Signing out...

[Richard]

Hey guys.

I just wanted to let you guys know that I am going to be stepping back from Shrapnel. I will still be helping out behind the scenes for awhile, while we transition, but officially tommorow is my Last day.

This is an amicable split, I am just burnt out and need a break.

Feel free to drop me a line at rarnesen@columbus.rr.com after next week.

Oh and I'll still be here, just not as an official spokesman.

[pathfinder]

Sorry to see ya go Richard. Don't be a stranger!

[Deathstalker]

Aww, man. You WILL be missed. This is kinda like taking the J out of PB&J,still good but just not as satisfying!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Seriously though you've been the front man for as long as I've been here and done a fine job (IMO). Best of luck in the future with all your endeavours.

[Atrocities]

Richard I don't know what to say other than thank you. You will be missed as an Offical Voice here amoung the forums.

Take care man. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

PCP

[geoschmo]

Well, dang. You will be missed around here.

Hey, maybe this will mean you will habe more time and we'll catch you in a game or two on PBW. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Geoschmo

[Captain Kwok]

Thanks Richard for all your hard work and dedication to Shrapnel Games and the Space Empires series. Look forward to hearing from you in the future.

[TerranC]

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[tesco samoa]

Richard. Good luck on your next chapter in life.

I hope to see you post here still.

And respond to any wise cracks at you.

Take Care My Friend

[Q]

Richard, thank you very much for all the work you did here and my best wishes for your future.

Q

[Taera]

too many people leave the SE community for their real-life troubles. It is sad to see you go Richard, thank you so very much for all what have you done. I also do hope to see you from time to time on these forums. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[mlmbd]

Richard, I left you my sentiment over on the Lurk Report. But, if you don't make there; He will sorely missed by this reporter! I wish him the best, in ALL his future endeavors. What and where ever they may be. I do hope he will stop by every now an again to say, HOWDY! <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">mlmbd http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

[Lemmy]

Buh bye Shrapnel Guy Richard,
Hello Forum Member Richard.

[Mephisto]

That's very sad and a great loss to Shrapnel. I hope you will be on the board quite frequently so it isn't your loss, too! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif
Maybe you will do some beta testing in the future?

[Master Belisarius]

I hope this will be the best for you, Richard. We will miss you...
Wish you the best luck!

[disabled]

Good luck man.

[Gandalph]

Good luck in your new ventures, hope to see you here and on PBW.

[Wardad]

Woof! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[David E. Gervais]

Richard,.. I'd like to say Live long and Prosper! But if you live too long you'll outlive us all and be the Last man on earth! (a lonely prospect!) So I'll just say,.. Be happy and enjoy your reprive from the wonderfull world of Chaos. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Cheers!

P.S. Breath in,.. Breath out,.. Inhale,.. Exhale,.. Now repeat with your eyes closed,.. Feels good doesn't it!

Remember, the Forum will be with you, always! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Will]

Don't forget your towel http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Skulky]

thx for all you've done for the biggest and bestest game ever http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Quikngruvn]

Godspeed, Richard. Thanks you everything you've done here!

Quikngruvn

[mottlee]

Good Luck in all you do I know you will be missed here (though we do hope to see you on the FUNNY papers http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif )
Good Luck
Mott

[Taz-in-Space]

...Richard going? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif
...Taz sad http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif
...Taz give Richard hug goodby! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
...(some time for grieving)
...Taz will miss Richard http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

[Ragnarok]

Happy trails to ya Richard. Oh, this isn't the good old west back in the day. My bad. Anyways, thanks for helping with a great game and a great company. Hope to see ya around. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[dogscoff]

It really won't be the same without you, but if it's going to make you happier then well done for taking time out and good luck.

[sparhawk]

Good luck, and as they say in holland:

Tot ziens,

Sparhawk

[Suicide Junkie]

Enjoy your new civilian life, Richard.

[Atraikius]

It is a sad loss to see you go, but good luck in the future. Try not to be a stranger here, you are going to be missed by many of us.

[Jourin]

Good luck Richard,

You set the standard for a game spokesperson.

Have a good Christmas and a joyous New Year and God Bless!

[Richard]

Thanks for the comments guys.

Yeah I'll be around, you can't get rid of me that easy.

I'm still trying to figure out the towel comment http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Baron Munchausen]

Richard! You must have read or at least heard/seen one of the adaptations of HHGG by now? You know, H2G2, Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy... ???

[mlmbd]

Richard, it is from the Cantina thread. I have open up some retail there. One of the item's is a loincloth with SEIV logo embossed.

Or it could be from "Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

mlmbd http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

[ December 02, 2002, 21:46: Message edited by: mlmbd ]

[Arkcon]

What... huh... Richard's leaving http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

Gotta read these more carefully.

Richard, I'm sure it's been said a 100 times already. But you did a great job and I'm sad http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif to see you go. Best of luck in the future.

[Baron Grazic]

I don't think there is anything that I can say that has been said before?

Sorry to see you go & all the Best

...Baron Grazic...

[Fyron]

No no no, you're all wrong. It is from South Park (which, btw, is one of the few shows on television worth watching). http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Stone Mill]

Your excellence will be missed. Best Wishes.

[dumbluck]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
No no no, you're all wrong. It is from South Park (which, btw, is one of the few shows on television worth watching). http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Gryphin]

Hey guys, Richard can't leave till he pays his Cantinna tab, (GT will hunt him down if he does). As such he will be around for a long time.

[DirectorTsaarx]

I go away for a week, and this is the kind of thing that happens? Now I remember why I don't usually take vacation.

Anyway, best of luck Richard. Everyone deserves a break once in a while.

[Will]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
No no no, you're all wrong. It is from South Park (which, btw, is one of the few shows on television worth watching). http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">HEY! I wrote the towel comment http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif . And it is referring to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Nobody should leave home without their towel http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Tenryu]

All the very best to you Richard. The Shrapnel will not be the same without you, I fear.

Good Fortune 2U

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Will:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
No no no, you're all wrong. It is from South Park (which, btw, is one of the few shows on television worth watching). http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">HEY! I wrote the towel comment http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif . And it is referring to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Nobody should leave home without their towel http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I never read The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, but the towel thing was on South Park... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

[Kamog]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels. A towel, it says, is the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound he cold moons of Jaglon Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kafrofoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for hand-to-hand combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal--daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has a towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that a hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost." What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still know where his towel is, it is clearly as man to be reckoned with. Hence a phrase that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is." (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.) <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">

[Fyron]

Ok... I didn't doubt that it was in Hitchhiker... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Instar]

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

[dumbluck]

So, how's civilian life treating you, Richard?