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

Posted by Zonk on from the his-name-is-john-you-see dept.

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."

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  1. Misleading Title by Cryophallion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, how many people are going to misread this that MIT hacked Harvard College (which is just across Cambridge) to get a copy of the game (which may or may not be legal)?

    I am all for creative titles to create interest, and I know the pranks are called hacks, but this one is just a little too misleading.

    Now MIT hacking an illegal share at Harvard (which is of course exempt from RIAA lawsuits [and therefore I assume game and MPAA by association], according to recent articles here, so they can get away with it...) in order to get the game early - THAT would be good reading. And maybe be counted as extra credit in a class.

  2. It's a medical condition. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:Somebody please explain the appeal by Osty · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sure, the writers at bungie might have made the story more involved and interesting, but there is no denying that the base plot is still about killing aliens before they can fuck your shit up, which is exactly the same as Doom. iD just had a developer write their story, rather than a team of writers.

    Well, shit. If you want to break it down like that, every FPS has had the same story as Doom. You could probably even break down any game at all that way.

    • Half-life: Scientists inadvertently brought aliens to fuck up the world, kill them.
    • System Shock 2: Experimental faster-than-light travel inadvertently turned everybody on your ship into monsters to fuck up the world, kill them.
    • Bioshock: Captialists inadvertently turned everybody into mindless aggressive zombies to fuck up the world, kill them.
    • Final Fantasy: Feminine male antagonist is trying to fuck up the world, kill him. With chocobos.