♠ Spades N AZ ♠

It's really good to see some members of Halocustoms.com come over and make an account just to congratulate me. Stay active on here and you will understand why I LOVE this forum. It compliments Halocustoms but serves totally different purposes. It's like peanut butter and jelly, nom nom.

CGN is returning but it will be on Halo 3. Download it for free next month if you don't already have it and come join us.

Congrats Zebra! you caught my eye way back in the day when you joined a CGN night with me. Polite and friendly to everyone. You are definitely MOM material but don't be in a rush to get that sex change. Your probably just as good as a DAD too.

This is well deserved. Reign with terror!

I'm pretty sure that is the longest wrap-up EVER!!! I look forward to these every week. I may not be able to get on as regularly but at least the Drizzyness catches me up every week.

The definition of a silent GIANT. Although I don't know you well personally, your legend is strong with high praise from our mutual friends. Good job man! This is well deserved.

Representing AZ! Way to go Shoe.

These points are actually very valid with strong proof to back them up. Look, I love Halo but this game is very sad to me. I have the best possible internet money can buy. With fiber optic cables delivering it to my house. Because of that I am punished. My good connection makes it hard for me to kill all the laggers. I have a good friend who is ranked as one of the top ten players in Dominion. When you ask him how and why, he will straight up admit that he uses his bad connection to lag around the map. That is the first thing that he claims his good rank to be gifted from. Any other game I play, I don't have issues, but 343 doesn't have any dedicated servers. So yes, there is lag and lots of it. The public can have access to these daily numbers of decline. Halo is on a constant decline and it's snowballing. I hope that 343 sells the right to Halo to a company who is more professional and honest which uses our millions of dollars to give us what we deserve. We paid but they, after 6 months, have not delivered.

I'll admit it I miss CGN badly. Hopefully I will return soon guys. Let me just get some things in order.

Another great wrap up Drizzy! Yes guys sadly enough I am taking a few weeks off of CGN. It's the first break in the 3 years that I have hosted it. But it will be back! My first lobby will be underground and only solid supporters will get an invite. After that they will continue being posted on Halocustoms each week with SolidSnakee doing the recaps. I look forward to shooting you all in the face again soon.

I always look forward to these. It's like Christmas every week.

DLC has never been much hipe for me. I play with big groups and there is always that one spartan who doesn't have the DLC. It's not like I am gong to boot them because of it, so I don't really get to play the new maps that often. I probably would not have purchased them except the fact that I had them included with what I prepaid for. I feel like it's dumping more money into something, that has not been properly fixed yet, after several months post release.

Thank you SolidSnakee for doing these. Your time is appreciated. SPADES CGN RECAP

You do such a great recap every week. This is awesome, well uuummmm except, the part about Quantum leaving staff. But he made his mark and we will never forget him. Thank you for the time and effort you put into this.

This minigame has the Spades stamp of approval. Good job man!

Just wanted to point out some key factors that struck me in this awesome interview: "First of all, Forge is a product of customs, not the other way around. That means that no matter how big forging is, it's only useful if there are people playing that map!" Guys this is so true and wisely said from Insane54. No matter how good of a forger you are, you'll never get noticed without a lobby to showcase it. "It all comes full circle, and we're really big about being a *companion* site. I absolutely don't want to steal a single member from another site, I just want to offer a resource to as many Halo fans as possible. So, test your map on our site, use our resource, and stay active on your own site -- that's exactly what I hope people do.' For all of you who keep sending me messages of "I don't join other sites" or "I am loyal to 343I.org", this is what I have been repeating back to you. It is using a great asset to our advantage. The site at Halocustoms is amazing, use it. "I really like the RSVP system because you can go to any game and go "this game has 20 RSVPs, it's probably going to be packed" or "this game only has 5 RSVPs? I should tell my friends!" This system that Insane has created is not only ground breaking but has made it so much better for those, me, to host lobbys efficiently. That said, I'm always open to partnering with websites and communities! I feel like by bringing together many communities by partnership, that means that we get to throw activity to our partners, and they get to tell their members 'hey come here to set up custom games!'. By doing that, it reduces their own requirement to organize custom games (let's be honest, forum boards or threads doesn't really work) and delegates it to us -- and we're more than happy to be that resource! In addition, the more places that partner with us, the more we bring communities with different traits together on our interface!" Finally the biggest reason I wanted Insane to meet Dog and create this partnership. They are both about the Halo community and that is a vital ingredient to me. I trust and respect both of these guys for there long hard hours they put in to make your Halo experience better. This is an absolutely amazing interview! Huge thanks to Drizzy Dan and Insane 54 for giving the 343Industries forum an inside look on what I have been ranting and raving about.

R U serious!?!?!?!? Dude thank you ssssoooo much that is so cool. That really means a lot to me, thanks.

HUGE thanks to SOLIDSNAKEEee!!!!!!! Also to Lucid Vivacity for doing these videos. I appreciate your time you spend to show the community what they missed out on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1BrxgGdXVDE

Great Mom post and even better video! That was awesome.

but does it have a GAUWSE hog?

THAT.............WAS..............AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! Bummer, for those who missed out.