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Submitted by trigger119 on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 9:45am.

So, you may have noticed I've been a ghost in the online gaming community and gamingtv.us has been down most of the summer.

Basically, I have been editing videos and doing photography non-stop for a christian youth camp in Wisconsin. What happened to GTV before I left was somehow, we were putting out some sort of nasty email spam or something in our site code(I still don't get it), and the owner of the hosting company(I thought I knew the owner but apparently there's a company higher than him that owns it all) demanded our whole account and everything get terminated. Apparently it didn't get totally deleted...just the entire website, minus the video files themselves. At that point, I was leaving for the whole summer....and to be honest, my enthusiasm for GTV had been waning in general. To be perfectly honest it's a hobby that's taken wayyyy too much of my time and I barely had time to game as it was....gaming has taken a bit of a backseat in my life. Basically, I am saying effective as soon as I pay my last bill, I'm taking GTV offline, forever. I will not be opening any new websites like GTV....ever. I gave it a pretty good shot...but trying to do things like contests and just paying the hosting bills have been a slow drain on my wallet that I need for other things.

I'm just telling you guys to fill in the blanks, and I just want to be a normal gamer again. I'll probably be dropping the "trigger119" handle and changing it to something else. I honestly hate being recognized online...I'd just rather game with my friends and just...HAVE FUN. What a novel idea. I'll probably just change my gamertag on Live so you don't have to re-add me. I love playing with THXers, and I hope to see you guys online again. Officially I am done working at this youth camp late August-early September...so I'd anticipate me coming back to Live sometime in September.

Just so you know my playing online will probably not be that much...this fall is a bit of a crossroads in my life and I have a lot of important career opportunities/choices to make that will definitely affect where I am living, which would then obviously affect my internet situation.

I hope to see you all online soon(and hopefully a LAN, lol)

Sincerely,
TJ.

P.S.- Those looking for alternate hosting who like making their gaming videos available for download, I recommend www.filefront.com . As for flash video, there are a myriad of hosting services ranging from the MLG GameRoom(http://gameroom.mlgpro.com) to WeGame(www.wegame.com)

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Glad to hear you're happy

Submitted by Mintz on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 10:50am.

Glad to hear you're happy with your decision and are ready to move on, trigger. Hope to see you make it to a LAN!

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Sorry it didn't work out for

Submitted by Master Kim on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 5:28pm.

Sorry it didn't work out for you man. Hope you learned a lot.

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Thanks for sharing your

Submitted by rapture on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 9:32pm.

Thanks for sharing your story, TJ.

Nah. I think GTV was a success. I mean, what more could you have done? Gotten more videos published? Gotten more users? Competed with YouTube?

Sure, your website could have gone there...but what would it have gotten you that you don't have now? The fame and prestige you may have gotten would have come with a price.

I think the skills you developed on GTV have and will continue to payoff.

You've learned to make excellent videos.

You've learned all about serving video over IP.

You've learned about open source content management systems and webserver administration.

You've lead grassroots efforts to promote video games, teams, and players.

You've gotten to work at MLG doing similar work.

I don't think GTV was a failure. I think you've gotten just about all you can out of it.

I look forward to playing with you once you get back into the swing of things.

what ever

Submitted by maxon93 on Wed, 08/06/2008 - 7:25am.

what ever

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