New Owner of Amiga.org to be on Amiga Roundtable.

[ffastback]

As for this being blown out of proportions... god yes... I´ve never seen so much fuss over such a simple little thing like a website changing owners, i cant imagine that this would be anything more then a "non-event" on any other non amiga related site?

It changing owners is not an issue.  Nor would it be an issue if the new owner stayed anonymous from the get go (IMHO anyway).  The show came to us however seeking an audience for this "event" a.k.a. coming out party.  Not the other way around.  The show was the one advertising and with exclaimation marks about this.

On non-amiga sites there would not have been a podcast event for this in the first place.  

The secrecy in general seems silly for starters.  The no-show is someone not keeping their word.  Thats disappointing and not the best way to start a relationship.

Any way you slice it that was not cool.  Now maybe you think people have "overreacted".  But it sure would be nice if folks running stuff in Amiga land stopped making the same mistake over and over and over and over again (i.e. the failed announcemet of an announcement) creating silly situations begging for reactions in the first place.

[JimS]

Mil-spec Spanish Lesbians....  ;-)

What disappointed me was the cheesyness of the whole affair. I don't really care who owns the lease... If they run it badly, people will leave, and the place will die, but at least Wayne got something back for his time.

I told folks in the Sunday-nite chat recently that the Amiga saga all the way back to 1985 reminds me of a really bad novel. It keeps getting even more silly as chapters pass... but you've invested so much time in reading it so far that you just can't put it down. ;-) It's almost comedy.

[cecilia]

I'm really jealous of some of the people posting in this thread. I wish my life were so simple and uneventful that I had to make such a big deal over something so insignificant. It must be nice to have so little stress in your life!

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moto

HA! you and me both, buddy

yikkies, I'm crazy busy and just drop in to see what is up and all hell is breaking loose over NOTHING. Mt out of a molehill,
jesus, mary and joseph!

[redrumloa]

I'm just curious about something.

Botched announcement aside (and that's what it was), is there ANYONE IN THIS ENTIRE COMMUNITY -- hell, even on this planet that you guys would NOT be having this little melodramatic hissy fit over?
Wayne

Wow, I missed some fun it seems :lol:

[redrumloa]

Bill Panagouleas will be calling the shots.

I don't think I feel very comfortable about the idea.

Bill has always been a nice guy, WTH is wrong with him?

[odin]

Heh. Good to see Amigaland still can provide some popcorn moments, I was losing confidence.

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This:
"I told folks in the Sunday-nite chat recently that the Amiga saga all the way back to 1985 reminds me of a really bad novel. It keeps getting even more silly as chapters pass... but you've invested so much time in reading it so far that you just can't put it down. ;-) It's almost comedy."

[arnljot]

Again, I understand that as well, though the proportion scale is broken for some.

Absolutely.

We all went bananas there for a while. And we fired eachother up there for a moment.

In retrospect it would be best served if the show was cancelled. Rich vented hotly... We all was shocked, and few of us tried to be calm and understand what had happened. With yourself as an honest exception - well, and the amiga.org admin who was there (Bill).

That it now has blown out of proportions is a responsability we all have to share. But an extra portion or two goes to Rich as he hosted the show. He has many years in broadcasting, like he said he should have rolled with it.

BTW, Even though I sounded like an idiot (I take things way too frivolously and I apparently sound like Kermit the Frog)

Hehe, what you said sounded sound enough. But yes, your voice would be gread in comedy ;-P But then, who am I to talk?

I think the ART came off well with a lot of help from Joe Torre, and I look forward to the opportunity to participate in another some day.

ART is a lot of fun when it works. cancel@45 or what ever we should call it was fun for a while. A few minutes into it. But little new insight came from it this time around, and less laughts. At least no sweet laughter.

[redfox]

12 pages?

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redfox

[mike-]

That it now has blown out of proportions is a responsability we all have to share. But an extra portion or two goes to Rich as he hosted the show. He has many years in broadcasting, like he said he should have rolled with it.

This show was planned for weeks, its like ordering a birthday clown, hyping it for a while to all your friends, all your friends friends, etc. Only to have a worn out alcoholic stand in show up. Rich got stood up here, everything was planned, everyone though we were golden, then it fracked it self for whatever reason that might be. Rich had to save the show, he deserves credit for that, even if some might feel that the language was harsh im sure people have had plans go down the drain in one way or another at some point. And its not always a good happy comfy little accompanying feeling when shit does go wrong. And as a professional talk show host, im sure Rich felt obliged to deliver what has been hyped for the past few weeks, who wouldnt?. And as he said, he had better tings to do then have an interview with a guest thats not around.

Im sure by this time next week this will all have blown over and we can return to our little ppc vs arm vs x86 threads and curse the world for choosing windows.

Where do you get off saying it was uninformative or whatever anyway, did i misinterpret that? I found the interview with Wayne & Joe extremely interesting and informative, atleast :S

[Firedawg]

12 pages?

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redfox

No, its 13! Oh, my bad still 12.

[adz]

Post #174 FTW!!! :roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:

[actung_bab]

hi rich
your awsome dude l know how is sometimes you give so much and you just havent got anymore to give out keep up the faith

[Opus]

enough drama, I don't care who the new owner is, now bring on the spanish lesbians!

[AmigaHeretic]

Whether you love me, or think me the Anti-Christ (as some have said), Wayne Hunt is a known evil that you've all dealt with for 15 years now.

Oh, I don't think any one blames you for the announcement of an announcement not turning into an announcement.  ;-)  Well, I don't anyway.

I think the whole situation is sort of just so thick with irony.   It's nearly unbelievable that our little community has stuff like this happen to it over and over.   I mean I know Sh*t happens everywhere, but it is a little... funny, for lack of a better word, that people can't just "communicate" in the Amiga world.


It's not an issue of "who" the new owner is, it could be Jesus or a naked hot chick, it more a matter of 'playing games'.  

So, here we are, a great site being owned be another person incapable of communication.  

Bill McEwen and anyone related to Amiga Inc. had horrible communication skills.

Bill Buck just spams and is almost just 100% marketing speak.

Hyperion plays it's games like announcing their most ambitious project ever (an announcement of an announcement type thing we see so much) only to then turn around and act annoyed at the community for speculating what the project could be.


Now we have someone taking over the best Amiga site playing shadow games.


Oh, well, it is what it is.  We'll see how it plays out I suppose.  


More important than anything, are you planning a staying around these parts? (lord know why you'd want to! ;-)   )

[AmigaHeretic]

enough drama, I don't care who the new owner is, now bring on the spanish lesbians!

Hell yeah!!

[Pyromania]

The best thing about Amiga.org is it's community of members, they are awesome. Great moderation team is already in place too.