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Subject: Did I miss something, or is the 7th Column dying?
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He who makes a beast out of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Well if you got blacklisted once I don't think he'll hesitate to ban you again. Double posting and accusing him of something probably isn't gonna go over too well. He(Stosh) stated what his group needed to be more active, but you asked people to join one of your groups so only you advertised.

  • 03.16.2005 4:55 PM PDT

And that's another reason why you'll never see my name next to Scorsese, Woody Allen, and Spike Lee. Scorsese speaks a lot at NYU, and I'm damn skippy no one's ever been like, "I'll suck your dick for five bucks!" -Keven Smith, Filmmaker

Back to the topic at hand.

I just deleted my chapter ("group") and I do have to say its sort of a 50/50 between the "new hotness" and people just moveing on with their lifes from what I have seen. I would still have tried to keep my chapter open (crappy or not) if some of the features of the old column still were availible.....

  • 03.16.2005 5:08 PM PDT
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those old chapters are too busy making prototype giant slingshots to be bothered with writting things. Don't worry ( :

  • 03.17.2005 3:41 AM PDT
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You know well im late well thats just because im up in the smokey mountains but yeah i haven't been on in awhile and i do see a le the rightessening of posts but i see posts being posted with no common sense and i know everybody likes to talk about whatever you want and you have the right to. But... well it is just annoying because well i guess i like arguments over stuff that matters and the fact i really don't see any posts oh H3 i have it wont come out and then everybody who hears it dismisses and just keep saying "I wonder when H3 will come out.' I am going to try to clear it up.
1. Don't expect it on x-box 1 it will be on x-box2.
2. If They publically announce it isn't coming it isn't coming.

  • 04.01.2005 6:28 AM PDT
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Not dead. It's just gone Underground.

  • 04.01.2005 8:45 AM PDT

Discipline is my Sword,
Faith is my Shield,
Do not leap blindly into uncertainty,
And you may live to reap the rewards.

"The Important Thing Is To Never Stop Questioning,"

The Chapters you were part of obviously were not that good of Chapters than. The ones im in, you know the best, are all still very Active! How bout clicking on each letter of the word "Fate" in my sig, youll find some good Chapters.

  • 04.01.2005 4:31 PM PDT

Dying? I'd say the exact opposite.

  • 04.01.2005 4:52 PM PDT
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maybe just maybe...

  • 04.01.2005 6:24 PM PDT
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if it dies, then it failed. chances are, it is dying because its users grew disenchanted with what was being said/discussed. the vast majority of people are idiots...and these forums are for the majority...what did you want to discuss, quantum physics and Bessel functions? thats about all thats left to say about Halo and its books...and i doubt any of us are there yet. so fools are like, xxIMPORTANT POLLxx...who would win? (user opens link) a grunt or a jackal...makes me sick.

the seventh column seems to be in trouble in that the largest recent thread is the one about its death. the roman empire died around 400 AD, but it existed for more than a thousand years after that, sometimes rebuilding, sometimes crumbling back to dust. such is life. its like five-six months after Halo2 came out...what is there to talk about when DLC griping got real old real quick and bungie is quashing every rumor of Halo3 despite the fact that it MUST exist since the Halo Bible exists and the story isnt over yet. so in three years, when this forum is at the bottom again, and Halo3 comes out, it will rise yet again.

now im going to go post something well-researched and relevant to the people in one of my groups as we try to figure out exactly what the hell Eric Nylund is talking about half the time.

  • 04.01.2005 8:49 PM PDT
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I'm in a very active group, the Flood Few has 91 members now, and the forum is very active too.


thats true. so is The Halo Freaks. the link's in my sig. What they do is they boot out unactive members and they have completely redone the group. all the members are active, its a really good group

  • 04.02.2005 11:56 AM PDT
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I don't know that things are dying. I'd say evolving. When the Xbox first came out, Halo was really the only thing on it. It really was a console that wasn't was much for kids as the PS2 or the GC. People like us had our LAN parties, and were much in love with all things Bungie. Heck, even the times before Halo 1 bungie.net was an entirely different beast than it is today.

The XBL feature of newer games pushed the console into a more glamorous light, and it became cooler for the younger folks to have. Before H2, people really didn't focus on XBL gaming like they do now. Counter Assault wasn't nearrly as big on the console as it was on the PC. Rainbow6 3 gave us a glimpse of what was coming, but it was still dwarfed by the online tidal wave that H2 caused.

Tidal wave seems like a good metaphore for what has happened. Not only on XBL, but on Bungie.net as well. So many people rushed in to this community that it kinda overflowed with pointless posts, ignorant fanboys, and groups. Any idiot with an internet connection and H2 could now try to create the best group to be in at the 7th Column. Now, as the tide ebbs back to the sea, it takes with it seasoned groups, estranged gamers, and people that just don't get what it meant to be a part of something really cool. It's not dying, just a cleansing. As one of the mods said (and I'm impressed to see so many in one thread, thanks guys) it's a cycle of the community. Many groups will go, many will stay, and there are more that have yet to exist. Personally, I find it hard to find a topic that's worth reading and following in just about any of the forums, and there seems to be an oversaturation of groups.

Now, you're probably looking at the date under my name and thinking about how I'm just a newb that jumped on the band wagon, but I've been around since the Marathon days, just in the shadows. I made multiplayer maps for Marathon Infinity and I didn't even have people to play with. I played Myth and Myth II, as well as Oni. I was constantly reading everything I could find, asking The Soul my questions, thinking that the world was going to end and that I'd never get to play Halo when MS bought Bungie, and then finding out that everything is better than I could have hoped it would be.

I might not visit the forums every day or have groups that I frequent here, but I still return here for all my news (even when all of it was a line of bs, like the April 1st posts), and scan the forums for the occasional gem. I've found a home away from home, a place that's like the family that so many felt they had through bungie.net.

Perhaps after the tide settles back to its normal patterns, so shall the groups of the 7th Column.

  • 04.06.2005 11:38 PM PDT

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