It takes time for some ideas to make sense.  There's often the notion of "doing what you love" wherein the seeming moral of the story, if you will, is to not worry so much about money.  That is to say, do it for the love of the game.  All well and good, but to the cynical among us the message is lost.

I've been working full-time as a web developer for three months now, and it has only served to drive more towards programming more and expanding my knowledge-base.  Sure they are my own projects when working at home, but all the same, it's the same basic premise.

If we look at The VG Press, we can see why.  This has been an ongoing project for about two years now, and development is still continuing strongly, time permitting.  While many have expressed gratitude, I also imagine and unsaid presumption of madness there.

On my own time, I've spent now about a decade now learning and building for the web.  Starting on lousy old Geocities PageBuilder, to adding some of my own CSS, to hacking away bits and pieces of JavaScript, then into ASP, and it just goes from there.  I've had various sites to varying degrees of success, but there's always been one common theme: I want people to use it.  Not for money, not for fame, not for anything other than to be helpful.

With The VG Press, it is evident.  I look at a signature on a post, and it's genuine satisfaction.  I didn't tell them to use it, it's not a patronization -- it was something of value, that I provided.  So when I see new topics arising out naturally, voting up and down as we take sides on trivial issues, and when threads are derailed by sudden man-ass, I don't see just another gaming forum; I see a dream fulfilled.  And I do it all for the love of the game.