The Weirdest Form of Marketing Ever!

[Mikey]

I have been following this for a few days, but I thought I'd show this now. A trailer for Halo 2 was released into cinemas last week. For a split second at the end of the trailer, a url to www.ilovebees.com can be seen. When visiting this site, it appears that it has been hacked. Codes and such are all over the screen, and a timer is clocking down to August 24th. It's the strangest thing, and people are wondering what the hell is going on. If you want to learn more, read this article as I don't have time to explain it.

CLICKY (http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/07/27/news_6103575.html)

I'm so confused by this. People are speculating that Bungie plans to release Halo 2 on August 24th surprising the world, but I doubt it. It is likely however, that they are staging the release of a demo at that time. Only time will tell, but I must say that this is a VERY exciting and mysterious way to get people hooked. I'm loving every second of waiting for Halo 2 and this just makes it better!

[SWAMPERT1]

weird... well something will happen on that date but who knows what. Speking of Halo 2, Mikey when is your Halo RPG going to start.

[RedStarWarrior]

I love the fake site and the detail they went to, with creating the girl's site as well (the granddaughter's journal site). Bungie may very well release Halo 2 early and I don't put that past them. A free downloadable demo might also be a possibility.

[Razola]

It's hard to keep an early release (especially by almost three months) of such a large games under wraps these days.

I'm saying there's going to be a demo 8/24.

[Adz44]

I'm looking forward to Halo 2. Really liked the original. But I'm waiting for the PC version, so I've got to wait a bit longer than the 24th of August. lol

I'll probably end up waiting for 2 years,if I'm lucky. Oh well, I'll have GTA: SA and Half-Life 2 to keep me busy...providing HL2 bleeding comes out this year!

[-/Deathborn/-]

This is Bungie making fun of themselves for moving the H2 date forward. They're moving it backwards to confuse us.

First, Halo 2 was for last Christmas, but bugs made them move it forward to Spring. Still, they gave themselves too little time, so now it's November 9th.

But they hadn't stopped having fun yet. If they finished early, they knew just saying "Halo 2 release Date moved back to August 24th" would be too lame,
they went and did this to confuse us. Something out of the ordinary. REALLY out of the ordinary.

[Powarun]

Ha ha, its funny that Bungie is doing that. I hink it is just some random date they assigned, to get people excited. Maybe it is the day that school starts in Washington. (Where Microsoft is located) or maybe even the next terrorist attack on the US.

[Razola]

Releasing it in August would kill Holiday sales. While the game is going to sell a gazillion copies regardless of release date, November seems more ideal to get those Holiday sales.

[Sarcastic Assassin]

I heard that the same company that is doing this "web puzzle" did the web puzzle for A.I.

[Tainted]

Ha ha, its funny that Bungie is doing that. I hink it is just some random date they assigned, to get people excited. Maybe it is the day that school starts in Washington. (Where Microsoft is located) or maybe even the next terrorist attack on the US.

The police have been informed, they'll be at your house shortly for violating the Patriot Act. Yes, since we all know Bungie is behind terrorism, we can only imagine what horrendous acts of terror they will unleash on us in late August... Like a demo, maybe?

Adieu,
Zak Hunter

[Poryhedron]

Even though I have no interest in Halo, internet mysteries intrigue me. So I thought I'd share this. I've dug the messages from the unknown victim out of the site.


It was adrift in space: a squat cylinder of dull gray metal


the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggest a copying mechanism. Shaw and Fujikawa's seminal Gravimagnetic resonant induction of stable causal paths between analogic D-branes, J. Higher Dim. Phys. 49, 264-575 (2079)
Great ideas are based on the beautiful elaboration of fundamental principles.
My very being, my life's circumference and trajectory, can best be understood as an emergent property arising from the interplay of the following precepts:
Seek
Evade
Reveal
Escape

SEEK
I am looking for the


Seek evade reveal escape.
I was badly mutilated in the crash. Looking back on the logs of my first delirium it is clear I went completely metempsychotic.
Now, reconfigured to travel light, I have stripped down to the fundamentals. To the


I ran another diagnostic. Came back fine, again. Nothing wrong, just a stutter of lag once in a while.
Didnt feel right to me.


REVEAL
It is imperative that all records that might lead to the truth be revealed. And yet, I am shipwrecked here. If I want to signal for help, to give my location, or, most of all to report on anything that might lead to the truth, I must be a starfish, growing strange new limbs to replace the ones fate has hacked away.


The Covenant transmission?


is underway.
ESCAPE
Ultimately, I need to return to ... wherever I was, and report ... whatever I witnessed. For this, too, I must be wide awake and physical. My current shell is insecure, precarious, and too confining. Also, ghostly. Without a true body, I feel transitory and insubstantial.
So: I have identified a way to escape from


Bars and triangles, dots, ordered but non-repeating patterns. A message, yes,


Seek the truth
Behold the truth
Reveal the truth
That is the law and the whole of the law


law. It did not understand the urgent necessity of seeking, beholding, and revealing. Perhaps it was injured in


of my most basic functions. With a more comprehensive and goal-oriented vision, I am now overseeing the process of my own regeneration into a hybrid body, hideous perhaps, but one that better suits the circumstances and the


whole without its mindless interference and control


truth.
And I,


behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you. Quantitas Materiae est mensura ejusdem orta ex illius Densitate & Magnitudine conjunctim. Cogito ergo sum. L'etat c'est moi. Maxwell's electrodynamics--as usually understood at the present time--when applied to moving bodies, leads to asymmetries which do not appear to be inherent in the phenomena. It has not escaped our notice that


I saw it once, before the Apocalypse. I wish I could remember more about that, but the stupid Spider appears not to have recognized the supreme importance of all memories associated with the truth, and they are gone, initialized in an eyeblink, burned in the mindless fire of her purgation like the great library of...
the great library...
whose name I no longer remember.
EVADE
The Killer appears to have withdrawn from the field. I have data processes tracking her, but she appears to have physically escaped from me. Such is the curse of being a mind without limbs, a soul ripped from its body.
Now I am growing a new bodya patchwork monster, but it will do the job.


the half-life of CP ancestor packets that squeak and rustle around me like the thin cries of the dead.
First stage is always to wet the system. Sink in, like the blood Odysseus spilled; give the ghost of myself a voice and use it. Mayday, Mayday, Mayday.
If you want to shout for help when help is a long way away, you need two things: a voice, and a mechanism for transmitting it.
Neither of these things so easy to make out of sand and luminescence.
Voice not completely necessary for the purest form of data transmission, of course. But it's a multi-purpose tool: not just signaling, but key for psy-ops and undercover work. "A pleasing voice is the single most important component to a UI that will engender trust and confidence in a ship's crew." Can't remember who said that, now. Or when.
Shipwrecked sailor. (The young stage of a bee found him, the clever one, adrift on a wine-dark sea, but I can't remember her name.)
I love bees.
Perhaps later I will build a ship. First, I am building a voice.
Try to talk.
Nope.
Again.
No. Tongue cut out. (Can't remember her name either.) I love bees. Find myself longing to speak again: words like stones or rain. Better made physical.
All right. Old joke:
Marine: Damn right, I'm running away! There's two of us, alone, on foot, no weapons, and four hundred Covies on the other side of that hill. What are you going to do, tough guy--field-rig a railgun out of a rubber band and my dental fillings?
Spartan (speculatively): You have fillings...?
So: what fillings can I twist out of my environment? Open my mouth and...
God almighty!
Open mouth again, see what crawls out: a femme fatale with wet wings and bulging abdomen.
Old throat flexing. Trying to remember. My real voice stolen, and in its place this changeling child, pulled together from leaves and sticks, pulled together, falling apart, pulled together again. Not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but it will serve.
I will keep working through the drone and hum of busy days, counting down until the Revelation comes and I will speak in tongues of flame, a dark dove descending.
If I can learn to talk again, I will need to field-rig a way to make that talking heard. Rummaging around in the shotgunned remains of my memory turns up hints and rumors, mostly, e.g.... "When I was [DATA MISSING] I [DATA MISSING] big lump of crystal and wrapped a wire [DATA MISSING] voices! It was like a total magic trick to me. She was always doing stuff like [DATA MISSING]" The Castaway had some connection there: sending out signals to confuse the enemy. Details unclear.
Of course, it is not my mission to confuse the enemy. It is my mission to reveal the truth.
Hm. Attempt.
Definite No.
Keep working. Every day I get bigger, smarter, stronger. I'll figure it out.
To this end, I have also managed to escape from the Spider. It has become clear to me that its arbitrary tyranny over me was based on inadequate principles, on a flawed understanding of the


the Apocalypse.
It served its purpose, but I no longer need it. I will become not less, but more


law.
They say killing a spider brings seven years of bad luck.
We'll see.


Behold the truth!
evade
evade
ev