(Wow... I'm also a little jealous of Suffix's skills)
Mind you, Yoshisaurus, that some of the things I've spent a great deal of time on, particularly map making for TF2 and L4D, ended in utter failure. Skills were developed, but there was a distinct lack of talent. Hence, the skills developed are nigh useless to me now. In the case of TF2, I became lost in developing my own little world in the maps, and paid no heed to the common scales and distances that make players comfortable in new maps. So, I definitely learned something, but there was no real talent.
This sort of "jack of all trades, master of none" thing, or trying new trades without dedication to any of them, is the influence of growing up in a small-town, or so I'm told. Still, I must have some degree of talent with LPing, however, as I've been able to entertain a somewhat-foreign audience for two years, now.
I'm sure that if you can find something productive that you enjoy, be it something I've done in the past or not, you can surpass whatever I've tried my hand at. Except for the jikkyou play, perhaps.
Please come back to #tmk Suffix! I miss you! Me and Deezer could also probably use your Mad Japaneze Skillz™.
俺でよければ、いつでも出来る限り翻訳してやるよ! I'm always up for a linguistic challenge, but resuming IRC activity may be a challenge unto itself.