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harveybirdman:
I now want to go play hotdog storm for some reason...
scoodidabop:
--- Quote from: pbj on October 07, 2015, 05:10:17 pm ---
I thought a wide panel worked with the NASA theme, personally. (I've also pondered the wisdom of the non-angled joysticks as on my turtle box, players 3 and 4 are VERY close to the screen and it is extremely disorienting. In that particular instance, I think the angled sticks -might- be a better idea. The ideal solution is moving my control panel back another foot, but that means I have to park outside like a peasant.)
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Not sure where the angled sticks idea popped up. P3/P4 will be the same orientation as P1/P2 - otherwise it's a little confusing to control. Thanks though! I do think the wide panel works well for my build.
Anyway I'm sorry my stupid build started such a silly argument. This is supposed to be fun, right? I mean, we're building video game boxes. It's not that big a deal. You don't have to be up in arms and dismissive of ideas that don't suit your tastes. I started coming to this forum for the seemingly good-natured, constructive atmosphere of builders who share ideas and refine the landscape of arcade building. I'm totally open to constructive feedback informed discussion. When things devolve into purely negative language it not only discourages me from returning, but it can scare new builders (or new posters - like me) away and leech negativity into the community. Comparing a design approach to "a virus - or herpes" doesn't do anything for anyone.
I was made the butt end of some criticism about the Space Paranoids/Battleship/"Flynn" control panel shape. First off, I've built the control panel before and liked it. I'm new-ish to the boards, sure, but I've built that control panel before and none of the pitfalls mentioned about the Battleship resonated with me at all. In fact the response has been overwhelmingly positive when 4 players play on it.
All I'm saying is that I wish the tone wasn't so negative, and on my thread in particular. I seldom see that kind of negativity on this board so the heat getting directed at me really came out of left field. I'm glad to be a part of the community and I hope we can move forward from here, and in a way that's conducive to bettering our methods, techniques and overall builds.
My feelings aren't hurt either, bros. If you really wanna bash my build go for it. Just don't expect things around here to stay constructive if we all start acting like dillweeds.
harveybirdman:
One thing that would make me a lot less cantankerous is if you noobs would please start posting your images here at the forums instead of hot linking them from image sites.
see that link that says attachments and other options at the bottom of the Post Reply section? That's where they go. If you want to post them in the image thread then link them to your build thread that's cool too.
opt2not:
Here's some additional context for those just tuning in:
https://instagram.com/p/8gbZJ3Q51P/
Quite a different tone.
scoodidabop:
--- Quote from: harveybirdman on October 07, 2015, 05:33:22 pm ---One thing that would make me a lot less cantankerous is if you noobs would please start posting your images here at the forums instead of hot linking them from image sites.
see that link that says attachments and other options at the bottom of the Post Reply section? That's where they go. If you want to post them in the image thread then link them to your build thread that's cool too.
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Just curious - what's wrong with hot linking the images?
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