New Video, Contest and More!

Hello all! I've made another Video and this one comes with a chance for YOU(yes, you) to win a Freak Game Card that is normally only available through attending NCSoft conventions!
The City Scoop describes the card as:

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A Pin Code for the limited edition permanent power: Freakshow Boss Costume! This power switches your character's appearance to that a Freakshow boss. Great for conversation starters, infiltration missions, and framing enemy villain groups for heists!

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This is all to celebrate W00t's Three Year Anniversary!

Contest details can be found at the link above!

Come, watch, compete and enjoy!



( Youtube link for those with trouble watching the video in other versions )

EDIT: Some of the uploading portions are messed up on the new site. They should be fixed soon.

In the meantime, here is a little guide on how to upload images as it is currently set up:

You must log in with a w00t account.

Cursor over the image depot tab along the top of the site and select the Upload Images option.

From there, select your contest gallery, file and description and save.
If the save button is not displaying, Sorry, we are trying to fix that.

oh man! I am so.... man! *scrambles off for ideas*

Great guns! That was incredible Ashcraft!

BTW, I hear that, if you win, you also get cake.

That was an absolutely awesome video, Ash. Great job!

Wow! Outstanding job man. Very nice.

Todd

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Great guns! That was incredible Ashcraft!

BTW, I hear that, if you win, you also get cake.

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Scratch that... the Cake is a lie.




bump.. set.. spike!

Ooh, new video to watch!

*trundles off to go watch Ash's latest*

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*comes back five minutes later with an absolutely woebegone expression on her face*

Three things.

First, I am getting myself a copy of that song. I had no idea that someone had released a song (and a GOOD one at that) that so encompassed the mentality of one of my villains on Justice (Soulsteel, Bots/Dark MM with one of my favorite backstories to date).

Second, ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC WORK, Ash. Truly. This one is your best.

Third... I am now horrendously depressed. Someone has just raised the bar high enough that I'm wondering how I'm going to hit that. (But at the same time, I'm stupidly proud that I hang out with folks who are that talented.)

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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Third... I am now horrendously depressed. Someone has just raised the bar high enough that I'm wondering how I'm going to hit that.

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I normally hit the bar with my head. I never got the hang of ducking.

Great video! Nice work, Ash!

And...my first video credit!! <tear wells up>

Looking forward to seeing what comes out of this contest.

Yeah, thanks again dark. You have no idea how many of those warhulks, soldiers and drones were either you or Sentai. *Has flashbacks of demo code* Ahhhh

It took over 75 hand-edited demo files, 15 gigs of Fraps video, lots of cookies and way, way too much time.

BTW, Ash, I posted a link to the video on the city_of_heroes LJ community.

Michelle
aka
Samurai_ko

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Yeah, thanks again dark. You have no idea how many of those warhulks, soldiers and drones were either you or Sentai. *Has flashbacks of demo code* Ahhhh

It took over 75 hand-edited demo files, 15 gigs of Fraps video, lots of cookies and way, way too much time.

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The cookies paid off! I really liked this, and I'm looking forward to the contest!

Another great video, keep up the good work! This contest isn't really up my alley, but I look forward to seeing the entries .

It may not be a bad idea to give the folks in the screenshots/fan art forum a heads-up about this contest either, if you haven't already.

Didn't know there were two versions of this song... *listening to both to decide which one I like better*

Oh, yeah... Ashcraft, if you swing over here, you'll be able to read what people are saying about your vid on the LJ community:

http://community.livejournal.com/cit...s/2914376.html

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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It may not be a bad idea to give the folks in the screenshots/fan art forum a heads-up about this contest either, if you haven't already.

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Actually Lighthouse will be making an announcement about it soon.

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It may not be a bad idea to give the folks in the screenshots/fan art forum a heads-up about this contest either, if you haven't already.

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Actually Lighthouse will be making an announcement about it soon.

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*Stuffs cotton into Jester's mouth and puts him back in the closet*

Nothing to see here, move along!

And the announcement just went live!

Damn, Ash, "CoH Machinima creator extrodinaire"? Lighthouse must LIKE you!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

*waits for quitting time*

*waits more*

LOL codes are being awarded for the best and worst. I can do worst. I guess it's a question of who can do the best worst. Or is that who can do the worst the best?

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LOL codes are being awarded for the best and worst. I can do worst. I guess it's a question of who can do the best worst. Or is that who can do the worst the best?

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I'm pretty sure judging the worst is going to be very very hard.

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LOL codes are being awarded for the best and worst. I can do worst. I guess it's a question of who can do the best worst. Or is that who can do the worst the best?

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I'm a firm believer in having worst place receive something. I bugged jester to heck about it. In most contests, people with years of experience, the right tools and a cabal of helpful friends normally have a huge lead, but for placing worst you just have to make the crummiest thing you can with what you have and that is its own special skill.

I wish we could see an end to the costume toggle limited give away scene. It causes a lot of problems and negativity. It is quite distracting and concering.

I could care less about the toggles but you can't ignore the whole debate over them. What's more alarming is the sale of these toggles on ebay for over $200. I am a bit concerned that the CoX team have turned a blind eye to this.


It seems the marketing team for CoX missed the boat here. Since people are willing to pay hundreds for just a toggle imagine how many costume packs could have been sold at $10 a pop?! Imagine how many people would have bought a costume pack for these costume sets. I work with some huge companies and I have to say the CoX marketing, sales, development team makes me scratch my head sometime...some really odd moves on their part. Now, I know a costume pack is going to here in a couple of weeks and that's great but what took so long? Been a while since the wedding pack.

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LOL codes are being awarded for the best and worst. I can do worst. I guess it's a question of who can do the best worst. Or is that who can do the worst the best?

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I'm a firm believer in having worst place receive something. I bugged jester to heck about it. In most contests, people with years of experience, the right tools and a cabal of helpful friends normally have a huge lead, but for placing worst you just have to make the crummiest thing you can with what you have and that is its own special skill.

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I like the idea, as well. In a card game (bridge) club I'm familiar with, they award 1st, 2nd, and a Booby Prize for lowest score.

*smirks* Does this mean I can do some cutesy doodle of a Freakshow popping up out of a box with the caption "I can haz cheezburger?"

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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I could care less about the toggles but you can't ignore the whole debate over them.

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I think I will, actually.