I think I'll be leaving.

I spent most of my days for a few years on this site posting every time I could get a chance. Now, I'm one of the oldest users here. The oldies have dropped off, and I feel out of place. I feel that I am a person who always wishes for days past and on the net it's the same thing...

I'm starting to withdraw from the internet and it's weird. The places i go are places I don't like and I only go there because I need the company. This is a place I like. I'm leaving before it is sullied in my mind.

I think I'll stop mapping. Even though I like it, it's frustrating to never finish one...

I've left my sector in the world represented by Fatstrings. He's a talented new mapper and he has a lot to offer. I'll be back someday and every once in a while I'll stop in to say hi.

Snarkpit: you've given me a lot throughout the years I've been here and I hope I have helped some people along the way. God bless you guys.

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http://www.dimebowl.com

Sad news indeed - but definately a dilemma many of us who aren't the
pros (so to speak) face. With all the PC's you have, I guess IRC will
always be there for a chat?

edit! - i thought i was one for taking the pulse of communities... seems I am usurped! :wink:

Always sad to see someone leave. Althought I'm not overly active here, it's one of the few sites (probably the only) I've visited regularly for such a long time.

It's funny that you mention how you're one of the oldest users, because I still think of you as "one of the new guys" together with all the others that joined around the release of HL2 (you did join around this time, right?). :smile:

Best of luck with whatever you choose to do mate.

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What the Snarkpitters listen to!

No. I joined at the ANTICIPATED release of HL2. Which was about 1.5 years before it actually happened.

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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

OtZman said:
It's funny that you mention how you're one of the oldest users, because I still think of you as "one of the new guys"

idd. Well, not very new ofcourse. There have been a lot of big debates involving you i remember :wink:

Anyway, there are actually still a lot of users posting with a member number below 1000, so i don't really understand why you feel out of place.

But it's your decision and i'm sure it's founded. gl in all future endeavours, and i'm sure we'll see you again.

Word up nucka, jump up on dat "ARR ELL" 'n shiz.

Let me know when you get rich selling affordable prefabricated housing door-to-door or whatever it is the kids are doing these days, so I can come leech of ur monies.

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It's funny that you mention how you're one of the oldest users, because I still think of you as "one of the new guys"

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idd. Well, not very new ofcourse. There have been a lot of big debates involving you i remember :wink:

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Ya, nothing beats heated internet debates ;>

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Sad to see you go Nickel :sad: Like most of us here, I've had a fair few disagreements with you since you arrived, but you're a genuinely nice guy and have been an asset to the community over the years. You'll be missed.

Did you ever finish that muscle car of yours by the way?

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sniff

Although I haven't seen you around for a while, this is coming as a surprise. "Nickelplate"... in the time I've spent here, that name has always been such a central part of this community for me, it's weird to see you go.

I'm glad you consider still dropping by from time to time, Nickel. It's so sad when people say that they'll never come back again.

Bye, and good luck with whatever you plan for your future! :smile:

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Why snark works.

Well I'm not the kind to be impressed to tears by a melodramatic farewell on an online forum, but i'm sorry to see you go, nickel. :sad:
Don't be a TOTAL stranger now, ya hear?

man, now i can only argue with you at work, and orph won't be able to join in on the fun :sad:

though I've only been at the pit for roughly a year.5, it seems like it's going to be empty, if you're already gone though I guess i'll just have to tell you this at work

It's always nice to take a break from stuff. I'm only just getting back into mapping after taking a year and a half or so off.

What kind of example is this to set for the noobies and I?

Well, post updates of your life and such, and don't spend every second of every day thinking about what's happening at the Snarkpit.

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As I Lay Dying

Breathe in: the air's much clearer now.

Its sad to see you leave Nickelplate.

You can never escape...

Its been good having you here Nickel, hope whatever you fill the void in your time left by the Snarkpit is even more fulfilling. You, like all the other regulars (and yes, you are a regular) who leave will be missed.

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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

does this make me old? :razz:

seriously, goodbye :sad:

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Signature? What signature!?

Haha, 90% of the internet probably disagrees with me.

WeNo, It's about 90% done. I'll come back to tell you fellas all about it. complete with pics!

Reaper47, Danke, ich werde Zurueckgange! You can count on it!

andrei, :biggrin:

Fatstrings: get to work, foo.

Gorb, MSN messenger, mate.

Stradric, you're in good hands.

Cassius, get over it, man. Life's too short to even REMEMBER things that happen on the internet much less hold a grudge. A FOND farewell to you, nothing less. :smile:

MisterBister, you never told me what a klister is...

Wil5on, yer my pal... I'll miss ya.

Fjorn, yes, you're old. in a good way.

TBH, guys. I will probably not be able to stand it and come back in a few months. I hope you're all still here when I come back. Even teh 0rph3us!

K, that's all!

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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

See? You're still here...

zzzzzzz

38% chance of him actually leaving.

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http://maze5.net

No-one can escape teh Snarkpit!!!1

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Why snark works.

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 :sad:

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 :sad:

I'm gonna sing a little song:

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

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Just Kidding

Just Kidding

I remember him pretty well, yet i don't know if he actually remembers me...<br style="color: white;"><br style="color: white;">Farewell buddy ,<br style="color: white;"><br style="color: white;">ZnZ

-Oh and btw, nice lyrics flynn :razz: <br style="color: white;">

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

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...?

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!

Flynn said:
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 :sad:

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

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.

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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

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The best things in life, aren't things.

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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LinkedIn: Eric Lancon

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.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

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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What the Snarkpitters listen to!

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.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

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.

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As I Lay Dying

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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What the Snarkpitters listen to!

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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LinkedIn: Eric Lancon

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.

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

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

fishy said:
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. :rolleyes:

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.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

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

NOOO! Do you know how often i use this site to answer my hammer questions.

I dont really know who the hell you are, but I'm sad your leaving. Hope to see ya on this site soon:)

Oh and while I was lightly skimming the content of this thread I heard somthing about the snarkpit closeing. IT BETTER NOT!!!!!!! I will support snarkpit till the very end. Just like halo :smile:

Good luck nickelplate,

aaron.

edit: OMG, I was reading this page offline and I had to reconect to the internet to say this. New people do not come here to have a chat, they come here because they are new to mapping or have a problem. I must say that I had a few problems with my maps (reddawn) and I dont know if this is still there but I started a new thread in the half-life1 problem seaction and it said that I must search for the problem before I can start a post. Thats when I thought screw this, I'm going to twhl. And thats what I do. Most of the time I need help with mapping, I go to twhl.

"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." This is what fishy said an I agree with it.

I think that this site needs to be more user freindly to the newbies. Its needs more tuts and more people that are willing to help out the newbies, because they are the people who become super pros than a few years down the track, they help out the newbies, then those newbies grow and so on. I know that I am fairly new to the site and lots of people hate me, but one day I will have lots of respect and I will be helping people and know this site like the back of my hand and most of you people on now will not be on anymore. Than one day it sounds crazy to me but I will get board and discover more imprtant things and than leave. But that wont be for ages. I still use thae half-life 1 engine. I'm living in the past.

There is no need to include more games support and support consoles. The diffrent people would clash and it will get messy. However I wouln'd mind if you supported halo1 pc modding because I recently download the hek kit and will make some nice maps for halo :smile: . All you people need to worry about is having a good time on snarkpit, and talking about half-life and modding, and stuff you can do with the engines and be cool :cool: .

The snarkpit wont close, dont make me lugh, however we need to attract the noobs and help them. Then they will be stuck to snarkpit. I know that there is alot of stuff that is so annoying about this site that will make it alot better.

I will add though, I dared a freind to go onto www.bungie.net and say that half-life2 and gears of war where better than the 3 halo's combined. And within about what was it 5 minutes?, there where more than 200 replys of angry halo nuts like me :smile:

If that was all messy than I am sorry. I am watching saw II at the moment and I just saw the bit about the guy getting burnt, and I am home alone becuase my brother is at a sleepover and my mum is on a date. Ooh la la. Also I will not re-read it because there to much stuff to read. Have a nice day. Just reflecting on what I wrote, its so messy:)

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Aaron's Stuff

if you can't put the smallest amount of effort into looking through the editing section to see if your question has already been answered then there's no reason to bother helping you, and you have no business demanding the 'super pros' help you either.

yeah I didn't really read anything anyone else said, but you're not going anywhere... I've been trying to 'leave' for 5 years, but I keep coming back every now and then. Hell, I think everyone has lost track of how many times Orpheus has already 'left'... I won't even get started with Cassius...

I cant stop visiting this site from one time to another ... Its just...WEIRD !!!<br style="color: white;"><br style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">I think SnarkPit has injected us with a rare fluid-like phenomenon that will attract you closer to this site, this is used by integrating Physic's LawOfMotion and Dalton'sTheory to accomplish such a thing, when an electron passes through the ionic charge expanding the attraction forces to a 105 degree angle, this means the polarity between the 2 atoms are Stronger, or sometimes Weaker...Thus leading to the increase of attracted particles to your Monitor and the Manipulation of your brain to type down www.snarkpit.net ...
<br style="color: lightblue;">This is all true...and one day, you will agree that this theory is TRUE...

</span><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: white;">Dont blame me, all what I said came out from nowhere ...</span><br style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"></span></div>

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

Where are the SP servers? We can use that and a frappr to calculate each member's individual attraction to the Snarkpit!

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As I Lay Dying

You don't jhave to leave completely, :sad: just become less active! you can't just leave us here. :smile:

Anyways, wish you the best of luck with the rest of your life. :smile:

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Hell, is an half-filled auditorium

Sniffles. So long !

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:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer

I was talking to him at work the other day and he says he won't come back until he forces himself to complete one of his maps, just give him time

Hehe, I tried that once "I won't post on sp untill I can post a completed map"
I failed. :sad:

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