EZS News: EZS as of now, and in the future.

[SimsHsia]

Aye, aye. Thanks for the update! (Glad to see another person posting here!)
In a way, I've let some of you down as well. I promised I'd build and finish a site nearly three years ago, and now that there's alpha build, I'm reluctant to update rapidly since there isn't any progress with much of our works. I don't have anything to work with for the site, i.e. concept art, project/character detail information etc, other than the scripts that haven't been updated in some time -- last update was back at the end of October 2008. On a not-so, but somehow, related subject various animation companies (like in Japan, for instance) like GONZO is also going through hard times and had to cut 120 of its staff of animators down to 30. With that number, it's very difficult to continue or complete any current projects under production. Although we're doing this as a hobby, I see this as being related to what we're going through...sorta.

I'd like to include a famous, maybe to us, quote here:

A star rises in the north, and as it does, so do the hopes of a select few. What will happen as they watch over this star? Will it sparkle? Will it glimmer? Will it fade? Or, will it become a glorious beacon, shining all their hopes and dreams across the heavens?

Emphasis mine. We're like a star, we could continue to glimmer, we could fade away (and go supernova), or shine as bright as can be in a star's life cycle.

When I registered this domain, I wasn't sure how long I wanted to own the domain so I registered it for two years just to be safe, so it's valid until October 18, 2010. If there isn't any significant progress by then and/or a week before the expiration date, I will not renew the domain (unless there's a very good reason to keep it going for another year or so) but keep the server running -- it's good server administration experience. Might turn it into some blog (oh, great, what'll I do there? Random personal ramblings of my life? "Today I went to class and..." ), personal website or something. No, this is not a "I quit" or a EZS-EOL (end of life) message. I, too, would like to see EZS grow and prosper, although it has been rather disappointing and on a decline ever since 2005. I would like to see something becoming of all of your works and efforts you put into your scripts and see it animated and/or created to be showcased on our website. Something that can be seen as a result of four, almost five, years of what I'd call our "planning/development" stage and get into a "production" stage. EDIT: Heh, funny that you had to post it on the very day I received an invoice from our hosting service that automatically billed the amount to continue services for another month.

However, I'm usually optimistic and I'm sure that things will work out for Reino and Dustin and they will eventually rejoin us and become active. I believe that the reason for their not being active during this time is due to the bad economic times the entire global markets are going through. Once there's some recover from this recession, I'm sure things will be right as rain. In any case, and whatever the case may be in less than 20 months, I'll say this here now: it's been fun, guys. It really has been. To be involved with a individuals like you and Reino choosing me as your site designer and forum manager on a random morning at our high school. Thank you. Salutations. You're Welcome. Etc etc. *gets off the soap box and sorry for the length of this post!*

Douitashimashite or "You're welcome"!
Lately, I've been using this picture of Kyon many times for Thank you's, you're welcome's etc.