TPH Forum
General => General => Topic started by: Lazlo Falconi on October 17, 2005, 01:31:23 am
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Well, I go on vacation, and over the weekend I've no access to a computer or anything, and what happens? GBA-Source is shut down. Not a word of warning or anything. Site's just gone. Kaput. All 2000+ posts of the Naru Club are gone. All 70000 members, shut out. That's a year of my life that I can't even look back on now, because the site's just gone! I used to think Cricket was cool, but this.. this is just unforgivable. How could he do something like this?
Let's just take a moment to remember what was, during it's height, one of the best forums of the internet.
Now, the question is, think you guys can handle some refugees?
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You bet we can. How many are we talking about?
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O'course we can handle some more people! Bring em' on!
Well, 70,000 at once is a bit much.... *envisions all the intro threads*
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That'll be awesome! We need more members anyways...
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I'll just invite some people whenever I see them on MSN (People who are not invited are Nexis, LeoNZ.? and [can't think of the other guy's name])
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Hey, if the refugees aren't asshats, then by all means SEND, SEND THEM ALL! No zombies please.
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Awesome. We're in need of new members anyways.
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If they're people like CJMerl and JV, then sure, bring em on!
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CJMerl is probably the weirdest person I've ever met.
Honestly. . . who RPs in every post?
edit: bring on the peeps and not the marshmallow kind. . . mmmmm peeps.
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But marshmallow peeps are yummy...
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Peaches, TPH is the perfect place for someone like CJmerl! Hell, I wouldn't mind RP'ing in every post, but that takes too damn long. Plus, Yami is awesome.
Great, now I'm thinking of marshmallow's.....
*remembers the giant Mr. Staypuffed from Ghostbusters*
*shivers in a corner*
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RPing sucks. =(
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*points up ala RCR* I think it's great fun! RP'ing fro t3h win!!
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Anyways, back to the subject of refugees. So, when are they coming?
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O_o
WTF!
IT GOT SHUT DOWN!?
I thought cricket said he was moving it to a new host! Damn... at its hight, I say it wasn't one of the best forums on the net, it WAS the BEST! Now its gone, I guess my imigration to this site is complet. I feel bad because that was the first message board I ever joined in which I became a big part of the community.RIP romsource/GBA-source may all your dreams be happy ones.
Oh and lazlo, do you mean G.O.D., or wyrmnite?
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G.O.D can come, but not Wyrm...
Anyway, it appears that Cricket isn't the reason (completely) for GBA-Source' demise. He says the site just exploded. Interesting. He's trying to get a backup, so maybe it will come back... Maybe.
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CJMErl: OK, first of all, I'm NOT that wierd...all the time...
Secondly, the site is back up (kind of), but since all the member accounts got deleted due to MORE HOSTING PROBLEMS (-_-;;), everyone's gotta reregister.
Oh, and it's called Unreal Solutions for some reason now.
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No, CJ, Unreal Solutions is Cricket's other site, where he shows off his mods for Invision Power Board (Unreal Portal, Unreal RPG, can you see where this is going?). It also happens to be where people from Invisionize can come to ask questions about his mods. GBA-Source is gone. Kaput. Unless Cricket finds a backup.
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Yet... this could be to our advantage... we can use the new romsource as a clean slate and rebuild it into the awsomeness that it once was!
Yes things will be different and the history lost, but romsource can become a better place than it was as it was dying.
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*sigh* It's kinda depressing to see a site just go like that...
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*looks to Protoman*
Dear, I sure hope not..... All the threads.... the history.... all of it, if it left, and I don't have a hard copy of all those things on Lacus or Kagemitsu or nothing anymore.... *sighs* I guess I should start saving that work..... Just in case TPH pulls a GBA-Source.
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I wonder why a site just vanishes? I'm still new to Forums, so um... does that happen very often? I never heard of it happening. Hmmm. Anyways. Sorry its gone.
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CJMErl: Sites generally vanish only when there's a problem with whatever company/site hosts them, or enables the sites to be accessed. It's happened with sites like The Sonic Stadium and, most recently, Planet MegaMan (after they overthrew their boss).
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I'm probably not going to PMM after the bulshit they did.
Idiots.
The ruined their own site, just because they were fighting over a lusy 20$. Why must they make thousands of bloodthirsy fans suffer because of dumb shit like that?
Do not want.
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Yami CJMErl: At least you were accepted there...
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Sites do often die. Sometimes it's because after years of being around, they get no traffic. Sometimes it's because whoever owns it just doesn't want to do that anymore. Sometimes, as with GBA-Source, it's because the server dies. Usually you can sense a sites death coming on. It's a slow process where the members start constantly bickering, the owner never comes around, and a few people become elitists and adopt a holier-than-thou attitude.
Hmm, sounds familiar, doesn't it?
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CJMErl: True, that has happened (to a limited extent, anyone that tried abusing their powers got sniped by teh Cricket) on GBAsource, but I *highly* doubt that Cricket would willingly kill the site.
As a side note, another GBAsource refugee has put up this site as a temporary shelter of sorts for members:
http://epiphanygaming.com/hosted/lenz/forum/index.php?act=idx
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Heh, remember that Dante guy who got elected RPG admin? Oh man, that was a bad choice!
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CJMErl: Yeah, especially after the whole Naru vs. Dante crisis.
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Meh, tj wasn't such a bad guy once you got to know him, but yea... he did have a bit of an obsession with zeph at one point. Damn so much history for that site, I now know how some of the older members felt when the old romsource died.
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A bit of an obsession? He lied about his age so she'd take him seriously and it still didn't work. That guy's entire presance was a lie.
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wow, that's some liein goin on there. Remind him not to join TPH.
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Don't worry, we haven't seen him in months. I wonder what ever happened to that guy...
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He IM'd me a couple months ago, I mensioned something about if the zelda game was a woman she and I would have made many many babies together and he left me for some reason.
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XD Classy.
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CJMErl: Classic Jv humor.
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Exactly, and yet he disapeared. I think he blocked me. That or he actually had some connection to zeph cause if I remember right they disapeared around the same time.
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That they did, but Zeph has come back and explained her disappearance, whereas Dante has yet to be heard from.
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Devil May Cry was a bad game.