Well, this ENDS with him surrendering his sword to me. At the moment, however, he needs to hold onto that sword until morning so that he can surrender it. The sword itself is ceremonial anyway, it would be pointless to take anything. What's he gonna do with it? Burn down the site? That's kinda already happening. Ban me? I'll take that as a refusal. It makes no difference what he does, his only real option is to capitulate.

Waitwut? I don't think that's what was being implied here. I think she was referring to people who absolutely NEEEEEED Insim and will not accept any substitute unless it's practically the same. That's how I read it anyway.

I understand that most people may not see it this way, but it isn't their glory. EA put the codes into the game, they made the object that InSIM uses, it was never theirs. The only thing he/they did was put it all in one place, and make it so that you don't have to put in the testingcheats thing.  By all means, if it is the consensus of everyone who will be at the new site, that they don't want it then it shouldn't be there. I am sure if it does get left behind to rot, someone out there will make something similar enough to keep the 12's happy. 

Well, we still gotta pay for a server, Walt or no Walt. We can buy Walt's server, At Cost, relieving him of the burden and saving the effort of unpacking, or go through a lot of extra bother to repack about 100 GBs of crap. Incidentally, Walt will not be receiving the donations. I will appoint someone to screen those donations to make sure that the taps do not overflow, *AND* to cut the lines once the goal is reached. Just like on MATY, where we stopped accepting donations once the goal was met.

Walt will have to retrieve his ACTUAL money from Kathy. Given that server bills are normally paid monthly, it is quite likely we have sufficient funds to cover this immediately and he can be gone faster than the door can hit him in the ass. And I'm not a patient man, so if he drags his feet, he'll be left holding a server that will run at a loss AND probably get no donations because his inept server management is incapable of keeping the site up long enough for anyone to WANT to donate. Relieving him of his duties can only work out for him.

Of course, the offer is quite bad, from his point of view. He will refuse, and we will go ahead with the original plan anyway. But it's like I always say: "Try diplomacy, you can always invade them later."

Look, the only reason I'm even CONSIDERING the possibility of keeping it is because I know the peasants would like a minimum of change. Therefore, either someone volunteers to pay for it BEFORE we get it up and running, or by the time the issue comes up, I'll have hucked it. Are you volunteering? An owned license for both sites will cost us $360, because those shysters raised prices. There are several different currencies, so you may be able to get a more favorable rate by conversion. I, personally, would rather eat my own offspring than pay that, and if this were just entirely about me, this issue would not even be debated. Are you volunteering to pay the equivalent of 2-3 months worth of server bills for THAT?

In unrelated news, we will most likely be ditching vB unless I see about about $400 land on my doorstep for specifically this purpose. I took one look at vB and my immediate thought was RUN, DO NOT WALK. They want $360 or $200 a year! For NOTHING! This is outrageous!

Wait, wait, you need a REASON to treat people like crap? I mean, look at me! I don't treat people like crap because I'm a free creator. I treat people like crap because I'm a jerk! Who needs fancy, convoluted reasons when common jackassery is all that is required?

If you come from insim thedom, please stay.