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Old 02-15-2013, 11:43 AM   #1
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It's Happening 2013 Edition

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My theory: A very elaborate advertising scheme in Bungie's Destiny ARG
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Old 02-15-2013, 02:24 PM   #2
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I'm confused. Like, 100%.
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Old 02-15-2013, 02:34 PM   #3
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Why do you make a connection with Bungie?

The only thing that to me suggests this is fake/staged is that the driver remains quite ordinary and quiet during and after the great flash of light. You don't hear him feverishly muttering to himself. You don't see any change in his driving. (No slamming on the brakes, no slowing down, no pulling over, no speeding up like his life depends on it -- just very, very ordinary driving, if a bit atypical for the USA with all the overtaking he does of slower motorists, but that's very common in that part of the world.) It doesn't seem like it's until the very end of the video, when the arc of light is more symmetrically balanced in front of him, that he starts to comment on it to a possible passenger. To me, this makes it seem even more strange. One guy remaining totally unphased and just continuing his day-to-day business, MAYBE (but way, way unlikely when it's something like this). But two guys? No way. Humans are social creatures, and it's inevitable that ONE of the two of them would want to initiate conversation with the other of them over what they both just witnessed.

Aside from that, the video seems perfectly ordinary/real and doesn't strike me as having any connection with Bungie whatsoever. If it is a Bungie viral video, kudos to you for being able to tell so specifically, I guess? But I'm curious to know what specific hints would lead you to believe this.
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Old 02-15-2013, 02:37 PM   #4
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...really guys?

You didn't hear about the meteor hitting Russia this morning?

The Bungie thing was completely tongue in cheek...
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Old 02-15-2013, 02:38 PM   #5
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...really guys?

You didn't hear about the meteor hitting Russia this morning?

The Bungie thing was completely tongue in cheek...
Nope. Haven't had time to read the news today. Guess I'll go look now.

EDIT: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21468116

Well, consider me very, very surprised by how quiet they were and by how unphased that driver was. Very, very surprised.
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Old 02-15-2013, 02:53 PM   #6
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I knew about the meteor, but I was more concerned at how insane Russia's traffic laws are (WTF that guy speeding up that much, and dodging cars going the other way like it's nothing) and the wrong date on the camera threw me off.
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Old 02-15-2013, 02:58 PM   #7
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Dopple, have you seen the traffic in Egypt? Local streets are absolute madness. There are no directions on the streets. If you car can fit between the spaces between cars and go in either direction, you go there. My friends had no clue how to cross the street in fear of their lives, so they got into a taxi to cross the street.
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Old 02-15-2013, 04:08 PM   #8
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Dopple, have you seen the traffic in Egypt? Local streets are absolute madness. There are no directions on the streets. If you car can fit between the spaces between cars and go in either direction, you go there. My friends had no clue how to cross the street in fear of their lives, so they got into a taxi to cross the street.
When I was in Egypt, there was a headline in the paper calling Cairo "the Snake Pit" due to the number of traffic deaths in the past month.
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Old 02-15-2013, 05:11 PM   #9
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Whoever did all the thread name changes, I love you. Well, not in that way. Unless it was Jeri.

But I didn't see much crazy in the driving, myself. I've seen much worse just in that States.
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Old 02-15-2013, 05:14 PM   #10
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I cannot claim to be the one who did.
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Old 02-15-2013, 05:45 PM   #11
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What meteor? That's a Saiyan pod.
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Old 02-15-2013, 10:20 PM   #12
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Well, consider me very, very surprised by how quiet they were and by how unphased that driver was. Very, very surprised.
The words he was muttering loosely translate to "Fuckfuckfuck". Presumably he realised that if this was actually a missile he had little to no chance of being able to do shit.
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Old 02-15-2013, 10:54 PM   #13
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The first thing I thought of was the Tunguska event. Luckily it was a small meteor and not one that was a few hundred feel across. Then we'd have been in for some city-leveling fun. The videos that have the sound of the explosion sound in them are much more impressive. Sounds like a huge bang followed by a burst of artillery fire (presumably smaller pieces of the meteor exploding by themselves after breaking off), just like descriptions of what happened at Tunguska.

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Current estimates say that the meteor exploded with a force of nearly 500 kilotons of TNT! Yikes! That's as much power as Ivy King, the largest pure fission bomb ever detonated.

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Old 02-16-2013, 03:56 PM   #14
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRoJLJNvLPU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7mLUIDGqmw

It's louder than in Namek's video, you can hear the glass just exploding out of the window frames. Awesome no one died. Pretty cool cosmic cataclysm.
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Old 02-16-2013, 05:32 PM   #15
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-n...ba-two-1712957

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/201...ay-area-skies/

What in the world...
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Old 02-16-2013, 08:30 PM   #16
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Yes, it's currently the top post on Reddit. No, I don't care.
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Old 02-16-2013, 08:51 PM   #17
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Dude, that should have gone in the Going to Heck Thread. You would have been crowned king.
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