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[PA Comic] Monday, October 1, 2012 - Gyroism
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Wrong spelling and country to be referring to benefit cheques.
I'm guessing he's talking about the food? Which seems to be what in Britain we would just call a kebab.
In relation to the food, do you pronounce it rhyme with 'Hero' then?
April 27, 2004 - November 30, 2012
RIP Paragon Studios
November 2007 - August 31, 2012
I've been playing City of Heroes (still do) for almost 7 years now, since approximately the release of the Issue 4 update (May of 2005). It sounds really stupid to some people, but losing the game is like losing your favorite place to hang out, and losing some of your best friends. I cried, I'll admit it.
There's been an effort to do something to stop it, but it's inevitable. Several community members are trying to get NCSoft to sell the IP or the game to another company, or the remains of Paragon Studios, but from their silence it's pretty obvious that they'll refuse and will let the IP mothball as they've done with Auto Assault and Tabula Rasa.
From what we've been told by staff, there was no indication that this would happen. The team at Paragon Studios showed up to work on August 30, and were terminated by NCSoft. No warning, nothing. In fact, the latest major content update (Issue 24) is playable on the beta server, and was probably only 2 or 3 weeks from being released. The day they were let go the art team had gotten art for Issue 28 finished and approved, and preliminary stuff was being done up until Issue 32. Issues typically came in 2-4 month intervals. I'll let you work out the math on this one. (DISCLAIMER: Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Going off reports from staff on the forums and Twitter)
I don't know what I'll do afterwards. Some are moving to The Secret World, but my computer barely plays it. I started playing DC Universe Online, but the character creation and costume system is garbage. All my friends play Guild Wars 2, and I really want to play it, but I just don't want to support the publisher after the way they treated Paragon. One day I'll probably get over it and buy it.
The game doesn't shut down until 12:00 AM PST on November 30, so if you have an active account, or used to play, log in and say goodbye with us.
(I had been hoping that Tycho would at least mention it in a newspost; I didn't expect a full comic. Sorry if this seems a little melodramatic.)
http://www.zeldawiki.org/Groose
and wait... It's not pronounced Ji(long I)-ro? (you know, like gyroscope)
... My, what a boring Signature.
....I'm sorry, I forgot what we were talking about.
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I don't know what a Giro is that you linked to, but here's the wikipedia page for gyro (with pronunciations!): gyro
And wait, Brits don't call these kababs?!
Not so! We actually have kebabs (and call them kebabs) too. A Gyro's a little different. It's a Greek roasted spiced lamb mixture. Tastes a little different than grilled kebab meat, though it's sort of tough to describe. Usually it's served on a pita, with lettuce, tomato, onion, and feta cheese, and is heavenly. Souvlaki's a little more like what you'd call a kabob.
The original C-Bot:
And thank you, Mr. Douglas Schuler (wherever you are), for being awesome enough to render ALL of Lone STAR:
(spoilered for size)
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
It's pronounced that way in New England....
Yeeecherrrrroo.
Where the ch is a very, very faint sound like in channuka, and the r rolls.
Which is just one of the reasons why DC Universe has failed to replace CoH in our hearts.
Because frankly the DC Universe character generator sucks when compared to the CoH one. Quite possibly it even sucks compared to the "first launch" CoH character creator.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Woops! Obviously copied the wrong link there.
We call them Doner Kebabs, but usually it just gets shortened to kebab. We call stuff on skewers kebabs as well, the point being that the Doner (Gyro) meat was also on a skewer! Just a big metal one and only whilst being cooked.
Fun to see that Gyro and Doner Kebab both have separate wiki pages despite being the same thing with a different name!
Champions Online honestly felt in some ways like a bad copy of CoH... to me at least. Not to mention it played basically like Star Trek Online, but with full focus on ground combat (though better than STO, at least until STO got that re-do of ground combat). It's just not a winning recipe. Of course, I played far more STO than most folks alive, but that's more because I'm a massive Trekkie. Even after a few years of improvement, STO is at best only OK.
Still, the point is simple: Champions Online is absolute crap compared to City of Heroes. Part of me wishes I could do one last Hammy raid.
"I went to Card Kingdom to get a copy of Android: Netrunner, and I was not able to because the game no longer exists outside of people’s collections and the occasional overlooked shop."
But... Tycho. The game that no longer exists is called Netrunner.
ANDROID: Netrunner most assuredly does exist, and was just released by Fantasy Flight Games and is a remake of your beloved Netrunner.
And for lovers of Warhammer 40K the card game, that, too, has an interesting companion remake, by Fantasy Flight Games again, as well.
Both of these products in easier to consume non-booster pack format...
By some, but not all. I'm a Masshole, and I pronounce it "yeero" or, if I'm feeling lazier, "hero."
I think that shadowbane had potential for a come back but only as a new standalone sequel..
Only I moved to Canada and here they're called Donair Kebabs. MAAAAADNESS!
You can find information about the campaign here, and the petition is here. There's a rather impressive rallying cry on Youtube here.
If anyone here played, used to play, loves the game, or just thinks that publishers should pull the plug on their products as a last resort (particularly when the game is profitable and subscriber numbers on the rise) not the first one, we'd be grateful for any support you could give.
A huge thank you for Penny Arcade for featuring City of Heroes, and to everyone who said such nice things about the game (and also kebabs) in this thread
It depends on where in Canada you are. They call them donairs on the east coast and gyros in Ontario. To confuse things further, there are lots of places in Toronto that list them as different dishes on their menu. Typically donairs are more Canadianized while gyros are more traditionally Greek, but this varies.
See, I've heard two distinct synonyms:
Hero
Gyro (like gyroscope)
Also used:
Sub
Hogie
What he meant is that it was sold out, because that game is super popular out here.