G'bye Graal

oinknessx · #1 03-17-2005, 07:35 AM

It was fun for a while, a long time ago.. it's just turned into work lately, the new generation of players are in and all the oldbies are out.. That's not exactly why I am leaving though.. There's just been too much bad going on, people getting screwed through graal and such.... I've been thinking about my future and this just isn't a good factor in any of it, though I am a little thankful for the songs I've made at the request of friends for graal, and the graphics I made.. (though I would have made graphics and music anyway for other games and received just as much experience + some recognition and appreciation.. )

I don't spend much time on the computer at all anymore.. I've been trying to slim down for an upcoming event. Some things I have been doing and I plan on doing in the future are:

- Playing guitar and bass.. I recently bought a new bass and quickly got into it.. my speed and creativity on guitar has increased because of 3 hour daily jam sessions!

- I plan on continuing composing, though as soon as I get a new computer I will begin using real instruments rather than just computer stuff, and I will charge money for songs.. A small professional business you could say, not like what I've done on graal for free.. It's too bad that contract thing never got figured out anyway and graal doesn't have the rights to my music, it's sad seeing as how that was the original idea for it, oh well, I'll just burn some CDs and keep it in my "portfolio"

- Some of you might know I am in a band, we changed our name to Oinkness (yeah, it's named after me! Hehe!) featuring me on guitar and vocals, and my good friend Joe Bianco on guitar and writing lyrics.. We've written some more material for our demo, and I am planning on making our website soon...

- I am going to see about attending ITT Technical Institute for college, hopefully I will be able to take summer classes and get done as soon as possible.. I was planning on going for game design, computer graphics, etc..

- Ozzfest, July 23rd - Pittsburgh, PA

I have a lot of plans that I need to work very hard on, especially music.. I need to work a lot on musical theory, chords and scales and such plus write some lyrics and tabs for the riffs I make rather than just memorizing them..

So yeah, It's over. I have around 30 days left of gold and I do NOT plan on reupgrading, with graal in it's condition I wouldn't do it even if I wanted to stay..

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