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the train from the multiplayer map "Terminal"

20 years and 20 days more but the memories remain

SPOSpartan104

Remember remember the 9th of November
The covenant’s treasonous plot

I know of no reason
Why this age old treason
Should ever be forgot

Of twenty years
And twenty days more
We look back upon these adventures of yore
Of dual held plazzies
And charging swords galore

We gazed headlong down the networks of matches
From turf to midship, abound were the clashes
Zanzibar to Terminal we fought like no other
On tombstones, and turf
We all are but brothers

So on this day
We remember all those
Who fought by our sides
Even our foes

I hope this brings you memories
That brighten your eyes
Upon your cheek a stain
… Hey what’s that sound.
Oh crap it’s the tra*

killed by the guardians

…
That damn train

It’s insane to think it has been this long. I used to do the occasional “Remember the 9th post” and when I realized it had been 20 Years I was inspired to do one for old times sake.

Now why did I give this train such a focus? It has to do with when they turned off the halo 2 Servers and me being one of those madlads who stayed on for hours after it was shut down. I signed off around 5am Eastern time and one of my final matches took place on Terminal. Me being me and overtired I started doing weird things like jumping in front of this Train and saying “My last time getting killed by the guardians by train” over voice chat. The entire group in this match on both team started doing similar with such glorious acts like, “My last team kill”, “My last self ‘nade”. To this day I know I still have some of those cool folks on my xbox friend’s list; Sadly I can’t recall which randos on the list that they are. Where ever you all may be, thanks for the good times and “Empr” still remembers the good shenanigans. Happy 20th and 20 more.

Now if only I could get all the folks back into MCC we could have good times once more.

~Spartan 104

It’s nearly that time again :)

SPOSpartan104

Halo day approaches.
Are you ready?! Sadly I may not be able to celebrate like I usually do.
So I leave it up to all of you.Make this november 9th special by destroying as many covenant as possible.

I will be making another post shortly after midnight, with a little surprise. I hope you all enjoy it 🙂

~SPOSpartan104

REACH. It’s almost here

SPOSpartan104

Reach is upon us!

The day we have all waited so patiently for.

I know it has been a while since my last update, I was being followed *shifty eyes*.

My next post was supposed to be me revealing the diamonds I found in my xbox. After the video was made shady characters began following me smelling a lot like manly people who bathe in Old Spice… Therefore I have been reluctant to post it. It will be made public tonight while they are distracted with the Launch of REACH.

Speaking of which!

Join me later for an unboxing and the my revelation upon opening my Box of X. As well as the video of my diamond search!
[fergcorp_cdt]

Stay Tuned Spartans,
~SPOSpartan104

Big News Week: Reach, Bungie,Activision, Did I say Reach?

SPOSpartan104

News item 1:

 Halo Reach Beta starts next monday, but the Friends and Family Beta Starts THIS WEEKEND, if you haven’t noticed from the insane amoutn of twitter traffic.

News Item 2:

Bungie and Activision enter into potentially Faustian Deal.  The Deal links the two for the next ten years, while this isn’t necessarily good/bad news, it is … interesting. We all know Halo is owned by Microsoft. That is not an issue. What is an issue are the shenanigans that happened with Infinity ward. Here’s hoping that Activision doesn’t use their sole bungie publisher power for evil. NOTE: Helping Bungie towards world domination does not constitute as evil.  Gamepro has an article showing some reactions to this news: http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/215016/tell-us-how-you-really-feel-activision-bungie/ (featuring a tweet from yours truly:) )

News Item 3:

OMG HALO REACH…

News Item 4:

 Lastly I want to leave you with some people I am jealous of and must say are going in my book as micro heroes: http://gizmodo.com/5526334/halo-2-superfans-refuse-to-let-the-dream-die
Anyone who can keep Halo 2 online for that long with an original XBOX deserves Credit. I SALUTE YOU!

~SPOSpartan104

PAX East day 1

SPOSpartan104

My update from the first day of PAX. I will Post about days 2 on day 3 and day 3 after it’s over:P

“
This is SPOSpartan-104 reporting from the first PAX EAST, and So far this seems to be
running efficiently and quite well and according to those that usually come here for Anime Boston and I must agree. Kudos to Gabe and Tycho for pulling what looks to be the best run entertainment con in Boston.
The events I hit were: Keynote (WIL WHEATON!), Organizing a Child’s play fund raiser (GO SEG!), and A LAMP Screening (a documentary of text adventures) I GOT STEVE MERETZKY’s AUTOGRAPH!!! ( If you don’t know who that is he is one of the forefather’s of the gaming industry. ) I would have attended more but frankly the lines were a bit much and this was my first con. I was not quite prepared for the 3hr waits.

By far the highlight of the day was the keynote speech by Wil Wheaton of which I took some notes from the first half hour:

To all those pandering pedantic politicians who talk about how indifferent, antisocial, and dangerous we are, We have grown so much that an annual gathering in just one city is not big enough to hold us.

I was going to start this speech with “I’m Wil Wheaton and Jack Thompson can suck my balls wicked hahd” and while it’s a moderately funny thing to say nobody gives a shit about Jack Thompson. Jack Thompson has been disbarred and he is as relevant as Jack Chick(ask your parents). Him and people like him were wrong about everything they thought about us. When someone yells at me and tells us how horrible we are I don’t feel stabby anymore and I can say “We disagree”. All 50000 of us who came to Boston, in March, in the snow to play games TOGETHER!

From a generation who wrote systems so ourr children wouldnt have to.
The next 72 hours this is our time

” This was a keynote full of win.

It was great to see some friends of mine doing their talks. Great Job Seg (@theSeg) on the Child’s play panel and Jason Scott (textfiles.com)  “GET LAMP” was awesome, and I cannot wait to buy it when it’s finished.

On another fun note of the day: Even New England wanted to make PAX interesting so just as New England does it went from being 60 on Thursday to snowing today(friday)! Oh New England You show those out of towners how we roll.

Before I end this post one last thing about the keynote that I would like to share with you, and if anyone posts it online I highly recommend watching it: Wil Wheaton finished off the keynote with a series of gaming references to show the range of gamers at this con. My Personal favorite was the first one “It is very dark” (You are likely to be eaten by a grue.)

Today was a great day and as I am sure you can tell so much has gone on that I can’t keep my thoughts straight. Thank You PAX!

~SPOSpartan104

“Wil Wheaton When he rides a bike, he makes the pedals go.”