Klazart Lives - Page 12

SirJolt linked me to this thread. Man it brought back some memories. I just wanted to drop by to say thanks. That was pretty awesome and also to all the rest of the well wishers here and on youtube who still leave nice messages to this day on youtube. As for why I stopped commentating and what I'm up to, here's a brief overview.

Commentating: I had a blast doing it but it took up a lot of my time since I can't do anything by halfs. If I did one commentary I'd end up doing fifty. Plus, if you want to do it properly you can't just do one commentary, you got to watch all the games and stay up to date with the scene and I just didn't have the time to keep up with it anymore.

The other problem for me was my RSI (repetitive strain) which I got from playing too many video games with bad posture and bad ergonomics. Basically fucking up my hands. Ironically it was one of the reasons why I got into commentating in the first place, since I was always a gamer and loved being a gamer it let me stay in touch with a world that I couldn't participate in as much anymore.

So when SC2 came out my RSI was pretty bad and I simply couldn't play it. And so I couldn't even learn the basics. Also it was one thing for me to commentate on pre-made vods but to actually manipulate a replay and record a vod over it was too strenuous for me.

In terms of my RSI, it's still there, and stops me from playing games beyond the occasional casual stuff. I have a physio regime and if I ever get a chance to really work at it, maybe it will get better in time. If it does, I dream of playing some RTS again, be it SC2 or its successor and who knows maybe jump into the amatuer commentary scene if I get the chance and time permits. But it's not very likely.

And as some people have pointed out. Hobbies don't pay the bills. I'm actually a qualified doctor and my work is busy as hell. I had sort of put my career on hold for a couple of years to focus on writing, which has always been my passion. Of course I spent a lot of that time doing starcraft commentaries instead of focussing on my (write)craft.

In terms of writing, some of you guys probably remember all the Authonomy drama. Looking back, that book wasn't ready. I did polish it up and got a few bites but I didn't really push to get it published beyond the Authonomy thing. I guess I saw the flaws in it and thought I could do better. Though I've periodically toyed the idea of just reading it out loud and putting it up on you tube. Since then I wrote another novel, which I finished a couple of months ago, and now I'm procrastinating sending it out to publishers. The market for new fiction in my genres is pretty tough right now, but I still love writing and enjoy it a lot.

In the middle I also wrote the script for a graphic novel. I found a brilliant artist to work on it with me who also happened to be a commentary fan. Unfortunately he got busy in life and couldn't keep putting in the time to work on it so that kind of ended up getting shelved. I don't really have the cash to pay someone else to draw it, but maybe someday.

Thing is, the genre I've always loved is Sci-fi. And that's what I truly want to write but I for some reason I got side tracked away. But I've had this epic saga in my head for like 10 years and it's evolved over time. Maybe that's what I'll write next. It's going to be my tribute to all the memories I had with BW also since the main character in it will be named Mah Jae Yoon. Sad, I know.

For those of you are interested in reading whatever I end up putting out, when I ever manage to I'll put up something about it on the youtube channel when/if I do.

So yeah, basically between my work and trying to find time to write I have no time at all to do anything else really.

Work is busy as hell. I'm specialising in Psychiatry and it can be pretty intense but very challenging also.

Mrs. Klazart is still around and is actually an insane amount of fun. Still a total noob though.

All in all, life is busy and cool and maybe not exactly how I envisoned it when I was just getting out of college but hey that's how it is.

But yeah this was nice, and thanks a million to everyone again. Hope you guys are having fun and it's great to see the pro-scene evolving and growing.

Thanks for listening.