City of Heroes: Live Forum Archive

Free Popcap Game: Plants vs Zombies

Brillig

By Brillig,
Posted on: 2012-10-30 21:47 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

Posted

Poop. Only for the Americans

 

Posted

You really didn't have to make a video about it, just point people to
http://www.stopzombiemouth.com/

The idea here is to print out coupons you can hand out on Halloween instead of candy (this is cosponsored by the American Dental Association) and the PDF file they provide (8 coupons per page) includes the instructions and the code.

It looks to be a newer version than the one I own (which means it no longer as the Thriller zombie).

Father Xmas - Level 50 Ice/Ice Tanker - Victory
$725 and $1350 parts lists --- My guide to computer components

Tempus unum hominem manet

 

Posted

I've been playing it a lot lately.

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
It looks to be a newer version than the one I own (which means it no longer as the Thriller zombie).
Wait - they got rid of MJ?

Remind me to never update...

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
You really didn't have to make a video about it,
I've been running a Youtube channel for a good while now that I've shared with the community, and it isn't just for the CoH forums. I did it for my subscribers and thought I would post it here also.

My new Youtube Channel with CoH info
You might know me as FlintEastwood now on Freedom

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Xzero45 View Post
Wow. What a bunch of pricks.
It's probably because they weren't making money off of it....

You don't hit smiling monsters - Sister Flame

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Chuckers View Post
It's probably because they weren't making money off of it....
Pre-ZACTLY!


Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by JayboH View Post
I've been running a Youtube channel for a good while now that I've shared with the community, and it isn't just for the CoH forums. I did it for my subscribers and thought I would post it here also.
Well that's all well and good but being the end of the month and all, with the fact some people have bandwidth caps, text is the more frugal way to spread the word.

Father Xmas - Level 50 Ice/Ice Tanker - Victory
$725 and $1350 parts lists --- My guide to computer components

Tempus unum hominem manet

 

Posted

Whew - at least it's all well and good then. Hopefully downloading a free game won't make things worse for those with tight bandwidth caps, as the video was a whopping 58 seconds long.

My new Youtube Channel with CoH info
You might know me as FlintEastwood now on Freedom

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by JayboH View Post
Whew - at least it's all well and good then. Hopefully downloading a free game won't make things worse for those with tight bandwidth caps, as the video was a whopping 58 seconds long.
... and 14+ MB in size. Play time isn't the issue, size is the issue. I know it's so easy not to think about that when you have broadband. On dial-up it took over 40 minutes to load.

This reminds me back around the turn of the century (God it's strange to use that phrase even though it's accurate) when a secretary at the company I was working at the time decided the only way to distribute three line announcements was to create a Word document and attach it to the mass e-mailing. This was back before multi TB size hard drives and enterprise servers and intelligent e-mail systems. She single-handedly filled the e-mail partition on the company server because the 40KB attachment was duplicated into all 400+ e-mail accounts every time she sent one out, which sometimes were multiple times in a day. The problem stemmed from the fact she was using the official letterhead template with the multiple color company logo as a bitmap file. Drove the IT department around the bend.

Then there was the fact since we weren't using a Microsoft Exchange server for e-mail, we all had to extract the attached file first to be able to open it up in Word to read it. So now everyone had to get Office installed on their system (as developers, we favored programming editors for our internal documentation and most didn't have Office or the most recent version on our systems). So our bosses had to submit a budget so we could all get Office so we could read our interoffice e-mail.

But I digress.

Father Xmas - Level 50 Ice/Ice Tanker - Victory
$725 and $1350 parts lists --- My guide to computer components

Tempus unum hominem manet

 

Posted

I haven't heard of stories where people hit bandwidth caps on dial-up. That's insane. I suppose those people always know what they are in for when they can see where a link is taking them before clicking it.

Posting the video here seems just fine to me given your scenario, because I'll call BS on any of that given how massive some of the patches were for this game, and they were frequent.

My new Youtube Channel with CoH info
You might know me as FlintEastwood now on Freedom

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
Yes, MJ's family complained when they noticed it after his passing.
Why'd they object? Was the dancing zombie touching little boys?

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
Why'd they object? Was the dancing zombie touching little boys?
BURN!

My new Youtube Channel with CoH info
You might know me as FlintEastwood now on Freedom

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by JayboH View Post
I haven't heard of stories where people hit bandwidth caps on dial-up. That's insane. I suppose those people always know what they are in for when they can see where a link is taking them before clicking it.

Posting the video here seems just fine to me given your scenario, because I'll call BS on any of that given how massive some of the patches were for this game, and they were frequent.
The dial-up was my problem but bandwidth caps can be a problem at the end of a month for all of you broadband people in the US. All I was saying that here, on this forum, a link in the post to the actual website would have sufficed.

Father Xmas - Level 50 Ice/Ice Tanker - Victory
$725 and $1350 parts lists --- My guide to computer components

Tempus unum hominem manet

 

Posted

Yeah, I figured that - which is why I explained it right away:

Quote:
Originally Posted by JayboH View Post
I've been running a Youtube channel for a good while now that I've shared with the community, and it isn't just for the CoH forums. I did it for my subscribers and thought I would post it here also.
By the way, if you are ever on broadband, you can check out my more recent CoH videos, which show how the game runs with everything cranked at 1080p (most of my videos are rendered down to 720p though for Youtube, but are recorded at 1080p) on a computer I built at the end of August.

I think I talked to you about it before I ordered it, but if not, this is what I built:

Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge 3.5GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core
Cooler Master HAF 912 RC-912-KKN1 ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
ASUS P8Z77-V LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
SAMSUNG 830 Series MZ-7PC256B/WW 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1000DHTZ 1TB 10000 RPM
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX750 V2 750W
EVGA Superclocked, Signature 2 02G-P4-2687-KR GeForce GTX 680 2GB
Logitech G9x Laser Mouse
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit
LITE-ON H/H Internal BD Writer
Cyborg V.7 Keyboard

My new Youtube Channel with CoH info
You might know me as FlintEastwood now on Freedom

 

Posted

I'm not complaining about your Youtube channel, it's great you informed your regular viewers about the deal but posting a link here to a video where you tell people about the link to the site where the offer actually is, as well as describing the steps involved which they could just read at the site seems a little round about to me, that's all.

There's an XKCD cartoon in here somewhere.

Father Xmas - Level 50 Ice/Ice Tanker - Victory
$725 and $1350 parts lists --- My guide to computer components

Tempus unum hominem manet

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
I'm not complaining about your Youtube channel, it's great you informed your regular viewers about the deal but posting a link here to a video where you tell people about the link to the site where the offer actually is, as well as describing the steps involved which they could just read at the site seems a little round about to me, that's all.

There's an XKCD cartoon in here somewhere.
I think most have guessed that it also promotes my channel, and I just recently became a partner.

My new Youtube Channel with CoH info
You might know me as FlintEastwood now on Freedom