I know people hate when I address things point-for-point, but accusations demand replies, so it's mostly a bunch of short replies to specific points made by Shiva. Bear with me.
shiva said:
Nice distortion of the facts PacDude. The truth is you don't know everything, and what you do know, you tend to be rather selective on things, without giving out all the story. I guess you learned well from Nicky.
What are you talking about? What distortions? Comparing me to Nicky is more of an insult than anything I've said here, IMO.
The fact that you are whinning yet again about my 5 year policy, which I explained a long time ago, well tough. It's pretty easy to point fingers when you won't be the one that's responsible if something should go wrong.
I'm not "whining" about your 5 year policy, I'm simply pointing out one reason I would have to not post tables exclusively to your site in and effort to "deseat" AJ's VPF as the popular forum. I don't "agree" with your 5 year policy. That's not the same as "whining" about it, which implies something negative about me. If you wish to discuss VPF versus Shivasite, let's discuss it rationally and reasonably, not throw insults or claim insults where none exist.
Personally if you talk the talk, then WALK THE WALK. Nobody is gonna stop you from doing Monolopy, as long as you understand that if theres any ramifications from it, you take the responsibility, if there's any.
I now disclaim ALL of my tables. They don't WORK without VPM and VPM doesn't work without ROMS and the ROMS are not included with the table. It's the user's responsiblity (as with Mame) to obtain legal roms to use with the table. If that is not possible, then they should not use the table. If they do so anyway, it becomes THEIR responsibility. I'm not in the business of dealing roms, just creating functional imitation "models" of tables (like one might do creating a model rocket version of a Space Shuttle or something). I build a table. The VPM team enables emulation and the user must decide if they own the rights to use that rom.
But I was talking about issues in terms of what I have against Shivasite reasserting itself as the primary VP forums over AJ's "VPF" and in those terms, VPF is preferable in that it leaves the time table up to the VPM team.
As to my plans, well, I actually don't have to tell you, you made it clear that all you want are the tables, and as far as I am concerned, if that's
All I want are tables??? I *MAKE* and *SUPPLY* tables, so how could it possibly be that all I want are tables? That doesn't even make sense. That's like telling General Motors all they want is to obtain Mustangs. Maybe the President of GM might want a Mustang too, but that's cetainly not his primary interest and in some ways counterproductive to that interest.
what you want to do, then go right ahead, because all you would do is complain about it anyway. Just understand that anything else is just static, just like it's been for the last 5 plus years of reading posts where you do nothing but complain.
So now all I've done for the past "5 plus years" (I think it's more like 3.5 years in my reality) is "do nothing but complain" ? Does ANYONE here believe that's all I've done the past 3.5 years? I didn't comment on anything during that time, make tables, help other people with various things including their own tables, take over the VBS files, beta-test VPM at times, etc. Hey folks, ALL I did was complain.... I guess I just imagined spending 5 hours recently to help Kurt with the speed issues on CV to name one of the more recent things. LOL.
You have made it very clear in fact since day one that you don't like me,
I don't recall every thinking I don't like you, let alone making that clear 3.5 years ago. I didn't/don't care for some of your positions, opinions and decisions, but I have nothing against you personally. In fact, I recall trying to bring more traffic to your site while VPFF was still active, even. Now why would I do that for someone's site I didn't like? Of course, insulting me here is no way to get on my good side.
you have said some nasty, hateful things
Like what? Seriously, name one thing I've said that is nasty and hateful towards you. Not caring for the name of your web site doesn't count as nasty or hateful, IMO.
problems, but the way you go about doing things, starting with telling people just how much better you would do it then they have, well of course
First you complain that no one will give you ANY feedback on your work and so when I do give you some honest feedback and suggestions, you then accuse me of saying nasty and hateful things? And yet people constantly wonder WHY people don't want to give honest feedback and prefer to just back-pat all the time. Most people don't WANT honesty or true feedback from what I've seen. They want their butts kissed. Your comments here don't exactly lead me to conclude otherwise.
people are gonna get mad. All I have tried to do was have a website, and try and help the community to the best of my abilities, if your ego can't handle it, that's your problem.
You put down AJ's site now constantly here and there (especially here). I'm just listing some honest reservations I have about your own site and some reasons why I think ti's not more popular. I'm not being mean about it. You might think so, but it's not the case, I assure you.
There have been a lot of people who came forward to help everyone, and most of them left because they got fed up of listening to the constant complaints, flames and attacks on their character when all they wanted to do was help the community.
Who are these people? Some of the most helpful people I know in the community left because they were burnt out on VP (e.g. Dorsola & Fuseball). Others like wpcmame are still around, so I don't know who these supposed people are or what *I* had to do with them leaving. Even KC is still around, but too paranoid the Hamburgler is going to try and steal his work to release things publicly (and I had NOTHING to do with breaking any table locks or anything of the sort and if you don't believe me, just look at two tables we both made like NO FEAR and tell me why I'd want to "steal" anything from his tables. LOL.)
If you are that dissatisfied, then try and resurrect VPFF, run it yourselves, and take on any of the other responsibities that go with it yourselves.
I have no interest in VPFF at this point. I don't know where it says in this thread that I do. I said I'd like to see a publicly run and accountable site and that was certainly NOT what VPFF was about.
anymore, why do you keep talking about me? If my site was so dead, and I am such a "hated" person, why do you take every oportunity to try and drag me down every chance you get? Ever since I announced that I had
Who said you were hated? You're the one bringing up VPF here and I'm talking about it. If I don't agree with you 100%, I'm trying to "drag you down" ?
decided to release Trigon, the personal attacks seem to have gotten a lot worse.
WHAT personal attacks? I think I complimented you on Trigon and when you complained no one was giving you feedback, I offered some honest suggestions that might make it better based on my own experience. You could take or leave it. How that is an "attack" is beyond me.
I don't know what your problem is, all it really is is just a orginal game, and as you have pointed out, it's just not as important than a VPM table.
Important is a relative term. There are bad orignals and bad VPM tables and good originals and good VPM tables. I never called Trigon any of those as I've never played it. I have said it looks really good, especially for an original. I have no idea yet how it plays.
As Kinsey hinted at before, it appears that VPF will turn into a warzone once again soon.
I don't think it will. Things look pretty calm there, IMO except for the occasional whining from several people that AJ won't fix and/or change his server.
I'm pretty sure you will enjoy watching if/when it happens, you do seem to like stuff like that. Me, I hope we don't have to go through this, this could be one hell of a trainwreck.
I have no idea where you get such an idea. I was the one banned from VPF, not the one doing the banishing. That person is the one that probably enjoyed it, not me.
Overall, I tend to think you're misinterpreting events here and going with an emotional reaction rather than addressing what has actually been said because most of your claims of so-called "attacks" have NO basis in fact what-so-ever, unless you call disagreement of opinions an "attack".
ldman