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When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands buttered side down. Therefore, if a slice of toast is strapped to a cat's back, buttered side up, and the animal is then dropped, the two opposing forces will cause it to hover, spinning inches above the ground. If enough toast-laden felines were used, they could form the basis of a high-speed monorail system.
Having been absent from the B.Net boards for years, I just wandered back over after finding a brief thread about "Mabaton" from the "Composing Worlds" ViDoc (I'm a big Davidge fan, I figure he won't fill Marty's shoes but rather create a beautiful pair of his own).
To find an active community still discussing the Halo series warms my fanboy heart, and re-affirms my belief that Bungie did a better job building a healthy and intelligent community around its games than any other developer I've followed.
However, I am slightly concerned to see how insistent and demanding some of the participants of this thread have been. The fine men and women of Bungie are no longer the custodians of the Halo series, painful though that may be. We, as a community, need to accept the fact that Bungie has moved on to greener pastures. It was their Destiny.
They have new projects to be working on, new Pentathlon challenges to be devised, new meats to "-tacular." These men and women have always treated us with great respect, and it's not like their refusal to reveal or hint at any remaining Halo Easter Eggs is some great slight against the community. It's simply a decision to keep secrets, a decision they have every right to make.
Perhaps, in some way, whatever [speculated] remaining eggs there may be serve as a final special tie that Bungie has with Halo. One last deeply embedded fingerprint. Easter Eggs are not a right, they are a privilege, and the secrets they hold must be earned. Hell, I'm sure many a literal Easter Egg has rotted in some secret nook in my home, only memorialized by a faint sulfurous cloud that slightly bothers house-guests who are too polite to complain.
Bungie does not manage Halo any longer. To continue to ask the same questions of them over and over again despite clear and repeated responses seems somewhat disrespectful. They've more than paid their dues. Now let them move on in peace.