Oh yes. Yes, she did.

*ducks macros/mass sporking*

Hah! Of course you do - he does demand payment, afterall.


I agree, I enjoy it as well. I would, however, run very quickly away from his "office."

Ah, thank you! I'm glad to know I wasn't being completely oblivious.

I have to say, when I saw the message I was caught between going "lulz" and "oh god, I would not want to be called into Pes' office."  I feel sort of bad for the mods at this point  

Is the "All staff to my office immediately" new, or have I just been blind for awhile?

ETA: the above message appears on the ISA homepage when I attempt to log in - clarification ftw.

  I agree with you. That was sort of my line of reasoning, too. And even if he (momentarily subscribing to conspiracies here) was handed the backup, I doubt he'd have the knowledge as to how to implement it on a new host - although I suppose his 'professional server team' might stand a chance, assuming they weren't the ones who royally messed up the viewing permissions of the current InSIM forum.

Even if Walt did have the sense to back up the database and subscribe to a new host (or whatever exactly happened, I fail at technical talk), would the events of the last few days not at least be some food for thought to him? I understand this is assuming the man has any sense at all - but if I were idiotic enough to attempt to buy a community with the sole intention to profit from it, I would still be at least a little disturbed at all the opposition occurring. Said opposition could very well bombard the new site, right? I understand that he wouldn't have the same admins/mods, but I still think a wave of indignant and pissed off creators/members would definitely have some effect. I also think that if he attempted to sell or even simply host user-created content against the will of the creators, he would encounter a hell of a lot of outrage and protest.

Is all of this really worth it? If he's competent enough to know about TSR, surely he's capable enough to realize that InSIM is just not the same ... since it has never been pay (aside from the near mandatory donation drives), people won't accept it being made a pay site, especially with free artists' content. I just don't think the money to be made in this situation is incentive enough to combat all of the opposition ... but I guess this is just my own skewed view of it.

ETA: Ninja'd by Calalily, who said everything much better than I did.

Sure thing! Give me just one sec to make the screenshots decent.

EDIT: Screenz, we can haz!
EDIT 2: WOW, those are huge. Sorry about that! How about just links to the screens?

http://i34.tinypic.com/scyhap.jpg

http://i37.tinypic.com/rmigqd.jpg

http://i34.tinypic.com/fcikqf.jpg

My favorite is debbycus' comment 

This might have been mentioned earlier in the thread (it's quite likely it has been, actually, but I can't find specific posts for it), but has everyone seen the comments left on Walt's guest book? They are full of lulz 

Ah, that's great! Thank you.

No problem - I tend to save copies of webpages just in case they disappear. An odd habit, I know, but it's served me well today

Thanks! I figured it was better than "Untitled Folder" 


Well, I can't get in right now either. These are pages I saved from earlier in the day ... and I honestly have no idea why I get in sometimes. Just dumb luck, I guess. 

Aw, thank you! *blush*

I'm glad you decided with 'heartless' - I have no idea what kind of nick I would have used if dollface were taken

Also, I edited my original post - I found two more webpages (K&E's new sig, and the Anti-Walt poster), and added them to the InSIM Burning archive.

This is the link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?qmh4o2m12jm

  LOL! It's no problem - I know when I couldn't get into the site earlier, the thought of all the posts I was missing nearly drove me crazy.

Sorry this is so late! I got offline shortly after I commented  

In this zip are the following threads: Paden's goodbye post + responses, the Q&A thread + today's replies, Mcrudd's leaving post + responses, Devilfish's explanation of the burning to the 12s, and Synaptic Sim's profile page - another explanation to the 12s.

These are all the pages I had on hand, and I'll go back in to get more if you guys would like.

ETA: I fail! I also have the Anti-Walt poster thread and pictures of the edited posts by K&E featuring their new sig. I added these to the folder mentioned above - if you would like a download of only these two threads, let me know.

New link: http://www.mediafire.com/?qmh4o2m12jm

  Well, it was nice while it lasted. Now I'm unable to access various other sections of the forum in addition to the rebel thread.

I would be more than happy to grab pages/screenshots, though, if someone has a request and I can access the page.

You're very welcome 

Also, the only thread giving me database errors is VIVA LA REVOLUCION! - so far, everything else I've checked works fine.