When the Halo 3 Beta burst onto the scene many moons ago, there was much lamenting over the implementation of the call sign system. Gamers love their unique gamertags, they love their customizable avatars, but they didn’t love the random selection of letters and numbers automatically assigned to them. Almost nine months later and we have grudgingly gotten used to it. Some of us will even admit that it’s an improvement from H2’s system. Now instead of saying, “Hey, you with the penis and balls avatar!”, you can instead call that person by the U69 call sign they and half the Halo Nation so proudly display.
My call sign has always been H07. Previously I belonged to a community that uses the first letter to signify what squad you belong to so being an active member of the Honor Guard (defense), my letter was an H. Our number selection was entirely our choice so I went with 07 as seven is a significant number in the Halo series. A few weeks after I had selected my call sign I was in the middle of matchmaking and one of my buddies started hysterically laughing when he realized my call sign spelled out “hot”. I did not realize that when creating my random string of characters as I am not especially fluent in the 1337 language so everybody got (and continues to get) a humongous laugh out of it. Yeah, real funny jerks.
It’s now time to change my call sign so I’m looking for inspiration from all of you. What is your call sign and why did you choose it? Does it bear any personal significance to you? Please note anybody with (insert random letter here)69 need not reply. I know why you chose that, you horny unoriginal bastard you.
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