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ok, who here plays some form of Halo at school (Halo PC, Halo Trial, Halo CE, tournament) and what type. no rps or acting out. just actual gameplay

  • 10.27.2006 2:20 PM PDT
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Lol, I used to have the Halo Trial installed on a computer at my school, but I uninstalled it because I feared being caught. xD

I'll probably download it again and install it some time soon though.

  • 10.27.2006 2:32 PM PDT
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Um, probably nobody. Unless they're about to take a lecture and they play a minute or two of Halo PC on their laptops.

  • 10.27.2006 3:23 PM PDT

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After kim saying pc gamers are more mature:
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we r?

I can't because someone tried playing battlefield 1942 but an anti-installer alerted some admin and he got banzord for 1337 hacking

  • 10.27.2006 3:29 PM PDT
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You're really not very bright if you try to install software on school/state property.

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  • 10.27.2006 3:40 PM PDT

Many herps were derped back in my day

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You're really not very bright if you try to install software on school/state property.

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You're kidding, right?

  • 10.27.2006 4:32 PM PDT
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LOL I can only dream about loading Halo on my school laptop. This year everyone in our school district grades 5-12 (me being grade 11) get there own MacBook laptop. Well just today while at school I was searching up some Halo pictures on Google for my background when suddenly my screen went blue then shut down. When I booted it back up a big picture of a lock appeared and under the lock (Known as the lock of death at my school) it said, "This computer has been locked by Mr. Green (our school principle). Game play during school ours is prohibited." I'm thinking ZOMGZ WTH! As it turns out when ever your laptop is locked like this you have to take it into the school tech room and have them unlock it, once they unlock it you get a nice fat detention. I managed to get around the lock and then shut down my air port for the day so they would not be able to restrict me again. I had gone through all that just for searching up Halo on Google images search. I sure would hate to see what would happen if I tried to install Halo. ^_^

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  • 10.27.2006 4:48 PM PDT
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No, a school is an institution of learning. Therefore its computers are set up that way. Not for video games. Back in the day when Need for Speed 2 was new, our school computer administrator had a couple games for us to play in our free time. But today there are rules about having entertainment software, especially an M rated games in a school setting. And the Administrator sees all!

The generally proscribed punishment for breaking that rule was total suspension from the schools computers. And the computer is a great tool for learning, being denied of that through your own doing isn't very bright.

  • 10.27.2006 4:49 PM PDT

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*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

Everyone in our school gets tablet PCs and we get free reign over them(though the admin-able account is only supposed to be used at home). We do not have any lock crap or admin alerters on them. And he really doesn't care what we do with them as long as we dont kill the network (there is wireless throughout the building). But, the machines are pretty crappy and I had to play halo at 640x480 at no details, yet they were still better than wartexx's crappics.


I have only played halo once since I pretty much killed everyone spirits by playing so well. I even brought a mouse to class to play that and unreal tournament. One time the teacher shut off all of the power in the room becuase we werent watching a movie he wanted us to, but for us, we all had battery power to rely on so we just kept playing.

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  • 10.27.2006 5:58 PM PDT

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  • 10.27.2006 6:34 PM PDT
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My Entire A+ Computer class installed Halo PC on every computer, then realizing that those computer got mirrored for a lab. Therefore, Halo is installed on every computer in a certain lab, and if you know the Admin password, VOILA, you can play Halo.

  • 10.27.2006 6:59 PM PDT

I wonder if the Wolf thinks the Moon listens when he howls at it.

hehe i remember at my old middle school i had this white mac laptop,i brought it home for a report that was due and i installed DOOM 1 on it-never got caught, played it all day at school did nothng but play doom. i beat it like 19 times those 2 years.

  • 10.27.2006 9:19 PM PDT

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Lol, we where playing Halo PC LAN on my Computer class, all of the high school watched as we played from teh PCs. It was awesome, I pwned em' all... too bad they were noobs as they had just bought their games, so I guess it doesn't count. : | . And since I had a good grade on that class, the teacher let us on the end of the year do so.

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  • 10.27.2006 9:24 PM PDT
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Most of the PC issues posted here are the result of PEBKAC.

A year ago, many students installed Halo Trial on the school's computers and had a LAN party when we had a substitute teacher (he participated as well). I took part in that, but didn't get in any trouble because I wasn't caught. Since then, the admin's been pretty annoyed with it.

Now we have a Gamer's club at my school, and we're working on getting Unreal Tournament for the PC. My school's got kickass video hardware (Nvidia Quadro FX1400, not for games but good overall.) and so the whole experience should be good. Eventually we will have Xboxes to play Halo.

  • 10.27.2006 9:40 PM PDT
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I'm a big supporter of the Entertainment Software Rating Board. And it is my opinion that any game rated M should not be installed on a public computer that may be accessed by a minor.

I realise that many of the community are minors. Hell I've played some pretty raunchy games when I was in my preteens, Redneck rampage and Duke Nukem 3D spring to mind. And I can tell you I'd probably be better off if I hadn't played those games when I was that age.

  • 10.27.2006 10:55 PM PDT
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Well at my school (I'm sure in many others as well) there is a program installed called DeepFreeze, you can install whatever you want, download all the pr0n you can find (if it's not blocked) and upload an assload of viruses. But once you shut it down and boot it back up it's as if nothing happened. =P

I install Halo Trial on my computer every once in a while and just screw around, because the Admin has almost ALL ports but 80 blocked, making it impossible for us to play via interwebs or LAN. At the end of the year the whole lab has a huge Halo LAN party on maps that the animation and design classes work on.

  • 10.27.2006 11:11 PM PDT
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I am also support the ESRB, Obi Wan. However, IMO, I feel that Halo and Halo 2 have been rated somewhat poorly as rated M games. There's blood, okay, but in most games that will give you a T for Teen rating. There's also gore, but it's not as bad because only the Flood blow up into tiny pieces (and the guts and entrails are green and not red). (0.o)

Like if you only play the multiplayer, and completely ignore the campaign, it's basically rated "T", because the only thing you ever see is blood.

Ever play Oblivion? I'm a proud owner of the original "T" rated version. Recently, they changed it to rated "M" because they found out that somebody could make a nudeskin modification where you could see nipples on women.

Let me say that again- because some modder was able to figure out how to take off the bras of the women in it, they changed it from "T" to "M". Normally, I wouldn't mind a change in the ESRB content rating, but hold up, what's this?

On the back of the original "T" rated version in the ESRB rating:
TEEN
Blood and Gore
Language
Sekshual Themes (EDIT:Damned censor!)
Use of Alcohol
Violence


What the hell? They let it be rated "T" when they had blood and gore, whereas Halo and Halo 2 had blood and gore, and they were rated "M," oh, but not Oblivion. Not in Oblivion where they also have "Sekshual Themes" and "Use of Alcohol." (That's the last time I'm ever going to misspell a word intentionally to bypass the censor.)

My point is that the ESRB, though I support it, isn't perfect.

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  • 10.28.2006 3:54 AM PDT
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Never mind it posted twice



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  • 10.28.2006 5:35 AM PDT
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Ah, but you're forgeting Master Kim, Halo is an FPS, and that alone sparks controversy. Also, because of its online capabilities, the ESRB must do CYA if they don't want parents jumping down their throats. "Oh jeez! Little Jimmy was running around with virtual guns and shooting at people and then typing in, "gg!" What is "gg?" Is that a gang symbol!?!?! OH JEEZ, SUE!!!"

Also Kim, like Hot Coffee, Bethseda kept that material to be allowed in for more adult buyers, as in it is indeed Bethseda's doing, though it took a modder to unlock it and distribute it to everyone, which is why it also recieved an M rating. Personally, though, considering how all bodies seem to be contortionists, I thought that would've been CYA on ESRB's part as well. "My son killed a horse (that poor animal!) and it rolled down a hill in such a grotesque way that I immediatly preceded to write a letter on how I was going to sue you!"

  • 10.28.2006 5:42 AM PDT
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Lucky me! My head teacher is a big Halo fan so it's installed on all of the computers in the school. Who needs to know how do to a spreadsheet when you can pwn n00bs?

  • 10.28.2006 5:49 AM PDT
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I think Halo was Rated M because of the online play, not the campaign. Everyone knows that one day a server can be a quiet friendly place, and on another day, a vicious pit of racism and horrible language that would put sailors to shame.

Or maybe they've just gotten a little more conservative in thier ratings. I remember Duke Nukem 3D was rated M for "Wanton and gratuitious violence" as in you blew someone up and you saw thier eyeball fly past your head. Or you could give money to strippers and they'd take thier tops off...

I think people are too quick to blame video games for causing violence. Video games don't cause that violent behavior. They trigger pre existing violent tendancies that may just easily have been manifested by watching a certain violent movie or even hearing something your grandma said at the dinner table.

  • 10.28.2006 8:36 AM PDT
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I really don't think there's much chance of me getting Halo onto a school PC, partly because of the security, and partly because of the Win 2000, 16"CRT, 16mb Radeon x300 integrated, 256 MB ram computers my school got suckered into buying. Damn you, No Child Left Behind!!

  • 10.28.2006 1:01 PM PDT

Gaming Systems:
Intel Core i7 720QM (4 cores, 8 threads)
4Gb DDR3-1333mhz
1Gb AMD Radeon HD 4650
Windows 7 64bit

Xbox 360 w/ 20Gb HDD (2008 edition) & XBL Gold.

Well i dunno about Halo, but at my school both Quake 2 and Quake 3 have been installed deep into one of the servers. I think we had Quake 2 for about a year, but it got found and several people got banned from using the school PC's for putting the game on. Then someone else cleverly smuggled a cut down version of Quake 3 onto a student resource area, but it only lasted a few months. Some of my School's PC's are very nice, with swing chairs, TFT monitors and lazer mice. However, we still have a whole bundle of bad one's that can't run any games at all.

I'm not envious of you guys who get free Macbooks at all, i would HATE to have to work on an Apple computer all the time :P

  • 10.28.2006 1:34 PM PDT

Just remember... I keep it real...

I downloaded the trail and was going to play it but I needed administrative rights. I didn't know the password, so i just had to stop with that plan.

Edit: LOL ChAiRMaNWoW. I know right, I kind of feel like I am beind left behind dispite thr bill. Our schools computers arn't exactly powerhouses. Some BRAND NEW computer have 256mb RAM and 40GB hard drive. Woo-hoo. But we got the first unreal tournament demo on it though.

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  • 10.28.2006 1:45 PM PDT

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