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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update!!!
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Sorry for the second post, but i couldn't edit my previous post and I forgot to mention. I can get you in contact with the gametalk mods too if you feel you need to.

  • 07.17.2004 5:38 PM PDT
Subject: SHUDDUP
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ALEXBONDROCKS,
SHUT THE HELL UP DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 07.17.2004 5:49 PM PDT
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Hehe, I think we should post another one there, just so we could piss them off more. Hell, maybe God will be nice to us, and the servers will crash. It seemed like it was going to friday, it was running slow as -blam!-...a couple thousand more hits, and we could've shut it down! :D

But at least one person (Gabe) wasn't being an asshat about it.

  • 07.17.2004 8:54 PM PDT
Subject: Bungie Weekly Update!!!
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I feel a mixture of amusement, disappointment and indignation (mostly the latter two) about the way Frankie's Bungie Weekly Update was received on the Penny Arcade forums. On the one hand, some of the responses in that thread are genuinely entertaining, and the update itself is great as usual. On the other hand, who the f**k do those people think they are?

Pardon my French, but I don't think I've ever had the displeasure of visiting a forum populated by such a cantankerous and repugnant group of people in all of the considerable time I've spent on the Internet. The sheer malevolence leveled at Frankie was almost enough to make me feel ill. Even a mod joined in the "fun" for chrissake.

And though these next few sentences may read like they were lifted directly from the Asskissers' Unabridged Dictionary of Superlative Ingratiation, not a day goes by when I don't think of what an exceptional group of individuals the people who make up Bungie are. Even while busting your collective asses to bring us what will most assuredly be the best game on this generation of consoles (if not ever), you take the time to play an active role in the fan community. No game developer goes or has gone to the lengths Bungie does to reach out to us fans, and I perpetually marvel at your dedication.

So naturally, as you can well imagine, it came as a bit of a shock to see that Frankie was unceremoniously castigated and banned from the PA forums for doing nothing but posting another one of his Updates. (Yes, I am well aware that he was since unbanned, but let me finish...) People who work this hard to create such fargin' cool stuff deserve more respect than that. I personally feel that the staff of PA are obligated to issue a formal apology to Frankie for his unjust treatment. That little testy-toned amendment to his original post is nowhere near sufficient.

Of course, Frankie was a class act in dealing with this unpleasant situation, and I can only assume from his laid back attitude that no offense was taken, and the best course of action is to put this all behind us. -Or- that the man's fit to burst from the seething flames of rage immolating in his gut, poised to inflict hideous vengeance upon those who wronged him.

One of the two.

-FW

  • 07.17.2004 9:50 PM PDT
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Understand this. At PA, we don't accept sitewhores. We know about your game and if you want to post an update about it, do it on your own site. We know how to find it.

The supposition that, because you are a gaming company, we would want you to whore out your site to us, is incorrect.

PA receives enough traffic as it is. What you have done is not given us a kind gift, but rather slowed down our site in order to pimp your product.

In summary, -blam!- off.

  • 07.17.2004 10:20 PM PDT
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I fail to see what is so prestigious about being a member of a message board. I'm a member here, but rarely post. I'd much rather read than talk, because I've learned that you get much more out of life by listening rather than talking. I also fail to see why it's important to be a senior member, veteran member, or have a high post count. Do those people get some sort of stipend for spending lots of their time giving voice to their opinions often? I have never seen a reaction to a post that was as completely assinine, uncalled-for, arrogant, misplaced, and worthless as that of the pig-nipples at PA. I sincerely hope there is some tangible carrot that is offered for them to be members of that board, because I'd hate to find out that they thought of themselves that highly simply because they were members of a message board. A MESSAGE BOARD, for God's sake! Those people need to step outside the front door once in a year and remember that they are quite the insignificant specks on the human radar.

  • 07.17.2004 10:28 PM PDT
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There is no prestige issue.

Merely the desire to post and view posts in a reasonable amount of time on a message board that we like.

You (generally) refer to a "arrogant , misplaced" way of posting at PA. Well, we didn't ask for you to come there and we like it how it is. Who the -blam!- are you to invade another forum and then impose your standards of decency on said forum? -blam!- you, anyway.

  • 07.17.2004 10:35 PM PDT
Subject: I just saw the halo 2 teaser trailer
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Hey every bdy i just went and saw i robot at my local loews and i actually saw it! yeah it was short but ooooooooooooohhhhh so sweet!!!!!!!!!!

  • 07.17.2004 10:40 PM PDT
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Posted by: Thanatoid
There is no prestige issue.

Merely the desire to post and view posts in a reasonable amount of time on a message board that we like.

You (generally) refer to a "arrogant , misplaced" way of posting at PA. Well, we didn't ask for you to come there and we like it how it is. Who the -blam!- are you to invade another forum and then impose your standards of decency on said forum? -blam!- you, anyway.


I have never posted on your piece of excrement, as I would shudder to think what others thought about me, being a member of that intelligence wasteland you call a message board. You, however, provide proof of my point with each passing word. I can only assume the utter insignificance of what you call your life has driven you to placing membership with them. It's fitting. You definitely belong.

  • 07.17.2004 10:54 PM PDT
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You have nothing to offer but unsubstantiated condescesion. Still, you assheads are the ones who invaded another forum assuming that your presence would be welcomed with warm, sychophantic arms. You were wrong. But that is impossible to admit, is it not.

  • 07.17.2004 11:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: Thanatoid
You have nothing to offer but unsubstantiated condescesion....


Gee, where have I seen that? Oh, that's right! There's 50+ pages of unsubstantiated condescension on PA in response to an update! If you're going to get your panties too far up your crack about something, you might want to make sure you're not guilty of what you're accusing someone else of. You have no ground to stand on, and again you prove my point. Frankly, I'm glad to see that it has ruined your evening. Like I said, you belong on that board, and you don't even realize the shame in it. Go take your medicine, thyroid.

  • 07.17.2004 11:12 PM PDT
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You have avoided the meat of my post, dumb-blam!-.

  • 07.17.2004 11:19 PM PDT
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I would be thrilled if we were able to come to the following conclusion: You would -blam!- off and never come back, and we would do the same. Sounds fair to me.

  • 07.17.2004 11:38 PM PDT
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anybody here?

  • 07.18.2004 12:45 AM PDT
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Posted by: Thanatoid
I would be thrilled if we were able to come to the following conclusion: You would -blam!- off and never come back, and we would do the same. Sounds fair to me.

Who the -blam!- is this guy? To use his word. And at the moment HE are the only one that is -blam!-in coming into the forums of bungie.net. everyone else is staying at their festering slime pit that they call "Penny Arcade"

To thanatoid:
It has always been the courtsy to allow anyone to post on forums or indeed your "message board." Simply because your severs are such utterly incapeable pieces of crap that can't handle a few thousand log-ons from genuine, sane, and at least half grown up people isn't Frankies fault. If you really didn't like Frankie posting on your forums you should just have left the thread well alone! Let it die by its own accord. By posting such irrelivant, immature and quite frankly idiotic text, you are the ones, in fact, that are exasserbating the problem and -blam!-ing up your own severs. To coin a frase. With less data to send the servers would have coped better even in their current state of retardedness. Period!
I am sure Frankie, the mods, all Bungie employees and every (sane) member on this site will never again have PA in their address bar, ever.
End of discussion.

And Finally back on the correct topic. Nice update Frankie. Just a shame really that it was posted in such a Juevenile area. No dissrespect inteended to Frankie. I hope that once Halo 2 is released soon after you will edit all your weekly updates so that all the CENCORED's will become what they originally were. thanx

Signing off !!!!!!

  • 07.18.2004 1:02 AM PDT
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Posted by: Thanatoid
You have nothing to offer but unsubstantiated condescesion. Still, you assheads are the ones who invaded another forum assuming that your presence would be welcomed with warm, sychophantic arms. You were wrong. But that is impossible to admit, is it not.


No one assumed anything. You act as though every Halo fan's post at PA was prefaced with "Please all love me so much and be nice and lick my boots!", which was clearly not the case.

I'll have you know that the response to Frankie's BWU in "your" forum was completely ordinary. What you witnessed happens on literally every single board that is graced with an Update. It was your people who instigated the whole fiasco. It was your people who overreacted by treating every newbie like a sack of manure. Now don't get me wrong--I understand that none of you had any way of knowing what was up. Still, the uproar over it all was highly inappropriate, and could have been dealt with in a much more effective manner. Hell, a single PM to one of the mods would have sufficed.

Oh, and please stop throwing around expletives like they somehow add an addition layer of meaning to your posts. Such behavior is rude and unnecessary in a civil conversation between mature individuals. Don't you agree?

-FW

  • 07.18.2004 1:30 AM PDT
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I love how most of the people on here are acting like -blam!- victims of some horrid crime. If they don't give a crap about halo 2 then that's their prerogative. I'd be pretty pissed off too if some ass-wipe came into a forum that I frequent and tried to tell me the fact that I wasn't excited about something ment I was a fanboy.

  • 07.18.2004 3:56 AM PDT
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whahah, credit to fuzzywhisper and richyguy!

like he can call us 'invaders' when only Frankie is the one that join their forum and posts a really anticipated update. riduculous when he says that we are invaders after a flamepost of 20+ pages when no1 ever has the need to join those 'forums'. he clearly has too less things to moan about. all these users are. im an important member of a site called pacificassault.nl, and i would be more than honored to recieve such an update from a game that isn't from the game that the site acutally excists for.

but i can never reach the extend of FW and RG's their convincing posts. really cool.
bunch of retards.

  • 07.18.2004 4:41 AM PDT
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Hey, this is my first post ever and i havent even read what im posting on....woohoo!!!

  • 07.18.2004 9:11 AM PDT
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70th YAY WOOT!!!!!!!!!! :)
damn u frankie dont tell me befor u make an update good up date!!!!!

  • 07.18.2004 9:40 AM PDT
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Posted by: HALO WOLF 89
70th YAY WOOT!!!!!!!!!! :)
damn u frankie dont tell me befor u make an update good up date!!!!!


I AGREE WITH HALO WOLF.

  • 07.18.2004 10:56 AM PDT
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SEE YA SUCKAS!!!

GRUNT PUNK: log out

  • 07.18.2004 11:02 AM PDT
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LOL

  • 07.18.2004 11:11 AM PDT
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WTF THE POST DOESN'T WORK!!!!!!! MODERATORS PLEASE FIX DIS -blam!- BECAUSE I HAVEN'T READ THE UPDATE AND I REALLY WANT TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the other website says it doesn't exist or something

  • 07.18.2004 1:40 PM PDT