Slaunyeh

I'm hoping The Secret World will live long enough to become a new home for me, but it's only two months old so it's way too early to tell. That game has received an uncanny amount of, largely unjust, negative attention. Which makes me sad.

My favourite bug was when they were testing the server transfer mechanic, by opening up a second test server.

There was this tiny issue, that when you transferred your character, you got flagged as a developer. That was quite fun (it was also our first taste of "side switching", since you could teleport yourself anywhere. I remember Lady Sadako freaking out about my Dominator walking up to her and saying "HI!" in Icon)

I couldn't even bring myself to go to the forums this weekend. All those posts saying goodbye. It's just too much.

But now that I'm here, I just wanted to say thank you Positron, for all you've done for and with this game. Our game. It's been an honour playing in your campaign.

I think my best memory of Positron, in-game, was an event in Pocket-D back in... oh, I don't know. Ages ago. A couple of Devs were there in-game, including Positron. And I was there, as my shiny rad/rad defender (I don't remember if this was before or after rerolling him as a corruptor) Anti-matter.

*ahem*

Yeah. See, I'm horrible at ever finishing anything, and I have a severe case of altitis, so I'd never actually reached level 50 with any of my characters at that time (today, after eight years, I think I have three 50s total). So I didn't know anything about the praetorians, but I couldn't help notice that Positron kept hanging out near me and checking out my costume. So, I was like "uhm, hi". Then someone told me about the 'real' Anti-Matter. Yikes!

I actually petitioned myself that night, and got a response from support a few hours later, basically saying "nah, you're fine."

This was long before name change tokens had ever been implemented. The character still exists. He was my first character back in 2004, whom I rerolled back in, oh, 2006 as a rad/rad corruptor. While I was allowed to keep the Antimatter name, it grated on me and I eventually chipped in for a name change.

Today he's Radium Rex. And level 35.

Maybe I should finish up a few more of my characters before it's too late. If I can bring myself to play.

I think I'm already in that group. If not, my handle is the same as here: Slaunyeh.

Guys, you're the best. This has been my sole go-to forum for all geekdom news. I will miss knowing what the hell goes on in the world.

I was just going to mention Brisco County Jr.!

I don't know if it's been brought up before, but I also disliked how Gotham City went from being this cool gothic take on NYC, to being panoramic shots of Manhattan.

Sure, I get it, the Harvey Dent Act magically cleaned up all crime, but surely they didn't tear down every building sporting a bit of gothic architecture. That would be a crime!

Euron Greyjo... well, fine, Ned Stark then!