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So hopefully I'll see you guys elsewhere on the Internet, and if I choose to return I hope the admin team won't have decided to delete my profile with no warning and no hope of recovery -- because apparently that's the MO around here. As the kids say, TTYL!
ILMFAN.com is finally back up after a multi-year absence, but there is no substantial filmtalk there, but you can find me for a tech question or a bit of gabbing. Got no idea where I'm gonna wind up for significant posting, but it won't be on commanderbond either, thasforsure.
Regards,
Kevin H. Martin
Everyone complains about change to begin with, but guess what - you will get used to it.
Stop giving people a hard time because the toys someone let you play with fell out of your pram. They are giving you new toys to play with, which are strange at first but might actually be better than the mouldy old teddy you did have.
Another example: I've worked hard to keep my old PlayStation still running. Same with my PS2 and Nintendo 64. I have yet to own any game system that was made since then.
Just because something is new, doesn't mean it's going to be any better.
EDIT: Or not. Sorry Tubes!
@DarthBork - Yup I believe lots can be modified, AndyLucas or James were about to start a thread to explain what features were next on the to do list.
Come back in a couple of months then won't you? By then things should be much better.
I can live without my old posts, I'v never seen these boards as more than a time waster where I can talk about something I enjoy while I should be doing something else. I'm not cut up about it. That said, I can certainly see how for others who had significant personal stuff on those boards are frustrated and I empathise with that. I think this certainly could've been handled better and I'm disappointed that it wasn't. A couple of days notice, maybe even a day or two where this got run as a BETA of sorts would've made a massive difference in terms of the good will or lack thereof that's been displayed to this.
So yeah, no illwill, just a bit of frustration and a lot on my plate.
Now that that's been flipped on its head, I think I'm gonna take some time off. Navigating this version is just frustrating.
If things change, I'll come back, but for now, I'm going to head elsewhere. Pleasure knowing you all.
While I'm not going to say I'm definitely leaving, this new layout is going to make it very tough to visit here like I once did. I'll give it a while to sink in, like everyone probably should, but I don't imagine myself getting used to this, and I also will probably be waving goodbye to MI6 if radical changes aren't made to this format at some point. In the meantime, I think I'll head over to a different site. (I fear for my eyes, though. Black on white on yellow is really difficult to read.)
But I too was taken aback by the sudden overhaul.. but, with anything, I will give it some time to get used to.. it's human nature to react adversely to drastic change, but in the long run, I don't think this will be any less of a community page than the previous one..
I've been on here for two years now and this has by far been the friendliest forum I've been on. I'm really not that close to anyone on here, but I can't think of a single poster (other than the obvious trolls) that I've not enjoyed having some sort of dialogue with.
I can't speak for the old days when the forum first started, but I can speak for the last two years, and it has been a pleasure to be here. There are far worst forums to be at.
There's no reason why new enjoyable memories can't be made here.
I know we've had our differences and arguments these last 5 1/2 years I''ve been a member of the MI6 forums; there has been a few times I wanted to strangle some of you and some of you wanted to strangle me.
But overall, it's been fun!
This sudden overnight nuke of the entire MI6 forum and subsequently not giving us any advance warning of it happening nor giving us the necessary time to salvage our threads is pretty disheartening!!
How do you recover from something like this?
I wouldn't even know how to begin.
Therefore, I think I will head on to Commander Bond and try to start a new home there.
"Why do we say Goodbye?
I know! It's just so final,
it just doesn't work for me.
[Now in some far away land,
people have a single word that means both goodbye and hello;
it's sort of a generalized all purpose one size fits all verbal gesture.
Okay, it's a small improvement, very small
but it doesn't address the full gravity of the question.]
It's like... if you say goodbye.
you are not really sure you are ever coming back, not absolutely positive.
I think goodbye has a bit of an ending
there is a chance than you'll never see that person again
I think that people die a little bit everytime that they say it
So My MI6 Friends:
promise me that you will never say goodbye
not until it really is goodbye,
then you can,
then i won't mind,
I will be in a place where I won't mind at all."
Love,
James Roberto DeAngelis
(j7wild)