@Livia I was only around on and off as things were kicking off, but there's one thing I noticed that was pretty awesome: a lot of the moving parts fit together well in ways I haven't typically seen elsewhere, and that means that things we'd typically consider to be smaller actions fed the greater whole in cause and effect chains that have been impressive as hell to watch unravel. It also means that none of those actions are unimportant to the story, which makes them not small at all.
Also, people have been trying off the wall, wacky, truly horror movie stuff. There are super-flashlight 'proton packs'! Disco balls as force multipliers! Fort Starbucks. Truly zany things in the vein of "so crazy it just might work". Sometimes it works, sometimes it explodes (literally or figuratively). That has been a lot of fun, and I say this as one of the people who actually exploded.
I had fun exploding, MSB.
I wish I could find a way to make that show up in gigantic letters, I really do.
I was one of the folks who wasn't even awake RL when people exploded, let alone in the scene. I want people to reflect on this for a moment in all seriousness: if this happened on most games, we would be thirty pages into screaming about it by now.
Instead, the people who exploded while offline are cheering and happy and excited about it as players.
Just let that sink in.
Hello, sea change.