After receiving a reply from someone I have been talking to as of lately, I got the idea to expose some of the more interesting PM's I have been sent in the past year and a half. Yes, I know that completely voids the meaning of the letter "P" in PM since it stands for private message; ah well, they technically are my messages...in a way. I have removed some of the names of the users that have sent me these in order to protect them from...well for whatever reason. Anyways, moving onto something more than random banter. Although with some of these I do wonder if it really is a change.
"Hey, want to join Dark ODST, its a new group on bungie.net, and im looking for great new members, We do a varity of things, not much stuff is going on now. But when we get a few more members, the group will stay active, and you'll be a great member of the group. I hope u join."
This message was sent by what is now someone who had their account auto-deleted back in March of last year. Nothing really special about it, but I have learned in my time being there that when you send out a recruitment message to someone ask to join your group; they would kind of like link to the place. Yes, the name of the group does just fine, but how am I supposed to know to go search for your group?
The following one is very simple, and short. A little too short almost...
"join group Ghost of onix"
Yep, that's it. I really have no idea what to say about this....
"Hi, i noticed you in the Halo 3 forums. and i would like to ask you if you wanted to join the ODST Red Team. The first member to join will be instantly promoted."
If only you would have given me a link to the group, perhaps a small description or the motto and most importantly; sent it two months ago when your group was new...
This next one is probably one of the most random messages I have ever received with my stay on B.net.
Title: lets play h3
Body: "ill send u an invite"
Yes...you do that. Wait, how do know what my gamertag is and how do I know that you'll actually invite me instead of just ignore me? Or is this all something that I am imagining happened, but actually isn't real?
This is probably the most out-of the blue conversation that someone has started with me, it starts a lot like this:
Title: Good Evening :) (Note, they just had to add the creepy little looking smiley in there didn't they?)
Body: Good day Onyx Spartan, how are you feeling this evening sir?
I reply simply back with; Good and yours?
I get their reply back: "Recovering from sickness, but better :) thanks!
I reply back with something else and get this response:
"Indeed, and I'm happy you're happy as well :)" (There's that smiley again...)
I give my final message and get the final reply back with "Yeah! :)"
Yeah, probably the strangest conversation I have had with anyone. I swear though, if I see that stupid smiley one more time; I'm going to kill my inbox.
Next up, another recruitment message. Yeah, I get those a lot and they have kind of accumulated over my three year stay. This one is rather long, but I'll take out the good parts of it.
"I noticed your activity in the Bungie.net community and I figured I'd send you this message detailing my custom content group. If you're interested in the group, join it! "
Really, I had no idea I was an active member of the community and yes, if I like a group I would normally join it also...
"Our state-of-the-art thread titling system uses scientific principles to help you find what you want easily! Custom content threads are titled with special symbols - $ is for Screenshot Threads, @ is for Map Threads, & is for Gametype Threads, and # is for Film and Video Threads!"
I never knew the dollar sign was state-of-the art... I had the perfect science related comeback for that and now I don't remember it, ah well maybe I'll remember it later and update this post with it.
Random message that has nothing to do with what I posted in a thread are always awesome. A little backstory here as to this message. Bungie had put up a poll on their front page that asking what was the multiplayer feature that you liked the most. Well I had posted a reply to it and got this message from some random user:
"a load out is the special abilities like you can be invisible without picking up an active camoflauge it just like the special ability to run, fly, and camo"
Yes, I already know what a Loadout is but thanks clarifying it anyways. I honeslty don't even know how I got that as what I posted had nothing to do with the Loadouts anyways...
"hi this isint about the beta but im [redacted] and i have reacon buti need it back cuz some1 hacked me somehow and took it off but i changed my name to [redacted] so plz give me another piece of that asthome armour plz listen"
Sorry dude, but I can't help you there(even though I did try and get him in contact with the right person), but I'm not a Bungie employee.
Then there is the message asking if I knew when the Reach Beta would be out back in May and if I knew what time that would translate to for those over in the UK. Well all I was going on was "Late morning PDT on May 3rd." since that is what everyone else was going by.
Title: Hey.
Body: Long time no talk, what's up?
Umm, not much considering last time we talked you hated me still for disagreeing with the choice I made in a group we were both admins for....so yeah.
Title: Recruiting You
My Thoughts: Oh boy...here we go again.
Body: Bunch of rambling.
more rambling....
"You have received this standard copy/paste recruitment message because we wish to have you amongst the Staff."
Well, you were at least to the point of it being a standardized copy and paste message...sort of.
Now, for the best message I think I have received in the past three years of my membership on Bungie.net. This was sent by someone who posted a thread in the community forum and I have been talking with them off and on as of lately. They've made comment of how I'm the only *active* Mythic that they rarely see in the public forums and how my avatar compliments the blue title bar. On Wednesday I lost my Mythic status for only that day and gained it back on Thursday(it'll be gone tomorrow for me mentioning it on here now) and he messaged me saying that I lost, well I messaged him back later today saying I got it back. This is the result of me saying I got it back:
"Webteam: "This Onyx Spartan guy, he seems to be telling us something... I've got it! He wants us to add "Onyx" to the title system as a Base title! It's genius!
*later*
Webteam: Ok we are just about done! Lets make Onyx Spartan the very first Onyx member!...
Computer: ///SERVERS SHUTTING DOWN+/// CAN NOT LOAD ANOTHER TITLE TO SYSTEM REBOOTING...///
Webteam: WTF?! Shut it off! NOW!
*later, again*
Webteam: well, at least we saved the servers from asploding... WHAT?! Onyx Spartan is now Legendary?! Must have been an effect of shutting the servers off completely for 5 WHOLE MINUTES.
WebTeam: Lets promote him again tomorrow, I;m tired."
I will admit that the thought of the webteam taking anything from me and actually implementing it into the website would be pretty cool, this is just plain hilarious though. +1 to kool fat kid for writing that up in his spare time.
Now, that is all for now; but rest assured(or worried) that this feature will return at some point in the future as I don't plan on deleting any messages I get from here on out. That and I always have a total of nine pages to fall back onto for awesome stuff. And I know that there is still more stuff lurking out there in the depth of my inbox currently; I just don't have the time to post it all right now.
Oh and, :)
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