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Re: Call To Action: Get the word out
« Reply #400 on: September 23, 2012, 01:13:44 PM »
Following up on my previous post from Queen City ConQuest; I was there for a good 12 hours (including breaks for food) and while some people had never heard of the game, I was aproached by multiple people who said that they used to play CoH, but had to quit due to real life and other things. They did agree that NCSoft shutting down the game was the wrong course of action.
One person in particular questioned that with CoH's avatar creation system, why newer games would do anything less. Which I agree that its a major advantage CoH has over other MMOs.

Well, That's about all I have to report. Carry on.  8)
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Re: Call To Action: Get the word out
« Reply #401 on: September 27, 2012, 01:18:28 PM »
Another thing I do is linking the Cohtitan (Save Paragon City section) along with the petition in my signature when posting on other gaming forums.
Might have been mentioned before, but in case it hasn't - there we go!  ;D

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Re: Call To Action: Get the word out
« Reply #402 on: September 27, 2012, 01:40:04 PM »
I tweeted a bunch of gaming websites and magazines who haven't covered us yet, asking them to do so.  @PCGiA gave me a retweet this morning.

I did put the link to Massively's article and Tim's Youtube vid in my original tweet, so hopefully that got us in 7,000 new eyes.
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Re: Call To Action: Get the word out
« Reply #403 on: September 28, 2012, 12:51:57 PM »
I just realized something brilliant: If Valve did end up buying CoH, that means it could theoretically have a Steam Workshop, meaning that it could hypothetically have community-made costume parts added to the game! Possibly...Now, how do we get Valve to buy. I want my Portal Gun Beam Rifle.
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Re: Call To Action: Get the word out
« Reply #404 on: September 28, 2012, 12:59:26 PM »
Villainous in-game mission chain wherein Aperture Science buys out Portal Corp.?

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Re: Call To Action: Get the word out
« Reply #405 on: September 28, 2012, 04:10:08 PM »
Villainous in-game mission chain wherein Aperture Science buys out Portal Corp.?

Nah. They buy out Aeon Corp.
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Re: Call To Action: Get the word out
« Reply #406 on: September 28, 2012, 04:14:45 PM »
Nah. They buy out Aeon Corp.

GLADOS and Dr. Aeon. Mortal enemies or love at first sight?  FOR SCIENCE!!!!

...you monster.

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Re: Call To Action: Get the word out
« Reply #407 on: September 28, 2012, 04:16:53 PM »
And all of a sudden the mental image of the end of SSA WWD mission - the one with the island in space - after you defeat Rula-Wade...

... cannot be complete without a little orb floating by...

"spacespacespacespacespacespacespacespacespace!!!! I'm in SPAAACE!!!... space space space!!!"


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Re: Call To Action: Get the word out
« Reply #408 on: September 30, 2012, 08:45:01 PM »
And all of a sudden the mental image of the end of SSA WWD mission - the one with the island in space - after you defeat Rula-Wade...

... cannot be complete without a little orb floating by...

"spacespacespacespacespacespacespacespacespace!!!! I'm in SPAAACE!!!... space space space!!!"

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/MadeOfWin

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BadWolf: "The point that JaguarX is trying to make, of course, is that City of Heroes is like a tree. And Google is like a Toyota...Corolla...? Which would make NCSoft a trespasser, shot by...um, Mister T...which is good, because diplomacy...?"

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Re: Call To Action: Get the word out
« Reply #409 on: September 30, 2012, 08:48:18 PM »
Villainous in-game mission chain wherein Aperture Science buys out Portal Corp.?

Heh, this idea had crossed my mind recently. In fact I think I said something in a group in the past week or so, wondering if there was anything below Portal Corp, on levels way further down beyond what is known. Experiments with giant potato plants. Or something.

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Re: Call To Action: Get the word out
« Reply #410 on: October 02, 2012, 04:59:21 PM »
@GeekMom blog just retweeted us. They've got 5k Twitter followers :)

Ooh, and I just realised we got a retweet from the editors at http://www.wired.com/geekmom/ off the back of that. Maybe they'll do a story if we ask nicely. Or if some of the lovely Mums in here or the press people would want to send some information their way?

Corrina Lawson, Senior Editor, Geek Mom
corrina(at)geekdad.com

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Re: Call To Action: Get the word out
« Reply #411 on: October 02, 2012, 07:41:39 PM »
I'm having some luck today @geekgirlcon gave me a RT and promised to throw in some additional tweets too.  They have 10.5k followers :)
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Re: Call To Action: Get the word out
« Reply #412 on: October 02, 2012, 07:42:26 PM »
Great work, Twitter Powerset users!
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Re: Call To Action: Get the word out
« Reply #413 on: October 02, 2012, 10:32:11 PM »
And a retweet from @GAppleComics  (Comic Shop to the Stars, apparently.) 5k and a bit followers :)
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Re: Call To Action: Get the word out
« Reply #414 on: October 05, 2012, 11:28:05 AM »
Jason Scott has just tweeted that he's not happy about COH being closed. I googled him and he's an internet/tech historian, and the guy behind textfiles.com

He's got 6k+ followers, but sadly he didn't link here, or to the petition. He wrote:

Jason Scott ‏@textfiles
The Archive Team has decided we're reeaaaalllly pissed off about Webshots and City of Heroes going under. WARRIORS, START YOUR MACHINES.
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Re: Call To Action: Get the word out
« Reply #415 on: October 05, 2012, 11:30:04 AM »
Jason Scott has just tweeted that he's not happy about COH being closed. I googled him and he's an internet/tech historian, and the guy behind textfiles.com

He's got 6k+ followers, but sadly he didn't link here, or to the petition. He wrote:

Jason Scott ‏@textfiles
The Archive Team has decided we're reeaaaalllly pissed off about Webshots and City of Heroes going under. WARRIORS, START YOUR MACHINES.

Have you send him a tweet with pertinent links? :)
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Re: Call To Action: Get the word out
« Reply #416 on: October 05, 2012, 11:30:25 AM »
Just this second :)

ETA: Sorry. My internet-fu is not strong. As far as I can figure out this guy runs around archiving everything he possibly can when people pull sites? I imagine someone like TonyV or someone even slightly techie would probably be more aware of him than I am.

This guy could be REALLY helpful.

Jason Scott ‏@textfiles
There we go. 446gb of audioblogging files from Cinch.fm before it deletes everything this month. http://archive.org/details/archiveteam-cinch

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P.S. @archiveteam downloaded a copy of cinch.fm for later generations. You know, since wiping out 6 years of audioblogging isn't cool.
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Re: Call To Action: Get the word out
« Reply #417 on: October 05, 2012, 11:43:35 AM »
Rae, any chance he can be convinced to download the entire CoH official forums before lights out?

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Re: Call To Action: Get the word out
« Reply #418 on: October 05, 2012, 11:48:18 AM »
It may be what he's working on. I've sent him a DM to ask.

ETA: He seems to use this, if people want to get involved and help out?: http://archive.org/details/archiveteam-warrior Sorry, I'm the worst person to try and figure this out, anything more complicated than turning on a computer and I go into a cold sweat :-p
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