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Subject: Seven years later...

Man, what a great post.
Posted by: insaneAssass1n9

Posted by: Recon Number 54
You know that time passing means nothing to old people, it's all the same. Yesterday, last week, 4 years ago, it's all the same when your brain is evolving into oatmeal.
I prefer tapioca pudding. But you are right about the time perception for older people.

  • 12.23.2011 12:39 PM PDT

Spread the love...

I actually read all of that. Well written post and has lots of meaning, congratulations and I really think some of your ideas are great.

  • 12.23.2011 12:50 PM PDT

This post really touched on the whole "unspoken-ness" of Bnet. I hope we can all stay pretty civilized. Seems that way for now. I don't really matter much, nor do I have anything to say against your post. Lucky guy found this website a few years before I did ;)

Hope we can all make it 7 more with you.

  • 12.23.2011 12:59 PM PDT

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Posted by: Agustus
I lol'd at the absurd miscommunication that occurs whenever dibbs post something. Perhaps his brain is so highly evolved that he can no longer clearly communicate with lesser life forms, even among his own species.

So after seven years would you say the only things that have really changed are you perceptions?

B.net is my fat chick as well (hands off) and I've noticed recently I've been posting less and caring less about this site. I, like many before me, first attributed this to "Whelp this site is just going to -blam!-" but more and more I've come to the realization that the site hadn't changed, but I had. I realize that saying that comes off as "I've just grown up and this site is really just for the immature" but that certainly isn't the case. Neither is it the case that people just get extremely jaded (burnt out maybe but cynicism isn't a direct effect of being here too long).

Dunno, but I feel like I'm rambling now...just wondering if you felt the same way Primo.

  • 12.23.2011 12:59 PM PDT

I started reading this thread expecting another trollish speech about how great Mythic members are, but was pleasantly surprised by your historical summary. Nice post.

  • 12.23.2011 1:29 PM PDT

Dianna Agron is the epitome of perfection.

Quinntology.

I have to agree with the whole hating the Septagon thing. Although it really is the only public forum I post on...sigh.

  • 12.23.2011 3:09 PM PDT
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Yo Halo53, I'm real happy for you and I'ma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best bungie.net profiles of all time. OF ALL TIME!

Posted by: Primo84
When I joined this website seven years ago, I was a semi-retarded, immature, inarticulate kid. Now, I am a semi-retarded, immature, inarticulate kid that can also grow a beard.


This is exactly how I feel.

As for your point about the Septagon, it served more of a purpose when Chapters/Groups were more the focus of the website and had all these databases and such that people didn't know how to use, then still served a purpose when the main forums got a facelift. Since things have more or less been the same since Halo 2, its necessity has died down. However I suspect its value will increase with the launch of the next universe.

But yes, 99.99% of the threads on the main page at any one time I've read a thousand times before. Thats not as big of an exaggeration as you'd think.

  • 12.23.2011 3:13 PM 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

I was paying attention up until the point where you told me to continue paying attention.

; )

  • 12.23.2011 3:23 PM PDT

Didact's Reprisal -
Now is the time of our unworlding
One final effort is all that remains
And I am not afraid
We shall fulfill our promise
We fight for the grace of the Mantle
And this time none of you will be left behind

I've been here just as long as you, but it seems we've definitely ended up with different opinions about this site. Meh. After all this time I'm finally a bit more patient with repetitive, predictable folks. But on the other hand, I generally now find groups annoying, repetitive and boring. Debating on making my own topic prior to New Year's Eve, but we'll see..

[Edited on 12.23.2011 3:39 PM PST]

  • 12.23.2011 3:37 PM PDT

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Posted by: Recon Number 54
oatmeal.
He wasn't really asking us what we had for breakfast, was he?

  • 12.23.2011 7:13 PM PDT

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Posted by: dibbs089
So after seven years would you say the only things that have really changed are you perceptions?

B.net is my fat chick as well (hands off) and I've noticed recently I've been posting less and caring less about this site. I, like many before me, first attributed this to "Whelp this site is just going to -blam!-" but more and more I've come to the realization that the site hadn't changed, but I had. I realize that saying that comes off as "I've just grown up and this site is really just for the immature" but that certainly isn't the case. Neither is it the case that people just get extremely jaded (burnt out maybe but cynicism isn't a direct effect of being here too long).
I suppose so.

I'm not really sure how to answer your question regarding perception. Has this site changed since I joined? Yes, definitely. Have I, on a personal level, changed more? Well, I joined when I was fifteen, and I'm now twenty-two, so I damn sure hope so! (Yes)

I guess you can say that the overall package is roughly the same as when I joined. The difference now is that I'm not the same person. I don't laugh at the same stuff, I have different pet peeves, and I conduct myself in a different fashion. While Bungie.net may be more or less the same as it was in 2004, the experience itself varies due to my growth as a person.

I like to assume that people who have been here for a while have had a similar experience, but what do I know?

  • 12.23.2011 7:28 PM PDT

“Oh, it’s a little bit of everything, it’s the mountains, it’s the fog, it’s the news at six o’clock, it’s the death of my first dog, it’s the angels up above me, it’s the song that they don’t sing, It’s a little bit of everything.”
- Dawes, A little bit of everything

You know what? Bungie.net is my fat chick too.

EDIT: Yeah, didn't actually read before replying (at least not much, I chuckled at the fat chick mention and posted).

I joined Bungie.net, much like you, as a naive high schooler who didn't know much about himself or anything else for that matter. I was depressed and shy and I wanted to see what else was out there. Since then, I've become a naive college undergraduate student who (naively) thinks he understands himself and life. Note the use of the word "naively," as I've always looked back in my life and though Wow, I was so naive! so I see no reason why this would be any different when I look back in ten years.

I drifted away from the Halo 3, ODST, and Reach forums fairly quickly. First I went to the Community forum as that sounded quite inviting, then I found that it was...well, to use an example I just thought of, country club. There's the old retired guys who've been retired for years and practically live there, and these people don't like the new people coming into their club. They enforce the silly rules with such vitriol you'd have thought that you had personally insulted them. Long story short, you're just the caddy, you carry their golf clubs and compliment them on their play.

So I didn't like that, and I drifted over to the Flood. I liked it for a while, then I realized that it was much like one of those things that polish rocks. Except, it doesn't polish anything, it just spins around and around with a few ideas churning and churning, sometimes throwing out new combinations of previous threads.

So I went back to the Community forum. I tried to fit in my putting on my traffic cop hat, I tried to direct users to the proper forums when they'd posted incorrectly. I genuinely thought I was being helpful, then I realized that I had become exactly what had repulsed me from the Community forum in the first place.

So I started lurking again, posting infrequently, or at least when I had something significant to add (or whenever I pleased, I mean, who gives a -blam!-?). I tried private groups, but the group(s) that I knew people in had an age restriction and the others I had joined were, besides not being active, not very interesting in the slightest.

Now I've started to seep through the cracks and sneak into a group or two, and I'm starting to see that there's a whole wide world that I had never noticed, here, on Bungie.net. Just as I see beauty in the future of the Internet, I see beauty in the future of Bungie.net. This place has already brought so many people together, and it's through this place that I've met some very nice people (rest in peace, DP) who have helped shape my life.

I'm still the person I was when I joined, now I just see things a little clearer (and can grow a beard).

Cheers

[Edited on 12.23.2011 8:00 PM PST]

  • 12.23.2011 7:33 PM PDT

We miss you Logan.
Ask any question. I'll help with anything on site or off.

This makes me wan't to have my old account back, but I also agree
with the point of the Septagon to a point, oh and Chicken noodle soup.

[Edited on 12.23.2011 7:35 PM PST]

  • 12.23.2011 7:34 PM PDT

It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial. And it is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves the flag, whose coffin is draped in the flag that allows the protester to burn the flag.Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC

Heres to a fellow 7 year member. We are better then the rest just to prove your point.

  • 12.23.2011 8:26 PM PDT

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Posted by: Kickimanjaro
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I think that's another phase that a lot of people go through. (Except elmicker, because he's perfect.) Unfortunately, it's a period that I've noticed varies greatly in length: I've seen guys forum cop for a few weeks, then told to -blam!- off, and they do, and I've also seen guys who've slunked into that role for a year or two.

Disappointing to see, that latter part.

  • 12.24.2011 5:07 AM PDT
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Posted by: Primo84
Except elmicker, because he's perfect.
First correct thing you've said.

Well, second; your sister is pretty cute.

  • 12.24.2011 5:12 AM PDT

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"Sometimes life gives you lemons, and then you have to say 'f**k the lemons' and bail."

If you're reading this, you need to stop stalking me. If you can't stop stalking me, you might as well go here.

Posted by: elmicker
Posted by: Primo84
Except elmicker, because he's perfect.
First correct thing you've said.
The idea for The Flood is essentially a re-wording of something you posted in one of your birthday threads.

I even read it back to myself using a British accent afterward!Well, second; your sister is pretty cute.When have you guys ever seen a picture of my sister? Sister-in-law, maybe, but not my actual sister.

  • 12.24.2011 5:20 AM PDT

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Narwhallace Smithington: Gone, but not forgotten. Never approve of anything lil guy. <3
Furious George: The new -blam!-

I wasn't kidding about pictures of your sister.

  • 12.24.2011 7:15 AM PDT

In a time long past, the armies of the dark came again to the lands of men. Their leaders became known as the fallen lords, and their terrible sorcery was without equal in the west.
In 30 years they reduced the civilized nations into carrion and ash. Until the free city of Madrigal alone defined them. An army gathered there, and a desperate battle was joined against the fallen
Heros were born in the fire and bloodshed of the wars which followed and their names and deeds will never be forgotten


Posted by: True Underdog
I wasn't kidding about pictures of your sister.


That is a little weird TU.

>_>

:p

[Edited on 12.24.2011 7:20 AM PST]

  • 12.24.2011 7:19 AM PDT

The world is full of mysteries, and shares too few of the answers required. An example of which, is how did I end up in the Brute Zone?

Enjoyed the read, congrats on 7 years.

  • 12.24.2011 7:49 AM PDT

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Good read. I grinned at certain points. Especially the section on The Community Forum.

  • 12.24.2011 8:01 AM PDT

" ... the seventh wave of Thrall stumbled and climbed over the slippery, piled dead and Mazzarin saw Recon Number 54 with them and at last knew the number of his days."

It's not the years, it's the mileage...

  • 12.24.2011 9:04 AM PDT

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