PlasmaFire.org is just a weblog now, but you’re definitely allowed to drop by anytime and post your ramblings.

Good news or bad news. Take your pick. But here goes:

PlasmaFire.org is gone. Dead. Deleted. Okay, well, not all of it; the domain name itself (www.plasmafire.org) is still there, and I still have full webhosting from Dreamhost. However, everything that pertained to “Video Game Science HQs” is now gone; that includes the main Drupal-powered front page, COMM.PlasmaFire.org (the forums), oldsite.PlasmaFire.org (the original Mambo-powered site), all users, and all content.

Abuse.PlasmaFire.org (“Abuse” game fanpage), RELAy.PlasmaFire.org (weblog), GridLine.PlasmaFire.org (my photo/project gallery), and a few other tidbits are still there and untouched. They’ll likely exist for a VERY long time, assuming that I keep paying for the webhosting service–which I’ll also likely do.

So the big question now is…what am I going to do with THE “PlasmaFire.org”? I’m keeping it. It’s becoming my primary weblog now. “But wait, you still have RELAy.PlasmaFire.org, and that’s your main weblog!” Well, yes, until now. The thing is, having a domain named after your alias and expecting a community to be built around it just doesn’t work sometimes; I realized this in addition to the large gobs of work that college tends to pile up around me. Time is short, so updating a “Video Game Science” site isn’t going to come easily–very obvious, as you know about the tumbleweeds that have rolled several times around the main site before.

Thus, PlasmaFire.org is becoming my new, and hopefully mostly-permanent place on the Internet; it’s meant for both personal use and a professional display for companies who want a closer look at Kevin, aka “PlasmaFire.” I’ll still write the occasional video game science article if I have time, and blog the usual stuff on engineering, gaming, and anime.

GridLine.PlasmaFire.org is due for a heavy revamp, as it’s rather disorganized in the current state; I’ve shot a LOT of photos over the previous year, many more times over compared to years past, and they’re all sitting on my hard drive waiting to be used somewhere. Same with some new drawings from a Japanese comic (“manga”) creation group I’m currently working with. RELAy.PlasmaFire.org is becoming an archive for the Tesla Coil Graduation Project as well as the old posts; I may or may not transfer some important stuff from there to the new weblog. Eh, “w/e,” as people would say.

So, Ryan, if you can, update your links on your sidebar. The new PlasmaFire.org is a weblog now, not a community site. My apologies, as VGS analyzation never took off in light of how much time I have on hand these days.

But all in all, thanks for being an end-to-end contributor to the premiere site where all we do is scrutinize the workings and use of science in…video games.

I hear SC2 is getting REALLY hot, by the way. Just like the good old days of Halo popularity. Are you playing Halo 3 at all, anyway?