- Kickimanjaro
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- Intrepid Mythic Member
“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]