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1 day they will make an announcement at the MS conference, this announcement will more than likely involved something major on XBox Live. It will probably deal with Microsoft that will allow for many many dedicated servers for Halo 2 sponsored by Microsoft. In 15 days the counter will probably stop, or something that is less important will happen. On the 24th something major will happen with XBox Live, or the official announcement of the finishing of Halo 2 will be announced and Microsoft and Bungie will begin to work together extensively on the XBox Live features to make it the best XBL experience ever. Since Microsoft is involved and the announcement involves networking I am thinking it will have to do with Microsoft announcing their involvement in Halo 2 on XBL, makes more sense than a change in the release date since Bungie basically made that date the law.

The website itself is probably a website one of the Bungie employees made for a relative, their mother, aunt, someone that no longed used it, so they used it as bait. There were probably sitting around and said lets give out a hint about this Microsoft-Bungie alliance, and one of em said how. The others said how about like a hacked website with a counter, then the other guy said I got the perfect one, it's my mom's old one.. we'll just give it a hint in the trailer, some hardcore fans will notice it. The end.

Also this was no hack, it's made to look like one but there is no way someone could have added the ilovebees site to the trailer because that would be done with a movie editor and the only way it would have happened is if someone snuck in and added it, and I am sure Bungie edited it several times and would have noticed. Also... Bungie would have said it was a hack by now, and made an official announcement. It will be either an XBL announcement or an announcement about the release of a single player demo, one or the other for sure.

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  • 07.26.2004 3:43 AM PDT
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It will either be an announcement involving XBox Live and Microsoft or announcing the release of a single player demo to keep fans waiting till the 9th of November, it has to be one or the other. There will be no early release.

Halo 2 was not pushed back either, they announced the release date as November 9th and had not announced any dates before then so the guy who began this all saying they pushed it back was bad wrong.

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  • 07.26.2004 3:47 AM PDT
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Halo 2 CAN'T come out on Aug 24 for quite a few reasons. Firstly, Gamestarslive (a much smaller version of E3 being held in London) promices a special playable PREVIEW of Halo 2, where you'll be able to play on it two months before it comes out; this runs from the 1st to the 5th of September. Secondly, if you go into the Weekly Update archive and check the ones from quite a while back (Feb I think) one of the promotional guys talks about the promotional timetable for Halo 2, and all the events theyt planned in November. They wouldn't waste all that money on a site called ILOVEBEES, and they couldn't have been lying or at least one of the compernies thay claimed to have make deals with would have busted them!

  • 07.26.2004 3:54 AM PDT
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Uhh...I admire the imagination, right now it's pieces and bits, and the speculation, and open ideas are great, but when it makes little sense think:

Take EVERYTHING from the site; The bees... The infestation of her bee hive with the Mites... The references to Sand and Ocean... Recent Appearence of "Site Aesthetic by AUNT MARGARET"...

(the site lacks security holes usually indicated / left by hacking)

More or less, the point I'm trying to make, is that it's Aunt Margaret who has modified the site to it's current state. However, she's done it unknowingly or under the influence of insanity. Now, combine this with the references to an AI, and you can piece together the theory that Aunt Margaret is/represents an AI.

An AI that's crashed on a beach somewhere in Earth supposively. It would seem also, that Aunt Margaret has been followed by the Flood, or something similiar (the references to being tied down and such).

Anyway, just my 2¢

  • 07.26.2004 4:01 AM PDT
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No idea what you're on about this Gamestarslive thing is, but the BIG show in London for the first week of Sept is ECTS, which is the European version of E3. And just as a mouth waterer, MS has bought up nearly half the ground floor for the XBox...ah hmmm, trade games show, biggest on this side of the Atlantic and about half the floors gone solely to the XBox? heck and this is up against all the big PC companies there with EA and so forth. If anythings going to be mentioned, it'll be at ECTS where things usually are.

As for the 24th Aug stuff, utter Grunt extract. They've only ever mentioned one release date and thats Nov 9th. Those who thing its been coming earlier and has been delayed are going off things said by others with no backing. Will it released early? not a chance.

  • 07.26.2004 4:07 AM PDT
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Aunt Margarets is Cortana whos gone as loony as Durandal.

  • 07.26.2004 4:09 AM PDT
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Microsoft making a deal with Bungie??? Microsoft doesn't NEED to make a deal with Bungie. Why? Because MICROSOFT PWNS BUNGIE. IT IS BUNGIE. THEY ARE ONE IN THE SAME. BUNGIE'S DADDY IS MICROSOFT. BILL GATES OWNS MASTERCHIEF. BUNGIE IS TO MICROSOFT AS JESUS IS TO GOD. i.....i'm sorry... i just....... *sigh*..i'll return to my closet of shame... forgive me.

  • 07.26.2004 4:09 AM PDT
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This may just be something that will be added into the story line for Halo 2, possibly saying the breakdown of earth happened on August 24th 2004 and now years down the road the battle has been brought back to earth.. it might just be there to add to the realism and have no real effect on release dates or anything else. I seriously don't think Bungie is releasing Halo early, no, no way.. they're just not doing it.

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  • 07.26.2004 4:16 AM PDT
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I believe no one on these forums wants to look stupid if they say Halo 2 is releasing August 24th 2004 and for the fear that it may not come out, they look dumb. So I give props to those who do believe it and have voiced their opinion openly about it. Others probably believe the same or want to but just don't have the courage to risk their reputation. Which is fine, but I don't have a rep so... yeah.. im gonna go back to my closet.

  • 07.26.2004 4:18 AM PDT
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august 24 simply is the day that disembodied soul returns. that's it. no halo 2 early release, or demo or extra pictures or video, just the Soul returning.

  • 07.26.2004 4:33 AM PDT
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Why dont we all just wait to see what happens when the "network throttling starts to erode" on Tuesday and see if Bungie or Microsoft announce ANYTHING before we jump to conclusions about release dates and the like.

If something is announced it might give us a better idea on wtf is going on! : )

  • 07.26.2004 4:41 AM PDT
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Halo 2 coming out August 24th, is I don't know... the equivelant to the Y2k bug. People said so much crap, and hyped it up, that people got money out of other people. Relevance in the fact of the www.cafepress.com/ilovebees ; that's so someone can get money (and I doubt bungie's behind it) The one thing about free commercialism, is the fact that people exploit any possibility to use it; Using fear, anticipation, rage, lust, etc. to get things sold. It's all about ad campaigns. If someone can sell you a good enough lie, you'll believe it. As would I, if it weren't for my social detachment. Halo 2, may or may not come out August 24th, the anticipation built by it, creates a kind of curious tension. You WANT to know what's going to happen, so you cling to everything you hear, see, feel, taste, touch (hear, see), and cling onto them in a desperate hope that your "dream" comes to life.

In Truth:

Halo 2 probably won't come out early.
August 24th won't indicate anything of minor importance; such as updates, graphics, sounds.

August 24th has to be something JUST short of the real-deal... Press Conference? and No, Aunt Margarat isn't Cortona...you're not using your critical thinking. It's a separate A.I. possibly one that you have to battle, or find out about. My speculation would make me believe, you fight it, or it knows about the covenant homeworld, or soemthing cool like that, but my friend (who wrote his entire thoery) probably wouldn't agree... He's got it all "figured out"... I find his rendition hard to believe, but whatever, I trust his instincts.

  • 07.26.2004 4:43 AM PDT
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what a party pooper

  • 07.26.2004 5:54 AM PDT
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(off subject a bit) this Aunt Margaret person/AI just reminds me of Miranda the once mentioned being/entity who "strapped a bomb to the MC's back and shoved him down a hole". Sounds rampant and is on Earth (future enemy?). I sleepy...

  • 07.26.2004 6:26 AM PDT
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Wouldn't it be sweet if that site gave us all a virus and on august 24, our computers blow up and we all die!?!?!?!?!? That would be my favorite...... I would explode in my pants........

  • 07.26.2004 6:57 AM PDT
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http://www.cafeshops.com/ilovebees.12518390?zoom=yes#zoom
On the shirt look at the back....
Also
http://www.ilovebees.com/recipe1.html
Look at that bee.....Wierd
Then here
http://ilovebees.blogspot.com/
More wierd....

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  • 07.26.2004 7:08 AM PDT
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Leave the mods alone, most likely they're in-house employees at Bungie. Non-disclosure agreements do exist. And if they deny stuff, it's possible they're just messing with our heads.

Below, except of source file from main page of ilovebees.com:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>I love bees</TITLE>
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="My site about bees">
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="honey, bees, Margaret, small busines, beekeeping,
hives, retail, market, Operator, bug, buggy, virus, infestation, WTF is
going on with this damn thing, parasite, strong intrusive inclination, medium,
messages, shipwreck, network throttling, SOS, hoax, game, bee hoax, bee game,
survivor, survive, evade, resist, escape, a little help would be appreciated,
thanks and tip your waitress, sleep, is, good, install, reinstall,
re-reinstall, re-re-reinstall, I, love, bees">

  • 07.26.2004 7:13 AM PDT
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Posted by: Ceantari
Leave the mods alone, most likely they're in-house employees at Bungie.


No, sorry

We're regular people just like...

Well, we're probably not like you on this issue; we're just volunteers to help out the site; we don't work for Bungie

  • 07.26.2004 7:16 AM PDT
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On the blog there is a link to search google
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c 2coff=1&q=honey+SOS+WTF&btnG=Search

  • 07.26.2004 7:22 AM PDT
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http://www.cafeshops.com/ilovebees.12518390?zoom=yes#zoom
And on the description it says:
Get Yours Before the end of the World Aug 24th
What can that mean??????????????

  • 07.26.2004 7:40 AM PDT
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This is gonna go down into history in gaming for the biggest Hoax if nothing happens on august 24th.

  • 07.26.2004 7:44 AM PDT
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Also try theese:
halo2.ilovebees.com
xbox.ilovebees.com
bungie.ilovebees.com
microsoft.ilovebees.com
343gs.ilovebees.com
777.ilovebees.com
halo.ilovebees.com
thering.ilovebees.com
newmombasa.ilovebees.com
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Almost every possible word links

  • 07.26.2004 7:45 AM PDT
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[color=yellow]Did'nt anyone consider this is just a way to sell Halo 2 related products. First the T-shirts, then maybe a back-pack, then a demo or something, then an Halo 2 style XBOX? Something along those lines.[/color]

  • 07.26.2004 8:01 AM PDT
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Posted by: JK009
Also try theese:
halo2.ilovebees.com
xbox.ilovebees.com
bungie.ilovebees.com
microsoft.ilovebees.com
343gs.ilovebees.com
777.ilovebees.com
halo.ilovebees.com
thering.ilovebees.com
newmombasa.ilovebees.com
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Almost every possible word links
do these all work or sumtin

  • 07.26.2004 8:05 AM PDT
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every one of them try it!

  • 07.26.2004 8:07 AM PDT