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[violet]
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Postby [violet] » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:20 pm

Hello all!

We will be off the air for approximately 3 hours starting at 6pm PDT on August 30:

Click for your local time

During this time, the entire site will be unavailable, including the forums.

This scheduled maintenance is to upgrade and shift around a few servers. In particular, it is to let us move off a server that has experienced 13 hardware failures to date. Then we can bury it in the ground and salt the earth so that nothing can ever grow there, as a warning to others.

Due to operator incompetence, there may be some bugs and weirdness once we come back, which I will fix promptly. But hopefully not.

Thank you for your patience!

Update 2:40pm PDT: Unexpected outage is currently in progress, unrelated to the scheduled downtime. Hopefully will be resolved shortly.

Update 3:05pm PDT: Now resolved. Make that 14 hardware failures.

Update 6:00pm PDT Servers are now down. You cannot read this message.

Update 7:55pm PDT: Gameside is up. Forums are up but search (including "View your posts") isn't full functional.

Update 9:48pm PDT: Various problems (incl. poll display) now fixed. There are a couple of issues with people connecting via IPv6 but otherwise all is well.
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Gregoryisgodistan
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Postby Gregoryisgodistan » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:21 pm

Why does that link think I'm in Wichita, Kansas? I most certainly am not.
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[violet]
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Postby [violet] » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:22 pm

Maybe you are but don't realize it.
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Gregoryisgodistan
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Postby Gregoryisgodistan » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:23 pm

[violet] wrote:Maybe you are but don't realize it.


Now it correctly identifies my location as (near) Washington, DC. Strange.
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IBS II Champions
Beach Cup IX Round of 16
World Indoor Soccer Championship 6 - 2nd place
BoI XIV Champion
IBS III Champions
WCoH 22 Round of 16
WB XXII 10th Place in Casaran, advanced to Round of 32
IBS IV host, champion
4th in WCoH 23
WBC 29 QF
HWC 12 hosts
WJHC VI 2nd place,
CoH 60 4th place
WCoH XXIV Champs
CoH 61 Runner-Up
IBS VI Champs
BOI XVI Host
IBS VII Champs
WCoH XXV 2nd Place
WBC 32 2nd Place
IBS VIII host and champs
WBC 33 Host/QF
WCoH 27 co-host and champs
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Postby Reploid Productions » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:25 pm

Sweet, three hours off tomorrow night, yay!
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Postby Thermodolia » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:29 pm

Reploid Productions wrote:Sweet, three hours off tomorrow night, yay!

AHHHH!!! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO FOR THREE HOURS!!!!? :eek:
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Postby Valrifell » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:30 pm

Thermodolia wrote:
Reploid Productions wrote:Sweet, three hours off tomorrow night, yay!

AHHHH!!! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO FOR THREE HOURS!!!!? :eek:


Set things on fire?
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Reploid Productions
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Postby Reploid Productions » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:35 pm

Thermodolia wrote:
Reploid Productions wrote:Sweet, three hours off tomorrow night, yay!

AHHHH!!! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO FOR THREE HOURS!!!!? :eek:

Violent video games? Pokemon Go? Read a book?

Interact with real people face to face? :eek:
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[violet] wrote:Maybe we could power our new search engine from the sexual tension between you two.
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Thermodolia
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Postby Thermodolia » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:38 pm

Reploid Productions wrote:
Thermodolia wrote:AHHHH!!! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO FOR THREE HOURS!!!!? :eek:

Violent video games? Pokemon Go? Read a book?

Interact with real people face to face? :eek:

Don't be silly Reppy, real life people don't exist. :p
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>>Dumb Ideologies: Why not turn yourself into a penguin and build an igloo at the centre of the Earth?
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Gregoryisgodistan
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Postby Gregoryisgodistan » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:40 pm

And now it thinks I'm in Wichita again. Is it just picking random cities that start with W? Next it will think I'm near Winnipeg, or Walla Walla, or Wakiki.
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Beach Cup IX Round of 16
World Indoor Soccer Championship 6 - 2nd place
BoI XIV Champion
IBS III Champions
WCoH 22 Round of 16
WB XXII 10th Place in Casaran, advanced to Round of 32
IBS IV host, champion
4th in WCoH 23
WBC 29 QF
HWC 12 hosts
WJHC VI 2nd place,
CoH 60 4th place
WCoH XXIV Champs
CoH 61 Runner-Up
IBS VI Champs
BOI XVI Host
IBS VII Champs
WCoH XXV 2nd Place
WBC 32 2nd Place
IBS VIII host and champs
WBC 33 Host/QF
WCoH 27 co-host and champs
WC 72 Qualifier
WBC 34 champs
CoH 67 Third place
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Gurori
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Postby Gurori » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:41 pm

RUN AWAY! THE APOCALYPSE IS-

Wait it's only three hours?

RUN AWAY! THE THREE HOUR APOCALYPSE IS NIGH!
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Postby Ilyseum » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:41 pm

Gregoryisgodistan wrote:And now it thinks I'm in Wichita again. Is it just picking random cities that start with W? Next it will think I'm near Winnipeg, or Walla Walla, or Wakiki.


Its showing the correct city for me.
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Postby Ryanimus » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:43 pm

Valrifell wrote:
Thermodolia wrote:AHHHH!!! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO FOR THREE HOURS!!!!? :eek:


Set things on fire?


I'll bring the molotov cocktails.
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Postby Eol Sha » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:45 pm

Reploid Productions wrote:
Thermodolia wrote:AHHHH!!! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO FOR THREE HOURS!!!!? :eek:

Violent video games? Pokemon Go? Read a book?

Interact with real people face to face? :eek:

Yes. No. Maybe.

I interact enough with my family.
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Another Trump Nation
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Postby Another Trump Nation » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:47 pm

Reploid Productions wrote:
Thermodolia wrote:AHHHH!!! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO FOR THREE HOURS!!!!? :eek:

Violent video games? Pokemon Go? Read a book?

Interact with real people face to face? :eek:


Noo! Anything but that!
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Maljaratas
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Postby Maljaratas » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:48 pm

It doth say that I am in Wichita as well. Perhaps this is what happens when you disable tracking stuff or maybe Firefox (I have no idea what you have Greg)
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Postby Zaea » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:52 pm

Reploid Productions wrote:
Thermodolia wrote:AHHHH!!! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO FOR THREE HOURS!!!!? :eek:

Violent video games? Pokemon Go? Read a book?

Interact with real people face to face? :eek:

INTERACTING!? WITH OTHER PEOPLE!? WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE!?
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Postby Outer Sparta » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:53 pm

Reploid Productions wrote:
Thermodolia wrote:AHHHH!!! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO FOR THREE HOURS!!!!? :eek:

Violent video games? Pokemon Go? Read a book?

Interact with real people face to face? :eek:

Homework, homework, and… homework.
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Postby The Great Devourer of All » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:56 pm

Without NS to distract me, I'll most likely turn to a life of crime. After all, jellyfish pictures on Google Images can only keep me occupied for so long. Before the first hour is up, I'll be jaywalking, taking more than one spicy meatball free sample from my local grocery store at a time, and doing all sorts of ruffian-eqsue things.

Seriously, though, three whole hours? What will I do?
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Postby Vaunadia » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:58 pm

Ryanimus wrote:
Valrifell wrote:
Set things on fire?


I'll bring the molotov cocktails.


I will bring ski masks
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Postby Dalviric UIA » Mon Aug 29, 2016 7:00 pm

violet why does this keep happening ahhh /joke
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Postby Ethane » Mon Aug 29, 2016 7:01 pm

Oh, I might finally get some sleep then :P
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Postby Qasden » Mon Aug 29, 2016 7:02 pm

Hmm...3 hours, eh? Anyone down for RL bowling?
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Postby Drawkland » Mon Aug 29, 2016 7:08 pm

Man, how am I gonna compulsively check NS every 15 minutes even though I know there will be nothing new for me waiting there?

Damn you inconvenient downtime!!!!
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Postby Wisconsin9 » Mon Aug 29, 2016 7:11 pm

Reploid Productions wrote:
Thermodolia wrote:AHHHH!!! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO FOR THREE HOURS!!!!? :eek:

Violent video games? Pokemon Go? Read a book?

Interact with real people face to face? :eek:

You know what the really annoying thing is? Every Tuesday evening I have three hours set aside for interacting with real people face-to-face... that don't overlap with the downtime goddammit all to hell
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