This is what can happen in the staff chat when the site goes down for too long....

[4:02:00 PM] Sarge: oh noez
[4:02:06 PM] Sarge: the site's blackscreen!
[4:02:21 PM] H3WM il Duce: Base switch
[4:02:32 PM] Sarge: new weapons
[4:02:34 PM] Barry Carlyon: Barry Carlyon kicks everyone
[4:02:40 PM] Barry Carlyon: CHEATERS!
[4:02:41 PM] Sarge: their hog's spawning at turret
[4:02:43 PM] H3WM il Duce: Watch the new laser
[4:02:51 PM] Sarge: our banshee is gonna spawn at their base
[4:02:59 PM] H3WM il Duce: Pineapple, they have both banshees
[4:03:19 PM] Sarge: I think the laser got dropped at SMG spawn
[4:03:20 PM] Sarge: so we get laser
[4:03:39 PM] H3WM il Duce: Who the hell was on hill and ran the wrong way with the laser?
[4:03:50 PM] Sarge: *points at Black Knight*
[4:04:00 PM] H3WM il Duce: Figures
[4:04:07 PM] Barry Carlyon: I'm still on blackscreen.
[4:04:20 PM] Sarge: Barry's spawning us at turret
[4:04:23 PM] Sarge: can't get to laser
[4:04:25 PM] H3WM il Duce: Yeah, ur red bar
[4:04:36 PM] H3WM il Duce: Someone betray him so he spawns
[4:04:42 PM] Sarge: Sarge betrays barry
[4:04:47 PM] Barry Carlyon: Barry Carlyon arg
[4:05:06 PM] Sarge: Looks like someone on our team has laser
[4:05:22 PM] Sarge: Duce, grab their hog from turret
[4:05:38 PM] H3WM il Duce: Got it...
[4:05:55 PM] H3WM il Duce: Shit, didn't quite make it back
[4:06:05 PM] Sarge: I think I found their sniper rifle
[4:06:10 PM] H3WM il Duce: It's at our landing
[4:06:12 PM] H3WM il Duce: I think
[4:06:25 PM] H3WM il Duce: Are we cliff or water base?
[4:06:26 PM] Sarge: their sniper's spawning in our shotty cave
[4:06:30 PM] Sarge: water base
[4:06:58 PM] H3WM il Duce: Yeah, it's at our landing, I got it
[4:07:05 PM] H3WM il Duce: Needs a gunner
[4:07:21 PM] Sarge: hold on, let me use up this sniper
[4:07:32 PM] Barry Carlyon: I've got the Scorpion!
[4:07:45 PM] Sarge: But this isn't heavies!
[4:07:53 PM] Barry Carlyon: I know!
[4:07:57 PM] Barry Carlyon: I've still got it tho!
[4:07:59 PM] Sarge: !!
[4:08:00 PM] Barry Carlyon: I'm confused.
[4:08:38 PM] H3WM il Duce: * honk honk honk honk honk honk*
[4:08:45 PM] H3WM il Duce: Sarge, hurry up
[4:08:59 PM] H3WM il Duce: Their banshee is still up
[4:09:33 PM] Black Knight: what ever you guys are taking i'll take some too
[4:09:55 PM] Sarge: Don't worry
[4:09:56 PM] Sarge: BK has laser
[4:10:08 PM] Sarge: Sarge gets into the Warthog gun
[4:10:19 PM] H3WM il Duce: Let's do this
[4:10:42 PM] Sarge: We have hill, so we just need to help keep people off until BK lasers the banshee
[4:10:42 PM] H3WM il Duce: *balls to the wall over hill
[4:10:52 PM] Sarge: Sarge lolz
[4:11:09 PM] H3WM il Duce: Shit, they jumped pod
[4:11:16 PM] Sarge:
[4:11:32 PM] H3WM il Duce: *retreats, we're both one shot behind hill
[4:11:36 PM] Sarge: BK, get the banshee!
[4:11:46 PM] Sarge: GET THE Pineappling BANSHEE
[4:11:49 PM] H3WM il Duce: *bk fails
[4:12:01 PM] H3WM il Duce: *we get banshee bombed
[4:12:09 PM] Sarge: /cry
[4:12:13 PM] Barry Carlyon: I can see the flag.
[4:12:16 PM] Barry Carlyon: But I have the bomb!
[4:12:20 PM] H3WM il Duce: Should have given rj the laser
[4:12:43 PM] Sarge: ooo site's back up
[4:12:43 PM] Black Knight: Sarge you keep dying.
So far this game you have spent more time in blackscreen than actual playing.

My advice is that you play some games of action sack to get better and play against players of your skill-level.

It is clear that you're unable to adapt and play against these BTB vets.
[4:12:57 PM] Black Knight: point check
[4:12:59 PM] Sarge: lawl
[4:13:02 PM] Sarge: I'm posting this
[4:13:12 PM] H3WM il Duce: Indeed

damn straight you shoulda given me laser.

2 things to learn from this...

1) Duce is not always a hard ass

2) even in an imaginary game, bk sucks.

And more importantly, get in my Hog... I mean Scorpion if you want to live!

That was hilarious, thanks for posting.

That sounded like a fun game. I told you that you should have invited me before it started.

Sorry Houdini the party was closed....

man...reading that really makes you think about how much of an impact Halo has had on all of us... and how truly FUK'd in the head we all really are


u guys

read the following quote in your best Van voice.

[4:12:13 PM] Barry Carlyon: I can see the flag.
[4:12:16 PM] Barry Carlyon: But I have the bomb!

OMG WIN

More lolz from the Staffbox:

[11:59:59 AM] H3WM il Duce: 500
[12:00:02 PM] H3WM il Duce: 500
[12:00:04 PM] H3WM il Duce: 500
[12:00:23 PM] consumedfever: Oh teh
[12:00:50 PM] consumedfever: Noes Duce just raged so hard he errored
[12:01:12 PM] H3WM il Duce: 500, duce not found
[12:02:52 PM] consumedfever: Ive always wondered, if 500 is internal sever error, and 404 is page not found, what's error 1?
[12:04:26 PM] H3WM il Duce: Using explorer
[12:05:29 PM] Sarge: LOL!

I told BK to spearhead a colonization program for Mars, but told him xbox live was a requirement. Later that day, Duce came in with this...

H3WM il Duce: So I was thinking about the mars thing you guys mentioned earlier... Even with an optic (speed of light) connection, what's the ping to mars and back?
H3WM il Duce: I know the sun to the earth is 8.5 minutes...
H3WM il Duce: If I remember my first grade astronomy
H3WM il Duce: On average Mars orbits the Sun at a
distance of 227 ,939 ,100 km
On average the Earth orbits the Sun at a
distance of 149 ,597 ,888 km
Thus the distance between their " average"
orbital paths is 78 ,341 ,212 Km. However,
they would actually only be this distance
from one another on rare occasions.
Depending on where they are in their
respective orbits , they can be anywhere
from 36 million miles to over 250 million
miles apart .
H3WM il Duce: Lets do some math:
The speed of light is roughly 300 ,000
km sec- 1
there are 60 seconds in 1 minute
So :
c=300 , 000 x60 =18 ,000 ,000 km min
H3WM il Duce: So ur looking at an average of 4 minutes of laaaag ONE WAY on the fastest possible connection.
opivygrl: i think i'm in the wrong class professor.
H3WM il Duce: Sorry sarge, I am NOT playing on that red bar, my 3g is bad enough
Sarge:
Sarge: Duce
Sarge: we'd play on lan all the time on Mars though
Sarge: that'd be sweet
H3WM il Duce: That was gonna bug me all night if I didn't look into it
H3WM il Duce: Oh I would

Duces epic nerd moment

The follow up to this was actually better...

Sarge: we'd play on lan all the time on Mars though
Sarge: that'd be sweet
H3WM il Duce: That was gonna bug me all night if I didn't look into it
H3WM il Duce: Oh I would

I went on to say...

H3WM il Duce: If they allowed the public to go settle mars and limited passengers to 50 pounds of personal belongings, my box and monitor would be first on the scale
H3WM il Duce: The clothes could stay behind
H3WM il Duce: Inb4 someone sigs that
Brick: it would still be faster than UK host
H3WM il Duce: Lawl

I wish i was Brick's wife. Then i could go to the staffbox.