gozer5454
Volunteer: Google SketchUp Guru
First off, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you!
It's true. I am hanging up the Bob Ross and putting aside the modeling. I'm heading out on a nice vacation to warmer weather and am looking forward to working with VectrInvadr on ideas for his documentary. I have not owned an arcade machine of my own since last year (with the exception of a couple crappy multi's which I flipped). Only then, after I sold the last of my own stuff, did Oregonarcade and Charger lend me some of their stock to keep me gaming. I returned them back in late February as my life took a bit of a hiccup.
With the garage clear of machines, I pushed forward on the second book and eventually finished it about 3 months later than expected (better late than never lol). My heart is just not into the hobby anymore. I love gaming, and have made many great friends here, but just don't look at it as something pertinent to my life right now. So, like a heavy-weight boxer, I'd rather hang up the gloves and retire out while I'm at the top of my game, rather than slide out in disgrace.
As far as the books:
There will not be any more books. They simply drain too much of my life away from work, kids, and my wife. I would have liked to have a trilogy, but that is not in store for me. Hopefully, someone else can pick up where I left off. I think I've shown that it is possible to make these books with no up front costs; you simply need your heart into it.
As far as the models:
I've uploaded a revised edition of Asteroids (one of my oldest) which I am now happy with. That makes 533 models in the collection. This is the number I knew I was going to reach for several months, so I planned on trying to upload as many difficult ones as I could get my hand on (to save anyone else the drama of doing them). So, 33 new models have been added to the 500 that I established just before I started book number 2. I sincerely hope that another dedicated modeler will pick up the torch and carry on the quest that I began. Again, it's never about the money. If your heart is into it, all you need is time and dedication. I merely got the ball rolling. I'm sure someone else will keep it going.
So, this will be my last post here on KLOV. I appreciate you all for the support and look forward to meeting some of you some day. I need not call you guys out personally by name, but those of you that I have befriended here and have talked with on the phone, by email, and in person- I love you guys. You know who you are. Except you CJ. You stink. Hahaha!
I must admit, I'm bummed that I'll never get a chance to be "that guy"...<cough cough> Sharidan<cough cough> that belittles everyone and cries like a baby as he stomps out the door. That would have been sooooo awesome! Hahaha. But, instead, I'll leave you all with this little video clip I put together, which I think encapsulates everything I strived to accomplish during my time in the hobby. To me, it best describes our hobby as a whole, without any spoken words. Watch it now, before some asshat flags the video for "stealing a song" lol. VectrInvadr will be given a copy of the original, so I know he's gonna put it to good use
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r4SCtV2xMQ
(be sure to select 480 quality) (and sorry for the audio spikes)
Rock on, my brothers!
Gozer, out!
It's true. I am hanging up the Bob Ross and putting aside the modeling. I'm heading out on a nice vacation to warmer weather and am looking forward to working with VectrInvadr on ideas for his documentary. I have not owned an arcade machine of my own since last year (with the exception of a couple crappy multi's which I flipped). Only then, after I sold the last of my own stuff, did Oregonarcade and Charger lend me some of their stock to keep me gaming. I returned them back in late February as my life took a bit of a hiccup.
With the garage clear of machines, I pushed forward on the second book and eventually finished it about 3 months later than expected (better late than never lol). My heart is just not into the hobby anymore. I love gaming, and have made many great friends here, but just don't look at it as something pertinent to my life right now. So, like a heavy-weight boxer, I'd rather hang up the gloves and retire out while I'm at the top of my game, rather than slide out in disgrace.
As far as the books:
There will not be any more books. They simply drain too much of my life away from work, kids, and my wife. I would have liked to have a trilogy, but that is not in store for me. Hopefully, someone else can pick up where I left off. I think I've shown that it is possible to make these books with no up front costs; you simply need your heart into it.
As far as the models:
I've uploaded a revised edition of Asteroids (one of my oldest) which I am now happy with. That makes 533 models in the collection. This is the number I knew I was going to reach for several months, so I planned on trying to upload as many difficult ones as I could get my hand on (to save anyone else the drama of doing them). So, 33 new models have been added to the 500 that I established just before I started book number 2. I sincerely hope that another dedicated modeler will pick up the torch and carry on the quest that I began. Again, it's never about the money. If your heart is into it, all you need is time and dedication. I merely got the ball rolling. I'm sure someone else will keep it going.
So, this will be my last post here on KLOV. I appreciate you all for the support and look forward to meeting some of you some day. I need not call you guys out personally by name, but those of you that I have befriended here and have talked with on the phone, by email, and in person- I love you guys. You know who you are. Except you CJ. You stink. Hahaha!
I must admit, I'm bummed that I'll never get a chance to be "that guy"...<cough cough> Sharidan<cough cough> that belittles everyone and cries like a baby as he stomps out the door. That would have been sooooo awesome! Hahaha. But, instead, I'll leave you all with this little video clip I put together, which I think encapsulates everything I strived to accomplish during my time in the hobby. To me, it best describes our hobby as a whole, without any spoken words. Watch it now, before some asshat flags the video for "stealing a song" lol. VectrInvadr will be given a copy of the original, so I know he's gonna put it to good use
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r4SCtV2xMQ
(be sure to select 480 quality) (and sorry for the audio spikes)
Rock on, my brothers!
Gozer, out!




