For the things that never make any sense! XD

[IzabethS]

Geckos are cool. When I visited my girlfriend in Florida last summer, I found a baby gecko in my sandals one morning. Good thing I hadn't put it on yet!

[coloredimage]

Cute little gecko! I love those silly little things!



Somehow Jack's eyes have ended up trying to be delivered - in Dorchester. I'm not even sure how that happened.

[K2!]

I found a baby gecko in my sandals one morning. Good thing I hadn't put it on yet!

Don't worry about then geckos. They have good insurance coverage.

[victoriavictrix]

Gonna hijack the thread a sec. Because this really does not make any sense.

We had just checked into the hotel for DragonCon when we got the news: NCSoft, the parent company of "my" game, City of Heroes, had laid off all 80 employees and would shut the game down for good on November 30. And for no good reason; City of was firmly in the black, and Paragon Studios was even pursuing new developments, developments that, literally up to the hour of the layoff were supported by NCSoft.

It was like hearing the diagnosis of terminal illness for a friend.

I am not exaggerating here. Because of the community aspect of the City games (unique in MMORPGs as far as I have been able to determine), I get most of my social contact via the game. We can play and hang out nightly with my father in law. I have real world friends I met here, people I wrote fanfiction with, to whose homes I have been invited, and who I have had stay with us. I have three co-writers I found in that game. My new Baen series began its life with characters we created for that game.

I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that my writing is the better for it.

Pretty much everyone I have talked to has said "Well, there is nothing like this. I'm going to stop playing MMORPGs." Of the few that have said they will continue gaming, none have agreed on a single game to take up. My community is about to be shattered. And I certainly have zero interest in playing another game at this point. I have tried several, and none are this friendly or welcoming.

After I stopped crying...yes, I am not ashamed to say I have been crying over the impending loss of all my friends there...I discovered one of the many boards that is associated with the City games was doing something about it. Tony Velasquez of CoH Titan wasn't going to just lie down and let the players and devs be walked on.

So, now I'm asking you, my readers; if you want to help me, if you want to do something for me, then do something for us. Go to http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php ... 134.0.html . Find one of the actions. Help us out. Together we can save this game. We are heroes. This is what we do.

[DollyKim]

For every batch of books or something you find at a bargain price the one you're missing and really want makes it up. The universe ebbs and flows.

May someone who plays your online game win the lottery and want to host it or how ever that works.

[Iwa_Hoshi]

Joined DOA about 4 years ago. Never really make an effort to up my post count to get into marketplace. And then last two months on I started posting on larger doll threads since I'm actually looking for a 1/3male doll and there's enough pics in said threads for referencing (mostly soul dolls and Ipehouse and one Avengers BJD series). Go figure.

If anything I get sculpts in my head duking it out

[kittyasauras]

Math. Math never makes sense.

(omg I am never going to get all this homework done by monday)

[Kirahfaye]

So, now I'm asking you, my readers; if you want to help me, if you want to do something for me, then do something for us. Go to http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php ... 134.0.html . Find one of the actions. Help us out. Together we can save this game. We are heroes. This is what we do.

I wish there was this kind of consorted effort when SWG went NGE .... I hope you can save the game. You'd think NcSoft would at least considering going FTP. Anyway, I think something that I, as a non COH player, can do is the mask and cape thing. I especially like the idea of creating my own to send!

[happyknot]

Gonna hijack the thread a sec. Because this really does not make any sense.
We had just checked into the hotel for DragonCon when we got the news: NCSoft, the parent company of "my" game, City of Heroes, had laid off all 80 employees and would shut the game down for good on November 30.

That's...shocking. I thought that game had a healthy population. It was suggested to me several times as a game to try out - never did though unfortunately, I'm a Guild Wars franchise fan and I haven't played anything else since. But if NCSoft does this to those companies under it - will a similar thing happen to Arenanet down the road? (Arenanet: developers of the Guild Wars franchise is also under NCSoft) I think that is very disturbing.

I am sure plenty of us here understand what it is like to find a social hub somewhere online; where we form real bonds with people, spend years among people who get our creative juices flowing and find comfort in each other. To have that taken away is traumatizing. It isn't an easy thing to just pack up and find somewhere new to go.
You can try to organize it among yourselves to find a new place to meet but it will never be the same.

How does a game like Ultima Online continue to exist but something more modern like CoH just vanish? It doesn't make sense.

[DollyKim]

Costume idea