(07:45:44 PM) pfhortipfhy: Hey, do you live in the midwest?
(07:49:38 PM) pfhortipfhy: I met a friend of yours at a wedding in St. Louis.
(07:49:48 PM) pfhortipfhy: I have his email around here somewhere.
(07:49:58 PM) thermo: what, who
(07:50:20 PM) pfhortipfhy: I think he was a roommate of yours? You got him into marathon as well?
(07:53:00 PM) pfhortipfhy: j—@gmail.com
(07:53:08 PM) thermo: oh shit, really?
(07:53:22 PM) pfhortipfhy: Yeah dude. We talked about programming for a while.
(07:53:25 PM) thermo: a— and k—’s?
(07:53:33 PM) pfhortipfhy: Hell yeah! K—’s my cousin.
(07:53:39 PM) thermo: hahaha, that’s crazy
(07:53:58 PM) thermo: i went to high school with j— and a—, and i lived with j— for like four years :)
(07:53:59 PM) pfhortipfhy: Yeah, I know, right. I couldn’t believe it when he first said “Pfhorums”.
(07:54:15 PM) pfhortipfhy: Haha, yeah, he said you guys were wicked tight.
(07:54:37 PM) thermo: that’s nuts man
(07:55:14 PM) pfhortipfhy: Yeah. Small world, eh?
(07:55:27 PM) thermo: extremely, i can’t imagine the odds of that
(07:57:01 PM) pfhortipfhy: So, you know K—?
(07:57:16 PM) thermo: a little, she came over a few times to jog or to drink
(07:57:34 PM) pfhortipfhy: Nice. Yeah, I heard the whole story about the CUBE.^†
(07:58:57 PM) thermo: this is unbelievable, i need like half an hour to recuperate
(08:01:19 PM) pfhortipfhy: Hahaha. It was great, we were talking about games, and he asks me what games I like, and I talk about what I’ve been playing, and I say “But, my favorite game of all time has to be Marathon. It’s this old game by Bungie-” “You play Marathon?” “Yeah!” “Did you know that it’s gone open source? The new engine’s called-” “Aleph One, yeah, I know.” “Really? Did you ever go on the Pfhorums?”^‡ “WHOA, YOU’RE ON THE PFHORUMS?”

^† - incontrovertible proof that he did actually meet the guy
^‡ - I can hear J—’s tone here, using this question to test whether or not P-fail was a cool guy. Doesn’t sound like he passed.

Sure, the CLIQUE likes to ruin Mararthon, but have any of us managed to do this?

Stats collected so far this month:

$ grep -i survival misc.log | wc
229 4496 25219
$ grep -i emfh misc.log | wc
228 4198 21697

I know we have an OSH award for maps, but to me, this seems like an even greater accomplishment. Congratulations to Megabyte for ruining the metaserver!

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)

04:30:45 <Camptown Ferret> well the admin are dicks
04:31:04 <Camptown Ferret> i think i got banned from the pfhorums for asking if they could add a japanese section
04:31:06 <bLu> yeah
04:31:14 <bLu> oh ok
04:31:20 <Camptown Ferret> like i cant connect to it anymore

…They just aren’t very bright.

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.

I thought this was funny as hell, and I’m bored, so here you go.  See if you can tell who the idiot is.
(Try to read between the lines a little bit more)

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!

There has been quite a bit of chatter about Ray on the metaserver and it seems he is quickly becoming the most popular person in the community. Or at least the most talked about. I could write something about him, but why don’t I just let the community speak for itself.

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

It took me long enough. Part of the issue I had was that I have my own domain now, and I was too lazy to move the IRC-related stuff to my new site. So here we go: this month’s stats are located right next to the all-time stats and everything else.

This transition also obviously indicates that the original spylog is now located at the new and protected  irc.jonirons.net.

It’s a place where this makes sense:

18:41 <@Wrkncacnter> ONE FAILURE
18:41 <+jon_irons> dark rooms: are hux a bad CLIQUE habit
18:41 <@RyokoTK> CLIQUE: are hux a bad dark room habit?
18:41 <@RyokoTK> (heh heh heh)
18:41 < ahuxley> dead end dark room would be bad
18:41 <@treellama> olmec