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I gave away literally billions over the course of Omi's life.
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Edit: Seeing as I posted 42 at literally the same time as DD, I guess I'll guess again in a bit. Sorry.
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Thank you! Thank you so much!
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EDIT: OH SHIZZLE MY DRIZZLE HOLY MACARONI WHAT THE -
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I have to say... the Nemesis invasion.
I got Zwil (He was [Nemesis]) to give a shoutout to Zachary, my boyfriend. Some other highlights included:
[Nemesis]: All your brass are belong to us!
[Nemesis]: I AM TALKING IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE SOMEONE TOLD ME THIS WAS PROPER NETIQUETTE WHEN INVADING A CITY.
[Nemesis]: MY SUBMARINE WAS DESIGNED BY THE SAME PEOPLE WHO PACKAGE IKEA FURNITURE... VERY ECONOMICAL.
[Nemesis]: AND YES, THAT DOES MEAN IKEA IS ONE OF MY PLOTS. -
Any art of Omi, in Mecha or Demon, or even Human form, would be appreciated. Seriously, that would be awesome.
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I will be going as The 10th Doctor.
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I'll gladly take a 50 Numina's +reg/rec, thank you.
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Quote:Sorry to necro, but I just stepped in here for the first time.Originally Posted by Atlantea
46. Same thing.
For the first few days I was in total shock. I wept more during those days than I have in years.
You know what, though? The very first Saturday after the announcement, while I was still in that early stage? I was logged in, but I was commiserating with people, trying not to tear up.
I had - for the first time in a long long time, gone to my "/hide" command and unlocked EVERYTHING. So I was visible to any and all searches. Even just general. Haven't done that in years. I've got a stable corp of friends. And bare minimum I run with "hide from general searches" on. You would not normally see me in a zone search. Though I'm visible to friends, supergroups, global channels I'm a member of etc.
But I'd turned it all off so I'm open to view for the first time in over 2 years.
And I got a random /tell. ( and I am so sorry now that I can't recall who this was, but if anyone who was there, let me know and I'll gladly give credit where it's due)
This guy, the Saturday after Black Friday, was pulling people together for a Rikti Mothership raid.
Well.
Why not?
And it welled up in me through my tears -
Yeah...
Yeah!
YEAH!!!
WHY NOT!?! WHY THE HELL NOT???
He didn't get any of that from me through the tell, actually. To him, I just typed a simple, "Yes. I'm on my way."
And I told my friends who were also feeling down what I was doing, and would they like to come along? And they also came along (and I suspect were having a similar reaction).
This guy was obviously persistent and patient. When I got there we were about 1/3 to 1/2 full. But it took surprisingly less time than I would've thought to fill up. And we got a lot of people who had NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE.
So I found myself in the surprising role of calling out some advice. I wasn't telling people where to go or what pylons to hit, but I was telling "newbies" what to expect, when to expect rezzes and when it would be better to hospital, helping with the call out to position ourselves away from the bombs and then into the bowl, and calling out for people to target Rikti Maguses through me.
I wasn't done with my mourning, but for awhile that night it all fell away and I had a BLAST.
It is, I think, one of the best examples of what this game, and what this community are all about.
A couple of days later I'd pulled myself together enough to make a general call-out to my own supergroup to stop mourning and get bucket lists together and that we were going to help each other achieve those lists as much as possible before the (possible) end.
And I've been PLAYING the game. I still find myself touring almost aimlessly taking screenshots and such. But I've been checking off things I want to get done for my mains. I've been helping SG mates get favorite toons over the top to level 50 at last. I've run task forces.
I'm also trying to help people with my knowledge of Champions Online (and even DCUO), if they want to try those and should the worst truly come to pass, choose another MMO to bring their characters to. I'm still 99% here. But I've been helping organize and commission proportional templates for the CO character creator in order to help COH players make characters as close to their original look as possible and giving other advice on how to use the character creator and other tools in that game. I'm not PUSHING this, by the way. I'm just offering help should they choose it. CO is not a replacement for COH in any way. I just consider it an alternative. But I feel it's better to be pro-active.
My point is... I understand exactly how you feel. But I do implore you - try to get involved. Watch the LFG channel. And if you see anybody asking for group for something you want to do on your bucket list - or even if you think you'd just like to randomly help someone - DO IT.
It WILL make you feel better.
Lastly - to whoever you were, mystery Mothership Raid Organizer - I salute you.
If you were on Virtue, that was me. Lord Omi, 'Shade. And yeah. I was crying. -
but someone has to, and I'm so, so sorry.
PSY is a Justin Bieber fan.
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This is a good idea.
Any thoughts on where to meet? We should probably do this soon.
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I'm not crying. Of course not.
I don't know what you are talking about.
Seriously.
Not crying.
I just hope no one sees me like this.
Because, you know...
I'm not crying at all.
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Honestly, I have never had one better than this.
In my dream, I was sitting at my computer, on the CoH forums. My parents walked in. My mom was in tears, as was my dad.
"Oh ****, what happened?"
"Ellen?"
"What?"
"We just won the lottery."
The news hit me in the face like a sack of bricks. My parents had stopped at a convenience store on the way home from somewhere and picked up a ticket. They now had about half a billion dollars to their name.
"... Holy crap."
"Honey, we are going to make a lot of changes to our life, but first... that video game that you are all worked up about, what can we do to help?"
And with that, the scene changed to my family getting off a plane in North California. I was welcomed by a horde of Paragon Studios people. They were hugging me, and thanking me profusely. We were driven to the studio, and I sat down in front of the camera for the coffee talk.
"Hello, citizens of Paragon. I know these few months have been hard. All along, we knew we'd need a miracle to pull this off.
Well, we just got that miracle.
I'll start at the beginning. I am Lord Omi, the loudmouthed Warshade who plagues the Virtue server. As of last night, my family lived in a middle class suburb, with no plans of being the heroes in this story.
Well, as of this morning, we're millionaires. $543 million, to be exact. And, well, we're going to buy City of Heroes. It doesn't matter how much they offer, because we're buying the *bleep*ing game. We're buying the engine, too, just in case. And we're going to get the employees of Paragon Studios back. From now on, this game is in the hands of the players, not some oversees tyrant."
I look back, the developers in the background are smiling harder than I have seen anyone smile in their entire life.
"We're getting Zwillinger back, too. And we're going to give the Paragon Studios employees one hell of a raise. After all, they deserve it.
I suppose it's fate, then, that the game made for heroes finally was saved by a hero herself. I'm not going to put myself on a high horse, though. Things will be the same, but with a few differences that I think are completely necessary.
Firstly: We are going to archive the entire forums and host them privately on Paragon's servers.
Secondly: We are going to give this game what it deserves. No more surviving on word of mouth. We're getting a marketing team together and giving this one hell of a relaunch.
Thirdly: Everyone who has an account right now, VIP or not, is getting a big pile of rewards. Anyone who was active after the announcement is getting a permanent badge, called 'Savior of Reality.' They will also get special forum swag, and access to the 'Savior' server (soon to be made). The 'Savior' server will have double XP on permanently, and transfers will be free to and from Savior. All F2P players and Premiums will be bumped to VIP.
Finally: We did it, guys. We got a miracle, and I'll be damned if anything like this happens to us again. We made history, guys. All of us, working together, and it worked. It doesn't matter if we survived on luck or willpower, just know that we made it.
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I- I- I'm crying, guys."
At this point, tears are running down my face. The devs in the background are tearing up, but still grinning like maniacs. I mean, they are about to get guaranteed lifetime employment with a huge pay increase, AND they get to keep working on CoH.
"I'm crying, and, for the first time in about two months, I'm crying in joy. We did it.
*laughs* All that jerk hacking and duping was worth it. CoH has finally gone to the Americans... and that's right where it belongs.
It belongs with us, right here in Paragon City."
I smile and turn off the stream. I turn around to look at the crowd behind me.
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I have seen it maybe 10 times.
10/10.
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Quote:My in-game fluffies don't do that... you're thinking of the PB equivalent.Originally Posted by DarkBlaster_NA
Do they run into melee range when someone enters the room and get squashed?
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Quote:I fixed the typo in that, you're welcome.Originally Posted by Kyuuen
It looks like a fluffy ball of death..
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Quote:Nope, they're spheres.Originally Posted by SinisterDirge
Some poor cyber emo goth chick is missing a pair of earmuffs.
Also, nifty.
Also, thanks!
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Quote:I had to check on them 200 seconds later to make sure they hadn't despawned.Originally Posted by Fire Man
I heard Warshade sound effects as soon as I saw that picture.