Title-less

No, I haven't lost my title on Bnet yet; it's just I don't know what to call this post...again. I think I'm going to jump right on into this post with a few of my older posts from the forums that have been hiding for a little while. You might have to scroll down the page until you see my name in order to find them. Whereas others are near the top of the page.
No, I don't have a Hail to the King; I have 7 of them now. Yes, at that point I didn't have any, but it was only a couple months later that I got my first one.
Really? I had no idea that getting a random unplanned kill was not expected.
You're kidding, right? The more I look at that thread; I don't know what I was thinking.
Seriously, back in Halo 3 I was always changing my helmet several times throughout the day. Luckily, I like the helmets they have in Reach so I don't change them that often.
Says the person who has played a handful of games and netted themselves a skill of 5 in the playlist.
Again, really I had no idea that it takes good teamwork to defeat a good team...
This is decent one with the way I worded it. It makes it sound like I boot people if they betray me in a game even if it was an accident.
So far, those are all the posts I have found for now. I'll see if I can scrounge up some more for a future post, but they are slowly dwindling now that I realize how not to be an idiot.

Anyways, remember that map that I mentioned in one of my earlier posts that I said I was working that was originating as an idea for a Halo 3 map and it has kind of died of since I started it in Reach? Well, I haven't killed it completely...not yet anyhow. I do have a very good start on it(read: pretty much finished) however, I need to change around some things on the map that I'm not happy with. Oh, and it still needs a name for it. There still are a few things that I need to add to it, such as making it compatible for the other gametypes. I'm thinking of also changing the current spawns for the sniper rifle as I'm not exactly happy with them. Once it is finished and I have given it a playtest with Storm, I will post it on here accompanied with a few screenshots perhaps for you all to download and enjoy. Or hate on, whichever suits your style better.

Now, before I leave you with a short post; I'll add in a few more words and pretty colored text and some moving images share some of my files I have taken in Reach as of lately.
First up is so far the only Firefight gametype I have created. I am actually rather happy with it. When I first started brainstorming the idea I was hoping for a Jackal only match of Firefight; well that happened and it is comprised of mostly Jackals, but it wasn't fun with only them. Needless to say even with the skull selection for each round it didn't offer a challenge. I wasn't planning on creating a gametype that was meant for a challenge, but I didn't want something that was going to easy to complete either. Once I had everything perfected in the end I ended up with a few other groups of enemies added in there also. It's still a fun mode to play, especially if Jackals have been owning you in the campaign and you completely hate them(like I do) you can take out your frustrations on them here. I also think you'll like what's in store for you if download it and play until round two.
Anyways, link to download aforementioned gametype.
Next up are a couple video clips I took from the game. Right now I will embed the video directly into the post, and give you direct download link. However, here soon(as in I'm going to do it no matter what) I'll have them and the older ones I found that I had rendered and that are stashed away uploaded to my Youtube channel. No promises as to when they'll be up, but I'm hoping to remember to do it soon.
First up in the batch of videos, a very lucky Elite with a Ghost and also, a very unaware Grunt that ends up going through a window....ouch.

If only I had Armor Lock... Direct download link.


I hit the Elite with the Ghost thinking that ramming him up against the building and the front end of the vehicle would kill him, but nope it doesn't work that way. He evidently had an invisible parachute that saved him. Direct download link is available here.

Now, the following is so far, I think, my best failure of Reach currently. Like the description of the clip says, I need to learn how to get out of a vehicle safely.

So that was Storm driving the Hog on the left after getting killed then respawning near one, I was the one that drove our old Hog back(located on the right) so we could use it. Well, lets just say that Newtons law where an object in motion tends to stay in motion until an equal or greater force are presented didn't work in my favor. At least...I think that's the way that law goes. Direct download link can be found...here.

I believe that is all I have for now. I'm hoping to get another post out with that map I was talking about sometime in the next few days. However, if past experience is any source; I wouldn't count on it.

A Look Inside the Message Box

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, :)

Digging A Little Deeper

Take what you want out of the title, but what I am talking about is shedding a little more light on my history at Bungie.net. I'll try to outline this and categorize it the best I can. Be prepared for a relatively long read here.



First, let's start of with the groups I have been in and tried to start on my own.


Ah painful memories arise when I think about the groups I started. I have actually tried to start two of my own group, both of which, have failed horribly. We shall start with exhibit A: Troops of Onyx. It was the first group I created, if I remember it was back in August of 2007 I think. The premise of the group was pretty simple, ALL THINGS HALO as stated in the group description. I know really original isn't it? The rank structure was really simple...and boring...and overused, standard military ranking. So a new member would be called a recruit or Private, whichever way you went about it. However, if I remember correctly I think that the administrator and moderator ranks stayed the same. Eh I don't remember; all I know is that it had 10 members and was pretty much dead. About a month after failed attempts to bring it back into the living side, I found out how to delete the group and did so.



Now for the next group, Legion of Elites. The ranking was very similar to the way the Elites(hence the name of the group...) have theirs set up. A new member was I think an Elite Minor and I forgot what the rest of the ranking structure was like. I pretty much don't remember a whole lot from the group. I do know that it was my largest with like 50 people, which was the most I've ever had. Sadly though, it suffered the same problem that Troop of Onyx(or ToO that some people dubbed it as, don't ask.) and died(became inactive) after a while.





That's pretty much it for my created groups...sort of. I've created another group, but that was with the help of someone else. Which I will explain in a bit, but now, onto the great groups I have joined.


My first group that I joined was ODST Recon. Which was(and probably still is) an active group when I joined. They did all sorts of things from, forum games, role playing threads(they were really fun) and a whole bunch of other stuff. I took part in most of, if not all of these events, but I didn't do much in the group. So a few months after I joined the group and spending time there, I left. Yes it was a short stay, but it was well worth it since it was an awesome group.

Now the second group I joined that I'm still in, here's a little story to it. It all started on May 10th, 2007 when I log on one day and see a message from someone named StrikerSniper77. I open the message and read it, well, it's a recruitment form and I'm sure you all know how much I don't like those things now. This one was different though, it actually got me to think about joining the group. After thinking about it a while I did finally join the group, and, I'm actually glad I did. It is by far one the best groups I've been in. The members are actually nice and don't treat you like a piece of garbage.

Umm...anyways, moving onto the actual group and what I did in it now. When I first joined it I didn't post much or do anything. That was mainly due to the fact that they liked to play online a whole lot and I didn't have Live at that point. I finally get the courage up to post more than usual and I get promoted. Sweet, fast-forward a few more months and I get a message asking if I would like to moderate the forum and be part of the first batch of moderators for the group. So I say sure, why not and stick in that role for a couple more months. Fast forward a couple more months and I am asked if I wanted to become an Administrator for the group since they were thinking about expanding a little bit. I asked what I could do to help out and was told that I could help recruit. Well, I don't recruit members that well as is obvious with my two previously failed attempts at my own group. So instead of recruiting members, which we had our own department of 5-10 members that did that, and went to doing things around the forum. Such as organizing the pinned topics and accepting news articles for the front page of the group. So then the founder saw I was doing a good job at keeping things organized and working he tasked me with like "Member Support" or something like that. All I basically did was help keep things organized and when members ask things about ranks and where things are, answer their questions. It was pretty simple and I enjoy doing it.



About May of 2008 one of the moderators opened up a database thread that contained a small little Q&A section, threads of interest, links to favorite videos and stuff plus a whole bunch of other things. Well me and another Admin(I'm sure you've heard of him, Sgt Riffle, I refer to him quite a bit on here...well earlier posts) started getting it into shape and adding all sorts of things to it. We were tasked with keeping it updated on semi-regular basis.


And that's it pretty much for that group, it's kind of quiet right now. Moving on.


There were few smaller groups I joined, but not much worth noting. The other large group that I joined was The Upper Echelon. Oh yes, that name sounds familiar doesn't it? I've talked about it quite a bit since I joined it back in December of '08.

It's a pretty simple group, the only thing I've done for it really has been organize a couple events for it. One of which was the campaign challenge, which was probably the second most successful even done for the group...mainly since there has been only three "major" events in the group. The campaign challenge was pretty popular up until about the 7th level. Then there was only two people at the end of it. I was considering bringing it back once ODST was released, but once I thought about it after a while, I just figured it wouldn't work out.

So once I made that decision I shifted gears and went to work on another idea I had. The TUE Racing League was originally proposed to the group on July 4th, but beforehand I had asked the staff if I could go about this. They said sure and I got right to work on it by finding maps to use and setting up the day of the week and time to have it on. It officially started on the second week of Sunday and went until the week before ODST was released. However, the last couple weeks nobody showed up for it. That in turn, led me to cancel the event. It was worth it I believe, a few people did enjoy it while it lasted.

There was also a third event that I was helping with, but never got started. It was called the 441 Tournament. Simply put, you gathered a team of 3 other members from the group and played four games of Action Sack and one campaign mission. The only limit to the teams was there could only be two of one rank on a team. So there couldn't be a team full of 5 Star Generals competing. Anyways, scoring was based upon the team who had the most kills at the end of the tournament. My job in it was simple, manage the campaign portion of it. I was also able to get the games from the teams and send them to the other tournament administrator. We got about three full teams of four and that was it, no one else signed up or decided to team up with others. After that Bren decided to postpone the event for a later date. However, there is rumor that it could make a return later this year.

That's pretty much my history there are TUE. Anyways, moving onto that other group I mentioned somewhere else in here.



Not sure if any of you remember this post way back when. Here, it was announcing the opening of the one group called Halo Gaming Association or HGA for short. The main purpose you ask? Well we took all the sports for Halo(Rocket Race, Grifball and a few we created...Grifball, no we didn't create Grifball) and were planning on gathering a whole bunch of people and form teams to compete in these seasons, just like normal sports do it. We got pretty far with this group, just no far enough where we could open it to the public. The co-founder(Riffle) was the forger of the group and was the leader of Team...something I forgot the name. He ran the basketball and football portion of the group among a bunch of other things. We each had our own teams(so he had his and I had my own) along with the founding team. Which consisted of both him and me and a couple other people we selected. I do remember that team name however; Team Flaming Death. Yeah, we never got far enough to actually challenge any other teams from within the group, but we did hold 2v2 scrimmages to test out new maps. I ran the Grifball and Jumpball(my own created gametype...lame name) part of it.

As a matter of fact, the map in the background here is one of the many attempts I tried for a tennis map for the group. I think I got rid of it since I didn't have a way to get the ball back into the court once it went on the other side of the wall. Perhaps I can fix that with Sandbox and the Crypt.

I think that was probably one of the best time I have ever had on B.net. I really enjoyed contemplating ideas late at night and asking Riffle about them and then working on them the next day.



That is pretty much my history in groups. Now to move onto some posts....well actually all of them. No, not all of my *insert number here* amount of posts. I'm just going to give you the really good ones that I have dedicated a post to on here. So if you do want to check out some of my older posts, feel free to check out this tag. Forum Fails, some of the posts contain things that aren't forum related so just don't pay attention to those parts.

And that is pretty much my complete history there at Bungie.net. Hope you enjoy this somewhat longer post that has been in the works for just a bit over a month. My three year join date is coming up March 29th, which I am looking forward to.

Two Weeks and finally a post

Ah yes, it's been about 2 weeks or so since I made a post. I guess trying to break that habit isn't work out to well.
Now onto the actual post instead of this random bunch of words I have been typing for the last minute or so... I'm doing it again... I'll start with a few games from the past week or so, posted in the "War Stories" thread at The Upper Echelon.
Classic game of Grifball. Storm was a great runner and tank this game, plus he got a Killtacular to boot.

200-184. Close game was awesome.

2 people up and we still loose. We even had the lead for most of the game. I'll give the other team credit for pulling out a victory, it feels good to beat a full team while down 2 people.

I love using the Banshee on 1 Flag Avalanche.

This game was great, I lasered a Banshee trying to kill Storm in a hog bringing back the flag carrier. I also like using the laser on Avalanche.

Storm gets another Killtacular in Action Sack, while we 4-0 the other team. Yes it's Grifball.
That makes 2 killtaculars that Storm has on Sandbox.

Typical game of Ninja Assault is typical. They always end in a 2-2 tie. But it's an awesome gametype!

You can have fancy Killionaire and Extermination medals, but you cannot have fancy win medal.
And even though they had a Striker Commander on their team, they still trash talked us. Fail!

I love my sword. Yet I still hate Tug of War...

Storm's first Hail to the King.

Down a person from the near start, Storm manages a third Killtac and I grab two Triples with the bomb. Plus a 3-2 win.

My second Hail to the King. I have no idea how I got my first...

Our second game of Team Scuds and this is the result...I just don't know what to say about it.
I seriously don't.

Team Splasers is the name of the gametype, yet my tool of destruction is the Magnum.
I later got cursed out for having the Magnum as my ToD, win.
That's all for the links to games.

Now to see if I can find some old posts.
I seriously need to stop being a forum cop.

What? Again, it's another one of those "why did you post that" replies.

No, you're an idiot. Nothing special, but the last post is pretty pathetic...

What....? I still want to know what friends not being good at the game has to do with being a Spartan or Elite.

Posted in the Halo 2 forum...which is better? I think Halo 2 was the better of the two. Nothing spectacular, I'm starting to get smarter.

That's the point, you're not supposed to get it. Go back to being in the dark about everything onyx.

Umm...again, what? Firstly, don't say noob, it makes you look bad. Second, it's buddy, not buddie. And finally, just shut up!

IT IS NOT THERE!!!!!!! Yeah umm, my caps lock key wasn't stuck and I'm sure it could of done with a few more exclamation points, not enough you know. Also, keep scrolling until you see my second post on the thread, I can't spell "are" it turns out as ar....

No, no you didn't complete on the "frist" day you got the game. I made the game last for about a week before we finally complete it. And come to think of it, I still haven't beaten it on Legendary solo.

I know you have seen this next post, but it's pure awesomeness(it's a word) wrapped in win.
You got it, get it, good now go get one.
That's all for some old posts. Sad to say, but it looks like I am running out of good old posts to show you.

I think I'll actually say something instead of giving you a bunch of links to mull over. Here it goes...about Grifball, yes.
Last weekend when it was around I was able to get to 148 exp in it, even though my service record shows 146. I wasn't able to get in one last game to update it correctly. So I am almost to a Major I think it is... I'm hoping to get to maybe a playlist Brigadier or something, I don't know for sure. Maybe I'll get a 500 exp and become a Grifball playlist General, who knows.

Campaign kills, ah yes, I haven't forgotten about them. I still need to get to 30,000, but it doesn't look like it will be too hard of a task. I am 1,162 away from having it, I should be able to grab them next week when I plan on going for it. Right now I am still sitting in 4th for the state of Illinois and my driver is in 5th. We've also been doing Legendary on our own and needless to say, he's just about done with the campaign on Legendary solo. I've got only 3 levels done and am regretting doing Tsavo Highway and The Storm. I guess when it comes to campaign, since I don't have the 30,000, I just want to go through on Heroic and kill some aliens not die at the same part over and over again to beat the game on Legendary. Though I will do it at one point, maybe a whole new series of posts called something like "Legendary Update" or something.

Anyways, that is all. Hope you enjoyed it. Until next week...or knowing me, the next 2 weeks.

The Nameless Post

To start off this week, I will hopefully stop starting my posts with the word "Well,". I've noticed it in my last several posts and so has my buddy Riffle. Here is what he has to say about that.
"Well I was going to stop saying well at beginning of my posts because Timmy's stuck at the bottom of a well, but we can't do anything about that- now can we?"
Well...you could say that I like wells...maybe.

Anyways, moving on already. Here are a few games from the past week or so. Really good ones at that.
The other team thought they could beat us. We pull out out an easy win.

This game was also good. I manage a Killing Frenzy.

I could of had an Overkill Extermination twice, but failed horribly.

I can has my one and only plasma pistol kill.

The other team was ahead by 20 points at one point and it was very laggy, yet we still manage to pull out a win.

I R Bungle pro!

Cursed game! Give me my triple kills I deserve!!!

I want more shotgun kills.

This game was pretty much given to the other team at the start, but yet we get some lucky spawns and manage to pull out the win.

That is all for the game links since those are the really good games that stuck out that past couple weeks.
Now, moving on. A while back ago there was a thread on the Community forum asking if you Googled your Bungie.net username or Gamertag. Well(there's that word again!) I didn't until I saw that thread, never really thought of it. So I did and it came up with this.
Yep, this is how I am bringing you these posts.

Wait....what? Yes the titles are a bit misleading, but still that post makes no sense.

A year ago today, I was someone else. And yes, it was pre my gold bar status.

Oh wait...I don't exsist anymore...

Pun fail! Oh yes...I said it.

Seriously, I am. Just in case you didn't know, I seriously am. Seriously.

Because you are supposed to be Heroic, duh.

Not anymore we don't. It's called the HALO 3 forum. Ahem...was I shouting there? Sorry.

Tal...what? I don't know what I was doing when I posted that...wow.

"Are you talkin' to me?" You got to read that one...it's great.

It must be me... It only must be me.

Just stop...stop right now. This is another one of those "What were you thinking?" posts.

That's all for now at least. I hope you enjoy it since it's not been 2 weeks since my last post.
Also, Rockets, infinite grenades and Warthogs on Blood Gulch in Halo 1 = win. Me and a friend did some crazy stuff that I would of loved to have been able to record. Backflips resulting in him getting splattered...ah yes.

More Old Posts

Well you guys remember a couple of my posts a while ago called "Back in the day"? Well this time it returns...sort of. I probably won't have a whole lot to post, but it will be more strange thing nonetheless.



I'll first open up with my posts from the Classifieds section.

You know, I think they would like a link to the group also...

That was a failed attempt to recruit members for my first group.
Okay, getting better. You might want to include some more info though.

Now you got the hang of it...

Take 1 of Legion of Elites recruiting...
...no you don't.

and take 2 plus final scene. Needless to say, I haven't created a group since then...well one maybe with some help and that didn't even turn out for us.

At long last, my very first post on Bungie.net. Not funny or anything, actually rather serious.
"O hai"


Some posts from the Community forum.
Umm....what?
I really have no idea what that post was about.

"liek cuz we r teh webteams and we says we wantz u 2 b Heeroic."
No, I'm sure Bungie's webteam doesn't sound like that. No I don't talk like that and yes I was meant to be Heroic rightfully.

"Hom"...what?


Oh yes, possibly the dumbest thing I have ever done on BNet.
Hehe, that was fun actually. I don't remember why I was warned, but I got a message the next day when I logged in and found out I was warned. I sent a message back asking who this "Disembodied Soul" was. Well after a week of no response, I got a little demanding and turned to Achronos and asked. That's when I found out the whole story of the Soul.


Yep, I remember this well. Thought my account was hacked at that time.
And as you can tell, that was long before I wanted gold so I thought Staff Captains sucked...even though I knew one at the time.

This just fails...in so many ways it just fails.
I have no idea what I was thinking at the time I posted that...

Oh my...I can forsee the future! I knew I was going to make up these posts about my early forum posts.

Do you not read onyx?


Eh, what else is new?

Umm...I don't know, I said I picked my name randomly.

Heh, this next one is great.

Or did?

Yep, I just said about 1 week later that my name had a meaning. You know what we call that, other then contradicting yourself that is? Fail.


Second dumbest thing I have done on BNet.

I remember that well...


Halo 3 forum posts. Most of these aren't that good, but some of them are worth posting.
True story actually.

Got one, got it. Got it?
I think I killed the two words, got and it in that post.

This was my only post in what is now called the "Bungie Universe Forum". Which is designed for anything related to Bungie...not the forums.
I am forums moderator for a couple groups...

This doesn't even makes sense to me still.
I have no idea what I was talking about when I posted that...fail.

Returning trip to the Flood...oh dear.

Wait...what?
I really have no idea what to say about this post.

Will it die, NO!
Fail is all I can say.

I am a Promary heavy vehicle.
Yep, I am. Now if only I knew what that was...

Heh, funny.
I had no idea that any of them counted when I ask the question in general.
I like the Banshee since you can attack people from above.
Really? I had no idea that a vehicle that flew in the air could attack people from above.

Alas, that is all. I am pretty certain that these are all of my really old good posts. The rest are actually smart. I am also proud of these moments that I am tagging this post and my other posts containing fail posts with the tag "Forum Fails"

Back in the Day 2

Some of you may remember my earlier post linking to all of my early posts on Bungie.net, so I am here to make somewhat of another post like that. Only thing is, since they had to clear some server space I cannot find any of my older posts again, which sucks. So instead of giving you old posts, I will give you a little bit of my history there.
One post though that is relatively recent:
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27070211&postRepeater1-p=2#27072360
"I like to be a part of the play."
"But, I thought that the community was a place?"
"No, you've got it wrong"

Now for some history...sort of.
What actually made me sign up for the site, was there was a thread that I wanted to post on. I don't exactly remember what the thread was about, but it was about something. When I decided to create an account I had no idea for a name so I asked a few friends. One of them picked up one of my Halo books and just randomly said "onyx spartan". I thought, "cool, I'll use it" So I get the account, then go find the community and browse it for a little while and find some threads to make a couple of my very first posts. I go on every now and then and make a post or two, not really thinking about being an active member on it. I then become more active and find out they have two forums dedicated to Halo 1 and Halo 2. So I'm thinking "Hey, sweet this is new to me." I spent alot of my time there reading those forums and learned a little more about the story and also learned that Bungie interacts with their community quite frequently as well. A couple of months went down the road and I got a message asking if I would like to join something called a group. So I respond back saying sure, why not and what is a group? Well the group was pretty cool, until I found out that it was rather...dull. Alot of people posted and all sure, but the way it was run, wasn't all that good. So I left it and started my own, well it failed horribly. Then I get another message to join a group called ERS Spartans, I join and find out it's a pretty cool group. When I joined I was one of the first 10 or 15 members to join, he then asks if I want to be a mod. So I say sure while asking him what should do since I was still new to the whole site. I am in that position for only a couple weeks before he decides to make me a journalist for the group. I held that position for a good couple of months not complaining about it or anything. He then releases an announcement for the group that contains all the recent promotions, news and other things of interest. When I saw that I realised that my name had ERS Admiral next to it, so I am like sweet what's this. I ask him and he says I am now an admin in the group, so I'm like okay cool. I had no idea what I was supposed to do, so I just went along with it. I've been in the group ever since then and it's been a year since it started.

At the height of my membership there, they introduced a "Halo 3" forum, so I went there for quite a while and posted some pretty stupid topics and I had one good topic there. If I remember correctly it was about there being air strikes in the game. Well back then I thought it was a cool idea, but now not so much. My only real good topic, but even that was later on. It was about how often do you betray your teammates. Mainly since a moderator posted on it.


That is pretty much my history there at Bungie.net. Hope you enjoyed reading it. I know it's not like my other post, but like I said I couldn't find any of my older posts since they had make more server space. Also this coming March it will be two years since I joined the site, which means if all goes well I should become a Legendary member. Which will be cool since I have been a Heroic member for a little while now, but it's been an awesome place.
Oh plus this is my 30th post on my blog here. Enjoy all!

Back in the Day

So with Bungie adding some new things to their site, one of which included the new file sharing system. They changed the search bar there. Now you can filter searches by forum, which is pretty cool I think.

Now to my point, I was searching my recent posts and found out that this new search feature, well I looked around the different forums using the search feature and found some of my very first posts on Bungie. I also found my very first post introducing myself to the community. It's amazing to see how my posts have changed since March 29th. I'll find a couple posts to show you all what I mean.

Here is the very first post in the Halo: CE forum. http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=10478276
God, now that I look back at it, it's kind of funny to see how new I was to the forums and that.

One of my older Halo 2 forum posts. http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=10478911&postRepeater1-p=1#10479055
That one would have to be one of my worst threads ever. I spelled pack wrong, didn't clarify enough for people to understand and didn't even hyperlink it for anyone. That is classic...

Another Halo: CE forum post. http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=10511171&postRepeater1-p=1#10513735 Caps lock much? No, not at all.

My first thread where I corrected someones grammar. http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=10578726&postRepeater1-p=1#10594153

Favorite levels of Halo 2? http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=10520601&postRepeater1-p=1#10520832 Well...it say, it says. Why should it speak at all?

My math fails at Halo 2. http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=10510333&postRepeater1-p=1#10510410 This was one of my favorite threads too, but my math failed that it made no sense.

Haha I looked back at this and when I posted this I never knew what a Killimanjaro was. Now I know, it's seven kills within four seconds of each other. This post translates to this: "hi I am a noob and I don't know what a killimanjaro is lol"
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=10494026&postRepeater1-p=1#10494316

I'm getting closer towards the end of a major link post or whatever you want to call it. Just a few more posts in the off topic forum. To this day I will never go to the Flood forum again...ever.

Hey, look! More capital letters!!!!! http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=10668035&postRepeater1-p=1#10668078

My first and last successful thread in the Flood, then there was the post: "this was announced a week ago..." Well sorry! http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=16462822

That's all of the links for now people, go ahead laugh at my early mistakes, but realize this; I have gotten better. I actually don't regret signing up for this site. All the things that have gone on have been fun, all the times that I have read over threads and laughed at failed logic(poor people sucks to be them at points), but hey I've been at that end as well.

Enjoy this little blast from the past of my history in the great community at Bungie.net!