Be Excellent To Each Other

Five years ago, I met two Germans. They had names, but I struggled to pronounce (and spell) them, so I just called them Knut and Helga.

Since the exact day I entered their lives, Knut and Helga have been in love, and spent all of their time together (literally - I think they've only been apart for about a day since).
This, as you can imagine, had an effect on them - Helga became withdrawn, and more and more would only talk to Knut. Soon she didn't need other people in her life at all to get on with what she did, and would only talk to Knut.

Knut was still working, so did talk to other people - in fact, that was his job, he'd tell people things (often things that Helga had told him).

Sadly, for me, Knut and Helga have gotten old before their time, and me and them have to part ways.

This is going to lead to some forum downtime, sometime in the next month.

I'm going to miss them

Is this about the bill and ted forums?

It's about the servers that host them. The forums are called 'Bill' and 'Ted', durr.

I couldn't tell if this was a genuine sad story, or a tale of two servers.

I am disappoint.

Aw. We should leave them in place doing some meaningless task they can't mess up, or something. Like reviewing the answers to the anti-spam question.

I hear you, but I'm not into sentimentality when it costs £150PCM


Your face is an anti-spam question.

autogenerating BeexWeex.

What are we supposed to do when there's no forum? Is it going to take a whole day or just a couple of hours? Can you do it when I'm not at work, so I am at liberty to go and do something else?

Seeing as how facial-focus recognition systems never seem to find Craster, maybe his face really could be used as a bot-fooling captcha of some kind.

Crasters face is a spunk catcher.

I am the ghost in the machine.

If this is going to take ages we need to set up a temporary free board or something. Failing that, it might be fun to all pile onto WoS and just carry on like normal, as if we'd all been there the whole time.

Hmm, how much is he charging for new threads these days?

We totally should do this. It will be the BIG BEEX HOLIDAY, 2011.

Should be minutes.

But what about our big holiday?

Heh.

One day each year we should pick a totally random forum on the web (I don't know, Whioppet Fanciers United, or something) and invade it in said manner.

I once floated the idea of going over there purely to play MafiaScum.

Well, the replacement server is configured, and I've migrated The Craster Scale onto it, and it seems fine.

Beex (along with everything else) will probably move this week

What should I call the new server? It is also German.

Rufus.

Jürgen or Eva, depending on gender.

I quite like Eva. It's short, for one thing.

Oh, also: I'm looking to cull some (fucking loads) of the stuff that never gets touched any more.

/glances at UpToJump

It's also refreshingly free of umlauts.

Himmler?

Bob.

Dutch

No, German.

Elvis...

Alright, enough names!

What about UpToJump? Should we keep it?

uptowhat?


Seriously I have only looked at it a handful of times.

I have no deep connection to it. I never liked the name

German server?

Boris, surely.

UptoJump never took off did it... what a waste!

But yes, dump it.

Where is it located these days? I'd like to save the articles I wrote (if any, I can't remember now).

[edit]Holy shit, or not!

What happened there?

Domain Renewal date: 11-Jul-2012

So it's not that.

No, I got it.
Bear with.

There we go.

http://www.uptojump.co.uk/

Last article - July 2009

You lazy cunts.

Quite. If we could have somehow harnessed the amount of energy that went into arguing about how it should have been done and used that, it'd be this year's Eurogamer

Well, we're much leaner now WTB has removed the cancers, so I have high hopes for greater productivity in 2012.

We'll all be too busy not going to the Olympics.

<hangs up running shoes>
<cries>
I coullda been a contender.

Oh yeah... Well, I think I'm free in 2013.