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Forum Shift - Scheduled Downtime Monday 18th March, 9pm GMT

#1 Silencer

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Posted 17 March 2013 - 11:34 PM

Hi all,

We now have a pencilled-in date for the forum shift. I will be taking the forums offline at approximately 9pm GMT on Monday the 18th of March in order to conduct the shift. This is a process that will take some time and I cannot give you an exact end date, save to say that it will hopefully only be a few hours.

During the shift, if you feel withdrawal symptoms like shaking, sweating, nausea, panic attacks, and the like, make sure you visit your nearest substitute Malaz fix: the Backup Forum. There you will meet others in the same situation as yourselves, so you can give each other mutual comfort and assurance (or, you know, reinforce and grow the panic...>.>). There is also the Malazan Facebook group, though they always seem to be behind on current events and horrendously spoileriffic in their postings (one day Failbook will get itself a spoiler function), but you still might find some comfort there (also, feel free to point the lost souls who didn't see this message to the previous link

).

Once we've shifted, I'll bring the forum back online and we can bask in the glorious warmth of our new home, which should have ample resources to keep us up and running quite happily. The forum and website URLs will stay the same, so no worries there.

Warm Regards from the Space Station,

Your Benevolent Tyrants.

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Shinrei said:

<Vote Silencer> For not garnering any heat or any love for that matter. And I'm being serious here, it's like a mental block that is there, and you just keep forgetting it.

#2 King Lear

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Posted 17 March 2013 - 11:37 PM

*Men's Frights Activist*

#3 worry

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Posted 17 March 2013 - 11:40 PM

The backup forum is a haven for pornographers. On the other hand, it has a few negative aspects as well.

Anyway, thanks for the heads up.

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#4 Gnaw

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 12:29 AM

Silencer, on 17 March 2013 - 11:34 PM, said:

I will be taking the forums offline at approximately 9pm GMT on Monday the 18th of March in order to conduct the shift. This is a process that will take some time and I cannot give you an exact end date, save to say that it will hopefully only be a few hours.

Wait, what? You're going to interrupt a mafia game on DDay for something as inconsequential as a server migration?
Gah, our new overlord is cruel! Cruel, I say.

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor Frankl

#5 Khellendros

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 12:55 AM

It's another Forumpocalypse I say! The end is nigh!!!!

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#6 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 01:05 AM

Repent!

The interwebs requires more bacon and lolcats!

Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....

#7 Silencer

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 01:50 AM

Gnaw, on 18 March 2013 - 12:29 AM, said:

Silencer, on 17 March 2013 - 11:34 PM, said:

Wait, what? You're going to interrupt a mafia game on DDay for something as inconsequential as a server migration?
Gah, our new overlord is cruel! Cruel, I say.

Hah! You should have seen some of my predecessors. Never mind interrupting a mafia game, how about losing years of past games for something as inconsequential as board downtime? Stick THAT in your pipe and smoke it! You young 'uns have no idea some of the horrors we've been through round these parts.

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Shinrei said:

<Vote Silencer> For not garnering any heat or any love for that matter. And I'm being serious here, it's like a mental block that is there, and you just keep forgetting it.

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 02:33 AM

Silencer, on 17 March 2013 - 11:34 PM, said:

Bringing the forums back can be a bit risky. Member names get lost.etc., right? Perfectly reasonable; happens all the time. So how much would it cost for the Bent name to be freed up?
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#9 Gnaw

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 02:36 AM

Silencer, on 18 March 2013 - 01:50 AM, said:

Gnaw, on 18 March 2013 - 12:29 AM, said:

Silencer, on 17 March 2013 - 11:34 PM, said:

Wait, what? You're going to interrupt a mafia game on DDay for something as inconsequential as a server migration?
Gah, our new overlord is cruel! Cruel, I say.

Yeah, I know how excrement occur at times such as this. I've got the Tapper's Stuff forum backed up to my hard drive just in case.

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor Frankl

#10 D'rek

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 02:57 AM

Remember the Nascent Forum? I want that again

worrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 11:16 AM

Can this be combined with a forum purge? Like, say, getting rid of all Hobb fans for instance? Or Mutants? Heretics? Blasphemers unto the God-Emperor?

Screw you all, and have a nice day!

#12 Silencer

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 11:20 AM

Like I said in the other thread, the Purges come later.

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Shinrei said:

<Vote Silencer> For not garnering any heat or any love for that matter. And I'm being serious here, it's like a mental block that is there, and you just keep forgetting it.

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 11:46 AM

D, on 18 March 2013 - 02:57 AM, said:

Remember the Nascent Forum? I want that again

Have you saved all the things you have been working on? Backed up in case of loss?

Apt is the only one who reads this. Apt is nice.

#14 Tattersail_

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 11:46 AM

Imagine our eclipse game disappeared? Twelve did not win. Ha.

Apt is the only one who reads this. Apt is nice.

#15 D'rek

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 01:49 PM

Tattersail, on 18 March 2013 - 11:46 AM, said:

Imagine our eclipse game disappeared? Twelve did not win. Ha.

I'm sure I could remake it from memory. I have the Galactic Centre and 8 dreadnaughts, right?

worrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 01:57 PM

Can we have a count down clock, like in Mafia?

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#17 Tattersail_

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 02:06 PM

D, on 18 March 2013 - 01:49 PM, said:

Tattersail, on 18 March 2013 - 11:46 AM, said:

Imagine our eclipse game disappeared? Twelve did not win. Ha.

I'm sure I could remake it from memory. I have the Galactic Centre and 8 dreadnaughts, right?

Sure I don't see why not.

Apt is the only one who reads this. Apt is nice.

#18 D'rek

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 02:45 PM

corv, on 18 March 2013 - 01:57 PM, said:

Can we have a count down clock, like in Mafia?

It is Day 0. 6 hours and 16 minutes until the forumpocalypse.

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4950 votes to lynch, 4949 to go to night.

worrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.

#19 Tattersail_

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 02:46 PM

Vote Silencer

You know it's a done deal.

Apt is the only one who reads this. Apt is nice.

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 02:49 PM

vote Silencer

The only way to be sure.

Hello, soldiers, look at your mage, now back to me, now back at your mage, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped being an unascended mortal and switched to Sole Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in a warren with the High Mage your cadre mage could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an acorn with two gates to that realm you love. Look again, the acorn is now otataral. Anything is possible when your mage smells like Sole Spice and not a Bole brother. I’m on a quorl.