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My story isn't too exciting..


I started playing halo2 xbl before I actually played Halo2, I've never really fully played Halo1.
My brother got halo2 right when it came out along with xbl. Both of our friends from school had xbl and halo2 ..so there would be about 10+ people I know from school all playing a custom together. Sometimes I would join in on his guest account even though I had no idea what I was doing. Soon, my brother let me continue to play on his account, on training or with our friends. I had so much fun playing with them..it's a shame that none of them play anymore.

I became increasingly addicted to matchmaking once I figured out that I was playing with the control on the wrong settings (I had to switch the look inversion). I was still horrible and but like I said, playing with friends always helps. About 6 months after I first began playing xbl on my brothers account, I had a volleyball tournament out of state and my friend katie, and we didn't feel like getting in trouble for being stupid at night in the hotel, so she brought her xbox and I brought halo2. She had played before but she still started campain, with me. This is when I first played halo2. We didn't make it very far through campain, since the nights were short, but as soon as a came home, I began to play campain and I've beaten it on every level as of today.

I soon took over my brothers xbl account, and began playing even more than he did. I played almost every night, with the same 7-8 people and matchmaking by myself during the day. Eventually, my birthday came and my mom let me get my own account, Meghan x, which I've had for about a year and a month now. Which also led me to bungie, which I've now been a member about a year, a little more, and I've had some fun being able to play with some people from the Flood and New Mombassa.

Although my original core group of friends do not play anymore, whenever they are on (about once every 4 months =[ ) it feels like the good old days. Now I've found other people to play with, including my wonderful clan, but it is still never that constant feeling of fun. I usually just end up playing by myself.

I hate change, which is why I could never give up xbl even though my friends have moved on.

  • 08.02.2006 12:12 PM PDT

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Tommahawk815 is my B.Net Best Friend

Okay

I was in 6th grade sitting at my desk, last period, waiting for my reports card. i heard that halo came out and i was playing it from time to time on my firends xbox. i wanted an xbox but my mom wouldnt let me get one. but i had a computer. so i waited till i got my report card. wow, i go 98.7% average. my mom got my halo for computer and i would play it for long times.

Then Halo 2 came out. i could get it but everyday after school ii would go to my firends house and we would battle each other (4 of us total) i really wanted a xbox at that point.

months passed

then that day came. i went to my uncles and in his basement was an xbox. it was in the box but he said he never used it.im like great and he gave it to me. i was filled with joy. a free xbox . then my mom got me halo 2 the next day for my bday. then the next day my firends and i all set up xbox live accounts. the best 3 days of my life.

one day when i was playing online, i noticed that one of my friends had bungie.net behind their name. i wanted that. so i went to the site. the site was great.some times, instead of going on halo i would go on this. i made an account, linked my gt. then i saw the forums. i loved forums at the time. i saw off topic and i stayed there. here actually. i never posted in a another forum to this date. That is my B.Nety Story











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  • 08.02.2006 12:15 PM PDT
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Seriously, don't take me seriously.

Underground Pleasure - aren't you a bit curious?

The story of my Bnet life:


During one hot summer day...Macy got really bored. So since she liked Halo so much, she decided to check out their site. She started out as a Zanzibarian because she wanted to learn more about the glitches and super bouncing. Soon, after becoming bored of Bungie...Macy disappeared from the Bungie world for about a month.
Once again, through boredom, Macy returns...but this time she headed for the Flood Forums. There, being a forum nub...she had no idea what she was doing. She began making many friends...as well as enemies. And then people starting giving her the name 'Queen' of the Flood. Blah blah blah...stuff happens. There was also this one time where she went to 'war' with MD. Too bad MD got their victory. (I would like a rematch)


Time passes by and here I am. A new shorty...one who [enter new characteristics here]

The end.

EDIT: And yes, I copied this from the other thread. I'm lazy

[Edited on 8/2/2006]

  • 08.02.2006 12:22 PM PDT
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I miss the old WWU's, although the wambulance does rock.

  • 08.02.2006 12:24 PM PDT
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I played Playstation all my life.. I have some of my greatest gaming memorys with a playstation remote in my hands.. but I first discovered Halo:CE when a hoard of stupid little teenagers started talking about it, I checked it out and I realized what all the buzz was about.. but i never thought it was worth buying an X box over.

Then Halo 2 came out and the fanbase only grew, but I was still not over-powered and i found myself enjoying fighting games (Street fighter 3, Tekken) to be more in my 'genre'. Still, this game DID look to be interesting but I never really got to play it that much.

Summer 04' came around and I found myself living in my friends basement, getting drunk and sleeping 2 hours a week. I would spend my nights, wasted off my ass, playing random video games after everyone had passed out. The games I played during these few months were Star Wars (the rpg, not sure the title), Tony Hawks Underground 2, GTA Vice City(which i broke) and Halo:CE. I got bored of all these games, but i quickly and drunkenly realized that Halo was the most interesting one. I would spend all nighters, filled with vodka and illegal substances trying to beat levels on legendary.. slowly but surely, i would be able to defeat the evil battallion of Elites and Floods, and i found myself developing strategys in my head.. this is not a run 'n' gun, this is all out war, and i am a one man army.

Before these Bungie nights, I had never played Halo:CE that much.. i might have played once or twice on multi-player and I got easily frustrated by my constant deaths, but it no way was it my lack of skill.. i had simply never owned or played X box.

After a week or two of playing Halo:CE, drinking vodka and eating ridiculous amounts of instant noodles, popcorn and coffee crisps, i finally played through the entire game on legendary.. i was proud of myself, and i must say i was quite 'hooked' for lack of a better word. In these days, 2 years ago.. It was the best days of my life, getting drunk with friends, listening to good music, to loud into the wee hours of the night... My friend was a diabetic, a smoker, a drinker and indeed he abused of chemicals he shouldnt.. but so did I! without the diabetes.. but because of this guys illness, i was forced to drink Diet Decaffeinated Pepsi.. and i must say, it was horrible. We used to stack up countless amounts of cans on his coffee table in the basement.. and we used to put our ashes in them.. to many times did i pick up one of these cans and swallow ciggarette, cigar and spliff ashes... but these nights were amazing! We used to play bloody knuckles with a pound coin as a drinking game, literally breaking our fists open just so that we could take an other shot.

At long last, months had passed and I was once more forced to enter school.. I discovered my addiction.. no.. not to cigarettes, ashes, drugs or alchohol but to the now classic Halo:CE.
Lacking the proper funding to continue my newly found love for the Halo games, i found myself downloading free trials for the Halo:PC and hoaned my skills there. I made an interesting discovery.. everyone sucked ass! I could rarely ever find anyone who could challenge me and be good at it.. no one was good enough to defeat me and i always beat them horribly.. I forced myself to improve on my techniques, my weaknesses were with Shotguns.. i simply could not use them correctly but now i am not half-bad.. i can kill anyone easily and avoid enemy weapons easily.. its simple, really. A large problem with Halo:PC was the banshees.. These weapons were the most noob things in the Haloverse and got on my nerves so badly.. not only was it a giant flying purple wang, but it also had the fuel rod on it, making it unbalanced and unfair.. but to my surprise, no one knew how to use it and was pretty much.. well a noob weapon... but still easy to kill if you knew how to do it correctly. My top weapons were obviously, the pistol and the sniper which for some reason blew away teh competition.

I then lost interest in Halo, but i played it once in a while for fun, just for the hell of it.. but i found myself addicted to Street Fighter once more, and even playing Paper Mario more then Halo ( 350 hours of Paper Mario in all)..

Then the Halo 3 trailer was announced and i longed to announce my ideas to the people, wanting to be heard I found the thread 'Idea's for weapons in Halo 3' and made haste to putting all my (great) ideas down which would add to gameplay, interactivity and realism.. I pretty much wrote an entire essay about my ideas and posted it here.. but i was crushed miserably by the fact that no one at all cared about people's ideas.. and that there opinion was the only one that mattered.. i read through some of the pages of idea's and saw things such as 'bows and arrows.. boomrangs and bringing back the H1 pistol'.. I felt like i was surrounded by morons, by bluddering idiots who spent there time giving idiotic idea's and flaming at others... Crazy, ridiculous theorys popped up here and there every few minutes.. as thought people thought that they were writing the script themselves, they started to beleive that there own ideas were part of the story and claimed that if you read the books, you could see that.. say.. Cortana is pregnant?

I felt so.. destroyed. I lost all hope in the people.. and i put my trust in the developers of the game... which is what everyone else should do. I was going to disconnect my account.. delete it from existence so that my ideas would become anonymous since they fell on deaf ears anyway.. but then I was invited to a group called
The Discussion Corner . It gave me new hope because i realized that there were some intelligent people on this site.. JAVA.. Reanimation.. Scrolnyx.. Iceman Assasin.. and uh.. uh.. um.. well thats pretty much it.. Though, they're are idiots everywhere, this was the one place where a few intelligent people reunited to discuss topics about anything.. taboo subjects, drugs, love, , education, society, religion, sex ual orientation, death and life.. and so on and so forth.. and these people actually had a sense of humour as well! Sure, they're were some idiots who beleived themselves superior, even though they were entirely ridiculous and immature.. you could still discuss with these people about what they beleived in, it was not a flame war, it was not a hate group.. it was actual discussions.

Then i started going in The Flood, and saw that this place was pretty much just a place where people could have fun.. it wasnt an uptight neck and tie strict military control camp like the H3 forums. Here, i could lay back.. have some fun.. and i find myself in these forums, along with the discussion corner everytime I come on the net..

I even stopped caring about the H3 release, I had forgotten why i came here to start with.. lol.

  • 08.02.2006 12:49 PM PDT
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...only in The Flood

My (relatively short) Bungie life. For my 14th birthday I recieved a laptop, and with the money I got (plus my savings) I bought a 360. The first thing I did was what had I wanted to do for ages, finally visit Bungie.net. I made a profile eventually, after going through every username I could think of, and finally got to Banksy. I joined just before april fools and was confused for too long by Pimps at Sea, before finally admitting it must have been fake. I checked the website every day, at first reluctant to get involved with posting, but soon picked up enough information to survive. By this time everyone was super-hyped by the potential reveal of Halo 3, will they, won't they(i strongly believed they would, and posted as such). Obviously it was announced, and I downloaded the halo 3 trailer. I watched it at least once a day for a whole month.

I spent maybe two weeks in the Halo 3 forum, theorizing and joining debates, but even by then I had seen threads repeated way too many times, so I gathered my belongings and moved to the flood where I watched my sanity slowly spiral down the drain, but it was fun as hell! After all this time of posting in forums, whenever there is a rate the whatever of the user above you, everyone says they have never heard of me!

And so I here I am, in all my unnapreciated glory!

  • 08.02.2006 1:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: lilshorty6478
The story of my Bnet life:

During one hot summer day...Macy got really bored. So since she liked Halo so much, she decided to check out their site. She started out as a Zanzibarian because she wanted to learn more about the glitches and super bouncing. Soon, after becoming bored of Bungie...Macy disappeared from the Bungie world for about a month.
Once again, through boredom, Macy returns...but this time she headed for the Flood Forums. There, being a forum nub...she had no idea what she was doing. She began making many friends...as well as enemies. And then people starting giving her the name 'Queen' of the Flood. Blah blah blah...stuff happens. There was also this one time where she went to 'war' with MD. Too bad MD got their victory. (I would like a rematch)

Time passes by and here I am. A new shorty...one who [enter new characteristics here]

The end.

EDIT: And yes, I copied this from the other thread. I'm lazy


Lazy. lol j/k.

Great stories y'all.

I can't believe this thread is still alive. That's awesome. Thanks for surprising me everyone.

  • 08.02.2006 1:31 PM PDT
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I'll have to set the Wayback machine to June of 2000, because that's when it all started for me. I have a subscription to PC Gamer, and they had little snippets on Microsoft attempting to get into the console market. They also had this big story about E3, including Halo. Back then, Halo was destined for PC and Mac. They had a demo disc with the Halo E3 trailer, so I popped in and watched it. After it was over, The only thought on my mind was "I want this game!" A month later, the next issue said something that devastated me. Microsoft bought Bungie, and Halo was going to Xbox, not PC. I was upset about this, but I moved on and started drooling over other PC games coming soon.

Fast foward to the Spring of 2003. PC Gamer says that Microsoft is porting Halo to the PC. I go back and watch the trailer, and get excited (not one of my friends then owned an Xbox, so I never played it). So when it comes out later that year, I buy it. I absolutely love it. A few months before that, I get a subscription to Game Informer, which has a little thing about Halo 2. I was thinking, "well, I'll wait for the PC port again." But after reading more articles about over the next 6 months, I realize I can't wait for that. I said something I never thought I'd say: "I want an Xbox."

At the same time, I hear about this Bungie.net. So come here, and like it. I find the forums, and start reading them. I mostly read New Mombasa for theories, what people want in Halo 2, and go to the Maw for Halo PC stuff. I don't become a member until January 2005, though.

So in August 2004, I reserve a copy of Halo 2 at Software Etc. They tell me I'll get one on Nov. 16th, and that is okay with me. The thing is, at this point I don't have an Xbox yet. I ask them for one, but they are sold out (I also barely missed my chance for the Halo Limited Edition Xbox). So I search Ebay. Behold, there is a used one for $120. I buy it. Then I get Project Gotham Racing 2, And wait for my Xbox to arrive. It arrives, and I start playing PGR 2, and notice I get a lot of disc read errors. But I think this is because I dropped the disc. I then get a used copy of Mechassault, and enjoy that as well. Once again disc read errors. I ignore it. I then get Halo for Xbox off of Ebay (the version that came with the Halo Xbox, it said "Not for Resale" on it.). I enjoy taking it around and playing multiplayer with my friends. Then I get Halo 2, and it rocks my world. Then later, I had to replace my disc drive because it was faulty, and I haven't had a problem since. My friend then gets an Xbox with Halo 2, and we start doing LAN parties nearly every month.

Eventually, I start posting in the New Mombasa thread. But as many of you know, many topics there turn into flame wars. I eventually saw the Flood, and liked what I saw. I now post most of my stuff here. I very rarely create topics, and when I post in a topic, it seems to die instantly (I hope that doesn't happen here), though that hasn't happened in a while. I have not been blacklisted, though I have come close to it. I have dished out a few "your mom" burns, and got involved with the "Cork" thing a month ago.

Cork, that was probably my longest post ever.

[Edited on 8/2/2006]

  • 08.02.2006 2:24 PM PDT

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"Dork faced boy got apocalypse charm, with a yellowy grin, metal thin, metal limbs, metal kicks, kiss metal bricks! Metal, medal with this anti-bliss missile."

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lol. Shishka was my first ban too. Back when I was new. Political commentary. lol.


lol...on a previous account. Three days into it I was banned (by Shishka) for creating a poll about a flamer... "Who hates so and so"...oh how we learn.

I think a lot of us have lost our ban(t) virginity to Shishka. It's all good though.
(That could of came out so wrong)

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  • 08.02.2006 2:41 PM PDT
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my friend katie, and we didn't feel like getting in trouble for being stupid at night in the hotel, so she brought her xbox and I brought halo2.


damnit, xbox's ruin everything ;D

  • 08.02.2006 2:46 PM PDT
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Anton P Nym popped my blacklist cherry...

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my story:

Every Thanksgiveng I would go to L.A. to see my dad's side of the family. I remembe a long, long time ago i played a GTA type game on my cousin's Dreamcast there. It was pretty fun. A few years later we came back, and my cousin had an Xbox. I would play Amped for along time. I loved it.

The next year (a few days after the H2 release), when we came back, he had Halo. I had heard of it before, so I wanted to see what it was like. So I popped it in and played AotCR. Halo had become my favorite video game. A few years back I had moved a few blocks away form my former house. At the new house, I met a friend down the street. So about every week i would go over to his place. He had a Dreamcast, but it soon broke. So for Christmas, he got an Xbox, Halo 2, and XBL. So after Christmas he showed me his new Xbox( I didn't have a Xbox then) and Halo 2. We played Halo 2 everytime I came over. But i wanted to know more about it.

Then I found out about Bungie.net. I would look at the weekly updates and the Halo 2 stuff. Then about a month later I got an account. I really liked b.net. Then, i got an Xbox and the Halo games for Christmas. They were absolutely awsome! Then for my b-day i got XBL. Then i joined a group. i was really inactive in that group, and b.net for a long time. then I became active again. then that group was destroyed. it was rebuilt, and I joined. Now that group is prospering, which brings this b.net autobiogrophy to an end.


hope you enjoyed.

  • 08.02.2006 2:57 PM PDT

I started here by looking from the outside in. Having played computer games ever since the SNES, I saw the Xbox for what it really was, the next level in billiance. My friends could keep their out of date PS2's and their cardboard textures, I wanted Halo, I wanted Deus Ex: Invisible War, I wanted Timesplitters 2 and be able to tell that this gun wasn't a grey triangle.
But I digress. I started here by reading a fanficton without a profile.Eventually, I was so motivated that I wrote my own and took up a profile. The story is now 45 pages long and 21 parts. I followed up by joining a fanfiction group, hoping I could get more coverage. It was a wise move, as it became the only forum I could get on for a week becuse shortly after, I was blacklisted for condemning religoin on the Halo 3 forum. One excellent week later, I returned with a mountain of work for my story.

Somewhere along the line, I entered this mammoth Flood story thing. Me and Pyroshark commandeered it, but boy was it good. Thankfully, I saved it into a word documnet. then, I joined The Disscussion Corner and The Black Chapter, places where I could debate and not get Blacklisted. I have joined several more groups, and I'm waiting for XBL. I have payed it and won Mockyman (the profile I used,) some victories, but that was two years ago.

  • 08.02.2006 11:58 PM PDT

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