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Re: Halo - a look back over seven years | |
Posted By: vector40 <brandon@degreesofclarity.com> | Date: 11/16/08 8:27 p.m. |
In Response To: Halo - a look back over seven years (Louis Wu) I've talked about this in the past a little. But the short version is: this game never meant very much to me (except maybe flying around Banshees), but this community has had a major impact on my life. I judge these things by imagining how things might be if none of it had ever happened, and I can't even dream of my life if HBO had never occurred. That doesn't mean it has a major role right now, although it once did. But it occupied a turning point that sent me down the road I've followed to where I am. A huge amount of the interests, skills, and pastimes I've followed have been intrinsically linked to internet communities, and my participation in those is itself a sequela of HBO, my first hit. Just for a handful of examples, I learned to write on the internet, learned to communicate on the internet, learned the trades of web design and locksmithing on the internet, learned about fitness on the internet, and met many of the people who have been critical in my education on the internet. To what extent these things might have happened without HBO -- in other words, if I would inevitably have ended up somewhere, even if not here -- I can't say. But that's what I mean; we can't predict what we'd be like with different parents, either, but we acknowledge that they made us who we are. So it is what it is. And as I move on in life, the role of this place is less and less, but again like parents, I cannot deny or minimize the part it played in the story of my life. There is an exceedingly small catalogue of parties who I sincerely feel played vital parts in making me who I am; HBO (and transitively Louis Wu) is one such player, and in an enduring sense I can never forget or forgive that debt. P.S. Flying a Banshee is also the closest thing I ever get firsthand to real, numinous joy.
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