I'm glad that never stopped me, or VP would definitely be dead after the demise of AJ's.
I wish you'd come around a little bit to my way of thinking and say, "To hell with it. I'll simply do it for a whole new generation of VP'ers that will appreciate it."
THAT's how you sustain/revitalize the community. Not worrying about what the cynical ones who should just hang it up are saying.
Really, don't think I tried that, several times over the last couple years. Maybe you better have a closer look, what I am saying I have been for years, and time has proven me right.
BTW, I'm not allowed to enjoy my accomplishments, certain people always are very happy to make sure of that. As for the rest of the people, when a small group of people shout about something for long enough, the others will tend to believe them no matter what.
And get off your high horse, what you are trying to do, I've been doing since I founded this community. The biggest problem has always been ego with this community. It was never the people that were being accused of having one, it was the people that were doing the accusing. Don't make that same mistake now
Again, you were invited to participate, but instead you choose to horde your resources and not participate. You are entitled to do as you wish, of course, but it seems to me that you are hanging on to some shred of hope that things get rejuvenated. Give it a little more time, and I'm sure it will. It may never recapture the "full" glory of the early days, but I think we've made solid strides in the right direction at VPForums.org.
You may want to rephrase that, as most of my resources ended up on a little site called IPDB. In fact, when they reopened, it was the original resources that I had gathered with others that made up the bulk of it, including most of the roms and manuals. I don't "horde" resources, they are right there in my sig, and all people have to do is ask me, you just choose not to put up links to them on your site. Big difference there.
BTW, I already stated, I'm not a member at your forum because there is no reason to. I don't need resources, I don't have anything to learn, I don't want VP9 tables that I can't play anyway, and have no reason to even join something that I won't be able to contribute to. You don't allow endless bitching like here, so there's no fun for me.
Once we get back up and I get home, I'll release my fairly complete sound and image libraries that I've put together. If you'd like to contribute, you can PM me, and we can work something out, if you wish.
Well, that's nice. I don't need space, and considering the amount of resources I have managed to collect, I very much doubt that you would have the room anyway. It's a lot simpler to upload what I have on a table by request, and which I have been doing for the last couple years.
If your system could run it, you would be amazed and very happy with VP9 and its features. The physics and other improvements make VP8 much less desirable for me to play.
Oh boy, you really ARE new and don't know me very well. Trust me, I can do things in VP9 that no one else has done yet. Not even my greatest detractors can argue with that one, mainly because they have seen things from me before that shows that at least, I am more than capable. I don't have to prove anything. Even though I have moved away from the normal standard of design and graphics, and gone way out there, I still push myself to improve every year, and yeah, I'm getting real damn good now.
My problem though is I set myself to a standard that I may never achieve, and that is also with creativity and artistic expression. I find it very frustrating being limited myself, and especially add to that limitations from the software. I hate being stuck to 1024 by 1024, because I want to see just how good my graphics and my table layout looks the way I drew it. I started designing pinball layouts when PCS first came out, and though VP9 is the closest to being able to do what I really want to do, it still has those really annoying bugs that prevent it. Been that way since VP dogfood versions, same bugs exist today come to think about it.
VP9 did add more bugs on top of the existing ones, and though there are some real nice features in there, the ones that would appeal to me specifically are also the ones that don't work for me without a lot of workarounds. As I said before, maybe Randy will come out and fix it, but we will have to wait and see.
to give to your better half. :)