Real Life Pictures of the Devs Thread.
By
Alimistar,
Posted on: 2005-12-08 24:43 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
My avatar is an old picture of Geko that was an easter egg in a product that Segasoft had.
50 Fire/Dev | 50 AR/Dev | 50 Ninjas/FF MM | 50 Bots/Dark | 50 Kin/Rad |
44 EM/Regen | 39 BS/Regen | 38 Kin/Elec | 27 Thugs/Pain
"Rare is the man so noble that he will always give thanks for that which is freely given." -Jock_Tamson
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Why are there so many Canadian Devs? I am Canadian, from Newfoundland, living in Houston Texas, so I am kinda curious. The marine industry brought about 30 of us to Houston but I never knew the gaming industry farmed in Canadians too? 
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Why are there so many Canadians in Texas? I'm from up North and now live in Austin. I'm not in the gaming industry but I feel so... farmed. 
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Why are there so many Canadian Devs? I am Canadian, from Newfoundland, living in Houston Texas, so I am kinda curious. The marine industry brought about 30 of us to Houston but I never knew the gaming industry farmed in Canadians too?
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Well, to be precise I'm not a Dev at all, but on the OCR Team. 
I think like stand-up Comedy, Canadians are just well-tempered for some jobs. (I have no idea, I'm just making this up as I go along).
I'm not sure that there are really that many of us, but we do try to support each other a tremendous amount. And I've heard from some good Canadian friends that their Canadian-identity characters get the best reactions from other players online...
cheers,
Arctic_Sun
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Why are there so many Canadians in Texas? I'm from up North and now live in Austin. I'm not in the gaming industry but I feel so... farmed.
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It's all part of an evil plot to colonize us, and turn us all into NHL fans.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Can only make the claim of being half-Canadian (Dad from Nova Scotia), but the Canuks do have a most excellent taste in sports. Whoot Hockey!
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My avatar is an old picture of Geko that was an easter egg in a product that Segasoft had.
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I am deeply disturbed by that.
Man, I made a thread just like this a few months ago, and it received no replies and few views.
Maybe people think I'm just the crazy stalker type.
Which I don't get.
I mean, the lawsuits were cleared up a YEAR ago.
Some people never let things die, I guess.
Seriously though...more girls. So far every male has looked precisely like you'd expect (i.e. a gamer, heh), and though War Witch is cute, she lacks the black-and-green hair I was hoping for.
Ok, the devs must be turning evil, I've seen both States and Manticore with Arachnos symbols on their chests. They've turned on us! Get them!
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Man, I made a thread just like this a few months ago, and it received no replies and few views.
Maybe people think I'm just the crazy stalker type.
Which I don't get.
I mean, the lawsuits were cleared up a YEAR ago.
Some people never let things die, I guess.
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Did you still have that old freeky avatar when you posted? 'Cause that was, well, freeky.
/e hopes it wasn't a RL pic
I wanna see Positron! 
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I wanna see Positron!
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I want pics from the office christmas party.
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This from the "Pain Usually Hurts" department:
War_Witch is hawt.
That is all; carry on.
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Arctic_Sun... yeah, he's the web guy, but he has a red name around here.
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Eeek! I've been found out.
Actually, that pic is from my bio page on Guardians of Order - shame I've lost the original photo somewhere in the archives. I was standing next to a wicked wrought-iron sculpture in the pose of the thinker, with a bunny head, if memory serves. Somewhere in the D.C. area.
Drat! Now my Secret Identity has been compromised! What shall I do!?
cheers,
Arctic_Sun
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Hmm does that make you a semi-local boy from Guelph? That's pretty cool...I live in Cambridge, just next door! 
(so to speak)
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Did you still have that old freeky avatar when you posted? 'Cause that was, well, freeky.
/e hopes it wasn't a RL pic
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Funny you mention that. The avatar I had for the longest time was this (though much smaller), and I would often get PMs from, well, let us say, "lonely people". This despite the fact that my user page clearly says my name is Brad. Of all the names for girls, "Brad" is not one of them. 
I might bring back ol' Innuendo Girl there...actually, I think I will. The untold plushy Cthulhu joke is getting stale.
Umm, I suppose I should at least attempt to make this post on-topic. Let's see...I know! Let's have a (labeled) pic of ALL the devs, or at least as many as can be gathered in one place. Males, females, question marks...whatever. That's the one Christmas present I want. Come on Cryptic devs and NCSoft support people! Somebody get a camera and get a group photo!
EDIT: Hey, what the heck have they done to the avatars? That picture looked just fine when I had it before, and now it looks all blurred and stretched-out. Don't tell me they resize to 80x80 no matter what!
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Why are there so many Canadian Devs? I am Canadian, from Newfoundland, living in Houston Texas, so I am kinda curious. The marine industry brought about 30 of us to Houston but I never knew the gaming industry farmed in Canadians too?
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Well, to be precise I'm not a Dev at all, but on the OCR Team.
I think like stand-up Comedy, Canadians are just well-tempered for some jobs. (I have no idea, I'm just making this up as I go along).
I'm not sure that there are really that many of us, but we do try to support each other a tremendous amount. And I've heard from some good Canadian friends that their Canadian-identity characters get the best reactions from other players online...
cheers,
Arctic_Sun
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Plus, that secret plot to insidiously place a Canadian in major positions in every business in the US so that we can take over using brand recognition and tasty, tasty maple syrup!
...oh, crap. Pretend you didn't read that.
I said pretend!
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My avatar is an old picture of Geko that was an easter egg in a product that Segasoft had.
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I am deeply disturbed by that.
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It was for Virtual Makeover, a hairstyle/makeup application. As I understand it, Geko wasn't directly involved in that product but his co-workers went ahead and put his picture in.
50 Fire/Dev | 50 AR/Dev | 50 Ninjas/FF MM | 50 Bots/Dark | 50 Kin/Rad |
44 EM/Regen | 39 BS/Regen | 38 Kin/Elec | 27 Thugs/Pain
"Rare is the man so noble that he will always give thanks for that which is freely given." -Jock_Tamson
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The real Statesman
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z0MG! He finally got a summer haircut! 
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Maybe people think I'm just the crazy stalker type.
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Couldn't be the avatar, could it? Naaaaah.
Geko was nerfed
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War Witch (the dev) has a personal website with a real pic.
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Wow! She's pretty cute.
Hey, where did that horrifying picture go?
Can everyone who was scarred by it before it was taken off get a free badge or something?
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Hey, where did that horrifying picture go?
Can everyone who was scarred by it before it was taken off get a free badge or something?
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Ha-ha, Badge [censored]!
I must say this is a pretty good resource for Dev picks. We should put our money where our mouth is and add our pics too. That way the devs can recognize all the flamers and trolls in public and accost us if they ever bump into us.
<-------- My avatar.. I was lucky! It was a great hair day!
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Captain Mako I believe....
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Ahh.... so thats how the hooks on the cape work....