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Post by Linalin on Jun 14, 2005 14:40:31 GMT -5
Moderators -All board except Debates, Music, and Radio.
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Post by Eureka Seven on Feb 16, 2007 0:16:24 GMT -5
I can moderate for you. I would LOVE to help you out.
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Post by x179396828 on Dec 6, 2012 0:12:01 GMT -5
Fandral Staghelm led the charge, his son Valstann at his side. They had chosen the gorge so that their flanks would be protected against the unending flow of silithid. Shiromar was close behind the front line, casting spells as quickly as her energies would allow. They had fought their way to the mouth of the gorge, Fandral and Valstann accompanied by the most battle-hardened sentinels, keepers and priestesses, with the druids healing and casting exhaustively. It seemed that for every massive cluster of silithid that was destroyed hundreds more would take their place. So it had been for the past few days, since word of the silithid incursion had first arrived and Fandral had sounded the call to arms. The priestess Shiromar and her companions had all regained enough energy to call upon the grace of Elune simultaneously; they now watched as a blinding column of light obliterated the swarm blocking the gorge’s terminus. Then, a low buzzing sound filled the air. One by one, flying insect creatures–the winged Qiraji, flew over the lip of the gorge and down, striking at the druids in the supporting positions. Fandral led the front lines from the gorge into the open sands, stepping over the corpse-mounds of the silithid. The air was alive with the thrumming of the Qiraji as they swooped down and slashed with clawed appendages. Fandral pressed forward to allow the supporting ranks room to spread out. As she looked to a ridge in the distance, Shiromar witnessed swarms of land-bound Qiraji pouring over the crest like ants swarming from a hill. A towering monstrosity lumbered into view, swinging clawed limbs, looming over all, shouting commands to the insect soldiers.Among the chattering and droning of the swarms, one sound seemed to repeat in the presence of the commanding warrior: Rajaxx, Rajaxx… wow power leveling though Shiromar did not understand the Qiraji’s communications, she wondered if that might not be the creature’s name. As the next wave of Qiraji drew near, a great horn sounded: from the east and west, multitudes of night elves charged onto the field. With a blood-curdling cry Fandral and Valstann pressed straight into the heart of the oncoming swarm; the two sides clashed and melted into each other as the newly arrived forces crushed in on both flanks. Shooters are absolutely huge right now, but are they as huge as they used to be? Of course, we can’t go a year without seeing a Call of Duty release, and then there’s Medal of Honor, Battlefield, Spec Ops: The Line, Splinter Cell, Far Cry, Crysis, Gears of War, and about a million other shooters either recently released or about to launch. It’s safe to say that shooters are the most popular thing in the gaming industry right now. But, judging by past trends, it doesn’t look as though this will be the case for long.Every year, E3 shows us what the face of the industry looks like, and for the past several years that face had “SHOOTERS” written across its forehead. Last year, every company under the sun had a shooter they wanted to push. Alongside the mainstays like COD and Battlefield, we also saw things like Inversion, a shooter based on gravity mechanics, and Binary Domain, a shooter based on robots and team synergy. Go back even further and you’d see the same sort of atmosphere for the last three or so years, if not longer. However, this year was a little different.There were still loads of throwaway shooters, but they were actually a lot harder to find. And even the big boys have been falling out of the public spotlight as of late.
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