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I think this may be the 1st game I have been excited for in a long time. Starcraft was the 1st computer game I ever bought and one of my favorite games ever. I normally hate those style of games, but for some reason Starcraft just had the right style... I dunno. Something about it just made it fun. Can't wait for the new one... mhmm.

Read this in the paper the other morning at work. Found it kinda interesting. http://www.good.is/post/washington-gets-america-s-first-electric-highway?GT1=48001

Ignore "clichs" and shit like that. I many times passed up "Quest" (special classes for "gifted" kids) cause I wanted to be with all my friends and found school boring and skipped a lot. I also picked on and treated most the smart kids or computer geek type kids like crap. Funny enough at home away from most my friends I myself was dwelling into computers with my cousin. Looking back, I really wish I woulda done the Quest classes as a buddy of mine who actually did got a fully paid ride through the University of Washington for 4yrs. Lots of huge grants and shit available to the kids who go through those classes. Or atleast at the minimum did the college prep classes like my youngest brother did. The one thing I told my bros and luckily they listened... "Work hard now, and have fun later". I got lucky and got a really good paying job for the government, but that was a lot of hard work, and still is proving myself. It sucks seeing people I went to school with walkin around as Engineers or working Codes (overseers of most the work done on the ships/subs/etc. by people like me). Knowing what I'll have to go through to get there, and they're already there and working comfortably really sucks. So take my experience as example. And I am sure many others could give you their same experiences, but really, take them to heart.

From DSB's News.txt: Following the previous announcement on 13 June, I have decided not to shutdown the zone. For more information can be found here: http://forums.deathstarbattle.com/showthread.php?t=1749 -Hoch Seems the players pursuaded Hoch to go against his personal feelings. Tack another point for the players of this community fighting to keep it alive.

Yeah. Thanks for the info Sketter, but it was a lot simpler than that in this case, hah.

If you read it, it is in celebration of the world cup. Those are all the countries who went to the world cup.

There is always a time when you realize there is a human behind that little ship moving around and typing back at you. Not just some AI, or some preprogrammed response. Luckily a lot of times, it is when SS Players get together to hang out, have a drink, goto a game, give each other a hand, or just meet up for any random reason. But sadly, over the many years, there has also been the times when that ship will never log in again. White_0men was a long time Player, HZ Community Member, and Former Staffer. I think it shows how much he touched his community as a human being more than just another ship or player by their response to his death. The thread continues to grow with condolences, and people giving their stories and accounts of him. The HZ Community has even setup a Memorial Fund for his family to show that he meant a lot to their community, and they knew him as more than just another player. A senseless act of violence took another person's life. Even though the news story comments are controversial due to his job, he was a good person, always one to say Hi, and talk for a while. Noone deserves to die the way he did, regardless of anyone's personal beliefs. If you would like to join the HZ Community in showing his family your support, you can paypal donations C/O BlueGoku to: devoit@gmail.com Thanks.

Might be some interest. That or modifying the server to work with our client or a multi functional client. Could be very interesting. I know a few people I may pass this onto.

Been busy this weekend. Doing Relay for Life, and working on stuff around the house. I should be back and working on stuff shortly. Just been a lot of projects I have put off saving for the wedding I am now working on. Please let your friends, squadmates, etc. know what is going on around SSGN, as the more who visit, the more push it gives me to try and find time. Also, if you'd like to donate to the cause: http://main.acsevents.org/goto/scottbinford

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9thjgHGS38k

WTH, noone has brought this up yet? This will be epic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-d5UYRT2aw

There is the old thank you button system, but dunno if it moved from 2.3 to 3.1

Either TW Closed some bots... or EG is doing something right... or both...

hmm... didn't know it came from that also. I always remembered it from an old War movie my grandfather loved to watch when it was on AMC. But alas, everything is always reused anyways.

The best/most I can say about all of this situation... There is a DSB... There will be a DSB... Hoch is not the end of DSB... I know Hoch feels his reasoning is good/right, but people aren't going to accept it like he hopes. A quote that applies to all of SubSpace, along with DSB: "We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight!"

Nowhere was it said the name Death Star Battle could be used. BattleZone SVS (Alpha Map/Settings) was authorize and given SSC access, but they didn't want to do it without the name. Rebel Star Battle isn't Death Star Battle. On top of that, Alpha was a dead zone, where this is a zone where there is quite a few active players. There could even be another Star Wars and Star Wars Realm exception made here. Never know. It's all just waiting and watching for most of us.

Actually, Argyle takes care of the server still. Or so I am told by other DSB sysops/staff. And nowhere are my words what the council will/might do. Just things I've seen happen in the past that could happen again. Major zones have been taken from their owners more than once in the past (DSB being one of them) by server ops / other sysops. Though dunno Argyle's thoughts/feelings on what is going on, but he loved DSB enough to do everything he has for it. A lot of it will happen outside the council between the host and zone owner and staff. The only thing I see the council deciding, is allowing a new DSB like zone onto SSC for the players. Hoch is hard headed, so noone will change his mind. So honestly, if I was a group of pissed off DSB players, I'd plan more for the after than the now.

Since I am tired of the spam in my inbox... (attempting to read wedding congrats e-mails) Hoch is the European BanG Admin. BanG Admins have always typically been active zone owners/head sysops on the SSC Network. So dunno if this will continue afterwards. Exceptions can be made in extreme situations such as this to any guidelines... SSC, Billing, BanG, etc. So far the council is reacting the same way and asking the same questions everyone else is. We will not remove a zone sysop. Though if Argyle removed Hoch for any reason... not sure how that reaction would go down. Though if Loops or Chy stepped in, they quite possibly would be supported. Again, all a case by case, who really knows basis. Right now I haven't had enough time to read into this, but figured I'd just cover the questions that were asked here rather than constantly e-mailing em back. Now back to relaxing.

I'm not posting the internal notes, but that wasn't the case. He's about as much of an asshole as me in those internal notes sometimes.

I never post these, but this one I have to nominate for best SSC Ban Ticket EVER... For those who know SpaceShark, feel free to send Ratio/The Junky a big thank you

Main Site News will soon be moved to a new articles system. This will allow all news management to happen here on the frontpage of the site instead of the forums. News Posting, Comments, etc. will all be contained here, and will use the same login/cookie as the forums. So if you are logged in on the forums, you will be logged in on the site, and vice versa. This will require the addition of a Login box on the site, but should be pretty simple to add in. Player content will also be fully controlable from the site, and specialized databases will allow for quick and easy input. It will also allow staff to manage content sections a lot more easily, and will keep everything very dynamic and updated. Forums New forums have been added for non-subspace discussion, and a lot more focus on SubSpace topics will hopefully come in the general discussion forum. There may also be a few new subspace themed forums added soon, all focusing on giving more areas for specialized discussion. As always, please visit the Feedback and Support forum and let us know how we are doing, and/or what we can improve. Thanks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idLG6jh23yE http://www.slate.com/id/2256074/?GT1=38001 --- I have to agree. Very entertaining and kept my attention for 3mins. Didn't seem really over hyped or lame, as it does play on the whole reality of the fact that 1 shot could make a career difference.

Dropped to 10s. Forget why it was that high. Probably had to do with JDS or Rootbear. New. Promote to article (once the news is up and running, and if I decide to use it) allows you to promote a post/topic to the frontpage news as a news article. will do on the fav icon. Facebook login had some issues with a few browsers last time, but might be worth a try again. Also have twitter connect. Done along with Games. I'll fix the avatars and emoticons sometime tonight or this week. Just busy with wedding stuff. I'm also going to create a version of the navbar just for SSGN.net sites with quick menu links to stuff around the website. Will make it nice to quickly browse around.

Actually sounds like zone settings. Like you guys are flooding out, which subgame will automatically block connection flooders for some time. The zone will look up, you'll be able to connect to other zones on the server, but not that zone itself. I have had it randomly happen in other zones before, but pretty rare. So I'd assume something in 17th's settings or server.ini is set wrong.

That and cleaning it up heavily is something that has been talked about. Some have mentioned just taking some of the best and inputing them into a new database as they kind of became 1 zoned and really make no sense to SS as a whole. That or are just plain retarded. But that was just a lack of administration and poor D1st0rt not wanting to read through thousands of them and delete a bunch.