Improving the "Server is down" message

Valka D'Ur · Oct 12, 2011

choxorn said:
I don't know every injoke, but I don't get how you can spend much time in OT and not hear about the video camera and pants.

For reference, the origin of that joke.

Thanks for explaining (at least somebody did the gentlemanly thing and helped me understand!). That was kinda cute. :lol:

Anyway, now that I know the story, I still think it's an in-joke known to too few people around the forum to be appreciated by people who have never ventured into OT.

aimeeandbeatles · Oct 12, 2011

Sometimes i wish there was a CFC meme reference page

nonconformist · Oct 12, 2011

Valka D'Ur said:
Thanks for explaining (at least somebody did the gentlemanly thing and helped me understand!). That was kinda cute.

Anyway, now that I know the story, I still think it's an in-joke known to too few people around the forum to be appreciated by people who have never ventured into OT.

I mean, seriously, this was one of the biggest running jokes in OT, along with DT, Hotpockets, and hypnotoad.

NickyJ · Oct 12, 2011

azzaman333 said:
Point being, this would not be of any benefit to the forum.

So? 5char

azzaman333 · Oct 12, 2011

NickyJ said:
So? 5char

It's a waste of time for the admins who should be busy trying to prevent the outages in the first place.

Mise · Oct 12, 2011

No number for Jakucha.

EnglishCrusader · Oct 12, 2011

azzaman333 said:
It's a waste of time for the admins who should be busy trying to prevent the outages in the first place.

Clearly you don't have a sense of humour.

Abaddon · Oct 12, 2011

aimeeandbeatles said:
Sometimes i wish there was a CFC meme reference page

Its not like there are many..

PeteAtoms · Oct 12, 2011

Abaddon said:
Its not like there are many..

Some of us haven't been around long enough I suppose.

NickyJ · Oct 12, 2011

EnglishCrusader said:
Clearly you don't have a sense of humour.

Exactly. I think it would be a fine idea.

PeteAtoms said:
Some of us haven't been around long enough I suppose.

Correctomundo.

aimeeandbeatles · Oct 12, 2011

azzaman333 said:
It's a waste of time for the admins who should be busy trying to prevent the outages in the first place.

Or: "I have no sense of humor so everyone else should be just as humorless as me!"

Abaddon · Oct 12, 2011

PeteAtoms said:
Some of us haven't been around long enough I suppose.

Says someone who joined August 2002?

choxorn · Oct 12, 2011

nonconformist said:
I mean, seriously, this was one of the biggest running jokes in OT, along with DT, Hotpockets, and hypnotoad.

I haven't actually heard much about hotpockets, at least not the same extent as the other ones.

And of course, there's that other running joke, referring to banana-loving primates with radioactive qualities.

hoplitejoe · Oct 12, 2011

The only one I confess to know about is where Poland is.

Valka D'Ur · Oct 13, 2011

nonconformist said:
I mean, seriously, this was one of the biggest running jokes in OT, along with DT, Hotpockets, and hypnotoad.

I have no idea what downtown's real name is. The other two hold no interest for me whatsoever.

It's not necessary for everybody to know every in-joke to be "accepted" in OT. And I remind people that OT is not the entire forum. When the server is down, it's everybody who sees the message, not just OT regulars. So whatever message gets used, whether the current one or a new one, must make sense to people who have never even considered venturing into OT. Since this is a Civ forum and even non-Civ players have heard of some of the basics of the game, it seems a Civ-related message would be apt.

ParadigmShifter · Oct 13, 2011

How about "We have enough on our hands right now"?

Thoughtful Thug · Oct 13, 2011

Thunderfall= absentee landlord

I think by now we should be asking him to sell this site to us... (mildly serious)

Tee Kay · Oct 13, 2011

Only if it is run as a socialist cooperative.

Abaddon · Oct 13, 2011

Thoughtful Thug said:
Thunderfall= absentee landlord

I think by now we should be asking him to sell this site to us... (mildly serious)

He never got back to me on a valuation...

uat2d · Oct 13, 2011

Question: If something were to happen to Thunderfall and he was rendered incapable of running the website, could it be "salvaged"?

For example, if he had some sort of accident or a disease, could CFC keep on running on the long run without an admin?

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