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THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, President Jintao. What an interesting sounding language that is. Too bad I just had to fire my Chinese interpreter on account of he was a -blam!-.

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Posted by: Spartan 713
Why not donate all the funds, and give something from yourselves as well.
NO PROFITEERING ON HURRICANE KATRINA!!!!!!!
The other $5 probably goes to the cost of making the shirts and to partially cover the salary of those packing the orders.

To those of you -blam!-ing about not having a "real" update: You're worse than the looters and represent the very worst humanity has to offer, you should kill yourselves.

To posters in other countries: Thank you for your kindness. It's not often that we're the ones that need help, it's too bad our administration is too arrogant to except aid. At least you tried.

I make 7.69 an hour working a full time job, and I bought a shirt. No, I can't afford it, and my car insurance is going to be late this month because of it, but that's not important right now. People ARE dying, and that's all that matters. If I can do it so can everyone else. Please, please buy a shirt if you haven't already. Bungie, you rock!
1. exactly... t-shirts areent free ya know....
2.UM HELL NO... you aree a VERy crooked person if you think that... i would have liked and ACTUAL update that had SOMETHING to do with halo i meen c'mon.... id go to yahoo if i wanted to read about this..... but i am not -blam!-ing..... and anyone who is is NOT worse than those blood thirsty looters.... but that doesnt help them become any more of a good person either.... and NO they should not kill themselves... then id have no idiots to yell at...
3.yes its suprising how nice some of these forign posters aree in times like these....

I disagree, in light of the situation it's very petty of people to cry about not having an update, I stand by what I said.

  • 09.02.2005 1:21 PM PDT
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Keep it clean please.

[Edited on 9/2/2005 by Frankie]

  • 09.02.2005 1:22 PM PDT
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Yea it's terrible what's going on down there. Good thinking bungie for raising some funds. On an off-topic, sorta on-topic note, I have a question for next week's Weekly Update:

Usually people de-rank in ranked matchmaking playlists by commiting suicide in slayer games. Why not just take out the death penalty so that no one suffers but the person commiting suicide?

Again, nice job bungie. You certainly do alot.

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I think its great what Bungie are doing for this tragedy dont get me wrong. But as soon as another big crisis happens, all the media and focus will move on. Remember the tsunami? Remember Live 8 and Africa? Remember the bombings in London? Yes, I do. I also don't remember Bungie even mentioning those incidents. Again, dont get me wrong I know what theyre doing is great, Im just saying alot of bad stuff happens in the world ALL THE TIME.

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iam gonna buy one right now to help those people in new orleans!!!

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i will do what i can to help. i have another ? i try to play matchmaking and it says we have failed to update info for playing matchmaking or something like that and it affects both my accounts. plz help

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IMPORTANT READ!

Ye i think its bad dat it hit New Orleans, but to be honest if anything happened to Washington i wouldn't give a -blam!- cuz no offense to you all, i'm a Halo and bungie fan and bungie's great and all, but yo to be honest its nothing personal towards any1 but da whole country AMERICANS ARE -blam!-S! I can't stress enough how every -blam!- time i go on Halo or on live or anything wit americans and i say i'm canadian and den it hits me, ppl sayn all over "ahahah ur a -blam!-in canadian" "we can kick ur ass" well -blam!- yall man i'm -blam!-in canadian and proud of it, we care about all countries not juss ourselves like u americans and dats why if we every had a natural disasters and problems other countries would help us unlike ur dumbasses so before yall go askin for help think to urself "when have our selfish asses helped out any1 else?" think about dat, den yall come up to us canadians and hate us make fun of us, but we juss nice and help ever1 out and americans still hate us well look man WE saved your ass in WW2 so shut the -blam!- up and take it u couldn't have survived witout us we couldn't have survived witout u every country played their parts so stop -blam!-in making fun of us and thank us for one damn time instead of insulting us -blam!- YOU! u -blam!-in ignorant ass selfish americans think before u -blam!-in speak -blam!-! -blam!-! PISSES ME OFF! den something happens to ur ass and u go cryin for help! OUR COUNTRY STILL OFFERED TO HELP EVEN THO WE KNOW U'LL NEVER HELP US AND NOTHING WILL EVER CHANGE! ur dumbasses'll still make fun of us well -blam!- u and -blam!- ur country u -blam!-in pieces of -blam!- nex time u get on da -blam!-in live or talk to a canadian why dont u try -blam!-in thanking him/her for a change instead of insulting dem for no -blam!-in reason but juss cuz their canadian. -blam!- YOU! (this is not directed at Bungie they are probly the only americans that were ever nice to Canadians) You can ban my account u can ban my post but u can't silence me remember dat before deleting dis post, what i'm saying is true and da second u log on wit a canadian and american in da same party u'll see its true so before u go on deleting this post think for a second and realize that even if this makes 1 american think differently of a canadian and actually appreciate them then i've done my job and maybe this post isn't so bad as it sounds. and by the way i do have american friends, they are the ones that i appreciate and ever time to time they make canadian jokes, but i know they are jokin, but den da other ones come in "do u ride mooses instead of cars?" -blam!- dem ppl da ignorant bastards who have no common sense

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  • 09.02.2005 1:29 PM PDT
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Maybe you didn't download all the maps?

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Posted by: CAGD
quoting this kind of stuff is a BAD idea -- Steve

These sites are filled with racist bullsh#t don't go there. and don't flame him; leave this stuff to us moderators, please. -- Steve


[Edited on 9/2/2005 by Anton P Nym]

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i live in lake charles louisiana, about 3.5 hours west of new orleans. There are 1300 people living in our civic center, 570 living in our state park, most of them living in tents, and countless others in hotels. The kids are already being donated clothes to go to school around the area. Please do anything u can to help out. These people will not live in a house or have a job for several months. Thank you Bungie for everything you are doing to help out on this. It is really appreciated

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ok, if you just want an update, you need to get a life, dudes really, can you stop caring about yourself for 1 day? that is the question....

just dont be a jackass

like grim or what ever his name was... i sent him a very good message and if you see that, you should tell him he is an ass

how can you not care at all?

what if your family had been down there during all this devistation?

would you care then?

of course you would

or you probably wouldn't because you

being the ass that you are

would probably die down there

being punished for being an ass like you are

i hate people that

only care about themselves

they annoy me

even more then racists

and yes

i mean racists that gets us to

go to those racist sites, i don't

know what his name on here is

its something like cgad

or whatever\

i hate you -blam!-s


and sorry about the exessive use of the word ass here, to the people who do care about the familys down there. I hate those -blam!-s though

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im sure i did but it wont hurt to check. thanks man

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This is a great thing bungie is doin i am deffinetly going to buy one with my referee money I made for soccer.

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This may be a stupid question but don't the people in New Orleans have money in the bank? And isn't it all electronical, so it really couldn't be destroyed in the hurricane?

  • 09.02.2005 1:32 PM PDT
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Guys just to clarify, 100% of the profit from these shirts IS going to Red Cross. Our store vendor estimated it would end up being about $15 per shirt - which means about $5 per shirt is tied up in the costs - the shirts themselves, freight, printing, inventory, etc...

Nobody is profiteering from this and if you read the story you'd know this.

Also I realize some of you are upset you don't have a "typical" Halo update... Please keep in mind that we do updates in the first place because we want to, not because we have to. If we have content to share that you don't like, skip it. We will continue posting stories about topics we want; enjoy them if you like or move along.

To everyone else, your outpouring and good wishes are inspiring and show that we have some truly great people in our community! Lets just ignore the jerks.


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  • 09.02.2005 1:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: gamerkd15
This may be a stupid question but don't the people in New Orleans have money in the bank? And isn't it all electronical, so it really couldn't be destroyed in the hurricane?
Yes but when a hurricane does around 60 Billion dollars in damage and destroys everything then most people won't be able to just right it off. Besides in a city there are alot of people who are poor and live in poverty so they don't have money.

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p .s chango felix suks


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IMPORTANT READ!

Ye i think its bad dat it hit New Orleans, but to be honest if anything happened to Washington i wouldn't give a -blam!- cuz no offense to you all, i'm a Halo and bungie fan and bungie's great and all, but yo to be honest its nothing personal towards any1 but da whole country AMERICANS ARE -blam!-S! I can't stress enough how every -blam!- time i go on Halo or on live or anything wit americans and i say i'm canadian and den it hits me, ppl sayn all over "ahahah ur a -blam!-in canadian" "we can kick ur ass" well -blam!- yall man i'm -blam!-in canadian and proud of it, we care about all countries not juss ourselves like u americans and dats why if we every had a natural disasters and problems other countries would help us unlike ur dumbasses so before yall go askin for help think to urself "when have our selfish asses helped out any1 else?" think about dat, den yall come up to us canadians and hate us make fun of us, but we juss nice and help ever1 out and americans still hate us well look man WE saved your ass in WW2 so shut the -blam!- up and take it u couldn't have survived witout us we couldn't have survived witout u every country played their parts so stop -blam!-in making fun of us and thank us for one damn time instead of insulting us -blam!- YOU! u -blam!-in ignorant ass selfish americans think before u -blam!-in speak -blam!-! -blam!-! PISSES ME OFF! den something happens to ur ass and u go cryin for help! OUR COUNTRY STILL OFFERED TO HELP EVEN THO WE KNOW U'LL NEVER HELP US AND NOTHING WILL EVER CHANGE! ur dumbasses'll still make fun of us well -blam!- u and -blam!- ur country u -blam!-in pieces of -blam!- nex time u get on da -blam!-in live or talk to a canadian why dont u try -blam!-in thanking him/her for a change instead of insulting dem for no -blam!-in reason but juss cuz their canadian. -blam!- YOU! (this is not directed at Bungie they are probly the only americans that were ever nice to Canadians) You can ban my account u can ban my post but u can't silence me remember dat before deleting dis post, what i'm saying is true and da second u log on wit a canadian and american in da same party u'll see its true so before u go on deleting this post think for a second and realize that even if this makes 1 american think differently of a canadian and actually appreciate them then i've done my job and maybe this post isn't so bad as it sounds. and by the way i do have american friends, they are the ones that i appreciate and ever time to time they make canadian jokes, but i know they are jokin, but den da other ones come in "do u ride mooses instead of cars?" -blam!- dem ppl da ignorant bastards who have no common sense


stop generalizing, you prick. now you look like the -blam!-, especially since your very historicly innaccurate about that WW2 thing. America always has tried to help other countries dumbass. the tsunami? South Vietnam in the Vitetnam war?( we lost that one but we tried to help) think before you post. please.

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yes we need to help im from LA and like New Orleans is maybe an hour drive from where i live..very sad story..im donating as much as i can..

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ur american ass can shut the -blam!- up why don't u look at da american asses around u and realize "maybe our country is full of selfish ignorant bastards" realize dat u aint canadian u dont notice it but i am so SHUT THE -blam!- UP and once it happens to u u'll understand, it hasn't happened to u cuz u live in the -blam!-in -blam!- ass country dat is America and all watch urself cuz America is officially da dumbest country.

And Sketch u say to ignore da jerks, but 90% of dis forum is American and 80% of dat 90% are jerks maybe not towards dis disaster thing becuz its all about dem and America but towards us canadians, i bet 80% of all america would be laughing. you want to ignore all da jerks? my friend look around u, u do not have enough power to ignore all the jerks.

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  • 09.02.2005 1:40 PM PDT

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Yes, many have money in the bank, but not enough to buy them their old lives back. Most people live paycheck to paycheck, and when your work is no longer there, how are you going to get paid? If you had money, what would you buy? There are no stores. Everything is abandoned and wiped out. Many of the people who are still there are the unfortunate people who couldn't afford to leave before the hurricane hit. It is a complete humanitarian disaster, and the response has been completely lacking. We (as in our government) is letting innocent citizens starve to death and live in conditions worse than guantanamo. Money isn't going to erase the complete hell these people have been living in for almost a week now. And like anything else, I am sure TV doesn't do full justice to how big a nightmare it is for the people living there.

Although the looting is horrible, those in our society with the illest of intentions want us to focus on the BAD people there. Screw that. I would prefer they get the innocent people there food, water, and a bus out of there NOW. Instead people want to divert our attention (CAGD) to the absolute worst in our human nature to force us to make incorrect assumptions that these people are in some way responsible for the hell they are living in, or are responsible for our society's lack of proper support. Anything that can be done to help is better than the utter lack of response this disaster was met with in the first few days.....any effort to get relief to these families should be commended. Any effort to use this as a platform to propogate ignorant and uneducated points of view (CAGD) about this crisis should be met with full disdain and disgust.

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Posted by: oneshot187
where's the info on halo 3??!?! i want halo 3 info or at least info on the new playlist update for matchmaking in halo 2!!!! WHERE IS IT!!!!!! all i keep hearing about it this katrina thunderstorm crap, GEEZ!


R U effing KIDDIND ME! Kid you're lucky you don't live there! I'm so glad i don't know who you are!

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Wow I appreciate the effort and all but... WHERE THE HELL IS THE REAL UPDATE? This is ridiculous. Here we are a few months away from playing Halo 3, and Bungie hasn't even admitted that they are working on it. If not even a screenshot comes out next week, I'm quitting my job and school to be a cage fighter so I'll at least have something to take my anger out on.

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I tried to buy a shirt but when I got to the step to enter the credit card number I did but then I click proceed it say's Error 12: Declined. Edit: Never Mind I fixed it.

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