New efforts!

[CrimsonCapacitor]

Sure it is.  Many thin crust pizzas will fit under an interior door.

You misunderstood.  Not slipping pizza under the door.  Locking Codewalker and crew in a room until they reverse engineer the game.

Does anyone have a locking room or basement they're not using?  We can get the proper height door for pizza slippage later.

[Codewalker]

I think you are mistaken...the kidnapped guys LOCKED IN A CLOSET do not get a vote on what gets slipped under the door. You take what we give you and be happy for it.

Just remember that the quality of food directly influences the quality of the work produced.

[Brigadine]

Cold pizza is one thing (I'm still not sure the flavors are compatible), but with hot pizza, a cold drink is the only way to go. Beer, Coke, margarita... that kind of thing.

hmmmmm, nobody said I wouldn't feed my fellow nerd well... ;) Pizza with coke... got it.

[WildFire15]

Just remember that the quality of food directly influences the quality of the work produced.

What if we fed you on those tablets that provide you with all the required vitamins and nutrients you'd need? That tasked like Pizza?

[Triplash]

I think you are mistaken...the kidnapped guys LOCKED IN A CLOSET do not get a vote on what gets slipped under the door. You take what we give you and be happy for it.

"They wanted me to build them an MMO, so I took their coffee and pizza and in turn gave them a shiny MMO GUI full of used pinball machine code!"

[MWRuger]

https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.themarysue.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F05%2Fwill-smith-neuralizer.png

I believe I would be willing to do that if that is the way the game comes back.

[LaughingAlex]

Just remember that the quality of food directly influences the quality of the work produced.

Lets also not forget the alchohol!  People get angry and upset when they are not drunk!

[Arcana]

You misunderstood.  Not slipping pizza under the door.  Locking Codewalker and crew in a room until they reverse engineer the game.

That too is possible.  Although it can be hazardous.  The last time someone locked up a bunch of techies and forced them to invent something:

https://images.weserv.nl/?url=dumbbellsanddragons.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F05%2Fmarkone.jpg

And if you overhear anyone say Codewalker is on the jazz again, just run.

[Minotaur]

Just remember that the quality of food directly influences the quality of the work produced.

Look, you could probably get funded for the illegal drugs and escorts of your choice if you promised to produce the game, you might have to write the KS carefully so as not to infringe their guidelines.

[Golden Aurora]

I guess you had to be there.  Yes, I believe I23 CoH was in every important way superior to Issue 0.  But at the time the playerbase itself was totally ignorant.  Completely, utterly ignorant.  There was a time when Fire/Kin wasn't a thing, and literally no one really knew what it could do.  We didn't all burst out of head start running those things around.  It was AR/Dev blasters and Ice tankers.  Ice tankers, man.  When everything is new, everything seems completely different.  I remember debating the relative merits of running an all toggle-SR build verses perma-elude in I2.  Perma-elude.

Sure, most Gravity controllers looked the same because all you had was power-10 SOs to play with, but then again if you've never even *seen* a Singularity before, that's not a big concern (and the game didn't even launch with Singularities in the first place: those were added to the set after launch, so people who only knew the game from reading the manual literally had no idea what those things were when they first encountered them).

Put yourself at Issue zero, and then take away Mids, take away paragonwiki, take away all the guides.  No Arcana to tell you how the powers work; no TopDoc starting measurement threads; no BuffyASummers even listing what the powers are.  No patch notes besides what the devs happen to post, that you might not see.  No powerset debate threads because no one has played enough of them to even compare them.  No idea what pets do.  No idea how mez works.  No idea what attacks the critters have.  No real numbers.  No tohit rolls.  All you have are people like Snipefu and Pulsewave saying essentially "I recommend total focus because it stuns bosses, yo" and something called the "Brawl Index" that people are trying to make that has like twelve powers in it.  How much diversity is in the game?  More than you could possibly navigate through, and more than everyone you know could describe to you.  Enough to make every replay through the game something you've never played before, never seen before, and never even heard of before.

Here's one of my earliest memories of the game.  I'm on my main, aka the only character I've rolled up to this point.  I'm a level 11ish energy/energy blaster.  I'm jogging through Atlas when I happen across a blinking box on the ground surrounded by what appears to be a soap bubble.  I can target it.  I creep towards it.  It doesn't shoot at me.  I take a shot at it.  I miss, but it still doesn't shoot back.  So I decide to open up with everything I have, which is not much.  I shoot at it for what seems like five minutes, run completely out of endurance, and its still sitting there, blinking.  I shoot it, I punch it, I'm basically completely drained and yet it just plain ignores me and continues to sit there, blinking.  Eventually I just give up and move on.

A couple weeks later I'm a level 17 energy/energy blaster, fighting a new enemy called the Sky Raiders.  Oh.  So that's what I wasted ten minutes of my life on.  Someone's level 23 Sky Raider ambush left a present, and I spend ten minutes stalking and five minutes shooting at a completely worthless shield generator.  I *know* there were players that saw that and thought "why?"  'Cause duh, that's why.

For all that I loved how the game improved itself over time, and for all that I think the newer players had it so much better than we did who started basically from launch, there is a part of me that thinks those players missed out on something.  They missed out on coming across a shield generator, and not knowing what it was, not literally but metaphorically (I'm sure I'm not the only one that happened to).  That game fundamentally didn't exist past about I5 or so, when we all got not just too smart for that, but too smart to let anyone else fall for that.  Unless you played the game completely solo, never read the forums, never teamed with anyone, never read any in-game chat at all, and never read any of the outside information sources, then maybe.  Even then, you had to know that what you didn't know, lots of other people probably did.  There was a time when no one really knew anything, and what you were seeing was relatively novel.  That's a unique experience.

I remember those days fondly. If I had to choose an area to pick CoH at, it's a bit hard. I'd pick either i23, or right IMMEDIATELY before ED.
ED restricted a lot of builds and power choices in my opinion. Those were dark days before i9 and inventions came out.
Imagine if overnight you basically had half the damage, healing amount, resistances, def, and the rest that you did before.
Basically it rendered whatever builds you had before immediately invalid. I took a year break when that happened.

But I do remember just running around and trying to figure the game out early june 2004. I remember my first posi tf and getting steamrolled by the ruin mages and ghosts over and over.
Defeat Rollister and his Cadre... Those words are etched into my brain lol.
I remember the first time I entered talos and ran around the causeway which links it to skyway. All the mobs were purple and I was afraid.
I also remember the first time I went into Steel Canyon at lvl 8. I was trying to run around mobs for whatever reason and got completely creamed. A friend and I had to Hover our way back to atlas park.

What I would give to do it all over again. That's like that Samuraiko video that made me tear up from so long ago. So freaking true.

[LadyVamp]

What if we fed you on those tablets that provide you with all the required vitamins and nutrients you'd need? That tasked like Pizza?

You can get more with a kind word and hot pizza/cold cola or beer than you can with just cold tablets with all the vitamins and nutrients.  Of course, I'm sure they can be motivated more strongly with a weekly status update with my....urm....attractive project managers   ;)

[Dr. Bad Guy]

Just remember that the quality of food directly influences the quality of the work produced.

I have been a sous chef at a few fine dining establishments and currently have an old barn with a "clean" 200 amp service. And a couple of cattle prods.  Carrot or stick?

[Taceus Jiwede]

I'm still grossed out by Pizza and Coffee.  I didn't think two things I loved could ever sound so gross together.

[CrimsonCapacitor]

I'm still grossed out by Pizza and Coffee.  I didn't think two things I loved could ever sound so gross together.

Am I the only one now thinking that "Pizza and Coffee" would be a great group name, red-side?

[ivanhedgehog]

Am I the only one now thinking that "Pizza and Coffee" would be a great group name, red-side?

you just have to have a kin in that team

[Excidia]

I had no idea this was an option.

Ohhh...

Well crap.  I seem to have misread that. 

I thought we were to shove Codewalker under the door.  He didn't quite fit so I had to...
*sigh*
Let's not dwell on that part.

A little Bactine should clear things right up.

Could someone bring me a mop?
And a towel?

Ewwwww...maybe he could just rez at the hospital?

excidia

[Arcana]

I'm still grossed out by Pizza and Coffee.  I didn't think two things I loved could ever sound so gross together.

http://www.pizzacrustyeast.com/Detail.aspx?id=587b39a3-881a-420f-abcc-a33d465349b9

[GenericHero05]

Am I the only one now thinking that "Pizza and Coffee" would be a great group name, red-side?

That's what I've named my fists.  Sounds a little bit more intimidating than Cagney & Lacey... ...no it doesn't.

[Arcana]

That's what I've named my fists.  Sounds a little bit more intimidating than Cagney & Lacey... ...no it doesn't.

There's worse.  Or better.  Actually, I'm not sure which this is.

https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i.kinja-img.com%2Fgawker-media%2Fimage%2Fupload%2Fs--bJxk-AMv--%2Fc_scale%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_80%2Cw_800%2Fyjflp1gtkjwdorxiss0o.gif

[JoshexProxy]

Coffee with pizza? Eww. That's cruel and unusual right there.

The Pots to coffee, was a reference to the old Game Genie Coders suggestion for people who wanted to make their own memory region codes for the Game Genie Game Enhancer.

but actually pizzahut here in China sells various types of coffee to go with their pizza. 'Father Lorenzo's brand' espresso, cappuccino, american, and several others, it's really quite popular.