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Posted by mazemaster on Thu Mar 15th at 8:12am 2007


38% chance of him actually leaving.





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Posted by reaper47 on Thu Mar 15th at 9:28am 2007


No-one can escape teh Snarkpit!!!1





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Posted by Flynn on Thu Mar 15th at 11:48am 2007


I remember Nickel's first avatar of the G-man and I always used to think that Nickel looked like the G-man because I associated him with that avatar and signature

And then I remember when he changed it to that taxi but with the same catchphrase- "Me like Iron-bru". And then he changed it to that model face

I'm gonna sing a little song:

Good 'ol times and rusty good 'ol days, if only those times where here to stays




Just Kidding

Just Kidding



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Posted by Dark|Killer on Thu Mar 15th at 12:02pm 2007


I remember him pretty well, yet i don't know if he actually remembers me...

Farewell buddy ,

ZnZ


-Oh and btw, nice lyrics flynn :P



.::Dark|Masta::. - One name. One legend.



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Posted by CombineX on Thu Mar 15th at 3:16pm 2007


yap... like reaper47 sayd, No-one can escape teh Snarkpit...

i hope thats true...

i'm new guy around here, but it would be nice to play some pro maps from ya!

and i know how hard its to stop mapping(im still mapper=))you juts want to make a new map to improve ur skills, and show them to others....i really know, but my decition was to not stop mapping, cause i had no reason to do that.

hope this text gets you back here...?





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Posted by ding on Thu Mar 15th at 4:22pm 2007


Man WTF?!

I hope you're still hangin' around in the IRC!

Anyway hopefully I'll see you in Germany! - Your're welcome!

bye Nickelplate - Wir sehen uns in Deutschland!




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Posted by BlisTer on Thu Mar 15th at 4:32pm 2007


? quoting Flynn
I remember Nickel's first avatar of the G-man and I always used to think that Nickel looked like the G-man because I associated him with that avatar and signature

actually i think his first avatar was from southpark.. Tweek ?





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Posted by Elon Yariv on Thu Mar 15th at 5:07pm 2007


Well bye bye nickelplate. I feel like you many times, and recently I quit mapping and avoided the internet for half a year. Too bad that you are leaving, it's been really nice.


Elon Yariv



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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Mar 15th at 7:25pm 2007


*cusses in many ways because I lost a grand farewell speech*

Nickel, I will post more later after I cool off from losing so much text. To make a long post short- You have been gone even when you've been here of late so you posting a farewell is a bit moot.

Me being the last person to say anything, because I have went away and returned even more than a bad penny.

Soon however, we will all type www.snarkpit.net and it will be gone anyway so your saying goodbye is only a pre-emptive one for all of us.

Stay or leave. I still have your phone number. Perhaps you will ride with me this summer and we can visit the Grand Canyon or something.

XXXOOOXXX





The best things in life, aren't things.



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Posted by Riven on Thu Mar 15th at 8:24pm 2007


Orph, I have to ask, this is the second time you've mentioned the end of the Snarkpit. (the first being in the "Recently Photographed" post.) Is there something that is going to happen to the Snarkpit soon?





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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Mar 15th at 10:24pm 2007


What I know, or do not know is subjective. What I see is another matter. Anyone here has the same observational opportunities as myself and can extrapolate the same end results as myself.

I have been here almost since the beginning. Snarkpit determined its own longevity by restricting itself to one game. The only way Snarkpit will burst its boundaries is to somehow expand to another, or many other popular games.

I would even go so far as to say that if we included consoles that we might survive another year.

Without some serious intervention from the power in charge, Snarkpit will die. It won't die slowly, it will die all at once.

Right this moment, the power making the decision has zero motivation to extend our future. Other than that, I have nothing to say. Its not my place.





The best things in life, aren't things.



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Posted by OtZman on Thu Mar 15th at 11:07pm 2007


Orph, you make it sound like the site is going to disappear over night. Unless Lep stops paying for the server, or fix it in case of a crash, I don't see how the Snarkpit is going to die "all at once". Sure it will die, everything does, but it'll be slowly. This site could be about making breakfast for all I care, I'd come here nonetheless... and my breakfast making skillz suck, so I'd probably hang around even more.





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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Mar 15th at 11:32pm 2007


Really? I've been gone nearly 2 weeks. The post count measures in a few dozen.

By my figuring, its nearly dead. God, I hate to say this but unless we are squabbling about something inane, the post counts are almost always low.

Anywho, I will be here till the doors close in one form or another so... *shrugs*

I had one of the last posts at PFL. It was something inane there too. In the end, it died and its popularity rivaled SP at their respective heights.

Re-read what I typed. Mark me. If we do not expand beyond HL AND do so in some positive way, Snarkpit will die.

That's my prediction. Whether Lep allows the host to go unpaid or not, Snarkpit will die, and IMO, the fact that we already show undeniable signs of it makes me think it will happen fast/soon.





The best things in life, aren't things.



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Posted by Stadric on Thu Mar 15th at 11:50pm 2007


Post number < Post worth.
http://www.snarkpit.net/forums.php?forum=2&topic=7069&145

Do we have access to the number of visitors per day, and/or which pages are visited, when, and how often?
I'd put money on it that the tutorials are still being used, and frequently.



Also change the texture of the dock. Docks are rarely tile. -Facepunch
As I Lay Dying



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Posted by OtZman on Thu Mar 15th at 11:53pm 2007


I'm not saying that Snarkpit won't die, I'm just saying I don't think it'll die that suddenly, or that soon either. I suppose soon is a relative term, but I think snarkpit will still be around for at least one more year.





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Posted by Riven on Fri Mar 16th at 12:05am 2007


I agree, I think that if the Snarkpit doesn't expand it will fade away, but as far as the post count the past couple of weeks goes, I think it is just a slow time right now. What's not to say that its slow because mappers are more busy spending their time mapping rather than posting. I know I am.

You could argue the few posts we are getting are from the active people, and if the active people are the ones not posting enough topics or maps, then who else will care what the non-active/new people have to post?

Well, I say this: Whether its a slow-going time for either crowd (i.e. active or not; old or new), The devotion, intention, and ambition is still there. Maby the next big 150+ post count topic is on it's way next month, giving us all reasons to check out the Snarkpit yet again to entertain ourselves and others. All I'm saying is that I don't believe the few post counts over the past few weeks are a sign to worry. If anything, you wouldn't care if the Snarkpit ended because you would have left it already. So as long as you and I and everyone else that still wants to see the Snarkpit stay here (as well as for Lep paying for it), it'll live on!

P.S. Sorry to take away from this thread's topic, perhaps we should start a new one, but I think its kind of related to begin with. Sorry to see ya go Nickelplate







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Posted by fishy on Fri Mar 16th at 2:48pm 2007


i'm quite sure that if all the time that's gone into writing threads about the impending demise of the snarkpit had gone towards mapping, or learning aspects of the new engine, there would be no self-fulfilling prophesy to worry about.




i eat paint



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Posted by Naklajat on Fri Mar 16th at 7:34pm 2007


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=o



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Posted by satchmo on Fri Mar 16th at 8:52pm 2007


I tried to leave, but see, I'm still around.


"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Mar 17th at 12:09am 2007


? quoting fishy
i'm quite sure that if all the time that's gone into writing threads about the impending demise of the snarkpit had gone towards mapping, or learning aspects of the new engine, there would be no self-fulfilling prophesy to worry about.

God, if it were only as easy as saying "Ignore it, it won't hurt as much."

For my part I would rather one of two things happen. Either we expand beyond HL or the site closes up for good.

Picking at scabs has about run out of the old thrill factor. TBH, it took almost 2.5 years for PFL to finally degrade to a point where its now unusable. BUT, all that time people kept thinking positively, in spite of the ever increasing instability of the pages.

Snarkpit has a bit more life only because Unseth waited till the last month before delegating any authority. Snarkpit has had some authority all its life but sadly, the centralization that Unseth did, is also shared by Lep.

Eventually it will determine the outcome.

Anywho...

The funny thing about self fulfilling prophesies is, they always come true, in spite of anyones desire to the contrary. If this is self imposed, I'd hate to think what I could accomplish if it was something I wanted to happen.

If this site doesn't expand, AND it remains alive, it will be as good as dead.

Personally, I am tired of HL. Not dead tired, but tired none the less.





The best things in life, aren't things.




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