: Like an annual holiday, or a chance alignment of name and number, or a man
: (or a film franchise) that just won't die, Customs Night is back. If you
: don't know about Customs Night already, please allow me to familiarize you
: with it.
: Customs Night is what we call the weekly on-line gathering where we play
: custom games in Halo. We play custom and standard gametypes on custom maps
: (and sometimes a standard one), and they range big to small, long to
: short, and serious to silly, we play them every Friday at 9:00 PM Eastern
: time , and it's put on by Community Customs ( I know, that page is getting
: old, we're looking into things ). To be honest, they also range from
: polished to broken, but sometimes that's part of the fun, and it's nice to
: see someone's creation progress from a mess to a well-oiled fun machine.
: There's no set schedule, we just kind of go with what people want to play
: (if you crave structure, I don't know what to tell you except that I do
: too but I like having the next game be something of a surprise).
: This week we'll be playing in Halo 4 , and that time again is 9:00 PM US
: Eastern time (2:00 AM UTC IIRC BTW). If that sounds like fun, why don't
: you sign up and join us? You can do that by simply replying to this post
: (or the one in HBO), saying you want to play, and putting your gamertag in
: the post. (This isn't absolutely essential, but we really like to know how
: many people to expect.)
: There are other things to know and remember, but not a lot, just that a CC
: admin-- a group including Shadowofthevoid, Gnrl Vagueness (me), and a few
: others-- will have party lead the whole time (not necessarily the same
: person though) so that things don't get out of hand,* and we won't be
: running/playing any modded content, because we like to be careful,
: especially when other people's accounts are or may be concerned. Other
: than that, if you don't act like a jerk and try to have fun you'll be very
: welcome and probably have a lot of fun. I hope we'll see you there!

: * such as putting on modded content, or putting on content the person knows
: to be bad for laughs (this has happened, but it was quite some time ago
: now), or booting people seemingly at random (this has happened and was
: actually my fault once, years ago), or doing some other belligerent or
: trollish thing that's possible or easier by having party lead-- also, I'd
: like to note despite people having done questionable things, everyone is
: welcome now, even if they didn't feel welcome before, whether it was their
: fault or not

: fun fact: I didn't realize Friday was the 13 th until I went to type this
: fun fact 2: the roman numerals above are an obvious reference to movies with
: a lot of sequels, but they're also a reference to us, CC, and Halo/Bungie,
: VII (and maybe something else-- XXX... maybe the NSFW humor at Customs
: Night?)-- I didn't mean to do that, I just tried to estimate how many
: Customs Nights we've done, and I got a number close to that and added a
: little to it so it ended in seven

I've got to work late on a project but I hope to play a few matches. I've also got a Flood map worth trying.

GT Fuchsdh