Meet Tyler Hallberg.
(sheepdizildawg@gmail.com)
As the webmaster of www.officialhalo3cheats.com there is an offer to submit cheats for cash - when the game comes out on September 25th, 2007.
Already getting offers for the Beta release, it was interesting to see Tyler’s email - below is the entire sequence of emails that took place.
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Tyler Hallberg
to me
May 28, [...]
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Just finished watching the season finale of Celebrity Fit Club and of course, Double D had to go out with a bang.
I’ve got no problem with someone promoting themselves, or using the “controversy” hook - which Double D did on almost every show - or doing things to make your self the star of the [...]
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Look, I’ll be the first to tell you that I am always looking for ways to speed things up. Especially useless crap like going through the 400+ spam submissions I would get a day here for the site. Spammers, I have no problem with trying to make a buck, but you really need some more [...]
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Not video gamers, but all the sites where you can pay to get votes for your story that was submitted to digg.
The most famous of these types of sites is UserSubmitter, which has been offline since early April. I sent an email inquiry, and here’s what I got:
On 4/4/07, factpile@gmail.com wrote:
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Well, after 40 comments, and 87 Diggs, it looks like MC beats Boba Fett - So can the Master Chief beat Darth Vader? Let’s look at what each one brings to the table:
Master Chief:
Various weapon skills
Cool Armor
Decent Vehicles
Lone Wolf Mentality
Has shields to re-generate
Darth Vader:
The Force
Dark Lord of the Sith
Lightsaber
I am a HUGE fan of MC, [...]
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