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Re: All really special decade. Sorta Alls Well Wri
Posted By: Miguel Chavez	Date: 5/27/11 3:46 p.m.
: I've had this writeup in my head for a long time now. Its not the usual : chronological of travel madness and gametype insanity that most of you : have read before. Now that the current era of Wu lans is coming to a close : I feel like I need to finally express the thoughts that have been swimming : around my brain for a while. : My own personal life over the past decade has been tumultuous. There have : been ups, downs and a whole lot of sideways. I don't want to say my life : is bad or compare hard knocks with anyone. We've all battled similar : fights and had the box of chocolates melted and thrown in our face from : time to time. : The difference between my path through life and many others is I've been part : of an amazing experience where gamertags, irc chat and forum screen names : have become lifelong friends. Were geographic political, spiritual and : personal hygeine differences never got in the way of lasting bonds and : affection. : HBO LANs and the people who attend them are a rock in my life. A anchor : holding my ship from smashing into the shore. It seemed whenever the : excrement was hitting the rotating blades a weekend of halo and laughter : with the finest individuals I've ever known popped up and boosted an : otherwise less than ideal experience. : Jim, the guy with the camera, kept asking "what is your fondest Halo : memory" and it truly difficult to come up with a singular moment. : Saying hugging the friend you haven't seen in 2 years probably wouldn't : have worked well on camera. There was a point playing Halo downstairs last : weekend where I was just absolutely choking with laughter side by side : with people I truly care about. That was the moment Jim. There have been : hundreds if not thousands of them and thats what made the HBO LANs : special. : 10 years ago a friend and I were sitting around and trying to solve the : boring weekend problem and a random click sent us to the Bungie.net : website. We found some old dude was having a LAN at his house 40 minutes : away and decided to go. 11 of us where there that day. That random click : resulted in a series of experiences that have made such an impact on my : life I really don't want to imagine what my life would have been like : without it. : Thanks to all you LANers, its been a really really special decade. : ----- : And now some more humorous tales from the past 10 years: - Defending the Hill : in the Green Room on Lockout. KP was there facing away from me. I say : "hey KP, turn around", he does and I plant a sticky on his face : killing us and almost my entire team. It was worth it. : - During a LAN at my apartment watching my roommate with her hot ass crawl : under a projector to get to her room. : - HBOBP is so awesome. : - CTF on Longest with the entire team marching in a single file. I start : saying "hut hut hut hut hut" and everybody joins in. : - Pubechin is teh seks. : - Singing Ride of the Valkyrie during the offensive start of one flag : Zanzibar matches with my team with everybody in Vehicles. : - Hearing Wu scream "Who's killing me, I DONT EVEN HAVE THE : ODDBALL" during a oddball FFA game. : - Driving 16 hours with Jynx go to Halo 50k in Atlanta, the first big Halo : tournament. : - Waking up to Furhman singing Mudvayne in this beautiful gospel voice. : - Picking random and insane gametypes which everybody groans about and then : has fun anyway. : - Watching Akira in a Subaru doing 90 mph on I95 with Claude, the driver, : watching. : - The complete insanity of playing Legendary co-op with Mig. His strategy : "CHARGE!" : - pR@ncer!11 : - Lighting the inside of Wu's grill on fire with Stuntmutt. Oops. : - Out pistoling Juggler. I swear it happened once. : - Telling Konrads Mom everything would be ok at one of my LANs for 15 minutes : and getting mad my beer was getting warm. : - Many many others.

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