NOTICE: TESSMAGE.COM WILL BE SHUTTING DOWN PERMANENTLY
April 19, 2009
Once upon a time, Tessera produced high-quality texture mods and the best VTMB patch on the web.
But eventually, Tessera retired after growing increasingly disgusted with various issues. And just today,
Tessera has also discontinued any and all support for the excellent True VTMB Patch, after growing
weary of seeing it being slandered and sabotaged by Werner Spahl (aka "Wesp5") and his clueless
legions of smack-talking adolescent goons.
Because of these ongoing problems, and because the online gaming community continues to delight in
slandering and disrespecting Tessera at every available opportunity, and because Tessera's supposed
"fans" have -- for the most part -- done little or nothing to support and defend Tessera from these nitwits
and geeks... well... WELL...
...well, there just doesn't seem to be much point in maintaining this website any longer. It costs money
(a lot more money than you might think) to maintain tessmage.com on its own private server. Ever since
its beginning back in 2006, tessmage.com was paid for entirely out of Tessera's pocket. No pop-up ads,
no affiliate agreements, no outside financial support of any kind. We never wanted to have any of that
intrusive commercial garbage on this site... thus it was up to Tessera himself to foot the entire bill.
But now... it no longer seems relevant. In this world which embraces mediocrity and stupidity, it was
inevitable that an intelligent perfectionist like Tessera would eventually tire of beating his head against
the brick wall of shallowness and New Age apathy. To this day, there are legions of unsophisticated,
plastic prudes who continue to view tessmage.com as being little more than a "porn site." Many others
simply enjoy abusing Tessera on a regular basis -- no doubt because they resent his "no punches pulled"
demeanor and the equally challenging quality of his artwork.
Tessera's work has been published in major gaming publications. His texture mods are being used
by literally hundreds of thousands of gamers worldwide. His political opinions and other points of
view have been featured in published interviews. Yet the amount of active public support for all of
that work has been anemic to say the least. That's not very rewarding, so Tessera is simply calling
it quits -- once and for all. This has been coming for a long time, people. No one should be surprised.
This entire website will be taken offline at the end of May, 2009. It's been an interesting three years,
but the public does not seem to be very supportive of anything which falls outside of the comfy and
safe zone of the mainstream. Therefore, the continued maintenance of tessmage.com can no longer
be justified. It has... in effect... become pointless. That's rather sad... but time marches on.
Best wishes to all of you... and many thanks to Tessera's loyal supporters. Keep the faith.
