Drizzy_Dan

I know I haven't had one of these up in a while but these take time to do and this member was very busy before we started and busy throughout. However, I think this one is well worth the wait because I found this interview to be fantastic. Here's imakequilts's interview DD: "Alright imakequilts your name is pretty self explanatory so we can skip the name origin story haha how long have you been into quilt-making?" IMQ: "Well Dan I made my first quilt 20 years ago but I have been into quilt-making for around 10 years." DD: "Wow I assume you've made a whole lot of quilts in that time then haha what influenced you into quilt making if you don't mind me asking? I'd like the readers to get a more personal view of you than one of you on the site and don't worry we won't get too personal haha" IMQ: "Well my mother and grandmother and great grandmother all made quilts. So I just naturally followed in quilt making. About 10 years ago I got involved in a quilt group within the church I was a member of and that started the roll of producing lots of quilts. I have probably made close to 100 quilts in the last 10 years. On top of that I quilt other peoples quilts for them with my computerized quilting machine. I do about 150 of those a year in my spare time." DD: "I was wrong. That's not just a lot of quilts, that is A TON of quilts haha that's pretty great. So with all the quilt making going on in your life, how did you come across the Halo franchise? Quilt making and video gaming are two very different things :lol:" IMQ: "First of all I have been into video gaming for quiet a while. My first computer was a TRS-80 color computer. Back then the way to save files was on an audio cassette tape. I spent hours typing in BASIC code from magazines and then playing the games. It was a lot different back then. I also bought an Atari Lynx when it first came out. I still think it was a lot better then the Game Boy. A friend introduced Halo to my children and me back before halo 3 came out. We did quiet a few split screen (4 player) games of Halo 2. And honestly I could not figure out how to move in that game. It just did not click. But my children were hooked so for Christmas that year the children got a halo 3 limited edition xbox. After I put the children to bed I would meet up with our friend for a few games. At some point my friend decided that we would play Rockets on Guardian. The only way I could actually get kills :-) I did become pretty good with rockets. I played with him for over a year before I was good enough to play with other people. Then I would only play lone wolf because I was not going to let down a team member because I played so badly. After about 2 years I ventured out into the social playlist. Made a few friends who I did not want on my children's account so I created my Imakequilts account. And by the way Imakequilts was after I had tried like 20 other gamer tags. It was out of desperation that I ended up with that for my gamer tag." DD: "Now that's the answer I was looking for. You've had a long history in gaming, I had no idea. By the way, imakequilts is a great name because it's simple and cool. So with that all being said, how'd you come across the site?" IMQ: "Absolute Dog is the one that told me about the site. Back when he first joined he told everyone he came in contact with about the site. I could tell how excited he was about it so I came over to check it out. Back then I just read a lot and did not post much. It was one of Choot'em's puzzles that got me really involved in the site. He drove me totally crazy trying to figure out those puzzles. I did eventually figure out one of them but that was after weeks of spending hours trying to figure it out." DD: "I know that you and Choot 'em are actually good friends on the site and have been for a while, you've even sent him a quilt! But who else besides Choot and Dog did you connect with early on in your membership?" IMQ: "Well it depends on what you mean by connected. I remember having a lot of respect for KAC31, The Director, skummgummigubbe, Azaxx and Donut for their maps in the forge contest I participated in and I enjoyed playing on their maps during the play dates. I added Spades N AZ to my list of friends because I was joining in on play dates and he was fun to hang out with. I remember having a great time with the play dates AgentLoFi hosted. I did not like DoctorB77 because he slaughtered me in a 1v1 tournament. And for the record I like DoctorB77 just fine now but that was just my first real encounter with him and no one likes to be beaten badly. I always enjoyed getting a friendly note from ZB-85 in the shout box whenever I would get on it. I remember being totally shocked to win my second forge contest because I really did not have any “close” friends on the site to boost my votes by popularity so people must have really liked my Quilting Bee Map. I could go on with all the people I've connected with as I have come across a lot of people in my time on here but I think you get the idea." DD: "I voted for Quilting Bee to win in the Heads Up Tournament Forge Contest! Great map. So are you a Forger? Do you like making Forge maps in your time on Halo?" IMQ: "I do like to forge. I don't have a lot of time for it but when I can get some quality time I enjoy it. I can say I enjoyed forging more than playing Reach. Not had much time to work on forge in halo 4 yet. I'm working on my first project there but I'm not sure I'm enjoying the forge in Halo 4." DD: "Yes I have to say Halo 4 Forge is very intricate and all but Reach's was full and easy to learn. I was alright when Forging in Halo: Reach but in 4 I'm just lost haha. So quilts, could you explain how becoming the head of Promotions and Events came into your view?" IMQ: "Well Dan I'm not really sure how I ended up in this position. I have been involved in participating in quite a few of the contest of the site and play dates for most of my time on here. I have come up with some ideas and events that I passed on to Absolute Dog. And he took some of those ideas and made something of some of them. I came up with the idea of Survivor Halo Style and I was involved in making it become a reality. I did a lot of the forge work on the maps and hosted a few of them, but only when I had to because hosting is not my thing. One day I told Absolute Dog that he needed to fix the contest and events forum and instead of pinning so much stuff come up with one thread to list the events so it would be easier to see what was really going on. He said something along the lines of why don't you do it. I actually thought he was just telling me to mind my own business. But he came back to it a few times. Actually when he asked me it was during a really busy time for my quilting and it was a couple of months later before I could even consider it. I eventually agreed to do the position with the understanding that I was not hosting events but just organizing them." DD: "And a great job you do at it. Your job is not easy for all the readers reading this that think it is haha. So speaking of events, are there any ideas floating for the new event for the first weekend of March?" IMQ: "Yes there are ideas floating around for 1st weekend in March." DD: "So they're being kept under wraps? I like surprises! I can't wait to see what'll come up on that weekend. Quilts is it true that you have the ability to appoint awards to members yourself?" IMQ: "Well we have finally finalized the details of the first weekend in March and you will be the first person I tell about it. It will be an awesome custom game play date in Halo 4. Lets just say that Absolute Dog has been collecting maps that will be worth everyone's time to come out and see and play! As for the awards yes I do give out the awards for the play dates and Spades custom game nights." DD: "Incredible!! I'm very honored actually that I'm the first outside of the events group to know! And now our readers will know soon so I guess a thread should be posted about the new event soon . Well imakequilts this has actually been really fantastic. A great interview, you've had quite the story to tell. So now quilts I ask you the final question I ask all my interviewees: What advice or words of wisdom do you have for our newer members and readers?" IMQ: "Well Dan. We are here on this site because we love to talk about halo and other video games. I just have one word of advice. Let's not take so much time talking about the video games that we forget to PLAY the video games." Quilts had some excellent answers to my questions and she could really tell a story. If you're reading this and want to get to know imakequilts more, ATTEND SOME PLAY DATES. Thanks quilts for taking time out of your schedule to do the interview and thank you 343i.org. Let's hope my next interviewee responds this month. Hail

You should message imakequilts about these Play Dates before you make threads about them and she can help you make them into something official Frank. For the record I'd be willing to do this though!

I have not a clue what could be in store for season 2 other than Halsey working to get some sort of revenge on the UNSC. To be honsest I HATE what they did with Halsey. She was presumably good in all of the books until Glasslands where she was made to look evil and then there was The Thursday War and now in Spartan Ops they've made her to be a one armed evil scientist bent on revenge against the UNSC??? COME ON 343! WHY?

Finally a place to catch them all! Good job to you all for actually putting time into these HaloGeek's accent is so great haha Church excellent job as well really. Kudos to everyone.

You can do the next one too I just like guessing. I suck at writing riddles haha

Jun Helmet: Scout

I'm pretty sure 343 said there's be multiple seasons not just multiple episodes. No source, I think I just remembering them saying at some point in life

I believe this will be the end of the season but I don't know to be honest. There will be more episodes and more seasons.

Welcome to our humble abode Kingly Bacon

I kinda like these little weapon polls haha and I like to add the other games into it just cuz. Halo 2: Rocket Launcher. Halo 3: Rocket Launcher. Halo: Reach: Plasma Launcher. Halo 4: Incineration Cannon.

In Halo 2: Beam Rifle. Halo 3: Tied. Halo: Reach: Sniper because the Focus Rifle was awful garbage. Halo 4: Sniper Rifle.

Agreed with both previous posts. Me and my friend have been talking about this since Halo 4 came out. We've always wanted a grenade assassination like in Forward Unto Dawn if you ever saw Chief do it there. Oh man imagine... By the way welcome to the site

Hello all thanks for clicking this link to the Weekly Site Wrapup I am Drizzy_Dan if you didn't know. Let's get right into now: CUSTOM GAMES NIGHT Spades N AZ's Custom Games Night Alright so I found myself back in Lil Dog's party once again on Custom Games Night. We always play fun games in Lil Dog's lobby like Flood gametypes on cool maps. Skumm hosted a little bit and we played a fun game of Ro Sham Bo Jr. where our Spartans were modded to be smaller but our weapons were the same size and that got laughs out of everyone. We played Drag Race and Minotaur and we even did some regular Infinity Slayer which was nice. Participants: DoctorB77, Banehalo, skummgummigubbe, Lil Dog, Osama Bin Bungie, Church, GermanShepherdD, Spyro, and Diskreat Spades N AZ's friends list is full so to get onto his alternate account's friends list to participate in Custom Games Night click here. - All participants of Custom Games Night hosted by Spades N AZ receive his Golden Spade Award. DESTINY Legends of the gaming industry, Bungie, launched their ARG, or Alternate Reality Game, for their upcoming title: Destiny. The ARG requires fans to attend alphalupi.bungie.net where they input geomantic symbols that unlock encrypted pictures that started blurry. The pictures increase in clarity with the increase in people that frequent the site. Each picture unlocks poems that supposedly leave hints to the game Destiny by Bungie but who can say what they really refer to in the game? Find Adamj's thread on the Destiny ARG here. The conclusion of Bungie's ARG will end in a new ViDoc. Hopefully this won't actually end the ARG but will give hints to the next direction Bungie wants us to follow it. Here's Bungie's new ViDoc about Destiny called Pathways Out of Darkness DGL Week 4 has begun. Info on the DGL can be found at these links: Rules_and_Info Weekly_Match_ListMatch_Results/Leaderboard Gametype_and_Scoring_Info Participants: Crimson A71William, Ryboss96, Skys, Drizzy_Dan, asdf_wrex, Gazzy Mill Mill, Neurotic Kasper, Vinceee, Real Talk, Vaulting♥Frog, Kalaphite250, IKKSE2113 Majestic da monsterchief, Hater, GermanShepherdD, Oni, Sarge, SikSlik7, M4L1C1OU5, EpicEthan97, Lil Dog, Badass_Sniper, Choot 'em, Liam Simmons Sheeran, Forum Dinosaur Results from the past week: 2/10 - Choot 'em went up against da monsterchief and lost unfortunately 11 to 16 2/11 - GermanShepherdD once again crushed his competition and beat Lil Dog 20 - 4 2/13 - M4LIC1OUS overpowered Hater in their match and won 20 kills to 1 As of now no division leaders have been announced due to the lack of matches played. Eliminations from DGL caused by inactivity begin this week. FEATURED INTERVIEWS Absolute Dog - Our humble Site Moderator's story of his time between his hiatus and his position now. FORGE 343 Industries Community Forum and The Halo Forge Epidemic bring you the Meet Your Maker 4vs4 Infinity Slayer Forge Contest. I mentioned that the judges would be huge names in the Forge Community and so I actually got a list of the entire team and it is awesome. I asked Absolute Dog who some of the judges were and he told me: "The judges are Alzarahn (of Blueprint Forge Group), WARHOLIC(of The Halo Council), Ducain23, SaItyKoalaBear, Rezix333, OakleyHiDef(of THFE), Psychoduck(of THFE), Spades N AZ and myself. That is the entire team." Those really are HUGE names. Check out the badass trailer video and the rules here. Submission thread that you can post your maps in is here. Featured Map Here's a map that caught my eye in our Forge forums. The map is called Dusk and was Forged by a member named @Yama. His map is very aesthetically pleasing and aims to be ideal for 1v1s and 2v2s. I'd love to provide a screenshot of the map but for some reason I'm just not able to copy and paste a picture nor use the media BBCode for it. *cough Choot 'em help me cough cough* I immediately knew this would be a good map when I saw that THFE's Psychoduck posted the last comment really thanking Yama for the time and information he provided. Check out the map here please. GAMING NEWS Member of our 343i.org News Group, Lil Dog, has begun a wrap-up of his own. It's well done and shows you pictures from the topics discussed and he also includes his own blurbs on them. If you're interested in all that gaming news has to offer in a week click here. QUILT QUALIFYING PLAY DATE Halo 3 Play Date Much better turn out with the Halo 3 Play Date than last week's Reach Play Date. We started off with some matchmaking then went into some custom games. We played Slayer mostly but we also played some objectives like One Flag, Juggernaut, and Territories. There was a good amount of lag to no one's surprise but that wasn't going to make us quit a game that we all love. All in all it was a good time. If you weren't there you missed out. Here's who I saw: Absolute Dog, imakequilts, JXZAW, Red Death, EliteISnip3r, HaloGeek, Elite, skummgummigubbe, Bobo Magroto, DoctorB77, adamj004, and Lil Dog At the later lobby after 6PM EST: Total Mayh3m, SweatyBagels, Harbinger, HaloGeek, Absolute Dog, and imakequilts Everyone who participates in any Community Play Dates gets the Gamer Award: Attend Play Dates, rack up awards! SURVIVOR: HALO STYLE Signups for Survivor: Halo Style Season 2 were prolonged until Friday. Season 2 Tryouts began last week and were run again Saturday at 5 pm EST. Questions will have answers provided by the Absolute Dog in the Survivor Q&A here. PODCAST The Podcast is run by the Dedicated members LiQuidßioniX♠, SykoWolf, Sarge, and Minuette. They host these every Friday and then they are posted during the week after that. They're long but they're very funny and a good deal of work actually goes into making these. LiQuidßioniX♠ happens to be the Podcast's editor so he provides the music and clips and such. This week's Podcast featured Brony and, briefly, Zaguroth. Catch the 5th 343i.org Podcast here. You should subscribe to the 343i.org Podast's YouTube Channel by clicking this or, starting next week, by the title of the section that says "PODCAST" That's it for the WSW this week so thanks for reading. More big things on the way! Now scroll up to the top and read it all over again.

Isn't it weird that I was reading this one today and thinking the same thing? I've even featured it for tomorrow's Wrapup already haha

Good luck on your exams Godfather, don't forget about the site though! We hope to see you back in 2 weeks

Adam actually knew about the Cortana letters but it must've slipped his mind when writing this. He's the one who pointed them out to me. I love Bungie's ARG's

Did this thing just eat my post and make it it's own?? Oh forget it I forgot I said that in my first post

^^ He has the best voice you want his Russian accent in the Podcast!

I enjoyed it all the way through even though these things are freaking long! And Zag yea when you said that I laughed haha