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This is what happens now

As per my previous entry, I've done some thinking, and this is what I've come up with.

erotic.island freeze

1. I'm still going to run the Lair, but I'm going to be following through with a decision I made before all this crap happened: I want to focus my energies on generating content (specifically, writing new Rants and Reviews), rather than doing menial tasks around the site. The redesign helps with that aim very much.
2. Speaking of the update, progress has pretty much stalled this week. However, andcarne has graciously donated (far too many) hours out of his life that he'll never get back and got me the posting dates for all the Rants and Reviews, which will save me much time. Hot damn. :)
3. Currently, here's what I still need to get done before I update the site:
   • Joke Archive: 314 pages down, 249 to go.
   • Rants: Nothing has been done on it yet, though much of the formatting will be getting picked up from the Reviews section (which is done).
   • Front Page: Well, I can't exactly throw up the Lair without a front page that matches everything else, now can I? It's fairly complicated; I might just end up reusing the table-based front page I have now, and then update it to a strictly CSS-based page later on.
4. Bahamut had asked, but I never answered: I'm not shutting down EV-Nova.net because of all this, don't worry.
5. The Forums will be replaced once I get things straightened out more. I don't know exactly when, but when I do, they'll be getting created from scratch;though some of the organization and whatnot from the old forums will remain, I think a slimming of the old stuff wouldn't be a bad idea anyway.
6. At some point this year, I'd like to overhaul evula.org; clean out the inactive users, update the way the banners and navigation table are done, that sort of stuff. Low on my list of priorities, though.

So, that pretty much covers everything.

Just a quick note...

...as I mentioned to Gfono in a recent email, I've still got some plans knocking around my head. Give me a day or two and I'll have a clearer sense of what is what, and I'll post a big long entry to my blog about it. :)

Thanks again for all your support.

The Next Step

I'm sick and tired of being "punished" by random internet shits just because I have better things to do than sit at home in front of my computer 24/7. I'm tired of being "punished" for having a life. I'm tired of feeling like I "have" to do this and I "have" to do that. I'm tired of the slight pangs of guilt I get when I opt to play Burnout 3 or KOTOR instead of sitting in front of my computer, banging out one PHP page after another.

But most importantly, I'm tired of trying to balance my time and energy between satisfying myself (primarily with theatre projects) and satisfying everyone else (primarily with the Empire). I'm tired of having so many obligations, both to my users and to myself; I've been failing at all of it for a long time. The result:

Fuck the Empire. Eric is more important than EVula.

As of right now, the Forums are permanently dead. I have no doubt that I'll make another focal point for a community around my site at some point in the future, but it'll be completely from scratch. I probably won't be resurrecting the old boards; they can rot in whatever level of digital hell they are currently in.

EVula.com? Hell if I know when I'll finish the redesign. I've done too much to give up completely on it (though I honestly considered it for a good long while; the only reason I haven't decided to give up is the fact that I just registered the domain for another three years on Sunday), but I sure as hell don't feel like working on it right now.

It's about 1:30 in the morning right now, and I can't sleep because I'm so angry about all this shit. Tomorrow I have a lot of stuff that I have to do at work. For those that were wondering how the Empire could be such a headache for me, this is a prime example; everything about the Empire seems to bleed into the rest of my life, and not always in a good way (although I do have a handful of friends that address me as Emperor).

I do appreciate all the support you guys have given me in this and other minor catastrophes, but at the end of the day, it's still just me, all on my own, trying to do far too many things at once. I'm going to keep with my original plan of partially updating the Lair, since I think that the feedback I get from it might be good for me.

*whimper*

I'm really, really close to giving up on the entire Empire right now. I'm really fucking tired of all the headaches that I'm getting from it, especially considering how much money I make off it (I'll give you a hint: it's a negative number).

Anyone that would like to list reasons I shouldn't let the Forums remain dead is welcome to try.