Drizzy_Dan

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Welcome back to the site Admiral William

Hello and welcome to the best forum ever in the world: The 343 Industries Community Forum. We've got an awesome set of diverse members and it's easy to make friends here. I like your enthusiasm and I hope you stay for a long time EpicBeaver. If you need help finding things don't be a afraid to shoot me a PM . Note: This topic should be moved to Introductions/Goodbyes ....In before Jester... WOO

I've already been seeing a 343iCF Renaissance lately

Make one list that's like everyone who's active and people you like and then make another that's just people you've never made any contact with and aren't active at all on the site I think it'd be hilarious. It'd be better if I didn't ruin the surprise by posting this idea haha

GermanShepherdD is about to get there too most likely by tomorrow

My friend would love this stuff. Very good stuff Meta Knight

Which Playdate would you like to join? You can find upcoming events here: http://www.343industries.org/forum/topic/23437-contest-and-events-schedule-for-343-industries-community-forum/?do=findComment&comment=223592 And this weekend's registry is here: http://www.343industries.org/forum/topic/23449-reachs-monthly-community-play-date/?do=findComment&comment=223655

Hello everyone and thank you for tuning into the 22nd installment of Interviews with Stars of the Community. These have come a long way I didn't really think I'd make this many to be honest. I was worried people would get bored but the support I get keeps these coming all the time. Anyway let's get on to what went on in a really great interview I had with senior member: SuperIntendant! DD: "So what's the story about your intrigue with Super Intendent from Halo 3: ODST?" SI: "I actually did not play very much of ODST's campaign, I mostly played firefight. Despite that I always thought he was a pretty cool little side character. The idea for my name actually came from a parody thread on bungie.net which involved taking the SuperIntendent (who was a button) hostage. I just so happened to read that at the same time I wanted a new name and had a eureka moment." DD: "That's a very funny name-origin story haha are you still an active member on bungie.net now or any other forums for that matter?" SI: "I still go on Bungie.net from time to time, but not that much any more. Currently my main 3 forums are Reddit, here, and Battlelog which is the Battlefield 3 forum." DD: "Here? I hardly catch you on here! Maybe I'm not looking hard enough haha I remember when your name used to show up in the shoutbox all the time, around the time when I first joined. Back then your name was cyan colored. Would you mind sharing your history on Staff and what it was like then?" SI: "Well, I'm planning to change that, haha. I really enjoyed my time as staff on here. It was really fun to be a part of the inner workings of the site. I first got the position as part of a competition to fill two more News Group slots. You had to submit a review of a game and based on how well it was written, amongst other factors, you would be either accepted or declined. I was one of the two people who got the position and was part of it for a few months. Unfortunately some things from my personal life ended up getting in the way and I was mostly inactive for about a month and lost the position because of that." DD: "I do remember that. I was so shocked to not see your name in that color anymore. Do you have a most proud piece of news that you've shared or newsworthy story that you're most proud of?" SI: "My most memorable moment was when several people were complaining about not being able to watch an interview about Halo 4 on G4, so as it aired I took out my phone and recorded the whole thing. I had it edited, up on YouTube, and posted on here within 10 minutes of it airing. The quality was absolutely horrible, but it got the job done. As for a favorite story, I don't really have one, I liked them all equally ." DD: "Yes you did do that! I watched your phone video because I was one of those people who missed it and was complaining . So what do you do mainly when you're not frequenting the site?" SI: "School work mostly, also xbox live and PC gaming." DD: "Schoolwork can get very time consuming that's something I know firsthand. Do you have a favorite memory on the site? You've been a member for over a year now so I'm sure it'd be hard to think of haha" SI: "I think that would have to be the origin of Twammybear. Father Bullet was the one who first used it, and I've since adopted it. I remember that I was actually crying from laughing so hard, it wasn't so much the term that was funny more of the context it was used in. We were talking about something rather serious, like that huge spam bot problem we had around September of 2011 and he was making a very serious statement and he just used it in the middle of the statement like it was nothing." DD: "TWAMMYBEAR? That name alone is seriously funny . Over time how have you seen this community change SI and what is your opinion of the change?" SI: "As with any community I have seen people come and go, it's just a natural process. The biggest change has been from being that small website that people accidentally stumbled upon while trying to find Waypoint(that's how I got here ) to a forum consisting of more than 50,000 members, and that was amazing to watch. We went from being the small neighborhood in the suburbs where everyone knows each other to being the city itself. My opinion on the change is that it has its ups and downs, more members mean more opinions and a much more diverse community, but it also means that you stop knowing everyone on a more personal basis." DD: "I think that was one of the best answers I've ever gotten to one of my questions in any interview. By the way that's how I ended up here too but I couldn't be more glad to land here than there . I agree with you 1000% on everything you know we used to be so small and everyone was active and everyone knew everyone and now we're more than twice what we were maybe 6 months ago. It's pretty incredible. So when you first started on the site August of 2011 who were some names that you connected with and saw a lot?" SI: "When I first started I connected to Spectral Jester the most, I'm not quite sure why, I just did. Later when I started posting more and figured out my place here I started to become more connected with One, AD, Twinreaper, Choot 'em, and just about all of the really active members. I don't really remember who the most active members were, for a while I had the highest post count just about every day and second to me was Spectral." DD: "Really? And was the Top Dog Award still available at that time (award for having highest post count)? Those are some of the biggest names on the forum right now and it's cool to say that you were there when it was all starting. And did you and Jester ever compete for posts or did you just post in things you were interested in?" SI: "Well, I'm talking about before we had the award system. Some of the time I'm talking about was before we even had the new layout and we were still on the temporary white one. For me it was a little of both, I liked the idea of competition, but I would only post in things I was interested in. As for Spectral, I don't think he even knew I thought we were competing ." DD: "Wow I totally forgot that that summer didn't have the awards system yet and they didn't come for another half a year. That must be a very cool feeling to say you were there when there were no awards, no banner, no blue space background, no shoutbox. So Mr. SuperIntendant this interview was absolutely fantastic. Do you have any words of wisdom to provide to the newer members on the site?" SI: "Never be afraid to give your opinion, don't be afraid to talk ask questions, and keep it clean!" I sincerely hope you all enjoyed that as much as I did, it was truly a great interview. Thank you SuperIntendant for agreeing to be interviewed and thank you 343i Community once again for you support. This was another member who posted in their signature font style which I'm thankful for . I hope this is the start of SI re-frequenting the forum again. Look out for the next one!

Halo 5 is just going to be his debriefing. It'll be more of a sequence of dialogues than an action game. The cool thing will be that you get to choose his answer to certain questions and it affects the game!

You thanked Biggles?? Welcome to the club Hotdog

The activation of the Halo Array?

Wow that was awesome. Except for the girl with the scythes coming out of her forearms.. CGI looks incredible though as expected

This. Is. Weird. I really liked your name in Purple Sarge but congrats on Dedicated finally!

I wanna go back to the good old days on the forums. Mayh3m

My words of wisdom: Don't ask for a more colorful shoutbox or Jester will make your name black. If you catch my drift

My personal favorite games of all time are games I grew up playing. Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door - Quite possibly one of the best games ever to come out on the Nintendo Gamecube. Need For Speed Underground 2 - Undoubtedly the best Need For Speed game to ever come out and it had the best soundtrack. Tony Hawk's Underground 2 - Best Tony Hawk game with the best soundtrack once again. It was just a hilarious game with an awesome idea. The Halo Franchise - Seriously. Batman: Arkham Asylum & Arkham City - Probably the best super hero games to date. Grand Theft Auto IV - Personal favorite, me and a lot of my friends would go on and have tons of fun haha Guitar Hero Franchise - Revolutionary way to game.

Try visiting The Halo Forge Epidemic part of the site. I'm positive you'll find skilled Forgers there for you

This was a long time coming and I hope you all enjoy it like I did. There's a question in there that occurred before January so we didn't know SykoWolf would be our next MoM. Shout out to our January MoM and second Aussie MoM SykoWolf! Azaxx wrote this in his signature yellow font which made my posting of this interview much easier. Enjoy all: DD: "So Azaxx, what's an Azaxx?" AZ: "Thats a question so many have asked, but I'm afraid I must disappoint you. It honestly means nothing xD. About hm, 5 years so I think, something like that, I was thinking of syllables to put together to make a name for some game on the computer at school. Oh yeah, I wasn't doing work. But the two syllables Az and axe came into my head. I thought Azaxe doesn't look so great, so I put Az and Axx together giving the same sound, just looking better." DD: "That sheds a lot of light on that topic and I hope a lot of people who were curious before read this haha not doing work as usual I see. Azaxx what do you like more: Ponies or Mudkips?" AZ: "Well, that's a very tough question, since the older members know I used the Mudkip profile pic for over a year, but now I changed to ponies. Honestly they're both pretty equal. Mudkips are funny and lead to lighter conversations, however ponies also lead to a little trolling, there's nothing better than seeing someone get a little annoying with constant spamm-.... talking in the shoutbox about ponies. But if I were to pick one over the other. It would be ponies, because Fluttershy is best." DD: "I am surprised by that answer haha I was sure you'd pick Mudkips! So Azaxx, what's your favorite thing to do when you're on the forums these days? I remember when you and Donut used to compete neck and neck for the Top Shouter Award when it was still around and you actually took that award from Donut!" AZ: "My old favourite thing was to yes, try and overtake Donut for title of the shoutbox leader. But once I did that, I lost the motivation to continue to well....."spam" as some say. These days I just prefer to lurk, talk via PM's and help members any way I can... And continue to do the occasional fast paced typing in the shoutbox." DD: "Good, that makes me feel like this forum is still a familiar place knowing that you still love to light up the shoutbox every now and then with your rapid shouts . Now I know you and IrishElf or Zelda as she's named now are very good friends and I already know without question that you were ecstatic when she was awarded MoM this month. Shout out to Ms. Zelda and congrats on MoM! Do you have any honest, helpful candidates for January's MoM in mind?" AZ: "Yeah I do have some people in mind, but their names won't be told because that takes the fun out of the surprise doesn't it? Some members have truly been outstanding these past couple months. So I have no doubt that my thoughts in my head will come true in the next couple days. So I say good luck to the special members who may get that incredibly special honour." DD: "Keeping it a secret! That's no fun! Ok that's kind of fun and I guess we could wait a little to see who it is haha. So if you read my interview with Kurt that just came out but was very old, I asked him about the old Top 15 List and if it was biased or unbiased and then it disappeared for a few months. It's made its return now and I want to ask you the same thing. Do you think it's possible to have a list like the Top 15 and have it be unbiased? Also, do you see it as a popularity contest?" AZ: "I see it unbiased. I've said that in the past, and still believe it now. Sure people think it's a popularity contest, which has made some debates over its existence, but when you have a good team looking at the members of a whole, well except the banned. They look for the character of a member, someone who is kind, unique, willing to be friendly to others for no return and other good features, a list will be unbiased. The most recent one written up by Sykowolf was one of the best I think we've had. Old to very recent members got on, some shoutbox users, and some being not. So I think it's a good addition to the forums." DD: "Yes and a shoutout to SykoWolf because you are very right Azaxx, I think it was one of the best because it had such a wide array of members: old and new, forum posters and shouters. So imakequilts was just added to the Staff roster as the new head of Promotions/Events! What do you think or hope she'll bring to the title being that she's a senior member?" AZ: "I hope she can run incredibly smooth play dates and events like some great ones on the past. The occasional giveaway are hard on my view to work with, just like the Christmas tree one Absolute Dog and Syko were working with, I saw a lot of stress but also a lot of happiness from the end result. So I hope she can stay and make these things work without any worries at all." DD: "I don't have the slightest worries about imakequilts because I knew she used to be a very active and very kind member from what I've heard and she's fun to play Halo with haha. Let's jump to another subject that's more personal to you Azaxx. What's your most, or one of your most, fun or fond memories on this site? Our wonderful 343i Community Forum !" AZ: "Ohhh, of the so many things I've done this would be hard. I think it would have to come down to two options, becoming Australia's first MoM or taking Donut over for the most useless title of the shoutbox king. As much as I like well, brag over my obsessively high amount of shouts, and the time it took to beat donut. I think being MoM was the best moment I've had on the site. Probably because it felt so unique and special being someone not from USA or UK." DD: "Being the first Australian MoM is a very big deal. Being MoM in general is a hugee deal in itself! What do you think of the new crowd that's flocked to the site since before the release of Halo 4? Do you find yourself meshing with them and making a lot of new friends or do you like to lurk because you wait for some familiar names to pop into the shoutbox?" AZ: "I lurk a huge amount more these days. Only coming on for friends or to help someone who isn't getting anything from the shoutbox users. Sadly the shoutbox has gotten a little more "hostile" with the huge flock of haters, but nothing that should deter our lovely members here. As for the new crowd, they can be incredible, but at the same time a worry. Great friendships I have seen have been made with the newly greens and the older members of all colours. But those specialisations code members, big worry trying to sort it out." DD: "You bring up a very significant issue that occurs here on the forums and I like to talk about those and what the members think of them. What's your take on members trading codes and posting codes for MS points and so on and so forth? And do you think we do a good job of keeping this issue at bay?" AZ: "I think moderators made a great choice with the new policy with code trading. It's also risky giving a code or something that you can't physically see, because of the risk of fraud. The idea of trading with someone is nice, and special to get something you want in exchange of something else. But that does not always does that go to plan, as we've found out unfortunately." DD: "I couldn't agree with you more there Azaxx. And with that said I'd also like to say it's been great getting to know you more and I hope a lot of the newer members get to reading this. So Azaxx what is some advice you have to offer the newer members with hopes of becoming long term members here like yourself?" AZ: "Be yourself and make the best of things around you. Make long lasting friendships with the great people surrounding you, be kind to everyone, even if they aren't you best of friends. Being kind shows all who you really want to be and that is a great member." Nice and simple! Azaxx was very fun to talk to and interview and although it took a while for me to finally get things going, it didn't take too long to get it actually finished. Thank you Azaxx for participating and thank you 343iCF for reading and commenting and liking these and encouraging me to keep doing more. Once again shout out to our MoM SykoWolf who got a nice mention by Azaxx for just being the great member he is. Thank you again!