- Joined
- Jun 23, 2003
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- 7,045
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- 3,037
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- 150
- Favorite Pinball Machine
- Jurassic Park
This is going to be a little ongoing series. Nothing too fancy. Just my latest progress on various PN projects.
JUNE 11, 2021
- I've changed site roles, going from an admin to a consultant. Various reasons contributed, but probably the main one is that I'd been busting a certain body-part for around a year-and-a-half for PN, and eventually, body parts can become sore. At the same time, merci beaucoup upon JonPurpleHaze, who first gave me a spam-busting role way back in late 2019. It's been quite the journey, really, and for the most part it's been super-fun. I mean that sincerely.
- What is a CONSULTANT, anyway? Well, in terms of site functionality, I have pretty much the same tools a global mod has, but without access to the staff forums. Policy-wise, my role as I see it is to continue helping with the site as I see fit, while leaving the daily site-running and decision-making to the staff. I will continue working on my pinball projects, including those which are site-related, such as resource entry and media curation. Also, I'll continue lending my opinions on site and staff matters, sometimes publicly and sometimes privately. A notable change, however, is that I no longer intend to spend time cat herding, and will instead aim to share feedback and be done with it, letting the staff do their work. As explained earlier, my goal here is to take a step back while still being involved with PN, and still letting inspiration have its say, so to speak.
- Couple days ago I finally finished my ROM icon project. Silly project, in a way-- just making sure that PN's 1100+ ROM entries had a proper icon to match. I do think it was worth the effort though, even if it took me a thousand years to gitterdone. Just for fun, I'm also attaching five images I was initially attracted to, but ultimately rejected as the official 'PN ROM icon.' (altho one of them I did find a certain use for)
- Improving the media backglass section has sorta been a hateful labor of love, but I try to keep whittling away. Currently I'm on page nein out of 17 total. With this kind of project, it's not so much that getting the game, maker and year is difficult, it's moreso that often it's worthwhile to do a deep search for a better image. Which can be quite the rabbit hole, if you like rabbit holes. That said, major whomping thanks to @Jens.L for his super find, which has allowed me to update some key backglasses starting from quality-but-small source material.
- Once again, major thanks to the table raters and commenters! Because whether you LIKE a table, DISLIKE it, offer quibbles or advice on what flavor of popsicle to suck... any way you slice it, such feedback is super-helpful towards improving our rating system. Specific props to folks such as @hawyer, @Ian (WVP), @inframun2, @xikin12, @vladaymir, and undoubtedly some I missed.
JUNE 11, 2021
- I've changed site roles, going from an admin to a consultant. Various reasons contributed, but probably the main one is that I'd been busting a certain body-part for around a year-and-a-half for PN, and eventually, body parts can become sore. At the same time, merci beaucoup upon JonPurpleHaze, who first gave me a spam-busting role way back in late 2019. It's been quite the journey, really, and for the most part it's been super-fun. I mean that sincerely.
- What is a CONSULTANT, anyway? Well, in terms of site functionality, I have pretty much the same tools a global mod has, but without access to the staff forums. Policy-wise, my role as I see it is to continue helping with the site as I see fit, while leaving the daily site-running and decision-making to the staff. I will continue working on my pinball projects, including those which are site-related, such as resource entry and media curation. Also, I'll continue lending my opinions on site and staff matters, sometimes publicly and sometimes privately. A notable change, however, is that I no longer intend to spend time cat herding, and will instead aim to share feedback and be done with it, letting the staff do their work. As explained earlier, my goal here is to take a step back while still being involved with PN, and still letting inspiration have its say, so to speak.
- Couple days ago I finally finished my ROM icon project. Silly project, in a way-- just making sure that PN's 1100+ ROM entries had a proper icon to match. I do think it was worth the effort though, even if it took me a thousand years to gitterdone. Just for fun, I'm also attaching five images I was initially attracted to, but ultimately rejected as the official 'PN ROM icon.' (altho one of them I did find a certain use for)
- Improving the media backglass section has sorta been a hateful labor of love, but I try to keep whittling away. Currently I'm on page nein out of 17 total. With this kind of project, it's not so much that getting the game, maker and year is difficult, it's moreso that often it's worthwhile to do a deep search for a better image. Which can be quite the rabbit hole, if you like rabbit holes. That said, major whomping thanks to @Jens.L for his super find, which has allowed me to update some key backglasses starting from quality-but-small source material.
- Once again, major thanks to the table raters and commenters! Because whether you LIKE a table, DISLIKE it, offer quibbles or advice on what flavor of popsicle to suck... any way you slice it, such feedback is super-helpful towards improving our rating system. Specific props to folks such as @hawyer, @Ian (WVP), @inframun2, @xikin12, @vladaymir, and undoubtedly some I missed.
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