An Apology

Starcrunch · Post by **Starcrunch** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:48 pm

To all of TR,
So I left you guys in a lurchÃ¢â‚¬Â¦That was a really crappy thing to do and IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m sorry. I should have written a message when Vernon dropped me a line ages agoÃ¢â‚¬Â¦ My life became too busy and I kept putting off posting because I didnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t want to write what had to be writtenÃ¢â‚¬Â¦so I let silence speak instead. Pretty soon it seemed a long time ago and so I didnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t think about it anymore. Until this morningÃ¢â‚¬Â¦Haplo sent me an e-mail so I figured IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢d respondÃ¢â‚¬Â¦that I owed you guys that (and probably more).

Congratulations to those who have soldiered on, it was nice poking around the forums and seeing so many familiar faces (Noir, Vegor, Haplo, Dexter, Lady N, and many others). I have neither modded nor played a video game since leaving TR, and have spent most of my time writing (3 grants and almost 9 papers, currently writing a 100 page review article, I get tired thinking about it!). I donÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t think IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll play another video game, and IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll never again have the time I had when we were working through the forum crash and thought weÃ¢â‚¬â„¢d lost everything (repairing huge numbers of interiors on the fly), or when I was making interiors for the mighty Ebonheart (what a spectacular city).

IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll drop in now and again, and who knows maybe IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll make a few more interiors if I feel I have time for a weekend mod project (Morrowind, of course). I neither have nor plan to play Oblivion. Playing video games is fun, modding is divine, and I guess IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m past the stage in my life where I do things because they are fun. Maybe there is still a bit room for the divineÃ¢â‚¬Â¦hmm, on second thought I havenÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t ever stepped foot in a church aside to appraise its architecture or art (that certainly explained many things for one of my teachers when I was in high school!).

Best Wishes,
-Starcrunch

PS. Thanks for the e-mail, Haplo. Ok, everyone get back to making the coolest mod on the net

or at least your own little divine creation.
PSS. I have all my old stuff (well at least I think I do, I mean old interiors, both fixed and raw for review) so if there is anything of it you guys need let me know.

Morden · Post by **Morden** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:02 pm

Great to hear that all is going well Starcrunch

PS. There is always time for fun no matter how old you are.

Thrignar Fraxix · Post by **Thrignar Fraxix** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:10 pm

*salutes*

(one of these days I will get around to reviewing your last int)

Dexter · Post by **Dexter** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:02 am

Past the point in your life where you do things for fun??? You should never stop doing things for fun. If you do, what's the point of living? You gotta have something you do for fun, whatever it may be. We all have our humps of busyness and no free time, but you should never allow yourself to enter a perpetual state of working.
Here's hoping you find some time to kick back and have some fun in the near future, and best wishes.

Nomadic1 · Post by **Nomadic1** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:29 am

Good to see you Starcrunch

Zalzidrax · Post by **Zalzidrax** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:46 am

Hey I remember you.

How's it going Starcrunch?

Good luck with the paper writing, though I'd like to echo Dexter's sentiment about having fun. It's best to avoid being too overwhelmed by non-fun stuff, though as a person who feels a welling of joy at the mention of nonlinear mathematics and quantum field theory, I know full well that the idea of fun can differ from person to person. I can only hope that whatever field of study you happen to be writing a review paper for turns out to be at least somewhat interesting. And if not, hopefully you'll at least saved a few people the agony of digging through all that information themselves, and learned something yourself.

Anyway, be well, do good work, but don't forget to do some fun while you're at it.

Starcrunch · Post by **Starcrunch** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:53 pm

Thrignar Fraxix wrote:*salutes*

(one of these days I will get around to reviewing your last int)

Haha, good old i3-217. That interior has got to be no fun to review! If I'm not around the forums when you need things fixed just drop me an email and I can show back up and take care of it, that one may actually have some problems, since it had some "interesting" architecture. I seem to recall it looked fine in playtesting but pretty weird in the editor. The top floor (attic like area) is likely to be the biggest problem.

As for the fun thing...what I really meant is I'm done having fun with video games, not having fun in general

. I haven't bought a new game since Morrowind and I hadn't bought one in probably a year before that, so one new game in the last 4 years! After modding, playing games becomes so boring; the act of creation is infinitely more exciting and interesting than the act of playing!

-Starcrunch

PS. Nice to see you around here Morden!

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:46 pm

HOLY FUCKING SHIT DUDE! i thought you died on me or something

there was actualy a day where i was standing infront of the phone with your number in hand, ready to call....

PS. what journals have you been published in?

Morden · Post by **Morden** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:03 pm

After modding, playing games becomes so boring; the act of creation is infinitely more exciting and interesting than the act of playing!

I know exactly what you mean. I haven't actually played games in quite a while... i just can't do it anymore... i don't find them fun. I've bought a couple games in the last few years... but like Oblivion, they only held my attention for an hour or two at best. However, the modding is what I do find entertaining and fun.

Vegor · Post by **Vegor** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:44 pm

Lady Nerevar wrote:HOLY FUCKING SHIT DUDE! i thought you died on me or something

My thoughts exactly

Good to see your alive and well, already saw you claimed something. I'm in a sort of in between a lurking-modding-retired state, but still nice to see you around. You're still my all time favorite interior modder even though you disappeared without a trace (twice now, I believe).

Starcrunch · Post by **Starcrunch** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:00 pm

VEGOR!!!!

It's nice to see you! Hope school is going well for you and that you're having a lot of fun.

@LN: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Biochemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, European Journal of Bioinorganic Chemistry

-Starcrunch

Massalinie · Post by **Massalinie** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:01 am

CRUNCHIE!!!!

I've already talked to you in IRC but I always feel the need to post when big stuff happens. It's great to see you back and doing well and I do hope you find the time in your life, in all it's business, to have a little fun and enjoy yourself. It's true, a lot of us did think you'd died or something, though it's hard to know what to think at such times. In any case, it's a relief to know you're alright.
LOTS has happened since you left, I'm sure you've seen by now. I've been missing a lot actually, cause I just stepped down but I'm sure the new core has filled you in

Welcome back,
--Mass--

Vegor · Post by **Vegor** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:40 am

I actually dropped out of university only a few months after joining. Just wasn't my thing. Looking for another education atm, not quite sure what. Currently have a job of 40 hours a week and a WoW addiction keeping me from modding from TR fulltime

Anyway, PLEASE get modding for Oblivion. The project could use someone with your skills and I'm sure you're going to like the engine and it's possibilites. Hell, you don't need to play it but just mod for it please

El Scumbago · Post by **El Scumbago** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:48 am

Well, I'd never guess Vegor would play WoW, much less get addicted to it! Veg, get back here man, we've missed you.

Vegor · Post by **Vegor** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 4:06 pm

I know I suck, my colleagues made me do it. It's not as bad as a lot of other WoW playing people, but still too much. Especially with TBC now, just when I was pretty much off it entirely.

Anyway, expect the "Starcrunch must buy Oblivion and mod for it" petition soon, in a place near you!

Zalzidrax · Post by **Zalzidrax** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:07 pm

Heh. My friends got me into playing WoW for a bit. Then, when looking at my finances, I realized two things.

1. I am a poor college student with minimal income.
2. I like eating.

So I stopped playing. I was getting kinda bored by that point anyways.

Starcrunch · Post by **Starcrunch** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:55 pm

Unfortunately I can't even run Oblivion on my system. Maybe if I buy a new computer (which is seeming a likely way of blowing my savings right now).

-Starcrunch

Sniper4 · Post by **Sniper4** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:36 pm

Starcrunch wrote:VEGOR!!!!

It's nice to see you! Hope school is going well for you and that you're having a lot of fun.

@LN: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Biochemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, European Journal of Bioinorganic Chemistry

-Starcrunch

A chemistry grad student? What are you specializing in? I'm currently a chemistry major at the University of Southern Indiana. I don't think I'll go to grad. school, though.

After college, I'll probably get a job as a computational inorganic chemist. Not 100% sure yet, though. I'm doing computational organometallic research right now, and I'm enjoying it, so we'll see

.

It's been a while since I've seen you around

.

Starcrunch · Post by **Starcrunch** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:56 pm

I work in Bioinorganic chemistry. Mostly doing spectroscopy of Fe-containing enzymes involved in reactions with O2 to produce high-valent metals in their reaction cycles. We trap and characterize those species by a number of spectoscopic techniques. Mossbauer spectroscopy is our favored technique and the labs specialty.

-Starcrunch

Sniper4 · Post by **Sniper4** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:43 pm

Starcrunch wrote:I work in Bioinorganic chemistry. Mostly doing spectroscopy of Fe-containing enzymes involved in reactions with O2 to produce high-valent metals in their reaction cycles. We trap and characterize those species by a number of spectoscopic techniques. Mossbauer spectroscopy is our favored technique and the labs specialty.

-Starcrunch

Ah, neato

. The research my professor has me doing now involves pincer complexes and their catalizing capabilities. Basically, what I do is model Pd pincer complexes with Se ligands on the computer using Spartan, and calculate their orbitals, bond lengths, orbital energies in eV, etc (using the same program). Nothing too major

.

Morden · Post by **Morden** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:01 pm

Wow. You guys must be the life of the chem parties.

Sniper4 · Post by **Sniper4** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:12 pm

Morden wrote:Wow. You guys must be the life of the chem parties.

Can't say I've been to any of the ACS parties. They usually hold them during the weekend before finals week, where I need to study the most

. Even if they were at a more convenient time, I still wouldn't go. I'm the reclusive geeky type

.

edit: Has anyone ever noticed that I use more emoticons than anyone on earth?

El Scumbago · Post by **El Scumbago** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:13 pm

Sniper4 wrote:Has anyone ever noticed that I use more emoticons than anyone on earth?

Must have something to do with that biostuff you work on. Chinese seem a lot easier now...

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:40 pm

edit: Has anyone ever noticed that I use more emoticons than anyone on earth? Razz

i beg to differ

i spam up almost every mesage with the ":P" smily. even more so on MSN.

angelus6 · Post by **angelus6** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:20 am

haha, i think i win. just ask scummy how bad i am on msn... almost as bad as i am for using /me on IRC

Vernon · Post by **Vernon** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:00 am

Holy shit. I thought you'd kicked the bucket mang. I dropped you a couple of emails I think; I found you through the PSU website and mentioned to Lady N that your number was there. I think that was how the idea got into her head! Anyway, we had some fun times, Starcrunch, you were a kickass modder and a good laugh. Very happy to hear you are ok. See you around!

Massalinie · Post by **Massalinie** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:23 pm

Hey, Veggie!! Wow, it's like a massive TR reunion in here! Good to see you all, Crunche, Vernon, Vegor and Sniper.

All we need is Stalker and a few other people...

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:27 pm

Massalinie wrote:Hey, Veggie!! Wow, it's like a massive TR reunion in here! Good to see you all, Crunche, Vernon, Vegor and Sniper. All we need is Stalker and a few other people...

I'd like to see Vorrheis. He didn't respond to my PM at TIL.

Kasan Moor · Post by **Kasan Moor** » Fri May 04, 2007 1:09 am

Sorry for bringing this topic back up, but it's nice to see so much old faces around in one topic.

Maybe I should start modding for TR again, on the Oblivion part now.. But my interior and mostly exterior modding skills are a bit low. I'm more of the Lore, books, scripts etc..

Nomadic1 · Post by **Nomadic1** » Fri May 04, 2007 8:16 am

Script? Does that include quests?

Counts seconds until Lud, Starcrunch or BC come thundering around...

groza528 · Post by **groza528** » Fri May 04, 2007 11:30 am

*clears throat*

Nomadic1 · Post by **Nomadic1** » Fri May 04, 2007 9:15 pm

...And Groza

(I knew I forgot someone. Well more than one)

Kasan Moor · Post by **Kasan Moor** » Sat May 05, 2007 12:47 am

Nomadic1 wrote:Script? Does that include quests?

Counts seconds until Lud, Starcrunch or BC come thundering around...

Yeah, I can do quest scipting to.