Apollo News

An interesting piece of a conversation on IRC:

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<Admin_1> its fair to presume the fears

<Admin_1> but lets look at this realistically
•Admin_2 sets mode +m on #APOLLO

<Admin_1> there are no lies in that announcement, we are not taking your money and running

<Admin_1> its up to you to donate

<Admin_1> if we only receieve half the donations and we cant get this up and running, we will be discussing with everyone who can possibly be there what we should do with it

<Admin_1> donate it to a charity

<Admin_1> give it to another tracker

<Admin_1> etc

<Admin_2> It's up to you guys if we continue this adventure, or not

<Admin_1> we fucking care about this shit

<Admin_1> we are certainly not stealing or ripping you off or being shady
•Admin_2 sets mode -m on #APOLLO

<Admin_1> its all love here, but please, PLEASE dont ignore what we are saying

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And something to have a few laughs with (this is written from someone else, not by me):

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Here are all the promises APL made in that Announcement from 2 1/2 weeks ago.

• "Migrate to a new host/server/etc"

Great! And will this be happening during this decade or the next one?

• "FINALLY, we have these answers"

That statement made me chuckle and deserves a lower-case lmao

• "thankfully we can stop teasing the age old quip of "coming soon""

Congrats! You stopped "teasing the age old quip of "coming soon"" for one whole sentence.

• "All of those long awaited updates we have been teasing for months will finally be pushed to the new site.."

One whole sentence later, you're right back to "teasing the age old quip of "coming soon"" you just finished saying you were putting a stop to.

• "...as we now have full control."

That statement deserves a full-blown, capitalized LMAO

• "A brand new logchecker, bonus points system, ease of use bugfixes, and a myriad of other small features are planned implementations to be introduced immediately."

As you can see, when APL says "we can stop teasing the age old quip of "coming soon"", it actually means "we cannot stop teasing the age old quip of "coming soon"".

• "now that we have unrestricted access"

For those who don't know, on Planet APL, "unrestricted access" actually means "NO access".

• "Essentially, we will be better than ever before!"

Wow! Not just better than "ever"...but better than "ever before"! Impressive!

• "We are soon to be back and have a solid game plan"

But...but...we will all be dead in 2117!

• "rest assured that your continued involvement will be cherished and rewarded"

Yes. cherished

• "Empty promises are a thing of the past"

Here, APL conveniently leaves out the fact that APL's "empty promises" are also a thing of the present and the future.

• "We love you all and have much in store for our future"

It's about time; we hadn't seen a promise for 3 whole sentences. lmao

• "More to come very, very soon."

When APL promises "very, very soon", it actually means sometime this century, give or take a decade!

• "Please stay tuned!"

For more promises, I gather.

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