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"Blam!" is a Bungie | "Blam!" is a recurrent phrase in Bungie lore, with violent or otherwise impactful connotations. The Oni community mainly uses "blam" to designate a crash of the Oni app, because of the dialog that pops up on such occasions. The actual "damn!"/"Blam, Oni crashed" dialog only appears for Windows builds, but the Mac Oni app can crash too, for more or less the same reasons, hence the general use of "blam" for whenever Oni runs into trouble and suddenly quits. | ||
This article is a little bit technical, so it's important to point out first that the '''[[Daodan DLL]]''' solves the most common causes of crashes in Windows, and the [[FERAL|Intel build]] of the Mac app implements many fixes as well. But if you are still encountering crashes while using the most stable Oni available for your system, read on: chances are that your crash is documented below. | |||
;"Blam!" in Bungie lore | |||
:The onomatopoeia was coined by Robert ("Robt") McLees in 1995 or so, and was commonly used by Bungie staff to emphasize multiplayer kills. Occurrences are disseminated more or less conspicuously throughout the Myth series: the most prominent ingame occurrence is probably in Myth II's [http://myth.bungie.org/legends/fieldguide/f2-12_stair_grief.html Stair of Grief], shouted by grenade-happy dwarves. | |||
:Later on, "Blam!" became a codename for Halo, with Bungie going as far as to register the blam.net, blam.org and blam.com domains. See [http://marathon.bungie.org/story/blam.html HERE] for an overview of "Blam sightings" and community speculation from that era. | |||
;"Blam!" in Oni | |||
:Apart from the fatal error dialog (exclusive to the Windows builds), the single most remarkable occurrence of "Blam" in Oni is when Konoko, having disrupted Muro's plan, feels compelled to type "blam! love, little sister" at the Sturmanderung console. This is fully in line with the violent satisfaction of Myth dwarves or Bungie LAN sessions, although a bit misplaced considering that Konoko thwarted ("pwned") Muro at the cost of ''millions'' of innocent lives. | |||
:On a visual level, "Blam" occurs in the form of a (barely readable) badge worn by [[ACC]] engineers, possibly foreshadowing Konoko's decision to blow up the ACCs (and the engineers) later on. In early development, "British Land & Air Mobile (Transport)" was written on cargo containers, as seen [[:Image:Compound6.JPG|HERE]]; possibly this was either a precursor or an alternative to [[BGI]] (placeholder name meaning "Bad Guys International", which eventually stuck). | |||
:Somewhat strangely, "Blam!" is not referenced at all by Oni's demolitionists (Mad Bombers). | |||
===Blam at startup=== | ===Blam at startup=== | ||