@ASLPro3D
No worries, it took me a while to learn to do (a lot of cut and pasting), sometimes still screw up with "Spoilers" and on the Opening Page when updating the game... so don't stress it, you aren't alone!
- I'm beginning to the think that I may be legally retarded (*boo*, *hiss*, *PC*, *SJW*)= bite me.
I've had over 20 +years of I.T. experience and can't figure out something as simple as a forum?! Yup, retarded. So now, I'm relegated to copying ALL of it, tagging you, pasting it into a reply and deleting the comments you responded to above it. LOL
Yeah, my level of social interaction these days are mostly Net based these days... being physically disabled as the result of maturing time and several spinal surgeries (after events from my time in the service) has awarded me little that I can do - except to sit home, render and write.
- I know what you mean, I don't really get out to much these days either- I've had a spate of bad luck myself that's knocked me down quite a few pegs, halted a lot of my progress, and just put me in a perpetual state of ennui.
No PITY from anyone please... as I don't want or need it. I get by as best I can, as I am a firm believer that life is meant to be LIVED and not just SURVIVED and I do my best to live it the fullest, regardless of my current circumstances and health.
- I would never pity you and it sounds like despite what happened- you're not bitter or angry about it. You knew what you were getting into and what potentially could happen- and you did what you had to do. I will continue to Thank You for your Service (as well as ALL vets) because whether or not you think/feel that you made a difference- you did. You know what they say about the tiniest ripple in a lake? Think of it like that and be proud.
My point is: I can fully understand where you are coming from
@Safetydummy and you now have a place and thread where you are free to wax poetically all you want and be appreciated for it, so don't think that your thoughts or word hold no meaning to people, as here they do.
- I do appreciate that and thank you Jack, and likewise to you. My internet door is always open, sometimes.
- And thank you to the rest of the members of this site/forum- you're welcoming, friendly and helpful.
LOL!! Thanks!!
- You are more than beyond welcome- 5 Stars does seem rather limiting though. I did have to reformat it a tad- I took out the questions and the spoilers, I wanted people to experience it for themselves- and if they can get through my garbled mess of a thought process and play it, I have no doubt that they too, will come to the same conclusion(s) and feel the exact same way.
I got my start working in the comic book industry not long after my release from the military and after the separation from my first wife... because of the separation I wrote under an alias to hide my identity to keep a woman who saw fit to occupy her time, while I was away, with my best friend... as such, I was unwilling to provide her with anything else (money or otherwise) for her betrayal...
- If only you had that HUD for her stats...
I wrote as Michael Lee Scott in those days... a combination of my uncle's name, my mother's middle name and one of my friend's first name (not the one that betrayed me with my wife) and worked for one of the Big Two. My separation from that studio came pretty much at the same time as some of my friends at Image decided to also break away... like them, I decided to start my own Independent company (with the help of Randy Zimmerman of Arrow Comics and Gary Reed of Caliber Comics).
- That is really cool- I've already covered some of this in the other post that I went back in time to get, but still really cool. Hopefully one of your friends wasn't Liefeld, I was "removed" from a convention for mocking his lack of ability to draw feet (they were almost always cut off by the panel [even in a splash page] or covered up by something in the foreground). I remember that you said it was around the time of the variant cover(s) fiasco... Ugh, do I remember that- what an unmitigated nightmare. It's not any better now (not sure if you're aware), but now they have incentive variants, order variants, convention variants, on-line variants, etc.,. kill me now. The last "brilliant" thing that they did was re-re-release older (Silver & Bronze Age) stuff with- wait for it, Chromium Covers. Remember those? They cost $5.00 back then and now in Gem Mint condition are worth $2.00. The gatefolds and wraparounds were quite awful as well. I don't recall Arrow Comics, but I do remember Caliber Comics (vaguely). The Crow and Faust, seem to stand out in my mind- maybe?
My stuff, for as good as it is written, never took off like it did with Marc and Erik's did at Image... but it times were changing in the industry in more ways than creators and artist's bail from an unappreciative ship; and that was video games.
- That's truly a shame- you should have done "Wicked Choices" and had someone like Linsner do the illustrations- that comic would hang the Louvre!
While the industry was in serious upheaval, I noticed that attendances were starting to dwindle... not as many kids or interest... being a gamer myself from the days of Intelivision and Zork, I fell in love with Final Fantasy 7 and decided that was were kids would go to seek entertainment, rather than comic books... so my first goal of getting into the video game industry was born.
- I do recall an upheaval or rather a general disenfranchisement with the whole thing- Crossovers started the downfall of the comics IMHO. Forcing people to buy 12 books they normally didn't read- just to get 1 complete story just kinda killed everything. Variants- the final nails.
- Oh, how I remember those- Colecovision, Atari 2600, Commodore 64, man our video games sucked. LOL That was rather forward thinking on your part.
Not knowing how to do 3D back then, I began to come up with a plan that would allow me to gather all of those that DID know how to do it, that I could maybe pick from to do my own game (oh how little I knew about the work, money and staff needed to build a professional game back then)... so, by working with 3D software companies like Zygote (before it became DAZ3D), MetaCreations (before it became Curious Labs and was sold to Smith Micro), Autodesk (3D Studio Max) and Alias Wavefront (before Maya was sold to Autodesk) and other, I built two websites that would pull 3D artists all together and use that user base as a means to help aspiring artists learn those programs by using the member base to help each other in forums, while providing galleries for artists to showcase their work and talent, maybe get work and online stores to sell their own work in...
Those sites were Renderosity.com and Renderotica.com and, though I no longer own them, they still are up and doing the mission that I had started back in the late 90's... but through all of that work, effort and desire, I never did get into the video game industry till I sold them off (running sites like that and this one is a full time job, believe me).
- Wow- I can't even begin to imagine the work and dedication that all of this must have taken you. I like the way you gathered everyone together, so that you could glean information and experience off of one another- almost like a tech-commune.
Lots more has happened since those days, wrote a novel where the cover was done by friend (and famed artist) Dorian Cleavenger and now work in the video game industry as a freelance and have started my first game: "Wicked Choices" to see if people would get into my writing and work.
- I did look into your book and is the cover in question with the woman looking into a mirror with her reflection screaming back at her? If so, your friend is quite talented. If not, then I have no idea what you're talking about. LOL Well, you already know that I'm a fan.
But yeah... lived an interesting and strange life; but doing the things I always dreamed about doing. LOL
- I have said this before and shall say it again, as it bears repeating- you are truly and fascinating individual, and the last time I said was only because you were going to be a priest.
