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Subject: Uh oh!!! UHH OHH!! I asked Jeeves
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Well, I read that whole Bungie name origin thing, with some hard research (I used something other than Google!!! Holy crap), I found the tru7h. That's right, thee truth. You want it? Well, here it is then. (Sry if this is just old news)((and don't ban me for it, just erase the post if it's too much... you can do that!)

"I guess now, after all this time, the tru7h can be told. One night during a Macworld convention, we were celebrating a day of frenzied sales in the hotel bar. Alex had had a bit to drink, and was uncharacteristically moody. He had been staring into the distance while the rest of us talked, then suddenly sobbed, and this confession spilled out. It seems that he had had a previous game company, Gnoptics, and a different partner, Patrick "Bungee Boi" O'Flanagan, a devotee of elastic-based sports, and they were like brothers. Patrick was a good guy, but stubborn, and was adamant that they remain a Mac-only developer, eschewing the fame and riches in making games for the PC or consoles. Months of bitter argument failed to sway Patrick from this position, and in the end, Alex had no choice but to kill him. Strangled him with his bare hands. Alex was decisive like that. It bothered him though, and to assuage his guilt, he attempted to name his next company after Patrick. Like most journalists, he misspelled the name."

Straight from good 'ol Bungie.net

  • 10.08.2005 5:36 AM PDT

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You know, you didn't even need to use any search engines.

  • 10.08.2005 5:39 AM PDT

I hate everything, but it's not my fault.

True, but he saved himself a lot of effort looking through old B.Net news posts :)

While this is not new, not many people know it, so don't feel bad for posting it.
It's not like it's actually the real reason anyway, disclosing the real reason has grave penalties. As the Bungie History page says "There are…penalties leveled at those who reveal the deepest secrets. Penalties that involve bananas and screaming. "

[Edited on 10/8/2005]

  • 10.08.2005 9:01 AM PDT

MBT
Posted by: S3NATOR
"In the pants of peace, there are always pockets of resistance."


Posted by: I run with mp7a1
once this random hot girl walked up to me and asked me to put my hands on her boobs. that was a cool day.


Posted By: angry0lbgrampaPosted by: angry0lbgrampa
O_O you looked at your friends balls when "he" sat on your head O_o

hey ghandi guy, why do u play halo, dont u support peace? lol jk ne way cool, thanks for that.

  • 10.08.2005 9:27 AM PDT
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It's a funny story but alas, its fake. If it were real you would already be dead. *dun dun dun*

  • 10.08.2005 10:57 AM PDT
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Yep, that was the stroy that we were refering to on the other thread. See, it can't be real because none of us have succumbed to banana's or screaming.

  • 10.08.2005 11:06 AM PDT
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Posted by: Butane123
none of us have succumbed to banana's or screaming.


That's what you think. *cowers in corner and cries*

  • 10.08.2005 11:26 AM PDT

To Make Posts is Glorious

Some threads will get posts before others and it is the duty of the Leadership to ensure that posts are made that best suit the public welfare.

"heh"

I'll call the short bus to pick you up....

  • 10.08.2005 11:29 AM PDT
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(muffled screams)
truth........
found........
ahhhhh........
bananas.....
penalty......
oh frankie...
you devil...

ah......

  • 10.08.2005 12:07 PM PDT
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Posted by: Biff Justice
(muffled screams)
truth........
found........
ahhhhh........
bananas.....
penalty......
oh frankie...
you devil...

ah......


That. Was so. Wrong.

  • 10.08.2005 12:52 PM PDT
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I never want to meet the man who self-inflicts the screaming and bananas upon himself... they must be insane.

  • 10.08.2005 12:57 PM PDT

I'm not that active, but never dead.

To bad very few know the real reason.

  • 10.09.2005 4:28 AM PDT

Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: stargaiden
Maybe Bungie will make an update containes a terrible flaw and causes you xbox to explode leaving nothing but a black outline where it used to be.

Shhhhhh. That one is still in development.

I hear the best it can manage right now is a small fire. Exploding hardware may sound easy, but they're really hard to code.


Don't click

I just found this out like 2 minutes ago, but you probably already know this, 7x7x7=343 (343 guilty spark) and 2401 Penitent Tangent (2+4+0+1=7 or 7x7x7x7=2401). And some other things that have to do with the number 7 like the Marathon colony ship was a hollowed out Deimos - first discovered in 1877 and first photographed in 1977. Bungie, could you explain what "THE CUP" is?

  • 10.09.2005 3:26 PM PDT