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"Thanks for all the kind words."

Just spent the last half hour or so reading through all the posts lamenting the death of SR and wishing us well for the future. It's genuinely touching, and nice to see everyone pulling in the same direction for once, without the usual descent into bickering that had permeated most threads of late!

I'd been at SR for 7 years - almost to the exact day, I joined on 16th November - and in Marketing (and therefore a mod on here) for the last couple. For the last few months they'd moved the marketing and buying departments into the one room (we'd been 'streamlined' enough to all fit in together) and it was genuinely a really fun place to come and work - the dynamic was great.

These forums have helped pass the time in an amusing an interesting way over the years, either when I was so bored of trying to pretend that a game I'd never played was the best game, like, EVER (I've read and appropriated more game press releases than you lot have had hot dinners) and needed a break, or I simply needed to find something to pass the time while waiting for programs or large pictures to load on my impossibly old and slow computers. If I hacked anyone off with my warnings or bannings, sorry - it was genuinely never anything personal.

So, farewell to you all. It's been a great pleasure working with all my fellow marketeers. James, I'll miss having a fellow yid to talk yid-talk to on a daily basis, thanks for all the trips to Tesco - I really should give you some petrol money, shame I don't have a job. Ross, sorry your return was so short-lived, but you're so talented I reckon you'll fall on your feet and actually get paid what you're worth somewhere better. Simon, another fellow Old Newportonian (how bizarre - 4 in one office!), registered but never posted, I have no doubt you would have become legend. Short but sweet - if I passed on anything of value then I will have surprised myself, but great. (Right click, create layer - don't forget.) Tony, it was so much better having you at the top of the food chain than TR, but you were too nice and we took advantage of your generous nature with our laziness (well, I did, anyway). Seven years, man.

Good luck to everyone. To the buyers - thanks for the laughs and the tea.

Austin

PS. Now... didn't someone actually wish the dole queue on us the very day we all lost our jobs? Hope you're happy now...

Twain wrote:
> I wish SR were back in businss........

I do to

But why leave? make the most of the forums while they last if they are to go.

Hope you find a new job soon KT! I didnt know any of this was happening till it did, I was shocked! :-)

well i went on today to read the posts that have been made by the wise and honoured people of SR today, and im actually quite sad to hear the news:( I used to post here quite often but more recently i just read what has been put by you people. I hope you all do well in the future and get some good jobs. Any game i ever did order from SR has always come ontime or the day before if i was lucky and i really have nothing to complain about. I would sign up to the next forum but i dont think i would use it much. So unless this one stays open (and i would gladly sign a petition)so i guess its bye frm me to. i doubt any of you remeber me much but if you do good bye. i wish evryone well one these forums as i know we all joined for the same reason. :'(

hippyman wrote:
> Be careful what you wish for...

Smedlos wrote
> I know it's only the bad things that seem to come true.....

I wish SR were back in businss........

I know it's only the bad things that seem to come true.....

Smedlos wrote:
> The dole queue thing was me and I apologise again like I have done
> numerous times already.

Be careful what you wish for...

The dole queue thing was me and I apologise again like I have done numerous times already.

*Goes off to pick lottery numbers*

Are you registering with the new forum?
Go on,you know you want to.

Kilgore Trout wrote:
> PS. Now... didn't someone actually wish the dole queue on us the very
> day we all lost our jobs? Hope you're happy now...

That would be Smedlos.