Hello Everyone, I figured that after being gone from the boards for so long, I should tell the few of you that actually remember me, why I was gone, and never updated my web page :-)
Well, for one, I turned 18, bought a sweet ass Pontiac Firebird, I'm still learning how to drive, but it is sweet :-)
and I got a horrible job that pays well, but is 12+ hours of work aday :-)

But the main reason I have been gone for so long is because I have been working on a project game called unbunch of stuff (I changed the name like 40 times already) and it was doing really good, it wasn't an RPG, it was more of a point and shoot kinda game, not that fun, but it was amusing.
But to get to my point, I have been working on it for almost 5 months now, not off and on, just on, almost every free minute I had went into that game.
And as fate would have it, yesturday my computer died a horrible, non-savable death at the hands of aging! I had that computer for almost 2 years! I know it was old, but it did justice, it worked, nothing fancy, but it worked, but finally it just gave up, seriously, I was sitting there listening to Prodigy, programming, and BANG, my computer just seriously died, at first I thought "oh well, lets just restart the tower" and it started in safe mode, and then froze, and continued, I know it couldn't have been a virus, as I did have the internet uptil this last few days (trying to change over to DSL, so I closed my internet dail up connection, long story :) ) my computer ran out of space, and ram, and its dead!
DEAD MAN!

and so is all my work.... FUCKING ALL OF IT MAN! I mean, I know I'm not a good coder, and never made anything that I could put out there, but I lost all those tid-bits of code that I made, and all my characters, and music, AND MY WHOLE GAME! all of it, no back up, no nothing!

all that work, just gone, and I didn't even get to show it off, not even my girlfriend seen it, I just kept thinking "when I'm done, its gonna be the most kick ass game, and all this time spent on it, and keeping it secret will be worth it"
Man, seriously, I would rather find out that I was born a girl, rather then think about all that code gone.
I'm not sure what all to do now, all my code is gone, all my art, all my ideas, plots, music, everything, I don't even have modplug installed on my new computer (the one I'm on right now :) its a presario)

I think what I am saying is even though verge is like having a 3rd hand while looking at porn magazine, I think I am leaving, I only had one think keeping me here, and thats gone now. I don't even have the urge to program anymore, its like climbing a huge mountain, and right when your at the top, ready to stand up, you fall off.... well, maybe not as bad as falling off a mountain, but close :-)

I don't know, maybe one day I will just get bored and start programming in verge again, since I like verge more then any other programming language (including C++ and the VERY lame Visual C++)
But as of now, I'm gonna just give up, maybe I'll start martial arts up again, or become a porn start (I just turned 18, he hee, the freedom is scary)

Well, seeing as this is my last post, I am not going to say whos cool, and whos not, you all make verge better in one way or another.

God, I'm mushy, like a marshmellow, thats 6 feet tall, filled with blood, guts, and bones, that wears Doc martens, is covered in flesh, talks, drinks pepsi, has sex, and doesn't taste anything like a marshmellow :-)

Well, unless I get a wierd sign from a mysterious being anytime soon, I wont return, not because I hate verge, and blaw blaw blaw, I am leaving for the same reason I left the Rom Hacking scene, I have done it all, and have nothing to show for it.


-KarmaCult
**Moons Everyone**
"I taste like chicken"

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Instant Lunch.... Yummy

I'm sorry, dude. I truly am. I almost left verge many years ago, way back before my first demo, before I even posted on the boards, because Maped ate my huge-ass castle map 3 times in a row. Maped in those days did funny things if you ran other active programs in the background... :( I'd lost about 30 hours of work on that collectivly. It's for the best, I guess, because I got better with each attempt, but I was about to give up if it ate my map again...

I also learned to compulsivly backup after that. Currently, SotS's main files are on 3 other computers than my own POS.

Anyways, I'd wish that you wouldn't leave. VERGE needs people that do things, but wishes are nothing. Do as you must :(

-McGrue

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Sometimes, Ocham's Razor needs to be more like a scimitar...