6/6/2009 chat cabalism ?

old guard of remakes #alephone, hux imitation fun .

tor nodes? any new ideas? wb cult

ahuxley gone, ahuxley flow beginning, 6/6/2009

no bs

As a member of other ancient gaming communities, ray helps keep track the competition’s ways and means, thereby providing valuable tactical information used to keep Mararthon as unpopular as possible. A few days ago he found this echo in ZZT of our own recent events:

<ray> those zzt motherfuckers are stealing our material
<ray> see http://zzt.belsambar.net/
<ray> of course the people claiming that are the same ones that strangled zzt to death by being obnoxious and insular
<ray> parallels? none

On a related note, tehwastedjamacan has recently gifted us with some Pfhorums downtime by posting his rendition of the Pfhorums, here hosted on imageshack and scaled down significantly from its original resolution. Downloading the original took several minutes to squeeze the behemoth image through appleswitch’s connection, effectively preventing all Pfhorums access for the duration — and again, ray took advantage of the situation, always watchful for ways to strangle Marathon to death.

<@treellama> 12 wgets to 4get

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Epilogue:

appleswitch@mac.com: S7 and Pfhorums are now on a symmetric 50 Mbps pipe.

I guess at least something good came out of this.

ESB is Empty

ESB’s tent is broken: the last echos of *NM*
Clutch and sink off the top page. The sound of uki
Crosses the blackness, unread. The readers are departed.
JFO, run softly, till I end my post.
ESB bears no new messages, announcements of carnage fests,
Discussions of Eternal, comparisons of weapons, trolls, spammers,
Or other testimony of activity. The readers are departed.
And the CLIQUE, the loitering heirs of the old Bungie crew;
Loched, have left no addresses.
By the ruins of TGI I sat down and wept…
JFO, run softly, till I end my post,
JFO, run softly, for I speak not loud nor boast.

But at my back from an unlocked maintenance closet I hear
The slam of a door, and chuckle spread from ear to ear.

Irons makes some very good points in his dissection of the now-defunct CLIQUE. I felt in many places it needed a direct, point-by-point response, so I typed up the following essay. Forgive me for the length. Here it is:

reverof nohtaram

Now that MARARTHON has officially taken its own life, there are a few things I’d like to get off my chest. I mean, they’ve bothered me for something like a year. That’s a long time if you think about it. (Also, I have the gift of Bourbon, so truth is coming more naturally to me at the moment.)

(Try to read between the lines a little bit more)

[16:27] < @Wrkncacnter> the water column was better than i was expecting
[16:28] < @Wrkncacnter> better as in much more stupid
[16:28] < @treellama> yeah it really was
[16:28] < @treellama> so, now what, thermo
[16:28] < @thermoplyae> now i die happy
[16:28] < @treellama> ok
[16:28] < @thermoplyae> we’ve all seen what we came for
[16:28] < @thermoplyae> and that was it, 4GET is feasible now

Here it is.

With any luck, you’ll never hear from me again.

New advents in CLIQUE connectivity (e.g., CLIQUEpedia) have given rise to more evidence as to One Way’s whereabouts. Our sights our currently set on Falko (AIM: fafalconaim, later thefalconaim), who we actually have logged in the act of distributing and accepting my critique on One Way, along with others in the same pack. This includes the now-infamous line

17:16 | cb4nova: There was this pillar of water that didn’t /go/ anywhere.

I don’t want to risk the fiasco we had last time, so I won’t ask that you all participate in some grand campaign to squeeze One Way out of him; with any luck, he’ll admit his guilt and come quietly. Just keeping you all informed.

2008/11/14 17:26:49 <Marathoner325> What kind of state do you think the Maratho community is currently in?
2008/11/14 17:26:58 <ukimalefu> very active
2008/11/14 17:27:04 <Marathoner325> yeah
2008/11/14 17:27:19 <ukimalefu> for such an old game anyway
2008/11/14 17:27:28 <Marathoner325> The CLIQUE is kind of ruining it though :P
2008/11/14 17:27:38 <ukimalefu> clique?
2008/11/14 17:28:04 <Marathoner325> http://clique.jonirons.net/
2008/11/14 17:28:41 <g pack> hi yone!
2008/11/14 17:28:51 <yone> hey! G pack!!!
2008/11/14 17:28:56 <ukimalefu> YUCK!
2008/11/14 17:29:01 <ukimalefu> that link
2008/11/14 17:29:02 <Delphi> oh lawl
2008/11/14 17:29:08 <Marathoner325> lol
2008/11/14 17:29:22 <ukimalefu> MARATHON STORY FORUM FOREVAH!

Finally, ESB has useful news: Wikipedia joins the 4GET campaign.