Angry_Citizen
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Quote:i see you talking about me!!!Originally Posted by turjan
angry_citizen y ddedfryd marwolaeth ar ddeuddeg seren systemau
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Technically the Natives were "foreigners" too. It's all a matter of perspective.
But y'all are all foreigners on my damn planet. See that France? That's the USA. See that UK? That's the USA. See that Korea? All USA, baby.
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Quote:Yeh, but our cultural, military and political hegemony ensures that we invade last.Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
We invaded first. Shush, you colonial you.
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Quote:1/16th actually.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
Why do I get the feeling that you're not a member of the original natives of this land?
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Foreigners GTFO, this is America!
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Quote:Oh I know the pain of loss first-hand multiple times over. I still have no intention of dying however, and that's pretty cool 8)Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
nah man, it aint you dying you have to worry about, that's the easy bit. its people you care about, that's the art that drives it home, pets, loved ones, spouses, you can either isolate yourself from everything and experience a bland, grey life of no personal attachments, ot you can trade the happiness of interaction with the inevitable pain of closeness. And its not just death, divorce, losing jobs, sometimes its watching a friend you got along with for years destroy himself and his family on drugs and alcohol, or even better, when they dont do anything wrong and life just deals a bad hand. that's the real fun of it.
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Quote:Doesn't really matter, now does it? The CoH campaign is breaking new ground in gamer activism. We're already far beyond unprecedented.Originally Posted by KnightOwl
Just wondering, how many MMOs have ever been "saved" by a fan campaign? Anyone got the numbers on that? Or, if it happens with CoH, would it be a first?
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Quote:Well, I have no intention of dying, so.Originally Posted by Turjan
That sounds like the "depression" stage of the grief progression tree to me
One could argue that EVERYTHING is ultimately for naught simply because we're mortal. We're born, we live, we die. Woe is me.
Well, I don't know about you, but I am currently alive, and as long as that condition persists, I intend to take advantage of it by experiencing whatever is out there to experience. Along the way I may laugh, I may cry, but at least I will be LIVING!
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Quote:I wish I could explain it. Maybe it's just the realization that ultimately it's all for naught. The communities you join, the characters you build, the missions you run, the stories you write - they're all finite. They have a shelf-life. That shelf-life isn't printed on the package, but three months from the expiration date it'll pop up and really piss in your cheerios.Originally Posted by UberGuy
This seems odd to me. Wouldn't that be a function of what company you're paying, and not of the game? I'm just confused how what's happened would affect whether or not you liked the game itself. Or is there some other factor I'm not considering?
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Gesundheit?
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Not a chance. I doubt I'll even resub at all. This whole experience has completely soured the game for me.
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Quote:I'll still think TonyV and his cadre are self-aggrandizing, pompous fools who reinforce stereotypical views of nerdrage. By putting forth this silly slogan, he's implying that it's the game, not the community, that is worth saving. It's not. This game could be blown up and remade from scratch for all I care, so long as the community remained a part of it. We the community are not heroes. We pilot fake heroes in a fake game. That's not heroic. It never has been, is not now, and will never be. Implying otherwise is insulting to the memories of real heroes. Real heroes give their lives for a just and worthy cause, or at least come within mortal peril. That's how I define a hero. A hero is not some dude with an obviously wrong yet catchy slogan. Those are called politicians, and most of them aren't revered as heroes.
Angry Citizen and American Knight may be right in a very plain sense. But that's no kind of sense that ever gets anything done when the odds are stacked against something you love--and that includes a community built around an eight year-long hobby. If City of Heroes is by some miracle saved, it won't be people like Angry Citizen and American Knight, and their very plain sense, who we thank afterward. We'll thank Tony and all the other crazy nuts out there who pushed for the impossible, like they could hold it in the palm of their hand if they just kept trying. We'll thank all the people who equated saving this community with heroism, and who couldn't be told otherwise. -
I haven't seen it in a while. Perhaps you're right, I don't quite recall how the audience played in.
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Quote:Nothing personal. I think I gave TonyV a similar dressing-down. It's the slogan that irks me. I appreciate your attempting to motivate the community, but do so by accepting the reality of the situation. We're not heroes. We're nothing even close to heroes. The only thing that is even vaguely approaching heroic about all this is giving the devs one last dinner night on our dime, and that's nowhere near heroic. What we are is a great community. That's it.Originally Posted by EternalAmethyst
I'm not trying to demean the word, not the slightest. So no offence intended to anyone. If you see the videos on Youtube for eg. This might help explain as well. A pasting from http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Main_Page
Saturday, September 1, 2012
We are heroes. This is what we do.
We are heroes. This is what we do. Remember those words. Please bookmark this forum and check back here frequently, as I'll also be posting stickies at the top that are "Calls to Action," things that we need you to do or expertise we need in order to progress in our efforts. I'll be posting news and information here, and more importantly, what you, the City of Heroes community, can do to help our efforts. --TonyV
Sorry my attempt at trying to post something motivational failed so badly.
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Pretty sure you're just a guy with a mouse and keyboard killing pixels and time. Some perspective, please, so you don't come across as completely off the deep end. We're not heroes. We're a bunch of cool people who grew close to each other while playing a fun game. Heroes are guys who run into burning buildings to save a child. They're not guys who run into burning buildings to save a collection of pixels. Please stop demeaning the word.
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Quote:I think you misunderstood the point of the movie. The news anchor from Network had legitimate anger at first, when he did his "I'm mad!" spiel. It was only after the network noted the ratings bounce that the anchor was co-opted into a corporate agenda.Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex
It might (or might not) be worth noting that the phrase "I'm as mad as hell and not going to take it anymore" is sort of double-edged. It's a famous quote from the 1970s movie Network, where a possible implication is that the speaker is buying into a corporate message that is loud but ultimately hollow; anger as entertainment, basically. I understand the feeling the OP is talking about, there just may be a phrase that has less baggage that could be used.
The movie clip is below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_qgVn-Op7Q
Which is funny, if you think about it. All the cries of "I'm mad!" from the player base ultimately serves the continuance of a corporate agenda, i.e. giving money to a corporation for entertainment - despite the fact that not a soul among us is angry because the company itself is in a poor position. We have been co-opted. Sad, really. -
At least you can spell. *thumbs up*
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lolPvP. No one has played PvP since I13.
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Quote:Pff. I've been complaining about stalkers since before you were even on these boards, grasshoppah. You're an amateur.Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
Stop and think for a second whom you are speaking to.
I lobbied non-stop for five years, more or less alone, for what is admittedly a ludicrous cause for most people. Uphill, against pretty much everyone.
I don't give up easily. If there is one person on these forums who knows about the relentless pursuit of the impossible, about bull-headed cussedness, I dare to say it's me.
I know when there is still a fight to be fought, and I know when there isn't.
Based on all available information, which I freely admit we may not have all of, the fight for CoH is done. Until information comes to light to contradict that, spending energy working to that end or giving people false hope doesn't help anyone. From what I gather, TonyV thinks the same based on his latest Titan address.
We need to focus on moving forward while we still have momentum. The dinner for the devs was probably the best single thing the SaveCoH movement could have done even though it would in no way result in CoH being saved. It got major attention in the gaming press because it wasn't something that could be spun as a selfish tantrum by children who were going to have their toy taken away, which is how the Atlas gathering was spun by many. You can't buy good publicity like that. Further, it cemented our dedication to the former dev team and hopefully planted a seed that they may want to pick up and start over on another game.
Again, we have to look towards the future. Until there's a press release that says otherwise, CoH is done.
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Quote:I don't. If I do, I edit them, because I take pride in my communications. I feel that if one is sloppy about one's use of language, then one doesn't really care what oneself says.
Why not punish yourselves when you make mistakes.
It's already working. You're in a tizzy, cursing up a storm and providing an awesomely entertaining distraction from linear systems analysis.Quote:Guess what the punishment wont work. At this point there is nothing you or anyone else can do about it. **** that spell check, as some of my prior post used that, and made no difference. They found something else to poke at.
Come for the per se, stay for the "dilusions" and "admiting".Quote:All of this because of per se. ******* absurd. I'm here to stay so deal with it. Put me on ignore, or ignore the posts. And I'm not afraid to admit, I'm working on it but not perfect at it yet. Oh well look at this, my pride is intact and I didnt die admiting that I'm not perfect unlike some people in here cant do who self esteem is so low that they must make themselves feel better by nit picking someone else's mistakes and have the dilusions that they can never make a mistake ever. The world have a better chance of ending then them making a mistake. -
Quote:Yes, you're the only one in this thread who doesn't make an effort to make their posts conform to the English language, and you are being punished accordingly. Again, it's not hard to type an apostrophe or download a spellchecker and fix anything that is underlined in red. At this point you've become so angry towards all the people needling you that you're starting to become incoherent.Originally Posted by Evil_Legacy
Am I the only one that make mistakes, or the only one you choose to point that out to? Why am I required to or even bother with it, if it's not required by anyone else? So if it's not going to be enforced evenly, then I'm not following it. I'm going to write the way I feel like it and grammar mistakes and all as no point in having to follow a rule that only applies to me but everyone else get free passes.
You can take it or leave it. With the rule that is not being applied to most people, I choose to leave it as it's ********. -
Quote:It's not that hard to spell right and have good grammar. Also it's "semblance", and you misspelled "misspell".Originally Posted by Evil_Legacy
Uhm I put effort into it. Like I said. even with posts that dont have mistakes, they find something else. SO what is the point of trying to please these people that can never be pleased? NOW dont care about it. I'm doing worrying looking for mistakes. We all make them and if they want to act like they dont then they can act like that but we all know everyone makes mistakes. And many people make more mistakes than me. Way more. And yet, people can ignore them, but cant even mispell something as simple as per se without some grammar nazi coming along. I'm dont talking about it. I tried to bend backwards for that spelling stuff, I even used word to check mistakes but if it's one thing after another after another they continue to find, why should I put in this effort for anything if they can even show me a little common decency of fairness? Why should I show any decency at all if they cannot show me any? So now I'm at that point that I'm saying spelling mistakes and all, cant read it tough. My patience has worn out in that regards. I spell check and have to proof read official papers at work 40 hours a week, day in day out to make sure that the legal stuff and papers to higher up look as official as possible. I get paid for that. That is WORK. Here is not work, but some certain people seem be trying to make it seem as much like work as possible and guess what, they aint paying crap not even a little fairness. So you know what? I quit. I'm not letting anyone make this feel like work. I'm going write how I want make mistakes and leave them be, and format the way I see fit. If they make a deal out of it since they cant even over look "persay" and have to make a big deal out of nothing, then fine then, I'ma stoop to their low level and make a big deal about it. But I'ma not eyt goign to stoop so low that I'ma goign to go around looking only mistakes in their post like mine and ignore what they are writing. Cant yet bring myself to that low of a standard where I get my jollies, like some here, going around correcting only one person mistakes and dismisses everyone elses and to add salt to the situation. Expect me to sit there and take it. Hell no! And not all of my posts have mistakes in them, but always put more effort into it put more effort into put more effort into when people find one mistake. Why not go tell that to everyone else that make mistakes. Last I checked this was CITY OF HEROES. NOT FREAKING ENGLISH CLASS WHERE PEOPLE THAT ARE PURE HYPOCRITE LIKE THEY NEVER MADE AND GRAMMAR MISTAKES IN THIER MISABLE LIVES HAVE THE RIGHT TO JUDGE ME JUST BECASUE I MISPELL THINGS. ESPECIALLY SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AND LITTLE ASK PER FREAKING SE! GOD DAMN! I SWEAR all of this over per se. I SAID I FREAKING SAW THE MISTAKE! IF YOU CANT BOTHER TO CORRECT OTHER PEOPLE, DONT GO OUT OF YOUR GOD DAMNED WAY TO CORRECT ME AND THINK I'll be OK WITH IT.
not yelling at you, Lucky666. I think I just had it taking this **** all of the time day and day out trying to be nice, trying to let it go, but no they wont stop. But anyways only have to put up with it for not much of a long time. Then that's it. I still wont let them ruin my day. no. They try all the tactics they want I'm going to be here until the 30th to see the game off. At first, for the community and maybe say goodbye but now it's purely for me. as it's obvious they dont give a crap about me so why give a crap about them. I put in so much effort to save the game, even convinced husband, who despises games, to put a large sum of money away just in case that what it takes. But screw that, what the hell am I saving? So people can continue to focus only on my mistakes? What sane person would do that? Not me, that money is goign to better use now. I'll just sit back and watch the game burn and watch the fireworks come NOV 30th. Where ever people like that go after that, I hope they can somehow rebuild COX or some semblence at least that means they aint on other games ruining the community. -
Don't have much. Just a few characters who were at the peak of their possible power ... in freakin' I14 or whatever. You could sell off the LotG's though ^_^
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Nothing.
I doubt I'll even resub. This whole experience has thoroughly soured my love of the game. -
Quote:This is racist and despicable. Get a clue, or better yet borrow one from someone else because you're apparently incapable of manufacturing one yourself.
and are exhibiting a typically Koreaon response of "who cares what foregin barbarians think"