I hate to do a song and dance about it but personally since this is change on my end and it’s going to be a lot harder said than done because there are a lot of memories that I do carry from the old days of Pixeltendo back when I was MasteroftheWii. That's all the way back in late 06'-07' if memory serves me right.
Back when I actually began browsing forums as by age bypassing (being the little shit I was then) and when I was being annoying up until I genuinely tried to do better and grow under the username Diogalesu, I... honestly have a lot of memories of some of the things that happened over the years since the split between TSR and PT back in 08'.
Up until this point if I'm doing the math right, that's almost 15 years I've been a part of this particular community. With how all those times leading up to the later years of TSR before the forums really kind of slowed down after 2014 when I was still attending college in favor of the discord. However as time went on and I changed and matured over the years I’ve begun to realize that in some aspects I’ve kind of grown out of the community as it is now.
That's where the trouble is. Its come to a point where if I want to keep growing professionally with what I’ve chosen to do, it’s been long overdue to to do this so I can continue to do so. It’s becoming more difficult to maintain my presence in all the communities I need to and that’s where I have to make decisions on where to go from here at this point.
While I still will keep an eye on DYKG and may use TSR in the case that I need to find references for art styles from games, and I’ll still keep in touch with a few of the people I’ve come to meet over the years here in some of the other communities that have come from it, any actual involvement in the discord channel and the forums I will not continue doing.
I'd like to take this opportunity to extend a personal thanks to Dazz and the rest of the staff. For all the trouble that I did cause in the past and the friendships I formed over the years with some of the other members. I felt like I actually did find a place to belong online when I was going through troubling times in my youth and helping me find my passions in the visual arts even if it was just through my start in pixel art. That... I'll never forget.
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TL;DR: Dioshiba (Me) feels that while he is grateful for the memories and getting his start in digital art here in the TVGR community for as long as he has. It’s time to spread out his wings to other places in order for him to grow as an artist.