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Halo 2 Trailer Gets Subliminal, Halo Done Quick
An anonymous reader writes "The Halo 2 movie trailer hit theaters last week and rabid fans have been passing around 'cam' versions since then. A lower quality streaming version went up on MSN and Xbox.com yesterday, but today GamePro.com premiered a high definition 1920x1080 5.1 surround sound version of the trailer for the home theater purists. More interestingly, a Halo.bungie.org newspost reports on subliminal messages within the ad, when 'the Xbox logo changes, for a frame or two, from www.xbox.com to www.ilovebees.com', an apparently legit website where 'some very, very strange stuff is going on' - there's already speculation and a little evidence this could be from the same Microsoft group who stealthily made the AI web game?" Elsewhere, an anonymous reader writes "Remember Quake Done Quick, the effort to complete Quake as fast as possible? Well, halo.bungie.org recently wrapped up its Going Nowhere Fast contest, which was an effort to do much the same thing for Halo. You can view the results and download the videos, though some are still being posted, at the Going Nowhere Fast contest page."
Its a common misbelief that having something change on a screen for a few frames is subliminal messaging. If you can actually see what the message is, it is NOT subliminal. Subliminal messaging is when the message they are trying to show you isn't noticed by your senses, but still makes it to the brain anyway.
Frankly, Bungie has a history of hiding details you need to search for and research... Both in their game stories(primarily Marathon, the semi-parent of Halo), and also in their 'buzz generation' for games.
A long time ago, back in the pre-Halo release days(in fact, before the anouncement of exactly what the project that wound up being Halo was made official), there was an entire series of quirky odd referenced 'fake e-mails' to the person who runs an important fansite... You can see some details here.
Took a book out of the Blair Witch Project lesson, did they?
Everybody knows there's no NUKE MARS such thing
as subliminal messages.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
I tried to checkout www.ilovebees.com to see what the story was. But visiting it with firefox 0.91 on gentoo linux causes firefox to crash and burn. Anyone else have a problem?
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The ilovebees business is intriguing.
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Anyway, here is a (barely distiguishable, but whatever) image of the aforementioned frame I found; http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/files/xboxilov
Also it appears that for some reason, people have set up a whole forum dedicated to the event.
A slow site.... 50 meg download. When will these so-called publishers realize that for stuff liek this, Bittorrent is the way to go? You save on some badnwidth and allow ppl to grab the files much more quickly.
It's better to burn out than to fade away
Anyone else guessing the countdown on ilovebees counts down to the Halo 2 release?
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
I tried to pull of a "Go Nowhere Fast" and I did...at 0.3 frames per second. Halo code is rubbish. I will not let my new Geforce 6800 even touch that code.
Pretty soon they will go to superliminal advertising.
Bill Gates will be running around with a bullhorn yelling "HEY YOU! BUY HALO 2"
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anyone have a torrent to the game? :P
That ilovebees.com site is almost stupid as Subserviantchicken
> DiG 9.2.1 > ilovebees.net
ilovebees.net. 66.150.161.136
ilovebees.net. 66.150.161.140
ilovebees.net. 66.150.161.141
ilovebees.net. 69.25.27.172
ilovebees.net. 66.150.161.135
ilovebees.net. 69.25.27.171
ilovebees.net. 66.150.161.134
ilovebees.net. 66.150.161.133
and
ilovebees.com. 69.20.126.147
For a little ol' lady that doesn't have the computer skills....that's a lot of servers to be running your little website and NOT have an actual ad in the local Yellow Pages.
Yes, I'm an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
When I was younger, I used to have really bad asthma. My mom would make me something similar to this. However, she didnt use sugar. She used lemon and garlic. It really worked, too. It was a big time expectorant and anything that didnt belong was coughed up quickly. In fact, once I dried out my sinuses good and proper. It felt horrible!
Anyways, the site is pretty cool. Good marketing tool.
What, me Tweet?
at least Tyler Durden didn't insert -his- , er, *cough* message.
Beta-7, anyone?
I checked out some of those links, and they reference "dropped A's and I's" and "the Beast." Anyone wanna fill me in on what this means?
This sig is only here so people stop skipping the last lines of my posts.
The Beast is a reference to a similar 'event' in the past. The "dropped A's and I's" may refer to the fact that the Beast was an event that had ties to the movie AI... On the other hand, they might be a reference to hints and pieces of the puzzle revealed in this new 'game.'
Supposedly the term for these sort of things is ARG, alternate reality game. I've always had an interest in these sort of uncover the clues and try to figure out bizarre conspiracy/connection type things before... though I'm still pretty much a clueless newbie on the subject. Unfortunately, the discussion board doesn't seem to be the main form of communication(I get the feeling its an IRC channel), thus it's hard to get the whole picture of what those playing the game have figured out so far.
Be interesting if some overzealous individual put together a really thorough 'get caught up on the situation' type overview up.
I think the site is trying to hint at the new race that will join the covenant. The trailer talks about how the Earth is in the way of the covenant. I think this new race has a "hive" and the words Phasmidia Elegans(type of worm) hint at their physical structure. I think the excerpts that allude to loneliness taken from Gulliver's Travels and Shakespeare's The Tempest are hinting at "the monitor" from Halo 1. He is in an unknown planet.
Susanna: NO! A si NO. Octavio: Pos...entonces como?
Ok.. so I admit.. my computer won't play the darned thing. The resolution is too freaking huge! In fact, none of the computers we tried it on at the office managed to play the file (both windows and mac). So.. Anyone know how to go about converting a wmv to a smaller mpeg? It looks sweet and I get the gist from watching it, but I'd like to see more than 5% of the frames...
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I've got a frankenstein of a box, Radeon 7200 64m, p4 1.6, and 512 meg of PC133 sdram, and halo runs fine.
Not exceptional, but 30 frames a sec, without all the details, but with most.
I hate to think what you expect from your games.
If anyone wants to check out the speed runs, start with the Silent Cartographer. That one is a masterful speed run, full of interesting tricks and creativity. If you want to see another one, see Assault on the Control Room, that one has some pretty good tricks too, including one doozy. The rest I wouldn't really bother with, I didn't think they were worth the time. Basically they read just like normal play throughs, with nothing in particular interesting about them.
Funny how it is, but the long (maybe tedious) levels of Halo make for some long (maybe tedious) speed runs as well, as they get bogged down slogging through room after room of enemies.
just as extra incentive, we've had 3 confirmations
that "www.ilovebees.com" is tacked to the end of the Halo 2 xbox
trailer appearing before movies at Loews Theaters across the US and
Canada. We're still trying to capture a good screen shot.
What if there was no digital version of this trailer (i.e. it was theatre only)?
I have no problems with government bans on filming movies. But they also then ban sumliminal messages, or allow unobstrusive filming of snippets lasting 2-3 minutes.
I think I saw a titlebar change!
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Here's the meaning of the countdown..
"Well, this is a wierd one... Remember the theatrical trailer for Halo 2 (look back down a few posts)? Well, someone discovered that in the very end, the Xbox.com logo actually changes for a split second into another url - ilovebees.com. Now, let me tell you that what you are about to see will confuse the living hell out of you... If you go to http://ilovebees.com/ , A message pops up that something inside the system is degenerating it - a virus or other proggie. But, if you looked closely at the "SYSTEM PERIL DISTRIBUTED REFLEX", you would notice that those first letters can also spell something else - "Single Player Demo Release". Yep, we believe that on August 24, 2004, at 00:06, A Demo of Halo 2's Single Player Experience will be made available. There are also other allusions to other dates (on the 27th, "network throttling will erode", possibly AKA "beta-testing will finish", and on the 10th, "this medium will metastasize", possibly AKA "Copies will start being made"), and a whole barrage of other extremely odd clues ("Seek the truth, Behold the truth, Reveal the truth, That is the law and the whole of the law").
It sounds like the right way to translate the countdown.
So Demo on the 24th, beta test to end on the 27th and gone gold on the 10th.
I don't really care about Halo, but I've been interested in puzzles lately.
(damn merlin mystery, I had it. had the 3-d box and everything..)
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