- goheels619
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If I had one wish for Bungie.net, it would be to be able to change my username. Even if it cost me Microsoft Fun-Money, Space Bucks, or Stosh Dollars. That is all.
Halo 2 Stats
~AFEM
That title sounds over dramatic as hell, but bear with me.
What I am wondering is how has Bungie changed your life for the better? Be it through games or books or this website, whatever. And now since I'm terrible at transitions in any sort of writing, I shall begin my story.
For a good portion of my life I wanted nothing to do with computers. I was obsessed with sports. I was an elementary school jock of sorts. All my friends shared the same interest. Slowly though, as we grew older, my friends started to change. No longer would us hanging out consist of playing football, it would be getting into trouble and making fun of the "nerds".
One day my lovely mother (who is happily married, back off) set up a play date with a kid that I did not like at all. He was one of the "nerds". I explained that I was going to hang out with my real friends and actually do something fun instead of this -blam!- (I was 10 and a douche, of course I was homophobic). Begrudgingly I sulked to his house and sat down in his basement with him. This was in 4th grade, fall of 2004. He handed me an incredibly over sized controller for one of those stupid video games. He explained to me that some new game called "Halo 2" came out and that his big brother got it and we weren't supposed to play it. I said something along the lines of "More like -blam!-lo 2!" but the fact that we weren't supposed to be playing it peaked my interest. My feeble 10 year old body was not ready for what was to come. I was swept into a world of things that were new and fascinating. That 6 hour play date was over in a heartbeat. I was ecstatic to go back and tell my "real" friends about it. I told them the story and they dismissed it and said "Well we also found something of Danny's older brother that we weren't supposed to use." They had discovered the "fantastic world of illegal drugs". Today 5 out of 7 of those friends are still alive today. Danny overdosed on God knows what, and Nick got hit by a train while on ecstasy.
This is how Bungie literally changed my life. Possibly even saved it. If it were not for Halo 2 I would have continued to hang out with those friends, and done Lord knows what. Now I still enjoy playing the occasional pickup game on the weekends, it helps me stay in shape, but video games have become my new focus. It has helped me meet so many new people, both in real life and on the internet. It got me interested in school again, I am going to be a senior this year and plan on majoring in journalism, and hopefully land a job in game journalism.
I thank you Bungie, all the great men and women that work there that make such kick-ass games.
So there it is, my incredibly abbreviated story of how Bungie has changed my life. Now I ask you, the fine community, to share how they have changed your life.