Xkeeper's posts were, in standard Xkeeper form, berating, belittling, and disrespectful to the effort that had been donated. He had the simple option of not using this emulator, or ignoring it. Instead, he sought to attack those who had put effort in.
Um, the entire reason any of this started was because adelikat had the gall to call an unfinished, problematic emulator "the preferred NES/etc. emulator". Had he not done that, it's incredibly likely that he'd have just passed it off as 'another work in progress emulator'.
DarkKobold wrote:
And, when suggestions are made (that don't require a complete reprogramming of the site) we do our best to accommodate.
And yet, it took how long to get rid of the scam-like casino link on the front page that got added?
And why is the featured submission's description still being hidden behind a "Read More..." link, despite having well more than enough room to fit the entire description there for 99% of movies? For that matter, why was it even made to use a different format from regular published movie pages, anyway?
And on that note, why is there still no added text to differentiate multiple encodes on a single publication? Would it seriously require a rewrite to add something minor to tell them apart?
DarkKobold wrote:
adelikat told me personally he regrets deleting those posts. However, I ask all of you to reflect how you would feel if someone came and took a giant shit on your hard work, a gift to the TAS community?
Quite frankly, given how they've backtracked now (no database seems to be required in Bizhawk, last I checked, as it runs hacks just fine - maybe I'm just doing something right/wrong?; and it's no longer referred to as the "preferred emulator"), I think he did a good job knocking them off of their high horse that was wearing two pairs of stilts. They needed the reality check.
Also, nothing's going to change the fact that he did delete them. Regret or no regret, he still did it.
One last thing:
DarkKobold wrote:
Xkeeper is of the concept that if anyone does things in a way he disagrees with, then the proper course of action is to berate them.
If this were actually true, I'd be getting berated constantly by him. I do things quite differently from how he does. And yet, for some magically unknown reason, we happen to get along just fine.
He berates those he finds to be doing idiotic things. An emulator that, at the time, had a "database" required for loading ROMs, and that was called the "preferred" emulator at the time despite it clearly needing work? That seems sufficiently idiotic to me.
(And no, I am not a shill. I am not posting to defend him because he asked me, or any other reason you might think of. I'm posting this out of my own free will. Nor am I some random person that knows nothing about this site whatsoever; I've looked around this site back when the url was still bisqwit.iki.fi/nesvideos/. It just so happens that I never cared about posting anything until I saw this crap going on.)
Blah blah blah exact same complaining that Xkeeper did.
(And no, I am not a shill. I am not posting to defend him...)
Amazing how you've lurked for so MANY years, but have the exact same complaints that XKeeper did! It is almost coincidental to the point of.... stupidity. Really, Xkeeper, did you think you'd fool us? Also, try posting through another domain, at least. We can see IP addresses, genius.
I think this thread has gone on long enough.
EDIT: It appears that I was wrong, and thus this user was unbanned. It was apparent that the user was directly communicating with XKeeper in a different venue, and hence why they had identical gripes. Communicating with banned users is by no means grounds for a ban.
That said, I'd like to clarify a TASvideos position. Banned users are not allowed to post here. Their posts will be deleted, regardless of content. We do not want to encourage them to post in any way, shape, or form. We do not give site perma-bans lightly. Thus, all banned users will be dealt with heavily.
Sage advice from a friend of Jim: So put your tinfoil hat back in the closet, open your eyes to the truth, and realize that the government is in fact causing austismal cancer with it's 9/11 fluoride vaccinations of your water supply.
