User:PerfectDark

''' Good Luck, Agent Dark.'''

About Me

 * I am one of many members at Modhalo. I like to joke around with the guys at work after hours. Making food and hanging out, then going out to a bar after work or just kicking back at home is what I do best.


 * When I'm not visiting Modhalo, I'm either at work, out bikeriding, playing Pool, or other random stuff. I used to co-own a pool hall for a few months but it really didnt catch on in the neighborhood.


 * I like drinking Coke, playing PC games, and one of these upcoming months, get my ass into portland state univ to go on to majoring in Stagecraft with a Minor in Theater.

Helpful Links

 * http://www.modhalo.net/index.php?/user/6-perfectdark/ My Modhalo user profile.


 * http://www.Facebook.com/Perfectdark
 * http://prfctdrk.deviantart.com/
 * http://www.Lifehacker.com
 * http://www.Listverse.com You'll easily get addicted to this once you start by looking at a few interesting ones.


 * http://www.Gizmodo.com


 * http://www.woot.com


 * http://www.newegg.com
 * http://network-tools.com/

To Do List

 * Edit Status, hopefully typing everything up without it crashing
 * Edit Award, finishing the article
 * further research css and other coding / widgets
 * get common.css copied from memoryAlpha
 * make another colored gradient for the top of each user page
 * change admin/member/other user name colors

Background

 * Halo-Mods: I came to Halo-Mods.com in Aug of 2004 on a whim, it was my first forum and I was still learning the ropes. I made my own profile and I felt accomplished, but there was so many active members, it was tough to stand out, as most 18 year olds want to do. After time however people got used to me, and I them. I made friends and really felt at home for some reason. I accumulated 700 posts in 2 weeks, most of my posts were information about Halo or my experience with it so far. It was a smattering of wisdom really, and nothing more. As our site history will show, Modhalo.net was made shortly after and it still wasn't very popular. Phil did his best, and today I can honestly say I am glad he saw it through or else I wouldn't be here today making this Background information.


 * Mikenmike.com: Somewhere in the 2005-2006 timeline, hurricane Charley struck Halo-mods.com's servers and it never returned. A lot of the members migrated to Razer's website that he and his brother made called Mikenmike.com. It wasn't so much Halo oriented as Modhalo is, it was more about art, sigs, and other things. That website is what taught me how to make sigs. Or I taught myself rather. I got Adobe Photoshop CS3 and started messing around, reading tutorials, and figuring out things for myself. Pretty soon I would be making sigs of my own, and sigs for people on other websites. But those sigs weren't about quantity, it was all about quality. I still to this day will make a sig for someone if they please, but I feel like it cannot be rushed. I take my time and try and get inspiration before I head into a new sig template or the whole thing collapses because lack of a central idea. Unless the person specifies what they want and how they want it (which for the most part I cannot stand), it will never happen. Not that I've never not made a sig for someone who's asked, but I like to caution the person that I really only make sigs when I feel up to it, however rude that may sound (which isnt my intention at all).
 * Halo-Mods resurrection: After Mikenmike shut down I was named Moderator and then eventually Honorary Admin, although I really didn't feel like I deserved that position and most of the site had already died off anyway. I wandered around and found that some old Halo-mods.com veterans were trying to remake the site based upon a few screenshots. They did a fairly good job, but the idea never caught on. The member base wasn't as high and I don't think people wanted to invest their time into another site all over again. Whether this was the case or not is a mystery to me.
 * Modhalo.net: On March 17, 2006, I was told about Modhalo and Phil's attempt to get that site going. He must've had a lot of courage because what a website it's become! Search for anything "Mod" and "Halo" even brings up the forums on google. Modhalo has a member base of well over 17,000 people. But mostly you don't see a big majority of them. The website regulars, Staff, and active people are all that are around. This number is around 100 or so, give or take a few dozen. Anyway, I registered and was made Moderator. I had a great time and used my powers to the best of my knowledge. Most of the people active today were around back then. I am member # 6 and am proud to say I helped the development of the website, no matter how big or small my footprint is in its creation and upbringing. Around 2007 or 2008 I took a long vacation from forums for no real reason, mostly I imagine because of boredom. I then came back to Modhalo and noticed a slew of new people I didn't recognize. The Kinky / Chips incident had come and gone, the Dark Texan incident as well. And I noticed because of my absence I was no longer a Moderator, but set into the Honor Guard status. I rather liked the idea, I could still see the War Room, and other areas of the website that are restricted to the average member, but I didn't have the ability to edit other people's posts or delete them, or to make changes to the website itself, which was O.K. with me to be honest. Looking back on that change (which was out of my hands), I appreciate the decision. I like to be a part of staff and enjoy not having to moderate people's posts or threads. To this day I still make posts and share insight, make sigs every now and then, and visit on a daily basis.