I found this from  contains moderate peril

Therefore community management is mainly about PR and pouring oil on troubled waters, rather than hands on change. However, SSG seems to fail to understand this and their current incumbent CM for LOTRO, Cordovan (AKA Jerry Snook), certainly comes across like a square peg in a round hole. His responses to player criticism and concerns often appear indifferent and implicitly passive-aggressive. One wonders if he even enjoys or wants the position he holds.

LOTRO has endured bad community relations for over a decade now and one has to ponder how and why a company such as Turbine/SSG so consistently manages to get things wrong. It may be down to the fact that it is a relatively small company which has key members of staff that have remained in position throughout the company's lifecycle. It could be possible that there simply isn’t the talent in-house to provide someone who is sufficiently au fait with the requirements of modern community management. Perhaps the company is so focused upon keeping the gaming running and their staff employed that dealing with their customer base is simply a priority that is much further down the list. However, many players were hoping that the EG 7 acquisition would potentially fix this perennial problem, as they have implied that they will be investing in the game.

Cordo obviously owns a huge private equity stake in SSG.  It's not standing stone games, its Snook Snook and Gay

well www.standingstonegames.com is registered by Daybreak.
all the DDO and Lotro stuff are still registered by Turbine.

Anyway you know where to look for that kind of information so you can dig it yourself.

noamineo wrote on Feb 14^th, 2021 at 7:00pm:

Have some faith,  if there's a a way, they can pull it off.

noamineo wrote on Feb 14^th, 2021 at 7:00pm:

Ahhh...the good old days. I got into multi-cpu PCs pretty heavily in the early 2000s. I was cranking out the SETI units like no one's business! Only Nipfty did more during that period.

I was a single socket fan ( dual socket was just too expensive... especially when I was maintining 2 or 3 PCs and a Sparc at the same time ).

but as soon as Pentium D came, I just couldn't avoid buying the meanest beast available at that time : a Pentium D930.

The good part : it prpvided heating to my flat for years
The bad part : firing it up in summer meant that the flat went 3°C up in a matter of an hour. despite open windows.
( I was living in what we call a studio at that time [ read a one room flat with [when lucky]  a separate kitchen, [I was lucky] and a bathroom [ usually a showeer when lucky a tub... I was lucky I had a tub ] )

On winter it was great though. I had almost no heating costs. ( sincce it was electrical heating getting the heating from the Pentium D was better than from the Heating device as it served double purpose )

That processor was so good that it lasted me 9 years ( and thus I went through the whole core thingie and all the early Pentium ( rebranding ) generations ) before the mainboard went awol. At that point the options were limited and I just built a new system with current stuff. ( and I replaced it since then by a more modern one because of yet another mainboard failure. )

Anyway, as for Seti, I'm in the top 2 for my signing date. no point saying more. ( Class of 2000-08-30)
I still have Boinc running ( though not with Seti since they parked the project ) right now it's Roseta and Einstain.

Flav wrote on Feb 16^th, 2021 at 4:39pm:


It's like you *want* to be doxxed.  The little drippings here and there, the fun had when the wrong city was found.  I think you're nuts.  One of these days a real crazy is gonna show up on your doorstep.  And not your run of the mill mainboard crazy, no.. a vault crazy.

You should shut up, or maybe it's all a wild goose chase?  I hope so.  Else you gonna get eaten by the next disgruntled Kistilan or whatever the fuck his name was.

Shunned wrote on Feb 16^th, 2021 at 9:42pm:


Since it has already been pointed out that I posted pictures with GPS locations ( mayonaise anybody ) in the EXIF it's pointless to hide. And since I never hid the fact that I was seeing planes landing/taking off  in ORY ( Orly ) from my window it limited a lot the search area.

Quote:



this essentially happened to McDonalds once (might have been BK but i think McDonalds), when the internet was just getting to be accessible by anyone they hadn't bought their domain name and someone noticed, told them about it multiple time and they basically said "IDGAF" so he bought it and later sold it to them for a pretty penny IIRC

noamineo wrote on Feb 17^th, 2021 at 4:36pm:


Point. It's small enough that you can meet in the entrance hall of $TELCO a former colleague on a semi regular basis.