As some of you are aware of, on July 4th 2010, I will have been programming for TI calculators for exactly 9 years. However, I am afraid there won't be a 10th year.

As some people on the forums and IRC (and more recently the entire Omnimaga staff) have been seeing from time to time since at least February, I have done and said things (such as in this topic that only staff/irc chanops can see) that implied that this Summer would be my last in the TI community. The reasons were not explained to everyone at first, but were related to things outside the Internet, which the entire staff and a few others are aware of. Initially, I planned to leave last February, but then pushed it back to an undefined time, then later Summer time. As for now it is uncertain about what will happen. However, it is becoming clear that this 9th year of programming is going to be my last. My learning capacity, which slowly deteriorates with the time, is not going to allow me to push Axe Parser further than the game project I had in mind, and its sequel will require me to team up with someone else for the tilemapping. Since I have tried other languages to no avail, that I am no longer interested into RPG programming and that what I want to make is impossible in TI-BASIC, I see no point in continuing further afterward if no matter how hard people, especially Quigibo, try at helping me, I still can't understand things that would allow me to make better games. So basically, once I'm done with the game I would like to make (if I even do it at all), I am also done with all kind of programming. I also have very big issues at getting used to new stuff. I am fine with slight syntax changes in a language, but not stuff such as token names. 6 years ago I would have been fine (I did it with Omnicalc, when they switched from Sprite() to Real(20)), but things happened to me since then (and long before).

As for my future in the TI community, I given indication one week ago that June may be my last month in the TI community. This is not because of community problems, as no major issue occured in a long while. It is stuff outside the Internet and past things that slowly changed me into something that will eventually be a nuisance for Omnimaga and the community. If things goes well I could very well remain around for several more years. I'll see how that goes, but now you know why there was an hosting ownership change and two new admins hired at once not so long ago. I prefer to plan things in advance in case.

Good-bye, DJ... We'll miss you. Too bad you say you must leave the community, too.
Farewell, adieu...
(At least we'll still have your games... )

Hurray Hurray Hurray !

Hopefully you will be able to stay longer then you think. We will really miss you if you leave. You are the reason this community is here, and you have saved the TI community.

I haven't been here very long, but I can already feel the huge impact you have made to the TI community. I haven't even known that graphing calculators existed for as long as you have been programming. Your amazing games and your helpful advice have given people (including myself) inspiration to continue to work on making fun games and great programs on these calculators. I can only wish you the best in luck in whatever you do, and even if you aren't going to be programming anymore, it would be great if you stuck around for a little more to just hang out. 

I hope I can at least stick around for a while longer. It is rather hard, though, with life. I will most likely need a break from certain stuff soon (not to be selfish towards people needing help, but it is rather hard to moderate a site, answer people requests via PM, e-mail and IRC and help other people on Axe stuff (that I am already not very experienced with), when I would like to participate in discussions here and IRC channels and maybe even code my planned game. Plus at work we get 1.5x more customers than usual and often work more hours. I think I am burning myself out by devoting so much effort on all those at once, so I think I will be stopping 1 and 2 for a while as much as possible. Until my work vacations in Late July it might be a good idea. I have three other forum admins anyway, so I could maybe just perform admin tasks when I feel like it.

If I continue at this rate, I'll get too unstable and irritated and people will get more and more angry at myself and hold grudges (if it didn't happen already)

Holy run on batman

*grammar