I wanted to drop in and say “Welcome” to a few people reading the site tonight. Also, to welcome Sp1te as a new contributor to this site. My original reasoning behind buying a few of the more popular web addresses such as quake4arena.com, .net & .org, rocketarena4.com, .net & .org, eastcoastlanparty.com, .net & .org, newjerseyquake.net etc was to build a stronger gaming community locally and possibly on a larger scale by opening the doors to available web space, harddrive space, exchange server etc free of charge. I flip the bill, all you have to do is ask, that’s it. I thought people would be emailing like crazy. Heh, boy was I off base. When I heard people complaining “I’d jump at the chance to build a game page……except I don’t have the cash” for this or that on and on. So I get the idea hey, why not buy up a bunch of domains, pay for hosting and offer it to the community. It’s like I was selling ice to eskimos. I’ve never had anyone take it up seriously. I even offered hardware sites to people that wanted to write about hardware, do reviews and on and on. Again no takers. So I’m sitting on maybe 65 domains at one point utilizing almost zip of the available harddrive space let alone data transfers. Oh and did I mention the 80000 email addresses I have to give out. Well come to think of it I did and no one even wanted a @quake4arena.com address. Dang. So I have an open offer yet again. Any takers? Enter sp1te.

Sp1te happens to be one of the most hardcore gaming people in the country. Not because he’s the best gamer at any particular game, or that he won a bunch of tournies but because he like myself and other hardcore gamers actually are hardcore gamers. Not people who sit home and play the occasional WOW game “online” but attended every possible LAN in thier area and around the country. Offer and give help and support to the gaming community, buy the best gear they can afford to play the latest games and therby supporting the gaming industry as a whole making us all stronger. Even if I am the only person to voice this: Gamers might very well be a potential political commodity. That’s right I said it. I feel that there are literally so many of us in this country that we could have the ability to impact our country’s political agenda. I don’t really want to hear any more about censorship or banning games in the senate, do you?

I will climb off my soap box before I start ranting. Ok, where was I? O ya, I’m off to play a little Team Fortress 2 and Enemy Territory Quake Wars. :) My email for anyone that wants to have an email address that will be here as long as I or my sons are alive is welcome to ask for it. Web space whatever, email me here: trunkneck@trunkneck.com hard to remember I know.

Trunk out.