Fan loyalties aside, which of the two hero games left is worth looking at more? Champions Online, or DC?
If we set up another group on one of them, like I said before, I'll be there. With Sunspot, and Silhouette, and all my other characters, in one incarnation or another.
I'm sorting through how I feel still, and I keep coming back to a letter a bunch of us got from a long-time gamer at that time. Storm Angyl was an SG leader, and a dear friend to a lot of us on Protector server. She always had time for us, and always made us feel like the massive difficulties of learning the ropes were not so difficult.
Storm Angyl also had a real-world secret: She had cancer. It was borderline-operable, but there was a chance she wouldn't make it. So she wrote a letter, to be released to all of us, if the unthinkable happened.
I've had that letter for several years now, and I think it sums up how I feel about the game the most. So I'm going to post it here.
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Hello my
dear friends.
If my
brother is sending u this its because the worst has happened and i have lost a
fight for the first time in my life.
What a
crappy fight to lose eh? Oh well I guess I cant win em all. Dammit.
Theres so
many things I still wanted to do in life. So many people iI wanted to meet. I
realize now how silly I was to have put up so many walls in my life. It has
made me lose out on many experiences that I never knew that could have been
good, instead of bad like I thought they would be.
I do
regret terribly not meeting any of you. I wish I had won the lottery and then
come out to visit each and every one of you, no matter where you are. Hindsight
is always 20/20 they say and i guess they are right.
Instead
of dwelling on what could have been Id like to say this : I loved every minute
of my time with all of you over the past year. I wouldn’t have traded it for
anything. You all mean so much to me.
In RL I
have friends sure but not like you guys. Somehow you all were different. I cant
explain it. Anytime I had troubles in RL - and most of u know what they were -
I could always log into CoH and find any one of you and things would get better
fast. Not sure how and not sure why but I gave up trying to figure it out and
just accepted it. I have come to love you guys like any other friends Ive ever
had. Even the few of you that I met in the latter half of my CoH adventures.
Enough
squishy stuff. Not fitting for a tank
On a more
serious note, Id like to impart some words upon you all. Im sure you've heard
them before but Im gonna say them anyways.
Stop.
Take time
to look around you.
See the
people in your life and what they mean to you. Call them more. See them more.
Tell your loved ones how you feel about them.
Yes they
may know you love them but everyone needs to hear it more.
Do things
in your life that you want to do. Make time to make yourself happy. remeber
that life is what happens while you sit and wait for things to happen.
Remeber
that only you have the power to make yourself truly happy in life. (and only
you can prevent forest fires but that’s something else Okay okay. Had to have a
little humor there
I will
leave you now with this final thought. Please take care of yourselves and know
that I have missed you all very much these last few weeks. Im sorry I couldnt
win this one but please believe I tried my very hardest.
I will
see you all again one day in Heaven but you all had better keep me waiting a
long long time . Besides, it may take me a bit to work my way up there.
I love
you all very much,
Heather
(Angel) Hoffman
---
Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.
If we set up another group on one of them, like I said before, I'll be there. With Sunspot, and Silhouette, and all my other characters, in one incarnation or another.
I'm sorting through how I feel still, and I keep coming back to a letter a bunch of us got from a long-time gamer at that time. Storm Angyl was an SG leader, and a dear friend to a lot of us on Protector server. She always had time for us, and always made us feel like the massive difficulties of learning the ropes were not so difficult.
Storm Angyl also had a real-world secret: She had cancer. It was borderline-operable, but there was a chance she wouldn't make it. So she wrote a letter, to be released to all of us, if the unthinkable happened.
I've had that letter for several years now, and I think it sums up how I feel about the game the most. So I'm going to post it here.
===============
Hello my
dear friends.
If my
brother is sending u this its because the worst has happened and i have lost a
fight for the first time in my life.
What a
crappy fight to lose eh? Oh well I guess I cant win em all. Dammit.
Theres so
many things I still wanted to do in life. So many people iI wanted to meet. I
realize now how silly I was to have put up so many walls in my life. It has
made me lose out on many experiences that I never knew that could have been
good, instead of bad like I thought they would be.
I do
regret terribly not meeting any of you. I wish I had won the lottery and then
come out to visit each and every one of you, no matter where you are. Hindsight
is always 20/20 they say and i guess they are right.
Instead
of dwelling on what could have been Id like to say this : I loved every minute
of my time with all of you over the past year. I wouldn’t have traded it for
anything. You all mean so much to me.
In RL I
have friends sure but not like you guys. Somehow you all were different. I cant
explain it. Anytime I had troubles in RL - and most of u know what they were -
I could always log into CoH and find any one of you and things would get better
fast. Not sure how and not sure why but I gave up trying to figure it out and
just accepted it. I have come to love you guys like any other friends Ive ever
had. Even the few of you that I met in the latter half of my CoH adventures.
Enough
squishy stuff. Not fitting for a tank
On a more
serious note, Id like to impart some words upon you all. Im sure you've heard
them before but Im gonna say them anyways.
Stop.
Take time
to look around you.
See the
people in your life and what they mean to you. Call them more. See them more.
Tell your loved ones how you feel about them.
Yes they
may know you love them but everyone needs to hear it more.
Do things
in your life that you want to do. Make time to make yourself happy. remeber
that life is what happens while you sit and wait for things to happen.
Remeber
that only you have the power to make yourself truly happy in life. (and only
you can prevent forest fires but that’s something else Okay okay. Had to have a
little humor there
I will
leave you now with this final thought. Please take care of yourselves and know
that I have missed you all very much these last few weeks. Im sorry I couldnt
win this one but please believe I tried my very hardest.
I will
see you all again one day in Heaven but you all had better keep me waiting a
long long time . Besides, it may take me a bit to work my way up there.
I love
you all very much,
Heather
(Angel) Hoffman
---
Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.