My TV doesn’t rest on it either and I heard it happen.
Interesting that it seems to happen at night or in morning. (Heat change I reckon)

I once spent a stormy few hours on a bridge trying to capture a lightning strike hitting the lake for a girl friends photography class. I some how managed to get the shot and she got an “A” on that project. I survived a stormy night on a bridge while lightning was dancing on the lake. It was a win/win.

I’m actually taking a break right now, but plan on getting back into my gaming sites next year, along with podcasts and a few ideas I have. It’ll be interesting what I learn, and to see if getting as deep as I want will only create a dark world for my hobby, rather than a happy place.

Good post.

Being that I have the great benefit of taking the perspective as a long time friend of Bap’s, I have to say it’s been a wild ride. At times I felt as I had a personal insider inside the industry, like part of his entourage, and others he was the friend I was cursing out because of my low geometry wars rank. While I haven’t shared many of the experiences with Bap, I can attest to his dedication and worthiness in his role. To do what he does in his OWN time is greater than any PR rep, or reporter gets to do. He gets the full monty, he sees the whole picture. He runs community websites, writes reviews, does his own PR, merchandising, and mostly gets to play the games as we do; as an average everyday gamer.

I’ve held this motto close to my heart for years, but I haven’t used it in a while. Some of you know it, some of you have one like it. “Pure Passion” It’s something you can’t earn. It’s something you can’t learn. It’s something you can never gain, only discover. Anyone who possesses this trait should cherish it. No matter what you do, do it well, do it with heart, do it with passion. Live your life with passion for every element in it. Doing things for money and for fame never get you anywhere, but if you do it “for the love of the game” great things are around every corner.

I am not a large contributor to Evil Avatar, or Co-Optimus. I barely take part in discussions, but I take in as much as I can. I’m not an admin, I don’t write reviews. I’m just a dude who likes gaming with people within the community. I’m a guy that really enjoyed traveling 2500+ miles to meet people I didn’t know and discover friends at a time in my life when I was losing most of the ones I had. And that’s my reward: I poured who I am into what I like doing, and now I have made new friends around the world.

We are what makes gaming great, and no one, no corporation, could ever take that away.