Bungie has provided me a wealth of content and time, a way to lighten my darkest hour and find some of my finest, oldest friends. I've been a gamer since I was three years old and the SNES was brought into my house. Then we had a mac, and I experienced my first encounter, fatefully, with Bungie Studios and the classic Marathon. We touched for a chance meeting, strangers on a train, and I didn't find Bungie again until Myth, and Marathon's release on the PC. And I was hooked. I believed in Bungie, and I followed, for the first time, a developer, not a franchise. It was HALO: Combat Evolved that led me to the Xbox and that beast of a controller; The Duke. If it wasn't for Bungie, I would've never experienced what I believed was the finest console in a long time; the 360. But, before that, a lost gem called Oni on the PS2. An instant classic, and one of the last games I played on my PS2 before it died in 2006. It was Halo 3 on the Xbox 360 that made my decision to move to the, at the time, next gen, and it was on Halo 3 that I met some of my finest, greatest friends that I've ever had; across oceans and vast space (some of 'em are aliens), we've endured the difficulty of the Vidmaster, the harrowing journey of Noble Team, and the most rain misted times, the dark ages. Since 2010 we've only had faint glimmers of Bungie's brave new world, a tease in ODST, a faint whisper in our ears over a candle lit dinner. But for four years, Bungie Day past with but a whimper, and not the loud echoes of Marty O'Donnell's instantly classic score, Bungie had gone dark. But they have lit our darkest hour, a light from the Traveler leading us through our pathways of darkness of what felt like a marathon sprint through the greatest of myths, running around in circles trying to find our Destiny.... And now, here I sit, moving to the Xbox One for the ultimate Bungie experience, and a blessed Bungie Day with some of the greatest of friends; both new, and honoring old ones long gone. 7hank you Bungie. For the memories, for the friendships, and for kicking ass since 1991. I look forward to starting a new journey with you. Who knows, maybe this one will be an even greater journey.