Signs You're Getting Too Old to Play CoH
By
Akhenahten,
Posted on: 2009-07-01 15:15 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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- You're upset that none of the cape options are a towel wrapped around the neck.
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Jay? Could We? Please?
Writer of In-Game fiction: Just Completed: My Summer Vacation. My older things are now being archived at Fanfiction.net http://www.fanfiction.net/~jwbullfrog until I come up with a better solution.
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- Everyone asks everyone else for their age and you realize you're 20 years older than everyone around you.
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That happened to me the other night , but I was 33 years older than the next player. did it make me nervous - Depends.
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Every time people talk about their ages on this forum, I feel like the youngest one here.
Write a list for me, Steelclaw!
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Betcha I'm younger! Maybe.
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When you think Vernon Von Grun needs to have a talk with Vincent Price about cliche evil...
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LOL
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- You make a Batman clone and immediately put in a bid for the Revolver recipe.
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Clever! geek cred +1
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- You create a Superman clone who has Super Jump rather than Fly. (+2 Geek Cred for getting this joke)
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I got it! Yay! (For those that don't, where do you think "Able to leap tall buildings with a single bound!" came from?).
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I assumed thats what it was referencing but how is that a geek point when the theme says so.
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Actually he was probably referencing the fact that when Superman debuted in the comics (and for a long time after) flight was not a power of his. Only the ability to "leap tall buildings with a single bound".
Then again, i could be wrong...about the reference, not the ability.
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And the source of his strength, including the leaps, was the much higher gravity his race was accustomed to.
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- The first thing you think of when you see Doc Delilah is "OH! LUNCH!!"
- As a follow-up: Playing with the boob slider makes you hungry.
- Your mommy insists you call them the Heckions.
- You wanna play with ATLAS's ball!!
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ROFL, I never pictured this game through my little one's eyes. You guys all rock! 
Edit: I should add to this discussion.
- Your bio breaks consist of Prep-H reapplications
- You run up to all the people in skimpy costumes hit your "when I was your age" macro which /e slaps them and /e lecture
Sorry, that's all I could come up with on the fly
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Good Heavens...this thread has a lot of me on it...
Never used a bind (but cheese is still all good for me..whew)
Speed boost kills my react time...I hate superspeed for travel.
I could go on but its depressing...no wonder that kid was calling me gramps on that team in the Hollows yesterday 
On the bright side I dig the song quote Steelclaw...I am a big fan of both kinds of music...country & western 
(Fans of the funny Belushi brother will get that one)
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Old timer...
Elec/Cold Troller AV/Pylon/GM/TF/SF Soloing Antics
everytime...he gets me everytime.... DAMN U BOOMIE
-- _Ilr_
Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.
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You realize you're twenty years older than everyone else on your team, [u]combined[u], and you're darn proud of it! Whippersnappers! Get off my lawn!
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Fixed.
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Initially Supes couldn't fly. He could just jump really far.
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- When someone asks you what your first computer was and you say "abacus"
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- You create a Superman clone who has Super Jump rather than Fly. (+2 Geek Cred for getting this joke)
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I got it! Yay! (For those that don't, where do you think "Able to leap tall buildings with a single bound!" came from?).
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I assumed thats what it was referencing but how is that a geek point when the theme says so.
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Geek point - knowing why it was "leap tall buildings."
Age point - knowing the opening patter for the George Reeves TV version because you watched it, in black and white, in first release (that would be me).
Double XP Age point - you know the opening patter because you listened to it in the Bud Collyer radio version in first broadcast (not me, but only by a few years).
My scrapper doesn't need an AoE. She IS an AoE.
Dang, someone beat me to the abacus joke. 
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- You create a Superman clone who has Super Jump rather than Fly. (+2 Geek Cred for getting this joke)
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I have spoken to God, and because of this line, you are granted automatic entry into heaven, regardless of any sins, temporal or personal.
That blue thing running around saying "Cookies are sometimes food" is Praetorian Cookie Monster!
Shoot on sight, please.
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Every time people talk about their ages on this forum, I feel like the youngest one here.
Write a list for me, Steelclaw!
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A list for you, hmm?
Fine.
Signs You're Too YOUNG to Play City of Heroes
- Most common reason for getting kicked off a team: Extended absences for diaper changes.
- You've had to replace 10 keyboards so far this year due to Urpies.
- You think flash drives make great pacifiers.
- The first thing you think of when you see Doc Delilah is "OH! LUNCH!!"
- As a follow-up: Playing with the boob slider makes you hungry.
- Your mommy insists you call them the Heckions.
- You wanna play with ATLAS's ball!!
- You don't like Wentworth's because they don't have a toy or candy section.
- You were disappointed when you learned what CoH Skittles really are.
- You always play a brute right before nappy time 'cause you're cranky.
- You're upset that none of the cape options are a towel wrapped around the neck.
- You're pretty sure that most of the Devouring Earth are under your bed at night.
- ... and Captain Mako is in your closet.
- The Zig and your crib both have bars.. and both are as easy to escape from.
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Thank you.
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- For some reason your Windows 3.1 won't recognize it.
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Sorry, that should read:
"To your surprise, it won't install on DOS 2.0" 
(And BTW - when I was 12, the ONLY computer I had access to ran on an HP 2000 mainframe via a teletype terminal aat 100 baud (no K ), and was called 'STT1' (It was a Star Trek simulator written circa 1973); and I STILL don't consider myself 'too old' for CoX). 
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I played that and the first version of "Zork" from a terminal in my schools math office connected to the mayfair mainframe in 1976-77.
On Guardian!
Mike Halo
& a few dozen others.
Our SG: Stars of Paragon
Fiction: Training Day
A few more... since I've already forgotten the first ones I put down...
- You're amazed at the new accurate odor effects they added for the sewer zone... then you realize that's you.
- For Positron's Task Force most people stock up on caffeine and food; you put on a fresh pair of Depends.
- Whenever your hero face plants you immediately scream "I've fallen and can't get up!" then search desperately on screen for the Medic Alert icon.
- The only bind you've ever made was to hook-up your 9th tier primary power to The Clapper.
- You were the first one in your nursing home to get access to VEATs.
- (male): You wanted to make a character who looks just like you but they don't have an Elephant Skin texture or a Liver Spot overlay option.
- (female): You wanted to make a character who looks just like you but the boob slider doesn't have a "Down" slide bar.
- You wanted to make a War Mace Brute and was outraged that they didn't have a Cane option.
- You wanted to make a Robin Hood tribute character but couldn't find a face that looked enough like Errol Flynn.
- One of the reasons you love the game is because it reminds you of the movies when you were young; no talking, just background music and printed dialogue.
- You spend most of your time in Striga Island flirting with Stephanie Peebles.
My mind wanders so often you've probably seen its picture on milk cartons. - Me... the first person version of the third person Steelclaw
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- Your mommy insists you call them the Heckions.
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My 11 year old calls them this, afraid he's going to get into trouble with the right name. I'm 51 - 1/2 so I remember most of the stuff talked about here, but I still play games, read comic books, watch cartoons etc, so I guess mentally I'd be considered about 17 except....
I don't type in "l33t", and as another poster pointed out, it's the decline of society. Maybe not THE decline, but I find it...annoying to say the least...
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You spend most of your time in Striga Island flirting with Stephanie Peebles.
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Stay away, I saw her first!
(Great list!)
On Guardian!
Mike Halo
& a few dozen others.
Our SG: Stars of Paragon
Fiction: Training Day
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- Your mommy insists you call them the Heckions.
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My 11 year old calls them this, afraid he's going to get into trouble with the right name. I'm 51 - 1/2 so I remember most of the stuff talked about here, but I still play games, read comic books, watch cartoons etc, so I guess mentally I'd be considered about 17 except....
I don't type in "l33t", and as another poster pointed out, it's the decline of society. Maybe not THE decline, but I find it...annoying to say the least...
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ooooh... good one!
- If you sit and scream at the chat screen: "words are made of LETTERS not NUMBERS!! LETTERS!!"
My mind wanders so often you've probably seen its picture on milk cartons. - Me... the first person version of the third person Steelclaw
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I don't type in "l33t", and as another poster pointed out, it's the decline of society. Maybe not THE decline, but I find it...annoying to say the least...
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ooooh... good one!
- If you sit and scream at the chat screen: "words are made of LETTERS not NUMBERS!! LETTERS!!"
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This^^^^^
You ask your teammates if they caught Andy Rooney's piece on 60 Minutes Sunday night.
The only thing that would make me admit I'm too old to play CoH would be if I evaporated into dust.
And even then I might still have some counterpoints.
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Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.
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Dang, someone beat me to the abacus joke.
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You're welcome!
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- Danged poor eyesight. This was never a problem with 8-bit graphics.
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You, sir, need an eight-bit tie.
"But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses."
-- Bruce Leverett, Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers
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- You're upset that none of the cape options are a towel wrapped around the neck.
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Jay? Could We? Please?
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And a helmet option that's a kitchen pot over your head, too.
"But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses."
-- Bruce Leverett, Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers
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- If you sit and scream at the chat screen: "words are made of LETTERS not NUMBERS!! LETTERS!!"
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You don't need to scream at the screen... you simply recognize that there's something not quite "r19|-|7" about them and expect them to be subliterate... unfortunately, that expectation pays off depressingly often.
"But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses."
-- Bruce Leverett, Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers
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Every time people talk about their ages on this forum, I feel like the youngest one here.
Write a list for me, Steelclaw!
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A list for you, hmm?
Fine.
Signs You're Too YOUNG to Play City of Heroes
- Most common reason for getting kicked off a team: Extended absences for diaper changes.
- You've had to replace 10 keyboards so far this year due to Urpies.
- You think flash drives make great pacifiers.
- The first thing you think of when you see Doc Delilah is "OH! LUNCH!!"
- As a follow-up: Playing with the boob slider makes you hungry.
- Your mommy insists you call them the Heckions.
- You wanna play with ATLAS's ball!!
- You don't like Wentworth's because they don't have a toy or candy section.
- You were disappointed when you learned what CoH Skittles really are.
- You always play a brute right before nappy time 'cause you're cranky.
- You're upset that none of the cape options are a towel wrapped around the neck.
- You're pretty sure that most of the Devouring Earth are under your bed at night.
- ... and Captain Mako is in your closet.
- The Zig and your crib both have bars.. and both are as easy to escape from.
My mind wanders so often you've probably seen its picture on milk cartons. - Me... the first person version of the third person Steelclaw