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Edited by FoxTrottts: 7/14/2022 2:13:43 AM
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Nostalgia hour with FoxTrottts

How are we doing everyone, hope you're good. Odds are I don't know you and you don't know me, but my account will be 9 years old later this year, it's 3 AM where I'm at, and I'm feeling a little nostalgic. Was pretty active here a good 5-6 years ago, bunch of topics and threads made, lots of fun had. Life moves on and so do we, eventually I found myself unable to really do much because, at the time, I didn't play Destiny, and you needed a linked guardian to post anything. That was my cue to leave. I've been playing D2 for over a year now, D1 for a few on and off, and I'm pretty comfortable in it, at least in pve anyway, I still find it damn near impossible to hit 3 headshots in a row with a 140 hand cannon that does 96% of the work for me like a god roll Austringer. Anyway enough about me, this is the nostalgia hour. Gimme your favourite memory from Bungie's past. Could be something in D2 that isn't there anymore like the intro mission in the old tower, getting to wield the sword in your first clear of Crota's End, shooting the -blam!- with some dudes you've never met before between games of SWAT in Reach, going for hours with your little brother in ODST firefight, anything. For me it's these forums back when I was active. Spending a couple hours going through threads, recognising people like Biosmiley day after day, without a care. Grab a mug of hot chocolate and settle down around the campfire for storytime, all nostalgia welcome.
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  • Edited by Sumpig-2: 7/15/2022 11:36:27 AM
    (I'll employ the use of spoilers to make the post smaller) It's been a while since I enjoyed D2, I started during free November with Forsaken and decided to try it out. I had seen the Taken King (or Rise of Iron, I forget) DLC in GameStop a year or so ago (from when I started playing) and thought the armor looked sick. If I had the base game I would've bought it but that was... above [i]little me's[/i] price range... I really enjoyed the designs of armor and guns and the class system was fun. I like RPGs that allow customization and cutscenes, so I stuck with it. Edit: Also the music was nice. I could sleep to it, so it passed. It was my favorite for a while. Even after Battlefield 1 (my first FPS) and Battlefront 2 (I love the clone wars era) mainly cause of how shiny it seemed to me. Little rant ahead about why I stopped. [spoiler]Skip ahead and we reach the beginning of the [i]SEASON PASS[/i]!! I had no problem using birthday money on the DLCs, but when I need to pay for extra story (I look for story in games.) that goes away basically permanently in 3 or 4 months? That's too much. Especially when I don't have the time on weekends and end up missing out. And when Beyond Light came out, I didn't have the money or time to spend on it and ended up just loosing interest. At the same time I had found Dark Souls 3 at 75% off along with its DLCs at discount too. It cost me essentially the price of a D2 expansion, but I played that sucker for 100 hours or so. Needless to say, I love FromSoft's games. Edit: also I could sleep to the boss music, so it passed. I recommend Epilogue, the DS3 credits. Angelic. One of the first game credits I sat entirely through even though it was just text on a black screen. That says a lot. [i][quote]Opinion: Bloodborne has the best atmosphere/lore and combat imo, even with Elden Ring, though ER has better QoL mostly due to the years of experience and still has DLCs coming so it still has a chance until Bloodborne 2 stomps on its neck.[/quote][/i] I tried D2 one more time later on after Beyond Light, played a match of Crucible, got frozen, and decided to put it down for at least a year. I was mostly ticked about having to pay for another subclass. [/spoiler] Conclusion to Bungo game section: I don't regret playing or stopping when I did. I enjoyed my time and preserved my good memories with the game when I quit and moved on to Souls-likes. -- Forum wise, for the first year of playing D2 and getting the companion app, I never really touched the forums. Pops didn't like me talking to strangers on the Internet when I was little (good idea, kids talk too much) and so the habit stuck. I also didn't see the appeal of forums since I've only seen the big sunbforums where you only post dumb questions with messy titles then leave. I used wiki's instead. So I mainly used the app to fix inventory or check out the gallery for art. There's some goodies. [b]Extra stuff:[/b][spoiler] about the account, I chose the cabal pfp cause it was funny and the closest I could find to a pig... not many options. The name is, to quickly summarize, because of a Minecraft skin I used mixed with my first ever username, the two is cause someone already thought of it on Google. The status is not cause of Xronad (though I learned about that shortly after), but because I just wanted to give some people cookies for good posts and it was a gimmick for some time (until I realized I'm gonna eventually forget to copy paste the same thing on every post).[/spoiler] One day I checked the forums, clicked [i]#OffTopic[/i] and saw people talking about... Porches. [i]Weirdos.[/i] A year later I think, 2019, July 4th I checked OffTopic again cause I was dragged to a party that day and couldn't play D2 (the horror). In my boredom I saw some neat posts with RP or just to celebrate Independence Day, and decided to post as well. Turns out the folks aren't too weird. That's where I learned about this little community that was built in the shadow of the Salt Mines. I liked it. It was small enough to remember people and have an identity, but big enough that it didn't feel abandoned. At the time... I decided to stay. I basically checked in everyday since (maybe not healthy), participating in a number of RP posts, eating popcorn during drama, pPpoll, porch posting, etc. Conclusion to forum section: [spoiler]I consider myself lucky to have witnessed this subforum when RP posts were a bit more prominent, and the [b][i]New[/i][/b] section had enough traffic to bury yesterday's posts for pages, let alone last week's. I even started a small series of sketch posts. A bit proud of that. Kinna having a lazy moment though. I'll find something to post soon, I did some oil painting last month.[/spoiler] And I still type more than I intend to... fudge.

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