Interpretation for those who still don't understand:

WALTS ARE STUPID

Very stupid.  And Walts are definitely not smart enough to hatch grand conspiracy plans.

ETA: I love that macro, Marhis. 

DCA is only 'related' to all those high profile sites, and only through a particular search (of some kind) run by drborken.

And I'm willing to bet the only reason DCA is related to those sites is because DCA is now related to InSim, not because Walt is savvy enough to be doing business (Ha!*cough-ehem* excuse me) with those sites.

Edit to repair acronym, duh is me fingers.

I think you're finally catching on to the kind of "businessman" Walt really is, i.e., not much of one at all.  I bet InSim was the biggest deal he ever got into --and he promptly fucked himself right out of it.

Walt's primary investor in his business ventures is his mother.  I doubt Walt has "business people".

Drifting from current topics to random speculation...I'm wondering if K/E sold InSim because it was getting harder to milk the donations cow? There's no way to verify it, but I wouldn't be surprised, considering one of their most recent actions was to hold an updated InSim hostage, which seems pretty extreme.  

Also, FW post yay!

I doubt Walt has a back up. Right from the start he has come across as the type of incompetent who couldn't succeed in the real world, who turned to the internet because you don't have to deal with people face-to-face (which has probably failed for him all his life), it's often easier to con people online that in RL, and because it is ez 4 maik munnies on intertubes.

He thinks he's a business man. But the first thing he does is buy a website without understanding what the site is about. He failed to understand what fansites are for and about.  He comes stumbling into the site making proclamations of profiting on everybody else's labor with no clue of the likely reaction from his users.  He totally fails to understand that you keep your users happy, or you have no users.  He dismisses the reactions of his users.  He dismisses the suggestions of people who have been at this a lot longer than he has.  And he has no clue how to use the software associated with his own damned website.

Who really believes this guy knows how to make a back up?  Who believes he even thought he needed one?  He believed all he had to do was buy this already established site and watch the dollars roll in.  He really did believe he could simply, easily profit on several years of other people's work.  He's a lame, incompetent retard who had no idea what he was really getting into, and if he has a complete back up, I'll eat your pirate hat.

Pescado will never give us an ignore list.  It might lead to LESS FIGHT.

Link available in the Warplan Beige thread, http://phorum.mustnotbenamed.com/index.php/topic,2233.0.html

My morning update:
InSim.net seems completely borked, for me anyway; nothing there at all, not even a furry fox try again message. Just a big blank page. Is beautiful.
ISA clone is up.
J.M. Pescado winrar of all internets.
Walt still completely clueless.
Unwashed masses rejoicing. With rum.

What a lovely week this has been.  I'm cheering, fangirling and admiring everybody who has pulled the rug out from under ol' Walt. Rum for all!

I'm seriously tempted to email Walt and explain a few things to him in terms even an outsider can understand, because he's clearly not tasting the true bitterness of his defeat.  And he should.

Lesson #1 is fans (of anything) don't like outsiders shitting in their sandbox...

Cool. I read most of it, but then lost the site.  I wanna grab the rest of the macros  

Aw, and I was reading the Q&A about the future of the sites. *sigh*  Okay, I'll be good, but only in the name of requested deletions.

Is the Viva La Revolucion post still there, or has Walt figured out how to delete things?  'Cause he seemed like a total ignert who expected that the Staff would do all the real work while he sat around on his cash-pile (slave labor, anyone?)

Not the teleport I'm looking for.  The Simlogical is a great site, but the Teleporters substitute for the Summoner function on InSim.  The teleport function of InSim provides the meditation-skill teleportation for all sims, without having to learn the skill or be in meditation state--click a spot, choose teleport and the sim teleports to that spot.  Comes in really handy with toddlers trapped in a forest of legs and with kids loitering on the fourth floor while the school bus is honking outside. 

I've been thinking about it, and I believe the only InSiminator function I'd really miss (like I'd miss a lost leg, to be honest) is universal teleport.  If there is another hack that provides universal teleport, I'd love to know where to find it.

Otherwise, whatevah. There are plenty of other mods to handle InSim functions, and it's a piece of bloatware anyway.  

This guy dived head first into a situation (i.e., community) he didn't understand--and apparently, idiot that he is, didn't try to understand beforehand--and now he's whining because he's hit the bottom of the lake and found out that the fish are piranhas.

This is the lulziest shit I've seen on the internet since My Ponies Hate You.

Option 3 FTW.

Christ-on-a-jumped-up-motor-driven-crutch...

And I thought LiveJournal RPG was a seriously irritating, snide, sly, slimy, thoroughly infuriating bastion of nursed grievances, concealed grudges, nearly-intentional misunderstandings and childish temper tantrums...

But at least they were allowed to have it out. Most places would have locked the thread because most pussy moderators are afraid of confrontations. I say if you're willing to fight in public, the ref shouldn't say you can't.

*toasts the pirates*