> It's August 2007. A guy sitting at my lunch table starts lore dumping to me about the Halo games. A week earlier, the first time we had sat at the same table, he had called me 'Dickram' so I guess we were making progress in getting along.

I vote we call you this every time you make a sassy post.

> It's September 2007. I'm watching football and the creepiest ad ever starts playing. It's just camera pans over a miniature of a sci-fi battle scene, but there's a Chopin piece playing over it to make it extra haunting. Suddenly at the end, Master Chief looks up and the screen cuts to black and the word 'Believe' before the Halo logo appears. (Also surprised you didn't mention this in your post lol)

Character count discipline, I suppose.

That whole advertising campaign was masterful - the kids staring at the stars, the one you mentioned, the interviews with veterans. ODST probably had the best ad though.

> It's winter 2012. One of my Scholars Bowl teammates decides that as our pump up music before our semifinals needs to be this piano cover of 'One Final Effort.'

Did it work?

> It's fall of 2015. The score for Halo 5 has dropped, it's pretty good

Brace yourself, some sass on my part is coming in a few weeks. 2015 Jon would be surprised what 2025 Jon is saying.

> It's April 2022. I have so much writing to do and increasingly little time to complete it. This phase of my PhD becomes known as 'Crunch Wrap Supreme' time. To mark the shift in mindset, I change my phone alarm to 'Finish the Fight.' It gets the job done.

The crank stuff out music move is a tried and true tactic.

> Anyway, good score, good overview.

Thanks!