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From Tibian
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Saplings! Our website has now moved hosts, we still greatly appreciate your donations to pay for the rest of this year. See the forums for more info on how to donate.

http://www.thekots.com/index.php?topic=307.0

Also, the database move removes some functions of the website that I have to manually install. I am in the process of doing this but I will need your help to fix missing pictures, links, etc. Please let me know if you see anything broken.

I am aware of the smiley icons not working. Fixed.

Also, more importantly, if you see any internal server errors -- let me know.

Just as a heads up: our forum video and picture embedding is much more impressive than our old one. Now you just need to post a link from several different video websites (YouTube included!) and the website will automatically embed the video in the forums for you. No more messy BBC code! Also, we now have a Highslide image embedder you can use for incredibly large images that automatically pops out the image on the screen! Just click the [HS] icon when you want an image. If you'd like to save me some time, check your threads and remove the [youtube] tags from them and then just hit modify. Everything should work peachy from there

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From Platinumstorm

Hello everyone!

Thanks to your donations we've essentially wasted $50 of my dollars and used some of your donations (Selm and Barcadia) and moved to a more expensive web host that hopefully won't be plagued by the INTERNAL SERVER ERROR MESSAGES OF DOOM.  The web host costs $20 more per year than the last.

We tried resolving our issue with godaddy support, but they claimed they couldn't replicate the error, that some of our users were getting 50% of the time they were visiting the site.

Additionally, you may notice, unless you're living underneath a barn, that we've updated the website with a new forum layout. 

We're still looking for more donations to make up for the lost money, so if you would like to donate, please see this thread

http://www.thekots.com/index.php?topic=307.0

Additionally, media has not been transferred and I will get through the process of uploading everything back to the site in the following priority order.

WoW screenshots /Cataclysm shots
Past videos

The Starcraft commentaries will not be uploaded, nor will Starcraft videos.

If you would like me to do some more commentaries or upload some match replays, for those of you who watched, just request it and I will try to make some once in a while.  ...

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I want to know who is buying so I can decide on planning teams, scrimmages, and maybe tournaments.

I need to know the following information:

Are you planning on buying Sc2 within the first month?
What species in Starcraft 2 will you play as, or will you be playing as random?
How often will you be playing Starcraft 2?
Do you consider yourself an RTS beginner, familiar with RTS, or experienced?
Did you play Starcraft 1 none, a little, some, or a lot
How many games of Starcraft 2 did you play in beta?
Are you going to participate in ranked matches?
Do you want to participate in ranked team matches with other KotS members?
Do you intend to participate in ladders like Team Warfare League (TWL), MLG, etc?

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KONAMI E3 2010 Press Conference: ONE MILLION TROOPS!!! VERY VERY EXERCISE!!!

Start at 4 minutes. The level of awesome in this video is... beyond awesome, for all the wrong reasons....