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@AmazingAvery
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After reading your responses to the barrage of questions and comments from people who both like and dislike the game I just have one simple question:
Why do you always have to be so NICE about it? Can't you fly off the handle once in a while, you know... flip out and maybe toss an insult or two? Just kind of creepy IMO 
Eagerly awaiting your answers 
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
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I've seen him get ruffled a few times
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He's a brit living in Canuckland, so he's still reeling from that transition, hard to get angry when you live in the land of eternal winter
... (Yes, I know Edmonton gets hot summers 
).
He does. I'm there to catch him and correct him in his ways. We have a love/hate relationship. He is the ultimate fanbois and I'm the anti-fanbois. Both of us are Conan fans, yet one of us makes the world feel that Funcom can do know wrong. On the other hand, I feel that Funcom has really let down the community for the past year. Avery is a great person with big heart. My only problem with him is that he refuses to point out any faults about AoC because it is "in beta". At the same time, him and all the other fanbois praise how wonderful the same said game in beta is with all of it's features. How is it that something that is good and in beta is ok to talk about, yet if something is aweful, we can't talk about it because it is in beta? Fanbois have to have it both ways. They dismiss anything wrong with the game as "in beta". LOL, this is gonna go no where fast...
Fear not fanbois, we are not trolls, let's take off your tin foil hat and learn what VAPORWARE is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
"Vaporware is a term used to describe a software or hardware product that is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge after having well exceeded the period of development time that was initially claimed or would normally be expected for the development cycle of a similar product."
The way I see it if you like something and it grows on you, you get passionate about it. Hey, its obvious I'm a fan of the game and the company (more so after meeting a lot of the AoC team, just normal guys, and pretty funny tbh)
If anyone spends more than 5 mins around here they should be able to at least read between the lines from a fans perspective, someone who posts some news stories and someone who has an opinon from time to time on things, all from that perspective. I know sometimes my drool can get in the way, but sincerley I don't think im blinded by it.
I like to think I don't lose sight of things wrong or negative aspects, I address alot of that at the right channels or on IRC / vent with the guild in a more appropriate fashion.
I love to talk about the game, people like you guys who have already posted in the thread, fion, ladyreno, balkai, lots more and even lovely BattleKruse. I try to help out when I can, I get lots of mail everywhere, when I won that competition, I went out spent $$$ on a camcorder and tried to do the job right lol. I enjoy the conversation here, even when it gets out of control!! and like the balance between a fan and someone with more clear clarity of vision when talking conan. I've kinda calmed down a bit, from the scrappy topics over the last few months - or tried too
I've also opened my 'trap' in cussing another hyped game in the past, but always with what I thought was sound logic, and resonable debate, these days if a decent debate is going on somewhere I like to get in on it. Never about putting parts of a game down for the sake of it, more to find out how to make it better or get corrected in my sometimes premature assumptions. Overall, I do take some of that same medicine to AoC and I never try to post to intentionally hurt someone, piss them off - forsure! (right circumstances)
Hey, I'm just a normal guy, met the wife playing mmo's some 6 yrs back, played lots of games, got married 16 months back and emigrated to Canada to be with her. She's a gamer and a bit of a Conan lore nut too!
honest, I'm excited for the game to launch and hope that people have as much fun as I did when I played it in Oslo. I also hope that it has the gameplay and longevity to make me happy for a while to come.
Honestly...
I think Amazing A is an honest person, that will never hurt another being other then with a virtuall sword. I really like his posts, every game needs people defending it, thats his role on these boards.
I can only advise him not to change his attitude.
Best MMO experiences : EQ(PvE), DAoC(PvP), WoW(total package) LOTRO (worldfeel) GW2 (Artstyle and animations and worlddesign) SWTOR (Story immersion) TSW (story) ESO (character advancement)
Grats on the wedding and welcome to Canada. You should however move to Toronto it's way nicer here
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
I hope that you never change Avery. Most of the great info i have gotten about AOC has come from one of your posts.
True you may come off as a bit of a fanboi but i never thought that you were pushing the bad into a corner and only talking about the good. You certainly never seemed like a fanatic about it but pretty much just put out what you had learned.
I even wanted to join The Acolytes because of your posts.
Keep up the good work.
P.S. Not a good idea putting your picture on here, there are alot of crazies about.
/shifty eyes.
You lucky bastich
You might think that it's a blessing but what happens when you want sex and she's raiding? or you want to play but she's botting your account so she can PL herself?
Everything comes with a price, my friend... nothing is free.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
ya move to toronto so u can get stabbed among all the T. elitests. nooo stay here in edmonton with the oil and hockey rednecks!....er...
Pshhhhh... whatever. What do you have in Edmonton? a mall... gimme a break we have malls. We on the other hand have the Tower.. It is no longer the tallest "penis" in the world but it's still among the tallest. Lets see you top that with your "mall"
I have family in Edmonton and when I was there it actually was pretty nice from what I saw, but that was about 10 years ago so things might have changed.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
And really bad drivers!!
Hehe... keep control over your router... put a program on her PC to drop packets or some such when you don't want her to play
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And really bad drivers!!
Come to Texas in an ice storm (hell, a rain storm), and I'll show you bad drivers.
After living in NY, and hearing about how NY drivers are horrible.... I figured that Texans had to be better drivers than New Yorkers. Boy, was I wrong. NY drivers look like professional driving instructors by comparison. Texans consider the pickup truck to be the "sports car of texas", and doing 90mph (150kmh for you metric people) in a real wheel drive truck with no weight over the driving wheels on slick roads is perfectly ok with them... till they try to stop.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
LOL, I thought that only happened in Upstate NY! The rain doesn't cause too many problems, but dang if that first snow of the season doesn't... I loved watching people drive by in their 4x4's and SUV's (I drive a SUV too, but not like a maniac) at 65mph or whatever in the slush thinking that their four wheel drive will let them maneuver like there's no problem. 4 wheel drive or 16 wheel drive, it doesn't matter where there is 2 inches of slush under your wheels and your wheels aren't touching the pavement anymore...
They usually slide gently off the road into the ditches, but sometimes they cause bigger wrecks, usually when they try to do the triple lane change from the fast lane to the offramp they want to get off at.