www.ilovebees.com This url was flashed at the end of the Halo 2 theatrical trailer after the xbox.com link. There's a countdown clock, confusing the #### outta me. There's this weird hidden text in the background of the site that seems to have been written by some woman who was shipwrecked and is going insane waiting to be rescued. EDIT: Forgot the link to the HBO forum post, http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.f....pl?read=455575 EDIT again: Here are the META tags for ilovebees.com
The more I look into this, the more I'm getting freaked out. Mind you, it's also 1:40 am in the morning right now, and I have a bloody headache. Seriously, this is just too creepy.
Friend of mine who owns an XBOX site: Jayfatyboombat: I figured out this marketing scheme t3h VaNiL4 iNteL: si? t3h VaNiL4 iNteL: explain Jayfatyboombat: people see this trailer Jayfatyboombat: and there going to think that they are the only ones who noticed this Jayfatyboombat: or one of ht eonly ones Jayfatyboombat: and go insane trying ti figure itout Jayfatyboombat: the entire time Jayfatyboombat: all they think about is Halo 2
I saw that yesterday. If you know anything about Bungie, you'll know that they would do something like this. The only problem is that this isn't exactly their style, and this site also isn't being hosted on any Microsoft servers. I really doubt they'd put a site like that (that is going to get hundreds of hits per second) on a Rackspace server instead of a Microsoft server that can handle the traffic. The subliminal messages on the web site remind me of the Cortana Letters that MBO (marathon.bungie.org) was receiving way back in 1999 before anyone even knew about Halo and before Halo was even announced. The messages were very cryptic, much like the messages on that web site. The only problem is that no one is sure if it's Microsoft or Bungie doing this, or if it's the company that put the theatrical trailer together (Ant Farm). Some people (like the webmaster of HBO [halo.bungie.org]) think that it's a marketing ploy of Ant Farm's and that it has nothing to do with Microsoft or Bungie at all.
This is interesting. It could be a marketing ploy i suppose, but why write that stuff? It has to have some meaning somewhere. Wether or not it will relate to Halo or not though, i don't know.
Alta the Bungie Princess. The person who is running the temporary ilovebees site is named Dana, and bares a striking resemblance to Alta. Question #6 in the Bungie FanFest Trivia is: Alta Hartman is also known as: A) Mama Bungie, B) Stretch, C) Queen Bee, D) Bungie Princess. Dana and Efendi spell out this anagram, Defend an AI.
I've posted this at a different board I go to, and the only response I got was that this is a way to hype the fans up for Halo 2 even more. Meh. I still don't know what the hell is going on. I went to that beesite, and all I got was a black pop-up with a countdown clock then a Blog. Me are confused.
All of the pages on ilovebees.com change every time you view them. I found this on the hives page, and my brother thinks it's from Shakespeare; the first part, anyways.
The Halo story uses a lot of references to popular literature such as Shakespeare and also uses a lot of references to mythology. That's one of the main things that points to this being a working of Bungie, but there are still many other things about this whole thing that are very uncharacteristic of Bungie. However, no one from Bungie has refuted the fact that this is their doing...
Well, it's obviously not a real site. It was registered on June 15th. Also, the "beekeeper" only has three hives in seven years of beekeeping. If anyone knows Bungie, seven is a very important number in their storylines and all that. It's just another thing that points at Bungie.
Check this out. www.xbox.ilovebees.com Also, this website is hosted on 4 different servers. Why would such a small, single-hosted site need 4 servers? LPA probably uses 1 or 2 servers (I'm assuming) and it's not that large of a site, even to have such things as FTP to users or anything that would require such high bandwidth.
Speaking of 7's, 7x7x7 equals 343. And does anyone know if there is still a site that has the Cortana Letters? I want to view them.
Cameron http://marathon.bungie.org/story/cortana.html Tempest Any subdomain you use for that site takes you to the main site. They have it so any subdomain you type in takes you to the main page. Just try it.
My friend told me that in AIM when I showed him, right after I posted that. I wonder why everything distorts on pages...Go here, then hit F5 (refresh) a few times.
Nathan, one of the people who works at Bungie, was hired on August 24th, 1998. I don't know if that is significant to anything yet, but I thought I'd post it anyways.
Wow Cameron you should be a FBI investigator or something... your really into solving this and your doing a good job so far.