Fun fact: Fooch and I recently watched a 40-minute video that heavily uses HBO as reference. Your prominence and resourceful use of community-related tools and events were so effective, that the Due diligence-neglecting journalists thought you were Bungie, and that HBO was a direct line from Bungie to the community.

Clearly that's why HBO is dead. Folks are confused now that 343 makes Halo.

Change it to halo.343.org, and it'll be right back to its former glory.

Because actual historians will tell you that the "Byzantine" empire never really existed. It was just the Roman Empire.

In her Alexiad, Anna made no distinction between the Roman Empire her father ruled and the one that circumscribed the entirety of the Mediterranean. She called it βασιλείᾳ Ῥωμαίων in the original Greek text, or Basileia Romaion, which translates to "Kingdom of the Romans," with 'kingdom' having the same connotations as 'empire.'

The first reference to a "Byzantine Empire" came about 100 years after the collapse of the Roman Empire in 1453. The term "Byzantine," outside its usefulness of referencing a certain era of the Roman state, is actually the result of what can probably be called historical colonialism, whereby Western Europe sought to deny the identity and heritage of a people (something they also did to the inhabitants of the Roman Empire after its western half collapsed).

Anna considered herself Roman. So did her father and the people who lived in the "Byzantine Empire." She was a Roman.

This has been your history lesson for the day.

I love when I learn something here!

Wikipedia can suck but most of the time I think it's pretty good, and I say that a former Britannica salesman.

HEY! It's Beorn Again! :P

Was it something I said? I was justlamenting how the only voices echoing here were that of my own and Cheap, then all suddenly we get Dax01 (returned to *BO as a Byzantine princess), and now Beorn! Returned to us as a super cool not-a-bear... so, well... Beorn! :D YEAH!

So happy to see this. Welcome back.

*Roman, but very good! Did you have to look that up? haha.

lol - Wikipedia disagrees with you. :)

No & Yes. The name was familiar, as I knew I had seen it somewhere. Sometimes in the evenings I like to use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomInCategory just for something to read, and there is always something to read about History, though it can be risky sometimes. 'Cus, uh... History. I'll hit a topic, click back, do it again. Or I'll just go down the rabbit hole. Sometimes I even find a topic that I find interesting enough to look into getting a book for. We have access to a wealth of human knowledge at our fingertips that our forebears could only dream of, so might as well give it a look over right?

See! I just got Francesco Della Valle! Society of Bead Researchers! A Farewell to Arms (poem)!

And I know I'm not remembering all of it, but, it seems at least, I've picked up a data point or two. ;D

In her Alexiad, Anna made no distinction between the Roman Empire her father ruled and the one that circumscribed the entirety of the Mediterranean. She called it βασιλείᾳ Ῥωμαίων in the original Greek text, or Basileia Romaion, which translates to "Kingdom of the Romans," with 'kingdom' having the same connotations as 'empire.'

The first reference to a "Byzantine Empire" came about 100 years after the collapse of the Roman Empire in 1453. The term "Byzantine," outside its usefulness of referencing a certain era of the Roman state, is actually the result of what can probably be called historical colonialism, whereby Western Europe sought to deny the identity and heritage of a people (something they also did to the inhabitants of the Roman Empire after its western half collapsed).

Anna considered herself Roman. So did her father and the people who lived in the "Byzantine Empire." She was a Roman.

This has been your history lesson for the day.

HEY! It's Beorn Again! :P

Was it something I said? I was justlamenting how the only voices echoing here were that of my own and Cheap, then all suddenly we get Dax01 (returned to *BO as a Byzantine princess), and now Beorn! Returned to us as a super cool not-a-bear... so, well... Beorn! :D YEAH!

So happy to see this. Welcome back.

*Roman, but very good! Did you have to look that up? haha.

lol - Wikipedia disagrees with you. :)

HEY! It's Beorn Again! :P

Was it something I said? I was justlamenting how the only voices echoing here were that of my own and Cheap, then all suddenly we get Dax01 (returned to *BO as a Byzantine princess), and now Beorn! Returned to us as a super cool not-a-bear... so, well... Beorn! :D YEAH!

So happy to see this. Welcome back.

*Roman, but very good! Did you have to look that up? haha.

Was it something I said? I was justlamenting how the only voices echoing here were that of my own and Cheap, then all suddenly we get Dax01 (returned to *BO as a Byzantine princess), and now Beorn! Returned to us as a super cool not-a-bear... so, well... Beorn! :D YEAH!

So happy to see this. Welcome back.

No need for that—Cody’s going to publish his book any day now, surely. (:

Any info post Destiny ain't gonna be in there unless Bungie changes its policy :-p

Good stuff!

Also, maybe once Raga comes back with the milk and cigarettes, the front page will be boppin' again.

I try to keep up with more direct Bungie happenings to post, but my logins were kept on my old work computer. I sent a request to the Claudefather to get them back. I've longed for the old (X)BO glory days for a long time. Count me in for a comeback.

Bungie.org is a dinosaur, and while there's still a small community, I'm under no illusions that this will ever change in any substantial way. (And really, I'm okay with that - when it WAS an audible voice, it ate a significant portion of my waking hours. I don't regret that for a single second - but I also don't want to go back to it.)

Fun fact: Fooch and I recently watched a 40-minute video that heavily uses HBO as reference. Your prominence and resourceful use of community-related tools and events were so effective, that the Due diligence-neglecting journalists thought you were Bungie, and that HBO was a direct line from Bungie to the community.

Good stuff!

Also, maybe once Raga comes back with the milk and cigarettes, the front page will be boppin' again.

In addition to everything I stated above, maybe something can be done with the "news" section for this website. Claude, maybe you still have some connections at Bungie? Maybe somebody will be willing to sit down for an interview? Or perhaps DBO can reach out to some prominent Destiny community members?

I have some experience doing interviews for professional news websites, so I'd be willing to do something like this, especially if it's an interview with someone from Bungie.

Heh. Yeah, well...

I'm pretty much out of connections at Bungie - sad, but mostly true.

And the reason the twitter feed is dead is because the news feed is dead; the Twitter feed IS the news feed. (There was a short time in the early days when Colin was actually tweeting, outside of the automated news posts... but that time is long gone, and nobody's tweeted manually in more than half a decade.)

News posting gets done when one of the people who've asked for access posts something - and when those people run out of time, or interest... the news page goes quiet again. We're, again, long past the time when I had the drive do it myself... and really, I think the days of news-based gaming sites have been over for quite a while. Content is predominantly disseminated via bite-sized chunks (Twitter) or video (Twitch/YouTube/whatever). bungie.org is a dinosaur, and while there's still a small community, I'm under no illusions that this will ever change in any substantial way. (And really, I'm okay with that - when it WAS an audible voice, it ate a significant portion of my waking hours. I don't regret that for a single second - but I also don't want to go back to it.)

I have some experience doing interviews for professional news websites, so I'd be willing to do something like this, especially if it's an interview with someone from Bungie.

Also!!!! Duncan!!!!