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: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?