How did you deal with The Escapist going down?

vviki

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Mar 17, 2009
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I had to actually go out and ride a bike for a change. That's how bad it was :D. Please make sure this doesn't happen again, my body hurts from all that exertion.
 

TheLoveableMuffin

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Jun 11, 2011
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I just watched some DVDs and carried browsing. Annoyingly though the same day my Facebook got spammed along with some friends so I had to deactivate it...
 

Jonluw

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May 23, 2010
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Uhmmm, the same way I always deal with it?
Just do something else, with regular checkups to see if it's up again.
 

Void Droid

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Oct 6, 2010
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My girlfriend and I laughed and joked they probably got hacked since everyone is nowdays and after a quick google search we saw we were right and went about or business, that's the great thing about the internet, it has more than one site.
 

Ambi

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Oct 9, 2009
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I initially respond with mild annoyance and refresh the page a few times, and then I think "the choice has been made! Freedom!", briefly check the other sites I frequent, and hibernate my computer.
 

Legion

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Oct 2, 2008
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I wasn't even on here when it started, I just occasionally tried to go on and it didn't work, so I carried on with what I was doing at the time.
 

Sebenko

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Dec 23, 2008
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"oh, it's down? Eh, I'm going out with a friend anyway"

And it was back by the time I returned.
 

Russian_Assassin

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Apr 24, 2008
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Whenever a site doesn't load these days I drop by lulzsec's twitter to see if they raided it.

Yesterday I raged for 10 seconds but then I went on with my business. Before I knew it, the site was up again.
 

Drakos.Amatras

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Mar 23, 2011
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I guess the downtime wasn't a big deal because it didn't really last that long. Maybe a few hours tops?

Still, I was curious about the sudden cut-off, so I looked up and was surprised to find out that this was an attack by LulzSec. I don't know why they did this, but I find their amusement at others' annoyance/inconvenience rather petty.
 

DanielDeFig

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Oct 22, 2009
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Attempted to post the same thing 2-3 times over the course of several hours after midnight. I finally succeeded in posting(I waited for the escapist to be back online long enough to pot by watching videos n browsing around other sites), after which I swiftly went to bed (An hour later, something else on the web distracted me XP!)
 

Cheesus333

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Aug 20, 2008
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Watched 'How I Met Your Mother' and tried to reconnect every now and again. I wasn't devastated, but I was pretty annoyed.

I also had a dream about the Escapist last night wherein I got a warning for a completely unoffensive post and spent hours obsessing over it, picking apart every word to see what I did wrong.

...Fun times.
 

C95J

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Apr 10, 2010
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What? It went down for about an hour or so, didn't bother me at all really, although at the time there was this thread which I would have liked to read.
 

rmb1983

I am the storm.
Mar 29, 2011
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"Why isn't this shit working? Oh well, two hours before I leave for work, I'll have a nap."
I then worked 8 hours, went home, and here we are.

I didn't even know LulzSec had attacked us until I was dicking around online on my phone during a smoke break (in one of those uncommon times that I use the browser instead of playing Unblock Me [http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/unblock-me/id315021242?mt=8] to keep my brain moving).
 

bl4ckh4wk64

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Jun 11, 2010
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I cried for a little bit. Tried to go back, still wasn't working. Finally started working and now I'm making up for it by staying up until around 5
 

Dr Jones

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Jun 23, 2010
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Cried, i was sooooooooooooo hyped for "going green 2".. I like COMICS ARE WEEEEEEEEIRD