I know that we talk about this a lot in private groups and even out here, but I still want to hear it. Interpret that question however you like. It can be able the Bungie or Destiny communities, about the concept of community, the people that make up a community, and so on.
The Bungie community, to me, is about a bit more than people who like the same games. It's about diverse people coming together and enjoying each other's company. When I come to this site, I know what to expect. There are "faces" and names here that I associate strongly to those people. Sure, in our everyday lives people call us by names like Christopher and Isaac and Jennifer, but here, we're not that. We're what everyone else sees us as and what we show. I think that's why the Bungie community is so unique and well-developed. We trust one another, which is why it can be scary when millions of new people sweep through it. That's part of what makes us a community.
Branching from that, people on here genuinely do care about one another. People who have met on this site have moved in together, they've fallen in love, they've met up at conventions. Me personally, I've roomed with someone from this site at PAX even though I'd never met them beforehand. I think that's incredible. We trusted each other enough to do that because of the bonds we've made over this site, be they big or small, strong or weak, new or old.
Bungie.net is a bit like a home to a lot of us here. We talk to each other about our favourite games and the things we hate about lag, but we also talk about our lives and come here for companionship. We have some genuinely great conversations, even if we forget half of them. I know that a lot of newer members either won't read this or won't really understand, but that's okay. I think that we, as a community, want you to be a part of what we have here. I'm sorry that it's not obvious at times that this place is more than just about Destiny. That's definitely partly one us as a community because we've taken to hiding in private group walls. I think now that the storm has calmed, we should start posting more often in the community section. I mean, the Seventh Column is [b][u]us[/u][/b]. We've got a reputation to uphold.
I know that most of this post is just me rambling, but I wanted to talk to all of you, just because we can. I know some of you might want me to talk about other things or provide en[i]title[/i]d ideas of how to [u]title[/u] our community with a [b]title[/b] of...okay, you get the idea. But here I am, about to click "POST" and see what happens. How are you? Are you okay? Good day? Bad day? Feel free to answer the main question, or don't. Let's just do what we used to do.
Stay classy, community.
[url=http://i.imgur.com/YPWAd.png]Image[/url]: Created by our very own talented [url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Profile/254/218625]Index[/url] for a community contest on Bungie Day back in 2012!
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Anything but this one
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To me community means [quote]everyone who's a whine bitch including me.[/quote]
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Utah's Salt Lake, [spoiler]Without water.[/spoiler]
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A collaboration of people with different backgrounds, ideals, morals, and thought processes forming a group under similar interests.
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Creating Memories Occasionally fighting Meeting new people Making Friends Upholding and supporting Not being separate Insuring that we all have fun Treating everyone fairly Yeah I guess...
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To me it means the people I love to chat with, the people I hate chatting with and then there are the jerks who hate on all of the other subclasses and call hunters huntards
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Sounds like an essay question.
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I'm definitely here for the people, the friendly, insightful, interesting, funny wonderful people I've met . Sad to say, but my love for Bungie has decreased some in the past couple of years. Everything changes, studios get bigger just like their forums, many strangers and a few friendly faces.
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People talking smack
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It means bungievison
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The Community has an abundant amount of help, respect, and kindness all over. In the forums, I have met many people who are now my friends and somewhat family. I have helped them through the toughest things that they thought they could never do. In return, they have helped me in so many similar ways. I plan to keep helping these kind people in their bright future. The Community is full of those who are creative and talented and I'm really delighted to see how much of their work is acknowledged. It is really pleasing to see so many ideas and concepts for the game. I have been here for quite a while and I plan to stay around because the Community is what I try to help stay positive. The attitudes and the environment can offer so much when you ask for so little. That's what I like about this website. The future is bright and we all plan to achieve great things here. I hope I'm here to see that.
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1 ReplyTo me this place is more than just somewhere to come to talk to people about the same thing. I have gotten to know so many amazing people from this community that I would consider good friends now. Getting to know people, I think that's what community, and this one especially, mean to me.
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5 RepliesMake Friends, play Games. There's nothing like hopping into matchmaking with your Mic on, and 5 minutes later you're best friends with 15 people from the other side of the Country/Planet, and before you know it you're playing weekly Custom Games with that same mob. You form extremely tight friendship groups, and discuss anything from personal lives to that wicked Perfection/Extermination you pulled 3 games ago. Start a chat room in XFire, have your friend from Queensland blast some Tiesto, Deadmau5 and Daft Punk, and take your Best Friends on in CTF on CMT Snow Grove. Whilst friendship groups have come and gone in my time playing Halo CE, 3 and Reach, I've found online gaming to still offer that same opportunity for amazing communities, just now with a new crowd. With groups such as FCAW, CC, TFL and 7CX, I know we've got as strong a community as ever before, just with limited tools to engage others with (*Cough* Bring back b.old *cough*). It's been a pleasure helping to get the Custom Nameplate/Avatar extension off the ground to get cool new features accessible to the wider audience. Community is a recurring topic in one of my University courses. We've discussed what it means to us, from groups of people striving for a common goal whilst confronting internal issues, to decentralized leadership. In the end, we all agreed it was a blanket term to describe people in regular contact with each other.
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Edited by Fletchful: 3/27/2016 9:44:43 PMA lot of people in this community like to socialize and play with their friends or strangers that crossed their path. It's nice to meet new people that are nice most of the time. Unfortunately a big part of this community acts like Bungie is the bane of their existence and they take it out on others. Those people make this community worse.
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The community is ... Something to do. To spend time conversing with.
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2 RepliesEverything that the Destiny community isn't.
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What "Community" means to me is the gathering of our minds to make something constructive. A good, strong, creative Community can inspire the heads of our Community (in this case Bungie). The more we construct here in the forums, the more ideas and inspiration is given. Constructing these ideas and inspiration can range from art, stories, positive feedback, and even criticism. May your Light ever Shine brighter, Guardians.
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10/10 would read again Bungie.net has a very small sense of community nowadays, and looking at older threads, that sense was much more prevalent than now.
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The word "community" brings to mind annual feasts cooked by some nice people. Some of the newer bunch could stand to use a little less salt...
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1 Reply[quote]Christopher and Isaac and [b]Jennifer[/b][/quote] Geez, way to blow my cover :p Community means people who I enjoy talking to and want to interact with on a daily basis. Honestly I don't feel much of that outside of private groups. Contests have allowed me to make many acquaintances, but those threads sometimes felt like a forced way to make friends. I am hopeful for the future of Bnet because of how I've seen the community repair since Destiny's release, but it has a way to go still.
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3 RepliesRemind me to comment later
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I wish there was a way to show you are actually certified as a crazy person... People who actually know me in real life know that half the time you get loving kind and good natured me. But the other half the time you get childish hateful mean me... I literally can't help it. I actually love this community more than anyone on here will ever know. This community has saved my life from self destruction many times. Thank you Bungie staff.
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4 RepliesSeptagon.
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4 RepliesEdited by Mechetti: 3/26/2016 12:05:42 PMDo I have to pull up my four other responses to that same question?
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Boring