MIT Hacks Harvard For Halo, Game Prompts Lots of Sick Days

yonari writes "Early on the morning before the Halo 3 release, John Harvard donned a Mjolnir helmet and a beaver emblem, and carried an assault rifle on his left shoulder, apparently acquired from the UNSC Engineering Division." The Washington Post also points out that a lot of folks took sick days on Tuesday as a consequence of the game's release. "Some local workers won't have to skip out on the office to play the game. At some companies that offer video games as a break room activity, Halo 3 was pre-ordered months ago. The Motley Fool, the Alexandria investment advisory firm, is expecting its copy of the game to arrive from Amazon.com soon. Same for Platinum Solutions, a Reston software consulting firm."

Comments

It's a medical condition.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's called Halotosis.

Those with bad breath have halitosis halotosis, and this is characterized by a lack of people willing to play multiplay on the same Xbox.

Re:Skipping work

[fractoid]

I was still at work Monday night when it was released, and I'm still at work now when I'm supposed to be playing at a friend's house. That's what you get for buying the "take one for the team" line. Your dedication to your company will be briefly noted, if at all, with a verbal pat on the back. When the company's in dire straits, your friends *may* be let go before you, but in the end, it won't make any difference. Remember, the team will never 'take one' for you.

OK, depressing defeatism over. :P

Head Like a Hole

[tepples]

My old computer is a 70 MHz SPARCstation 5 And if it has a CD-ROM, it can still play halo three.

Re:Head Like a Hole

[Dirk the Daring]

A few years ago, I had "Halo 2" on my car. Big fan of NIN and all that, and it was obscure enough that only the hardcore NIN fans got it. Anytime anyone asked what it meant, I would ask them what they thought it meant, and got some very interesting responses. (I learned, for example, that some people thought I was military: HALO)

Anyway, I remember very clearly the day that Halo 2, the game, was released. All day, Fraternity-type guys were driving by with their windows rolled down, shaking their copy of Halo 2 at me and screaming "woooo!" During that time, I had parents come up to me and ask me if I felt that Halo 2 was appropriate for their kid. I had people congratulate me on writing such a popular game.

It was a very strange experience. I don't have any Halo markings of any sort on my current car, so the release date went by unnoticed. Although I seem to be the only person who actually liked the "game fuel" mountain dew flavor.

Re:A Halo launch is like Christmas

[Tarison]

So you come here? Do you also head to your local church to tell everybody about your hate for Jesus?

Re:A Halo launch is like Christmas

[SetupWeasel]

Yes.

Though I didn't know that slashdot was the Church of Halo. Maybe it should say "Master Chief Saves" on the front page.

Re:A Halo launch is like Christmas

[Spacezilla]

I hate Santa Claus. And Jesus. I'm pretty sure they're the same person.

On behalf of the Slashdot team,

[krog]

I would like to apologize for making you read a sentence to figure out what the headline meant. To the best of our abilities, we shall not let this unfortunate occurrence happen again.

Sincerely,

krog