BarrysWorld Closing

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  Please explain exactly how GameSpy is the evil empire you make it out to be. Did Mark Surfas come to you... : x-eyd|mary
  • Mark Sufras came to my house one day and impregnated my mom, so I'm supposed to technically be Mike Sufr... : prower
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    Look at the number of domains GS has registered and tell me they are not evil. planetmissyelliot.com? : Zapp0
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      Oh. I guess you, uhhh, got me there. I forgot about the highly touted evils of URL registrations. : x-eyd|mary
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        dude, they own like verysingle url for a game sequel out there. they are the ultimate squatters even... : Zapp0
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          See I dont have any problem with what they're doing because typically they'll actually put the domain t... : johnny rotten
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            i agree. the planetwhatever thing is gamespy's gig. who can blame them from registering stuff to pr... : pupismyname
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              just like any company that starts to make money (or tries to), they become evil. That is just the way i... : quietb0y
              • yeah eating sucks...who wants to make money anyways. : davecrazy
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  GSI's time is coming, mark my words. ...Not that I have any preternatural hatred of them or anything... : johnny rotten
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    I don't know about that...... I once gave them $20 for GameSpy, and they might tempt me to buy something... : Saeger
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      I gave them $20 for gamespy which they seemed to have taken away from me. : nofxsux
      • what do you mean "taken away?" drop support@gamespy.com a line and they'll fix you up. : Tungsten

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• I hear ya bro. If the shack closes down, I'll be like a ship adrift on a windless sea. : EggMan

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  Same here... Hate to see some of the sites go, but I hate how the net is being ruined by the advertisi... : Goat Whore
  • So you want all your favorite sites hosted on geocities? What? You didnt realize hosting was expensiv : johnny rotten
  • Yes! Academia is finally fighting back! :) Not. The only thing fighting back is bandwidth costs & bad bu... : Saeger
• Its here to stay, get usted to it. There *IS* money to be made, you just need to work your ass of for it... : davecrazy

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• unless thoes 700 people have a few thousand dollars a peice to contribute they are wasting their time an... : davecrazy

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• I spy an old skool chap! and a fellow u-net user too! yay! I was Extream.. : -pRy-

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  i got the new box to cover my ass because of all this stuff going on, so i can have 2 boxes running in c... : Steve Gibson
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    if they pulled the plug, would the first box be theirs? also, you think you're 1337 enough to manage AL... : ILF
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      no. box is owned by me. but in order to save any downtime i would point the dns over to the backup machi... : Steve Gibson
      • panic, even. : Steve Gibson
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        What type of panic? People just refusing to buy ads on the net for any reason? : baron calamity
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          lots of ads are still being sold, and lots of $ is still being made... its just being hacked down to rea... : Steve Gibson
          • realistic levels? so now you can't afford the extravagant payments on your geo metro. for shame, ... : pupismyname
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          people got usted to a *lot* of money being tossed arround at ad banners. "Quick we need advertising!... : davecrazy
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            you are correct sir. i'm probably going to have to do something drastic to my ad rates since things a... : Steve Gibson
            • Your ads are actually pretty cheap considering. But then I haven't looked nut in a few places. : baron calamity
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              thats why you're rates shouldent be public knowledge. Advertiser A pays X Advertiser B pays Y an... : davecrazy
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                yeah considered that. the thing was a lot of advertisers are just so unfamiliar with web advertising ... : Steve Gibson
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                  i announced shack was open for advertising (with no public rates).. sold a total of zero (just some i : davecrazy
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                    aye... obviously contracting an ad sales person/team would be my #1 choice. i actually did almost do tha... : Steve Gibson
                    • aye that would be wise. But, who wants to take on an account with a web page that is in churning waters ... : davecrazy
            • yeah, but don't refund them, give them advertising credit. : xvdl
      • panic on YOUR side? what form are you thinking about for the future? did your incomes fall since ugo : ILF
      • you rock! now that we are addicted, we can't go without our shack goodness! backup plans are comf... : haokah

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• wait a second. you're currently posting on the, get this, shugashack. pup (right) : pupismyname
• nd shugashack is of course the natural name for a gaming website? (note this is not a dig at shugashack) : stranger
• I used to play LMCTF over at Barry's every now and then. Funny, back then I could manage a 120ping to th... : xvdl

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• #75 that obviously isnt the case or Barrysworld would be striving. They had the best servers for almost ... : disembodied potato
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  If Shuga hosts some kick ass game servers, How would this work? I have never heard of a closed, pay : GoofyBoy
  • the people in ER are the ones paying the bills : Ominous
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    i would pay for THE SHUGASHACK COUNTER-STRIKE SERVER. you'd have to be a regular to understand. cs ... : pupismyname
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      cs on the shack is great Its because of the people right? Well what if they don't pay? There is... : GoofyBoy
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        the hardcore ones will. those are the ones i want to play with. pup (that's why i'm so sad it's g... : pupismyname
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          Then why don't you still play with them? What is easier, paying $X per month or picking some server... : GoofyBoy
          • it's the coordination that's the problem. with the shack server, i can be assured that there's prett... : pupismyname
  • the news is not the strongest part of this web site as far as 1st with the info, hard fast stuff, but th... : davecrazy

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• I did till I realised you needed to be online 24/7 to be any good at it. It was a bitch trying to coordi... : davecrazy
• yea, sux cus the barrysworld servers were actually decent compared to their old ones : halfwaybastard

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  I didnt want to say anything to look like a retard but believe it or not, there are other pupsters out... : hohoh0
  • i need to write up a faq on how i got my name... pup (and it's not just my handle, i go by pup in ... : pupismyname

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• i dont know aobut the future, but the apst has sucked...i can't ever remember clicking a banner ever. ... : firebone
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  Yup, that's how porn works, and we all know how porn leads all industry. (There's still room for some... : Saeger
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    Porn leads all media. Books, Video, Cable, Satellite, DVD, Internet... : Vantage
    • No, porn leads all industry, not just media! :) Name one thing that doesn't have something to do with se... : Saeger