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Poll: Which theory is your cup of tea? (please read first) [closed]
| Media Push:
50%
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(2 Votes)
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| Puzzle Reward:
0%
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(0 Votes)
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| It's comin' early BABY!!!:
25%
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(1 Votes)
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| It's all bull:
0%
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(0 Votes)
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| Woop! END OF THE WORLD!!!:
0%
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(0 Votes)
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Total Votes: 4
Well, well, well. As Shakespeare would have said in this time of distress.
The -blam- have hiteth the fan.
Or more accurately the amount of bee-theory that seems like a tidal wave about to overtake the entire Halo community. If you are confused at this point by such words as "bee-theory" and "-blam-" you are either new to the forums or you've been living in a very large, very deep hole the last couple of days. Or perhaps you've been on vacation, which in that case welcome back, the community has ben hit over the head with a jackhammer.
To give a small summary. A teaser trailer was released a few days ago, I don't think I need to supply a link, it's everywhere. It was standard (not revealing a single thing like everything else since E3), until the Xbox logo appeared. For just a couple of frames the subtitle www.xbox.com turned into www.ilovebees.com. The people that saw this went to investigate this finding and found the website "hacked" and a black box counting down to July 27, Aug. 10 and Aug. 24. Exploring the site revealed immense glitches where computer commands, various texts and even pictures imbedded with text were found plastered all over the thing like lights on the Griswald's house at Christmas time. Various other places have been linked to this odd site (the entire low down is on one site I'll provide at the end).
Whew. Now, that being out of the way brings me to the whole reason for the post. What is really going on? Why is everyone shatting themselves? Who has brought this horrible behemoth to bear against the forces of Bungie-fandom?
I'll do my best to sift through the crazed interpretations to present you with all the facts.
The What. That one seems to be an open shooting range at the moment. Thing's ranging from someone that knows someone that knows Halo 2 is being realeased early all the way to it being nothing more then a way to get people talking. Well, my head hurts as much as anyone else's (except the few people that have in fact read all 300+ pages of that ludicrious post), but I think I've managed to find the most plausible explanations through all this clutter.
1. The entire site (ilovebees.com) is a ARGN (Alternate Reality Gaming Network) project. There is support for this on there forums and throughout other associated sites. The game is somehow tied into the Halo-Marathon universes but how or to what extent is not known. Microsoft (yes "M$" owns Bungie) sponsored the new game, most likely for publicity reasons (though if the 'game' has nothing to do with Halo 2 then they've unintentially given Bungie a "full cavity search"). This ties well into the fact that it has been mentioned that they may release a demo on Aug. 24. The only demo they'd release would be a playable Zanzibar (Live possibly even?) level that they've already flaunted around like some prized jewel for the past few months. This I feel is most plausible and, well, sane.
2. All the countdown leads to is the massive media push before Halo 2 comes out, pretty much just counting down to next trailer. The countdown saying "Wide Awake and Physical" seems to denote this (sorta lame but it isn't as bad as some others).
3. A puzzle has been presented through the ilovebees.com (lending to #1) except that if the Bungie fans "solve" this puzzle then Halo 2 will be released early on Aug. 24
4. The game will be releases on Aug. 24. In fact, Frankie has been concealing the fact that they are pretty much already done and he may have just been shoveling manure in our faces with some of the recent updates. The countdown refers in order to Beta completion, Product Production and Distribution.
5. Then most of the rest is complete panning of it as unimportant or refering to the end of the world via massive bee attack.
The Why. Shatting is the natural reflex of most things at surprise. I suppose when the circumstances are dire that the bowels are the first to go. In the process 100 or more IQ points also move along and take residence somewhere in the depths of the sewage tank. I think the reason the entire community is doing this is that there hasn't really been much of anything to talk about other then Halo 2 speculation since, well a long time. When there's only one topic to a conversation it gets so bogged down that eventually everyone just stops talking and sits with thier hands in thier laps, waiting for someone to come up with an ingenious topic they can pounce on.
Whether Bungie anticipated it or not, when someone piped up...
"So, I hear that this site is in the trailer for a couple frames..."
.....everyone decided to scramble for their soapboxes and run for the middle of the room. It was the spark set off in the middle of a keg full of gunpowder. The reason everyone is shatting themselves is because nothing much has happened recently, or in other words, they're just shatting because they don't have anything else to shat over.
The Who. Well, it depends on who you ask, myself the true bearer of this woe is ourselves, the people who spread it like wildfire, sending messages to flight all across the country. Others might say it was Bungie or Microsoft for putting the thing in the trailer in the first place. Personally, the entire thing will settle down after Aug. 24 passes by. Or in the more recent future, July 27th. Sit back and watch the wheels turn until then, if nothing happens then someone's getting kicked in the shin. If something does happen, someone's getting kicked in the shin, but it's because they said it wouldn't happen.
Here's the part most will skip. Here's my straight out opinion. -blam- happens or it doesn't. I'm going to wait for time to resolve things. She's usually pretty good at those problems.
That's my 2 bits - Muerto
Oh sorry, but here's link http://bees.netninja.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
[Edited on 7/25/2004 11:31:02 PM]