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kimchinwaffles · 3/7/2025, 7:09:23 PM · permalink

Checkin' in, saar...  
  
I was woken up in April of 2007, my last semester at art school. My korean genes led me into becoming an animator, and I was in Character Design class, 4 weeks till graduation, working on my final project. I was rearing to dive into my chosen career path, champin at the bit to model and animate for video games. Not for a love of video games, but bc my mission has always been to add new mediums to my perpetual art student resume. I would have done well with it i think, but the waking process was rude and abrupt, and it caused me to change direction at my first opportunity.   
  
I arrived at class that day to find an unknown to me feller sitting at the teachers desk. He was a sub, but he wasn't a sub. The actual teacher had to stay at work that night to finish up a project so they could ship the latest version of Mortal Kombat on time, and this strange dude was one of his friends from work who was on a different project at Midway and free to help out his pal on the DL. As class that day began, he introduced himself and instructed us to, "Just work on your final projects... I'll be showing some videos that you're free to watch along with me." Matt Skonicki was his name, and I will never forget it...and I'm not generally good with names. I felt the urge to watch, and if I remember correctly, I was the only one that did.   
  
I dont remember the order of the things, or even all the specifics of what he showed, but he immediately took off on his mission to wake up a random unwitting slave that day. The "allegory of the cave" always reminds me of this encounter. It was the day I turned around and saw the fire.  
  
There are 3 specific things that I remember from his "lesson". The first being his backstory about how his father was a US Physicist that wasn't allowed to talk about his work, but was employed by CERN, and was in S Korea at that time, buying things needed to finish the Large Hadron Collider, which was completed the next year in 2008. He told me that they were able to produce tiny black holes by slamming protons together at light speed, and this was before that info was released to the public, which was 2012 I think. He also left me with the impression that he did not believe it was a good thing.  
  
The other 2 things I remember were the last 2 things he said to me. After class was done, he did his best to lead me in the right direction as he sent me into a battlefield covered with endless rabbit holes. I told him that I would have to spend the whole weekend (LOL) trying to disprove everything he just showed me, and if I couldn't, I needed to reevaluate my life's trajectory. He laughed of course, and told me this..."I can tell you want to know what the truth is. Most don't. Well, the Truth is Jesus Christ, and the Bible is the only lens that will help you see thru the bullshit clearly." Im probably paraphrasing there, but suffice it to say, that strange man sitting at the teachers desk that day wasn't a sub, he was sent there by God to plant a seed in me that would grow into a plant that would sustain me for a long time, and lead me into more and more truth as I maintained it. Wait...that sounded pretty gay. A figurative seed, planted figuratively. I left class very confused. In fact, I was so shaken I remember that I couldn't even wake up little Jimmy that night to play with my girlfriend. There. Not gay.  
  
I was already in the video game industry at that time, so after working for a while, when layoffs came around and my dept was being closed, I high tailed it to MN, for a year of rabbit hole and soul searching. Eventually I literally asked myself "WWJD", and decided that He would probably make a table, or fix someone's home or wagon. So I became a contractor. 15 years later, I'm back at His feet, believing that my current trade is only a stepping stone to the next thing that was meant to humble me, and that He has a better way for me to glorify his name, not my own. I think I may have finally found it, though...Praise God!

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