Things to do During Forumpocalypse

Let’s face it.. Most of us here are addicted to the Forums and use it as a way to pass the time and keep in touch with our fellow gamers… Unfortunately, the Forums will be shut down for 72 hours in the next week…

Please use this thread to list possible things we Forumites can do to survive this horrible void…

• Use the time to remember who those people you live with are… especially the ones who call you “Mom” or “Dad”.

• (Specific to Perfect Pain) Farm behemoths.. then.. after getting kicked out of the Museum of Natural History.. remember that only the FORUMS are down.. not the game itself.

• Go play the game for a while and realize that the one feature that you complained about for 3 months on end after it was initiated.. the one you actually never got around to play testing… is actually pretty good.

• (Specific to PhiloticKnight) Go out to farm country and count the vertical parts of the fences there… vainly trying to increase your Post Count.

• Spend the time trying to learn the European language so you can understand what they’re saying when the forums merge.

• (Specific to Trollers… Part or otherwise) Get your soap box and go to the local street corner… start screaming at the top of your lungs that Power Proliferation is moving too slowly and the new Power Customization doesn’t go nearly far enough. Be nice to the gentlemen when they put the coat with the funky sleeves on you.

• (Specific to Steelclaw) Spend most of your time driving your lady love insane by telling her all the weird CoH stuff that’s going through your mind rather than bothering the people on the Forums with it. Try to avoid bodily injury and/or break up.

• (Specific to Mod 8, Niviene and others) Laugh. Looooooong and hard.

• Discover these funny little paper things called “books” that also utilize the reading skill. Eventually put them aside as there seems to be no “Reply” functionality.

• (Specific to Ultimus) Walk up to random people on the street and ask off-the-wall questions. Immediately snap digital picture of the befuddled expression on their face for collection.

• No matter where you are… randomly scream out “Does anyone here know when Issue 16 is supposed to be released to Closed Beta?!” I don’t suggest doing this one in a magazine or comic book store… since it will upset the customer service people that you’re not talking about one of their products.

• Have a horribly bad/exceptionally wonderful experience with a PUG/Task Force/Strike Force/AE Team/Mission Arc… bore your family to tears with a description about it.. then get upset when they don’t have constructive criticism or their own similar stories to tell.

• An hour before the shut down… feverishly collect all the phone numbers from every forumite you can… set up the world’s largest conference call lasting 72 hours.

• Remember what it was like to have friends whose faces didn’t have a maximum pixel size.

• Draw strange looks when you preface all your short answers by saying “QR”.

• Print out small postage stamp size pictures of the Avatars of your favorite posters… glue them over the actual faces of several Barbie Dolls.. have a tea party that breaks down into a food fight when a minor disagreement starts a Flame War.

• The Forum shut down came in the middle of a huge argument you were having with another Forumite. During the break polish your argument to a mirror shine.. hone your ripostes to a razor’s edge… only to find out the other guy completely forgot the discussion during their time off.

• (Specific to Dark Respite) Friends ask you to help video tape their wedding during the time off… Without thinking scream “I’m RETIRED DANG IT!” … Immediately apologize.

• (Specific to Development Team) Notice that while the Forums are down player numbers in-game increase by 30%... Also Customer Service complaints go down by 20%... Announce “Forum Transfer Difficulties” and apologize for the inconvenience.

Definitely gonna be reading. I got a nice stack of books for my birthday.

Either that or getting my DM/SD to 50.

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• (Specific to PhiloticKnight) Go out to farm country and count the vertical parts of the fences there… vainly trying to increase your Post Count.

• Print out small postage stamp size pictures of the Avatars of your favorite posters… glue them over the actual faces of several Barbie Dolls.. have a tea party that breaks down into a food fight when a minor disagreement starts a Flame War.

• Discover these funny little paper things called “books” that also utilize the reading skill. Eventually put them aside as there seems to be no “Reply” functionality.

• (Specific to Ultimus) Walk up to random people on the street and ask off-the-wall questions. Immediately snap digital picture of the befuddled expression on their face for collection


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These were my favorites I laughed out loud.


We need a temporary forum so we have something to do for 3 days!!

Another one.

Cut and Paste your latest argument and take it to the Clockwork Symphony forums for 3 days, then return to the City boards when they launch, copy and pasting the conversation between the two locations.

-Rachel-

I think I passed out from laughter.

I just got the Ghostbusters game, so I'll prolly do that. Also, where can I go to make fun of people who can't afford purples?

I'm gonna knit a sweater out of my own fur.

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Also, where can I go to make fun of people who can't afford purples?

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drag your purples to the chat bar and broadcast them in broadcast in Cap or Atlas. When asked, simply say you're holding a 'private auction'. Every once in a while announce something like "Hecatomb, Acc/Dam/Rech, Sold for 23 million inf" while the incoming tells get more and more frantic.

Dang, guess i'll spend time with the wife and kids. Sheesh.

It's either that or spend time with someone else's wife and kids.

Are you crazy! I can barely deal with mine!

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Also, where can I go to make fun of people who can't afford purples?

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drag your purples to the chat bar and broadcast them in broadcast in Cap or Atlas. When asked, simply say you're holding a 'private auction'. Every once in a while announce something like "Hecatomb, Acc/Dam/Rech, Sold for 23 million inf" while the incoming tells get more and more frantic.

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Bwahahahahahaha!

Good show. You get a Luck Charm my good man!

Possible things to do:

*The work you're actually supposed to be doing at work.

*Troll the CO boards. "Where's Jack?"

*Find a local TV station, (like KATU) that has message boards where you can comment about the stories. Troll with things "Nerf Drunk Drivers", and "When is patch to fix roads going to be released?".

* Take a road trip to NorCal and deliver your suggestions, complaints and jokes to the Devs in person!

"The European language?"

>.<

<-- has books to finish. Currently reading Sundiver, Miracle at Midway and Juggler of Worlds. Yes, all at once. With Startide Rising and the Uplift War waiting in the wings.

Of course, I'd do that whether the forums were up or not.

See my Guides and Tutorials

run around the streets complaining that the dev's should raise the drop rates of purples cause everbody wants em and shouldn't have to do anything to earn them?

Catch up on the backlog. I still have to finish Red Faction: Guerilla, play Odin Sphere and Rogue Galaxy, dabble with Evil Genius and other stuff...

I'm gonna play the game.

And by play, I mean spend all day telling bad jokes in JFA.

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Unfortunately, the Forums will be shut down for 72 hours in the next week…

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*dies*

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Let’s face it.. Most of us here are addicted to the Forums and use it as a way to pass the time and keep in touch with our fellow gamers… Unfortunately, the Forums will be shut down for 72 hours in the next week…

Please use this thread to list possible things we Forumites can do to survive this horrible void…
• (Specific to Dark Respite) Friends ask you to help video tape their wedding during the time off… Without thinking scream “I’m RETIRED DANG IT!” … Immediately apologize.


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I thought for sure you were going to say, "Plan your comeback video for I-16... although, calling it a comeback assumes that we accepted your retirement in the first place, which, of course, we didn't."



Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

I have a book I have to read so I guess this will be the best time to get it read.
The books called "How to Read Literature Like a Professor".
Sounds like a great read doesn't it?!?!!

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Things to do During Forumpocalypse

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Cry like a baby in the corner of my room.

Play more Prototype!!!

There's nothing wrong with being Wolverine, Venom, Hulk, Thor, The Guyver, Captain America AND a biologically leeching viral organism all rolled into one! In fact, I highly recommend it!

Things to do:

Find something else to do when tabbed out of the game. There are other forums out there, I'm sure.

I got kicked out of every "private" server I've ever been a part of. Hmmm... I wonder if I can find another good public one somewhere.