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Subject: "Bungie Forever Changed My Life". A Touching Story.

Sing for me, will ya?

Bungie posted this on their Facebook, you should check it out. It's pretty inspiring to see this kid's life turned around with help from Bungie and their kick-ass games.

:)

[Edited on 04.13.2012 8:42 PM PDT]

  • 04.13.2012 8:42 PM PDT

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That was nice.

  • 04.13.2012 8:46 PM PDT

All the hearts. All the tears.

  • 04.13.2012 8:50 PM PDT

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Awwwhhhhie!

  • 04.13.2012 8:55 PM PDT

Leon > HUNK > Wesker > Ada > Jill > Claire > Chris

...

That...

That actually happened to me. Except I never met my friends in real life and never got a girlfriend.
WARNING:I stole The Great Wall of China
I had almost no friends in 7/8th grade, and Reach was coming out. All of the "friends" I had stopped talking to me because I was spending the last of my money on Reach instead of Black Ops. While playing Halo 3 I saw that I could track my stats on Bnet, and came on here. I saw the community, and lurked on the Halo 3 forums, and posted occasionally. When Reach came out, I visited this site so much more because I was so excited when the game came out. It was easily my most played game, and the only thing I didn't like was that I had nobody to play it with. Back then people complained on Reach's forums and nobody was willing to enthusiastically play like I was, and I was unaware of The Classifieds. After a day of not enjoying the forums whining, I looked at other forums. I saw The Flood. After seeing a Minecraft thread(Which I was watching from Seananners) I decided it would be a nice forum.(Kind of a mistake) I posted regularly, and was banned several times. When I was banned I lurked, because any true friends I had(If anyone from the Flood considered me a friend) were on that site. One day I was recruited into a group, and met several people who I consider some of my best friends, and after getting Coup I found out about several other groups, most of which are populated by people that I love as friends, despite never meeting them face-to-face. This site changed my life for the better.

  • 04.13.2012 9:07 PM PDT

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  • 04.13.2012 9:21 PM PDT

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Posted by: Leon Kennedy85
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That...

That actually happened to me. Except I never met my friends in real life and never got a girlfriend.
WARNING:I stole The Great Wall of China
I had almost no friends in 7/8th grade, and Reach was coming out. All of the "friends" I had stopped talking to me because I was spending the last of my money on Reach instead of Black Ops. While playing Halo 3 I saw that I could track my stats on Bnet, and came on here. I saw the community, and lurked on the Halo 3 forums, and posted occasionally. When Reach came out, I visited this site so much more because I was so excited when the game came out. It was easily my most played game, and the only thing I didn't like was that I had nobody to play it with. Back then people complained on Reach's forums and nobody was willing to enthusiastically play like I was, and I was unaware of The Classifieds. After a day of not enjoying the forums whining, I looked at other forums. I saw The Flood. After seeing a Minecraft thread(Which I was watching from Seananners) I decided it would be a nice forum.(Kind of a mistake) I posted regularly, and was banned several times. When I was banned I lurked, because any true friends I had(If anyone from the Flood considered me a friend) were on that site. One day I was recruited into a group, and met several people who I consider some of my best friends, and after getting Coup I found out about several other groups, most of which are populated by people that I love as friends, despite never meeting them face-to-face. This site changed my life for the better.


As for me, I no lifed XBL with Halo 3 in a similar situation. Some of the best days of my life just playing SWAT. I was so damn good at it. Met a lot of amazing people and got more on B.net and just became a part of this great community. Love you all. (:

  • 04.13.2012 9:26 PM PDT

When I grow up I want to be bitter and spiteful.

"i liked the reality where everything was on fire better"
-legato on remedial chaos theory

Ok.

  • 04.13.2012 9:51 PM PDT

My heart is melting.

  • 04.13.2012 10:00 PM PDT

I think lots of peoples lives wouldn't be the same today without halo

  • 04.13.2012 10:05 PM PDT

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Oh wow, my life changed too since I started to play Halo at that time. I say the same, Thank you Bungie, you guys are the best!

  • 04.13.2012 10:12 PM PDT

Very nice man.

  • 04.13.2012 10:14 PM PDT

Donuts > all other food

That was so touching <3

I had to fight back tears at the end, in all honesty.

  • 04.13.2012 10:29 PM PDT
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I don't think video games ever contributed anything positive in my life.

  • 04.13.2012 10:33 PM PDT

"I will show you how a true Prussian officer fights!"

"And i will show you where the iron crosses grow..."

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Amazing story. Extremely heart warming!

  • 04.13.2012 10:38 PM PDT

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I'm glad that his life was able to come back together.

I'm happy for him!

  • 04.13.2012 10:43 PM PDT

What goes here??

Awesome story.

  • 04.13.2012 10:48 PM PDT
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Posted by: TopWargamer
I'm glad that his life was able to come back together.
I still don't see how playing video games is supposed to make people stop bullying you, stop your parents from divorcing, and getting laid.

There were most likely ulterior things that got his parents to stop fighting. He probably would have found friends anyway without video games. Playing video games doesn't stop you from getting bullied, in fact, it's quite the opposite.

Sorry if I don't always believe everything I see on the internet...

[Edited on 04.13.2012 10:54 PM PDT]

  • 04.13.2012 10:53 PM PDT

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That was beautiful
*Single tear rolls down cheek*

  • 04.13.2012 11:01 PM PDT

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  • 04.13.2012 11:18 PM PDT
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TIL that b.netters will believe anything they see on the internet without questioning it.

[Edited on 04.13.2012 11:40 PM PDT]

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Posted by: komark
Posted by: TopWargamer
I'm glad that his life was able to come back together.
I still don't see how playing video games is supposed to make people stop bullying you, stop your parents from divorcing, and getting laid.

There were most likely ulterior things that got his parents to stop fighting. He probably would have found friends anyway without video games. Playing video games doesn't stop you from getting bullied, in fact, it's quite the opposite.

Sorry if I don't always believe everything I see on the internet...

I understand your pessimism, and I agree somewhat. Generally I think that video games are a great form of entertainment but typically develop antisocial tendencies if used too extensively, and they're always counterproductive.

That said, his experience could have done a lot of what he said, in a chain reaction sort of way (and this would be giving the story the benefit of the doubt about being real, which I believe is plausible).

It'd mostly relate to Halo CE's story, IMO. It could inspire a lot out of a person, especially an impressionable young boy looking for hope in anything. Things like courage, loyalty, and inspiration could be built from the experience. It could have helped him be able to brave the rough moments and have hope.

But like I said, I do agree to some extent. I never liked the idea of "being a gamer" because it was typically used as an exclusive identifier. I certainly like that the word is less hated and more socially acceptable nowadays, but it's not completely what a person is comprised of, and it's a little foolish in my eyes to limit yourself to be one thing. I loved gaming, but that didn't mean that I went around ostracizing myself because of it when I was still in school. You have plenty of components to your identity, and you should be able to use all of those parts (not just one) to relate to plenty of people. So I'm happy for the guy, but I'm afraid he's isolating himself beyond his gamer friends.

[Edited on 04.13.2012 11:44 PM PDT]

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Posted by: CAVX
Posted by: komark
Posted by: TopWargamer
I'm glad that his life was able to come back together.
I still don't see how playing video games is supposed to make people stop bullying you, stop your parents from divorcing, and getting laid.

There were most likely ulterior things that got his parents to stop fighting. He probably would have found friends anyway without video games. Playing video games doesn't stop you from getting bullied, in fact, it's quite the opposite.

Sorry if I don't always believe everything I see on the internet...

I understand your pessimism, and I agree somewhat. Generally I think that video games are a great form of entertainment but typically develop antisocial tendencies if used too extensively, and they're always counterproductive.

That said, his experience could have done a lot of what he said, in a chain reaction sort of way (and this would be giving the story the benefit of the doubt about being real, which I believe is plausible).

It'd mostly relate to Halo CE's story, IMO. It could inspire a lot out of a person, especially an impressionable young boy looking for hope in anything. Things like courage, loyalty, and inspiration could be built from the experience. It could have helped him be able to brave the rough moments and have hope.

But like I said, I do agree to some extent. I never liked the idea of "being a gamer" because it was typically used as an exclusive identifier. I certainly like that the word is less hated and more socially acceptable nowadays, but it's not completely what a person is comprised of, and it's a little foolish in my eyes to limit yourself to be one thing. I loved gaming, but that didn't mean that I went around ostracizing myself because of it when I was still in school. You have plenty of components to your identity, and you should be able to use all of those parts (not just one) to relate to plenty of people. So I'm happy for the guy, but I'm afraid he's isolating himself beyond his gamer friends.


You guys totally missed the point: the kid had a depressing life, found a game he loved, and started making friends at school because they all liked the same game.

He turned a method of entertainment and escapism into a way to bond with people in real life, and achieve some happiness. All the stuff about his parents could be incidental, or maybe his getting through his depressing moments caused his parents to start working on their issues.

Keep in mind, he was in elementary school when he first played Halo - elementary school sucks for some people - some don't look the same (i.e. me - black and hood starting at a white school with 4 others, including my younger sister; uncool clothes, pudgy/stocky etc.), some hit puberty before others (remember the first time you had a stiffy and had to do math problems on the whiteboard when everyone else didn't get them?), ugly, poor, rich, etc.

Not everyone's going to be so suave that they can get their 6th grade teacher to leave her thong in his backpack - some folks have a hard time making friends at that age if they're not athletic or cool or whatever-have-you. He found a game he liked that others liked and got friends and a girlfriend and learned to be social and be who he wants to be.


THAT'S A GREAT THING. Ask any of us on here who are closer to age 40 than 18 (i.e. Bungie mods and staff) - there are still people in our age group that haven't been able to do what this kid did because of a video game.


Lay off him.


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  • 04.14.2012 12:12 AM PDT

Xbox LIVE gamertag: Dat3lessNutella
Steam username: TopWargamer
To look up my Halo stats...search for the gamertag TopWargamer.
SAVED THREAD PAGES: 283
One does not simply get rid of TopWargamer so easily.
You know this to be true.
ALL HAIL GABEN


Posted by: komark
Posted by: TopWargamer
I'm glad that his life was able to come back together.
I still don't see how playing video games is supposed to make people stop bullying you, stop your parents from divorcing, and getting laid.

There were most likely ulterior things that got his parents to stop fighting. He probably would have found friends anyway without video games. Playing video games doesn't stop you from getting bullied, in fact, it's quite the opposite.

Sorry if I don't always believe everything I see on the internet...

Notice how I never said "I'm glad that video games put his life back together."

I'm happy that his life got better. I never said that video games was the source.

[Edited on 04.14.2012 12:14 AM PDT]

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