Talen Lee

Ten years of disuse, by which time you'll be able to run the entire CoX cluster on your ******* phone.

Yeah, beta's the place to goof off.

Rereading this, I wanted to just say: Thanks to everyone who submitted. Even in the most frustrating moments, this was still fun to do, and it made me feel like I was contributing.

It's easy when your name isn't sometihng that'll show up easily. In my case, every time someone uses the word 'talent,' they catch me.

I gave up on my review thread because I couldn't handle the constant whining I was getting from people who didn't like what I had to say.

I had about thirty to forty reviews that never got published, because I tried to keep the worst stuff off the block. Every single time I made a review, I sent a lengthy, point by point, editorial correction of the arc to the creator, and that was whether or not the review got done.

Yet, despite my reputation as a complete ***** of a reviewer, the worst never saw the light of day, and most of what got posted was posted with the permission of the people who made them.

I also gave up on the AE when I came to a personal conclusion that the real thin you had to do in AE was Promote your arc, and I don't like doing that. I recoil in horror at the idea of promoting myself, in particular because, what if I bring attention to my work, get people to look at it, then have that thought ignored? What if I'm bad at this? It's agonising. Hopeless never broke, as an arc. I periodically checked back in, but never did I find a glitch in it.

Of the new content, most of it, I haven't done. I didn't enjoy the incarnate content; I didn't feel it had WoW's dungeonry (which I would have liked) nor City's high-impact splashiness (which I would have liked). So I never did a trial beyond TPN.

When I gave feedback on basic typos and basic errors in Dark Astoria, and I was ignored, I gave up entirely. I think I knew I wanted to hate Dark Astoria's revamp, though. I had levelled numerous characters through the zone - including three characters who had used oroborous to lock themselves at 29 after I22, and actually levelled to 50 in DA, doing nothing but hunt zombies for 38 levels. I really hated what I was losing - and I hated that what I had once felt was my own little private section of the game that I cared about was being taken away from me, being made into something else, and given to people who I didn't like.

I was one of the people Castle consulted for the Dominator revamp. At the time, I said it was a good idea, that it would solve numerous problems, and that it would be resisted by people no matter what. I was right - and I remember reporting D0mbegone over thirty times. It wasn't disagreement with the argument that I had a problem with, it was the bad way the argument was being made.

I never gave anyone bad rep during that stage of the system. I remember watching my rep yo-yo from extremely bad (after, say, calling BillzBubba on being wrong) to extremely good (posting in the market forum). Whenever I gave someone rep, I commented on it, and signed that comment - TalenLee. I felt it eminently important to ensure that whatever I did, I was willing to attach my name and my identity to.

A friend of mine - really - had a crush on Arcanaville a few years ago, just because he saw her as a dizzyingly intelligent woman who was good at math, things that appealed to him. This led to a thread that culminated in Arcanaville posting the 'You Are All Weirdoes' youtube link that has been my default response on other forums to similar discussions to this day.

I regularly searched for my name when I wasn't posting. I hated the idea of someone either putting words in my mouth when I wasn't there to defend myself. Naturally, this pretty much never was an issue.

At the time of the transition from Nivienne to TheOcho, I was told in PM that I was the single most reported poster on the forums. Despite having more reports than some dedicated trolls and several forum regulars combined, I had been disciplined twice - as I was told, at the time, I never really did anything that was against the rules. What I did was somehow induce other people to break the rules. And a lot.

I used to go back to very old threads to re-read what I'd said, to see if I owed anyone an apology, in the light of recent events. On some topics, I did - I didn't understand BillZBubba's points regarding IO performance on pylons, for example. On some topics, I didn't feel I did.

I would often search for the names of users I liked and just read their stuff periodically. Arcanaville and Nethergoat being two major names.

I asked Pohsyb to let us name and rename our builds. I was of the understanding that I was the only person who asked for this, and in the next build, there it was. It is the closest I think I've ever come to leaving a fingerprint on this game.

Oh holy hell I remember the SSS. Jesus christ, that's a kick in the gut.

I just wanna cry at how sweet this is.

On my second account, only one.
On my main account, 20 on my main server, 1 on guardian, 3 on freedom. So not that many.

I cannot stop laughing. Everyone at work thinks I'm nuts.

You wanna guarantee startup funds? Make a 'name reservation' token for people who contribute more than a certain amount.

Nobody does it better, nobody does anything like it. There's no game which has the balls to let something like the dominator exist.

Oh, hey, Eva.

Yeah, I'll be sad to see it go, guys. Was nice reading you even when I wasn't saying anything.

The thread is a wonderful example of the problem.

It's arrogant to assume he's talking to me about the humble pie. As if there's something that I should be embarassed about by them breaking an eight year stretch of Not Giving A **** with low-hanging fruit. Hmmm.

Creation of a set with a snipe without a +tohit buff leaves me further sure that they're planning on making an alternative fast-snipe option for dominators.

That, or they're ******* idiots.

The important thing to remember is that now, because we will have three powersets since Freedom, we are not allowed to ask for more until the poor, neglected melee ATs get their dreadful lack of powerset options addressed.

The important thing - the very important thing - about the word use of nerf is to never ever give up on the sense of petulant entitlement and hyperbole inherent in the word.