Reposted here because Eric's being anal in the IP thread:
I'm going to add this, then I'm going to STFU...
Trust me when I say Louis didn't take his ball and go home. He didn't take down his stuff, only to go post it somewhere else. He took down all his arcade stuff because, quite frankly, it was taking over and he needed to just quit, and this was the best way that HE knows how to do it. He's not doing this to punish US, he's doing it because it's how HE has chosen to take control of the situation. He told me this has happened with other hobby sites, and it works for him.
He's told me explicitly that he doesn't care about IP (admittedly, that was my word because in describing his posts and pictures, I thought it was more concise and eloquent than "my ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---"). I know for a fact he's done design and art for other people, and he sent me the plans for "The Tully" cabaret, which I fully intend to build. I'm sure he's proud of that. But in order to walk away, he feels like he really need to GET AWAY- again, not to punish us, not to withhold his ideas, but to give himself a reason NOT to go back. I can respect that.
I'll end with this- we all love the Mario Pedestal. But think about the level of determination, commitment, and even obsession that you would need in order to manually carve the same pattern into each and every block over and over again, and then use a ball-point pen to color each and every block over and over again. How many of us would be willing to do that? That's where he was at, and that's why he decided enough was enough.