- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Hey John I am the same guy arguing against you from before and to counter your list I have made my own...
Posted by: Johnrap
Some folks have replied to my post with statements such as, "Do something for the community, instead of crying over recon." What you don't realize is that I have contributed to the community.
1. I was part of a group that hosted a Team SWAT tournament when that playlist first existed. I gave out $400 of my own money in prizes. 256, 4 person teams played in this tournament.
2. I also backed a team in MLG 2007. I paid money towards their travel costs, so they can go to the MLG events and compete in Halo. The team was the Girls in Action, mabye you've heard of them, their pictures are on MLGPro.com.
3. I sent out several Best Buy gift cards for contests my website ran based on Halo. Contest included "halo 3 non-playable character dialogue contest," and "halo 3 weapon or vehicle contest." Maybe you were a contestant in one of these. We had several thousand entries in the NPC Line Contest.
4. I've written some intelligent articles on Halo and posted them around the web. Done some real quality research work on the articles.
5. I hosted a website called H3Forge.com for a number of months. We were offering $25 gift certificates for maps and games that users submit that made it into the site playlists. Unfortunately, the site had very little traffic, maybe half a dozen maps submit in 3 months and we folded. But we tried, H3forge.com wasn't a success, but we did try.
Conclusion, I have done a lot for the community. I am not claiming that I have done enough to earn recon. Plus, most of those things were done through a website which had several Admins and Mods, not just me. But I was the one supplying the funds for the site and the tourneys, constests, sponsorships, etc. Frankly, I'm not sure what is enough to earn recon. I can say that I don't draw, don't make music, don't make Youtube videos, or any of the things that I've seen recognized so far. But I do try to use the skills that I do have.
I'm not asking for recon. I don't want recon. As far as I'm concerned Bungie can shove its recon up its ass. I just don't want to have to read any more articles that say, "Nyah, nyah, I have recon and you don't." I'm just tired of it.
EDIT: Sorry, just one more important point to add. Which is that I've never actually checked my profile to see whether or not I do have recon. Presumably I do not. But whether I personaly do or not, is not the point. I'm putting myself into the shoes of one denied recon when I post, trying to understand how they feel. Whether or not that is actually the case for me, I don't know. It probably is, but again, I wouldn't know, because I've never checked.
1. So what you hosted a game of S.W.A.T. you did not invent it, and in addition what you do with your money is not my concern if you wasted your life money on getting Recon I would say that does not change anything. Just because you spend money on a game does not matter, someone else will always spend more.
2. I know many people from MLG and even if I did not I don't think their that great. Besides MLG doesn't run bungie, bungie runs bungie. So helping MLG is not helping anyone else just MLG, I can honestly say that it I have not gained anything from this action.
3. Again what you do with your money is not my concern and making a fan site and holding contests is something that thousands of people do and no I wasn't in your contests I have never heard of your website
4. Define intelligent, that sounds more like a personal opinion you did not even go as far to tell us what types of articles you wrote about. Was it more fan fiction or did you go to the forums pick some random facts that you thought sounded cool and make a article?
5. Never heard of your site. Besides ever heard of forge hub? They make millions of maps and they get rewarded some of them have recon. Maybe instead of trying from scratch to make a new forge website you could have invested your time in already big websites and then you could learn how it is you should run a website. Then maybe you would learn from your mistakes and your site would not fail.
Conclusion you have done some things for the community but not as much as you think if I did exactly as you have done and a little more would I get recon? If that is true than just about everyone could and would have it. Keep on doing what your doing as far as drawing, making music and your you tube videos but that does not affect me all that you have mentioned as had minimum affect on me.
Maybe you really do not want recon or maybe you do but the world dose not revolve around you and neither does bungie. Maybe you do not want to read about recon but the majority of the community does and that includes me, if you don't believe me just read the rest of the posts on this forrum they would show you how far people go. If you do not want recon then why did you post the message above in to reply to what I said earlier.
EDIT: Do not take this personally John. For one I do not know you so I can't say that I hate you. Second I am not a recon obsessed researcher, I do want it as many others do, but the reason I post this is mostly because I love to argue and see what you have to say in reply.
P.S. Zombies are people too