Some of you may be looking at the calendar and thinking this is merely a ruse. It's not. My time here at WarCry has come to an end. I heard that and no, I wasn't fired. At least not this time. I've been with Themis and WarCry for almost 5 years now and that's the longest I've ever worked for a company. I was hired on in 2003 and ended up being the Ad Sales Manager even though I had never done it before. I was such a noob the first deal I made was selling all available ad space on our Lineage 2 site to IGE. Yeah, I had no clue.
One thing about working here that I will miss is the fact that even though you may not be the right person for the job, the fact that you've been hired means that you're the right person for the company as a whole. A position will be found, or in my case, created to make use of your talents and skills. At the time the idea for Razorwire was born, mine just happened to be the ability to be cynical, pessimistic, and indignant, all while gleefully enjoying the misfortunes of others. The difference between comedy and tragedy is if the bus hits someone other than me, it's funny.
Schadenfreude be thy name.
Razorwire was supposed to be a blog that showcased not just the absurd and the asinine behavior and decisions made within the gaming industry but also the good and beneficial things that occurred. Not to further shake anyone's faith in the system, but there was a hell of a lot more negative stories to write about. Maybe part of that was because this is still a young industry and we're still making huge mistakes in order to gain wisdom. More likely it was because I'm a complete Richard who gazed too long into the abyss.
I know I stepped on a lot of toes and ruffled feathers on almost a daily basis. However, even though I sometimes got facts incorrect, I did my best to tell the truth. Truth being subjective, of course. I tried to find that truth and peel back layers of PR and Marketing candy-coating. I said the things that everyone was thinking. But where they were too polite to actually vocalize them, I felt almost obligated to point out that the Emperor was buck-naked.
It seemed that everyone was pulling me aside and telling me they loved what I was saying and agreed 100% with it, but yet, they would rarely say so in public. I was pretty underground, man. I was subversive. I was pretty much guaranteed to never really go mainstream or become a sensation. And I'm okay with that, since as soon as I did, I would probably end up writing about my own fallibility, since at my core, I'm a rager, not part of the machine.
With all of that in mind, if anyone I wrote about over the years feels truly wronged, I'm sorry. I can guarantee it won't happen again, heh. I had a great deal of fun here and I will miss it.
So what's next then? Well, I'm sure that some already know and for those that don't, you'll have to wait. I prefer to remain enigmatic for now, but suffice to say some blogger somewhere may get to rip me to shreds for a mis-step or poor choice of words.
Now for the actual goodbye part. It occurred to me that the absolute best farewell ever filmed might be more appropriate, but Rhett Butler doesn't actually spark a lot of recognition with kids today. Raise your hands if you know who Roy Batty was. Yeah, I thought so. Well, I know you guys like the videos so here is a final one for you.
This is footage of a German Air Force Colonel who was retiring and making the final flight of his military career. As such, he felt it necessary to take all those risks and do all the things that would have gotten his flight status immediately revoked. I mean, it was his final flight, revoke it all they want, right? That's exactly what happened. He landed, stepped out of his aircraft and in accordance with regulations they stripped his flight status.
If WarCry had an Air Force, that would be me. But since we don't have multi-million dollar fighter planes laying around, I'll have to settle for doing something I could have never done if it wasn't my final post.
This is a link to the most horrific thing I have ever seen on the internet. Click that at your own risk.
And if anyone was truly offended by that link, feel free to contact me directly at 1-248-434-5508.
Not everything is singing you know. The only important thing these days, is rhythm and melody.
Thanks for reading Razorwire. Good night.
-razor
