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| ark_ader:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on December 28, 2016, 12:11:13 am --- --- Quote from: opt2not on December 27, 2016, 08:29:49 pm ---What if that "project thread" is ... --- End quote --- What if the builder has an extremely limited budget? What if the builder is mentally challenged? What if the build is as good as it's going to get for some reason we don't even know? Odds are slim all the details are available before someone goes off on a shaming rampage and ends up looking like an ass. What would happen eventually is a few loudmouth trolls would run all the newbies out and only correctly built cabs threads would exist. How boring would it be here then? If someone wants to name their cabinet with a "Cade" nasme, theme it after a console game, or whatever else - it's their project. If they post it in Project Announcements then we, as the Arcade Controls community, should be respectful of their decisions. If someone asks for their advice during the planning phase - cool, provide advice, but I've seen guys get pounced after it's built. Lame. I don't trust people will know when they are crossing a line, and who are we to crap a project announcement with our opinions of what we think is right. What's wrong with the "if you ain't got nothing nice to say, then don't say it" rule? And educating people via shaming is a good option.... for things like smoking, or vaccinating your kids but it's a bit of a stretch to think that technique is required for someone who wants to angle their p3 and p4 joysticks. I don't think any lives are on the line when Joe Blow builds a angled joystick "GAME-CADE" for his basement. --- End quote --- Yeah take that ideology over to the KLOV forums, and see what you get. Especially with a ladybug cabinet. That will get them foaming at fhe mouth. :o |
| Mike A:
Nothing good comes out of the mutual admiration society. If I think something is bad I am going to express that. If people can't put on their big boy pants and handle criticism, the internet is not the place for them. A few negative comments about an arcade cabinet are nothing compared to the vile garbage posted elsewhere on the internet. |
| Malenko:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on December 28, 2016, 12:11:13 am ---What if the builder has an extremely limited budget? What if the builder is mentally challenged? What if the build is as good as it's going to get for some reason we don't even know? --- End quote --- You can't take one-offs and pretend they are the standard. Not sure anyone has been made fun of for not spending a lot of money on a cab, it's usually the opposite. Some dickbag comes in bragging about spending $5,000 on a cab most of us could have done for a few hundred. X2 is the forum psychologist to let us know who is mentally deficient, so I dont see that being an issue either. Feeding the echo chamber is just as bad as participation trophies, if every rub irritates you how will you ever get polished? In no way am I saying we all go hand bananas and just ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- all over every cab thread, but let's at least be able to say "that coin door is too low" without all the bleeding hearts defending the coin door location because "it's the OPs cab and he can put it where he wants!" As for a roasting section, it could be voluntary , like r/roastme |
| pbj:
Complaining about the circle jerking has become the new circle jerking. |
| leapinlew:
--- Quote from: Mike A on December 28, 2016, 07:19:15 am ---Nothing good comes out of the mutual admiration society. If I think something is bad I am going to express that. If people can't put on their big boy pants and handle criticism, the internet is not the place for them. A few negative comments about an arcade cabinet are nothing compared to the vile garbage posted elsewhere on the internet. --- End quote --- It's the ridicule and mocking in the Project Announcements forum that's a dick move. I never said anything about the other forums. Why would you, or anyone, even take the time to criticize someone who's actually built something? There was a time a bunch of n00bs, who never even built their first arcade was on here forcing their advice on everyone. Yeah, that was fun. And I'm not saying we should heap praise on every project in project announcement, but why would anyone post a criticism after the cabinet is built or when the OP is dead set on an idea? Everyone has opinions. I don't like admin buttons, keyboard drawers, or frankenpanels, but I'm not in everyones threads telling them how to build there cabs. I know this but it sounds like some of you are new to this: no one really cares too much about your opinion. If they ask for advice in their project announcement, fine. If they are making what you consider to be a universally understood bad mistake - a friendly suggestion is fine. Ridicule and shaming - not good. |
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