- The first time I saw Halo 1 at a friend's house, and got blown away by the plot and color palette
- Taking turns in high-school around a single TV for 4-player Slayer (except for the snow day. Then we played CTF with 16 people and lots of pizza)
- The Arbiter in Halo 2
- My "can-I-borrow-your-Xbox" campaign completions of Halo 1-4 (I could never do better than normal...)
- AFoA, Bzzt, the Hedge screenshot series
- Recapturing the wonder of Halo 1 in the Forerunner trilogy
- That time I revealed people's cities here with geolocation data
- Suggesting the software for the DBO forum (though I miss you all)
- Reading high-quality canon debates on this forum
- Most of the canonical works that take place between H3 and H4 (save Traviss)
- meeting Levi, Wu, Loftus, and the rest at HaloFest
- Making, and showing off, cardboard Purim costumes
- Playing the Halo soundtracks *everywhere* and humming them out loud

This is the first online community I ever joined. Here's to another 15 years.