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| eds1275:
Oh man the hot dog. I remember reading that and thinking that you were overreacting. Sure, it'd be annoying. But later I was like... that is gross in so many ways! Who knows where that meat has been or where it came from, or why they were even disrespectful enough to not even get rid of the evidence! |
| BadMouth:
--- Quote from: Vigo on October 21, 2015, 11:32:16 am ---Yeah, she is staying over because she just retired this year and we are having a baby in a few weeks. I'm just hoping she will be willing to help enough that I can sneak out of the house a few times to go do stuff. --- Quote from: Hoopz on October 20, 2015, 07:24:39 pm ---She lives in Asia, right? Thailand? If she's cooking, I'll be up this weekend. :applaud: --- End quote --- Close! Taiwan. And just because the country is filled with awesome food, doesn't mean she knows how to cook it. She sure is good at complaining about my cooking. Yesterday I was told about 7 times that my chicken is too salty. --- End quote --- Just try to make everything flavorless. My ex-wife's friend from taiwan used to bake us a wide variety of desserts that all tasted like unflavored cake. She'd also bring us happy fun time gum which tastes awesome for the half second the flavor lasts. |
| Hoopz:
--- Quote from: Vigo on October 21, 2015, 02:15:58 pm ---10 Years ago, hrm...things were more...intense. I think we were probably at the second generation of MAME cabs at the time. (Goodbye shelf paper, hello lightning effects). I think the first bartops were being invented with laptops inside, and there were a lot more restorations and conversions. Project threads were less of a WIP thing because troubleshooting was heavy around here. I think it was much more normal to troubleshoot on various threads until your cab is near completion, then start a thread about it. I think once photo hosting became more mainstay, people were more inclined to document things step by step. I don't remember many of the "rules" existing, like angled joysticks, avoid frankenpanels, etc. But there was definitely good and bad form. Things like titling your machine VigoCade would have been acceptable. Machines had trimmed down to a normal upright size, and people were getting a grip on what works. There were a lot more guys who worked in the industry and restorations were big. Emulation wasn't quite there, so people didn't ever focus on their machines needing to play anything modern. There were only a handful of games with CHDs that people were hoping to get working on their machine and were usually dissapointed. I remember a lot of people asking about how to get X game playing on their machine, or things like N64 emulation. There was more of a hangout and a lot more joking around. It felt a little more like a smokey pool hall in the everything else board. Inside jokes everywhere, if a thread didn't have at least a couple snarky posts, it wasn't fun. PnR was also open to everybody, which was sometimes fun, but I think added to conflict. stuff spilled over into other threads, and it was messier. People were a bit angrier then as well. I think there was also a better coordinated effort to do things. I remember how much of a to-do it was to have the BYOAC tokens each year. There was involvement in making stuff like front ends and utilities. Not too many people carrying that torch these days. People were also getting ripped off more. People complain about vendors now, but that is nothing compared to 10 years ago. There were a lot of people out to rip you off. It was cool to have this site, because it was a safe haven to know who the awesome vendors were. Of course, there were a few times when these vendors slipped through the cracks. --- End quote --- Was it MarkRVP who started the original thread for hosting pics? THAT was a brilliant idea and I agree with your point that it completely changed how people documented their builds. PNR wasn't open that long to everyone. And it was busy. Heated at times but traffic there was significantly more than now. And EE was too. There were probably 20-30 regulars at least who were in every thread there multiple times an hour. And if a thread there stayed on subject to the second page, I'd be highly surprised. Huge arguments about "best" encoders, USB v PS/2, joys, FEs etc were common. Some vendors were more active then defending their hardware choices/specs. The <me> tag was used all the time as people watched the battles... HC is right that emulation was constantly changing. It's leveled out but a new release 10 years ago was a big, big deal. |
| opt2not:
--- Quote from: Hoopz on October 22, 2015, 09:10:27 am ---Huge arguments about "best" encoders, USB v PS/2, joys, FEs etc were common. Some vendors were more active then defending their hardware choices/specs. The <me> tag was used all the time as people watched the battles... --- End quote --- I remember this. Some of those vendors are still pretty active defending their hardware now-a-days too! ;) Encoder arguments and hardware arguments in general were plentiful back then. Leafs vs. microswitches was a point of contention, as well as what joysticks were best <--- not like this has changed. And it seemed like everyone was trying to make a cabinet with a rotate-able monitor. At least, there were multiple attempts to reinvent the method. We rarely see rotate-able monitor projects anymore. |
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