Signs You're Getting Too Old to Play CoH

Red Valkyrja · 07-02-2009 12:22 PM

... when they're lighting my pyre...

Angel Red
"We're heroes. Fighting injustice is the thing we do." ~Rebel Scum

Knight Jolt · 07-02-2009 12:26 PM

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...zzz...

Huh...oh, is this darn thing still on?

Who am I?

Traegus · 07-02-2009 12:43 PM

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I dunno if this happens to anyone else, i doubt its age because even as a child movement would put me to sleep or have other affects. To this day if I'm overly tired in a car, I'll fall asleep. However, I digress, on to the real comment:

Anytime in games I fall or descend from a high point and can see the ground or anything below me looming closer and closer anticipating an impact, I get the roller coaster stomach pit feeling.

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hello my brother in vertigo
i always leave the AE building via jumping off the top balcony, and my stomach drops every time........ don't like the heights but apparently, i'm a glutten for punishment.

Oh yeah, that was the time that girl got her whatchamacallit stuck in that guys dooblickitz and then what his name did that thing with the lizards and it cleared right up.

screw your joke, i want "FREEM"

Steelclaw · 07-02-2009 12:47 PM

Just thought of another one..

- When you look at the screen and realize you forgot to give your hero pants. Realizing this reminds you to put on your own.

My mind wanders so often you've probably seen its picture on milk cartons. - Me... the first person version of the third person Steelclaw

LordXenite · 07-02-2009 12:50 PM

(Male) When you shift to Squid-form and your tentacles remind you of your 4th ex, Moira.

(Female) When you shift to Dwarf-form and your claws remind you of your 4th ex, Ira.

I believe that a Kheldian Gold Standard should be based on SO's, and for anything above that... there's Platinum!

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NuclearToast · 07-02-2009 01:15 PM

- You alt+tab to your browser window, not for paragonwiki, but for crabbyoldfart

--NT

They all laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian.
But I showed them, and nobody's laughing at me now!

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LordXenite · 07-02-2009 01:35 PM

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- You alt+tab to your browser window, not for paragonwiki, but for crabbyoldfart

--NT

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Darn funny site if you ask me....

I believe that a Kheldian Gold Standard should be based on SO's, and for anything above that... there's Platinum!

Save Ms. Liberty (#5349) � Augmenting Peacebringers � The Umbra Illuminati

Lightfoot · 07-02-2009 01:56 PM

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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.

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I would love both of these options. They would probably only get used on a couple of characters, but they would be great fun to have.

New story arcs coming soon (ARC IDs will be aded when I finish the arc):
So, you want to join the Hellions? (level 1-14 Villainous arc)
Sparks & Steel (level 5-20 Heroic arc)
and
So you want to join the Skulls? (level 1-14 Villainous arc)

mason2004 · 07-02-2009 02:49 PM

When you think that the music played at each zone is "Too Loud! Turn it down!"...

Muad_Dib · 07-02-2009 03:37 PM

When you're contact is trying to talk to you and you keep falling asleep.

You get spend 30 minutes lecturing Swan on how women used to dress more respectable back in your day

You still use racial slurs and prejudices and nobody cares cause "he comes from a different time"

Mighty_Pain · 07-02-2009 06:55 PM

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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.

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I would love both of these options. They would probably only get used on a couple of characters, but they would be great fun to have.

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Not to mention the riotous forum threads bemoaning "City of Original Red Tornado" or "City of Forbush-Man".

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Dark Ether · 07-02-2009 07:37 PM

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- You've dozed off during a mission.

- You haven't seen the front of your character in game because rotating the mouse makes your arthritis flare up.

- Your neck gets sore from bobbing your head up and down so you can read the text through your trifocals.

- You have to afk to take some prescription medication.

- You never have to afk, because your Depends take care of it for you.

- People say how old they are by telling what their first computer their family had, and you think "You had computers??"

- Your first MMO was Pong.

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_Wyll_ · 07-02-2009 10:36 PM

- You fire off what you think is a real witty retort by quoting a song in team chat (e,.g. The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind)... and no one on your team has ever heard that song.

- Even worse, someone on your team recognizes the song because it is their mom's favorite.

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BBhumeBB · 07-03-2009 10:41 AM

Or they just heard it on the supermarket muzak. Or they only know a hiphop cover.

As one of my high school students (and this was some decades ago) said to me: "Hey Paul, did you know McCartney was in a band before Wings?"

My scrapper doesn't need an AoE. She IS an AoE.

Angry_Citizen · 07-03-2009 01:11 PM

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As one of my high school students (and this was some decades ago) said to me: "Hey Paul, did you know McCartney was in a band before Wings?"

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... ow.

Doom.

Yep.

This is really doom.

vidicate · 07-03-2009 01:38 PM

- The keys on your keyboard are some gosh-awful shade of brown/tan or orange.

Steelclaw · 07-03-2009 02:39 PM

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- The keys on your keyboard are some gosh-awful shade of brown/tan or orange.

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... and each one is the size of a half-dollar.

My mind wanders so often you've probably seen its picture on milk cartons. - Me... the first person version of the third person Steelclaw

BBhumeBB · 07-04-2009 12:53 PM

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- The keys on your keyboard are some gosh-awful shade of brown/tan or orange.

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... and each one is the size of a half-dollar.

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That would be silly on a keyboard. It only make sense on my new Jitterbug.

My scrapper doesn't need an AoE. She IS an AoE.

Reddi35 · 09-24-2009 10:41 AM

-When somebody questions why you have been afk for so long you respond with "I may have alzheimer's, but at least I don't have alzheimer's".

FreckledAvenger · 09-24-2009 04:17 PM

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As one of my high school students (and this was some decades ago) said to me: "Hey Paul, did you know McCartney was in a band before Wings?"

... ow.

I have a friend who thinks that "Ticket to Ride" was originally recorded by the Carpenters.

My face and palm got very well acquainted that day.

Even funnier: it's not an age thing -- she's 43, I'm 27. My dad raised me right, what can I say...

Techbot Alpha · 09-24-2009 04:32 PM

Ow...
Ow ow ow...
I think that took out a few ribs that time...
Auuuughghh.....
DAMN YOU, STEEL CLAW! Damn you making me laugh until my guts hurt XD

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger

GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Golden Girl · 09-24-2009 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Inokis

- Everyone asks everyone else for their age and you realize you're 20 years older than everyone around you.

I had the opposite of that when I first started - it was freaky

@Golden Girl

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Memphis_Bill · 09-24-2009 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Steelclaw

The first computer I had access to was a Vic-20 which you connected directly to your television set. I was around 10 at the time.

... which you switched by *getting up and using the blasted dial.* (And potentially tweaking to fine-tune.) "Remote control?" That was you, when your dad/brother/etc told you to get up and change the channel for them.

<-- remembers cable TV being new. ("More than six channels including PBS? Who woud've thought?")
<-- Remembers MTV actually playing music.
<-- remembers getting the Atari 2600 when it was new. (TWO joysticks, paddles and Combat, plus that fake woodgrain. yeah!)
<-- PONG console.

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AzureSkyCiel · 09-24-2009 04:45 PM

-You and Statesman reminisce about "the good times"

-You do the same with Lord Recluse.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

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Lightfoot · 09-24-2009 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by FreckledAvenger

I have a friend who thinks that "Ticket to Ride" was originally recorded by the Carpenters.

I have mixed feelings about this cover. It is so completely different from the original version. Karen truly made the song her own. On the other hand, I love the original version, so the Carpenters' version sounds funny to me.

Maybe it fits in the "so bad, it's good" category, like William Shatner's version or Mr. Tambourine Man.

New story arcs coming soon (ARC IDs will be aded when I finish the arc):
So, you want to join the Hellions? (level 1-14 Villainous arc)
Sparks & Steel (level 5-20 Heroic arc)
and
So you want to join the Skulls? (level 1-14 Villainous arc)