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Subject: I's 5 years old today =D

Dead Mans Hand-Always Loaded.

I WAS SOCK

Well, my bnet account anyways =P

So I don't believe I've made any of these "account birthday" threads, mainly because I haven't felt any of them were significant enough to make note of. Not saying 5 is a big one or anything, but its only 2 years from the big one xP

So here's my bnet story =)

I was always a gamer, since I can remember I had family members shoving video games in my face, and teaching me to play them. Sega Genesis rules my childhood, with my father and I playing Risk, The Lost Vikings, Sonic(Obviously), and many others.

Fast forward through years of casual/slightly above average amounts of gaming to my first lump of money burning a hole in my pocket. Unresearched impulse buy wound me up with an Xbox and a few games that looked cool solely from the cover art, one of them being Halo. Little did I know the game would have such a huge impact on my life.

After playing through some of the games, I popped in Halo, and went straight into campaign. I was always about the campaign, since I am an only child and my dad only wanted to play on occasion. Well, after starting the game for the very first time, I was only interrupted by my mother yelling down the stairs asking if I had finished my homework yet. Confused, I responded "I'm going to do it a little later, I'm just playing xbox right now". When my mom explained to me that I had been down there playing for hours and it was getting late I barely believed her. How could it have been hours? It felt like 20 minutes. After finishing my homework I returned back downstairs to play some more, and ended up staying up far too late.

The next day at school all of my friends were asking what was wrong with me because I looked like crap. I simply told them they were all coming over after school. The school day crawled by, with nothing but thoughts of this amazing thing I had purchased myself. All of my friends walked to my house after school which was a decent distance, and they threatened with things like "This better be something awesome if we're walking all the way to your house", and so on.

We arrive at my house and head straight to the xbox. I explain to my friends how awesome the game was as I put the disc back into the tray, and they ask if it had anything other than story mode. I explained that it didn't matter because the story was so awesome, but they weren't having it. So, since I had made them walk all the way there, I obliged and said we would check out multiplayer before we got into the campaign.

Campaign never happened that night.

Long story short, all of my friends had an xbox and a copy of Halo over time. Every single one. Summers were filled with LAN parties, everyone bringing their own TV and xbox. At one point we were actually having a bon fire before we LAN'd all night, and a neighbor called the cops saying there was underage drinking going on. The cops showed up and saw 4 cases of mountain dew outside the shop garage we always had our LAN parties in, then asked if we minded if they had a look inside. We had nothing to hide, so we told them to go right ahead.

After opening the door, the cop literally stopped in shock. He saw a garage littered with 16 TVs and xboxs, and a whole stack of pizza boxes. He turned around without setting foot in the garage and said, "What in the world are you guys doing in here?" I simply responded "We're nerds" and laughed. The cop smiled and said "Have fun guys, just try to keep it down".

Those LAN parties are what I believe kept my group of friends held together with such a strong bond, even if teabagging did deal out a few black eyes and result in some ragequits sometimes. xP

The LANs didn't stop, and they still haven't to be honest. I've lived in 3 houses with a big group of friends, in fact, a house of 13 guys and 2 girls at one point.

On top of that, I opened a LAN Center in my hometown from the ground up, and ran it for a year before closing it down. Built all the PCs myself, and was the only employee and owner.

Now, I'm working random jobs just to get a little extra cash saved up before I leave for school next February, when I will be attending Full Sail for a Game Development degree.

Other than that, over the years I've:
Got some tattoos
I'll be getting another soon
Created DMH
Made some Montages and Top Ten videos.
And made a ton of new online, and real life friends.

I'm glad to still be active around here, and I can't wait to see the explosion of activity after Bungie unleashes this beast of a game they're working on currently. Keep up the awesome until then community <3

[Edited on 08.09.2011 3:50 AM PDT]

  • 08.09.2011 3:42 AM PDT

"Everything will be gone long before me. When the first living thing was born, I was here, waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job is finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave." -Shishka

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http://www.bungie.net/News/Blog.aspx?mode=news#cid32227

Happy birthday to your account!

  • 08.09.2011 3:45 AM PDT
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tihs dope ass signiture is back yo trhrpw those arms up

Happy birthday, I turn 12 next year!

  • 08.09.2011 3:47 AM PDT

Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth, you'd get a lot of free games.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

Happy birthday!

Nice story!

  • 08.09.2011 3:49 AM PDT

Does anyone even read these?

Happy birthday! Nice grammar!

I also love your Halo Top 5 Clips videos.

[Edited on 08.09.2011 3:53 AM PDT]

  • 08.09.2011 3:51 AM PDT
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Needs more grumbling.

  • 08.09.2011 3:54 AM PDT

Dead Mans Hand-Always Loaded.

I WAS SOCK

Posted by: BLAIR223
Happy birthday to your account!
My actual birthday was yesterday as well xP

And Skib, grumbling comes at 7 does it not?

  • 08.09.2011 3:57 AM PDT

@Helveck

Just an Average Joe...

Glad to have met you and to still see you around. Cheers to five more.

  • 08.09.2011 4:10 AM PDT

"Everything will be gone long before me. When the first living thing was born, I was here, waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job is finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave." -Shishka

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http://www.bungie.net/News/Blog.aspx?mode=news#cid32227

Posted by: HALO3syourdaddy
Posted by: BLAIR223
Happy birthday to your account!
My actual birthday was yesterday as well xP

And Skib, grumbling comes at 7 does it not?


Nice, I'm pretty sure my account birthday is one day before school starts over the Christmas break.

  • 08.09.2011 4:33 AM PDT
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平和と愛

You better be enlisted for Bungie Pre-School. Gotta get your education you five year old!

  • 08.09.2011 4:46 AM PDT
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I understand nothing because my life is a conspiracy.

My B.net account will be 2 next year.

  • 08.09.2011 5:28 AM PDT

Wow, what a story. It's really amazing how Halo CE really became the game of our time and really was a game that brought people together like in your story.

It reminds of how I first discovered Halo, I started out at Halo 2, and I still don't regret starting there. Halo 2 took me into the world of online gaming and mutliplayer that was like a revelation of gaming to me.

It seems like everyone here also has the same story in a sense. So that is why we, the dedicated fans come/came here to b.net, to share our stories and to converse about our favorite game series.

Being your 5th year on this site really shows your veteran-ship to the site, and Halo. Just being on the site for 2 years that been something I definitely don't regret doing and I only wished I had joined the fun sooner.

  • 08.09.2011 5:51 AM PDT

I dont know exactly what to call it, but it has something to do with spaggetti, duct tape and razor blades...

-GamerTag- CopSuicide (used to be Weedpot420)

Happy b.day. 7's not that big a deal. I was hoping for a shiny new title, but I'm still "elder."

  • 08.09.2011 8:09 AM PDT

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
-George S. Patton

Awesome. Happy Birthday.

  • 08.09.2011 8:13 AM PDT
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"Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.” - Albert Schweitzer

Happy Birthday, bro.

:)

  • 08.09.2011 10:13 AM PDT

Posted by: HALO3syourdaddy
a house of 13 guys and 2 girls at one point.


I don't think there's enough holes for this to work...oh.

  • 08.09.2011 10:18 AM PDT

Only the unloved and unnatural hate.

I have a skype! Feel free to add me if you took the time to look in here xD cody.dwight.morgan

Here is a card for you.

  • 08.09.2011 10:20 AM PDT

We were somewhere around Barstow...

Dedication.

  • 08.09.2011 10:21 AM PDT

Hello! I'm Bunie.net's resident medical student (hell i'm sure there are more but I'm the only one who openly declares it!) I love my emblem, and I am periodically active.
I have a Twitter

Happy Birthday :) hers to the next 5 years!

  • 08.09.2011 10:41 AM PDT

Dead Mans Hand-Always Loaded.

I WAS SOCK

Posted by: humpsalot
7's not that big a deal.
Blasphemy!

  • 08.10.2011 2:21 AM PDT

Wake me, when you need me.

Damn it SJ. Look what you've started.

  • 08.10.2011 2:47 AM PDT

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