See You Soon Party Chat Log of Parizad's messages Note: Times are in EA-Land time Title [Time][Video Position]Speaker: Message Blazing Fall/Blazing Balls [7:46 a.m.][0:34:50]Parizad: A few years ago, we came up with a new(indistinguishable) for the servers. We being of course (my partners) and I. And the reason we did this is because anyone can get a message at 6 a.m. that says, "Hey! Blazing Falls is offline, please help us, ASAP!" But it's so much more amusing to send someone a message at 6 a.m. that says, "Help! Blazing Balls is not coming back on!" Then, they can be like, "WTF, are you on something?" And you can say "No, I work for EA on TSO." And it just makes it so much more amusing. And if there's ever a time that I can make people chuckle, then I've done my job for that day. And I hope that story didn't offend anyone. Creativeness [9:50 p.m.][1:45:14][Parizad: My first five minutes in TSO. This was during beta in 2002. I think it was September or October I’m not sure. I logged in, and there was this girl with that cute fairy outfit on. You know, the white and silver one? She was at a piñata, and she kept hitting her own head and going, “Owww!” I thought it was the funniest thing. I sat at my computer and I did not get back up until dawn the next day when I had to go to work. I should have known then that six years later we would have to shut off the servers and pry my fingers off the keyboard before I left this game, because it became addicting from day one. There are so many things here that are so funny. The games that you guys have made are so wonderfully creative. This… this game, this TSO, it would have been nothing, absolutely nothing without your creativeness. You guys are the best! Pineapple [5:26 p.m.][3:23:12]Parizad: One of our insider jokes on the TSO team was “Pineapple”. Let me explain. A few years ago, one of our players told another player to go… uhh… make love to herself with the rough end of a pineapple, and I’m cleaning it up of course. Now mind you, it was very well deserved; that other person was a complete jerk when they were told this. So after that, when one of us said something extra funny, other people would say “Pineapple” and we knew exactly what it meant. When TSO moved from EA Mythic, I came with it. On my very first day, I went to my cube. And Randy, our very own Maxis Randy, he had left a pineapple on my desk. On it was a note that said, “Welcome to EA”. I laughed so hard. I’m truly going to miss you guys, and I’m going to miss everyone I work with. We had tons of good times. Not just us the dev team, but us and you guys, and you guys doing all the stuff that made us laugh. You’re truly wonderful. Purple Hair [1:16 a.m.][4:02:24]Parizad: Years ago, before I started working for TSO… no, no… before I suckered EA into paying me, haha suckers! I was working for a government agency, and I’m not going to say where or which one. They were so very much opposite of what I am, of what my sense of humor is; I have no idea what I was doing there you guys. Thank god for TSO; it saved me. I love that long hair. You know, that long hair that women have in TSO where it’s either blonde, black or purple? I loved it so much I got my hair dyed purple just for that, and I went into work. You should have seen their faces. To this day, it is hilarious. One woman marched into the director’s office, and was telling her that I had to put on a wig, and blah blah blah, how unseemly it was. Hoy… and the director was like, “So what? Parizad doesn’t have any contact with the outside people.” And that’s kind of true to this day… Why is it that I get jobs where people lock me up in my cube? Hah… I think I have some thinking to do. Words from Parizad [3:58 p.m.][5:15:54]Parizad: Hey guys, thank you so very, very, very much for playing this game and for being such wonderful people. Oh except for those people who are jerks and you know who you are. Well, okay I’m a… jerk. But back to the moment. I so much have enjoyed meeting all of you and hearing about your lives, and your children, and your friends. All of you are incredibly fantastic, fascinating, just such wonderful people. And I truly, truly… heh, I’m getting all choked up, I truly, truly am so grateful that I had a chance to work on this game and to meet the people that I did. I really did mean it on the blog when I said it was a See You Later party. I do hope that we all cross paths again someday. And, just… thank you, from the bottom of our hearts. Thank you so very much for playing this game and for sharing your own wonderful selves with us.