Ah! The good old days.. *sniff*

Bad_influence inspired this old feller I tell ya. I read me a post just not hear long ago by bad, talking 'bout the golden days of June and July!

Well, pull up a seat and let me speak of days gone but not lost. Humor an old man.. willya!?

*puts 'veteran' hat on*


When I fist started way back in ought five, things weren't so bad. All of the PL'ed Winderlordy whippersnappers were too busy trying to figure out how to tank and slot flurry for maximum wiffage in P.I. (with three travel powers too! Heee!) They didn't have a clue nohow. They was asking heroes up there what was a Dreck and braggin' themselves up a storm by saying how six-slotted sprint was the next big thing! They were crazy kids then. Crazy!! I say!

Me? Well, I took in the sights and learned my ropes. I leveled the hard way, uphill in the Hollows both ways inna snow. The few old folks who came before ol' Tyrantula was kind enough to show me them there ropes. They taught me perma hasten and perma DP was the bees knees and the fitness pool was what all of those new kids were tryin'. I saw me an honest to goodness man on fire once collapse an entire warehouse fulla them kung-fooey types! I think that man, I remember his name well mind you.. It was 'burninatorade' or somesuch, he took about near a hunned of them poor china men and burnt 'em all! Them shiny beefcakes back then were only a myth too, you know the ones.. they said they was in-vul-ner-ab-le!

Why I used ta hear whispers of them 'vulnerable beefers, some say they usedta herd entire zones fulla men like cattle. CATTLE I SAY! I mighta even saw one of em once! She was all shiny and a glowin'. She told me to stay put behind this here plie o' boxes. In just a few minutes, I got me a might scared. I peeked around the corner and what did ol' Tyrantula see? Why she was bringin' a whole loada Freaky looking men a zappin-and-a-snappin mad as hornets right to old Ty! I got my spider rearend right on out of there!

There was whispers thay them there 'vulnerables were gods themselves! Blasphemy I say!

So.. I learnt me the hard way. I was just a smaller fella. Havin' spines and all stickin' out everywhere. They used ta laugh at old Ty, they called me names back then in them days. Called me gimp. gimp!! Why I'll show them! Now things weren't always so bright and big for Ty I mean to say. I had my share of goobers comin' on my teams and blastin' everything in sight! (Most of them feller blasters were still cryin' about some smoke grenade thingy-mcbob nerfer. Whatever that was)

But I learnt. I was a super-hero just ike in them comical books! Soon I was regenin' my way up the ladder to the mythical P.I. and those stories of herdin' wolves and that feller Dreck were callin' to me. (Now mind you whippersnappers, ol' Ty don't herd t'all. I just lays 'em out cold real quick like nowaday. Bad knees and all.)

Things were fun back then, the sun seemed to shine right outta my rear end. I swear to ya, I saw the light of the lord allmighty when I got that Instant Healin' toggle! Them mythical 'vulnerables didn't have nothin' on old Ty!

Then that dirty feller rode inta town. That feller was so mean and nasty, he didn't even have a name. People just called him by his initials. He went by the name E.D.

That feller shot everyone down, made everyone beg fer mercy. He was powerful, that E.D. He took everything ol' Ty knew and turned it upside down! *wheeze*

But.. I learnt again. I got me back to being all powerful again. But them poor beefcakes weren't nomore. Old E.D. got the best of 'em. Last I hear they livin' up there inna moutains, somewhere out there where E.D. can't go. *sniff*

So let this be a lesson to ya you young whippersnappers! Enjoy what you have while you have it partner. Ifin ya have a bad day, or find yerself onna team when things ain't goin' so swell just laugh like old Ty.

After all, you coulda been born back in ought five and been one of them Winderlordy children!

Now get offa my lawn!

*grumbles*



(Just for fun folks. Just for fun. And I love the game just how it is! )

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If you get to play the cranky old man after a year and a half, what does that make those of us who have a year on you?

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Old Souls from a prior life.

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dinosaurs...? Well back in my days we did not even have a game.. we only had a forum... and we pretended we had a game.

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Winner.

Back in mah days, we didn't have Ageia-watsit cool graphics...

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Leveling in the Hollows? Bah, kids these days. I had to hunt hydras in Perez Park.

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Peace through power! Freedom is slavery!
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a yo-yo

And you had to line up to get into Perez Park, because it was the hottest place to be.

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Mr. Burns

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My Lego Models http://www.flickr.com/photos/30369639@N07/ lemur lad: God you can't be that stupid... I'm on at the same time as you for once, and not 20 minutes into it you give me something worth petitioning?
Lady-Dee: Hey my fat keeps me warm in the winter and shady in the summer.

WL?!!!!! Where?!!! Tell meh!!!!

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"What in tarnation's a Rofflemow!!!?" -Priesteater on ROFLMAO

Real Objections Of Genius

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I remember those sigh made me sad when they shut them down at the end of beta.

We many lost creative and entertaining origin stories.

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BAH!

Back in MY day, we shoveled quarters into a Pong machine at the bowling alley... and we were THANKFUL!

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"OK, first of all... Shut Up." - My 13-Year-Old Daughter

29973 "The Running of the Bulls" [SFMA] - WINNER of the Mighty Big Story Arc Contest !
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I used to get yelled at for posting one-shot origins by DangYankee or whatever his name was in the Origins Thread. It wasn't like I needed to have multiple posts of the same guy, and it did help me to join great SG that ended up disintegrating into a pile of ash, but that's another story....

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Troy Hickman!

Gosh, that guy is so much fun to poke fun at.

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I used to get yelled at for posting one-shot origins by DangYankee or whatever his name was in the Origins Thread. It wasn't like I needed to have multiple posts of the same guy, and it did help me to join great SG that ended up disintegrating into a pile of ash, but that's another story....

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Yankee Daring.

I got to see him in game once.

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I used to get yelled at for posting one-shot origins by DangYankee or whatever his name was in the Origins Thread. It wasn't like I needed to have multiple posts of the same guy, and it did help me to join great SG that ended up disintegrating into a pile of ash, but that's another story....

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Yankee Daring.

I got to see him in game once.

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Yep, that's his name. Goes to show I have Forum-Alzheimer's.... First sign of being a Vet

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BAH!

Back in MY day, we shoveled quarters into a Pong machine at the bowling alley... and we were THANKFUL!



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But tell that to kids today and they wont believe you.

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BAH!

Back in MY day, we shoveled quarters into a Pong machine at the bowling alley... and we were THANKFUL!



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But tell that to kids today and they wont believe you.

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Heh.

Just last week some 17-year-old pup tried to tell me that that there was something wrong with me for being an old married guy playing a computer game. He was completely unable to fathom the idea that this game's demographics put me pretty close to the center of the bell curve while his scrawny high school butt sits about two standard deviations over toward the left hand side.

(It was as if his school doesn't even teach statistics! Can you imagine!??)

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"OK, first of all... Shut Up." - My 13-Year-Old Daughter

29973 "The Running of the Bulls" [SFMA] - WINNER of the Mighty Big Story Arc Contest !
- The Stellar Wind Orbital Space Platform

Back in my day, Dark Miasma sucked, missions were frontloaded, and missions gave but a fraction of the xp they do now.

Uphill both ways.

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Ah, immobile, long recharging, scatter Fear casting Dark Servant.

What the hell were they thinking?

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Heroes
Dysmal
Lumynous
Sam Steele
Pluck
Wile
Slagheap
Pressure Wave
Rhiannon Bel
Verified
Stellaric
Syd Mallorn

Villains
Jotunheim Skald
Saer Maen
Jen Corbae
Illuminance
Venator Arawn
Taiga Dryad
Tarranos

i remember frontloaded missions, oranges at the door and a gray boss, i remember making jokes about quotas.

i remember the first time i made a joke about a "boy named tsoo" subsequent thousand times caused my sg mates to all put me on ignore.

i remember when martial arts really stunk..you think you have it bad now? the one kick was basicly flurry, the whiffing was legendary, and crippling axe kick used to do minor damage, because a stupidly long animation and a slow effect seen once every eclipse was compensation.

that and i remember ice tanking, and slotting for resistance on my first armor, and i wasnt the only one dangit... then we all noticed out that it was a def based armor and we were all running around really realy reisistant to cold..and that was about it. heck i remember tanking before armors stacked..and back when stone armor made you look like ambulatory poo.

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:ulls out the acoustic guitar, hangs beads in the doorway, and sings::

~All you are is dust in the wind...

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Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
-- The Fox and the Hound

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You know, I actually do feel like an old man by now. I've seen and done so many things that the new players haven't even heard of, let alone done. Hydra in Perez Park is a good example, yes. A time before respec, costume alterations, capes, back when Elude was a toggle and Blaster nukes left you end drained AND disoriented... Heck, time before anyone took Stamina, before the power builds and powergamers, back when everyone was equally new.

It's amazing how far things have gone, really. I can't even recognise the game now, but it's all been for the better, I should say

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I remember those days, when this supposed Eastgate was little more than distant hills seen beyond the warwalls and you couldn't help but run through Kings Row without seeing folks on broadcast shouting:

"Where do you find Circle of Thorns in here?"

As if the large green plumes of smoke from the rooftops wasn't enough of a give away.

I remember when folks used to sweep through the hazard zones in vast teams herding up spawns and then blitzing them with AoE hits which could take out 20-30 enemies at once. It was even more fun to have a high fire tanker go running around the lake and herding them into a pile only to have everyone laying into the mass of enemies for a crap load of exp.

These were the days when tankers were considered gimp if they couldn't herd over 100 enemies, when ice armor could only have one toggle on at a time which was the same as rock armor with the exception that rock armor made it look liek you were encased in poo and fire tankers were considered gods.

How times change.

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Yeah, then it was "Where are the lost in Kings Row?" Now I don't know what it is people ask for in KR.

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From my experience, the top three in no particular order are teams, someone to clean up their high-level ambush, and Paladin construction sites.

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Current main:
Schrodinger's Gun, Dual Pistols/Mental Blaster, Virtue

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