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Anyone still confused over the I Love Bees thing go on over to Gamespot and read their article on ARGs. Once you read that you'll realize how cool this thing can be. Been reading the source code on the I Love Bees site and caught some cool tid bits of what seems like dialogue about AI memory and what not. Got this chunk from one of the pages with all the dialogue about Troy:

"a really, really, really bad loser
-OK
That was ... disturbing.
Widow stuck in her pin and I threw up a memory: only I retched it out through the network tentacle"

Sounds to me like Cortana dialogue and maybe this Widow thing is another AI, human or covenant. But whatever the case, if this is a snipet of Cortana talking, I'm betting she's going to be dealing with more than just a bumpy ride in the Chief's suit. Sounds like she might be having memory issues or something. Sorry If you guys have already gone through these rounds. But if you haven't, read the html source and tell me what your speculations are.

Here's the url to the gamespot article: http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/07/27/news_6103575.html

[Edited on 7/28/2004 12:28:00 AM]

  • 07.28.2004 12:12 AM PDT
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Man, so many halted forums that no one gets to read the coolness of mine....sigh...

  • 07.28.2004 12:37 AM PDT
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whats the gamespot say in 20words or less. or just less than the original artical

  • 07.28.2004 12:43 AM PDT
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They say that ilovebees is an Alternate Reality Game which is being used to hype up halo 2 and perhaps leak out some info on Halo 2's story line.

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It says that the whole supposed hoax is actually filled with numerous clues to Halo 2, It's plot, Cortana, and Bungie itself (especially because of all the hidden 7s in the math and countdowns and whatnot).

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Obviously if this is an ARG Microsoft or Bungie is not going to come out and admit it, for this would ruin the whole indie secrect feel to it. Besides, Gamespot is pretty reputable and have a convincing case. One thing we can know for certain is that ilovebees made it on the trailer for a purpose, for there is no way bungie would let someting like this accidently slip on a multimillion dollar ad campaign. This means that bungie knows about it and sanctioned it. Therefore the only logical conclusion is that something to effect of what gamespot is talking about is true. Therefore stop trashing gamespot for making a guess and start checking out all the cool things on ilovebees. As for me I say props to bungie and gamespot :)

P.S. Besides, why would they post Rules about keeping ILB discussions on New Mombasa if they didn't want people to discuss it. That as good as makes the ILB thing official and is probably as close to an official statement from bungie as we'll get.

[Edited on 7/28/2004 1:13:08 AM]

  • 07.28.2004 1:08 AM PDT