How the heck did you get here?

[Huntsman]

It's kind of a neat feeling to be able to help someone else, isn't it?

Yes Boss - That has got to be the best aspect of MTo  - Our complete willingness to share info.
I so appreciate everyone's posts, tests, challenges, reviews, work etc etc

But I do have to single out the modders 'how to' posts as the really top ones.
As quite often you guys have had to work out stuff/techniques with a lot of trial and error, time and hard work.
And those techniques are even kinda 'proprietary' to you and your work - Yet you share it with everyone else.

And also the members who are just 'global experts' in their field and take time to share info knowledge and piccies

Thanks and respect to everyone

[zoidberg]

It's kind of a neat feeling to be able to help someone else, isn't it?

Yes Boss - That has got to be the best aspect of MTo  - Our complete willingness to share info.
I so appreciate everyone's posts, tests, challenges, reviews, work etc etc

But I do have to single out the modders 'how to' posts as the really top ones.
As quite often you guys have had to work out stuff/techniques with a lot of trial and error, time and hard work.
And those techniques are even kinda 'proprietary' to you and your work - Yet you share it with everyone else.

And also the members who are just 'global experts' in their field and take time to share info knowledge and piccies

Thanks and respect to everyone

Very well said. Hanging out here can be very healing for the mind after dealing with me me me money money money people all day. It is refreshing to see people sharing so generously for the good of others.

[tattoosteve99]

For me it was Rex aka sazabi.

[Werkzeug]

I'm pretty sure I did some kind of key word search like "climber vs. super tinker swiss army".

Now I have a growing collection of tools, and dwindling bank account.

[Werkzeug]

That started me on the path of hoarding - I mean collecting - MTs, SAKs, guns and flashlights.  I later determined that I was attracted to these things for a couple of reasons.  First, each allows me to manipulate my environment.  Its a control thing.  And second, they distract me from the trainwreck between my ears.  When you go through the process of shopping on the internet, reading about MTs and SAKs, making a purchase, staring at the mailbox, opening the package and playing with your new MT, what you are really doing is distracting (I say anesthetizing) yourself.  When you are playing with an MT, you briefly forget about the things that worry you and drag you down.  Its like a drug addiction, without the weight loss, loss of family and job, and decaying teeth.  But its the same principle.  Distraction from angst.

Quoted for great truth. The existential MT philosophy.

I think I'm going to use this line as my sig:

When you are playing with an MT, you briefly forget about the things that worry you and drag you down. It's like a drug addiction, without the weight loss, loss of family and job, and decaying teeth.