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SABABWL

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"As Marty (more on him later) likes to say: "XBOX Halo is bumpy and shiny and bursting with love!""
Joseph Staten[1]

SABABWL is an acronym for a quote by Martin O'Donnell from the original Halo: Combat Evolved press coverage in early 2001. The acronym stands for "shiny and bumpy and bursting with love!"; O'Donnell's description for Halo on the Xbox console (in reference to the game's usage of bump mapping and other graphics production techniques).[1]

The acronym has appeared a handful of times across the Halo franchise;

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