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Thee Warriors

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## Introduction

Thee Warriors is a group/chapter that was founded on January 7th, 2006, on Bungie.net. It was once the second largest group on Bungie.net and arguably the most active. It was founded by the Bungie.net member MADBALL and was subsequently handed down to The Kodemyster and is currently ran by AnT Flibaboua.

The group is not directly linked to a theme or goal though it pays particular focus on the Bungie community and gaming discussion. The group hosts many features such as frequent polls, contests, and more.

## History

Thee Warriors has been around for a little over ten years now. When it was first founded by MADBALL, the idea was to create a gaming community on Bungie.net that would stand apart from the public forums and host a positive environment for all interested gamers. Over time, the chapter gained many more valuable and recognizable members and the community was making a new name for itself. The group has stayed strong through many spam attacks and group conquering attempts, and the community is always adding to itself with the help of it's experienced and bright staff and the insightful ideas of it's supportive members.

As of January 24th, 2010, the group moved to a group called "The Backdrop" in an attempt to reintroduce activity into the roster. The Backdrop peaked at around 200 members, or 10% of the member count of Thee Warriors in its prime, but had a much higher member activity percentage.

## Members

### Active Staff

The Kodemyster
bobcast
Mutated Waffle
El Burninator
Flibaboua
Ziex
### Retired Staff

Ciaran
a chemical burn
Spartakus14
hollohill
MIGHT The Man
CB Visco
Pitaace
IronNinjaPantz
VIPER101
Rocketswitasmile
The Coporal 101
the green grunt
Colefax
ZachShadowX
Sick Pimpin
Micro5
SnowFox
Spartan J15
Zackiath
Infinitus One
Pain Relief
Titio1300
Neill Blomkamp

**Neill Blomkamp** is a South African born, Vancouver, BC-based director of short films and advertisements. Blomkamp employs a documentary-style, hand-held, cinéma vérité technique, blending seamlessly with naturalistic and photo-realistic computer-generated imagery effects. He directed a series of three short films set in the Halo universe (known collectively as Landfall) and was hired to direct the movie adaptation of the series before financial problems forced the project to be indefinitely postponed. In 2008 he won the Cannes Lions 2008 - Film Lions- Grand Prix for the HALO "combat" web commercial.

In 2003 Blomkamp was commissioned to illustrate photo-real future aircraft for Popular Science's "Next century in Aviation" and in 2004 was commissioned to illustrate "The Future of the Automobile"

He is also the director of *District 9*, released in 2009. Many people believe that the success of this movie will lead to more funding for him to continue with the Halo movie adaptation.

## See Also

* Halo movie
* Halo short films
Sean Shypula (Lemur)

**Current Job:** Pixel Farmer
 **Blood Type:** Blackened, tar-like
 **Weight:** Classified
 **Girth:** Lanky

**First Job:** At 16, network monkey for an office with an IT staff of 2 (myself included)

**Hobby:** Classified

**Ultimate Halo Match:** Classified

**Ultimate Snack:** Babies, thinly sliced

**Ultimate Website:** http://lolcode.com/, a site dedicated to a programming language inspired by funny pictures of cats acting anthropromorphically.

**Mode of Transport:** Classified

**Fake Weapon:** The Sarcasmatron
The Friends List

## Introduction

The Friends List is a private chapter on Bungie.net. Founded on June 9th, 2014, TFL's initial goal was to give regulars of #Offtopic a safe haven for posting, and to maintain the culture of The Flood Forum. Since its creation, TFL has taken immense inspiration from Thee Warriors, Cetacean Space Station, and The Flood, and has changed into an open, yet slightly selective, community for posting about anything.

## History

In late May and early June 2014, El Burninator contacted ZoltoydeZ77 (now Zoltoyde, AKA Space Whale), and talked about creating an off-topic group to foster a true community. After recruiting the original staff, TFL started advertising in #Offtopic, #Gaming, and #Destiny. After the invent of the #clans forum, advertisement halted until new ideas could be presented.

The early running for The Friends List was a bit tumultuous. While testing different approaches and rule sets, rampant spam and reckless insulting lead to controversial bans of several members. While this lead to the creation of a few competing groups, it gave the moderators the experience necessary to bolt down a true Code of Conduct, and eventually all of the banned members were reinstated.

## Members

### Active Staff:

-El Burninator

-Zoltoyde

-Progo

-Catalyst

-Addiecorps

-FunguyV

-TribleDuker

### Retired Staff:

-DTL

-bobcast

-Mr Psychologist

-a cheese potato

-Ziex

-Index

-Jim The Admin

-LTazer

### Hall of Fame:

-DRAGON SNIPER3

-Zoltoyde

-Mojo1965 - likes to be pegged

-Zonda
Team Mythic

Team Mythic was a prominent Bungie.net private group that was active from about early 2009 through late 2012. It was notable for being one of the fastest growing groups in Bungie.net history, gaining 660 members in the first month alone.

It has since gone inactive leading up to the announcement of Destiny.
Monster Hunter

In 2002, the *Oni* team was promised that after they finished *Halo: Combat Evolved's* multiplayer, they could start working on Bungie's next game, codenamed "Monster Hunter." Hardy LeBel was the team's lead.

As a result of *Halo 2's* troublesome state after debuting a demo at E3, Monster Hunter was cancelled so that the team could move over to the *Halo 2* team.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Vice.com - The Complete Untold History of Halo (March 2018)
The Flood Forum

The Flood was the name of the Off-Topic forum on bungie.net and it was known for its extreme randomness, weird sense of humour, and on-topicness off-topicness. It is said to be one of the worst forums. On September 24, 2008, the Play Nice rule came into effect by Achronos, with the threat of forever nuking the Flood. The Flood was also the most Rootinist'-Tootinist' Forum on Bungie.net.

In 2013, Bungie.net transformed and removed the Flood Forum. While stragglers remained, the vast majority of Floodians left the site and never returned. The forum was replaced with the OffTopic forum.

## History

The history of the Flood Forum is vast. Click here to read it.

## Memes

The flood is the house of various memes, among some of them running through today are: OVER 9000, pie, blame stosh, it's a tarp!, cake is a lie, lol variations, caramelldansen, your mom, GBITH3F, that's what she said, PORCHES, etc.

The Flood was also known as the inventor of the "Challenge Accepted" Meme. This was born on 11.13.2010 at 2:57 AM PST when a user under the name of Bosnian101Fish posted a Thread (that was soon to become a hot topic) called "When your teacher tells you..."[1]

## New Flood and Flood v2

These were two off-topic groups/subcultures formed from the main forum. These gained popularity due to less moderation, home for banned users, and well knows members in them. New Flood was started in 2007 after Pezza's banning spree to rid The Flood of what he viewed as idiocy. Flood V2 was created about a year after New Flood. New Flood has since moved off-site while Flood v2 is still on Bungie.net.

## Play Nice Rule

In an aforementioned day, Achronos threatened to nuke the Forum if fellow floodians did not behave. So, starting from then:

1) Minimum ban for anything in the Flood is 14 days. Period.

2) The Play Nice rule will be strictly enforced. If you're a jerk, the mods will ban you. Report posts that violate this. If you don't, then see item number 4 below. The flood is not a blog, it isn't 4chan, it isn't for whatever the hell you want to post: it a general place for people of the Bungie community to talk about stuff other than bungie games.

3) People who whine about this get 14 day bans. Groups are available for unmoderated discussion, go there if you want to avoid us being heavy handed.

4) The nuclear option, shutting down the Flood, is still on the table, and the Bungie Community team reserves the right to close the forum if they feel it serves no constructive purpose. Consider yourselves on notice. I'm tired of putting up with this forum's attitude, and you're a configuration switch away from being shut down.

## Links

* Achronos' love post-it

* The Flood Forum
Pezza

## History

Pezza has been a member since 7/9/2004 and a Ninja since March 2006.
Pezza is an Australian, and as such, is known to keep odd hours on the Bungie.net forums.

Pezza, prior to his promotion to Forum Ninja, was often accused of being power hungry, with his involvement in the oft-resurrected Bungie Council idea, though was a self-described troll.

Later, after his promotion, Pezza was occasionally accused of being power drunk, occasionally being seen to be handing out apparantly needless warnings and blacklistings. However, all parties agree that he carried out his duties with commendable, if misplaced, enthusiasm.[*citation needed*] From 2006 to 2007 he heavily moderated The Flood in an attempt to wipe out the hegemonic Floodian culture, which he percieved as "exclusionist".

   While he never completely destroyed the Floodian class, the iconic members all disappeared during this time and this event partly gave birth to the disclocated Floodian groups such as New Flood and Teh L9.

Pezza had his account hijacked on the 8th of July, 2007, where the forums were raided, stickies deleted and users banned. This event came to be known as The Day After Bungie Day (DAB Day). Following this event he re-emerged as Pezz, a new account and became, as described by Pezza: "Forever alienated from the current community. I identify with only those I knew from my time on the forum: The Bungie Jumpers; The Frozen Minority and HFCS. I'm on the outside now, if you didn't know me then, you'll never know me now."

He now appears as a partly visible moderator presence, posting frequently in The Flood, Community Forum and offsite private groups, his duties detatched from his forum persona with most work done behind the scenes or through training newer moderators. His posts are rarely serious and often stalked by Rampancy. Pezza is no longer a Forum Ninja.

## Groups

* Bungie Jumpers
* HFCS
* The Black Chapter
Weekend Warrior

***Weekend Warrior*** was a game published by Bungie Studios and created by Pangea Software in 1997.

## Gameplay

Within the game, players took the role of a contestant in a game show entitled "Weekend Warrior," where you risk your life to win cash and valuable prizes. There are 8 game arenas, A fun house, a mayan temple, an abandoned copper mine, the Old west, a Garden, a Space station, a Haunted house, and a pagoda building.

## Availability

This game is available as freeware at https://pangeasoft.net/weekendwarrior.html and http://www.macgamefiles.com/detail.php?item=10501.
Web Team

The Bungie Studios web team is responsible for maintaining Bungie's official site, Bungie.net. The main team consists of Tom Gioconda, Chris Gossett, and a few testers (such as Skiptrace). Tom is the primary developer, and Chris is the webdev lead for the website. Colm Nelson, who is a UI developer for the games, also contributed much to the new look of bungie.net during the New Hawtness relauch -- because Bungie was working with a company called If/Then to redo the website at the time, Colm came in about halfway through. Much of the Bungie.net art was produced by Lorraine McLees, Chris Barrett and Aaron LeMay.

Additional members of the Web team include Sawnose, who works on the stats tracking system and stosh, who tightens up the graphics.

The web team is also responsible for choosing and supervising the volunteer moderators, called Forum ninjas, as well as working closely with the Bungie Community Web Team.

## Bungie.net Web team and Employees

These individuals are Bungie employees who possess moderation abilities. As of 2013 all Bungie Employees have the title Bungie.

* Achronos - Title: Bungie.net Overlord
* Ghintoch - Title: Low Value Target
* Jeremiah - Title: Space ninja
* lukems - Title: don't get treated
* RunningTurtle - Title: Bungie Online Team
* Sawnose - Title: Superuser
* Stosh - Title: still hates toast
* urk - Title: Marvelous Bauble
* DeeJ - Title: Sent West
Seraphim Crypto

**Seraphim Crypto** was one of Bungie's volunteer website moderators. Originally, he was asked to become a Forum Mentor in 2015 to help Bungie's German community, but in 2017, he became a Forum Ninja to help moderate the website. He joined the website in 2010 to play *Halo: Reach*. He wanted his forum avatar to be a fanart of Mega Absol from the *Pokémon* series because it represented his username well (Seraphim – Angel wings; Crypto – Dark/Shadow Pokémon type in German).

`“*I'm a person that loves to help other people out of many reasons, the simplest one that it keeps me happy. Also, I'm a fan of Bungie since my mate introduced Halo 2 to me in 2005. And ever since the beta, I'm amazed by Destiny. Earlier this year I came back to Bungie.net forums and noted the #Help-Forum. I dived in there and answered a few questions. People thanked me and it made me happy. So I started helping people everyday and that led to an invitation of Bungie to join this team. I decided to join the ranks because I want to give the community back the love they gave me!*”`

`~ ****Seraphim Crypto** on why he became a Forum Mentor**`
As a leader of the German community, Bungie flew him to Seattle to participate in a "community summit" for *Destiny 2*. He also helped Duardo find German websites for Bungie's Mental Health Resources article.

## Death and Impact

It was announced on January 31, 2022, that Seraphim had passed away after being in a medically induced coma a few months prior due to suffering a brain aneurysm.

In September of that year, it was announced that Bungie would honor Seraphim's memory by releasing a *Destiny 2* emblem that was free for everyone to use. The emblem, named "Seraphim's Gauntlets," included elements to present a few of his favorite things: *Destiny*, Titan gauntlets, and the number 37. While the icon on the emblem only shows 36 dots, one was left unlit in the center to represent his loss. The code for the emblem is XVX-DKJ-CVM and can be redeemed on Bungie.net.

## Favorite Things

Seraphim shared many of his favorite things in the moderator's chat, according to Duardo:

1. The Exo Void of Dawn Titan class from *Destiny 2*
2. Armor from the Scourge of the Past raid/Season of the Forge
3. Using bows
4. The number 37
5. The color purple
6. Toast
7. Fighting for human rights

## Bungie.net Profile

* Profile Page
* Join Date: June 27, 2010
* Motto: The Infinite One
* About: Traversing the Gallery of Time

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bungie.net - Seraphim Crypto has passed away (January 31, 2022)
2. ↑ Fan art of Mega Absol
3. ↑ Bungie.net - Mental Health Resources
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Bungie.net - This Week at Bungie: One More Moment of Your Time, For a Friend (September 15, 2022)
5. ↑ Bungie.net - Profile: Seraphim Crypto
Skibur

## About

Skibur is a former Forum Ninja on Bungie.net. He has been a member of Bungie.net since July 3, 2004. When he accepted the request to become a Forum Ninja, Achronos changed his Bungie.net username from THE CHIEF 87 to Skibur. On September 24, 2008 Skibur was promoted to Forum Ninja. Skibur stepped down as a moderator early 2010.

## Groups

* GameMakers
* Mehve's Aerie
* Mythic Members
* You are not welcome
Stefnizle (Modem)

This article needs more cowbell. If you have *expert* knowledge of this topic and would like to help keep Bungiepedia up to date, please feel free to add-on or make appropriate changes. If not, leave it alone.

Stefnizle nicknamed Modem is a former Bungie Employee. He is a networking specialist

Stefan played in MWC99 for the finalist team BMF[1], under the name My Modem is on Fire... and often took the role of a heavy hitting player who would handle large percentages of units for his team.

Stefan is referenced in a string resource balloon in Oni's source code. [2]

 Nothing more is know about him at this time.
Project Magma

Project Magma is a source for Myth plugins and information.

From the Project Magma site:

**About Project Magma**
Magma is the essence from which new lands are eventually formed. Thus Project Magma started out as a map making group for Myth TFL, a best selling Real Time Strategy game with 3D landscapes and physics. However, before long it reshaped itself into an entity devoted to serving the Myth community through a variety of projects. We enjoy working together to make new plugins for the entire myth series, create websites to facilitate the needs of the community, and develop the code base for the myth series to ensure it recieves the support it needs.

This description does refer to Myth as a Real Time Strategy game, but most players have termed Myth and other unit point limited games as Real Time Tactical
Mr Hand

Mr\_Hand was a Forum Ninja on Bungie.net. He is a former contractor that worked for Bungie. He is the one that created the famous webcam games during the summer of 2007. The winners of his webcam game received the forum title of Webcam MVP.

On 10/20/2008 Mr\_Hand stepped down as a Forum Ninja.

## Groups

* Superintendent (Group)
* WEBCAM TV
Senor Leche

`“*Senor Leche is The New Chuck Norris*”`

`~ **GhostSpaceFlier on Senor Leche**`

***Senor Leche***, (aka Mr. Milk) is the manliest of all men, and even much more-so than any of the girl scouts that are the Forum Ninja. Some may even go so far as to say he's more manly than Shishka's mother. However, that remains to be tested. He was offered to be a Forum Ninja in 2005. Senor Leche is no longer a Forum Ninja.

## Trivia

* Senor Leche sounds very manly over Xbox Live. All of his foes are frightened by his booming voice.
* Senor Leche used to fly helicopters for the Navy.
* Senor Leche was married in 2006 to Senora Leche.
* Senor Leche saw the movie *300*, and instead of growing chest hair, he increased that of the actor's.
* Senor Leche always says, "good game" after every match in Halo 3.

## Groups

* Cake Bakers Anonymous
* FUDON
* HFCS
* NFEM
* Pimps at Sea Fans
* Seventh Column Contests
* The Kuniklo Project
* Tractus Incognita
* Wideload
Sawnose (Superuser)

## Sawnose (Bungie.net Superuser)

Real name : Hugh G. Rection

Occupation: Tools Programmer at Bungie Studios

Sawnose is one of the three known Bungie.net Superusers, meaning that his account has no security restrictions.

Sawnose is the Tools programmer at Bungie Studios. He used to write calculator programs for a small business he started in the 90's. Now Bungie has him working on a myriad of things. With Halo 2, Sawnose was responsible for integrating the stats with the website, translating the game data into a format that the website could read. He's now responsible for the stats data collection section on bungie.net, which is a very demanding job. The data he deals with is in terabytes monthly, and petabytes yearly. Needless to say, he's a very busy man.

## Sawnose Sightings

Sawnose, although a member since 2002, rarely strays outside the Gallery and Maw forums, when he posts at all. He is also known to contribute the occasional news article to the front page, most of which concern the Halo 2 online servers or the Bungie.net servers, and important things that will be happening in the future.

If you experience a Sawnose Sighting in any circlejerk other than the Gallery and the Maw, please call the toll-free Sawnose Tipline, or seek emotional support.

## External Links

* Sawnose's Meet The Team Profile on Bungie.net
* Sawnose's personal home page.
Logical Thinking

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## Bungie.net Life

Known for his debating skills and notorious history as a spammer/troll, Logical Thinking is a Bungie.net member who has gone by many tags. His alternate accounts usually have some type of joke in them, or refer to his former main accounts, DeathsrulerSC, KSI Seven 7, Death v2, Logical Thinking, etc. He has a long history of getting into debates with Achronos and sesquipadelian. These debates are commonly pages in length and usually end in a total ban for him.

He was also the original founder of both SbK and The Bungie Revolution, which were linked to the Pezza hacking, the New Mombasa Flood war, posting numerous Halo 3 spoilers, and other various forum problems.

## Groups

* Mjolnir Battle Tactics
* SILENCE BAD KIDS
* The Flood Regulars
* The Marty Army
* Tractus Incognita
* xSpamalot
Raj (Enemy Combatant)

## Trivia

**Nickname:** Enemy Combatant

**Classification:** MiddleSchool

**Current Job:** Monster Maker

**Origin:** Temple of Doom

**Blood Type:** Rocky Road

**Age:** Older than I look

**Weight:** Classified

**Height:** Classified

**Girth:** Like a tree trunk

**First Job:** Tending Odd inhabitants

**Hobby:** Collecting potatoe chip likenesses

**Ultimate Halo Match:** "Right, now he's got the sword AND the shotgun"

**Ultimate Snack:** Classified

**Ultimate Website:** Classified

**Mode of Transport:** Classified

**Fake Weapon:** Flashlight

## Rant

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
Seventh Column Week in Review

The ***Seventh Column Week in Review*** (usually written as *7th Column Week in Review*) was a semi-monthly news post shared by Matt Soell for the Seventh Column section of Bungie.net from 2002 until 2003 when Frankie joined the studio and started writing his own Weekly Updates.

Prior to these news posts, Soell wrote weekly updates specifically for Halo's development.

## Overview

The purpose of the 7th Column Week in Review was to share information about the latest happening within the Seventh Column, such as highlighting new and upcoming Chapters and Chapter events, and updates about *Halo: Combat Evolved* and *Oni*.

Based on limited information, it appears that these news posts were intended to be weekly, but either weren't and become semi-monthly due to lack of news to share, or were lost to time due to Bungie.net database changes throughout the years.

## Posts

*Note: Some news posts have been lost or only partially retained due to database changes between various Bungie.net updates, or because the title of the update was never mentioned.*

### 2002

* January 18
* February 23
* November 23
* December 21

### 2003

* January 4
* April 26
* August 23
* August 29
* September 20
* November 1
* November 8

## References

1. ↑ Bungie.net (archived) - 7th Column in Review (January 18, 2002) | Direct Link
2. ↑ Bungie.net (archived) - 7th Column in Review (February 23, 2002)
3. ↑ Bungie.net (archived) - 7th Column in Review (November 23, 2022)
4. ↑ Bungie.net (archived) - 7th Column in Review (December 21, 2002)
5. ↑ Bungie.net (archived) - Seventh Column in Review (January 4, 2003)
6. ↑ Bungie.net (archived) - 7th Column in Review (April 26, 2003)
7. ↑ Bungie.net (archived) - 7th Column in Review (August 23, 2003)
8. ↑ Bungie.net (archived) - 7th Column in Review (August 29, 2003)
9. ↑ Bungie.net (archived) - 7th Column in Review (September 20, 2003)
10. ↑ Bungie.net (archived) - 7th Column in Review (November 1, 2003)
11. ↑ Bungie.net (archived) - 7th Column in Review (November 8, 2003)
Predator5791

File:Predator5791 avatar.gif
*I think Forum Ninja is a pretty cool guy. eh bans noobs and doesn't afraid of anything...*

## Bungie.net

**Predator5791** joined Bungie.net on November 8th, 2007. On January 20, 2010 he was promoted to Forum Ninja. He is well known throughout the Halo community due to his screenshots that have made Bungie Favorites, including one that was made into a banner for profiles on Bnet.

## Groups

* Ask Your Ninja
* Average Joes
* Cake Bakers Anonymous
* Foto
* HFCS
* Mehve's Aerie
Mythic Members

**Mythic Members** are those members who have gained the highest possible Bungie.net Trust Rating through a combination of extreme longevity, lack of warnings and bans from Bungie.net staff, and a host of other, secret factors known only to Achronos and the Bungie.net Web Team. Although most are not,  Bungie employees are also given titles based upon their activity within the Bungie.net community. There are a few employees on the Mythic list as well, including on- and off-site developers; one example of an employee would be the user Diaboy, who is an off-site DLC assistant developer and works under Tyson Green. Mythic Members used to be relatively uncommon on Bungie.net; however, now nearly all accounts created prior to 2004 receive the title.

A "Mythic Member" title trumps the "Member" title, the "Heroic Member" title, and the "Legendary Member" title, but will be overridden by other titles such as Theme Master, Webcam MVP, and Forum Ninja.

Their title bar color is royal blue.

 File:MythicTitleBar.png
 File:Bobcasttrolmythic.png
Several hundred Mythic Members hang out in the Bungie.net group Mythic Members.

## List of Mythic Members

The list was first started by Skibur (THE CHIEF 87), but soon taken over by Batzter, who has done an excellent job of keeping it up to date and accurate.

(All members listed are — or, at some point in time, were — Mythic members. This is not a comprehensive list; there are still more Mythic Members not listed here.)

A new list has been created by gnome13 which can be found here Updated List of Mythic Members

## Request a ban on a Mythic Member

During 2012 when Bungie was dark Community Manager DeeJ posted a poll in the community forum as part of a

 File:Ban1.png  mail sack. Somehow he messed up the poll and afterwards locked the thread.

A few hours later Spawn031, Arbitor5 and Hylebos suggested asking members to save the thread so that it would turn into a 'Top Forum Topic'. Arbitor5 posted a thread in the Mythic group telling them to save the thread as a prank.

Soon the thread was listed as a hot topic and most of the members in the community forum took it lightly as a joke obviously. Dmg04 posted a thread in the forum stating that his mistake will be remembered for ever.

Being crafty, DeeJ had a peek in the Mythic Members Group and posted a reply

 File:Ban2.png   to the 'Mythix Prank @ DeeJ' thread saying that he was already planning his revenge.

DeeJ edited the failed poll to 'Request a ban on a Mythic Member' where he asked members (as a joke) which Mythic members they wanted to see banned as well as Arbitor5 and dmg04.

Achronos posted a reply saying 'Seems Legit'. For inside 'Mythic Members' screenshots click here.
Tyson Green (Ferrex)

## Trivia

 File:Green.jpg
**Nickname:** Ferrex
**Classification:** GrizzledAncients

**Current Job:** Designer, Bungie
**Origin:** Revelstoke, Canada

**Blood Type:** Classified

**Age:** Classified

**Weight:** Classified
**Height:** Classified

**Girth:** Classified

**First Job:** Localization Lackey, Myth II, Bungie

**Current Job:** MP Design Lead, Halo 3, Bungie

## Biography

Tyson keeps a low profile, keeping an eye on the basics. He is much too polite to talk copious smack, and isn't very good at it anyway. When he isn't grinding rough edges off of some game system, he's usually abusing some other one to produce some surprising, filthy hacks.

Though much of his personal gaming time is spent in RPGs where he can crunch numbers in search of the optimal, he takes a keen delight in the unexpected and dramatic. He is often found a driving a Warthog through a crowded hill or trying to incite a large explosion.
Matt Soell

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Matthew Soell (pronounced 'Sell') is a former Bungie employee known by a variety of job titles including "Damage and Spin", "Hot Air Artist", "Hippo Lover", "Community Guy", "Bungie General Mouthpiece", and many others. His primary role at Bungie was as a public liason between 1/16/1995 and 4/25/2003. Shortly after the announcement of Halo 2, Matt left Bungie to join other Bungie alumini at Wideload Games as a writer.

Matt Soell is known for his highly understandable and completely natural love of hippos and his often witty writing, both in Bungie's public announcements and in his work on Wideload's games. He is responsible for much of the humor that went into Bungie's public image and the legacy of that style of humor can still be seen in Bungie today.

Soell is also known for being the creator of the Soffish phenomenon. As he tells it, he first bought Soffish at the American Science and Surplus tent sale in Chicago, Illinois.

*"I actually bought two of them, one carp-like one (the "official" Soffish, or at least what Bungie vets might think of as the official one) and another which resembled a rainbow trout. They were 10 cents each and if I had known what a cultural phenomenon they would become I would have bought the entire stack instead of just two.*
*The carp-like Soffish lived in a Gatorade bottle filled with water. The second one was never removed from his packaging. Both have long since gone missing. At one point (when Bungie was still in Chicago) the then-manager of the Bungie Store, Jim Ruiz, called American Science and Surplus to see if they had any more. They did not even know what he was talking about. And that was just a couple years after I'd bought them.*
*There are many mysteries associated with Soffish - where they came from, where they are now, and what does it all mean? I think we should just be grateful to have had Soffish in our lives for the brief period we did."*
**~ Matt Soell on the Origins of Soffish**  (source)

## External Links

* Matt Soell at MobyGames
* A humorous send up of Matt Soell drawn by Ian McConville of the webcomic MacHall
* Matt Soell's Bungie.net profile
* Matt Soell on Twitter
Max Hoberman (Yeroen)

**Max Hoberman** aka **Yeroen** is a former employee of Bungie Studios and was a designer for the multiplayer feature of the Halo games. Born in 1978 in Austin, Texas, USA, he grew up and pursued a career in photojournalism. He started at Bungie Studios in 1997, effectively ending that career before it began. He has done many jobs at Bungie, including graphic designer, web monkey, community team manager, ui designer--and is now responsible for multiplayer, UI and Xbox Live design for Halo 2. He is married, presumably with children, his profile claims he has "10 sets of identical twins, each named after a Halo level.

He was in the credits for *Oni*, Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2, mostly for his work as lead designer. He has since moved on from Bungie Studios, forming a spin-off studio named Certain Affinity where his most recent works have been re-contributing to Halo 2 in the form of downloadable content, most notably in the form of Tombstone and Desolation. Even though his departure was still during Halo 3's development process, he appeared in the final credits.
Matter

***Matter*** is an upcoming Bungie game that is potentially releasing in 2025. Not much information is known about it.

As a part of the FTC-Microsoft trial, it was revealed that Microsoft is expecting a new IP from Bungie.

Thanks to old confidential Microsoft files (via IGN), Microsoft noticed when Bungie trademarked the name "Matter" in 2018, which is expected to be the latest IP to come out of Bungie. Microsoft had this to say about Bungie's new IP:

“As of 2021, [Bungie] has more than doubled its headquarters space and plans to open a new studio in Amsterdam by 2022 for ongoing support on Destiny 2 and development of a new IP, currently expected to release in 2025."

Shortly after signing a $100m partnership with NetEase, a new trademark by the name of ‘Matter’ was spotted online. While this could just be an internal codename for now, all signs point towards this being Bungie’s next franchise.

Early job listings surrounding Matter have described the project as a “multiplayer action game” akin to the likes of Overwatch and Valorant.

The IGN report also points out that Bungie has been showing signs that the studio is creating a new IP. Job listings were found in 2020 that said its new IP would have a "comedic" tone and would feature "whimsical characters." However, nothing official has been announced regarding "Matter.”

With a focus on “character-based” gameplay, Bungie is seeking to “create amazing teamplay moments” in its next release.

Moreover, Bungie has also been hiring for developers with experience working on “live operation games, games as a service, MMOs, F2P titles, and mobile games.”

In 2019, Bungie received a $100 million investment from the Chinese tech giant NetEase in. This partnership aimed to assist Bungie with the “creation of new worlds,” in addition to the company’s current flagship title, Destiny.
Thug Larz

## About

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Lars Bakken (Thug Larz) is a Bungie Employee, and he has been a member of Bungie.net since the 20th of June, 2004. He was hired in October of 2005 as a multiplayer designer. During his time at Bungie, he has played a role in the development of Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, and Halo: Reach. Thug Larz's current title is "Bungie Team", and he has only posted 10 times.

## Biography

Taken from Bungie.net's Meet The Team page.

**Name:** Lars Bakken

**Nickname:** Thug

**Blood Type:** Classified

**Weight:** Classified

**Girth:** Classified

**Classification:** OldSkool

**Origin: Honolulu, HI**

**Age:** Classified

**Height:** Classified

**First Job:** Dish Dick (Dishwasher)

**Hobby:** Hanging out

**Ultimate Halo Match:** Rockets on Hang 'Em High

**Ultimate Snack:** Pizza

**Ultimate Website:** http://www.urbandictionary.com/

**Mode of Transport:** Classified

**Fake Weapon:** De-Pantster

"Originally born in Hawaii while his father was stationed in the Navy, his family moved shortly thereafter to a small town in Iowa. After completing college at the U of I, he made the “career move” to San Francisco to try and make games for a living. His friends laughed at him in disbelief and his parents cried…but now he works at Bungie and plans to help them in their bid for world domination. Now they laugh and cry for different reasons."
Michael Salvatori

`“*The better half of O'Donnell - Salvatori...the actual working half.*”`

`~ **Marty O'Donnell on Michael Salvatori**`

Michael "Mike" Salvatori is a composter and former Bungie employee known for creating the soundtracks for *Destiny 2*, *Destiny*, *Halo* series, *Oni*, and *Myth* series. His frequent composing partner from the 1980s until 2014 was Marty O'Donnell. He also worked alongside C Paul Johnson, Skye Lewin, and more composers at Bungie for the *Halo* and *Destiny* soundtracks.

He is married, has four daughters, and resides in the Seattle area.

In October 2023, Mike was laid off from Bungie, where around 100 employees were affected by company-wide staff cutbacks. The decision was cited to be *Destiny 2's* perceived underperformance. Mike updated his website's home page soon after by saying he had "GONE FISHIN' :)" and, a few weeks later, changed it to the following:

> DEAR FRIENDS,
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> I want to sincerely thank all of you who have reached out and sent me encouraging messages. It means more to me than you could know.
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> Love and peace to all!
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## Biography

Prior to joining Bungie, Mike and Marty owned their own audio studio (*O'Donnell - Salvatori Total Audio Studios*) in Chicago. It was during Bungie's Chicago years where Mike and Marty first started doing contract work for Bungie, starting with *Myth: The Fallen Lords*, and *Myth II: Soulblighter*.

Shortly after completing *Myth II*, Bungie founders Jason Jones and Alex Seropian asked Mike and Marty to work on the *Oni* and *Halo* soundtracks full time as employees. Marty accepted while Mike continued working as a contractor alongside Marty to keep their Total Audio Studios business running.

Outside of Bungie, Mike worked on many other games' soundtracks, including *Riven: The Sequel to Myst*, *Stubbs the Zombie*, and *Hail to the Chimp*.

## Gallery

Michael during Lightfall's Developer Insight ViDoc for Destiny 2: Lightfall.Paul McCartney, Marty O'Donnell, and Michael Salvatori during the production of Music of the Spheres.Michael (left) with his longtime composing partner, Marty O'Donnell.Michael Salvatori (right) with his longtime composing partner, Marty O'Donnell.Michael (right) with his longtime composing partner, Marty O'Donnell.Michael (left) with his longtime composing partner, Marty O'Donnell.Michael (left) with his longtime composing partner, Marty O'Donnell.Michael (right) with his longtime composing partner, Marty O'Donnell, during a Bungie ViDoc.
## References

1. ↑ **WowVendor** - *Destiny 2: Bungie Layoffs Michael Salvatori*
2. ↑ Michael Salvatori Official Website (October 31, 2023)
3. ↑ Michael Salvatori Official Website (January 18, 2024)
High Moon Studios

***High Moon Studios*** (HMS) is a video game developer currently owned by Activision. It worked on *Destiny 2* and its third expansion, *Forsaken*.

## Partnership With Bungie

High Moon Studios was first mentioned as working with Bungie on Destiny through a job posting on their website in May 2016. Bungie confirmed the partnership in their weekly *This Week at Bungie* blog post. In October of that year, they were mentioned as helping Bungie work on *Destiny's* then-2016 sequel by working on cut Mars content from *The Taken King* expansion. In the meantime, they created new Strikes in the first game.

Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg said in a June 2017 interview about *Destiny 2* and other games. In it, he explained that Activision wasn't satisfied with *Destiny's* content droughts, which is why they were bringing Vicarious Visions and High Moon Studios in to help Bungie create *Destiny 2* content.

> `"One of the things you'll see post the launch of Destiny 2, is that we have got additional AAA developers from inside the Activision ecosystem working with Bungie on Destiny content, including Vicarious Visions and High Moon. That will allow us to keep an even more robust pipeline of content in the ecosystem," Hirshberg said.`
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It was confirmed in 2018 that HMS was working on *Destiny 2's* first expansion, *Forsaken*, by creating the Tangled Shore destination, Scorn enemy combatants, and the expansion's story.

## References

1. ↑ Polygon - Destiny 2: Forsaken arrives Sept. 4, here's our first look (June 5, 2018)
2. ↑ IGN - Transformers Developer Working on Destiny? (May 28, 2015)
3. ↑ Bungie.net - This Week at Bungie - 05/28/2016
4. ↑ Kotaku - The Messy, True Story Behind The Making Of Destiny (October 20, 2015)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 EDGE Magazine - HIGH MOON STUDIOS - Embracing its destiny, a support act takes centre stage (2018)
6. ↑ VG247 - Destiny 2 content inbound from Vicarious Visions and High Moon, Activision boss "not happy" with first game's "cadence" (July 4, 2017)
7. ↑ GamesIndustry.biz - “Gamers are part of our creative process” - Activision's Eric Hirshberg The Activision CEO on rescuing Call of Duty, re-launching Destiny and what comes next for Skylanders (July 3, 2017)
Ash55

Favourite games: Halo 1 through Reach, FFVII, Super Mario Sunshine and Galaxy 2, Jet Set Radio Future, Shenmue, Limbo, etc.

Avatar: A picture of an Elite wearing Ascetic armor.

Joined HFCS: Mid 2006

If you want or need to speak to ash55 for any reason PM him via Bungie.net.

## Gamertag

Removed due to being spammed friend requests.

## Groups

* Bathroom Reader
* Bungie Jumpers[[Teh 1337ists|    ]]
* HFCS
* Lets Impeach Ghandi2
* Pimps at Sea RPG
* Teh 1337ists
* The Frozen Minority
* The Guide
* The Marty Army
Marathon: Durandal

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* Marathon 2: Durandal

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*Marathon: Durandal* is the sequel to the game *Marathon* both created by Bungie Studios. *Marathon Durandal* was released on November 24, 1995. The game mostly takes place on the planet Lh'owon
The Slayer

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## About

The Slayer is a Master Forum Ninja on Bungie.net. He has been a member of Bungie.net since 3/4/2006.

On 9/24/2008 The Slayer was promoted to Forum Ninja. On 11/9/2010 The Slayer was promoted to Master Forum Ninja.

## Groups

* Ask Your Ninja
* [[Bungie Jumpers|Bungie Jumpers File:Mod the slayer.gif  ]]
* [[Cake Bakers Anonymous|Cake Bakers Anonymous File:Slayer avatar.gif  ]]
* Dirty Rotten Bastards
* Flood V2
* For Carnage Apply Within
* [[HFCS|HFCS File:Moderator theslayer.gif  ]]
* Justice
* Mehve's Aerie
* Teh 1337ists
* The Frozen Minority
* The PRTA
* Waaahmbulance
* WE HATE THE INTERNET
* YKTMTTD

## Links

* The Slayer's Bungie.net profile.
* Interview by urk
Mythic Members (Group)

**Group Link** | {{{Group Link}}}

The Mythic Members group was originally started in an attempt to collect and categorise all the members who attained the new Mythic Member title, the highest title a member can receive apart from being a mod etc.

We have fun.
Most of the Mythic Members are certified bad asses
Max Hoberman

**Max Hoberman** aka **Yeroen** was a senior employee at Bungie and is a designer for the multiplayer feature of the *Halo* games. Born in 1978 in Austin, Texas, USA, he grew up and pursued a career in photojournalism. He started at Bungie Studios in 1997, effectively ending that career before it began. He has done many jobs at Bungie, including graphic designer, web monkey, community team manager, UI designer, and is now responsible for multiplayer, UI and Xbox Live design for *Halo 2*. He is married, presumably with children, his profile claims he has "10 sets of identical twins, each named after a *Halo* level."

He was in the credits for *Oni*, *Halo: Combat Evolved* and *Halo 2*, mostly for his work as lead designer. He has since moved on from Bungie Studios, forming a spin-off studio named Certain Affinity where his most recent works have been re-contributing to *Halo 2* in the form of downloadable content, most notably in the form of Tombstone and Desolation. Even though his departure was still during *Halo 3'*s development process, he will appear in the final credits.

He worked with 343 Industries on *Halo: The Master Chief Collection'*s *Halo 2: Anniversary* multiplayer.
Mister Chief

The stuff of Bungie.net legend, Mister Chief is the by-product of Frankie's creative sense of humor. Mister Chief makes regular appearances in a lot of Frankie's material, mostly the Bungie Weekly Updates and other announcements. The Mister Chief is usually created by taking artwork of a famous artist, and using photoshop or other image programs to put Master Chief's head on it. (See example below) Mister Chief has also appeared in form of Etch-A-Sketch, as well as many other methods.

On Bungie Day 2007 (7/7/07), Bungie offered its fans several XBox 360 gamerpics and a Bungie theme featuring Mister Chief.

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## Comparison

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## Related Websites

Misterchief.com Official Site

Bungie.net, Home of The Bungie Weekly Update

Mister Chief Tribute Montage
MakaVeli4LIfe1

***MakaVeli4Life1*** is a former Forum Ninja, he was promoted to Forum Ninja sometime between 2004 - 2005. He joined Bungie.net sometime in 2003. He was one of the first 4000 members to join BNet. Though his account was not auto-deleted due to inactivity until February 6, 2009, he was not very active on Bungie.net since 2005. While he was a moderator, he was known as a fair moderator. On February 10th, 2009, a imposter with the username of MakaVeli4Llfe1(lowercase "L" in life instead of an "I") posted in the public forums. He was consequently perma-banned for impersonating a moderator(or an ex-mod in this case).

## Groups

Before his account was deleted, MakaVeli4Life1 was in the following groups:

* Bungie Jumpers
* HFCS
* SportsCenter
* The Arbiters
* The Flapping Shenanigan
* zoetest
Tijuana Mamas

*"The most famous Bungie foodstuff is probably the Tijuana Mama, a spicy sausage who's ingredients include 'mechanically separated chicken, pork hearts and protein concentrate.' It's also '300% hotter.' Than what, we may never know. Nor want to."*
- From The Official History of Bungie

Alex Seropian, a Chicago native and Bungie co-founder, said that the last 10% finishing *Halo: Combat Evolved* felt like "impending doom of the 'tijuana mama game,' meaning that it finished up incredibly hot before release date.

The Tijuana Mama is a spicy pickled sausage from Penrose Sausage, the makers of the famous "Big Mama" and its spicier sister the "Tijuana Mama." They share a similar delicious flavor, but the Tijuana Mama is 3 times (the mystery 300%) hotter and twelve (12) times more likely to cause issues in the bathroom.

The Tijuana Mama is readily available in stores, as is the sister product the Big Mama. Their delicious 300% hotter flavor will probably make you reminisce your grandpas zero story on how you bought two and ate them in one sitting. They are stocked heavily in military department chains, in case of alien portal invasion. Straight from NASWI. No lie aliens. The point is Tijuana Mamas are to be eaten one at a time, Big Mamas are not on the same page.

The Penrose Sausage factory in North Carolina suffered an explosion in 2011 (probably because some of their ingredients are REALLY hot) that ceased all production. This was a dark time that thankfully has now passed, and the factory is now back in production.

## Resources

1. ↑ Bungie.net (via Archive.org) - Billion Dollar Donut: Halo 2
2. ↑ Inside Mac games - Interview: Bungie's Alexander Seropian (December 2001)
Matt Richenburg (Master)

## Trivia:

 **Current Job:** Associate Producer
 **Blood Type:** Donor
 **Weight:** Light Heavyweight
 **Girth:** Wat?

**First Job:** Caddy on a golf course. First Gaming Job: Tester on Sinistar Unleashed.

**Hobby:** MMA (boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, Brazillian Ju Jitsu, etc.)

**Ultimate Halo Match:** Either completely wacky & fun or very serious & competitive.

**Ultimate Snack:** Meat

**Ultimate Website:** BUNGIE.NET

**Mode of Transport:** Beat up piece of crap car & my legs

**Fake Weapon:** Gogoplata
Nosferatu Soldie

Michael Gorman, aka Nosferatu\_Soldie, is a Master Forum Ninja on Bungie.net and joined the ranks of the Forum Ninja in 2005. He was active until after Halo: Reach came out, at which point he left the moderator team. His user name is probably the most famous misspelling on BNet (after dumd, of course). He does not post often, but he does a lot of his moderating in "stealth" mode.

As a Bungie Community member, he created a Group on BNet called Teh 1337ists

## Groups

* Cake Bakers Anonymous
* FUDON
* [[HFCS|HFCS   ]]
* Teh 1337ists
* YKTMTTD
Skiptrace

`“*there are no theories. There are no answers. There is only...**Skiptrace™*** ”`

`~ **sir\_brilliant on Skiptrace**`

Skiptrace is somewhat of an enigma.

Not much is know about him, or what he does, although it was assume that he had moderator powers as he used to be a member of HFCS. After this thread was made about his he was soon removed from HFCS and lost his Ninja Title Bar scheme and Bungie Employee title which now says 'Absent Member'. However when/if he signs back in he may gain them back. Even so, he does not have a custom avatar as the other moderators do - in fact, he uses the default site avatar. (It is unknown if Skiptrace is even a 'he' in the first place.)

Skiptrace created his bungie.net account on the 9th of March in 2006. He was discovered a little over half an hour later when a bungie.net user recognized him on the members list of the bungie.net moderator group, HFCS. This spawned a flurry of speculation as to his mysterious appearance in the days following. The first thread regarding Skiptrace has since been deleted.

Skiptrace's title was "Web Tester," so it is assumed that this account belongs to a member of the Community Team. But his true identity remains a mystery. In fact, all that is publicly know about Skiptrace is that he is from the United States, as confirmed by the location section of his profile page.

Skiptrace usually posts in sudden "spurts" - in the rarity of him being online, he usually manages to make a considerable amount of forum posts. From his recent posts, it is clear that he is knowledgeable on gaming

   topics.

Skiptrace's current title is 'Bungie Employee' however his Title Bar is the style of the Forum Ninjas. In HFCS his title is Master Forum Ninja.