We've added a new feature to Rampancy (one of many in the past few weeks) that allow for UBB-style user profiles. New users who register will see some new items on the form, allowing all kinds of information to be entered. (Some, like email address, are not made public; we don't want to make Rampancy a place spammers go to find addresses.) All of the new fields are optional; you won't have to enter them to register an account.

Captain Spark over at HBO has eleven new mp3 selections to their prodigious collection of Halo Dialogue Snippets, which now features over 100 clips of Halo dialogue, categorized by speaker... out of the 5000 that Bungie says exists. Nobody said it wouldn't keep them busy.

[image:4041 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]Tycho from Penny Arcade wrote a few lines about their last Lanwerx event, which was attended by Bungie reps and fans, and included a PC Halo tournament. Here's what he had to say:

[image:4038 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]You're going to need those flame retardant undergarments shortly. No, not a forum flamewar, but some flaming Warthog action from Xbox hexeditor extraordinaire, BOLL. His latest opus is Wheels On Fire; we;ve put it in our Movies Section.

[image:4036 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]Blackstar of BSP pulled an image from the Summer Slaying LANFest held by Louis Wu of HBO and tagged it with all the nicknames he could collect. We've mirrored the Summer Slaying Program image.

Blackstar of Blackstar Productions has put up a photo gallery from the recent Summer Slaying LAN event hosted by Louis Wu of HBO. There's also a video

[image:4037 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]The guys over at Red vs Blue have done their third Public Service Announcement; this one's based on a tatoo-related conversation in their forum.

[image:4041 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]KP and Exogenesis attended the Summer Slaying and Lanwerx events, respectively, hosted by HBO's own Louis Wu and Penny Arcade, and they both posted a bit of an update in the HBO forum; here are the highlights from KP:

The usual suspects were there: The Wu, Miguel, Blackstar, nof, Gholsbane, team OvK, Have Blue, Konrad, Neo, Lophan, Fuhrman, Geoff, the Historian, Ben (Louis' son), a bunch of cool other people (I'm having trouble remembering, sorry), and some kids who showed up at 10:30pm as I was leaving who I didn't get to play with (apparently they were lost all day, I would've turned back for home after an hour, but that's just me).

... and from Exogenesis:[image:4044 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]

Bungie was there, of course, showing off Halo 2 on a projector screen with a fairly good sound system. The quality is at least 100 times better than the videos released on the internet. Plus the first time, I was very close to the front. Prime viewing space. SketchFactor just cannot hit that jumping Ghost, though.

Although it seems this was a LANFest, and not a tournament per se, it sounds like Geoff walked away with top honors at SS, while Exogenesis nabbed himself a nifty souvenir by getting Gabe and Tycho from PA to sign a cardboard tube he found.

[image:4047 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]The latest Halo Babies comic features a tribute to Warthog Revisited by Randall Glass; go take a look.

[image:4043 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]Zandervix at MBO has written up a state of the community address for Myth. After, of course, appointing himself President. (Hey, how come we never thought of that?)

For the most part, this seems to have been prompted by Clem's recent statement at the Mill, that those critical of the Mill and the MythDev team should remove their creations from the archive:

Clem, just the other day, posted a rather wordy point about the use of The Mill. I won't re-cap it all here, but I will say that I agree with it for the most part. It basically states that if you want to post to The Mill, you should be free of problems and issues with it's management and members. Also meaning philisophical differences with these same individuals. I won't pretend to know exactly what that means, but I get the point.

I don't know. To me, this sounds as if I dislike President Bush I shouldn't expect my garbage to be collected. On the other hand, you pay taxes to the government, and the Mill is free-- which I think is more or less the point. Somebody gives you something for free, be nice to them.

As we write, Louis Wu from HBO is trying to rouse his somnolent houseguests for the Summer Slaying event he's hosting today; everyone wish him and the other players good luck, and be sure to read the writeup that is sure to follow. Pictures, Louis!