I have raised all the funds for the new community and I am now working to put it all together. I should have the forums up within the next few days.

I've been talking to a lot of people over the past few days about this new community idea. I am currently working on figuring out funding. Once I cross that hurdle I think I will get something operational.

I just needed time away with how things went down. I felt it was best for everybody involved if I just layed low for a while. Anything I could have done at that point would have caused drama and I had no interest in playing that stupid drama game.

The biggest holdup to my starting another project is staffing and money. If those things magically fell into place it would become a possibility. I'll be honest though, I'm not running TF2 servers, that is for damn sure. I don't have any interest in continuing that nightmare. The most I would do is run a website and maybe a Minecraft server at some point. Any project would be based around community, not any single game.

For a bit after FFN shut down, you seemed to disappear, I realized that vinny=mak and thanks to the handy dandy nickname function, you're tagged forever as Mak to me (also your previous profile pic was so awesome). A lot of people haven't transitioned to VF4 from FFN much like you haven't, so you're not the only one who doesn't feel like things are the same.

No need to rush starting another community, real life is more important, but it would be nice to have you at the head of a community sometime down the line, maybe when half life 3 comes out ;). See you around.

I'm surprised by how many people still go out of their way to say hi to me. I haven't made much effort to be easy to find for people. It also seems like forever ago that FFN shut down. It has always been surprising to me that I made such a strong impression on that many people.

I would be full of ♥♥♥♥ if I didn't admit it has been a healing process. Things didn't shut down in a way that I agreed with and it took a bit of time for me to move on. I have kept generally quiet about the whole situation because I don't want to start additional drama.

I'm looking at going straight into my MBA after I get my BS in the spring. I'm already talking to a admissions rep with Portland State. I'm also working full time now. I honestly don't know where I would get the time to start another community. Like I said, I really want to, I just don't know how I would go about doing it or where the money would come from.

If you do, you can always count on me to be there to support you. I keep in touch with a lot of the old counterstrike folk and I'm sure they would feel the same way.