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This doesn’t need much of an introduction. Watch me play Halo 3. Rough cut, I’ll polish it up soon.
For a higher resolution download, you can get it here… Stuuuuuuutage v1.0
Lemme know what you think!
I really have an addiction to Media. More importantly, Entertainment Media.
Movies, movie trailers, books, video games, tv shows, music, photography, and anything that involves watching, creating, talking about, or doing any of those activities and I’ll probably be involved.
So, seen any good movies lately? Read any good books? Played any good games?
I never caught Superbad in theaters, as it came out right when I was moving to Chicago, but I hopefully will get it for X-mas and laugh my ass off. I’m looking into a few more books to read, The Dark Tower series by Stephen King still are my favorite. As for games… I’m still addicted to Halo, but I do want to play Call of Duty 4 and Rock Band over X-mas. I hope I get both of them, because they are awesome.
I saw this on HawtyMcBloggy this morning and thought I’d join in even if I didn’t officially sign up for it. It’s ok, I know Ms. McBloggy and she’s already fired me and put me on her “Protection List” which is the equivalent to the mob’s hitlist.
One of my first gaming moments was when we got Super Mario Bros for the NES. I found the game to be incredibly challenging since I was 4 at the time, and that there was no save function so you had to do it all in one sitting. I had a babysitter who would play it with me and she was even more skilled than me. In my defense, she was at least 14 at the time and had much more practice. So even in the early days of my gaming, I was introduced to Women in gaming, where they kicked my ass.
Some memorable gaming moments growing up, Getting my N64, and then not getting a game for it for two weeks because they were sold out. Goldeneye matches with my 3 friends that we would do all day. All of the time’s we would spend the night at Hunter’s house, stay up all night playing one match of Goldeneye for about 12 hours.
When I was a Senior in High School I was enrolled in a Programming class, where we stumbled upon LAN networking and being able to play Unreal Tournament with everyone in the class. We would hurry and get our day’s assignment done in about 15 minutes, then spend the next hour blasting away in 8v8 matches. We even had a challenge against the other Programming class across school one day after a few day’s worth of trash talking.
Gaming with my friends in class led me to get invited to a buddy of mine’s Halo LAN. I had heard of it, but never played it before I went up to the church we were using as our LAN space. It was an impressive sight for someone so new to LAN’s. There were two projectors set up and two TV’s as well. There were 14 other guys up there, and I went with my friend Shane a.k.a. Bad Karma. We sat down, set up our profiles, and got introduced to Halo the right way. 8v8 Capture the Flag on Blood Gulch. At first, I was thrown off by the controls and we were finishing at the bottom of the group in 15th and 16th place. By the end of the night we had moved up to 12th and 13th place.
Over the summer, we LAN’d as much as we could. By the end of the summer, I was able to snag top honors once in a while, as it was a truly epic match up with everyone there.
Those are only a few of the moments that I can recall at a moment’s notice, but it was the progression of how I became a Gunslinger. Without these moments, I wouldn’t ever have been enthralled in the online gaming community and could have ended up doing something productive with my time.
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Do the people drive the culture at TTL or is the TTL effect changing the people involved?
I believe when the mission was founded, the people that upheld the culture, started something bigger. There used to be only a handful of us that were active in the TTL community. We had to drive home the message of Good Game. We tried to recruit like minded individuals, and for the most part that’s what we got. Our retention rate is incredibly high. Makes a Minister of Personnel sleep easy at night with that statistic.
However, I think that a lot of people who aren’t necessarily a perfect fit for the TiedtheLeader community who get involved with us for a few games and their attitude changes. They strive to play more like us. We’re not the most talented gamers, we take pride in what we do though. We fight hard, and we are consistent. We communicate, we don’t yell at each other. We say “Good Game” to the other team.
I think that type of attitude is infectious, and our Community is thriving. We have new people coming by all the time, and joining in on our games. Therefore at this point, I think the TTL culture is the cause for influence. By gathering an incredible core group of people to spread the mission, and keeping an eye on maintaining that culture, it has become a point of pride, a point of respect. If one of us lets up on the mission, then you let down your entire community.
We just celebrated our 2nd Gunniversary. 2 full years of forming friendships, memories, and some intense games. We won some, we lost less and we did it with honor.
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Stu and Ballistic, originally uploaded by TTLStuicide.
This is a picture taken from the game Halo 3.
It’s a great new feature to be able to replay a game, and pause it for a cool screenshot, which then sends it to Bungie.net
From there I download it on my computer and upload it to Flickr from which I can make this blog post and deliver a picture, I took, from a game last night to the world.
Fancy stuff huh?
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A year and a half ago, I was in search of an online-gaming Community. I was a lone gamer in the world of Xbox LIVE and the pungent filth on LIVE was close to forcing me to fold my hand. I visited HBO a lot and started reading a blog entitled “Tied the Leader”, the narratives I read made me laugh, and realize there were other gamers out there with a priority on having fun and trying to enjoy the game in it’s purest form.
I joined the TTL Gunslingers on January 11th, 2006. The Mid-World Forum was just created so I signed up on the forum and began my posting spree. Now, 17 months later, I average 22.454 posts a day. Every day.
When I first joined the Gunslingers, we were about 25 people strong. We quickly raised our membership over the next few months, while fighting sloth from older members who have gotten bored online. I was promoted to one of the lead moderators and Overlords which is an incredibly rare promotion in May last year. Since then, I’ve traveled to Chicago, Michigan, and Florida to meet and hang out with Gunslingers. We’ve been profiled on numerous other gaming websites, our roster is jam packed at 100 strong, and we’ve established a reputation that makes me proud every day.
When I signed up, I never knew I’d end up helping lead this great Community to where it is today. We never had a master plan to become popular and get some of the privileges that we’ve gotten. Believe it or not, we’re writing the rulebook as we go and thing have been constantly changing.
When you look at it, the Community is only a Sum of it’s members and that’s one of our strengths. I have no clue what is in store for us in the future but I know it’s going to be bigger and better things.
One from Many.
-Stuicide
TTL Gunslingers
Overlord/Minister of Personnel
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If you’ve seen the movie “Fight Club” then you know that rule #1 is that You don’t talk about Fight Club.
Fight Club was a subculture of guys, meeting in different places and beating each other up, only to form a friendship, a bond. It’s really hard to explain that to someone who doesn’t go there to experience it themselves.
In a similar manner, Online Gaming has become a subculture that cannot be understood by those who don’t experience it. There are “Fight Clubs” all over the internet. They go by the term “clan” or “Gaming Community”. Hundreds of thousands of gamers flock to these websites in search of a like-minded gamer.
For the uninitiated, it’s hard to understand why at 2 a.m. on a Saturday that you have to log on to your favorite virtual battlefield and talk to a bunch of avatars that you only know by aliases.(There are no names in Project Mayhem) For the initiated, it’s hard to understand why someone doesn’t want to frag with a group of friends after a fun evening out.
Just like plugging into the Matrix, it’s a world where the normal rules don’t always apply. You can jump higher, run faster, and do things that aren’t possible in your day-to-day life. You can be a hero, or a villain if that is your fancy. You can defend your base, or steal someone’s flag.
Just remember, when you’re walking around out in the “real world” that Gamers walk amongst you, seemingly exactly the same. Welcome to the subculture of gaming.
We are here to game, and we won’t leave until our game is had.
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For the last few days, I’ve been categorized into a group of Friends & Family, with a one Bungie Studios.
What does this all mean?
Since Friday, I’ve been playing [and playing] in the Halo 3 beta before it goes public. At any given night there are roughly 2-3 thousand players playing it. For those of you who are used to Halo 2’s Matchmaking system, you’ll be able to navigate the beta very easily, but the biggest difference in the beta so far is that almost every game ends with “good game” and everyone has been really cool.
Let’s see how it all changes on Wednesday when anyone can come play. I’ll be excited to school these kids on Wednesday when they are all lost, and I know exactly where everything is.
More about the beta later.
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Halo has been good to me lately. Played a lot of good games lately and been winning a ton. It’s fun.
That is all.
