Congratulations Ziroc! I certainly don't consider you a sell-out: what's in a name, anyway? Apart from 45,000 bucks, which isn't bad on the side...

Nice move!

<font color="plum">YOU'RE SELLING THE NAME?!?!?!?!? :eek:

Oh dear, I'll have to think this over to see how I feel about it.

Ok, that's long enough....my opinion is - <font color="yellow">YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! CONGRATULATIONS ZIROC!!!!!!</font> (and Choc, of course).

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[img]graemlins/rainnote.gif[/img] Dan got the money, [img]graemlins/rainnote.gif[/img] Dan got the money [img]graemlins/rainnote.gif[/img]
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That is SOOOOO Cool. I may just have to "renew" my former sig for a special encore performance of the <font color="red">Barbarian Happy Dance</font> (first performed when our new server finally came online last Spring).

GREAT NEWS ZIROC! GOOD FOR YOU!!</font>

Yep congrats on the deal Ziroc, it would be ridiculous to call you a sellout since you had the boards best interests at stake. Will have to try and get used to the name 'Escape Gaming' though. Did somebody already reserve 'Stoneworks'? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Cloudy, to quote the immortal J.R.R. Tolkein, you are "confounding the escape of the prisoner with the flight of the deserter." ;)

Melusine, only you would pick nits on Ziroc.

Congratulations, Dan, I'm down with it.

Ha, ha, now the "old blue boarders" will be the "old Ironworkers." ;)

We can now all call ourselves "Escapees". :D

[ 09-25-2002, 09:41 AM: Message edited by: Memnoch ]

Congratulations, Ziroc.

Congrats, Ziroc. A name provides something for people to rally around, but 'tis truly the people who make the difference. Whether this be Ironworks or the Great Escape, the feeling and camaraderie will continue to grow.

Only one suggestion, if you haven't thought of it already. Request/demand that they provide a link to the new forum for any who go to the old one by accident. After all, it will take a while for search engines to get updated, so leaving a forwarding address, so to speak, should be useful.

I'm going out and getting me some domain names! Wa-freakin-hoo! Does this mean Search will work again [img]smile.gif[/img] I have trouble coming to work when I get paid, and look at the wonderful job you have done for nothing (for less than nothing, you paid most of the bills yourself) for so long! You deserve more, but wouldn't have been a sell out at 4K. Good for you? No: GREAT for you!

Congrats Dan, I'm glad to hear IW(EF) will still be around in several years.

Someone mentioned IW merchandise, I've seen alot of webcomics do it, is it possible(feasible) to have t-shirts with the old, or new logo's on them? or mousepads with pics of Choc, or coffee mugs, or any dozen of similar ideas?

ps any way on the new forum I can correct the spelling mistake in my name (I originally wanted it to Morguerat) :D

[ 09-25-2002, 10:13 AM: Message edited by: Morgeruat ]

Attalus, only you would pick nits about THAT.

*Attalus sprays lindane on nit that he picked on Melusine.* ;)

<font color="gold">This is awesome news, Dan! Even though I will miss the name Ironworks... [img]smile.gif[/img]
Ah well, now I can say "I used to be an Ironworker, but now I'm nothing but an Escaper."!! :D

Anyhow, great on you, Ziroc. Use the money well (which means: do not let Choc get his hands on them... [img]tongue.gif[/img] ). [img]smile.gif[/img] </font>

Good for you Ziroc! :D A name change isn't always a bad thing, and it's not like anything about the boards will change as a result [img]smile.gif[/img] It's cool.
And a windfall of 45K is bloody excellent! :D I could do with 45K myself, hahaha
(Dream-on Bristowe... :D )

Do you really wanna anger tante Sien ? :D

Uff i HATE to loose the name "IronWorks Forum" but but what can i say i am happy that you will continue the forum for at last 5-10 more years Dan [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Happy that you got 45k for the name! [img]tongue.gif[/img] I hope you keep the colors and that you make new logos and all that! So Congrats Ziroc!

[ 09-25-2002, 10:38 AM: Message edited by: Megabot ]

<font color = aqua> Congrats Dan! Change is good and this isn't even really that big of a change. What's in a name? Besides, maybe the change will mean my pm box will work now. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] I'm looking forward to it. </font>

I sure will be making some metchandise! It would be the new logo (The one at www.escapeforums.com is NOT the offical logo, just a placeholder)

But yeah, It would be cool, and get everyone into the new name! Choc could be in something too!

How about a black and white striped shirt--the old kind that prison people wore, and have the logo on there [img]smile.gif[/img] SO many ideas! I have a ton!! I'll share them with you all in a future post--right now, I gotta get some sleep, been up 28 hours now [img]smile.gif[/img]

PS: EVERY morning on the DOT at 6:08am EST (and I mean ON THE DOT) Choc will get up, stretch, and come nudge my at my PC. saying 'I'm ready to eat'. Totally wild..

Oh, get this everyone: I bought a new catfood for Choc, and put the new food on the left and his normal on the right, and did a 'Blind' taste test. (Since he IS blind) but he LOVES the new stuff.. hehe.. blind taste test..

Ok, I am babbling. I am going to get into my "+8 Coma of Relaxation" now. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

[ 09-25-2002, 11:13 AM: Message edited by: Ziroc ]

I'm a true believer that a rose smells the same no matter what you name it. Besides, anytime big $$$ can be taken from "the man" or "a man" and put to use running a great free forum for gaming geeks, I see it as a *HUGE* victory.
Congrats [img]graemlins/thewave.gif[/img]
Mayhap next time it will be Bill Gates trying to buy you out. Then you could go for those truly large sums of $$$.

..... I'm not saying ANYTHING..... [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

I never knew Choc is blind, sorry to hear that dude.

Don't be! He does everything (I mean EVERYTHING) a normal cat would do! He is VERY playful. If I play with him for a short time, and walk away, Choc will Meow in a deeeeep loooooww Meow [img]smile.gif[/img] In other words, he's saying "Come back here, I'm not done with you yet"--REALLY! He runs down the hall, takes perfect lefts and rights.. it's so amazing! I (and I mean this) I no longer even think of him as blind... that is how normal he acts! [img]smile.gif[/img]

SOMETIMES if I play with him and he gets REALLY REALLY playful and starts going nuts, chasing me down the hall, he will sometimes bump into something--nothing hard, just sofa back's and stuff. He DOES have a hard head.

He is 9 this year, my previous Siamese, Charly lived till he was 17. I GREW UP with him from first grade till 1980ish -1997.

What is freaky, is Choc does a LOT of weird things Charly did. like nudge at the covers on the bed, he likes to sleep under the covers with us [img]smile.gif[/img] Donna HATES it when he purrs in her ear when she sleeps, so I move him to my pillow.. he likes to lay up against our heads sometimes when we sleep! :D

Congratulations Z!

Hey remember that time we were partying and you said you needed a name for your website and I said Ironworks was always a favorite name of mine? You said that's cool, I'll use it if you don't mind and I said ok, but if you ever sell it I want half?

Remember? [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

Nice one Ziroc.

Try:

[img] www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/noncgi/mummy.gif [/img]

Don't be! He does everything (I mean EVERYTHING) a normal cat would do! He is VERY playful. If I play with him for a short time, and walk away, Choc will Meow in a deeeeep loooooww Meow [img]smile.gif[/img] In other words, he's saying "Come back here, I'm not done with you yet"--REALLY! He runs down the hall, takes perfect lefts and rights.. it's so amazing! I (and I mean this) I no longer even think of him as blind... that is how normal he acts! [img]smile.gif[/img]

SOMETIMES if I play with him and he gets REALLY REALLY playful and starts going nuts, chasing me down the hall, he will sometimes bump into something--nothing hard, just sofa back's and stuff. He DOES have a hard head.

He is 9 this year, my previous Siamese, Charly lived till he was 17. I GREW UP with him from first grade till 1980ish -1997.

What is freaky, is Choc does a LOT of weird things Charly did. like nudge at the covers on the bed, he likes to sleep under the covers with us [img]smile.gif[/img] Donna HATES it when he purrs in her ear when she sleeps, so I move him to my pillow.. he likes to lay up against our heads sometimes when we sleep! :D </font>[/QUOTE]I can imagine so, cats rely on their sense of hearing and smell more than anything else [img]smile.gif[/img]

Very happy to hear about the news Ziroc, and I look foward to the future [img]smile.gif[/img]

Congrats Ziroc! Good to see this site will be staying around. Now if only I could find a way to come up with $45g... Be nice to pay my student loans off. I'd love drive out to the loan place and see the looks on their faces when I'd hand them the big fat check in person :D I'm dreaming. Anyway, use that money well. Opportunities like that don't come up often.

Lol, didn't know about this til Siggy pointed it out in the chat :D
Great news, man. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

<font color=orange>Way to go Z-man! I think it's a great move. Escape Forum - Home looks much better on my computer at work too. I am always scared of being called on the carpet someday because I'm going to a GAMING site (read gambling). My company tends to frown on stuff like that. Again, Congrats on the deal! I thinks it's great!</font>

Originally posted by Ronn_Bman

Hey Ronn remember that time we were partying and you said that Ziroc needed a name for his website and I said 'Iron' was always a favourite name of mine and you said 'Works' was always a favourite of yours and then you said that's the best name ever: 'IronWorks', i'll tell Ziroc to use it if you don't mind and I said yeah go ahead (I was too drunk too walk over there) but if he ever sells it I want half of your half? [img]smile.gif[/img]

P.S.I think it's great, new name, fresh start, more stuff, richer Ziroc :D
From what i've seen Ziroc is dedicated to this site and if I know a CRPer he'll have the best spiffy new comp on the market in days ;) And sure, why not huh?

Congradulations Ziroc!

<font color="gold">Just a quick question, we wont need to re-register, do we?</font>

O_o whoah. . . Im gonna have to get used to this. . . and change my sig [img]tongue.gif[/img]

<font color="#cc3399">I know this is late, but "Way to go Dan!" I think you made a good deal and cannot see how any one could consider you a "sell out". It isn't the NAME Ironworks that makes this place what it is...its the people!</font>

<font color="white">HOLY CRAP!!! Ziroc! That Is AMAZING!!!
All That Money!! Jeeeeezz! I'd Say From All Of Our Points Of Its Amazing News, Especially For You! I Cant Belive How Cool That Is! WELL DONE!!!</font>!!

ROFL! Exxon Just Dosen't Want To Lose His Post Count! *Cough* Spammer [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Actually, I Think It Would Be A Good Thing If We Had To Re-Register, As It Would Get Rid Of All The Wasted Accounts Of People Who Just Came To Ask One Question Then Left :D

ROFL! Exxon Just Dosen't Want To Lose His Post Count! *Cough* Spammer [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Actually, I Think It Would Be A Good Thing If We Had To Re-Register, As It Would Get Rid Of All The Wasted Accounts Of People Who Just Came To Ask One Question Then Left :D </font>[/QUOTE]<font color="#cc3399">Speak for yourself, oh yee of fewer posts than I! ;)

hehehehe</font>

LOL, I'm Not Too Bothered About My Post Count [img]tongue.gif[/img]

*Looks Around The Room Slyly*

This is great news, Ziroc [img]smile.gif[/img] ! You should try to make a living selling names on the internet :D .
Selling a name for 45000$.. I would do that without a second of delay [img]smile.gif[/img] !

Alrighty, looks cool [img]smile.gif[/img] I have the rp forum and GD saved in my favourites, will these become invalid?

Nothing like flogging a dead horse but way to go Mr. Z I am very happy for you and your lovely cat. I just loved the story about him and being blind never what have thought. I was thinking maybe you could bring back the old blue board just like the old days but just for one week to kick off the new name and board with a little something that is your roots. Just a thought.

Looking forward to the new opening.

<font face="Tempus Sans ITC" size=4>WOW!

I have to be the first (last! :D ) to say this!</font>

<font face="Tempus Sans ITC" size=8 color="Blood">WOOHOO! YEE HAW</font>

Sorry.........

Anyway, Ziroc, great goin'!

way to go dude...congrats!!! :D