TimTheEnchanter

Maybe I'm misinterpreting what the options are saying though. I do have control over the particle slider, but PhysX is completely greyed out, and there was never a time where I had a standalone PhysX card, but the effects used to look much nicer back in the day. Two upgrades later and the physics effects just never looked the same. Right now I'm running an Nvidia GeForce GTX 560, which is 2-3 upgrades past the one I had when the particle physics looked top-notch.

I used to stand under trees and watch a leaf pile slowly form, and then run through them like a 5-year-old. Now, the leaves just pass right through the ground and vanish, though they apparently are still there just below the plane, because occasionally when I run by, one of them will kick up for a second. But it's nothing compared to how it used to be, when cars would explode and toss debris everywhere, and blowing up a mailbox sent a hundred letters into the air.

So, to make sure we're on the same page, is this what your options window looks like?

I never let a job go for a game. But of all the MMO's I've played, this is the only one that ever kept me up so long that I went temporarily blind via my first ever aural migraine.

But WoW has done far more damage than that to people, and... well... I don't see that hurting the game at all.

That still works? I haven't seen effects like in recent years since I no longer have a card that supports PhysX (which AFAIK went out of business and therefore NO new cards will have it). I went looking for a software emulator for the tech but never found anything either.

Ticks me off too. I loved the PhysX stuff. It really made everything look a lot cooler.

No it isn't. You don't know how many pigs it took to make Captain Bacon's costume.

Actually it's not even accurate. NCsoft WAS making money off us. They axed it anyway. So one can't even make "no profit" argument.

I think the whole world is waiting for Hercules to retire so that the rest of the athletic world has a reason to actually bother going to the Olympics again.

I've been watching the Petition very closely in the past week. It only hit 20k today, but I don't know at what time. It's possible it didn't happen till after the end of the business day. But yeah, this may get the campaign in the gaming news yet again.

Sadly, there probably could be more people playing the game right now. A lot of folks who never experienced it but are hearing about the protests, are VERY curious about the game now, but nobody can make a new account.

Sweet, TYVM!

Well, not if it was Zwill who kept reactivating it.

Heh, I HATE midnight times. After 30+ years I still haven't gotten the hang of it, and whenever I need to bother with it, always set alarms on my clock to 12:01am, just to make sure.

In this case it doesn't matter though. Heaven knows I won't be getting any sleep that day until after the killswitch.

Don't forget though, this community HAS made IRL contributions. http://realworldhero.com/

Or at the least, being VERY childish in a way. Some years ago, I hit this realization, that if you take away the game element, we're pretty much all playing dress-up with dolls and action figures. But for some reason it's more socially acceptable because those action figures can now talk, run around, shoot lasers, and kick **** all by remote control. A pretty fascinating paradox to ponder over.

It's pretty much trollspeak (or sometimes PvPspeak) for, "You should leave. I don't like you. And I don't like you, because you are stupid for RPing in an mmoRPg." Somehow, there is a group of players, and in most cases that group is the majority, who feel that RP has no place in the MMO world.

It's pretty much the equivalent to highschool jocks suddenly deciding that playing chess is now cool. And the first thing they do is try to scare away the uncool chess club so they can take over.

Granted. Every game has jerks. But I've been able to tell that the troll ratio is certainly a lot lower here than in any other game I've been to. And whenever someone does start to become a problem, they tend to get "run out of town" pretty fast. I've seen the bullying get routed here just as quickly as would purse-snatching in a superhero universe. And this is also the only game where not once have I seen anyone say "lolrp"

Wow, dude... it was never about the "fake heroes" in a "fake game" that was at the core of the issue here. This game has brought out the best in people like no other MMO. In an IRL world, where profiteering and stabbing people in the back is not only normal, but in many cases, encouraged, CoH has granted us a radiant sun in which the best part of our psyche has a chance to grow and flourish.

No, many of us don't run into burning buildings and save people. But that doesn't mean we wouldn't. That you view heroes as such implies that you don't pay much attention to what those heroes say in interviews afterward. The typical response is something to the effect of, "I was just in the right place at the right time and I did what I needed to do." That is often the defining factor. Not many of us get to walk down the street, see a crime getting committed, or a building about to collapse, to be given the opportunity to risk life and limb and do something heroic. But who are you to decide who does or doesn't have that in their heart? To say, "If you were like that, you'd be out doing it", is just silly. There are heroes out there who will never get recognized, because random chance will never grant them that critical moment to spring into action. And even then, have you taken a census? Do you know who on these forums is a peacekeeper in a warzone, a firefighter, an EMT, a lawyer trying to help someone keep their home, or a street-tough kid who stood up for the class wimp while he was being threatened by bullies? I didn't think so.

But I know this. I've never seen a more solid gaming community than I do here. A lot of blood families won't even pull for each other the way we do here. Charities have been raised as a result of this game, and even in this dark hour that spirit of giving has lived on, and is still helping people when they need it. And say what you want about whether or not risk of life is required to be a hero. But even generosity, in this morally bedridden society that we're all forced to live in every day, takes an aspect of heroism, and that's courage. It takes real courage to do good in a world where Villainy is commonplace.

If TonyV chooses to connect with the brightest corner of our souls in order to inspire and motivate us, what is wrong with that? Calling ourselves heroes doesn't take anything away from our role models, who we still look up to. Many of us will never get the chance to be a hero. But that doesn't mean we don't have the attitude.

O_O ...whoa.... and when I clicked that link I was expecting to see a different video there. Did NOT expect that!

Thanks for all the support, everyone! Keep the torches burning!!