Dev Posts = Twitter.
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Altoholic_Monkey,
Posted on: 2009-08-06 17:03 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU
Exactly. Twitter is full of this kind of carp. WHO BLOOMIN WELL CARES!!!?
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Well, that's why I don't say it that often
@Golden Girl
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The devs HAVE been posting what we want to hear, hear on these forums.|
Originally Posted by Neuronia
The Devs should be posting on the CoH website; we shouldn't have to access a third-party site for infornation about CoH since...this site can already do that.
Now, hopefully we get the Devs back here once their digest is fixed. I won't be following them on Twitter at all. |
I also follow twitter, and **** NO I do not want to hear about what specialty rpgs or cereal they've had, as that has NOTHING to do with what's going on in game.
It's nice they have fun too, but I couldn't care less if they post stuff like that on twitter. Just more stuff to ignore while reading the RELEVANT dev posts.
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My life's too dull to twitter...
And given what people will Tweet about, that IS depressing.
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Tweet about how depressing it is then |
Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum
My life's too dull to twitter...
And given what people will Tweet about, that IS depressing. |
@Golden Girl
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For all those dreaming up that the devs are posting all this relevant late breaking zOMG news about WHAT MATTERS TO THE GAME on twitter, here is a sampling of what they have posted recently on twitter:
BruceHH@TheDarkWatcher Don't get selected for a jury!
TheDarkWatcherCivic duty! Jury duty tomorrow! Yay!
Niviene_CoH@CoH_OCR awwww
CoH_OCRFrom EMpulse: Did you all know that when Niviene giggles it is infectious and we ALL start giggling? She is such a good influence on us!
CoH_OCRWow. Monday already. How time flies!
BruceHHJoe (Hero 1) just made me laugh and laugh
Positron_CoH@MelissaBianco the second piece of the chemical reaction is in the rough part of the matchbook.
MelissaBiancoWell I thought a hard match on a nail file would work.
MelissaBiancoI hate running out of characters so that I can't put a period at the end of my sentence. I'm reading this and it sounds a bit retentive.
MelissaBiancoMy friend Maggie and I were supposed to go for a hike today but considering it hit the hundreds today I'm kinda glad we did the mall instead
Yeah that's some late breaking epic, important can't miss news there. Please.
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The point of the retweet thread and the reason it rarely is updated is that we don't need to "get the Devs back". They never left. The strictly game-related tweets are few and far between. War Witch, for instance, tweets several times a day but so far I haven't reposted any of them because NONE of them are about City of Heroes.|
Originally Posted by Neuronia
The Devs should be posting on the CoH website; we shouldn't have to access a third-party site for infornation about CoH since...this site can already do that.
Now, hopefully we get the Devs back here once their digest is fixed. I won't be following them on Twitter at all. |
That aside, this sort of attitude can be generalized to "No dev should ever do an interview with any other website or provide information to another website that he or she hasn't already provided to me here at this website." That's just silliness. Devs and others at NCSoft/Paragon Studios release information to both comment on the game AND TO PROMOTE IT. If a player insists on being a stick in the mud and never follows any other media outlets because of some kind of principle that "it ain't right to make me look at multiple sources of information, even those I normally would ignore" then that person has only himself to blame if he gets some information after everyone else or misses it entirely.
Fortunately for our theoretical "information Luddite", pretty much all of that outside information gets reposted to the forums in one fashion or another.
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Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
The point of the retweet thread and the reason it rarely is updated is that we don't need to "get the Devs back". They never left. The strictly game-related tweets are few and far between. War Witch, for instance, tweets several times a day but so far I haven't reposted any of them because NONE of them are about City of Heroes.
That aside, this sort of attitude can be generalized to "No dev should ever do an interview with any other website or provide information to another website that he or she hasn't already provided to me here at this website." That's just silliness. Devs and others at NCSoft/Paragon Studios release information to both comment on the game AND TO PROMOTE IT. If a player insists on being a stick in the mud and never follows any other media outlets because of some kind of principle that "it ain't right to make me look at multiple sources of information, even those I normally would ignore" then that person has only himself to blame if he gets some information after everyone else or misses it entirely. Fortunately for our theoretical "information Luddite", pretty much all of that outside information gets reposted to the forums in one fashion or another. |
Isn't it just a little ironic that Posi posted a tweet about reading this thread ?
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I thought that was funny. Shows me he has a healthy sense of humor.
Is it only a little ironic? 
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I'm posting on this thread about a tweet I just sent about Positron twittering about this thread about Twitter.
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Originally Posted by Catwhoorg
Isn't it just a little ironic that Posi posted a tweet about reading this thread ?
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@Golden Girl
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We have entered an endless recursion of tweet.
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Just so you know, Niviene tweeted that she read this thread the other day.
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About the only good use of twitter I've seen is Othar's Twitter.|
Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU
Tweet about how depressing it is then
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It's the continuing adventures of Othar Tryggvassen Gentleman Adventurer (from Girl Genius fame) told through his tweets.
If you're a latecomer, you can catch up with the compiled tweet stories here
I'd always envisioned creating collaborative story told by multiple characters' tweets... but then RL whacks me on the back of the head and I realize that it'll have to wait till I win the lottery, hire two dozen assistants to help me with my backlog, and develop the creative chops to pull something like that off....
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What, really? What criteria for "good" are you using?
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Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum
About the only good use of twitter I've seen is Othar's Twitter.
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Posi too? And Niviene?|
Originally Posted by Lyrik
Just so you know, Niviene tweeted that she read this thread the other day.
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:tries to think of something clever to say.
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:gives up.
:waves at Positron.
... at least he didn't see that thread with the Pink Positron sig graphic.
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I have no grudge against information in 3rd party sources, and actually appreciate them, since it gives a different spin on some of the same data. MMO blogs, websites, et alia have been a useful alternate source of knowledge instead of just www.coh.com|
Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
Fortunately for our theoretical "information Luddite", pretty much all of that outside information gets reposted to the forums in one fashion or another.
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However, Twitter, SPECIFICALLY, is mindless information spam and glory hounding. It has apparent validity, since people use it, and enjoy it... But I personally feel it is a trite way to say, "LOOK AT ME!!!!!!! (pleasepleaseplease!?)" If my friends/acquaintances/random strangers cared THAT much about my life, I'd be a little skeeved and afraid of stalkers, not complimented. But I guess that's 'cause I'm just an old fogey, waving his cane, and smashing looms. Rawr.
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I LOVED THE PINK ONE.
You should stick that back on there full time.
SERIOUSLY.
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So tell me how NASA, who is an organisation I am following is "Glory Hounding" or, FIFA World Cup...|
Originally Posted by Eran_
I have no grudge against information in 3rd party sources, and actually appreciate them, since it gives a different spin on some of the same data. MMO blogs, websites, et alia have been a useful alternate source of knowledge instead of just www.coh.com
However, Twitter, SPECIFICALLY, is mindless information spam and glory hounding. It has apparent validity, since people use it, and enjoy it... But I personally feel it is a trite way to say, "LOOK AT ME!!!!!!! (pleasepleaseplease!?)" If my friends/acquaintances/random strangers cared THAT much about my life, I'd be a little skeeved and afraid of stalkers, not complimented. But I guess that's 'cause I'm just an old fogey, waving his cane, and smashing looms. Rawr. *disappears to go spike a waterwheel* |
Don't ACCEPT random people to your TWEET list. Is it REALLY that hard? People who use Twitter, like myself FOLLOW more than just Random strangers. I dont have ANY random people on my Twitter list. I dont care about Random people.
You people in this thread are showing me more random garbage than I see on MY Twitter.
I have my thingy LOCKED and you have to get my permission to follow me. This is really not that hard, folks. You are in COMPLETE control of what you see.
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Would you like us to get off your virtual lawn? |
Originally Posted by Eran_
But I guess that's 'cause I'm just an old fogey, waving his cane, and smashing looms. Rawr.
*disappears to go spike a waterwheel* |
@Golden Girl
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Do you watch the TV show Castle? Positron got me hooked last week on Richard Castle's Tweetstream. Funny stuff. Near as I can tell Nathan Fillion is the one doing the tweeting.|
Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum
About the only good use of twitter I've seen is Othar's Twitter.
It's the continuing adventures of Othar Tryggvassen Gentleman Adventurer (from Girl Genius fame) told through his tweets. If you're a latecomer, you can catch up with the compiled tweet stories here I'd always envisioned creating collaborative story told by multiple characters' tweets... but then RL whacks me on the back of the head and I realize that it'll have to wait till I win the lottery, hire two dozen assistants to help me with my backlog, and develop the creative chops to pull something like that off.... |
As if I don't have too many fanfic ideas and too little time to develop the ones I've already started, I'd gotten this notion of something consisting entirely of tweets. I think these efforts at "twitter fiction" like Othar and Castle are an interesting new direction for story telling. To make it work you have to be very compact with your text, and you are NOT expected to delve deeply into the subject they way you might be in conventional fiction. Instead, it's idea-driven. There are a lot of people with ideas who lack the creative experience to develop them in an interesting manner in a story. This might be a kind of shortcut for telling a story when you primarily have a skeleton and not a fully fleshed out body.
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Actually the only really 'good' (by my definition) use of Twitter I've seen is that Middle Eastern country's people using Twitter to organize the protest. I'm down with that. It's being useful. Most tweets are not useful.|
Originally Posted by DKellis
What, really? What criteria for "good" are you using?
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I fully realize that not caring for the most part about people I don't know makes me a terrible recluse and a curmudgeon.
Annnnd? I'm fully into other social networking sites. I just don't like the nature of most tweets. So I don't use Twitter. I don't understand why people not liking twitter is such an issue with people who do use Twitter. We aren't personally attacking your tweets...just the nature of the really awful ones that make you ask over and over "And I care beeeecause....???"
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Did you throw your baseball threw his window? I bet that gets his goat. Young whippersnapper. *grumbles*
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Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU
Would you like us to get off your virtual lawn?
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You don't like it because you need something to not like.
Its popular, so you hate it.
If you had a twitter account, which I am not saying you need. But if you had one. You could only follow news places or sports teams. The weather channel, find out when bad stuff is brewing.
You dont have to follow any actual individual person if you chose not to.
Its not really a big deal. You can lock yourself in your own world, of things that interest you. Lock yourself in the options make it so you give permission to others who want to follow you. I just Decline 99% of them.
Its not really a big deal. Its more amusing that you guys hate it so much When you don't need to.
And I don't get the hate for Devs who post things on Twitter. "They shouldn't post things that I want to read on Twitter, because I don't follow Twitter, and I don't follow it because it doesn't have anything I want to read".
Now, hopefully we get the Devs back here once their digest is fixed. I won't be following them on Twitter at all.
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