hushed casket

Here's to what was a great 2008. Enjoy your holidays and Merry Christmas.

Look out for an awesome 2009 including Midnight and some Hushed Casket members appearing in an episode of Penn and Teller's Bullshit! on Showtime as they investigate the effect of video games on behavior. Also, a mega LAN is being quietly discussed and may occur around the air date for that episode.

* The image has been uploaded to the Hushed Casket facebook page and tagged here.

Action from the Hushed Casket 5th Anniversary LAN

It’s 10 PM on Saturday night, October 6th. The temperature is 81 degrees Fahrenheit, but my central A/C unit has been running non-stop since noon. There are 38 people in my house playing Halo 3 multiplayer in four separate games on 26 Xbox 360s, most of them connected to high definition displays. In my office sits five gamers I’ve never met. Two exhausted gamers sleep in my living room amidst the commotion. My electrical meter spins like God’s own anti-son-of-a-bitch machine. This must be the THX 5th Birthday LAN.

Today marks the date five years ago that Foulbreed and I decided to call our fledgling Halo chapter on Bungie.net "The Hushed Casket" (THX). Much has transpired between then and now. THX has ballooned to encompass over 100 people playing a multitude of games. THX'ers have participated in gaming tournaments all over the United States, and we've actually even won some of them. Our Huntsville, Alabama, based group has changed significantly since then, and because an exhaustive history is available here, in this article I will only recap the past year (August 2006 - August 2007).

Tomorrow (Tuesday) is the Hushed Casket's 5th year of existence. We've got a monster LAN setup about a month from now to celebrate.

But does anyone what to do something tomorrow?

I propose that we all sign onto XBOX Live and play HALO 2. THX'ers without 360's can play. Everyone liked HALO 2 (regardless of our feelings for HALO 1). And, it would be nice to see some old members online.

If we go with this, let's make sure we get 16 ppl online for some customs.

Thoughts?

I just watched a movie called "THX 1138." That is the last time I ever watch a movie just because it has "THX" in the title. It was horrible, slow, and shallow. I eventually turned the subtitles on and watched it at 2x speed.

However, I noticed they called the guy named THX-1138 "thecks." It's certainly quicker than saying "Tee Aich Ex."