Aurora_Girl

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Well then HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO KNOW IT'S YOU?!

As someone who grew up in Georgia, lemme explain the Confederate costume thing. The asssumption is that only "ignorant Southern Baptists who believe in the Rapture and the soon-arriving return of the Glorious Confederacy."

Also, methinks (hopes) this suggestion was made hugely tongue in cheek. If not, get the pancake out of my game, please.

I just look at it like a mountain road trip as compared to a supersonic jet. Why am I going to drive 400 miles out of my way, at a slower pace, to get to the same place?

Yeah, I think that's it. I've been a journalist too long to appreciate good writing.

/sadpanda

Highlights added by me.

*bssst*

Paging Samuraiko.

Paging Samuraiko.

Samuraiko, please report to the Behavioral Adjustment Facility, you have a call waiting on line one.

Paging Samuraiko.

*bssst*

See, while that's funny in a "hah, I get it" kind of way, it really doesn't get me interested in reading his works.

I'm not saying I want "Joe walked to the door, saw a monster, and ran," but I also don't like "Joseph strolled carefully towards the wooden edifice, slowly lifting each turgid limb from the floor in careful succession blah blah vomit."

Not every noun needs six adjectives, folks. A foot is a foot is a foot.

Holy.

PANCAKING.

CRAP!

Wanna throw 300 mil my way?

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present:

Well then...now I know what I'll be doing at work for the next few days.

*sigh*

Well, I'm sorry that you personally didn't enjoy the event. In trying hard not to provide hyperbole and strawmen (as much as those terms, themselves, kind of constitute it) are you the type of person who doesn't enjoy just "hanging out" with your friends? There always has to be some sort of identifiable objective?

And what Forbin means by "work" is:

- Writing the two backstory pieces
- Creating the marketing designs
- Simultaneously manning a player character *and* manually spawning hundreds of enemies at once in multiple zones and multiple servers

So, seeing as how I'd hate to assume you didn't read my post detailing how we didn't just stand still and spam powers, I'll instead have to surmise you simply disregarded it, or worse, found it contemptible.

That said, if you find "standing still and spamming powers" isn't fun, then why are you playing the game? Does "running around and spamming powers" provide enough entertainment for you? If so, that's a mighty minuscule difference.

Hah! Ninja-edited before you even had your wink typed out. Booyah!

Am I the only nerd in the nerdverse who isn't well-versed in Lovecraft?

I know Cthulu from the Internet and Wikipedia...I just have a general distaste for 18th and 19th-century fiction of *any* kind, with the "takes eighteen pages to describe a door" method of storytelling.

EDIT: Yes, I realize now that The Call of Cthulu was originally published in 1928, and is therefore 20th-century, but it still "feels" the same to me. If anyone would like to donate the works for me to read, or point me to a site where I can read them for free (and if you say the library, I'll come through your monitor and punch you), I'd be eternally grateful.

That's...kind of what all the other invasions are. If you'd like to ask everyone else to stick to single target attacks only, that's between you and your league.

For example: On Pinnacle, we all gathered up on the hill by the tram in Talos; 48 heroes strong. The Corolax streamed in from the beach, and we beat them back. The fliers appeared in the skies, and we destroyed them. Mako (Zwil) decided he wanted us off the hill, so he sent in HUGE waves of level 54 bosses, splintering the group and sending most of us to the hospital. He, thusly, took the hill.

After gathering our forces at the base of the hill and providing a stirring motivational speech (and buffs and such) we stormed the hill to take back the territory that was rightfully ours.

There's your objective right there! Like an actual, no-mutant-shark no-pancake invasion attack. Also, fun because Zwil gave us the tools and the opportunity, and we created the scenario. *Decidedly* more entertaining, to the point where even my completely game-unfriendly girlfriend sat and watched the entire thing.

I did read it. Don't presume.

For the future, yeah, maybe they can add some objectives, but won't the objectives make it more like "Rikti with Corolax?" The fun part of the event, for us on Pinnacle, was being together for a completely unique event and defeating enemies for, you know, fun.

Again, if Zwil's work (and it was hasty, I'll admit) didn't strike you as fun, then just be happy there weren't objectives you could miss or achievement badges you didn't earn.

*chuckle* Again, as I pointed out:

Captain Mako was not an NPC, computer-controlled character. Captain Mako was Zwilinger, on a level 50 stalker. Hard for him to be in more than one place at once, hence his stress trying to manage manually spawning enemies in up to four zones on up to two different servers at the same time.

I think we should be applauding the man for his diligence and patience to have to deal with all that!

It's mostly a "you don't participate in PinnBadges discussions very often, so we don't know all of your alts" kind of thing.

I'm shocked more people didn't freak out seeing AG in the flesh...I haven't moved her out of Steel Canyon in like two years.

We did a Mostly All-Controller (had 2 Corrs) run that was pretty smooth up until LR (then we had Ryu tanking him with PA), and then it went well. I think we had 5 or 6 deaths all told (some from bad ghosting in the CoT mish), and SyphonFilter popped his MLTF cherry!

A) Bumping is a no-no. Wouldn't a long-time VIP know this?

B) No, without paying for VIP I don't believe you'll be able to post in the VIP-only sections of the forums. Hence them being called VIP-only. If you'd like to participate in "helping the archetype forums" you can post in the general discussion and suggestion and ideas forum. The way the system is designed makes it very difficult, apparently, so separate game subscription from forum access.

Again, I think you're entirely missing the point.

There can't be objectives, because objectives require coding, and programming. What part of "the coders and programmers had absolutely nothing to do with Zwilinger's Mako event" is so difficult to grasp?

*sigh*

I'm saying they shouldn't have to come to the forums to ask a question like "Is Superior Conditioning a toggle?"

That would be like you coming to the forums to ask "Is Statesman a woman?" Read. The. Power. Info. In. The. Game. That's why it's there. Don't ask stupid questions, and you won't get snarky answers.

I think you're *entirely* missing the point, "Fista" (and let's hope that name isn't meaning what I hope it doesn't mean).

This *event*, which is what it is, not an invasion, was suggested by a player as a way to celebrate the Discovery Channel's annual "Shark Week" of shark-themed programming that's become a bit of a big deal over the years in the US. It's not an actual holiday, as some (non-American, I assume) players have believed.

It was suggested to the community reps, and the community reps wrote the backstory (mostly for fun, making fun of Shark Week's TV programming) and the community reps are manning the enemies. Zwil and Co. decided Arachnos bosses, Corolax and Lusca were natural fits for the fun of "What would happen if Mako did decide to go nuts in Paragon?" and Zwil himself actually played the NPC of Captain Mako. On Pinnacle, anyway, the banter was hysterical, the challenge was real, and not EVERYTHING in this game has to be about badges and xp. There wasn't a badge because badges require programming and coding, and the community reps don't really do that.

This was just a fun event, to get together as a server and do something completely unique and have a fun time, and the special temporary titles and Dark Matter aura codes were just icing on the cake. It was an opportunity to directly interact with Zwil and Co. in-game, which is rare, and serves to bolster the relationship between the player community and the community reps.

If all of that is completely unimportant to you, then yes, I'm sure you were disappointed. It's a good thing the event wasn't designed for people like you.