The Hive is hurt.

Aeson said:

I'm sure something will happen to cause me to go back to my dark brooding self. Then all will be right in the world again.

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The_Warlock said:

Not too bad...though after the leg work, I can say that finding an alternative ISP for the business has shown me that my choices are between frustrating, suck, and snake-oil.

Our ISP has issues sometimes, and they don't actually have the weight to be an effective advocate for us to the infrastructure provider - which means when stuff goes wrong, we can commiserate with someone, but that doesn't actually speed resolution.

The telephone based ISP where despite the fact that they could hook customers with higher speeds for lower prices are refusing the loss leader option despite the billions they've raked in over the years from government grants that they haven't lived up to (says the FCC), and instead are selling access at premium prices despite being half the speed of the cable alternative.

Then there's cable which has high speed offerings for what seems a great price - until you talk with the rep and in passing they mention that all those prices on their website are actually promotional prices, not standard prices and you have to pay a little extra and sign a contract to lock in the price, otherwise they may, at any point, start charging you the actual price which is double what they have advertised. A "real" price that they have listed NOWHERE on their site or in their mailings or brochures.

So life is good, but as usual, I hate people and corporations.

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The_Warlock said:

At which point the HIve should organize a Commando Slap Team to paratroop into your domicile and slap some happy back into you and leave.

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Aeson said:

Maybe the sunlight agrees with me.

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hafrogman said:

So I was all set and ready to rush off and create an alt-account named 'The Sunlight', just so I could reply to this message with a "No, not really." I had my avatar and I knew what I was going to write in my sig, and everything.

Have they always restricted us to one account per e-mail address? I could have sworn that you could have more than one, just for ease of keeping track of such things. Damn. I only have the one address. . .

. . . well, and my work address which I'm not going to use for registering a joke account for a gaming forum.

*sigh*

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Aeson said:

I've never created an alt for this site. I have for CM. One I used my normal email and Spoony used it to out me. Others I used other email addresses.

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Aeson said:

You know you've invited someone else to steal your joke, right?

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Aeson said:

Maybe the sunlight agrees with me.

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The Sunlight said:

I can't say that I do. You have sunburn, you just don't know it yet.

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hafrogman said:

Yeah, I know he did a lot to keep this site up and running, which I appreciate. But he comes across as a real jerk a lot of the time.

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hafrogman said:

Meh, it was a joke with a very short half-life, I felt. It hasn't been done yet, now it just won't be funny any more. If I could have done a 5 minute turn around, it would have been great.

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Aeson said:

Sounds like the choice for now is to stay with what you have or at least go with the snake oil. They may provide the better service in the end.

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Aeson said:

I had a good day. I haven't had one in awhile.

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The_Warlock said:

It's about time!

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