You know you're a 405th member when:
1. Your desktop background consists of the (now finalized) 405th logo, or sometimes a pic of the Master Chief, and your screensaver is set to show pics of those funny HALOtivational posters;
2. You have the opening screen greeting on your cell phone say "SPARTAN 117 Reporting for Duty" when you turn it on, and have a pic of the MC as your screen background (geeky, I know, lol);
3. You regularly log in to the 405th forums throughout the day (while at
work, lol) to see if there are any new posts;
4. The first webpage you open up on your computer every day is the 405th forums (e-mails second);
5. When you check your e-mails, you first look for any new PM or comment notifications from the 405th;
6. You spend most of your free time (and lunch breaks) working on blueprints for HALO 3 props;
7. You tell all your friends and family about the exciting projects you're getting involved in, even though you know most of them have no idea what you're talking about ("What is a SPNKr, anyway?");
8. You spend more time on the 405th forums than you do any of the other prop-related forums you've been a member of for
years;
9. Your idea of a "good time" is putting together Mk VI chest armour in the evenings rather than going out for a few drinks with your friends;
10. You and your friend's gf hum along with the theme song from HALO 3 whenever you and your friends are loading Multiplayer (he usually just shakes his head and sighs, lol);
11. You've been anxiously anticipating someone to come out with a doable pep file of the Hayabusa helmet (which I now have) so you can finally make one for yourself and a friend;
12. You use your 405th user name as your HALO 3 game profile name;
That's all I got for now
Dr. Temujin said:
You know you're in the 405th when your girlfriend says "It's me or the silly Halo armor" and you say "Let me respond to that after I finish printing this pepakura file."
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Love it, dude! Classic!
I've been kinda blabbering away about the SR and SPNKr schematics I've been working on with a girl I'm rather interested in.
She's never seen or played the games, so doesn't really know what I'm talking about, but she's been kind enough to just let me go on about it (she understands it's a major hobby/interest of mine).
I think she finds it amusing to see me get so excited about it, lol.