The Need for Speed Most Wanted Chronicles

• 21Oct 06

  I'm a Moddb Writer!

  I am a member of the Moddb (Mod Database) staff, and I just published my first article! It's on Muralis, an old mod for Unreal Tournament 2004, and I'm quite proud of it. Linkage here:
  
  http://features.moddb.com/278/muralis-review/
  
  Tell me what you think of it.
  • Posted Oct 21, 2006 5:07 pm PT
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• 20Aug 06

  Greatly reducing my activity on GS

  In case you guys haven't noticed, my activity on GS has been greatly reduced (at least on the forums) over the past couple weeks. I think that this trend will continue...I realized that GS was wasting away precious hours of my life that were better suited to other purposes. Also, I am just getting bored with the forums.
  
  I apologize to any who this affects, but GS has become a chore for me, not something I enjoy, and I've got enough chores in my life already.
  
  Basically, I'll be in once a day, but not neccessarily post even once per day; these days, I just check the GS homepage and read the top stories. I'll still be in every once in a while, but not a ton.
  
  Because of this, there are a fwe things I need to do:
  
  1. Get a new leader of the GHG. These are the people I must apologize most to--robbristow, Merc4Life, and Herodotus, I believe I have massively failed as a leader of this union. If any of you want to become leader of the union, I would be honored to hand it off to you, and I am confident that all three of you would be superb leaders.
  
  2. Finish up the Black Shooter Union (sticking to the old name!) Gun Battle. This might be more difficult than I first anticipated, though...
  
  3. Finish the RTS Union Tournament...I owe it to those guys to pull through.
  
  4. Tie up any other loose ends
  
  So this will all come into affect as soon as I can complete the above 4 items. I did once enjoy Gamespot and its forums, and I thank all who helped me enjoy it, especially noting the members of the Black Shooter Union, Need for Speed Racing Union, and GHG. I wish you the best of luck in your continued travels on Gamespot.
  • Posted Aug 20, 2006 3:25 pm PT
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• 30Jul 06

  The eventual demise of The GHG...?

  Well, I have just lost a valued member of the GHG. This member brought many things to my attention about the union. They made me notice how much of my union's posts are simply off-topic stuff and how little the union actually performs its duties. This is very true of the union...we have had very little legitimate activity other than a few key members, to which I am very grateful.
  
  I believe the reason that the union continually does not meet the expectations of its members nor its officers is a combination of multiple factors. Firstly, it is my extreme lack of dedication. When I made the union, I loved GS, and was making 10 to 15 posts a day...I spent plenty of time on the site. Since then, however, my interest has waned greatly, down to 2 or 3 posts max most days. While I am spending more time doing other things, all activities on GS, including growth and maintenance of the GHG, have suffered.
  
  The other factor is that this union simply is not fit for GS, I believe. It is too much trouble and hassle for most users to go to a single union for their information when the game forums perform this duty well enough and are easier to access. I created a union so that GS users could come to one source for all their gaming questions, but it seems this is not what they want. The union layout is too complicated (though I do have an idea to remedy this) and the union lacks the member base and knowledge base needed to make this all happen.
  
  Frankly, the union was a misguided venture from the start...while I had thoughts of grandeur, they were quickly crushed under the harsh reality that the union was and probably will be doomed to be mediocre at best, with little overall impact on teh community.
  
  I will still stick with the union and attempt to make it succeed, and my thanks goes out to all who helped this union grow, but I fear the efforts may have been in vain.
  • Posted Jul 30, 2006 7:24 am PT
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