 4:47 PM PDT
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Nah, then they just woulda said, "Send us closeups of the girls."

  • 07.22.2004 5:10 PM PDT
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Oh, and you think that if we had paid girls to bikini model for our shoot, we wouldn't have those on hand??? *looks over shoulder to make sure wife isn't reading* ;)

  • 07.22.2004 5:21 PM PDT
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Just in case there is a next time, I'm going out to buy a speedo and join a fitness center...yeah...yeah, that's what I'll do....

  • 07.22.2004 5:25 PM PDT
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No, I'm saying the 'tards at Mt. Dew would have asked for the closeups and then left us out.

  • 07.22.2004 5:28 PM PDT
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Well, most of you have already seen my groups' submissions. That Elite suit was a PAIN in the ass to put on, and so ridiculously difficult to create we were ready to give up and stick with the Master Chief. It occurred to me WAY too late that our chances of winning were fairly to really low. I'm not sure if ours was the most Creative (i.e. Master Chief suit out of Mountain Dew paraphenalia), but it definitely showed how hard core we were about it.

And don't judge my devotion by my joining date with Bungie.net. I still have a Beige-era Mac just because I still like to play Marathon, and I played it first when I was still very young. I've been a Bungie fan since then.

Incidentally: The helmet is a standard paintball mask . The visor is spray painted with a gold sheen, and we just covered the rest of the dang thing with as much Mountain Dew cardboard as we could. The "flashlights" are sheared off tops of 2-liter bottles.

The chest piece is made out of a Thirty Six -pack case and some black-spray-painted pliable packing material that gave us some shape. The bicep guards are cut open fused Mountain Dew cans, the forearms are cut open two liter bottles. The gloves are just miscellaneous pieces of cardboard strapped to oversized black gloves.

The waist section is made up of about ten cans fused together. The cod piece shouldn't be looked at by small children. Just kidding, but seriously, that's the piece we don't talk about. Lol.

The thigh pieces are each a 12-pack of Mountain dew, the calves are two liters, and the boots are assembled pieces of the bottoms of 2 liter bottles and 12-pack cases.

Pictures should be linked on page three. The links are....
http://www.ducktits.com/herpes/halizzle.jpg
http://www.ducktits.com/herpes/chode_z.jpg

While you're there, check out Ducktits.com. Lol. It's a waste of webspace at the moment, but it'll someday be a webcomic and general geek-haven website. First comic should be up by the end of July. :) Stay tuned.

  • 07.22.2004 5:32 PM PDT
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By the way, my friend tony is responsible for all the OMFG and Beeshwop stuff. His sense of humor is... unique. Muffin Man will be a weekly column and possibly a montly "filler" strip of randomocity.

  • 07.22.2004 5:35 PM PDT
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You know what? It pains me to say this as I'm one of the hardest of the hardcore, and I have absolute faith in Bungie, but this is the most BLAMed up bullBLAM contest I'd ever seen, and I'm shamed, SHAMED, that Bungie had a part in it! You know what? There's a reason Wideload Studios exists. Screw Mountain Dew. We know they're a-holes. Any shred of faith I had in PepsiCo is gone. Coke is way better anyway (everyone I know agrees). I liked Mountain Dew a little, but I'm not buying it anymore. Bungie, I'm sure you didnt know about how this contest was going to be run, but be more carful next time. I hate, hate to say it, but you've gone down a notch in my standing. Before I thought you could do no wrong. Well, you've made your first mistake. You've proven that you can. I know this sort of thing happens from time to time, and you were taken advantage of by an evil giant corporation. But don't let these kind of disappointments become regular! I don't think anyone is expecting anything less than a perfect 10 on Halo 2, but I'm not talking about your game-making ability. I'm talking about your unparelleled fan service. This was a disgusting event, but by itself, it is harmless. I can forgive. It's when this doesn't become a tragic anomaly anymore that people lose faith. I'm expecting a full public apology on the frontpage.

  • 07.22.2004 5:36 PM PDT
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Well, I don't think you guys should be blaming Bungie...If you looked at the bottom of the original post, you will see:

Note: Bungie/Microsoft are not involved in this promotion - any questions, issues, etc.. should be directed to the contacts listed above. Thanks.

I don't blame Bungie at all. They were just the messenger who told us that the contest existed. I just blame Mt. Dew =)

  • 07.22.2004 5:46 PM PDT
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Yeah, the contest seemed like kind of a sham. I am not too pissed though cause I probably wouldn't have paid to get out there on such late notice anyhow after hearing about how the winners are being treated. Anyhow, I thought I would post a link to my groups photos. Here is the gallery

It would be cool if people could post their 25 word "essay" as well. This was mine (in poem form):

We Play Halo all night long,
Mountain Dew keeps us humming along,
Mountain Chief brings what we need,
A caffeinated beverage that’s safer than speed.


Let me know what you think.

  • 07.22.2004 5:50 PM PDT
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I just saw this myself independantly of your post, Rogue. And now I agree. Bungie shouldn't have just let anyone run a Halo 2 contest, but they did. They didn't see how they would be taken advantage of.

EVERYONE READ THIS BEFORE POSTING!

Note: Bungie/Microsoft are not involved in this promotion - any questions, issues, etc.. should be directed to the contacts listed above. Thanks.

  • 07.22.2004 5:58 PM PDT
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Bungie was never to blame.

  • 07.22.2004 6:10 PM PDT
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Although I do not feel qualified to sum things up in any way, I was touched by a sincerety and humanity that I do not frequently experience in gaming communities. Not that I'm being critical of you guys, but most of the tiny fraction of the content that I've read on these forums has been utterly game speculation and talking about its awesomeness. Today, I saw a new side of you.

So, as I was saying before, to sum it up:

"Commercialism strikes again."

Or. on a less sombre, and more halo-related note:

"There is no such thing as a non-prophet organization."

  • 07.22.2004 6:35 PM PDT
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If you can judge a man/woman by the company s/he keeps then you can judge a company by the other companies they make deals with.

As was stated earlier, to the folks at PepsiCo, the contest was nothing but a way to get cheap talent for a photo shoot. As for Bungie, I'm sure they figured it would give some hardcore fans (18 years and older -- so they can sign contracts without representation) a chance to play the game before their friends.

Frankly, I say, "Boo! Boo, I say! Boo!!" to Bingle for not shielding their fans from such slimy tactics. They may not be responsible for the contest, but they are responsible for what the contest does to their image.

From reading this thread, sounds like the Bungie/MS marketing all-stars, um, "made love to the canine" on this one.

  • 07.22.2004 6:42 PM PDT