Disco Dancing Into the Sunset (Thank you and Goodbye)
By
Cien_Fuegos,
Posted on: 2012-09-01 11:26 in Virtue
Blade sets up shop next to the dancing zombie and starts playing the drums
still feel like this
as Ood Sigma said....We will sing to you, Doctor. The universe will sing you to your sleep. This song is ending. But the story never ends.
http://youtu.be/M_ns1azofHw
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as Ood Sigma said....We will sing to you, Doctor. The universe will sing you to your sleep. This song is ending. But the story never ends.
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I will never be able to eat klondike bars or fried food without thinking of you.
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Originally Posted by SolarSentai
It's been a fun ride. I remember when I first started playing how reluctant I was to even install the game. In fact, it wasn't even my account I was playing on. My brother and his friend were sharing the account but they hardly ever played. After finding out that a few friends were playing, I asked him if I could futz around and check it out.
Fast forward seven years and here we are. Things that resulted from playing CoH: >My first time an airplane traveling to California (from NY) for an extended weekend to meet SGmates/friends I made in game (Did this for 3 years running before the economy went to hell and we couldn't afford it anymore) >Bought new computers -twice- to improve gameplay >Made friends whom I cherish dearly and still keep in contact with even after they've stopped playing When I first started playing, most, if not all of my characters, had a sentai motif. My first Global was @SolarSentai. Most folks new me as Solaranger<InsertColorHere>. During the first(?) Halloween event I created a character as somewhat of a joke - and the intent was to level from 1 - 50 only doing the Halloween event. His name was Zombie Fryer. He was the second character created on my second account, @LunarSentai. In all honesty, I never thought I would play him as much as I have over the years (4506 hours on patrol as of last night). The concept was that he was a Werewolf who loved to fry (cook) and eat zombies. When I started becoming more social and joining channels, people always assumed based on my name that I was in fact a zombie who does the frying. Either way, a character that started in jest turned out to become my namesake and that was the beauty of CoH. There were so many options for character development, for how your character looked and how you could play the game. You weren't bound to the vanilla formula of bash-bash-xp-bash-bash-xp. We had mini-games within the main game (the market, badges, etc). We had an amazing community of players. As such, I want to give a big thank you to everyone who made this game awesome - to all the players who invested their time to lead raids, trials, run events - to teach others the ins and outs of the game. And to the player base in general. You all made logging worthwhile. And on a completely unrelated note: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1ujzRidmU <-- This guy. You know, the dad who shot up his daughter's laptop. He played CoH. For many years. And I was friends with him. I met him and his wife in person on one of my California trips and he's a really a fun guy. Also, he generally played Assault Rifle blasters. ... yea. Sigh. I keep hoping this is just a bad dream. And I won't truly believe it until the servers are shut down for good. So with that, I'll be around until the end. Zombie Fryer will be dancing in the bowl in the Hive as the power goes out on the servers. /em dance2 |
There are no words for what this community, and the friends I have made here mean to me. Please know that I care for all of you, yes, even you. If you Twitter, I'm MrThan. If you're Unleashed, I'm dumps. I'll try and get registered on the Titan Forums as well. Peace, and thanks for the best nine years anyone could ever ask for.
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
I will never be able to eat klondike bars or fried food without thinking of you.
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It's kinda funny how the whole nachos and klondike bars thing started. Way back when, pre-i9, I occasionally went to the Hami raids. It wasn't something that I always did b/c I wasn't really in any global channels, and I really didn't know what the schedule was (or even if there was one). I would hear about the raids forming from friends, or if someone happen to broadcast in the zone I was in. I didn't make the effort to be "known" or "mingle" as there were so many voices being heard and it was hard to keep up with anything.
Post-i9 when the raids got smaller and more focused, and I started going on a more regular basis. I had gotten bored with the other stuff I was doing, no one in my SG at the time were really into the raids so I just went solo. The more I kept going, the more I kept seeing the same folks and I guess that's how friendships start right?
I'm not really known for being overly outgoing. I don't think I'm overly socially awkward but you never quite know how people will interpret you as a person (even if you have the best intentions). Anyways, I remember one of the raids, the monster hunting was going way too long, and I just kinda hopped into the bowl, started dancing, and when that didn't work, I was just spouting nonsense into broadcast basically trying to coerce Hami to come out. And it stuck... and became a regular thing.
The Hamiettes... oh the Hamiettes... prior to leagues, I would get so many tells for people asking to be a part of the Assault team. It was truly an honor that people wanted to be a part of the Hamiettes. And it might sound silly, but it really did break my heart when I had to turn people away because the team was full.
I never did really think it would stick. It was just me being silly. I guess there are worse things to be known for
And one other aside relating to this... most of my friends outside of the game couldn't care less about CoH, or video games in general for that matter, so when I would try to talk about the game, or things related to it (Hami raids), I get blank stares. But, October of last year, we took in two stray kittens. They were only a few weeks old. They were tiny, and clearly needed to see a vet. We had three cats already, so two more... as much as I wanted them, there was some protest. But there was something about them that made me want them even more... one was black and white. The other was orange. A bajilion light bulbs went off in my head. It was too coincidental and two perfect. And thus, "Nacho" and "Klondike" became a part of the family. No other names would be appropriate. And to show even more so how fate played a part in this, if we hadn't taken them in when we did, chances are they would have died. A day after we took them in, there was a freak snowstorm. Not that we got 12" of snow, but it was cold enough and enough snow that they wouldn't have survived.
Just goes to show much things in life are interconnected.
And as such, a short reply turned into a rant.
So, that's the story of how Zombie Fryer was known for nachos and klondike bars.
[ @Zombie Fryer ][ @Zombie Smasher ]
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I will put on Donna Summer's Last Dance for you one more time.
Virtue - Kalikamata, Dark Indigo, Dharma Moon, Hogo Sochi, Julienne, Nordic Witch, Hot Compress, Kahlen, Sphere of Water, Miss Purrfect, Make Believe, Major Asset, Terra Donna, Kalicious, Fortunata Indigo, Tight Squeeze, Kalika Mata, Mistress Berdine, Guy Buttersnaps
Infinity - Paring Knife, Elphaba Storm, Bien Cuit, Sardonic Widow
I wanna say that was a terrible freak snowstorm. I lost my power for a week afterward. I'm glad you were able to save a few kitty lives from it though.
It's been a fun ride. I remember when I first started playing how reluctant I was to even install the game. In fact, it wasn't even my account I was playing on. My brother and his friend were sharing the account but they hardly ever played. After finding out that a few friends were playing, I asked him if I could futz around and check it out.
Fast forward seven years and here we are.
Things that resulted from playing CoH:
>My first time an airplane traveling to California (from NY) for an extended weekend to meet SGmates/friends I made in game (Did this for 3 years running before the economy went to hell and we couldn't afford it anymore)
>Bought new computers -twice- to improve gameplay
>Made friends whom I cherish dearly and still keep in contact with even after they've stopped playing
When I first started playing, most, if not all of my characters, had a sentai motif. My first Global was @SolarSentai. Most folks new me as Solaranger<InsertColorHere>. During the first(?) Halloween event I created a character as somewhat of a joke - and the intent was to level from 1 - 50 only doing the Halloween event. His name was Zombie Fryer. He was the second character created on my second account, @LunarSentai. In all honesty, I never thought I would play him as much as I have over the years (4506 hours on patrol as of last night). The concept was that he was a Werewolf who loved to fry (cook) and eat zombies. When I started becoming more social and joining channels, people always assumed based on my name that I was in fact a zombie who does the frying.
Either way, a character that started in jest turned out to become my namesake and that was the beauty of CoH. There were so many options for character development, for how your character looked and how you could play the game. You weren't bound to the vanilla formula of bash-bash-xp-bash-bash-xp. We had mini-games within the main game (the market, badges, etc). We had an amazing community of players.
As such, I want to give a big thank you to everyone who made this game awesome - to all the players who invested their time to lead raids, trials, run events - to teach others the ins and outs of the game. And to the player base in general. You all made logging worthwhile.
And on a completely unrelated note:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1ujzRidmU <-- This guy. You know, the dad who shot up his daughter's laptop. He played CoH. For many years. And I was friends with him. I met him and his wife in person on one of my California trips and he's a really a fun guy. Also, he generally played Assault Rifle blasters. ... yea.
Sigh.
I keep hoping this is just a bad dream. And I won't truly believe it until the servers are shut down for good.
So with that, I'll be around until the end. Zombie Fryer will be dancing in the bowl in the Hive as the power goes out on the servers.
/em dance2
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