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Welcome to the Dropshock Brigade headquarters. This is an all volunteer outfit.
"I am an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper. Those words may be used often but we are unique. We are the best trained, best equipped, and craziest outfit in this collection of colonies we call the UNSC. I will defend her to my last breath and give my enemies the death that can only be provided under the tread of my black combat boots. I am no normal marine. I push my mind, body, and soul further than most human beings ever will. I instill fear in my enemies as I drop from the heavens like the wrathful gods of Greek lore. I show no mercy. I show no fear. I am a UNSC Helljumper and I go feet first."
"Feet First Into Hell"
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Dropshock Brigade Week-in-Review 6 |
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 Hey everybody, it's your favorite Sergeant coming to you with the Week-In-Review. While I was out for a bit, I found out it was Scragg and 223 who were stealing from my secret fridge, so they're in the closet, bound and gagged to each other. Don't worry, I'll let them out when this is over with. So...let's see what's going on in our beloved Brigade, shall we?
Announcements and Forum Updates! Vitamin has made a number of announcements. Nothing extremely big, but still, worth noting. He's shown us new things that our site could have...but we can't. Now, for Recruits, there is now a drop-down box that can be used to select your sponsor and recruiter. Also, when you are now on a Leave of Absence, you can now simply click a button and you will be set back to being active again. "+1 step towards having everything being automated, and having officer not have to do anything," says Vitamin. Way to go and put more of the work on Serina. Real cool, man. As for his last announcement, he requests, but does not demand, donations for the site. We need to raise 80 USD. Check out the announcement thread for more details. Oh, and lastly, you might've noticed the three clocks to the left under the Calender. Vote for your favorite. And you might've seen that the forum icons have had a graphical revamp. Hurray for Vitamin's spare time.
Let's see...next up on the list are enlistments. Sadly, no new enlistments from last week. Get to recruiting, men! Who knows, you might walk away with a few ribbons on your chest.
Let's see...promotions...demotions...nothing. Maybe next week. Although I hope I don't see any demotions.
A few interesting threads created this week:
-Ventura's rant about people who diss parkour. It's a nice laugh if you know what they're talking about.
-Comic-con violence! Somebody gets shanked by a pen. Full story in the thread, thanks to 223.
-Reactive talks about fast food. Learn about a few joints that you never even knew existed.
-Halo: Reach! A big Forge-related update has been released in a form of a vid-doc. Forgers rejoice! Check it out in Welsh's thread in the Reach forum.
-Sadly, McKenzie has canceled his Middle-Age themed tournament. He declares himself winner. I call shenanigans.
Not much else extremely interesting going on in other threads, but still, take a good look. You'll never know what you find.
Graphics and Videos! You'll always find something unique in here.
Lot's of music this week. Ventura and 223 seem to be having a music fight...and Equinox sings about his favorite officer, Syphex. Added to this mix of humor, are some serious songs which you might get into.
In the videos, our old friend, Drake, posts about a demonic clock. Not for the faint-hearted. Taxadox also posts a video of a rather large WoW player threatening Ex-Guildies. I would have been scared to death.
In Graphics...not much new stuff...except for Reactive's Halo Wars signature. Keep on photo-shopping bro.
Well, that's all for this Week-in-Review. I'm gonna go take a look in my secret stash...see if I can find anything to eat. Although...I can't stop feeling like I'm forgetting something...oh well. Iris, out.
p.s 3rd platoon rules. |
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Dropshock Brigade Week-in-Review 5 |
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Hahaha! I locked Scragg out. Now I get to do the week-in-review. This is our week and a month anniversary! Even though it's not universally accepted, it is now, because the week-in-review is special. Oh, so, so special.
It is so fun being repetitive, can't wait until the one year anniversary! I can just sense the excitement.
There are no announcements this week, so Vitamin and/or High Command may be cooking up a super-epic-mega-ultra announcement for later, or they are just busy. Either way, our High Command keeps us safe and happy. Unless they splatter us, that could hurt, then again, it could 'whip us into shape.' Unless we bleed out, well, its their loss.
Recruit update!
-Dazed
-Rebullet
-Led Zeppelin
-GameJamie
-Honour
-BigJoe
And we shall make privates of this batch, or they shall die trying! I also extend my congratulations of acceptance to Ollygen and DeltaIpad who have made us proud and joined our ranks. Fight hard, troopers. Don't forget sponsors are the key.
Promotions are not currently happening, but in this action we can plan for more in the future! Remember, hard work, determination, and cookies. Or brownies. Maybe.
Here are some beastly current posts:
-Battle highlights are always fun, we can compare strategies and critique games, so be sure to check out this section and give us your two cents on the amount of carnage caused.
-JHawk's retirement saddens us, but we are strong and the Brigade will keep moving. I never personally knew JHawk but I heard good things about him and I understand that the foreign members knew him better than I. You will be missed, it was an honor to serve with you.
-McKenzie's B.net chronicles. Ep. 3 is a funny thread that will make you laugh, that is about another clan with a unique outlook, that tried to take away our favorite person. Shame on them, just kidding. May we meet them on the battlefield.
-Brigade techniques covers cooking, cleaning, and the joys of being a housewife. Even if we won't admit it. It really is useful!
As for Graphics and Videos....
-Custom Signatures by Pharoah Wizard are free, clean, and look amazing. Thanks to Pharoah's skills, the forums are a little more colorful, and this is a VERY useful thread. Congratulations on finding and keeping a place in the Brigade, Pharoah!
-Engage sees a double rainbow is pretty funny, I feel dirty for watching it and pity the man who was moaning er..talking. Let's just end that bit now.
We're done here, I am so glad I have usurped the throne of week-in-OH NO-Crap, I think scragg broke the lock "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? Crap, did you just do the Week-in-Review? Whatever, less work for me.
See you next week.
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Dropshock Brigade Week-in-Review 4 |
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"Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy birth-"
Woah, Woah I'm all for the happy birthday wishes. But really, we're only a month old.
HAPPY FIRST MONTH ANNIVERSARY!
One month and I haven't stopped updating you guys on what you already know. It feels awesome.
Firstofall, I'd like to give a warm welcome to our newest Ambassador from the ODST Armed Forces Gen. C.James! Welcome to our humble home, or Headquarters in this case.
Woo, today I'm just gonna spew out the information in whichever order I see fit.
Announcement time!
One announcement this week -better than last week's-!
Want Photoshop? But don't want to Pirate it or Purchase it? Our faithful leader has given us access to a free online app that is a pretty basic version. Go take a look at his thread in the Announcements Section.
Read this!
Chapter 4 in Iris' thrilling story; Mark of the Ancients. Go take a read. Take a guess who's flying that Pelican.
Hey Recruits! Step it up, I want some more privates!
-DeltaiPad
-Rebullet
-iArmagedd0n
-Ollygen
If any of you are having trouble, ask your sponsors. That's what they're there for.
Congradulations to HavocSurf on completing your enlistment and becoming a fully-fledged Helljumper!
Post that.
Anyone noticed you can change your theme? Its easy go read Two Two Three's post on what your favorite theme is in General Discussion.
I know we were a Fallout Clan for a day. But whatabout when Fallout: New Vegas comes out? Check Guardian's thread in... you guessed it General Discussion.
Graphix and Videoz.
Here's a list of view-worthy Graphics in the Graphics section.
Does this look right? Scraggarax
Want a custom signature? Pharoah Wizard
America's Point of View Reactive
Here's a list of view-worthy Videos in the Videos section.
Clouds Halo 3 Montage Corrupzion
Your Own Parkour Vidoes. Ripcord
Bungie Day "Deja View" Welsh
Sarge Elite Hunter
Thats it.
I'm going to leave you now.
Atleast until next Sunday. |
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Ah, finally. Found a computer. This Week-in-Review is gonna be fast. I'm at the library and only have 30 minutes to sum up everything that has happened this past week.
Lets Do this!
Promotions! Match results! New Recruits (jeez, more by the week)! Discussion posts! Part of this Week-in-Review!
Alright, 27 minutes left.
New Recruits and promotions!
We have three recruits with us currently.
-DeltaiPad
-Rebullet
-HavocSurf
I'm hoping that none of them will be denied, new privates, eh?
Congradulations to our new NCOs!
First Sergent Welsh!
Sergent Engage
Sergent Iris
Welsh - I knew you were due for a promotion some time, you've been here longer than I have. Congratulations!
Engage - Judging by the training program I saw you might be one of the ones to be promoted. Good Job!
Iris - I knew you had it in you. I saw you taking charge in Second Platoon. Congratulations, Bro!
And finally Corporal Sparatic; Welcome to the Corporal Club. We have a Taco bar shh...
22 Minutes Left
Announcements!
New this week-
Wait what?
No new announcements?
Probably because of all the new promotions.
17 Minutes Left
Forum Discussion
Do you think that everyday life relates to the Dark side and the Light side of the Force? Put your two-cents into Syphex's thread where he relates the Force to everyday life.
Wanna officially be an ODST? But can't think of a name? Vitamin R cleaned up his Name thread in General Disussion. Go pick one and mark down you've chosen it.
Can you think of a name that someone else can use? Go post your list of names there.
Who do you think is going to win the world cup? Personally I think Germany will win. Who do you think? Go take a look at DeltaiPad's thread in General Discussion.
Mark of the Ancients - Chapter Three is up! Written by Iris, he adds a new twist to the story! It is an excellent read!
7 Minutes left
I hope I don't run out of time.
In the Graphics section go take a look at
Scragg and Iris Callisto
Only in America Demonic
Aperture Laboratories Need You! Grakus Arkadius
They made me lol.
In the Videos section go take a look at
Computer Problems Iris
Prime gets slapped Taxadox
Underwater Cartoons Hit By Oil Spill Arkhiv
3 Minutes left
That's it!
Done
With three Minutes to spare!
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Dropshock Brigade Week-in-Review 3 |
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Alright, let’s get this started. Wait, what? It’s already started? Crap.
New Personnel! New Recruits! New Platoon! New… other stuff! And not a lot of old. All here today in the Week-in-Review!
Boot Camp [ 6-23-10 ] went smoothly lead by Cpl. Iris. With both recruits in attendance and members of the Brigade as well. The two recruits passed and continued to complete all protocol.
I would like to give a warm welcome to our new personnel!
Kill Factor! Fallen Demigod! And Scrapper! Welcome to the Brigade Privates!
And good luck to our current and newest recruits
-DeltaiPad
-Fields
-DeathPenalty
Let’s see these Recruits become Privates, eh?
Fourth Platoon has been created! With Vitamin assuming command, he will be leading it with Cpl. Grakus Arkadius and Cpl. Scraggarax (yours truly) assisting him. If you have been selected for Fourth Platoon, give yourself a pat on the back and report to your wing immediately! “Fourth Platoon is a place of opportunity, a new platoon, new personnel, and a new environment. Fourth Platoon currently has no type affiliation, Major League Gaming, or Big Team Battle. This will be decided at a later time, or a completely different type will be chosen.” ~Vitamin R, Fourth Platoon Announcement thread.
A new wing in the Briefing Room has been created all about the Brigade.
Brigade Discussion: Exclusive to Personnel, you may discuss anything involving the Brigade here and it will only be visible to Brigade Personnel (Privates and higher)
Sponsoring: Having a problem with a recruit that you’re sponsoring? Post here about it.
Delta Division vs. Dropshock Brigade has been canceled! Delta Division has decided to back out from the match due to personnel attendance issues. Let’s hope we can redo this match some other time!
Now, in our discussion section, we have several posts of interest.
Fast-Food Ice Dirtier than Toilet Water. - This is an interesting read, may even give you the chills.
Wikipedia Omi. - Apparently Omi is a Japanese-Italian Mixed breed. Take a look.
Game Re-Makes. - What old games would you like to see re-made?
Kinect vs. a Log. - Battle of the Cylinders! May even give you a chuckle.
Happy Birthday to Fields! And Happy Birthday to Serenade, who has balls. He went skydiving for his Eighteenth Birthday, Take a look at the vid he posted in the Video Section.
A friendly Reminder to Recruits and current Personnel, Brush up on the rules. This week we have seen many counts of necroposting. Only you can stop Necroposting from happening to our forums, check the date of last and first post, if it is more than two weeks old; Do not post in it! Please help to keep our forums clean!
And there’s a little surprise many of you have already seen in the Comlink. Good luck finding it ;) |
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Bungie Weekly Update 6.25.10 |
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 Well, this week, Bungie decided to release a bunch of stuff.
This stuff includes information on bug squashing and the such, a little bit of statistics and this thing about a ZBR. I'm just guessing, but apparently ZBR is something that tests the game for bugs, prior to release, and according to Bungie, Halo Reach has zero bugs left, they've been squashed, but some get past the ZBR apparently. Hm...
They also told us about some interesting bugs they found that brought the lols. Here's one with the elite model that's actually pretty big.
Description:
UI: START MENU: ARMORY: MODEL: The feet don't rotate with the Elite when examining him.
Repro:
1. Launch the main menu.
2. Go into the Armory->Player.
3. Change the Preferred Species to Elite.
4. Zoom the camera out and rotate the Elite around.
Actual:
The Elite's feet/legs don't rotate with the pelvis.
Expected:
The entire Elite rotates.
This bug came to UI engineering because it involved the Armory. In this case I’m not sure what the problem ended up being, because it didn’t repro in later builds and we simply resolved as “No repro.”
Still, it provided some great laughs!
A few other bugs were mentioned, by Shiska, that guy who....does stuff with playlists I think. Regardless, I'm pretty sure a lot of people don't like him.
42748: The “Mongooses Only” vehicle set turned every vehicle object into a mongoose. The security cameras in Sword Base are technically vehicles so they can be made to move. Thus: “Mongooses Only” on Sword Base caused Gooses to hang out of the walls and ceilings of the map.
40750: A new tester submitted a bug that the Falcon could not be flown on a particular map, but instead would drag along the ground. Upon review of the bug it was determined that the Falcon itself was fine, but the tester was holding down the wrong button thus keeping the Falcon grounded. The map itself is, of course, quite alright.
14579: The female MP Spartan model would, when her shields were popped, suddenly become the male Spartan model. IT’S A TRAP.
Now the one with the female to male spartan model is just funny. I actually giggled a little bit.
Oh, and by the way, remember that little variant called "Race" in Halo 1, well it's back. And it's cool. They should have showed it at E3, but they didn't or something.
If you fall off the map, you'll be reset at a checkpoint, you can set laps, and best of all, Landmines! So according to Bungie, they just beat Forza Motor Sport.
On the topic of cinematics, apparently they got even better. Graphics are big to me, so this is a major plus. The cinematic team gets more time to work on the game before it comes out, so this things gonna look fresh to death.
They also mentioned something about Inclement Weather. Thor would be pleased? Please allow us to set weather on maps Bungie, and while your at it, add clan support.
And in the words of Urk.
And with that, we’re done here. Before we kick off for the weekend, I want to remind you that Bungie Day is fast approaching. Wouldn’t be right if you weren’t here to celebrate with us. Mark your calendars, please. We'll make it worth your while. |
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Dropshock Brigade Week-in-Review 2 |
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Changes to Sponsoring! New Battle Stories! New Personnel! New Events! And more all explained in this week's Dropshock Brigade Week-in-Review!
With my new Week-in-Review scheme being such a success, it will be our new weekly update every SUNDAY. Remember it comes out early morning for me, in Canada. So if its Sunday for you and you don't see it, don't fret! It'll be there shortly.
Starting our Brigade News off today we've got our new personnel and recruits.
Last week we had four recruits in our presence, Two of them made it in and are now Privates.
Welcome to the Brigade Corrupzion and Pro!
This week, we have 5 Recruits in our presence
-Joe
-TheGuerra
-Fields
-Ripcord
-Blizok
Lets see these Five become Privates, eh?
Sadly we lost two of our personnel for having Negative Merit and Inactivity. Watch out Brigade, I don't want any of that to happen to you.
Earlier this week Vitamin released a new update on Sponsoring. You can now Cancel your Sponsorship PROVIDING you have a legitimate reason. Inactivity, for example would be a good reason to cancel your Sponsorship on the Enlistee.
High Command also updated the Enlistment post, go take a look at it.
Navigation > Rec Hall > Enlistment post
When you decide to go recruiting, copy and paste that into your recruitment post, it has all the information a new recruit will need to get to our forums.
Last week we saw a new story emerge with three chapters to date; The Lost and the Doomed. This week we got two new Chapters of Iris' New story in his Thrilling Saga; The Mark of the Ancients. Iris has requested for Constructive criticism when he posts a new chapter. Get to it Brigade!
Delta Division vs. Dropshock Brigade match date has been changed to Saturday June 26, 2010 @ 8:00 PM EST that is next Saturday. Please check the thread in the Events Section and make sure you show up next weekend; if you're signed up that is. Remember, this match won't be MLG, it is Default Halo. Big Team Battle stuff.
In the Media Wing, there are 4 new posts that are worthy of a look
-Techno Jeep (Beatboxin' jeep) [Videos]
-Thumb Man [Graphics]
-Confused Man [Graphics]
-Please Watch This (Church Protest) [Videos]
Seems like there's a lot of Man.
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Dropshock Brigade Week-in-Review |
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New to the Dropshock Brigade, we now have a weekly review. Filled with all the awesomeness that has happened in this past week. Brought to you by none other than Scragg. Guess who's fault this is.
First of all, congratulations and welcome back Two Two Three for attaining the rank of Private. You have worked hard to get back into the Brigade and we welcome you with open arms! And congratulations Equinox for helping him return!
Currently we have four enlistees in our presence
-Corrupzion
-Whut the Duece
-Xprox
-Blizok
Remember personnel, aid these recruits and play with them make them feel welcome!
Boot Camp 6-12-10 went very well with much of personnel in attendance and Three out of Four of the recruits in attendance, Great job Brigade!
This week there was a total of two new announcements.
Syphex's Observation which for some odd reason has gotten no replies what so ever. And remember, my door is always open too.
Next, we have Vitamin's post giving us free access to Sony Vegas 9.0a. This has been getting a lot of mixed reviews. Some saying it has a virus on it, others saying its awesome. Its pretty awesome if you know how to edit videos. And you can put it on a USB key or Flash drive and take it anywhere!
Birthdays, this past week we have had three worth celebrating.
Happy -Belated- Birthday to Buchanan! You're pretty new to our group and we can't wait to see you go far.
Happy -Belated- Birthday to Equinox! You've been with us for a long time and have even made it into high command! Hope your birthday was happy with all that cake.
Happy Birthday Rusteh! You've been here since the beginning! Hope you have one epic day today!
New in the forum activity section, we have Valorious' pirate ship, you should give that a look. You may even be on there. -Check the Graphics section-
We also have a new writer coming up, will his stories match up to Iris' stories? The Lost and the Doomed so far has three exciting chapters! Go take a look in the Battle Stories Section!
Finally, extra notes.
-If you'd like anything to be featured in the next Week-in-Review. Send Scraggarax a PM with the title "Week-in-Review Request" and I'll be glad to include it!
-Every Sunday a Week-in-Review will be posted
-This has been approved by High Command |
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Halo Reach :: Armory Update |
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If you've been keeping to date with all the Bungie Weekly Updates then you should that the Halo Reach Armory has undergone some heavy changes since the Beta. If you however have no idea what I'm talking about then don't worry Welsh has summarized all the goodness for you in his thread.
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Bungie Weekly Update 6.04.10 |
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Bungie released a new update. Very interesting. They decided to talk more about Reach, specifically ranking and stuff. A few higher ranks were shown and they look interesting. Along with completed menu's armor, commendations, and stuff.
Only thing missing, clan support!
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High Command Dominates |
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Equinox, I'mma let you finish but High Command absolutely dominates. We are the best platoon here and it cannot be denied. More efficient than your platoon and less "suck". Best get to work on your platoon, because you have a lot of catching up to do if you want to even dream of beating us. Well, see you at the bottom of the scoreboard, oh wait, not really, because that's occupied by the rest of you. Wanna challenge us to a platoon match? Ok. Even though I'm the only one in High Command technically, Syphex and Prime got my backs. We'll take any challengers. |
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