Fare thee well, City of Heroes
Reposted, word for word, from Oct 16, 2008:
The ol’ City of Heroes account has expired. Sadly, I was generally having more fun on the forums than I was in the game, so I decided to cancel and save myself the $15/month for booze and hookers.
There’s only so much you can expect from a game, and it served me for over three years, so I have no ire!
So: A shout out to all your CoH or V players out there, whether you’re still playing or stopped! I’m gonna do a Quittin’ Sale!
Anyone commissioning me who played the game gets a discount! You don’t even have to get a commission of your CoH character! Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Tell the Freedom Phalanx!
*edit*
Also, for those who have become accustomed to interacting with me on a comic-based forum, may I suggest Comics Haven for all your comic-related forum-chatting needs!
Hilarious, huh? I wonder how long I’ll stay away this time!
Maybe I will do another quitting sale…
I am back at work after a two week hiatus and it is honestly the strangest thing ever. I am actually feeling all introspective and philosophical about the entire concept of working for a living.
I mean, what’s that about? What kind of crazy post-industrial world do we live in? There’s over a hundred people in my building in a company of over 16 000 people and somehow the company makes enough money to pay us all, despite not actually producing tangible goods.
The strangeness of everyday life.
So this is actual vacation stuff from my vacation which ended with a stunning five hour delay of our plane causing us to not get home until about 5am.
Whooo!.
This is the five taco plate from South Beach Bar & Grill. They had half-price appetizers during happy hour, so this cost about $5.
We went out for Thai food one night. These are, Thai curry, something called a Pineapple Crater (or something. It was fried rice.) and some glass noodle Pad Thai.
More pics are in my vacation gallery on Facebook.
Here’s some stuff I’ve seen in my journies…
Awesome. They made a Mouse Guard toy set. So cute:
In the videogame section, Futureshop now sells this:
You know, this looked more appetizing when we were actually at Smoke’s Poutinerie… Oh well, it was still delish!
Here’s the view from the 68th floor of BMO’s tower at First Canadian Place:
Today is Election Day in Canada! Get out there and cast a ballot!
…if you’re legal. Which I am. So I did.
Go democracy!
I had a great time. As seen below, I got to try out Champions Online and chat pretty extensively with the lead developer.
I also got to meet perhaps my favourite artist ever, Adam Hughes. He seemed kind of shy, and I unfortunately arrived as he was being interviewed, so I didn’t really get to speak to him. However, his lovely fellow artist and girlfriend Allison Sohn was pretty wonderful, and they both remembered my ridiculous “Baroness in a Nun’s Habit” photoshopping of Adam’s rejected GI Joe cover.
On top of that, I got to see Alex Maleev again, and got a couple more signatures, though sadly I was too late to get a sketchbook, and too poor to get a custom sketch.
There was no sign of Alex Ross, whom I suppose had a private room or something, but I did manage to find Stuart Immonen, who was the artist on my favourite book ever, Superman: Secret Identity. Apparently, he no longer sketches at cons, which is sad, because I’d have loved to have had one, but I did buy a copy of his book “50 Reasons to Stop Sketching at Conventions”, which seemed ironic. He inscribed it, “I’m no fun”, and it makes me laugh.
Worth $25? Yup. I still don’t know how people spend three days at these things, though.
The Eyes of Justice forum is down due to domain expiry. It should come back in a little while once we’ve gone through the usual rigmarole. Fear not!
In other news, I’m suffering from a little carpal tunnel, which is annoying. I’m trying to do exercises to work my way through it.
Also, on the comic review front, I had two very light weeks (I bought maybe two books), and didn’t really feel they needed a review so I skipped it. Horrifying!
Normal service will resume shortly.
I’m in Calgary right now, doing some work. This is horrible for a few reasons:
1) I can’t play with the Spore creature creator because this laptop is crap.
2) I can’t play Age of Conan, so I’m going to be totally outlevelled.
3) I can’t buy new comics today.
On the plus side, it’s actually quite nice here, and I’m getting sleep without Munchie jumping on my face every morning, and I have been able to do a little work on commissions since I have Photoshop on this computer.
Maybe I’ll upload a work in progress later…
