- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I go in the Halo 3 forum all of the time.
When I do, it's nearly always to create or respond to threads I feel address an interesting aspect of the upcoming game; whether amusing, intriguing or downright stupid.
Now, this being Bungie.net, the vast majority are indeed under the 'stupid' catergory, but that doesn't stop me wanting to post on the forum.
At the end of the day, this is Bungie's official space for fans of the series to come along and voice their opinions or thoughts with the like-minded. Tell me, what makes one person's love of the games any less valid than anothers? I am often just as irritated at much of the self-important garbage I see the more intelligent members of the forum spout as I am with the predictable stupidity more frequently evidenced in posts from the young and ignorant.
Alot of the crap on the Halo 3 forum seems to me to spring from the impatient, immature and excitable minds of young children who probably don't know much better. I'm guessing from the age of 7 through to around 16. Of course, some young children are very well-behaved, intelligent and have learnt something of the value of manners; but most are still vulnerable to frequent and severe lapses of decency and/or sense.
Ultimately though that's just the territory. Sure, I've gotten disillusioned and frustrated with the behaviour from all kinds of groups I've seen around here, but you just end up coming to realize that nothing is going to change it, and that maybe your expectations might have been too demanding in the first place.
These kids LOVE Halo though. I LOVE Halo. If you love Halo, then that's nice to know! Many people love Halo.... wonderful.
Now, who's love for Halo can objectively be proved to be greater than the others? Is yours greater than mine? Mine greater than the 7 yr olds? Frank'O'Conner's better than my friend Hong Kong Stewie's? Prove it, empirically, go ahead... and the best of luck.
What I'm trying to say is that the Halo 3 forum might be mess and too often clogged with the painful rambling and absurdites of the ignorant, the young, the mentally challenged and the downright vicious, but I hardly ever come across anybody who sincerely professes to HATE Halo and is totally against the idea of Halo 3. In that respect, it's doing exactly what it's there to do...
Nothing will change it but closure.
On a final note, the kind of dim-witted garbage and absurd lunacy I witness in the Halo 3 forum is only seperated by a matter of few degrees between the different forums. Ultimately, I view all of them as jam-packed full of all varities of idiots; but the more educated and sincere the moron the far deeper my sense of amusement or angst.
[Edited on 12/9/2006]