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Haze:

--- Quote from: abaraba on January 18, 2011, 06:31:53 am ---
--- Quote from: Haze ---Apparently I reposted some deleted post.. That's what my ban message says, I honestly have no clue.

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The reason you were banned is directly connected to present situation you're complaining about, it's quite hilarious really, let me give you a clue:

http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=116673&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&vc=1


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That's a disagreement between myself and Aaron, and I stand entirely behind what I said there.  It's got nothing to do with being removed from MameWorld.  Aaron is FAR too soft with people at times.  I've stated before, I'm not in this to be popular, I'm in this to get stuff done.  In the end, stuff got done, you have speech in Scorpion*.  The guy was being a complete penis about things, and I called him out as such, acting like gods gift because you made some samples, while refusing to actually give the correct info to improve the project, and trying to turn people on the developers for not supporting the samples isn't really a great thing to do.  Pressing issues is sometimes necessary.

This might be one reason Aaron doesn't want me as part of the 'official' team, but I still seem to be organizing half the work that gets done.  Bit silly really.  However, in this thread, you have people backing up what I've said by saying that Aaron has said the same.  Derrek is also saying the same.  You have your references, you're choosing to ignore them and attempt to discredit me.

The views expressed on MameWorld there also represented all the other developers I was working with at the time, there were MANY discussions behind the scenes about this.  In this instance Aaron stuck his foot in without knowing 99% of the previous conversations or details; compared to the other developers Aaron isn't much involved in conversations, and usually doesn't know what's going on.  The 'I know this and you don't, nah nah nah' attitude was creating a significant degree of disharmony, you can gauge that from some of the other posts in that thread, which weren't made by me.

*In the end, after more broken promises about providing info to people who were being 'nicer' the algorithm was reverse engineered from the samples, pretty much as a f-you towards the guys hoarding the info, even if it wasn't stated in public as such.  That tends to be what the dev team do if people start being difficult for personal gain, the project is about freedom of information, not letting people make money selling bootleg replacement parts.

I just prefer to be more direct about things, rather than sucking up to people in the futile hope it might actually get me anywhere.

This has very little to do with the present situation, technical information is readily available, and the majority of the decline has been seen since I wasn't involved directly, since I was banned from posting there, and thus unable to provide actual useful information, since I stopped chasing people up over everything, since I stopped training up new devs on IRC, with a rather hard line to ensure they did things correctly.  Being too nice gets you nowhere.  There is plenty to work on, your comparison is unfounded because the guy you're talking about would have just held on forever, making excuses every time he was asked anyway, thus resulting in no progress at all hence the whole situation coming about in the first place.

The actual MameWorld ban, as I said, it still makes no sense.  Don't you think that on any rational site, if they had decent reasons for the ban, they'd still allow actual MAME progress to be posted?.  They've managed to cut off some of the most significant progress in MAME from their news forum simply because they don't allow me to be mentioned, or links posted to my site (and should you attempt to, you'll be banned).  As of late I've been kind to them by providing YouTube videos so posters can link to progress directly (I don't believe censoring progress is good for MAME _at all_, it leads to the 'nothing good ever happens' attitude shown here)  However, the attitude of the MW admin stinks of a personal grudge rather than there being any logical reason for a ban, half the people there don't even agree with it.  One party here is trying to do what's good for MAME, the other isn't.

As I've stated before.  If you're holding stuff back from MAME / damaging MAME because you have something personal against _me_, then you're doing it for the wrong reasons anyway because the project isn't about people, it's about progress and preservation.  If you're contributing to MAME it should be because you believe it's a worthwhile cause, and an important historical project which is the only reason I still contribute.
Haze:

--- Quote from: Gray_Area on January 17, 2011, 09:11:33 pm ---If I were interested in other approaches, I think I would ask what they might be. If I had ideas for other approaches, I think I would present them in the format, 'I'm wondering this...what do you think?

Given everything, and my senses of the people involved, I don't think current MAME performs unreasonably. However, if someone out there can do something more remarkable, I'm all eyes.



--- Quote from: Haze on January 16, 2011, 05:45:48 pm ---  Prevents me from losing what I write if something crashes.
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In this day, why would something crash?

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Firefox isn't perfect, nor is any other browser, even if things like Flash are sandboxed I've still seen the whole browser go down from time to time.  It's also very easy to close the browser, forgetting you had a tab open where you were writing something.
Vigo:

--- Quote from: Haze on January 18, 2011, 08:42:27 am ---
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on January 17, 2011, 09:11:33 pm ---If I were interested in other approaches, I think I would ask what they might be. If I had ideas for other approaches, I think I would present them in the format, 'I'm wondering this...what do you think?

Given everything, and my senses of the people involved, I don't think current MAME performs unreasonably. However, if someone out there can do something more remarkable, I'm all eyes.



--- Quote from: Haze on January 16, 2011, 05:45:48 pm ---  Prevents me from losing what I write if something crashes.
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In this day, why would something crash?

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Firefox isn't perfect, nor is any other browser, even if things like Flash are sandboxed I've still seen the whole browser go down from time to time.  It's also very easy to close the browser, forgetting you had a tab open where you were writing something.


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Just a simple suggestion...try writing in a word document, then pasting over. It does the periodic saving for you, and you'd be less likely to accidently close it out since it wants you to save before quitting.  ;)
Haze:

--- Quote from: Vigo on January 18, 2011, 09:37:31 am ---
--- Quote from: Haze on January 18, 2011, 08:42:27 am ---
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on January 17, 2011, 09:11:33 pm ---If I were interested in other approaches, I think I would ask what they might be. If I had ideas for other approaches, I think I would present them in the format, 'I'm wondering this...what do you think?

Given everything, and my senses of the people involved, I don't think current MAME performs unreasonably. However, if someone out there can do something more remarkable, I'm all eyes.



--- Quote from: Haze on January 16, 2011, 05:45:48 pm ---  Prevents me from losing what I write if something crashes.
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In this day, why would something crash?

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Firefox isn't perfect, nor is any other browser, even if things like Flash are sandboxed I've still seen the whole browser go down from time to time.  It's also very easy to close the browser, forgetting you had a tab open where you were writing something.


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Just a simple suggestion...try writing in a word document, then pasting over. It does the periodic saving for you, and you'd be less likely to accidently close it out since it wants you to save before quitting.  ;)

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Not a bad suggestion, although sometimes habits are difficult to break.  I actually used to do this before Firefox had a spellchecker like Word, which almost encourages writing in it.
ark_ader:

--- Quote ---That's a disagreement between myself and Aaron, and I stand entirely behind what I said there.  It's got nothing to do with being removed from MameWorld.  Aaron is FAR too soft with people at times.  I've stated before, I'm not in this to be popular, I'm in this to get stuff done.  In the end, stuff got done, you have speech in Scorpion*.  The guy was being a complete penis about things, and I called him out as such, acting like gods gift because you made some samples, while refusing to actually give the correct info to improve the project, and trying to turn people on the developers for not supporting the samples isn't really a great thing to do.  Pressing issues is sometimes necessary.

This might be one reason Aaron doesn't want me as part of the 'official' team, but I still seem to be organizing half the work that gets done.  Bit silly really.  However, in this thread, you have people backing up what I've said by saying that Aaron has said the same.  Derrek is also saying the same.  You have your references, you're choosing to ignore them and attempt to discredit me.
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Nobody is discrediting you Haze on this board.  Your views about the community is really black & white, and the attitude towards X2 shows this.  I am not a psychologist, but it looks very much to what I spoke of very early in the thread that you do have a chip on your shoulder.  Aaron coding abilities are legendary.  Aaron has worked on titles that most of us grew up on at LucasArts, and he is not soft, but a excellent project manager.  I am not saying that you are not a good at what you do, but reading that MW thread, reminded me (I am getting APM certified BTW) on how you need to be open to everyone's views, while showing strong leadership.

I still respect you and think of you as one of those great coders that has brought us Mame to our cabs and consoles, but I think you need to lighten up a little and take future criticism towards emulation positive, instead of negative.  ;)

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