Violentfix, I was visiting your site long before I discovered Joedios, and back in the early days your work was one of the main sources I looked at to improve my efforts. It's always cool to see you around here, and your contributions can only make it a better site! :)

Agree 100%!

Seconded!

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Don't worry about it. I took your comment wrong and though you were trying to say there was nothing more I could add. I finally remembered what the gist was of what I wrote, here it is.

What it comes down to is that I'd like to see this site be what it's intended to be. THE place for Dio stories. Everyone here has done a great job to bring it to the level it's at. I not asking for anything, I'm just committing to being a part of this community. It only seems natural that I help people find this site through my work. Quite often I receive e-mail from readers that have no forum affiliation, why not give them a way to find this place. I have no issues funneling viewers to this site from my own. I don't except advertisements on my site and I don't fear that the reader isn't going to come back. The community here is great and the feedback and questions I receive from here are refreshing. I'd like to see it grow larger. There are so many talented people here as well and I've been enjoying their work now for a long time, why not open peoples eyes to what's out there.

When it comes to "Work In progress". No one really knows just how much goes into my Dio's. Quite often entire sections of a chapter will be filmed, edited and scripted and then tossed because I didn't like something about it or the direction it was going in. Sometimes these are totally new Dio's that never see the light of day outside of private communities that exist in the Joe online world. I see no reason why I can't start putting this material out here because I feel that the people here will appreciate it more.

As for my Operation Creations? There are more on the way but right now getting Brother's Keeper done is my number one priority. But that doesn't mean that the material for future Operation Creations isn't out there and what better a place for me to suss out my ideas for these updates than a place like this.

Currently I'm spread to thin to spend the amount of time I used to on all the different sites and so I'd like to have a place I could call home, what better a place for me than a site dedicated to Dios. There are times when I'm absent, two kids and two jobs can wear you thin but in the end I've always come back and the material has never stopped flowing.

Do the Mods have any suggestions on what I can do to help? I'm happy to hear anything anyone has to say.

Thanks Outrider, I think you know that I love your work as well. Just look at that Skull Squad banner. The sentiment is appreciated.

My an I really an old timer? wow, how did that happen. I think I started this about seven years ago. Crazy... I was 23.

Jeez, I'm older than you are?!?!? :eek:

Eric, I've met you personally a few times.....you've always struck me as a good guy.....and being a girl who's not only into Joes, but someone who has stepped up to take the crap slung at her, I appreciate you speaking so much truth in this thread. That's why I offered to Admin here and why I don't take offense to the sometimes brusque manner in which I'm treated.........I love G.I. Joe, have since I got my 1st 12" Joe when I was 5.....and now that I can indulge myself-(whether it's appreciated or not)-I love having a place like this to be able to come to and make myself happy.

I'll keep you in mind whenever something comes up.......and feel free to either send me PM's or post up with any thoughts/ideas you may have. I look forward to hearing all of them.


Oh, and I'll see you Sunday @ Jon's show in North Haven :cool:

Sorry if I came off wrong. I meant it all in good terms.





Now out of your latest post, wow. That just blows me away that you go thru EVERYTHING and then might scrap it! I mean, I've gotten thru chapters of a dio only to lose energy. But man, to build the sets, shoot it and take all that time and then BAM, say 'forget it'. Wow.

me too. i dont remember if it was his or justin's site that got me to come here.

Shazam!
 

ViolentFix,

I am fairly new here, so I took a look at your site that everyone is commenting on... and wow. Fantastic stuff.

By all means, teach us master.... but teach us gently... our craniums will blow if you bring on your skills too fast and hard ;-)

Thanks!

Paul.