shitpost thread - fuck blackquill

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it's october 23rd 2018, you've logged onto the server, it's a tuesday and beer and burritos are going at rossis for 5 tokens a meal, it's an absolute bargain

the rations are reopened following the riots

cops are few and far between and dont give much of a shit what you do so long as it's not in the plaza

vlad lets you through the gate when you say please

inside rossis there is king troll, tan ti, rossi and huxley, there's engel and marcus and all the rest of the gang and you're there with your beer and burrito and there's a loud debate going on about vorts and eugenics and you sit there with your meal and watch

you don't yet know it, but this is probably the most content you will feel on helix
perfect interpretation of early helix ngl
 
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it's october 23rd 2018, you've logged onto the server, it's a tuesday and beer and burritos are going at rossis for 5 tokens a meal, it's an absolute bargain

the rations are reopened following the riots

cops are few and far between and dont give much of a shit what you do so long as it's not in the plaza

vlad lets you through the gate when you say please

inside rossis there is king troll, tan ti, rossi and huxley, there's engel and marcus and all the rest of the gang and you're there with your beer and burrito and there's a loud debate going on about vorts and eugenics and you sit there with your meal and watch

you don't yet know it, but this is probably the most content you will feel on helix
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you and the boys run off from the railyard after getting spotted by some smelly CWU- oh well, you'll break in next time

you go for some beer and smokes at rossi's

slithering past RB6, you laugh at all the small fry gangs running loose-they're not in on the real terror gang shit you're looking to pull

you and the boys finally settle on a name-you found inspiration from an old communist terror group. the inspiration in name is combined with the colour of your bluesuits

You go into Rossi's for some water. The cops and citizens playing DnD together pay you no attention and have no idea you were just out murdering a snitch with Engel
 
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perfect interpretation of early helix ngl
just haven't had the same satisfaction, always been bogged down in the politics of things since

borealis and republic were fun, but personally i didnt get as much as i liked out of them because of the balancing act you are responsible for when running a large event here, which is understandable but it makes me feel very tired

but the times when players moved things, back in those first few months, i loved that - i had no staff power, no one i worked with did, but i felt like we could still make big stories and stories that clearly still impact the server's culture today (baf, vlad, rossis, trolltown, etc.) as really strong artifacts of player agency that people still reference over a year later
 
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I'm glad a lot of you can look back fondly at all that stuff, and it's not that I dislike any of it

but I'm not gonna lie, I certainly can't after all that was said and done.

It may be water under the bridge by this point but you know how it goes.
 

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Vlad avoided the mass transfer of D47 and stands by the gate to this day
 
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but i felt like we could still make big stories and stories that clearly still impact the server's culture today (baf, vlad, rossis, trolltown, etc.) as really strong artifacts of player agency that people still reference over a year later
man, even just some heat of the moment IC shitpost talking about vort huff on a flopped broadcast caused such a sensation it was a large part of the athmosphere of Heavy Snow on the connie side

it's like all that has evaporated since city 8 has come and gone
 
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I'm glad a lot of you can look back fondly at all that stuff, and it's not that I dislike any of it

but I'm not gonna lie, I certainly can't after all that was said and done.

It may be water under the bridge by this point but you know how it goes.
why can’t you my friend?
 

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man, even just some heat of the moment IC shitpost talking about vort huff on a flopped broadcast caused such a sensation it was a large part of the athmosphere of Heavy Snow on the connie side

it's like all that has evaporated since city 8 has come and gone
reminder that vort huff was made by me as a purely ic shitpost with jimbo to annoy whoever was making that broadcast and purely came about from looking at some lewis poses of a vortigaunt healing a man
 
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Without digging too deep into it, I was quite disillusioned with people's behaviour around this time, mostly on the forums.

This was after we made the difficult decision of the wipe/revolution and all of that.
ah yes revolution

that was one hell of an event *SIIIP*
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Phone post

it's like all that has evaporated since city 8 has come and gone
Harsh truth: the ideas of an advanced resistance people want now are fundamentally incompatible with what made those early days so good and so memorable and even though it would be fully possible to return to if people chose it.

S2K wasn't an option, and guns were risky even if you had one. You had to make do, you had to take risks to get even basic weapons were valued and changed the game entirely. Nobody was interested in advancement that might impact them negatively (we famously turned down suits) and everyone was on the same plain at that point. The characters became memorable, as did the interactions, because nobody could just make the first move to quickly end a conflict without risk which left people time to grow.

Likewise, people were more willing to invest in CAB politics outside of the faction which lead to the Warrior of Xen forming and the Humanist supporters, aka the raging pussies, that opposed them.

It was good because nobody had anything. You couldn't segregate yourself off in a corner of the map, you had to get involved.
 
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long story short he used his near untouchable status (could openly post porn on the forums without getting banned, seriously that shit was on art of the week) to bully people

that's what i've been told