Haha. So true.

See you there. I think I might be doing about 3 of those, though.

Garu wrote:

<3 ya, Banshae. 

Definitely.

And never forget that event where you were all Agents, and we harassed you from the sidelines. I always loved the character of Banshae.

God, you would enable him, Vogt.

Phrack wrote:

PBlade wrote:

Phrack wrote:

Here.

Right behind you.

Well. Maybe. I'm not sure on a guild yet, although it would be nice to be alongside some MxO players.

You're more than welcome, man.

It'll be interesting.  I can promise that.

Haha. Of that, I have no doubt.

Phrack wrote:

Here.

Right behind you.

Well. Maybe. I'm not sure on a guild yet, although it would be nice to be alongside some MxO players.

Symmetric wrote:

Outside.

Aha! I'll see you there.

XElite wrote:

Ic3b3rg wrote:

In her confused state after walking out of the hospital, Sarah steps into to the street and gets hit by a City Bus.

We were all watching her from the vestry and we all thought she was a b***h.

Haha. It's like watching the Generation Game. (I assume that's a reference you'll get!)

You can polish a [Certain substance] but it'll still be a [Certain substance].

An absolute tragedy. I was not only saddened, but incredibly shocked.

RIP.

Null

I agree, this is kind of a liberating experience.

That said, if MxO suddenly gets renewed, we're all screwed.

ManicV wrote:

PBlade wrote:

ManicV wrote:

Zeac wrote:

dam nmanicV you ignore more than half of vector and almost all major pvpers

Heh, I didn't see any particular reason to give anyone a fair shake.  If you aren't on my ignore list, chances are we've either met on good terms, or we've never spoken at all.

Orezoen was on that list. He was good guy.

Oh well, I wasn't. So I'll get over it. <3

I respect you, PBlade.  Your artwork inspired much of my own over the years.  I never kept track of people's alts and knowing who was who.  If I put your alts on ignore, know that it was nothing personal. 

Looking at my list in hindsight, there are maybe only two or three people that I ignored for personal reasons.  Almost everyone else was ignored as a result of a bad first impression.

I didn't have any Vector alts that weren't LESIG, I don't think. So we good, G!

Bah. Can't be bothered pruning the quote.

Anyway. Wolfess; that 'Help! I've fallen and I can't get up' picture gave me, without a doubt, the biggest laugh I've ever had on these forums back when you posted it.

Also, I've never seen that Pyraci pic before, but I find it also utterly, utterly hilarious. You legend.

Nearly doubled over with laughter when Viel introduced herself as 'Captain Captainson' and Cryptos just said 'Hello!'.

It was irreverent, and totally silly, and I loved it. =D

Oops. Forgot to post in here.

My name on the TOR forums is 'Terracus', and has been for some time.

A few of us are also in an Old Republic IRC most days, too.

AbraCadaver wrote:

Garu wrote:

  Pity I didn't hold on to some. XD

I might know someone who still has a few.

No! Bad!

cloudwolf wrote:

A learning experience like no other. Internationalism, internet skillz, philosophical encouragement, a sense of community, personal confidence and friends for life.

This. So definitely this.

ManicV wrote:

Zeac wrote:

dam nmanicV you ignore more than half of vector and almost all major pvpers

Heh, I didn't see any particular reason to give anyone a fair shake.  If you aren't on my ignore list, chances are we've either met on good terms, or we've never spoken at all.

Orezoen was on that list. He was good guy.

Oh well, I wasn't. So I'll get over it. <3

Dulux wrote:

I also really liked Noma, it was a shame when she went to get deleted

>_>

<_<

Not that I was playing the System Resource program that deleted her or anything. Gotta say, though, that event was fun. Getting flak from all the Mervs and being entirely indifferent to their grief was liberating for a Cypherite Liaison.

No, wait... It was the same. But without me giving smartarse quips.

I'm trawling through my Photobucket account, and finding some absolute gems along the way. For now, I'll just post this (with a view to posting more at a later date), my first experience of a Live Event in the live game, after the faction and I moved to Input for timezone convenience. Crew chat makes me laugh.

Edit: Oh, wait. Just bleedin' wait. I forgot about this small, amazing little gem. I've lost the rest of the screenshot but I cropped his beauty. It probably made the game worth every penny in that one sentence, notwithstanding the following, intense fighting for my life.

I remember shooing pigeons in Sobra Shores with Orien.

I want to do that one last time. Bastard pigeons.

Trax wrote:

Not sure what these new breed of LESIG got, but back in 1.0 Rare refused to give us any spawn tools or any tools that would help our live events, he had to spawn them himself. If you LESIG 2.0-ers got spawn tools then you don't know your bleeding born!

We got them about 2 years after LESIG 2.0's inception. So we have hazy memories of being born, at least.

Cloudwolf, you utter legend.

For that, you retain your F, henceforth.

MxO-PhanthomZtryker wrote:

PBlade wrote:

There was a dude, I remember, I blocked in like the first 6 weeks of the game. He logged in again some time last year for like 4 minutes.

That guy was an arse.

*shakefist*

Neoteny wrote:

PBlade wrote:

Alphaea wrote:

Aw, thanks PBlade for putting up with my ridiculousness as Vira.  I had a great time going back and forth with you.

My memory is so terrible. Could you refresh me some incidents or your full name so I can remember. I feel awful that it's slipped my mind.

You were Vira, PBlade? Apparently I'm mistaken and misread a post Tranta was a cool cat, too.

Haha. Yeah, Vira was more awesome than me, it's true. Never fear.

And Alphaea, I think I remember some of those good times, good times indeed. I did do a lot of bickering during my tenure, though. It defined me, somewhat.

Once you Smash the Ground Hack, you can meet Morpheus in Neo's cave.

That's how I ended up going inactive; Neo's Cave.

Turned out he used TBs.

Oh, most definitely. I contributed the occasional article when I could, and proof-read as thoroughly as possible (often bumping heads with Rarebit over British/American English differences), but Toluca was absolutely the champion of the Sentinel project once the ball was rolling.

Without Toluca, I doubt a single issue would've got out the door.

I was Arcane. Then I became mxomod002. Then I kind of stopped being involved in MxO beyond LESIG, so the account was eventually closed by Virrago. As it should've been.

Alphaea wrote:

Aw, thanks PBlade for putting up with my ridiculousness as Vira.  I had a great time going back and forth with you.

My memory is so terrible. Could you refresh me some incidents or your full name so I can remember. I feel awful that it's slipped my mind.

Well hah. Seems Dragonram's problems were with the Credit Card, not with the subscription service. So yeah. He's back now. So I think you have until the end of the day.

Well that certainly is something.

Thanks, Virrago.

Not without Nioba and Merpud.

Villemar_MxO wrote:

Peter Chimaera wins.

He would, if it wasn't Matrix tricks.

Oops. Just realised I might have overdone the 500 character limit a bit. My apologies, I didn't read Raijinn's rubric.

>_>

FAOrien wrote:

- Not necessarliy an ingame memory, but Pblade introducing me to various Photoshop techniques.

Glad I had an impact.

As for me... how to catalogue such a whirlwind, topsy-turvy experience as MxO? I can still remember stepping out of that first Hardline back in the beginning of 2005, towards the end of the public BETA. I was in Eshean, and my Graphics Card stunk. It was nighttime, so the floor wasn't visible in about a 50 foot radius around me, and I had gray hair and white features.

Many months later, during live, when I was roughly level 35, I got my new Graphics Card, and found out I was a black guy with Sandy hair and some weird-as-hell facial tattoos. Naturally, it was a shock. But nevertheless; that was what PBlade was to the Matrix world, and that's how he stayed. The only change I've ever made was to give him Brown hair when the RSI pills came out.

PBlade was never the most ingenious name, nor did it have any backstory to it; you couldn't expect much from a 15 year old High School student approaching his GCSEs. But PBlade was his, and he's mine now, even if he's a little underused of late. He's my character, and although I've nearly abandoned the moniker in my online life, he will always be the first online name I had in the first MMO I ever played. I adore that funny looking b*stard.

I remember the End of BETA. I wasn't able to stay up until the very end--I had school, I think--but what I did experience was my second true taste of what MxO Events were capable of (the night before, the Assassin took a shot at Morpheus. It was a bit of a clusterf*ck, but the feeling of excitement made up for it). The EoB, though, was a rollercoaster of excitement and a coy promise at what could be when the game went Live. There was fighting, drama, system messages; people were fighting for their lives as they were called out by the system to be destroyed. I've had some good events in MxO during my time and, whilst I don't want to be flying the BETA flag, I don't think I've had a better time than that event.

More than the event itself, though, and the furore everybody experienced, I remember my faction. Sadly now, a shell of its former self, when I first joined The Children of Zion, I joined a fraternity of some of the most absolutely amazing people I'd ever had, and ever will, have the priviledge of meeting. There was the laid back Baku, Faction Leader and an exceptionally good man. LostProphet took up the spiritual seat of Second in Command, and found himself dealing with a lot of the Administrative tasks that a MxO faction accrued. He seemed to enjoy it, though. To this day, I'm glad I can call him a friend, too.

There were so many others... SoftKopy, Corbinator, PaPPy, TwiXX. All people who have more common sense in them than I still do in my little finger. A finer bunch of people I could never have asked for in faction mates. It was the death of CoZ, more than any development issue for me that signalled the end of MxO.

I could talk about events, and scenarios in MxO that shaped and formed the experience in detail, but I'd take up far, far too much time. I've already mentioned LESIG in the LESIG thread; they know strongly I respect and thank them. The Vector PET was a time of my Vector Experience I'll never forget. When somebody told me after an event they thought that LESIG had performed it, I couldn't have been happier. There were MxO Live Events, PET Events, LESIG Events, and Rarebit Events, all of which I can say I'm proud to have been a part of. Perhaps I'll elaborate on them another time.

Interesting to note is that, whilst I fell away from MxO a lot, I never unsubscribed. for 4 years now, I've maintained a subscription. For whatever reason, I found it impossible to part with the game. And now we all find ourselves with no longer having a choice--the fundamental facet on which the ethos of the Matrix was built has been taken away, and MxO faces oblivion. I have no choice but to quit now, with the rug gone from under my feet.

But I will remember what MxO was to me; more than just a game, I suppose it was a learning and growing experience for a young 15 year old chump who didn't know much about the internet or life. Now I'm a 20 year old chump in University who, thanks to the people I've met, things I've seen and been made to think about, and the friends I've made in this game, can say he's done more than 5 years worth of learning and growing up whilst he's been around.

Let's have some fun in the final 2 months, and remember what MxO was and should've always been.

exsuscito wrote:

Yasamuu wrote:

I only resubbed to troll the forums ;D

This will bring a bit of edge to the PvP!

Haha, me three.  Fear my /fanaticallycorrectasitcanbegrammar 2.0.

Ah. A man after my own heart.

Wait... A man whom is after my own heart? A man whom my own heart is after? A man to whom my heart is akin.

Oh. Oh no...

The Children of Zion: Still doing stuff for a bit.

Weather's still cloudless and blisteringly hot.

Roll on the BBBQ (The extra B is for BYOBB)

I would say 100, if it's not too much trouble for you. But if you think that's too much, just go until you get tired.

Oh, and .rar them if you want; save's your posting 100 shots in this thread.

ArchDuke wrote:

You were also one of the very few in MxO that could successfully rock out the face tatoos.  Just sayin'.

Careful who else goes in that list.