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ARG's, ilovebees, and TechTV
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2000
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So I posted a while back about the ilovebees.com page which was shown for a split second at the end of the Halo 2 theatrical trailer. Well, all hell is breaking loose.
What's an ARG? Alternate Reality Game. It works like this - someone sets up a phony scenario. It's a game and nothing more, but you live it out. Phone calls, locations, etc.
Today is the day the "countdown" ended on ilovebees.com. Over the last few weeks, Earth-based coordinates have been listed on the site. The coordinates are for pay phones all over the country. Today, after the countdown ended, the site had coordinates listed in groups of 7 (Bungie's trademark) with a total tally of 777 possible 'points' (again, Bungie).
TechTV is supposed to be at the Santa Monica location at 11:11 PST today.
If something happens at 2 of the 7 grouped coordinates, ilovebees.com releases a .wav file.
This is kinda cool.
Mike
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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Originally posted by starman:
Over the last few weeks, Earth-based coordinates have been listed on the site.
And this whole time I've been waiting by the pay phone on the Moon. 
Anyway�this will be interesting how this turns out.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2000
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People have been reporting pay phones ringing when they were supposed to. Some sites are duds. If you don't answer properly, Melissa hangs up on you.
Mike
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i just wish those early ilovebees rumours of a multiplayer demo being released today were true...
:sad: :unpatiently waiting til Nov.9:
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15" Ti Powerbook | 15 gig 3G iPod
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Nov 2001
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All this for a game?
Awesome...
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2000
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This is what I gathered so far.
The ARG is allowing people to more or less "live out" how the Covenant find Earth. It's like a real-world prelude to the game. Something crash landed on Earth that's supposed to spy on the Covenant, and the AI inside it found this ilovebees.com site as a way "out". Apparently, sometime between now and November 9, the Covenant find Earth.
This fills a gap in the storyline since 345 Guilty Spark never had access to Cortana's memory files.
Mike
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Mike, I think you've lost it.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Jan 2004
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Have to agree, you no FAAR too much about this than is healthy
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Soon we'll be out, amid the cold worlds strife,
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2000
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Uh, then why is TechTV covering it? 
Mike
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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Hmm, looks like the ones in Madison were finished... Thats cool 
By the sounds of the audio files, this has some high production values.
-Owl
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Just off hand this sounds like its got something to do with Halo an the extremely poor story that goes with it.
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Clinically Insane
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Originally posted by TheBadgerHunter:
Just off hand this sounds like its got something to do with Halo an the extremely poor story that goes with it.
..says Mr. 58 posts with a mistyped sig.
How about you make a videogame and see how much better you can do, eh?
Mike
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Originally posted by starman:
..says Mr. 58 posts with a mistyped sig.
How about you make a videogame and see how much better you can do, eh?
Mike
...when in fact this is just a new username. I've been on these forums for years under a variety of names. My sig is mistyped because it was the easiest way to prevent it from rendering, since demonhood pmed me about it being too big.
Actually I am making a video game, so I guess I will eh?
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