How has everyone been? It's almost been a year since the news and I've done a ton of thinking. Several times I would fantasize about getting the server back up, even if it's just for a few weeks, to pay tribute to DPW. Life keeps getting in the way but I would like to see if there would be interest in the idea. It wouldn't be a permanent thing and isn't even set in stone yet, so don't get high hopes. I'd just like to chase that dragon called nostalgia with the old gang one last time.

So all in all, who'd be interested and tell me how life's treating all y'all!

I thought I would follow up on this. D.P.W has passed. This actually happened a lot earlier in the year but I am just now finding out myself. I know we all occasionally were thinking about him but I only found it fair to share what I know with y'all. I would like to share a few fond memories about him, if you would like to do the same please go ahead.

I remember meeting him on Purple Valley way back in 2013-2014. He didn't talk much but when 'Mango' came in to tidy up the server, we started to chat more. He was already planning on making his own crit server, and I wanted to help. We grew close and would chat often, be it over tf2, map design, or just living with depression. ITIJCM meant to world to me, and I'm sure the same for him. We would discuss often about it growth and if we even wanted it to get much bigger, I mean we found a niche group of gamers. 2016-2018 I started to be less focused on my online presence, and I grew away from tf2 slowly. Around this time, we stopped talking but would still have our chats. Covid hit and I just got distracted with life, we were talking once every other month at this point. Until we just didn't have the time that is. That's life I suppose, you grow away from the people you care for sometimes. I remember he made the post about him being sick and we started to chat again until it went back to once every other month. The last message I sent to him was on a late night in December 2021.

Sorry that turned more into a rant of jumbled thoughts, but it is hard to know he is actually gone. May he know he was loved by us, and may we not forget him.

Mike, DPW, Fatman, the Original pass in January of 2023

I don't know if anyone is paying attention to this or not, but figured I'd pop my head up for a second at least. I would like to say that I could have the server up and running soon, but over the past 3 years I've been dealing with anxiety and depression. This year has been the worst. I won't go into boring details, but in May I had my left kidney removed due to clear cell renal cell carcinoma. It was an 8cm tumor, I was not lucky enough to have stopped it with that as it has moved to my lungs. I am awaiting a call from an oncologist to figure out what treatment I will be pursuing.

I am in the process of moving the server. Right now the crit server is mostly working on it, if you want to check it out go to 209.172.0.31:27015

If anyone tries it please let me know of any issues. As I mentioned it's not complete yet but I'm getting there.

For anyone who is wondering the crit server did not like the update. I have been working with the hosting company as well as trying things to get it going. I backed up what I could and reset the entire server. If everything goes well I will have everything restored before the end of the day. There may be some hiccups afterwards so once it gets going we can deal with them then.