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I have been accused of things before but never a pirate. That did it for me. Good bye. It was fun while it lasted.
ah, there is a big difference between skinning for fun and skinning for profit.
but I will agree with you that part of the fun is to share the finished product with others. to see the number of downloads and have a venue to express one's self. and being retired, it's a great hobby and helps to take up the slack time.
Wrong. I think your skins are pretty awesome. I don't use SMX, but I like your skins well enough, and you well enough that it was my plan to spotlight you next,(whenever I got back to that...lol 
). There are a few people here that knew that, I just hadn't gotten to it. Not that my spotlighting you would have made your year...lol.
Anyway, I know there are many here that enjoy your skins, but it was your call and I don't hold it against you for taking them down. I know that if I ever leave, no matter the reason, what I have already shared with all my friends here, will remain shared.
Now I will address the friends thing and then I'll shut up.
You may have no true friends here, but I can tell you I do. There are folks here I talk to everyday on Skype and Yahoo. There are people here that stay on my second monitor all day long. I do voice calls, and video calls with several people from WC regularly. I have spoken to Doc, Giz, Xiandi and her husband, DaveBax, Yrag, Wiz, Harley, on the phone several times. Most of these calls were not about skinning. I have met Wiz in person.....nightmares still haunt me.... 
I was the one to call Xiandi at work to tell her she made master. I was so happy for her and excited that I couldn't wait.
There was a bad time in my life, (still not completely gone) when I asked for the thoughts and prayers of my friends here and their response was of great consolation and hope for me. That is as real as it gets IMHO.
To me, these people are much more than strangers on the other side of the glass.
That said, Ken, do what you want, do it for your reasons, but know that some of us will still consider ourselves as your friend.
It's your choice if you decide to stay away, JC, but know this: You will be missed ... not just for your skinning talents, but for what you add to this completely dysfunctional family we have here on WC. Every family has issues, this one more so, because there are so many of us in the mix. Family members say things that are not always the best thing to say, hurt each other, fight, make up, and do it all over again. Any family or community has this no matter where you go.
I simply cannot imagine what my life would be like without all the people I have 'met' here .. and with the exception of my brother who brought me here in the first place, I have not met a single one of them face to face.
Let me try to explain that one, JC. 
No, you are not ruining anyone's life, but you are *taking back* something which you created and previously shared with the world. Those skins you did are unique. When you remove them you are not doing anything bad per se (you created them, you have the right to remove them at any time) but you are preventing countless other people from enjoying them in the future. Personally, I think that is a total waste of creative energy, and I'm sad when something like that happens.
Now, in terms of Sysmetrix, the application itself, you are indeed hurting it, by removing choice. Then again, Nick hasn't been paying much attention to it either, but the proof that he made an excellent application is that many people *still use it* after all this time.
For someone who has 'no friends' here, as you claim, you sure had a lot of responses in this thread, all of them supportive of you. If they didn't care about you, one way or another, then this would have been a very short thread indeed, isn't it?
One thing I learned in life is that friendship is not black and white. It's made of many tones of gray. Furthermore, friendships are not static, they grow (or shrink) over time - so do not discard so easily the possibility of one day having a beer and pouring your heart out to one or more of the regulars here. Who knows?
They are much more than 'only skins', and it saddens me you can't see that. Each of those skins you created has a bit of *you* in them.
But this isn't really about skins. It's about you undoing what you did and getting your ass back in here. You already recognized that you might have jumped the gun (you did, and you know it, lol). Personally, and I'm sure all your friends here will agree, I think the better man is not the one who makes a decision and then sticks to it no matter what, out of pride and fear of losing face, but the one who is humble enough to backtrack when he recognizes he made a mistake. Unlike the former, the latter takes some real strength.
So, up to you now.
My...3 cents
-"Friends" or "Buddies" on WC ?? -Somwhere in all this is the "Happening" between me and a certain other skinner here on the place2b.
Just thought that that is a good reference to the many different ways of how we choose to interact with one or the other here on the site.... Ofcourse some are or will be more than just shallow internet-aquaintances. 
Yarr matey!! Good to see yore scurvy arse back in our midst!!! 
I can breathe now. Vamps is a tough Kiitty.
All that aside I'm glad you're back JC Welcome home 
I see you changed your name back...good, that means you're back. Happy to see it.
oh good shit, you came back!!!!!! ..... welkommen back to the sysmetrix side of hell where all competition feed off the souls of the damned....muahhahahh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
You need to talk to someone.
And welcome back JC
i tried fuzzeh...trust me, but every psychiatrist in australia and NOW stockholm scream with horror when they see me on their doorstep and refuse to see
me for some reason...... 
awww me and andy luv you too!! i got your email too thankyou!!! i will reply tonight, going to work now doing some art and stuff and meeting the cute nishuki for lunch 
Spot on, Paul
No, not really.
No amount of money could get me to do any skinning if I didn't find it somewhat amusing.
This is also the main reason why I quit (active) skinning some 5 years ago. It just wasn't fun anymore, and still isn't.
I do it just cause I like to make stuff, to me its a blast. Now where did I put my crayons?
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
‑ Oscar Wilde
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