- Mon Feb 15, 2010 2:44 am
#31471
Thank you for the guilt trip, man. I feel like I am going to go to hell for that or something. LOL! That is what I was apologizing for the other day when we were discussing Driver 2 user-created videos.
I made the videos you are talking about using the method described in the Driver 2 Video Workshop topic (most of which disappeared for some reason while I was absent, but which is now restored to a similar state as before).
The videos you mentioned were posted to a MILLEREEL account channel thing I created at YouTube.com. I was working on more Driver 2 videos when I encountered some different kinds of aggravation, including what seemed to me to be deliberate, having to do with other people and other online accounts that were then created and called MILLEREEL. I had no luck getting some of that removed, so I deleted my Driver 2 videos and my YouTube.com account.
I did not mean to do that permanently, and I was sorry about the people who embedded the videos or linked to them, but I guess that happens all the time anyway. I posted here at the time that I would look for something else to do to put the videos back up for people to see.
I did not do that, though, and stopped participating in activities online at DriverMadness.net and YouTube.com because I was all bummed out (still am) about getting the big C and some other disease for which there is no cure. I was also feeling frustrated with some issue that kept causing my replays to mess up. Like I posted back then, I kept having to combine pieces of different replays to look like one chase scene or start over from scratch on videos. Either way it was a pain in the neck. Since stress compromises the immune system, I just dropped out and stopped working on the videos as an act of self-preservation. I guess that sounds silly, but it seems serious enough to me.
Like I wrote the other day, sorry about all that. I guess that in a way those videos were so stupid that they were kind of cool. There were only a few that were finished, but I will try to find and put up those videos somewhere for you to look at.
Someone else wrote that he thought Madness made the videos because they said "DriverMadness.net presents" at the beginning of the videos and "Please visit DriverMadness.net" at the end. I was just trying to help promote this website. When I was making the videos I expected them to be offered by this website as streaming videos and download files. That is why it said "DriverMadness.net presents" at the beginning, and the ad at the end was in case someone shared the videos.
In January of 2008, DriverMadness.net began experiencing serious issues of some kind or other. Madness moved his message board to a temporary host, and that is how things operated off-and-on for a while. Then the whole place became completely defunct. DriverMadness.net was dead in the water and could not be accessed for use at all.
It was still that way in July of 2008, so I sent some money to Madness to help get things going again because I missed DriverMadness.net and Madness had worked so hard to make a really cool website. Things have never been quite what they once were back in 2007, I guess, though. I do not really know. I have never been around here very frequently. I just like the place because I like the DRIVER games and you guys are interesting and informative and funny, and people have been nice to me here.
Sorry about the long post. Writing long ones seems to be a personal problem of mine or something, I guess.
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