No bad blood here (from my end) but I do recall you jumping in 'at the deep end' over there, perhaps more than you could chew. To be fair you had some good points to make, but need to learn to take certain people less 'to heart', which is something it took me a while to do.
I'm glad Guitar is working on something. I can however understand the comments from the FF crowd as to it's worth, because in the real world, there is already an MPU4 emulator. I still respect his efforts and look forward to seeing what actually emerges, however it isn't 'pushing the boundaries' in a way that EPOCH, PLUTO, e.t.c. would be. It's still a nice product in it's own right, but if MFME already does this, and more techs in one, I don't see many people changing unless it stands out for any particular reason. The multiplayer bit got my attention...
Aside from over 6 years worth of resources, and effort towards getting the scene where it is today. Aside from being the most open (Fruit-Emu wouldn't touch MFMEv9.4 or v10.1 with a bargepole before we'd had them for months) forum there is. Fruit-Emu wouldn't touch the releases before we'd hosted them. Hence many members flocked over there to leech, and I couldn't blame them.
Fact is, and I hope this doesn't make your blood boil, but Fruit Forums has and will contribute to anything FME has to offer, and for people to claim otherwise is at least misguided, and at worst spiteful.
Not everyone will agree with the way Fruit Forums is operated. That's fine in my book, but you have to accept that it's users have contributed, because to think otherwise is false.
No bad blood from my end either Ben. Indeed, despite the fact that I may have disagreed with some of your opinions I always found that you stuck to your guns and didn't change them, neither did I. Never worried about popular opinion. You certainly weren't one of the people I had something against and I remember you getting quite a hammering from regulars of BOTH sites a few years ago. Kudos that you stuck it out.
TBH you are probably right. I'm not as thick skinned as some. I did take some things too personally but when said people are trawling the net for information about you and posting it on the forums, that is taking things too far. I probably retaliated too soon for their liking and then they all "ganged" up on me like a bunch of spoilt brats who felt that a new member who dared to express their views without being a member for
xxxxxx number of years was terrible. How dare I????
Life is too short and I found I was wasting my time. There are far more important things in life, like having a job, family, friends, generally enjoying yourself. What I like about this site is that everyone treats it as a bit of a laugh. I could never say that about FF. It's a hobby, not an essential part of my life.
I'm not bitter about my time frequenting FF...but I am sad that the place was left to run by a few mods (yourself excluded) that felt the need to empower themselves by siding with a few warped individuals.
Times move on and I feel that Fruit-Emu is coming more to the fore. That's just my personal opinion.
Now I'm drawing a line under this subject and promise not to mention FF again!!!
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