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Posted By: stanDate: 5/4/08 11:22 a.m.

In Response To: Yes. (Anton P. Nym (aka Steve))


I know I've mentioned this before, but with all this recent discussion on the Gravemind and his capabilities, I'm firmly convinced that Bungie modeled him after Eric Cartman's Dawson's Creek Trapper Keeper Ultra Keeper Futura S 2000. Like the gravemind, Cartman's trapper keeper could assimilate with a wide variety of people, electronic devices, cars, weapons. And like the Gravemind, it became a large tentacled blob with vast powers.

And I don't think it's any coincidence that Microsoft released the first Halo game exactly one year to the day after the Trapper Keeper episode aired. Sure Gravemind didn't show up until Halo 2, but we saw the Flood's assimilative capabilities with the whole Keyes incident didn't we?


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Can Flood Infect Machines?Honestly 5/3/08 4:07 p.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?SgtSatin 5/3/08 4:21 p.m.
           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?elpolloguapo 5/3/08 10:56 p.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?SgtSatin 5/3/08 4:36 p.m.
           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Honestly 5/3/08 4:58 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Honestly 5/3/08 5:00 p.m.
                       Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?GatchamanUK 5/3/08 5:21 p.m.
                             Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?InnerRayg 5/3/08 6:19 p.m.
                                   Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?SgtSatin 5/3/08 6:38 p.m.
                                   Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?scarab 5/3/08 6:40 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?MJOLNIR7 5/8/08 5:00 a.m.
                       Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Free Weights 5/8/08 6:33 a.m.
                             Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?mendicantbias00 5/8/08 7:05 a.m.
                       Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Louis Wu 5/8/08 10:16 a.m.
                             Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?mub 5/8/08 10:33 a.m.
                             Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?MJOLNIR7 5/8/08 11:44 a.m.
                                   Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Louis Wu 5/8/08 11:55 a.m.
                                         Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Don 5/8/08 12:06 p.m.
                                               Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Louis Wu 5/8/08 12:12 p.m.
                                                     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Simpsons Rule 5/8/08 12:20 p.m.
                                                     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Crackshot53 5/8/08 12:21 p.m.
                                                           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Louis Wu 5/8/08 12:28 p.m.
                                                                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Crackshot53 5/8/08 2:18 p.m.
                                                     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?SinisterSamurai 5/8/08 2:55 p.m.
                                                           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Don 5/8/08 3:36 p.m.
                                                           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Louis Wu 5/8/08 3:43 p.m.
                                                                 Yeah. And Duel Weilding became "legal," too. *NM*SinisterSamurai 5/8/08 5:41 p.m.
                                         Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?MJOLNIR7 5/8/08 6:46 p.m.
                                               Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Louis Wu 5/8/08 8:43 p.m.
                                   Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Honestly 5/8/08 6:25 p.m.
                                   I've always taken sentient to mean self-sentient *NM*elpolloguapo 5/8/08 6:29 p.m.
                                   Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Cthulhu117 5/8/08 7:42 p.m.
                                   Humans are NOT the only sentient creaturesangrymob 5/9/08 12:18 a.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?mub 5/3/08 6:15 p.m.
           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?scarab 5/3/08 6:44 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Honestly 5/3/08 6:46 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?SgtSatin 5/3/08 6:55 p.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?scarab 5/3/08 6:37 p.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?ACEfanatic02 5/3/08 7:50 p.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Vincent 5/3/08 8:19 p.m.
           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 5/3/08 8:36 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?SgtSatin 5/3/08 8:48 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Ragashingo 5/4/08 9:39 p.m.
                       Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 5/5/08 4:22 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Omega 5/4/08 11:15 p.m.
                       Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 5/5/08 4:24 p.m.
                             Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Jinno 5/5/08 9:25 p.m.
     Yes.Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) 5/4/08 10:01 a.m.
           You know...stan 5/4/08 11:22 a.m.
           Re: Yes.elpolloguapo 5/4/08 4:15 p.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Cthulhu117 5/4/08 12:19 p.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?SinisterSamurai 5/6/08 5:03 p.m.
           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Bryan Ojeda 5/6/08 8:38 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?angrymob 5/7/08 4:01 p.m.
                       Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Bryan Ojeda 5/7/08 4:13 p.m.
                             To define 'infection'Jillybean 5/7/08 5:34 p.m.
                                   *Bows* *NM*Don 5/7/08 5:41 p.m.
                                   I wish...elpolloguapo 5/7/08 6:10 p.m.
                                         Re: I wish...Bryan Ojeda 5/7/08 9:20 p.m.



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