D_R's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
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Posted on: 2012-10-18 09:16 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Sigh...
Michelle... Michelle... Michelle...
I enjoyed this video while the same time despising the need for it.
You did a great job on this, but then again that was expected.
Still.. thank you for taking the time through the years to step up and make these great videos for everyone to enjoy. I think it became a labor of love for you after awhile. It might also have become a labor to rival that of Hercules after awhile too 
Needless to say, if we only have one or two more from you, this one was a very good one.
Thanks for making it!
Member of Team Awesome���
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If you still have the drive, I can probably rebuild that.
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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
Not to doubt your prowess, but it was on a RAID 0 drive (had striped across two drives, and one failed). To the best of my knowledge, if the data is striped and one drive goes, I'm SOL. NEVER buying another Seagate product again - who in hell builds an external hard drive with two drives back to back and NO HEATING PROTECTION?!
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I can look... I may have kept it as a reminder to "Never do that again."
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
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Well RAID 0 isn't actually RAID (the R is suppose to be for redundant, 0 isn't). All that 0 buys you is performance at the cost of 1/2 of your mean time between failures. Sorry you learned about that the hard way.
One of the two major reasons I hated boutique computer companies during the mid 00s. RAID 0 and SLi/CrossfireX using low end graphic cards and expecting the average buyer to not be aware of the consequences of those choices versus alternatives. Banking on buzzwords as features. It's one of the reasons I started my guide.
Edit: Oh and I now see that your video along the the Paragon-Style video is now linked up at Massively.
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Heck, even experts will get into fist-fights over the efficacy of RAID 6.
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Well RAID 0 isn't actually RAID (the R is suppose to be for redundant, 0 isn't). All that 0 buys you is performance at the cost of 1/2 of your mean time between failures. Sorry you learned about that the hard way.
One of the two major reasons I hated boutique computer companies during the mid 00s. RAID 0 and SLi/CrossfireX using low end graphic cards and expecting the average buyer to not be aware of the consequences of those choices versus alternatives. Banking on buzzwords as features. It's one of the reasons I started my guide. |
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Thank you... it made me cry.
An excellent video that really captures what I've been feeling since August 31st.
Thank you for that Samuraiko.
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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
This has to be one of the hardest videos I've ever made. Not just in terms of scale, but because of its origin... and I cried when it was finished.
This is not my last COH video - I still have at least two more I hope to finish before the closing of the game. But it is my 'farewell' to Paragon City, my home away from home. Michelle aka Samuraiko/Dark_Respite |
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Are you talking about the external drive that said Seagate on the outside but had two Maxtor drives inside, or am I confusing you with someone else who had a similar external disk failure?
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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
NEVER buying another Seagate product again
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Nope, that was me. *grumble grumble grumble* It was Maxtor on the outside, Seagate on the inside.|
Originally Posted by Leandro
Are you talking about the external drive that said Seagate on the outside but had two Maxtor drives inside, or am I confusing you with someone else who had a similar external disk failure?
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Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
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I seem to recall that those drives were crying painfully about being in SMART failure mode, but the USB interface stripped that information. Reason #1 I never use USB hard disks. If a hard disk is going to die, I want to know in advance.
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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
Nope, that was me. *grumble grumble grumble* It was Maxtor on the outside, Seagate on the inside.
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Your best work, and probably the best fan-created machinima I've ever watched.
If not, the most touching. Assuredly.
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nice video
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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
This has to be one of the hardest videos I've ever made. Not just in terms of scale, but because of its origin... and I cried when it was finished.
This is not my last COH video - I still have at least two more I hope to finish before the closing of the game. But it is my 'farewell' to Paragon City, my home away from home. YouTube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9IFDGRp6tk (I advise watching it in HD if your connection can handle it) Downloadable version: http://www.wanderingcrane.com/Videos.html (400MB download - yes, it's huge) (PLEASE do not hotlink to the video file itself - if you want to share it, I'd prefer you send people to the YouTube link to save my bandwidth; otherwise, send them to the Videos page) ******* For those who are interested in such things... Jo's path (and the alts of mine she encounters): Ouroboros (Mender Anomaly) > Founders Falls (Johanna Sinclair, COUNTERMEASURES) > Pocket D (Rhiannon Vendredi, Queen of Staves, Ante Up, and Andrea Blake) > Talos Island (Takimura Mayumi) > Striga (Profiteer) > Independence Port (Psychic Hotline and Cassandra Dunstan) > Kings Row (Temp Power and Father Lucas Vienney) > Perez Park (Cluster Flux) > Steel Canyon (Sorina Tavarisch and Chastica) > Atlas Park (Rabid Spoo) > Peregrine Island. And yes, each zone actually links to the next (with the exception of Galaxy City, due to its closure). Michelle aka Samuraiko/Dark_Respite |
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Please find a way to continue making videos, in whatever media you land on next. You have a great talent. I think this video is your best one yet. It would be a shame to stop there.
Loose --> not tight.
Lose --> Did not win, misplace, cannot find, subtract.
One extra 'o' makes a big difference.
While my heart belongs to COH, I've also been playing RIFT now for about a year (did a vid for that a while back), and have just recently gotten into LotRO. Both are lovely in their own way, but no demorecord. 
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
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You'll find some great scenery in LoTRO. The Turbine crew have done some good work. If nothing else, they have gotten the epicness of MiddleEarth right. |
Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
and have just recently gotten into LotRO.
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Now, if we can just come up with a recording solution for you...
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You'll find some great scenery in LoTRO. The Turbine crew have done some good work. If nothing else, they have gotten the epicness of MiddleEarth right.
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Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
-- The Fox and the Hound
And the word continues to spread... I've now gotten reviews (and positive reviews, at that!) about "One Last Day" on French, German, Russian, and Hungarian gaming news related sites.
And it's still making people cry. (The video, not the reviews.)
But I missed Hit_Streak promoting my vid on the Coffee Talk today, so I don't know what he said, but I think it was positive.
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
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There is a new coffee talk? I looked on you tube and couldn't find it. Unless they just haven't put it up yet...
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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
But I missed Hit_Streak promoting my vid on the Coffee Talk today, so I don't know what he said, but I think it was positive. Michelle aka Samuraiko/Dark_Respite |
The CoH YouTube channel hasn't been updated with the Twitch community chats since 9/5/2012.
But the videos are still archived at Twitch TV. Here are direct links to the chats Hit Streak has graciously hosted since Zwillinger left:
September 26th
October 3rd
October 10th
October 17th
and yesterday October 24th, with his mention of Samuraiko's movie.
Back on topic: Thank you again for how you have enriched the community with your videos, Samuraiko. Videos, yours and ones like them, are one of my favorite CoH treasures to keep after 11/30 turns the rest of the game dark.
May you always find fulfillment in your creations!
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http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/10...ew-paragon-st/
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"Together we entered a city of strangers, we made it a city of friends, and we leave it a City of Heroes."
Another in a long line of nomtastic videos, Miss 'ko, both bittersweet and poignant! *wipes away tears*
A cherished keepsake, a memento of happy times, this will be running in a loop aboard the Orbital Kattkave!
Thank-you *VERY* much for your years of dedicated service to the City of Heroes community, bringing us the nommiest videos on the interwebz!
*squees with delight and walks around Miss 'ko's feet in a Figure-8 pattern, head and tail held high!* 
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I Support Nerd Flirting and Even More Nerd Flirting!
I'm glad I was able to hit a high note before I left.
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
I wish I could have helped you there. If I knew then, or if by some miracle you still have the drive and haven't reused it, I could probably get the data back for you.
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)