Harry_Canyon

"Look, the job was simple... Our powerhouse lifts up the building, and we send our erstwhile thief under to clear out the vault.

Maybe we should have used Mr. Muscles as opposed to Butterfingers?"

What?

No

• Cutey Honey
• Project A-ko
• Akira
• Fist of the North Star
• Wicked City
• Vampire Hunter D
• New Dominion: Tank Police
• Ninja Scroll
• Robotech
• Rojin Z
• Devil Man/Lady
• Grave of the Fireflies
• Voices from a Distant Star
• Street Fighter: The Animated Movie
• 8 Man
• Blue Seed
• or Urotsukidōji

These should be included in any Anime list. Especially Akira and Fist of the North Star. Those were well known in the U.S. Before Japanimation was called Anime.

Gratz. Never worry about how long it took to get to 50. I was in almost 2 and a half years before I hit mine. It was never about the destination, it was the journey...

"Don't stop believin!"

I'm just sitting at 36 here. But you are only as old as you let yourself feel.

Yeah, for me it is like seeing the game again from the eyes I had 5 years ago. It is a joy to give to the rest of the world a taste of the pleasure I have found here. I came for the super leaping, I stay for the people.
Sometimes when cruising the forums I tend to notice a lot of people missing the point of what it is to be new. Sure, I could run circles around some joker in Atlas that has been in game for a week, but my fiance took two hours getting through the tutorial when she first fired up and I enjoyed every minute of it.

Ah... I remember when navigation was a chore for me too (stupid console games, making me reliant on a hand-held controller.

Don't sweat it PK. I have noticed snobbery all along the ladder lately. Though I will simply ignore the ones that will ruin my playtime, there are times that I just wonder what the hell people were thinking when they subbed to this game. Just the other day, I was on a great PUG that was steamrolling things, and right in the middle of a mission, one player asked if we could go do something else, all the mobs were blue to him (this was due to the fact that we had leveled since entering.) We said that we would do a higher mission after we finished this one, and he got miffed and dumped the team and left.

No pleasing everyone I know, but playing a mission full of blue minions with a team of 8 is better than slogging through a mission of yellow minions alone no? I would never tell someone to shove off due to their attitude (mostly because the internet is full of people who would just see that as the opening to unleash their most untamed monkey on someone who can't simply reach out and punch them in the throat.), but really, I enjoy the game and community not the "phat xp's". Perhaps that is my rung on the snobbery ladder, but at least I never bump anyones camel sideways because I can't open my snickers bar from the side... You know what I mean.

I was playing a new Spines Scrapper yesterday, (Yay! I actually want to play one now!) and was running to a mission back in the corner of Atlas by the Perez Park Entrance. Seeing a large group of hellions just begging for a Pounding/Poking, I went to say hello and don't do that. I realized right away that my level 5 was not quite prepared for such a large group but stuck with it thinking that, worst case scenario, A free trip closer to to Atlas via the hosp.

Then it happened...

A character came from behind, and used hurricane to blow some of the riff-raff off of me, buying me the time I needed to recover. The extra aggro he earned caused them to drop, but I slipped em a wakie. They stated in local that they were sorry that they were not any help, to which I replied that he was more help than he knew, and if it were not for him I would have been taking the fast train to morphene town. Instinctively, I checked badges... One exploration badge, nothing else. He asked me if I could help him fight some "Robots", I said sure, and he ran off towards the corner. I asked him to team with me, and he complied. I saw that he, as I suspected, was hunting clockwork. I helped him to tackle his remaining hunt, and mentioned that he seemed new and if he required any assistance. He told me that he was on a trial account, and had just began to play. He did not know anything outside of the four levels he had earned.

He jumped into a group of purples, and died, so I followed him to the pavement. He asked "Now what?" I told him to go to the hospital. At the hospital, he couldn't figure out how to get out of the infirmary, so I directed him to the lobby, and back to the street. He asked me if I wanted any enhancements since he didn't have room, I told him to sell them. He indicated that he did not know you could do that, and where it was. I showed him the hero corps venders and told him that he could find one in almost every zone. I spent an hour showing him the basics, and inquired if he needed any other assistance. he replied no, and I quit the team.

This would have been the end of it, if not for the fact that he managed to contact me via another player (Forgot trials can't send tells or invite to team.) a short time later... "How do I go to other places than atlas?" I told him to check his map for the "T" which was the tram. His response?

"You can take a tram?! SWEET!" He couldn't find the map, so I told him to click his nav button above his health bar. I recieved a message so full of revelation and elation and saw him heading off to the tram. He thanked me for all the help (So many thx, and KKthx I thought i was playing WoW ), and quit the team.

I am currently teaching my fiance to play (Just got a second computer, and she never wanted to get hooked and have to fight over who got to play... And that's why she is my fiance.) And have noticed a lot of new players rushing the city. I understnd that AE has left many people with a foul taste in their mouth for Noobs, but as math will tell you, "Not all Newbs are Noobs, though Noobs can be Newbs." or something like that, I was never that good at the maths. This player on "Justice" went by the name of "Lazer Beam", and had said that no one else would talk to or help him, and thouroughly absorbed the play experience with all the wonder I did when I first started playing back in 04'. For all you vets like me, please remember that a lack of vet badges does not make someone the enemy, they could potentially be your newest teammate or supergroup member. and we should welcome them to the game like we used to. We all needed help at some point, and there is a lot of new blood eager to sample the best Super Hero MMO online.

Let's remember to show em why. We are a great community, not an exclusive club. Now get out there and help out a Newb!

Well, there is something I am asked very infrequently...

Back in third grade, I got home from school in time to catch "Heavy Metal" on HBO in the afternoon (Kinda dating myself here.) Being very impressionable, and drawn to anything animated, I always loved finding it and watching that very movie. I finally got my own copy somewhere in 8th grade, and played it till it was ragged and I could recite every line in perfect iambic pentameter("Oh wow, good nyborg man." "Sternnn! he's nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, back-stabbing, larcenous, perverted ,worm. Hangings too good for em, burnings too good for em. He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!" ect...).

I always fancied myself to be an observant fellow, always finding hidden jokes and secret meanings everywhere. But it wasn't until I was 18 years old, and had just found a new vhs copy (Pre-special edition) when I suddenly clicked on the entendre of the cabbies name in the first segment. Ever since, I have used this name for forum handles, E-Mail names, even characters. Though I have used "Iacon" (Autobot base on Cybertron) on rare occasions, I will always be Harry Canyon or Uncle Harry to many.

And that is the genesis of my insanity...

Gratz. I myself had the pleasure of hitting my first 50 about a year ago. Mine was a villain, and was followed shortly thereafter by my first hero. It took a long time for me due to my altoholism and ADD-like method of selecting characters to play. It is a treat to reach the goal, and as was said before...

You always remember your first. But never forget that the ones that follow will hold special place in your heart.

Now get to work on that Kheld. It is not going to achieve Symbiosis with you just sitting there.

As usual, I chime in with my .02 influence.

Remember this above all about college...

The main problem they want you to solve is how well you cope with hurdles. The coursework is oftentimes simplistic and more like busy-work. The real challenge of college is overcoming the bureaucracy you will meet in day to day college life. These are the life-lessons one truly learns in college. Everything else is just facts.

Considering I would have pegged you to be much older, you will fly by if you can survive financial aid, poor advisers, obnoxious roomies, and RUSH WEEK!!

Enjoy. College is a blast!

I noticed that in the necro'd thread as I was reading through it again after all these years. I remembered reading that post then, but it was so long ago, I checked the poster to make sure he was not just some impostor...


I Lol'd

Even checking his post history was like dancing among the echoes of a long-forgotten hallucination; A reflection of the mirage that seemed to recall to me "Hey! No matter how bad things may seem, the light is definitely greener where you are."

As someone who has lost not only a soul-mate on December 26th, but both my grandparents since then, I send nothing but my deepest sympathies. This community is like a family to me, and I feel it's pain as if it were in my own home.