An open letter to the Paragon Studios Team


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Originally Posted by theOcho View Post
I mean if players can't see for themselves the complete and total superiority of pie, then what can we do for them anyways?
Mmmmmm... pie.

(For truth-finding purposes - Personal favorites: lemon meringue pie, carrot cake, date cake. Yeah, in that order...)


 

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Originally Posted by theOcho View Post
When we were implementing the new forums, it came to my notice that there was no birthday pie option. After extensive debate on the issue, we felt that allowing birthday cake and not pie would be essentially weighing in on the cake vs. pie debate and this is a subject that we have official neutrality on.

I mean if players can't see for themselves the complete and total superiority of pie, then what can we do for them anyways?
Let them eat cake?


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Not having cake is a slap in the face to the playerbase, thankfully coconut cream pies in the face are a nice substitute...


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Mathematical proof of pie's superiority over cake.


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Originally Posted by theOcho View Post
When we were implementing the new forums, it came to my notice that there was no birthday pie option. After extensive debate on the issue, we felt that allowing birthday cake and not pie would be essentially weighing in on the cake vs. pie debate and this is a subject that we have official neutrality on.

I mean if players can't see for themselves the complete and total superiority of pie, then what can we do for them anyways?
Dear theOcho,

It was my belief that our fair forums took place in the good old US of A, birthplace of apple pie, baseball, Freedom Fries, and those delicious little mints with jelly in the middle that high class hotels leave for you in your hotel room. Taking a controversial stance, and then proceeding to beat your neighbors over the head with it while proclaiming the sinful evils of the nonbelievers is the AMERICAN WAY! Instead, I am dissapointed that you and your fellow moderators would choose to take the neutral route, like some kind of pansy swiss frenchmen, sipping their hot cocoa in their fancy igloos while playing with their didgerie doo's and games of Go.

I, for one, will not stand for this agenda of neutrality that you and your fellow Liberal Creampuffs (Mmmm, liberal creampuffs) are pushing on us rightous, god fearing players (Who pay 15 dollars a month, I might add). Therefore, I say take a stand and tell those heathen bakers that Pie remains in the classroom, taught by rightous god fearing Mathmeticians, and should NOT be pushed onto our innocent children.

Or wont you think of the CHILDREN?!

Sincerely,
Liquid Horatio X


 

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5: FIIIIIIIIIIVE GOLDEEEEEEEN RIIIIIIIINGS!
Did you know that this is the only part of that song which is copyrighted?


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Originally Posted by Decorum View Post
Awww, you poor thing. Happy birthday and have some moar cake!



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Originally Posted by Decorum View Post
TEH DEVS HATE CAKE!
No silly... they ATE all the cake.

[NOTE: This is in no way meant to cast any aspersions on the more... uhm... substantial members of our dev team.]


 

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Originally Posted by LiquidX View Post
Dear theOcho,

It was my belief that our fair forums took place in the good old US of A, birthplace of apple pie, baseball, Freedom Fries, and those delicious little mints with jelly in the middle that high class hotels leave for you in your hotel room. Taking a controversial stance, and then proceeding to beat your neighbors over the head with it while proclaiming the sinful evils of the nonbelievers is the AMERICAN WAY! Instead, I am dissapointed that you and your fellow moderators would choose to take the neutral route, like some kind of pansy swiss frenchmen, sipping their hot cocoa in their fancy igloos while playing with their didgerie doo's and games of Go.

I, for one, will not stand for this agenda of neutrality that you and your fellow Liberal Creampuffs (Mmmm, liberal creampuffs) are pushing on us rightous, god fearing players (Who pay 15 dollars a month, I might add). Therefore, I say take a stand and tell those heathen bakers that Pie remains in the classroom, taught by rightous god fearing Mathmeticians, and should NOT be pushed onto our innocent children.

Or wont you think of the CHILDREN?!

Sincerely,
Liquid Horatio X
OK while I liked the original, this response actually had me busting out laughing... at work.

My dearest Liquid Horatio X,

Should you persist in this work-termination-inducing behavior, you will leave me with little option but to get litigious.

Consider yourself warned, and on notice.

Sincerely,


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Originally Posted by Tyrrano View Post
Oh, now see, this is just asking for a 'j' and a 'ranger' together, but since that option is sadly unavailable I'll have to mail you a piece of my wife's carrot cake instead.
Since your wife is making cake for people, I'll have some too. I always get a carrot cake for my birthday. If I'm lucky, it's one my mom made.

Extra cream cheese frosting, hold the raisins, please.


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Originally Posted by theOcho View Post
When we were implementing the new forums, it came to my notice that there was no birthday pie option. After extensive debate on the issue, we felt that allowing birthday cake and not pie would be essentially weighing in on the cake vs. pie debate and this is a subject that we have official neutrality on.

I mean if players can't see for themselves the complete and total superiority of pie, then what can we do for them anyways?

Cheesecake is the best of both pie and cake, and therefore should be used for our B-Day icons as soon as possible, or yesterday, whichever comes first.


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I wonder why there are never any closed letters?

Who's opening all these letters????


 

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Originally Posted by LiquidX View Post
3: The addition of the Birthday costume pack, which will include (But not be limited too) a conical birthday party hat, a Birthday sash, and a Birthday suit (Which shall include an optional version that will be composed of special fibers that only those of superior intelligence will be able to see), as well as a /Confetti and /Noisemaker emotes.
I want this part.


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Originally Posted by Novawulfe View Post
Apparently Cake is even the other white meat, Cake rules and Pie drools!
It was my understanding that CAT was 'the other white meat'. I have a t-shirt that says so!


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Originally Posted by theOcho View Post
When we were implementing the new forums, it came to my notice that there was no birthday pie option. After extensive debate on the issue, we felt that allowing birthday cake and not pie would be essentially weighing in on the cake vs. pie debate and this is a subject that we have official neutrality on.

I mean if players can't see for themselves the complete and total superiority of pie, then what can we do for them anyways?
Pies trump cakes when the pies are Pecan and Coconut Cream in my world. Cakes trump all other pies only when they are Butter Pecan, Coconut, and French Vanilla.

Blueberry, Blackberry, Peach, and Apple Cobblers trump ALL!!!

With that said, I respectfully request my birthday icon to randomly reflect one of the cobblers above as to help me decide which one I should have on my birthday. You have 8 months to figure out how to do this as 2011 will be a milestone birthday for me as I hit the old age of 35 years.


 

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Ok, I don't know why, but I'm TOTALLY sold on carp melee!!!! Bring it!


 

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Originally Posted by MattMiracle View Post
Pies trump cakes when the pies are Pecan and Coconut Cream in my world. Cakes trump all other pies only when they are Butter Pecan, Coconut, and French Vanilla.

Blueberry, Blackberry, Peach, and Apple Cobblers trump ALL!!!

With that said, I respectfully request my birthday icon to randomly reflect one of the cobblers above as to help me decide which one I should have on my birthday. You have 8 months to figure out how to do this as 2011 will be a milestone birthday for me as I hit the old age of 35 years.
You're crazy. Apricot pie rules them all.


 

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Originally Posted by MattMiracle View Post
Pies trump cakes when the pies are Pecan and Coconut Cream in my world. Cakes trump all other pies only when they are Butter Pecan, Coconut, and French Vanilla.

Blueberry, Blackberry, Peach, and Apple Cobblers trump ALL!!!

With that said, I respectfully request my birthday icon to randomly reflect one of the cobblers above as to help me decide which one I should have on my birthday. You have 8 months to figure out how to do this as 2011 will be a milestone birthday for me as I hit the old age of 35 years.
Blackberry cobbler is my favorite-est thing of all!

Horatio, I join you in your plea to have recognition of the anniversaries of our births in many and multitudinous ways!

And to you, Mr. Ocho, I say "Fie! Such Scroogish behavior masquerading as neutrality should be beneath you! Stop shilly-shallying and waffling and bring us back our cake AND pie!"


Wait, did someone mention waffles? Mmmm, waffles....

P.S. BTW Matt, you young whipper-snapper - black text works horribly on the CoV forum background.


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Originally Posted by Goliath Bird Eater View Post

Mathematical proof of pie's superiority over cake.
/lol

If I had known that back in high school, I'd have driven my pre-cal teacher even farther up the wall then I already had.


 

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I read 'camp melee' instead of 'carp', and envisaged a limp-wristed scrapper prancing and mincing about lol.

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Originally Posted by Mental_Giant View Post
If you're referring to "The cake is a lie" that came from the game Portal. What's funny is that the cake in that game wasn't a lie; it was delicious and moist.
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Originally Posted by LiquidX View Post
as well as a /Confetti and /Noisemaker emotes.
/emote Confetti:


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Originally Posted by Novawulfe View Post
Apparently Cake is even the *other* other white meat
Fixed.
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Originally Posted by LiquidX View Post
... like some kind of pansy swiss frenchmen, sipping their hot cocoa in their fancy igloos while playing with their didgerie doo's and games of Go.
OK, now you're just trying to get me riled up. Are you really lumping me in with Swiss and/or French men, simply because I choose to play the didgeridoo? (And yes, you misspelled it. Yet another strike.)
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Originally Posted by EU_Damz View Post
Did you know that this is the only part of that song which is copyrighted?
Yes, but since the original text doesn't actually include a cascading flood of vowels, I'm fairly certain he can avoid the legal hammer on that count. Note: not to be construed as actual legal advice.
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Originally Posted by White Hot Flash View Post
Since your wife is making cake for people, I'll have some too. I always get a carrot cake for my birthday. If I'm lucky, it's one my mom made. Extra cream cheese frosting, hold the raisins, please.
If your birthday is reasonably close to mine, or perhaps my Dad's, I can probably accommodate you. And raisins? Please. What do you think the Date Cake is for?
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Originally Posted by MattMiracle View Post
Blueberry, Blackberry, Peach, and Apple Cobblers trump ALL!!!
I'm mortified that we've left our cobbler-eating brethren out on the cold window ledge for this discussion. Blackberry is especially yummy, so much so that it is worth all those annoying little seeds...


 

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Originally Posted by Tyrrano View Post
OK, now you're just trying to get me riled up. Are you really lumping me in with Swiss and/or French men, simply because I choose to play the didgeridoo? (And yes, you misspelled it. Yet another strike.)
Only if you speak in a silly accent, your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries.

Also, I am a red blooded, patriotic american who proudly salutes his flag in the morning, eats his Freedom Fries in the Afternoon, and makes sweet sweet religiously approved love to his many beautiful women on his big pile of money at night. Therefore, it is impossible for me to have mispelled anything. Obviously, the problem is that you live in one of those "heathen" countries, who insist on mispelling things like adding extra "U"'s and other vowels to everything. Unless of course your a fellow Yankie Doodle, at which point I pay $15 dollars a month, which means I'm right anyways.

So I win.


 

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Originally Posted by Arnabas View Post
You know, as someone who loves pretty much anything Japanese, I had to look that up and now I fear it will be in my head forever.
It's suprisingly addictive, isn't it? What really makes the whole thing awesome is when she starts to lose it at the end, and tosses in extra "Sparking!"s for no real reason.