How did the Diaspora change Your Life?

JohnT · April 23, 2003, 19:47

Apolyton shut down, what, 2-3 days? That's a long time for some of you bigger addicts... how did you make it through the scattering?

Me, I registered at FFZ and decided not to resurrect my Jesus H. Christ DL at Counterglow.

Chilean President™ · April 23, 2003, 19:51

Some of us went to Master Zen Online forum and thats how we survived the dark days without Poly.

MRT144 · April 23, 2003, 19:52

I went on an uncontrolable spending binge for music production software

H Tower · April 23, 2003, 19:54

masterzen.net and CGN. And hitting refresh about a billion times

JCG · April 23, 2003, 19:54

Yup...and having a custom Avatar without having to spam all the way through was good too.

Sigh...

Ming · April 23, 2003, 19:54

Yeah... it was good to see you at FFZ JohnT.

I just posted and surfed at a bunch of other forums I usually look at.

ixnay · April 23, 2003, 19:54

Well, I have 3 forums that i visit regularly (Apolyton, Something Awful, PPGWorld), plus my own forums, so I survived for awhile. However, at one point yesterday, all 3 were down and I was forced to just use my site.

Skanky Burns · April 23, 2003, 19:55

I posted at CGN (which I sometimes do normally) and found an Apolyton channel on dalnet.

VetLegion · April 23, 2003, 20:32

Great opportunity to check out other civ sites. And there seem to be quite some

Few posts at civfanatics is all I did. Nice place.

Propaganda · April 23, 2003, 20:35

I shot myself in the foot, so I wouldn't have to think about it.

ColdWizard · April 23, 2003, 20:38

I bounced between FFZ and CGN

Ben Kenobi · April 23, 2003, 21:01

Had a life beyond Apolyton for once.

Got some work done.

Nothing out of the ordinary...

Sava · April 23, 2003, 21:30

"Diaspora"? I only get that when I eat bad Mexican food.

Dr Strangelove · April 23, 2003, 22:03

I'm employed.

Edan · April 23, 2003, 22:08

There was no outage - it was all lies! - the Iraqi Information Minister told me so, so it must be true.

Sirotnikov · April 23, 2003, 22:09

Well I don't know about you guys but we Jews are used to diaspora. So we just wore our skull caps and went to pray for a return to apolyton in the synagogue.

Actually several Zionist thinkers suggested that we should ourselves begin purchasing web space from settler and creating our own Apolyton forums. Of course there were claims that the space we were about to purchase was actually populated by the real Apolyton site, but we consider this rumors. I mean - the site was off line. This means the web space was never used. We Jews could have gotten much better use out of it.

But now, alas, the quick return of Apolyton has thwarted our Zionist hopes of internet independance. Blast you, Apolyton, and your quick return to your father's server.

(all of the above is said in a cynical humorous mood. welcome back folkes)

Boris Godunov · April 23, 2003, 22:10

What is this place? Why am I feeling mystically drawn here?

Imran Siddiqui · April 23, 2003, 22:12

I spent more time at 'Straight Dope' and 'Front Office Football Central'. It was good fun (but not enough

).

Oh, and that finals thing got some attention from me

.

Asher · April 23, 2003, 22:16

I actually studied for some of my damn finals. And now, I can't.

Lancer · April 23, 2003, 22:54

Apolyton shut down?

Tuberski · April 23, 2003, 22:57

MasterZen, Counterglow, Freefirezone, and refreshing at Apolyton.

At one time, only Counterglow was up.

ACK!

Lonestar · April 23, 2003, 22:59

Hung out at Straight Dope and SD.net.

Imran, I presume you're "Isiddiqui" over at SDMB, I'm SpaceGhostofArrakis, haven't posted in while, although I do ahve the dubious honor of being on the recieving end of a Pit Thread.

Zero · April 23, 2003, 23:02

Quote:

Originally posted by Lancer
Apolyton shut down?

I didnt notice it either. I tried logging on once this week and couldnt connect. I immediately blamed it on crappy interent connection I was having and forgot about it. Then I just checked the mail sent by Alva notifying me there's "alternative poly" online setup by MZ.

I also check few other forums, so I wouldnt have had problem "coping" if I had nothing to do during those days. Actually, I spend more of my forum time while my friends are hanging out in my room, so it will just mean that I'll be devoting little more attention to stupid drunken conversations thats coming out of their mouths.

Imran Siddiqui · April 23, 2003, 23:09

Quote:

Imran, I presume you're "Isiddiqui" over at SDMB, I'm SpaceGhostofArrakis, haven't posted in while, although I do ahve the dubious honor of being on the recieving end of a Pit Thread.

Correct.

And

. Sorry dude! Though when I was posting on Great Debates (many moons ago), I noted the NASTY tone there. Minty Green and Collonsbury especially acted like *******s to people who simply dared to disagree with them.

JohnT · April 23, 2003, 23:18

Quote:

Originally posted by Lonestar
Hung out at Straight Dope and SD.net.

Imran, I presume you're "Isiddiqui" over at SDMB, I'm SpaceGhostofArrakis, haven't posted in while, although I do ahve the dubious honor of being on the recieving end of a Pit Thread.

Another Apolytoner, Urban Ranger, got pitted for being snarky in a computer help thread.

I am "JohnT" over at the SDMB (and at FFZ and Counterglow).

Urban Ranger · April 23, 2003, 23:27

I did some studying for my MBA.

Urban Ranger · April 23, 2003, 23:28

Quote:

Originally posted by Lonestar
Hung out at Straight Dope and SD.net.

Imran, I presume you're "Isiddiqui" over at SDMB, I'm SpaceGhostofArrakis, haven't posted in while, although I do ahve the dubious honor of being on the recieving end of a Pit Thread.

/me points and laughs at Lonestar.

Lonestar · April 24, 2003, 00:03

I got pitted by Jarbabyjay after I posted a Thread about my first week as a sophomore in the Texas A&M Corps Of Cadets. I'm a dirty hazer, and in later threadsd she would bring it up so often, people eventually told her to knock it off. Even though I'm a low-postcount guy (350 posts after 2 years)

JohnT · April 24, 2003, 00:07

Uh, oh. You hazed, and then proudly admitted doing so? On the SDMB????

You are a brave man. The only position that will get you slammed faster is "I feed my baby formula because it is more convenient."

Lonestar · April 24, 2003, 00:10

Quote:

Originally posted by JohnT
Uh, oh. You hazed, and then proudly admitted doing so? On the SDMB????

You are a brave man. The only position that will get you slammed faster is "I feed my baby formula because it is more convenient."

Bad wording on my part.

According the SDMB crowd I was a dirty hazer. Apperently, making guys do push-ups for not following the rules=hazing!