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Subject: 10 years on Bungie.net
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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!

I don't like account birthday threads in the public forums, never have.

I get it, though. You join a website, and its just a website. You go about your life, play video games, hang out with your friends, and kill some free time. Then it's one year later, and you can't believe it. You've been around for a full calendar year, which you didnt ever think would happen. You want to tell someone, but the truth is everyone else has already been there for a year so nobody cares. Then its been 5 years. Then its been 7, and you make an overused but still funny Bungie joke.

Then suddenly, it's been an entire decade.

I could sit here and talk about how much this place has changed, or how this place used to be the septagon, or how the septagon used to be part of Chapter Founders. I could talk about when Halo National used to be the biggest chapter on this website, or when Honey Mustard vs BBQ was the poll on the main page. Or when groups were chapters, for that matter.

I could talk about sketchfactors first day, or when that stosh guy was just another dude who played Halo, or the threaded view. But Ive spent the last decade of my life subtley dropping reminders about what this place used to be like, and most of you don't care in the same way that I dont really care about Madonna, mullets, or the cold war. I get it.

But 10 years ago, I was just some 13 year old kid who wanted to find out if the sequel to the greatest game he ever played was actually going to be made. A high school and college experience, first car, first "big boy" full time job, moves to 2 different cities and a move out into my own place without my parents later, and here I am.

I've still got a lot of life in front of me, and by most standards I'm still a pretty young dude. But around these parts, Ive seen a lot. Way more than Ive ever expected to see. After all these years, its harder to keep track of who all of you are. But Ive seen a lot of people come and go, and I know this place isnt forever. So to everybody reading this now, I just wanted to say thanks for making this a cool place to hang out for the last 10 years. I wont remind you of this a year from now. Not five, and probably not another seven. But to anyone still around in 2022, I'll have some kind words for you as well then.

Oh and to Bungie, I owe all of you guys and gals a drink

  • 10.12.2012 5:07 PM PDT

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Dat join date O_O

  • 10.12.2012 5:08 PM PDT

Congrats! Hopefully you can stay another 10!

  • 10.12.2012 5:11 PM PDT

This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends;
Not with a bang but a whimper.

When you have a triple digit user number, you can post all the Birthday threads you want. Just so long as it's only one per year.

I remember when members like me were kindly laughed at for being part of the post-Halo 3 boom, yet now it is I who am going to laugh at all the members who join with the announcement of Destiny. And do know that there are some of us who do appreciate what this place was and hope that what it will become is better, not worse, than that.

  • 10.12.2012 5:11 PM PDT

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If I am not posting, then I am reading what you might have posted.

Congrats, that is some true fan-hood there. :D

  • 10.12.2012 5:12 PM PDT
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Destinypedia - The Wiki for Bungie's Destiny
Posted by: DEATHPIMP72
Anyone but Foman. He smells like cheese.

I honestly think that a lot more people would care about some of those old stories than you think. A lot of the newer people here (or more newly active) love to hear about that old Bungie lore, and having some folks around with serious institutional knowledge benefits us all.

Glad you've stuck around! It's been fun having you here; hope to see you continue hanging out with us for years to come :-)

  • 10.12.2012 5:12 PM PDT

10 years anywhere is a great achievement. It truly is awesome to see people who have been here since, well, basically the beginning.

Happy 10th anniversary, Halo53. All the best for your next 10 years!

[Edited on 10.12.2012 5:14 PM PDT]

  • 10.12.2012 5:13 PM PDT

RIP Halo 2: November 9, 2004-May 10, 2010
I was the 2nd to last person to get kicked off Halo 2, see the thread Here

See you in 2022. my account is only half as old as yours, but it's still crazy to think about everything that has changed since I first made my account.

  • 10.12.2012 5:15 PM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."


Posted by: TheSpiderChief
Dat join date O_O
He's like a Grizzled Ancient among members.
Congratulations.

[Edited on 10.12.2012 5:17 PM PDT]

  • 10.12.2012 5:16 PM PDT

Posted by: Commander GX
Bungie.Match.com: Our Johnson knows what the ladies like.

I think you're the oldest member that still comes here often, with the exception of Cryptic.

  • 10.12.2012 5:19 PM 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

wow in 2002 I was 8. 0_0

You have been here for a long time.

[Edited on 10.12.2012 5:20 PM PDT]

  • 10.12.2012 5:19 PM PDT

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The Artists Corner - Show other members your artistic talent.
Storywrite - Where I am writing my book.


Posted by: Wikked Navajoe

Posted by: TheSpiderChief
Dat join date O_O
He's like a Grizzled Ancient among members.
Congratulations.

Prehistoric Caveman is more suitable I think.

[Edited on 10.12.2012 5:20 PM PDT]

  • 10.12.2012 5:20 PM PDT

"I'm uncomfortable."
-True Underdog
Young Grasshopper of The Year: ChorrizoTapatio 2012

A little bit of sausage, a little bit of hot sauce, a whole lot of awesome. Have a question? Ask me!
Chapter

Holy -blam!-, that's a long time. Congrats!

  • 10.12.2012 5:21 PM PDT

The Song Of Nephilim

Xenoblade <3

That is an incredible feat. Congrats!

  • 10.12.2012 5:22 PM PDT

Posted by: The Kangol Kid
It was then that I decided he really is like semen(everywhere) and I gave up on life.


zoobkillerninja <3

*pops champagne*

  • 10.12.2012 5:26 PM PDT

I love these posts. Looking forward to the next one in 2022. :)

  • 10.12.2012 5:30 PM PDT

Much, much respect. Congrats on the decade of Bungie.net-ness and thank you for the recollections of things I didn't even knew existed until reading your OP.

Brofist?

  • 10.12.2012 5:34 PM PDT

And so the war of Gods and Demons shall begin. Tomorrow will end with your heart in my hand!

Love ya! =3

Congratulations dude. It sounds like it's been a pretty good run for you.
I actually do care very much about everything you've listed. Although I wasn't there for it all.
But to think about it, in 7 more years I'll be like you, I'll have been on here for ten years. I show much respect for you my elder.
I hope to see you around on the virtual battlefield, and I'll be here for your twentieth.

[Edited on 10.12.2012 5:44 PM PDT]

  • 10.12.2012 5:41 PM PDT
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my gt is Godzillla....i just didnt link it properly

sheesh i think i was in 7th grade

ha

[Edited on 10.12.2012 5:45 PM PDT]

  • 10.12.2012 5:44 PM PDT

Damn, 10 years ago I was 8. Congrats on sticking around for so long.

  • 10.12.2012 5:46 PM PDT

Vote for me for a free cookie.

Lets hope for many great years ahead of us

  • 10.12.2012 5:46 PM PDT
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R.I.P. DeathPimp. Never Ending Respect.

"Posted by: Kickimanjaro
I'm trying to become an '04, but it's not working too well."

Congrats, Applaus, Trophies and Personal Massages are in order for this truly wondrous day.

Thanks for being such a kickass guy, and can't wait for the 2022 party.

(m)

  • 10.12.2012 5:46 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

Congrats Halo. You are an institution on this site. I am sorry the NY Mets did so poorly this year. but hey you did a decade here so it balances out. Cheers bro.

  • 10.12.2012 5:48 PM PDT

Nate - Project Tool Designer

I forgot your anniversary gift.
Wel... this is awkward.

  • 10.12.2012 5:52 PM PDT

Proud member for 4 years, and i hope many more.

B.net birthday 11.21.08

"Damn Canadians and their poppy things!"

Congrats Halo!
I'm comin up on my fourth year in about a month.
I would've brought a gift if had known...but here is a cookie.
(::)
*Gives cookie*

  • 10.12.2012 6:00 PM PDT