The crazy fun ppc? Oh that died years ago, along with 90% of what and who I had fun with on this site. The reasons I'm still here are incredibly distorted from my original rationale for starting my near 5 year run.
Hit the nail on the head. Shot the head off the yellow jacket. Hit a hole in one. Killed the Grif that was away. Found the Fun that is not allowed.
While there's a ton of stuff that has changed, everyone is looking at this site through golden era goggles. Even if staff were in every custom game like they were when TDF personally handled every article on the front page, it simply wouldn't be the same as it was. That goes for any of the other things that made pre-2009 FH amazing too. Seriously, take off the nostalgia goggles, you aren't helping anything.
B-b-b-but I want it to be the way it used to beeeeeeee. But actually, I'm fine with it, I like the new area, although I do wish we could make threads in the Off Topic section....
I blame it on the fact that most of the staff members now were not staff members then, so naturally things will be different. I think the site is noticeably more serious now, but that's really the only bad thing to come about.
I was 15 when Halo 3 came out, and I would hardly consider myself a serious person then. Five years later and I still don't consider myself a serious person. I'm actually surprised I was trusted with anything.
That's what I'm saying. It was more fun when everyone was younger. I assume most of the moderation staff left because they went to college.
Whatever happened to Ben? Anyways I'm not trying to say "lol teh site sux0rz" now, although 14 year old me if put into my current position might type that exact thing. I was just pointing out the obvious that it is a different place and a different part of me is still attached to it. For me it started this crazy kooky halo 3 community and now it is a forum where I know some people and can ask videogame or other minor technology questions and find answers as well as an outlet where I can just dump off my two cents and not care where it goes as long as it doesn't rile me up into a flame. I will always see the beginnings of this site with nostalgia, but surely you can tell that it wasn't just nostalgia that kept me here for four years and eleven months.