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(I’m imagining that is what happens to everyone who leaves for a little while and then comes back, lol.)

- Well, well! It HAS been a while, hasn’t it?

It’s been more than three months since my mysterious disappearance from the face of the Earth. And I bet that some of you guys that follow me on a somewhat bi-weekly occasion have been wondering all of this time since then: “Just what the hell has happened to our good reviewer / whipping boy Addit The Great? Did he happen to quit or did Liberty manage to pull off a trade to finally send his ass over to RPG Maker Web in exchange for a couple of low rounded draft picks and a cookie?” Wellll…

Truth be told, if any of you guys have happened to go through my latest posting history in the last little while, you’ll see that ever since around May or June…ish that I started to post a lot less and less around that time and even stopped working on anything in general, such as writing reviews and articles and such. I suddenly went from being around a fifty to an hundred post a month member, and usually submitted at least one review or such a month, to barely even cracking fifteen posts a month, and even having some of my stuff sit on the shelf for weeks to months at a time before eventually completing some of them (I’m looking at you, Luxaren Allure review)! I mean, hell, I went from someone who logged-in and posted around three to four times a week to suddenly just once a week – or even up to two to three or more! And the worse thing of them all is that I've stopped working on any of my projects since then and haven’t touched any of them at all (well…besides the odd thing here or there outside the editor) in months! What the hell is happening to me; am I suddenly losing my midus touch!? Maybe I DO need those perception drugs after all…

Well…long story short, the past couple of months in regards to what’s been going on at casa de Addit here hasn’t been exactly too kind to me…not to mention I think I just went through my very first mini-depression episode in regards to what was going on over there at the time. I mean…it’s kinda strange for me to say something like that personally, considering that I’ve always been a pretty cheerful fellow when it comes to dealing with such matters like this, but I guess those past couple of months really did do something on the ol’ overall morale with me and I guess mainly because of that, that I just stopped coming on here altogether and just stopped working on anything RM related as well. Hell, there was even one point, briefly, that crossed my mind that I should just slink away from here permanently and not come back here as a member anymore but only as a lurker instead to just check out what’s going on here every once and a while. But then I remembered just how hard that I’ve worked in coming back to the site almost four years ago after all that previous nonsense and rising from the bottom of the trash-heap to a more well-rounded respected member of the community and I knew that I just couldn’t throw all of that away like that so suddenly because of a couple of bad times at home, not after all that hard work. It may be a bit of a shallow reason to just flat out leave and not work on anything in the meantime and not mention anything about it to anyone, but when you have your issues at home that prevent you from working on anything to your fullest and it’s greatly affecting your overall morale and drive it can be awfully overwhelming to overcome and maintain status quo.

Fortunately though, for me, the last couple of weeks I’ve been feeling much better as of late, and my overall home life has improved tremendously! My game making and reviewing drive have returned to normal, and it looks like I’m ready to start coming back to work again for peanuts and crackerjacks...e-er, makerscore, that is.

I’m a bit aware about what’s been going on here in regards to some things, such as the new administration changes and the upcoming Misao awards, but I’m slowly trying to go through all of my notices and PM’s to see what I’ve missed out on in the last couple of months. It’s going to take me a while to get back into the swing of things on here, but I’ll try my best to keep up. Either way, I hope to be a lot more productive than I was last year and continue to rise up the makerscore standings in the future. I mean, I can’t believe I earned more achievements last year than I did the total amount of what I submitted on here. That's just whack!

Anyways, it’s good to be back.

And here I thought that leaving for three months was bad enough. Six months, though? Ooo…

And as for the queen banana herself taking control of this dump? Ehh…she’ll do a good job... If not, we could always persuade Kentona to come back and give him a reduced salary along with reduced benefits and some bubble wrap to take the job again.