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Singularity has moved.

singularitymods — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:51:48 GMT

Singularity has moved to Dreamwidth.

All LJ content is backed up and searchable there.

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Slowatus =(

aroseinblue — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:41:32 GMT

Sorry I've been a bit slow getting back to people lately. I've been a bit busy and stressed so I figured posting a slowatus was in order.

My husband just graduated and is finding a job, and we're looking all over the country. Once he finds something we're gonna move, and we're hoping to move by February. Well, we'll be moving either in our own place or parents (yikes). Either way I'm going to be a bit distracted by packing and organizing and then my classes online will be back in session and BAH. I will post a hiatus if needed, but in the meantime I'm not too busy to keep up with Sera here. That and I'll be concentrating on Pinkie Pie if she gets accepted. She's gonna explode with parties and that'll be insane for a while.

So that's the deal! I've been able to pop on every day, but there may be days I'll just be DERP or wondering what to post back. If I end up forgetting someone for too long just send me an e-mail or Plurk me a friendly poke. Just wanted yall to know!

HURF HIATUS

puppetfetishist — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:05:13 GMT

not that anyone will notice thanks to the move BUT

I'm going to be at a convention from Thursday through Monday so I'll be busy. :V

Ergo, unofficial hiatus.

Unofficial Hiatus

robotichair — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:30:26 GMT

Yeah so as if it comes as a surprise, I've been kind of slacking off.

Unofficial Hiatus until Sing makes the jump to DW.

This affects John Egbert and Archie!Megs here.

MOD ANNOUNCEMENT

singularitymods — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:28:16 GMT

The introductory OOC post is live over at Dreamwidth. It has some Helpful Links, and comment threads for asking questions, pointing out problems with the layout/info posts, and arranging Paypal proxies and the like.

hiatus train

alaspooryork — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:41:21 GMT

Hey guys! Just a note that I'll be skiing this weekend and then ~~abducting Buttercup to a foreign country~~ going on a cruise next week. I'll have limited Internet until Sunday and then no net at all until the 14th, at which point I intend to collapse into unconsciousness. So my boys will be on autopilot until the 15th, meaning I will see you all on our shiny new DW home!

Affects Delta (alaspooryork) who is keeping his name on DW, and Emile (evaskullface) who will be returning as "spaceracist" on DW.

Yes, I totally got "spaceracist" for him.

selfkismesis — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:13:01 GMT

I AM BACK FROM THE PHILIPPINES after a 35 hour fucking travel day that never ended. But I come home with a pretty damn good world ranking in debate, yessss. And now I am off hiatus. Huuuraaahhh.

Do I owe tags? It's been pretty difficult to keep up with the threads I was doing before I left. 8(

alsø alsø wik slowatus

cloverdaleboy — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:19:40 GMT

Needing to go on a slowatus until 17th (and through the move to DW). Should be on at the least every other day. Terribly sorry to those it affects in the threads I have.

un-hiatusing from an unofficial hiatus

wouldhavewords — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:08:06 GMT

HEY SING
Now that the holiday season is over and people no longer want 15 different goddamn catering orders per order, I am done being dragged through the dirt and can get back to speed with everything. So if there's anything that you'd like me to get to, by all means shove it at me and I will!

I know the idea of a football game was fielded earlier - is there any interest for still having teams form at all?

Introduction

no1canbreakyou — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:38:39 GMT

Hey, my name's Ebi and I know Sing is moving, but I wanted to get my introduction done asap. I'll be playing Shadow the Hedgehog from Sonic Adventure 2, just after Dark Story's completion (so before Last Story even happens).

The easiest way to reach me is through PM, and I do have a plurk. It is hebbycakes.

I look forward to playing with you all.

Slowatus x2 Combo!

memorymodus — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:51:04 GMT

Featuring these two lovely characters right here.

Physics Lass McTranshuman and Our Resident Pantsless Strider will be quite slow for about two weeks. The reason? Zae and Aaron will be exploring the wilderness of Finland together, so we'll be in a funny time zone (no offense Aave) and also probably running around all day doing things of a currently undecided nature.

Dave and Jade will be back to regular speed on the 19th.

A Sad Farewell

huragokwhistler — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:52:26 GMT

I have been putting this off for a long while, but I think now is the time to do this.

When I arrived here, it was with one character. I didn't know anybody here except a few people I became passingly familiar with on Dear_Mun. I decided to app in to their canon, because I had a hankering to play a Space Marine. It's been a year since then, and Rookie has been through some fantastic stuff and made some good friends. He's even dished out some decent advice to people.

But my interest in continuing to play him has waned lately. I haven't kept up with him the way I should have, or gotten him involved in plots the way I ought to. And I don't want him to just slip off into the night, a victim of AC like I usually allow to happen. To his castmates and the people he had CR with, especially lately, I'm sorry that I couldn't keep up.

Maybe someday I'll feel like picking him up again, and bring him back. But for now, I have to drop the Rookie.

I will still be here with Barricade and Anon, so you certainly haven't seen the last of me. Just the last of the Rookie, for a while.

MOD ANNOUNCEMENT -- MOVING TIMELINE

singularitymods — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:51:34 GMT

Happy New Year, Singularity! Big long moving post with a lot of information below, so please take the time to read it all. We're trying to strike a balance between gettin' the heck out of Dodge and spacing things out enough that everyone stays sane.

Timeline:

January 6: OOC coordination post goes up in the OOC community on DW. This will contain some DW-specific information to help people get settled in. Ask questions, show off your new accounts, arrange Paypal proxies, and get help with layouts and just generally starting out on a new service. There'll be mod a comment thread where you can point out broken links in info posts and whatnot. You'll also be asked to comment to the new Taken post with your DW accounts.

January 8: Extended December reserve round ends. January app round begins. All apps should be submitted on the DW app post. Accepted characters from this round should join the DW comms and not the LJ ones.

January 9: CR with Me and a some kind of fun meme--maybe forced honesty; that one's always popular--in the DW crack community. These will run for a few days before game posting opens up and will be open to new characters who've apped this round on DW. This gives new characters a week in limbo, we know, but we're trying to strike a balance between alacrity and having everything happen at once.

January 13: End of IC posting on LJ, beginning of IC posting on DW. The LJ comms will be set to moderated submissions at this point.

January 22: End of January app round, beginning of January reserve round.

February 1: End of January reserve round. Beginning of February app round.

February 15: End of February app round. Beginning of February reserve round.

February 29: Leap Day! Assuming comment importing for communities with large comment counts is live, this will be the end of backtagging on LJ. You can keep commenting to the old comms if you want, but we don't guarantee your comments after this point will be imported to DW.

March 1: One last round of comment importing from LJ begins. Singularity runs solely on DW at this point. The LJ accounts will remain, but be unused.

April 1: Activity Check. Only DW activity will count.

Miscellaneous information about the move:

-DW has extended open account creation! This should carry us through getting moved over. We would like to set up a fundraiser just within the game so that everyone can get at least a couple months of paid time, both because everybody loves icons and because supporting DW is the helpful thing to do, but we haven't set up the logistics yet. It might be as simple as a thread where people can ask for and pledge paids/tokens.

-Go ahead and request comm membership if you have your DW accounts set up already, but we won't be making sure we've accepted anyone for a few days, so please don't worry about it just yet. The DW comms are:

singularityrpg
singularitylogs
singularityooc
singularityderp

-We're resetting the AC cycle. Everyone has a clean slate, and we'll run an AC based on DW activity in April.

-We're likewise waiving the activity requirements for new apps from existing players for the January and February app rounds. They will come back into effect in April with the first DW AC.

-We've taken the opportunity to clear out some old stuff that wasn't working anymore: the Events Archive is going away (did you even know we had one?) and that rule about maintaining a CR chart for your characters is dead. It was pretty much dead already, but we're making it official. It made more sense when Singularity was a small game, but we're not any more.

-Likewise, the wiki never really caught on with players, so we're moving the FAQ back to the info pages and discontinuing any official use of the wiki. In light of this, we're going to ask that people provide copies of their apps somewhere on DW as a reference.

-The long-overdue changes to the credit system will roll out with DW, as well.

-Large-scale player plots will reopen in February.

-Questions?

(Plurk paste format here, since LJ is being especially LJ today.)

Intro!

gotta_go_flash — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:53:06 GMT

Nri here, mun of Sing's resident dudeShep, bringing you a late intro for the animated Flash, aka Wally West! Here is an IC intro for all of your badtouching needs.

I'm reachable on plurk at nennui, or you can PM either of my journals.

mcfussyfangs — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:26:21 GMT

THE SAME THING EVERYONE ELSE HAS SAID

i.e.

Slowatus until the move to DW goes through. Plotting and app team stuff is best addressed at Plurk (public for plot, private for app) or HPlus Future on AIM.

This applies to HAL 9000, Doc/O'Malley and Kanaya Maryam.

Back!

cull_means_care — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:40:22 GMT

Hey folks. Just to let you guys know I'm back, though I won't be posting for Fef until the move to DW goes through (though I will be returning the tags I owe after I post this). However, if there's anything anyone wants me to hit up in the meantime, let me know. 38)

scratchback — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:48:42 GMT

Vic again! I'm sortaback from my massive hiatus, although I'm going to be on slowatus until the move to DW is complete. In the meantime I'm available for plotting or modstuff on aim at vicioushallway, or private plurk me at teamkill.

tl;dr see you on dw

theuserabides — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:29:25 GMT

What has two thumbs and is extending her hiatus through mid-January?

If you need one of mine for something, let me know, but I'm basically not going to be reading anything but OOC until the move is done.

Also, to no one's surprise, I'm dropping Mom. She never really clicked for me, and if people just want to ignore the fact she was ever here, fine by me.

MOD ANNOUNCEMENT

singularitymods — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:15:16 GMT

In light of overwhelming player support, and to no small amount of relief on the part of the mods:

Singularity is moving to Dreamwidth.

We are working on a timeline to make the move as smooth as possible, with the goal of being up and running on DW around mid-January. That will be posted in the next day or so. For now, there are two important details:

1. Dreamwidth accounts. Free account creation on DW closes at the end of the year, so you have two days to make your accounts before you'll need an invite code. Invite codes shouldn't be a problem--many players have already made accounts and so have codes to give out, and the DW staff has been generous with RPs in the past, but doing it now presents the fewest hassles. Create an account here.

2. Changes to the reserve/apps schedule. To accommodate the move, we are extending the December reserve round through the first week of January. The January app round will run through the middle two weeks of the month, and the January reserve round will be a short one, running for the last week of the month.

The new schedule is:

January 8th: Reserves close/apps open.

January 22nd: Apps close/reserves open.

February 1st: Reserves close/apps open.

We will be back on the normal schedule for February. We know we're making people wait an extra week, and we apologize, but there's no way we can deal with the move and processing applications at the same time. The reserves and apps pages will be edited to reflect this.

On a personal note, we want to thank our players for bearing with us through LJ's changes while we examined our options, and we hope we've made as many people happy as possible. We know there are some who would prefer not to move, and if there's any way we can make the transition easier for you, please let us know. If you decide to leave the game rather than change services, you will be missed, but we understand that this move isn't the best choice for everyone, and we wish you luck in your future games.

Thank you all, and stay tuned for details.

(This post is available in Plurk paste format here, for people who are having trouble accessing LJ. Please pass that link around!)

hiatus/slowatus

supernova1006 — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:00:05 GMT

unofficial

also i dropped aisling

hiatus

theniputitback — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:36:17 GMT

HEY GUYS, Buttercup here. Between work and the holidays and LJ, my motivation is just shot, plus I've got a lot of traveling coming up so I'm calling a hiatus until after January 15th at least.

Everyone will be on autopilot, and I'll keep tagging old stuff, but slowly. If there's something we've discussed doing, or something you'd like to handwave, please let me know (aim tmk2383) and we'll work something out.

Godmode rights -

Logan (littlest_xman) - Roy
Sarah (hows_the_knee) - Chii and Larissa
Parker (theniputitback) - Hiku

MOD ANNOUNCEMENT -- LIVEJOURNAL VS DREAMWIDTH DISCUSSION

singularitymods — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 08:14:20 GMT

In light of the recent changes to LJ's user interface, we feel that it's time to have a discussion about the potential of moving Singularity from LJ to Dreamwidth, a journaling service that is a fork of earlier LJ code. Of course we mods have our opinions, but we would like to hear our players' thoughts before making a decision.

We're aware that either option will make some players unhappy, so please be careful to keep this a discussion and not an argument.

Some information to consider: LJ will not be rolling back the changes made with Release 88. See the proposed new site design here and the lj_releases post about R88 bug fixes and future design plans here. (That link goes to a comment explaining that subject lines are gone forever in default comment pages.) LJ is planning to offer an S2 style that mimics the old S1 style within a few weeks. Not directly related to R88, but definitely something that should be part of the discussion is that LJ has had some questionable dealings with users . The linked post is very anti-LJ, but we provided it despite a lack of neutrality because it has a great deal of factual information on how LJ deals with its users.

Dreamwidth was founded in 2009 after some LJ users became concerned with how LJ was interacting with customers, resulting in a less-commercial set of operating principles than LJ. They will be implementing community imports within the next few weeks (scroll down), and description of the RP-relevant differences between LJ and DW is available here.

Edit: If you can't comment because of the style changes to LJ, please feel free either to contact the mods through another channel, or ask another player to post on your behalf. Just make sure it's clear who's speaking, please.

Edit 2: Son of Edit: If you're having difficulty loading the page, appending ?format=light to the end of the URL has helped some people.

selfkismesis — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 01:23:53 GMT

okay, calling hiatus! i'm going to the Philippines for THE DEBATE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP FUCKYEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH on the 26th, and i won't be back until the 5th. needless to say, i won't have much internet access while there. i will miss you guys so much!!!!

for the duration of my hiatus, karkat'll be on auto-pilot. the whole homestuck cast has godmod rights. just... don't let me come back and find him with three children and a part time job. despite how hilarious that might be.

i'll be backtagging until i leave, but no new threads until the 5th!

see ya!

hiatus

a_perfect_end — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:25:29 GMT

Just affects the creepazoid, here.

From here until 12/27, tagging will be glacial at the very best, and no new threads will be tagged. Travel sucks like that. Best of winter holidays to everyone, and may only those who want them receive socks. ♥

More hiatus.

theuserabides — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:39:32 GMT

Carolyn here. I'm going on a character hiatus, potentially through New Years. I will absolutely still be around for mod stuff, so don't hesitate to contact me about that. I just can't deal with the short days, the holidays, LJ's fuckery, and keeping characters active. I may continue my existing threads at the speed of molasses, but no promises.

This affects
Kevin Flynn (theuserabides)
Emma Frost (diamondandice)
Mom Lalonde (paradox_grown)
Alex (spacebased)

Godmode rights to their respective casts, and I guess ceiling Alex is just, idk, watching OU Wash be foreveralone.