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Not sure that I really wanted to post this in the forum. When my wife and I first met she was live in New Orleans, and I was in Spokane. When she came up to visit me for a few weeks in one summer I got her started on Halo 1, and she hated it. Couldn't move and shoot at the same time.. well when she went back home, we played mech warrior often, not because it was a good game, but I could play a game and talk to her at the same time. Because much like a typical woman, she would call and I would simply have to say "yeah, ok, sure.. " at preset times. Well the issue came up when I really wanted to hear what she had to say, but I was enjoying the time sitting around the house playing the xbox. So, when Halo 2 came out, it was a beautiful nexus. She could play on my team, and talk to me, and I could shoot the other team while running off with their flag. Once Halo 2 came out, or airtime on our cell phones went from 1200 mins a month to almost 200 mins a month. She went from lowly noob, to highly skilled player in just a few short weeks, and from a med school student to a full blown doctor.

Now with Halo3 she and I both have our own xboxs, and we are simply on different ends of the house.. but if it wasn't for live, and halo 2, I don't think that she would have really appreciated me for the gaming geek that I am..


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Its all fun and games til someone loses an eye

I didn't...but I can tell you a story of two freinds of mine

Supafoote & Lucky Lucyfer

It started out in our Halo 2 hay day. Every Sunday night me and my friends from work, Rikstar NZ, Daliback and in the later stages, Supafoote, would get on Halo 2 around 8.30pm and go Team Slayering.
We met alot of great people who in the end joined our crusade so we could get a heap of Customs in. One bright sunday we met up with this young lass named Lucky Lucyfer. We hadn't played with many girls before so this was a first for us. We all got to chattin...some a little more than others, and found out she lived in our town of Christchurch here in NZ. Lucky decided to come and visit us at work one day, coming to check us all out. Unfortunately for me, Daliback and Rikstar we all had Partners, so it was the young buck superfoote that drew short straw.
Things progressed relatively slowly as it took well over 500 sniper matches before foote plucked up the courage to invite her on a date. This first date involved a nice romantic late night drive in the Canyon of Coagulation. Each with their head set on, Foote driving and Lucky riding shotgun they drove and discussed the small things like the weather, how cold it had been this winter etc etc.
Things didn't end here and Foote after playing one sunday with us said he quite wasn't ready to go to bed yet as we all left him and Lucky for the night. Unbeknown to us they had organised their second date...A beach date. Zanzibar was the venue. Foote lay a towel on the floor of his room, slapped on the sunscreen and prepared to bake in front of his CRT tv while looking out upon the horizon. Lucky had bought the picnic but being on the other side of town, it was a lonely sandwich.
There were other dates, Foote took Lucky flying on Coagulation, Hiking in the Mountains up the top of Containment & to the Museum on Lockout.

Things progressed and they have been on a few real dates lately...

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Hello Bungie and the rest of the community,
My story is about friendship, love, unity amongst people. Unfortunately is it also a story about deceit and betrayal. This is going to be a long read, so.. Here’s my story of Halo PC, from beginning to end.


It all started on the 13th of September 2004 , when I got my copy of Halo for the PC. For at least two weeks I played the campaign mode, I didn’t even think about the multiplayer mode because I never thought it would be fun, I have to admit, I was a bit scared at first to try it out. I was scared because I knew there were people out there that would simply kick my butt and, back in the day, I couldn’t stand losing. Ultimately I got bored of the campaign mode, so I thought I’d give it a shot..

My first game was awesome, I remembered it being on capture the flag, Blood Gulch on a 12 man server. I loved it so much, I decided to continue playing the multiplayer mode and just forget about campaign. I found it really awesome how people that you’ve never met before in your entire life could work together as a team. Of course there were matches that weren’t that fun to play because of some ignorant players that decided to be morons and prevent the team from working as one.

As time passed, I became better and better at Halo, I met some really cool people that I usually hung out with, online of course.. When one day I joined somewhere in March 2005, I joined this server that was being hosted by some guy called Mel. It was a 10 man server, constantly running Blood Gulch with a custom Slayer game type (Max of 50 kills, Generic weapons on startup, etc..). The games never lasted that long, as this Mel would rack up 50 kills in just 6 to 10 minutes. I was completely astound, how could someone do that with just the use of a sniper rifle? –I had to know.

Seeing I always ended 2nd, in every game that was hosted by Mel, I always felt like the first loser. But because of my regular appearance on that server, Mel and I started talking.. In the end I ended up adding Mel to my friends list on MSN Messenger. I asked him, “Mel please teach me how to be as good as you, I need to know.” (Just thinking back about this makes me think how much of a n00bie I must have sounded like, oh well, it’s always worth a shot.) Mel agreed on teaching me how to use a sniper rifle effectively. We trained for 2 weeks non-stop, and yes, Mel might have had the host advantage, I still learned a great deal of tips and tricks on how to defeat multiple opponents.

By the end of March, I became significantly better at Halo. Just when I thought I had learned everything there was to learn about Halo, there was one thing I had always overlooked. –Clans!
Mel later told me that HE was in fact a SHE, a girl. Yet another thing I had rarely ever seen, a gamegirl.

By the beginning of May, Mel and I were inseperatable , we would go and kick butt in every server that we wanted to. There were always people better then the both of us, but that only encouraged us to get even better. But Mel had a plan, a plan that.. Well.. That would ultimately changed the way I think and feel about certain things. Mel wanted to start a clan.

I know, starting a clan.. not such a big deal right? –Just get a website (freewebs at the time), a forum (..Invisionfree) , server (Yes, you’re right host ‘em yourself) and.. of course, people. Back in 2005 it was pretty simple to get some people to join a newly made clan, you could either advertise on various Halo tournament ladder forums (Clanbase, Klanwars, Halostats) or you could just set up a server with “<Clan tag name here> RECRUITING…”, so on and so on. So we did, and we exactly got 2 members the first day, which was.. OK considering we had never done this before.. I guess?
Also, if you want to know, Mel was in charge of the clan (Leader), I was in charge of the whole website-forum-advertise thing, making me a co-leader. –Better than nothing.

In the summer of 2005, at the beginning of June, Mel and I had officially recruited 2 members who had left 2 weeks after their recruitment. They said that there wasn’t any action in the clan they were in.. I can’t blame them, it was rather inactive, probably because Mel couldn’t care less and I was too busy doing other things. Mel was leaving on a holiday in the 2nd week of June and that I would be in charge of the clan until she returned.

At the beginning of July I went on a holiday for 2 weeks, unfortunately Mel would come back when I would leave (I thought that was rather mysterious..) . When I came back Mel wasn’t back yet, something told me she wouldn’t be back, ever. –I was right.


I kept my promise to Mel, I would make our clan a perfect clan, housing the best of the best. Soon, I recruited 2 people. A guy (Andrew) and a girl (Lacy), that I met through a friend of mine. I decided, since they were kind people, I’d make them co-leaders, to help me out.

Both of them were.. fairly new to Halo for the PC, so I thought it was my job to teach them everything I learned throughout the many months of experience. In 1 week I had trained these guys non-stop with a sniper rifle. I told them the exact same thing as someone told me “If you can fire the sniper rifle like a pro, you can fire any weapon you want.”. Within a week these guys had a Kill/Death ratio of 20 to 1. While mine was 35 to 1 at the time.

“We’re looking for players that can adapt to all sorts of situations.” Was one of the our advertisements on many websites and servers. By the end of September we had 15 people in our clan, 4 girls and 11 guys. –If I can remember correctly. These people were scattered all over the world, to be exact they were in: Belgium, The Netherlands, United States of America, United Kingdom and France. We also then acquired our own web- and gameserver, oh and our very own domain name to! For most people this isn’t such a big achievement, but for us it was as we started from virtually nothing! At first sight all of these people sounded like nice and honest people.. But as time passes, you get to know these people better and better. But this isn’t always a good thing.

In October, I was spending a day at home, playing Halo as usual when someone asked my email address, I gave it out to this person in-game and quickly shutting down my pc, as I had to go to a meeting. When I came back I noticed two people had added me on MSN, it was as I thought it would be, someone else from during that game also added me. This would be the person that changed my vision on a lot of things, dramatically. –This person would change my life completely.

For her privacy, I won’t give out her name, I’ll address her using the letter T.
When T and I had our very first talk, we talked about Halo, how much we enjoyed it. I gave her tips on how she could stay alive a lot longer, seeing I killed her every time she faced me. She generally just blocked me after that, whoops.

A week later I see her again, in that exact same server I was in the last time, it appeared to be one of the servers that the clan she was in owned. I asked her if she had switched email addresses, as I hadn’t seen her sign-in in a week. She replied “You know my name right? Just at @hotmail.com to it and we can have another chat!”. Truth is, I forget her name completely, luckily I still had the conversation saved. –I added her.

We had a second conversation, this time round I decided not to talk about Halo, but to just ask some questions.. You know just to get to know her a bit, nothing more.. Seriously, nothing more. After about 2 hours of non-stop chatting I learned that we were much alike, we had a similar past. Both of us were different. We both got bullied at school for it.. I can say that.. compared to what she must have been through, I could call myself lucky. But I know what she must have felt like. The bad thing about it is, it did permanent mental damage to her.

She couldn’t look at herself in the mirror, as she was constantly think she was ugly, while in fact she wasn’t. Because of her past, the bad people sort of drilled it into her head. She couldn’t stop wondering why she was still here, she felt without a purpose. –This alarmed me, could she actually be a bit.. suicidal?

As the days past, we kept on talking and I learned more about T every day. I did my very best trying to support here, I didn’t even know for sure if she actually still needed support.. But still, I did support here in every way possible. Later that day she told me she was already seeing a psychiatrist for the last couple of months.

On the 15th of October I convinced here in joining my clan and so she did. I already told my crew that this girl was a bit delicate and that they should take extra care in what they say about certain subjects. Already I felt this was something I wouldn’t actually do myself, but she changed that somehow.

It’s safe to say that 6 weeks later, T and me were best friends, there was nothing that she didn’t tell me. I learned a lot during those weeks, I started to have a look at things differently, in a way I thought I never would. Mainly because I thought that the little things in life didn’t matter a thing, only the larger things did. But she changed my entire opinion on that.. Like she said “It’s those little things in life that make it worth living”. –She was right.

And so, we both fell in love, the next 8 months we would have our ups and downs, but we’d pull through even with her condition getting worse every day. In my clan everything was going fantastic, we had al o’ these little side projects that we were working on: making maps, a machinima, etc..
Also, the announcement of the port of Halo 2 to the PC on February 9th 2006 motivated us even more to work even harder on our skills, so we would “survive” the port, if you get my point.


Part 2 bellow

[Edited on 01.03.2008 7:47 PM PST]

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It was then, in the Summer of 2006, that I decided that I wanted to meet some of these guys and girls that made my clan so awesome. I arranged some tickets to the United Kingdom, I could stay with one of my clanmates for a couple of days and while I was there we could just hang out with the rest of the UK guys. Those were probably one of the most awesome 4 days in my life. To actually shake the hands of these fantastic people. When I returned home I knew I’d have to wait at least another year before I could go back there, but fortunately, the guy I was staying with was coming over to my place to stay here for 5 days.

During the time that I was gone and when my mate was staying here T was gone to France, to spend her holidays there with her family, I didn’t mind the fact that I had to miss her for 3 weeks, as I learned that spending some time with your family is also necessary.. That doesn’t mean that I didn’t miss her at all, by the way.

On the 13th of August, all hell broke loose..
Some of the younger members, between the age of 11 and 15, had issues with other members, including me. Apparently I wasn’t giving everyone enough second chances after one had made a mistake or that I jumped to conclusions to quickly. While I was the one ,who actually let some members who thought that they’d would get banned for doing something foolish, that let most of them rejoin. T, again though me to give people a second chance, heck.. Even a third if I had to. Just allow someone a second chance. I always kept that in mind whenever I made a decision.

It eventually came to a point to which the younger ones convinced the older ones (the age between 16-42) that they needed a new person in charge. When I read this I thought to myself that I should at least let them try. So I left and the younger ones made a clan, without any leaders. At least that’s what they were planning on doing, 3 hours later the one who wanted me out was the new leader and 8 hours later all of the older ones and some of the not-so-foolish younger ones came back. The three people who wanted me out got banned.


Apparently, these three people emailed T, telling her that I somehow banned them for no good reason, that I was a monster, this that and the other. They knew of her condition and they knew that this would effect me. It did, T didn’t know what to think anymore. –Was it all a lie then? I did tell her everything and she completely agreed with me, knowing that I could not forgive these people. That however, did not stop her from reaching a, let’s say, critical level. She was later send away to an institution that could treat her.


I used to trust these 3.


I was devastated because of this, I couldn’t see her for 4 months, I know this would mean the end between our relationship. –I was right. Later, in October 2006, she signed-in to MSN, we talked.. for 15 minutes. She quickly made it clear to me that she had found someone else, that she was seeing someone else. I didn’t even have the time to say “Hello, how are you doing?”, nothing.


As the months passed, I couldn’t help thinking to myself; “Why would someone do such a thing.. making someone lose their mind.. how can anyone be that evil.”. In January 2007 she was released from the institution, during that month she contacted me, apologizing for acting rude when telling me she was seeing someone else. She wanted to know if we could stay in touch.. I agreed. 2007 we kept in touch with each other, she kept on thanking me for what I did to her. She said I could even be her guardian angel. People kept telling me I did my very best in order to keep her safe and it took me up until November 2007 to see that they were right. I did do whatever I could. They also said it’s a brave thing to do, that you can let go of someone you love, so that they can find love again. –I think I have to agree on this one, in all fairness to it. She said I saved her life, many times.. I believe that’s one of the most rewarding things someone could ever do, it feels super.


In September 2007 I closed my clan down, as I had to let go of the awful memory, it still haunts me though, but it feels lighter. And I hope by just posting this here, that you can either get strength out of this or that this can serve as a reminder. Never let go of things you hold dear and think before taking action.


Thanks,
Arch


[Edited on 01.03.2008 7:56 PM PST]

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Halo Saved my house and possibly my life......
When Halo 1 first came out i was in middle school and one of my friends had recently gotten an xbox with halo...he brought it over on one our friday night mario kart marathons and we beat the campaign on halo i thought was neat and then i we played slayer and i thought it was just insane well my dad was walking through the room and thought he might try his hand and he was immediately hooked. So the following christmas sure enough there was an xbox with halo and we played the crap out of that thing. One night my brother woke me up and told me that dad woke him up and that the house was on fire and we had to get out I looked at the alarm clock as i was rushing out the door and saw that it was close to 3 a.m after the fire dept came and they asked my father why he was up at 3 a.m to just happen to smell the faint burning smell from outside the house? he just simply said "Playing halo" The Fire dept said that since the fire was electrical and started on the outside of the house almost half of the house could be on fire before the smell woke him up.....And now years later My family keeps connected through xbox live with 3 360's in my house...(Because Split screen and live don't mix) Master chief saved my life......

  • 01.03.2008 7:48 PM PDT

i met one of my best friends over halo 2. We've been playing halo together since halo 2 came out.

He went to iraq last year to fight for our country and claims that the letters he got from me were the only thing that kept him sane over there.

  • 01.03.2008 7:49 PM PDT

I may not have met my love because of Halo but I did introduce and share my love for Halo with her, thus forming an unstoppable and very sexy threesome.

I now have a wonderful partner in life and game thanks to our shared interests and n00b pwning skillz. Whether it is saving human kind side by side in campaign, or dominating as a solid team against others online, we always come away with a sense of joy for the time spent together.

Outside of the game came my sharing the first three novels with her, and then receiving Ghosts of Onyx as a birthday gift from her, to discussing theories relating to the Halo universe only served to expand upon the shared addiction. (Sgt. Johnson = Spartan I?)

After three games, five novels, one graphic novel, and now Halo: Uprising it is clear that Halo will remain a constant reminder of the passion we share with each other and our interests.


P.S
Thank you Bungie, for all the love you have shown the two of us and all your fans worldwide, we will no doubt enjoy it for years to come and wait for your next offering of world dominating wonder.

  • 01.03.2008 7:52 PM PDT
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i won 100 dollars in a local halo 3 tournament hehehe i teabagged a guy who said you were -blam!- frankie. nobody talks crap about frankie

  • 01.03.2008 8:09 PM PDT

Isna 'Nosolee, my Sangheili name.

I normally have trouble talking to people in person unless I know them very well (Not my fault, I just am not very social), so it is hard for me to make friends most of the time, but when I am playing Halo, it is alot easier for me to talk to people, and that helps me get to know them better. Without Halo, I know wouldnt have anywhere near as many friends as I have now. To me, Halo isnt just a fun game, it the easiest way for me to make friends. In fact, 2 of the friends I recently made at school I made only because they love Halo and have xbox live. We play it quite often, and it has really helped me get to know them well, which makes it much easier for me to talk to them at school now.

On a side note, I also managed to convert one of my friends who previously hated Halo into a fan just by playing the last level on co op with him.(Mainly because of the warthog sequence at the end, he said it was one of the most epic things he ever played in a video game) Im still waiting for him to get a xbox of his own, but we usually play halo every time he comes over now.

  • 01.03.2008 8:09 PM PDT

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This isn't my story it's my friends:
He and his fiance talked on the forum Achievement Junkie and played Halo 3 and other games together. Now they have a wedding planned.

  • 01.03.2008 8:17 PM PDT
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Well, I'm 16 and my father passed away after battling cancer for 5 years about 2 months ago. Playing Halo 3 with friends really helped me cope with my depression, and gave me something to do other than mope around and feel sorry for myself. Also, it was somewhat awkward for my friends to talk to me during that period, and playing games kindof loosened the pressure and opened up our discussion a bit.

Thanks for making such a kick ass game, and continue to make more kick ass games (preferably for 360 so I can play them <(^_^)>). I've been a fan since January after Halo 1 came out and my friend Josh (still best friend, GT llamatek) told me to come over and play this "kick-ass game with cool vehicles and aliens and infected -blam!-". Rock on Bungie peoples

  • 01.03.2008 8:21 PM PDT
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i keep contact with my boyfriend through xbox live

him and my other guy friends live an hour away so it makes it easier to keep in contact :)

it rids of the phone bills too

  • 01.03.2008 8:25 PM PDT
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I havent met any girls or anything or made any real life friends off of xbox live, but me and my friends often play XBL and we have fun. We introduced at leat 5 other friends to XBL and now, we all play together until late nights. This beats having to chrunch on one TV and switching off after school.

  • 01.03.2008 8:33 PM PDT

Viggo the Carpathian was a strong warrior from an age when people were retarded. Ghostbusters has some good history.

I meet almost 10 of my friends during the beta. We play at least once a week. They are my virtual family. Love you guys! lol

  • 01.03.2008 8:48 PM PDT

Good...Bad... I'm The Guy With The Gun

It all started when Alex and I started the fight. In the wee hours of the morning on that fateful day we embarked on the adventure of a life time and boy it was a good one. From classic halo LAN parties of 12 people, 5 tvs, 3 xboxs and only enough controllers for 10 people to xbox-live big team battle. We as a tight nit group of friends started high school pumped and ready to kick some ass. After endless hours of playing, eating, drinking mountain dew came the first of the 5 to fall. It was 2.36 in the morning when TJ says im done with halo and he said his goodbyes and walked out on us forever. Then there was Ben who flew off to Europe to find some people of music. He came back a changed man he was no longer call sign SMOKE but a shell of what he used to be. The there were 3 Myself Alex and James played through high school graduated like good kids and move on to the adult world. I went to college and left the two behind but not for long still playing halo 2 in the wee hours of the morning via xbox-live we kept in touch and Alex gave me some bad news. "Buddy im going into the air force I leave in 4 weeks." Long pause What are u talking about u hate the military i said yeah but im going so yeah. On that day we decided to seal our friendship with a tattoo. James joined us later that week and we got our MC tats. Later that year James decided to join the army and my best friends ventured off into the world and are now serving our country proudly. Without halo after high school we would had faded away like most people do but halo held us close and made us friends that we will never forget. We have our friendship seal on our arms waiting until they come back together.

The Tattoo... I will find the pic of the three of us soon
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Thank you Bungie for the best game ever

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me and my friend JokeRRR have become halo heros at our high school, we're the ones to beat at halo. We beat halo 3 in 3 and a half hours the same morning it came out, then stayed up until until 5:30am and still went to school, i told a couple of people in my A block class about beating the entire game in 3.5 hours and by Lunch people who havn't even heard of halo were coming up and congradulating me and my firend on our accomplishments.

  • 01.03.2008 8:51 PM PDT

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Why don't you just give me ONE SECOND!

Met my true love here on bungie.net and Halo ;)

  • 01.03.2008 8:52 PM PDT

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I met one kid in Halo2 who quickly became a very close friend. he was amazing at the game and i could never beat him. but even still, there were a lot of fun times just goofing around in customs, glitch hunting, playing matches with me failing 9 out of every ten attempts to get a kill on him, or just spending hours hopping and talking around lockout. Then I got an Xbox 360 and he never did, and we sorta drifted apart. I never actually met him in person and he was nothing more than a voice over the mic. But a good friend. hapy hands, if you're out there, i miss the the good old times,buddy :)

  • 01.03.2008 8:57 PM PDT
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My first friend i ever met and added on Halo was my friend Coolyot and we still play together. Threw him i met 3 other good friends. And my other friend DyeGuy introduced me to my friend Phobertand his 4 friends. and now me and Phobert play almost every day together but at the moment he has the RRoD. Ive met so many good people on Halo its not even funny like both my Aussie Friends who i talk to on a regular basis. And when im old enough i might fly down and meet one of them just cause hes actually a really kool guy.

Halo FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!

EDIT: Also about 6 or 7 months ago i was playing team slayer on Halo 2 and met a guy that i found out lived in Vancouver, Canada like me so i asked him wat part of the city he lived in and i found out he lives pretty much like 15 blocks from me so after summer and we kept in touch and he introduced me to 5 of his friends that also play halo and now after summer we finally met up and all of us are really good friends.
Im refered as the Halo Kid at my school because we had a small week long tournament that are school let us throw and i ended up winning and got free lunch in the cafeteria for 5 months. this is the 3rd month now but i usually don't eat the Cafe food. There was about 200 to 300 people in the tournament and they brought all the Tv's in the school into the Gym and they got like 15 students to bring their xbox's and halo 3 disc's.

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Halo actually helps me keep in touch with friends when I moved away. It also introduced me to a whole new group of friends from different schools, who all stemmed from a guy I met in a match who actually went to my school and everything. It was a one in a million chance, and he introduced me to some of his friends and now I have more people to perpetrate shennanigans with! Halo brings people together like very few other things can, and it's amazing. Thanks for making such awsome games Bungie!

P.S I also infiltrated the government of Ghana through a combination of camping, sniping and corpse humping. Presidential Elections are soon, and I will be a candidate. Fingers crossed!

I'm also thinking of starting up a Halo club at my school... they let people have a magic the gathering club, so why shouldn't l be able to have a Halo club?

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I made a Machinima video in Halo 2 last year for an english project and got a 100. The teacher thought we PROGRAMMED the game (lol). Then I ended up being able to do the Senior Video for my high school class (along with another person who's halo inclined), and it ended up being the best one yet.

edit: Dymdez acted in the video for me too... haha

[Edited on 01.03.2008 9:17 PM PST]

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i have several 'lairs' on remote locations around the world because halo taught me the skills i needed to make/operate MACs, Warthogs,and kick-ace Sargents, also i ask any-one i pwn to join me... i have 7 people under my employ. Also i meet new 'friends' every day and have fun playing with most of the people in my grade and my friends. I LOVE YOU BUNGIE!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope i could quit my job as a 'evil' amuture scientist and 'villan'

please.... ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ??????????????? my email is *******@_mail.___

  • 01.03.2008 9:25 PM PDT
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About two years ago, my boyfriend started teaching me how to play Halo. I didn't really like the game, but I was tired of being on the sidelines during LAN parties just because I was a girl, so I decide to learn how to play an FPS. Sad as it may sound, Halo became our couples' activity. We bought an XBox, LIVE accounts, and extra controllers, and we can present quite the threat on Team Doubles. Not to mention, we've been together for over 2 and a half years now, and video games are a large part of how we connect. Thanks, Bungie...

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Your story is nice but mine sucks. I have a lot of friends that I have met playing Halo 2 and Halo 3 but I have four of them that were my best friends and they were my TEAM in Halo 2, 3 in Puerto Rico, We Were always going to the tournaments and we always meet on fridays in my House ( I Have a Gasevo With tables and routers with 16 ports and internet) and on dicember 1 we almost won de Halo P.R. Champions and on dicember 24 one of them dosent wants to play with me becaus y made a lot of kills with the shotgun and he wanted me to use the Br. He even said that I used the shotgun in Isolation in middle map hello im no pro but how im goint to use the shotgun in middle map thats stupid, right now im the best player in Puerto Rico using the shotgun. I use the Br to but mi position in the team was support and backup. In the end they all abandoned me and betrayed me for some one we youst met like 3 weeks earlier in a competition. That no friendship thats betrayal and interes. Thats the worst chistmas present ever all your best friend betray you for now reasons, the reason they told me is so stupid. well thats all of it there is more dut I dont wath to keep writing. ...

  • 01.03.2008 10:08 PM PDT

About a year after Halo 2's release I stumbled onto a custom lobby and started jabbin' about halo's storyline overall. All of the 15 players in the game instantly stopped killing eachother and just sit down and listened as I told the story from the books, shortened ofcourse, and the expanded universe alltogehter. Once I was done explaining _ALOT_ of things, I got a few friend-invites and ended up bonding with many of the players upto this date. One of the players, though, stood above the rest. We spent alot of time playing online-games across the board, and due to our liking of fantasy, we hooked on WoW (I had played it for quite some time before he got it, but I decided to level a character with him). As we leveled up, we met a few interesting people from our country and ended up forming a guild ( a clan, for those who aren't aware) which made good proccess over time. We played WoW together for good over a year or so, and in the proccess I met a sweet girl whom seemed to like the same things as I did. Though it didn't eventually work out between us, and we haven't talked to eachother for almost a year now, I'll always remember her as the hot-but-geeky girl who I met through a video game I was playing with a halo-friend.

Around the same time as bungie announced they were _ACTUALLY_ making halo3, I was diagnosed with a 1st degree osteosarcoma in my right thighbone. While the battle against cancer was somewhat a painful process and at the time I had driven my friends away from me, halo gave me hope. I was determined to make it through and finish the fight, which I did. And as I began playing halo3, I reconnected with my old halo-friends and even had the courage to call and repair my relationship with the girl I mentioned. I might need to walk around with a cane every now and then, but I'll still kick your ass in halo - So bad that luke will owe me a whole dish for dinner, not just a steak.

  • 01.03.2008 10:29 PM PDT