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I know I have seen this on somebodies cab...
Howard_Casto:
Eh... either I do it all the way or not at all. I'm not a Paula Abdoul, I'm a Simon Cowell... if you can't sing there's isn't any reason to say how I like your dress cause what you really need to hear is that you can't sing.
My thing is that there seems to be this hippie philosophy always floating around that "you can build it however you want because it's your cabinet". Well I don't disagree with that, it's certainly true, but if you want it to actually look and function like a real arcade cabinet, then no, I'm afraid there is only one way to build it. (The right way.)
The fact of the matter is I would HAVE to put a humorous slant on things via sarcasam and profanity because my view on how things should be done is so exacting that any attempt to make it "serious" sounding would have me come off as a know-it-all jerk. (Not that the title doesn't fit, but people seldom take the advice of know it all jerks.)
DaveMMR:
Okay I'm not as lazy today. The guy's user name was "epthegeek" and he only made 8 posts to date. Here is Crapmame's introductory thread.
And Howard, to be honest, I'd rather your commentary be of the Simon Cowell-type tirade with biting humor and sarcasm (because, as epthegeek put it, the cursing and comedy takes the sting out of the critism). I only really offered up those suggestions because you seemed hesitant and I honestly think there's some honest-to-goodness advice disguised in all the "negative comments". Heck, my first post was the "I'm going put 18 controls on one panel, YAY!!" comment and after all the well-deserved mocking, I learned a very important lesson that I haven't forgotten (don't believe me? look at my PA and see that I have only two joysticks on one panel - though I'm still jockeying two trackballs - on a seperate panel - for my 2-player Marble Madness fix).
Think of it as the "Razzies" (the opposite of the Oscars). Some people actually enjoy winning them (Paul V~something. with "Showgirls", for example). Perhaps start a site that's the exact of the Mameys, highlighting the opposite end of the spectrum of creativity. Maybe you can even get a panel going (bring epthegeek out of retirement) to offer different takes.
I don't know, just snowballing some ideas.
Man, stream of conciousness is funny - weren't we discussing a custom frontend?
Havok:
Sorry, my fault - I dragged in the Crapmame site.
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