23 replies to this topic

[RB]

sorry to see you go mate....

But ive sussed out the only standards you have to meet are youre own....
As long as your happy with what youve done thats all that counts.

Bickering and fighting are part of normal everyday things wether at home or work or on the forums....it doesnt mean shit unless you let it get to you.

but when i feel things are getting to me i click the button and do something a little less stressful......like rock climbing..or drinking..particulary drinking....

all the best in whatever you put your hand to...and hopefullly we shall see a return.

RB

[Lewis777]

Ive seen peoples work get torn to pieces on "reviews", even if it is there first effort. This is wrong & is hardly giving encouragement to others who fancied a go. A friend of mine had a go once & i very much doubt he will be trying it again. More trouble than its worth.

Shame really.

Sorry to see you go Madman.

[Wozza]

Madman,

It is always sad to see people leave the FME scene. It has changed alot since it started out, standards have been raised and people are now being spoiled.

This is not a bad thing but makes starting out a nightmare, people are all to quick to say layouts are rubbish.

In my book a layout is a layout and has show someone has been bothered to put some effort into making one and then release that to others to share.

I thankyou for your contribution on the scene, and I am sorry to see you leave. Nice to see that at least you will be still hanging around. Thanks for your comments about this site, its always nice to see our efforts in running this site are worthwile.

[fruitymad2003]

Even though that you are not posting any more good to see that you are not leaving all together and you will still look at the forums


Good Luck in your layout desging

[Daryl]

[quote="madman"]

bickering even though has never gone away is more prevelant on more forums again...and also i am now getting virus,s sent to my email addyy......for a layout i done.. PARTYTIME.

including someone who can not spell correctly attempting to threaten me....so..i am still doing dx,s.but for me and me only..........

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If this is what FME is coming to, it is a very bad job. To be sent viruses and to be threatened, when all you are doing is contributing in some way to help the FME scene is not just bad, it is sickening.

I know that things have been getting pretty rough on the scene again, but to resort to dirty tricks, and malicious acts makes me wonder whether people are taking themselves too seriously in all this. when I found the FME scene 2 1/2 years ago, it was a breath of fresh air to see everyone wanting to make a success of Fruit Machine Emulation. Now it seems that the air has gone pretty stale, especially having threats sent to FME scene members and damage sent to member's computers.

I wish you well Madman in all that you do in the future mate, and I am glad to see that you shall still be sticking around, but I am sorry for the people who wish ill of you. They don't deserve to be on the scene and are giving it a bad name in general to us all.

[Pgamblin]

Madman..

Who is sending you viruses... i think its time we spoke up here and took a stand over the abuse , bickering and generally being an ass towards people who contrubite with their layouts....

Post the email address on here for me and i will sort something out...

GG

[DildoDez]

That's sad- at the end of the day there was nothing wrong with your 'Club Partytime' effort - maybe the people who sent you viruses were people who just 'leech' this website and thought that the negative comments people made about your Partytime before it was released were malicious and this was them trying to make a big entrance. I think you should post the email addresses and shame all those involved so they can be barred from the site.

[Zoltar]

Madman. Get your arse back here now!

Seriously though, to leave this place is to admit defeat. Don't let things eat you up. this is a hobby. Something we all enjoy. There will always be things that take away the shine but we must face them and overcome them.

To leave is to take the easy route. To cop out. To admit defeat.

You should be defiant and pushing to better yourself. To prove all the doubters wrong.

Balls in your court mate. Don't let anyone beat you.

Compost

[hurtand165]

i am sorry to see that you are leaving madman, you will be missed.


compost, i read on fruit forums that you are leaving as well, is this true?

if it is you will also be missed.


hurtand165

[Zoltar]

So many things came to a head yesterday Hurty mate. I had a few beers and did some thinking and decided I'd had enough.

After some friendly and presuasive words from others, I've decided to be on the scene from strictly a banter point of view. What that means is I could well vanish without trace for days or maybe weeks on end and become an FME free dude for most parts.

I don't think i could leave the scene. I'm too bloody inquisitive. Too blinking nosey. But spending more time with the missus and maybe going out to get rat-arsed instead of staying in to do it seems like a pretty good alternative.

[hurtand165]

i am glad that you are not leaving all together compost, just do what is best for you and maybe drop in to have a chat from time to time.

hurtand165

[sctravis]

No...No...This won't do at all!!

Hello - I have been a frequent visitor to this website since accidentally coming across it at the end of last year.

I have happily downloaded the free emulations and enjoyed reading the forums - especially in regard to the 1980's machines.

The board has seemed to be balanced in such a way that I had little to add to discussions, so haven't felt the need to make a post......until now.

Speaking as a lurker/downloader, I have to totally agree with the reply that said that us downloaders have been spoiled by the quality of some of the downloads available and expect this all the time.

I myself have no skill in any area of emu/rom creation and probably have absolutely no idea of the exact amount of time and effort taken to create the smallest part of a fruit machine emulation - but I know it must be alot,(my god - it takes me a hour or so to type a good letter!).

If the critical virus sender falls into the same 'downloader' catagory as myself - I would like to point out that most, if not all of the emu creators involved give us the fruits (no pun) of their work, (considerable time spentwhen many of the rest of us are in the pub or asleep) absolutely free of charge.

All they ask in return is a little bit of honest feedback/criticism - why? - so they can improve their work to provide more downloads for us! Why the need to be spiteful? or destructive? If you don't like the work involved you are more than welcome not to download anything else and sod off to the free porn sites.

I appreciate every download made available - simply because I miss the machines and you cannot get them from anywhere else. Unfairly slagging off the creators isn't going to achieve any positive result. To do what they do must mean they have intelligence - and any intelligent person isn't going to waste valuable time and effort only to be attacked and ridiculed.

This type of honest thread is a truely terrible thing not just for the creative community that have been quick to respond - but for the ever growing number of grateful downloaders that wouldn't know how to start an emulation if our lives depended on it!

If all the hardworking creators like the 2 mentioned above feel there is no support for there efforts simply because us downloaders are used to the internet being full of quality downloads for free, then it is a sad day because eventually it will all fall apart and we all lose.

I hope the 2 designers do understand that for every ungrateful tosser, there are a 100 or so quietly enjoying the fruits of their work and maybe it is time we spoke up and said so.

Here endeth the sermon.

[uya]

Dito

[Pgamblin]

I'd like to know the muppet who sent you the viruses.. After all with a little background work i could give duplu what he needs to know to bar the person from accessing the site..

Even if HE did try and change to another username it wouldnt work so take it as for what he has done he will now be stopped from getting any files from Fruit Emu...

So give me the email address or forward me one via pm and i will sort the rest out..

GG

[Jez_Shaw]

I would also like to add my two pennerth (is that how you spell it???). Whilst I admit that all the slagging off must be soul destroying at times, sctravis has made avalid point. There are 100's of people out there who are extremely grateful (me among them) for the time and effort the designers have put into their layouts. For me especially, I love the Barcrest layouts from the 80's - machines which I thought had gone forever are still accessible and playable not just some poor quality photograph. I have often thought of giving it a go myself, but having gone into edit mode - just for a nosey - I can see the amount of work that goes into this. To some up, you only have to look at the download figures for each layout to realise how thankful people are.

[align=center:194baed336]Listen to the silent majority[/align:194baed336]

Not the sad whinging minority who probably don't have any friends or social life, and would'nt know one end of Photoshop from the other (Not that I do either).

[hurtand165]

i would just like to say that there are certain viruses going about the internet that can read a persons address book and automatically send themself to everybody on it,and can make it look like the address book owner had.

so basically i would not be as quick to say it is malicious until i had done a bit of research on the actual virus sent. if you do the research and it is not a virus that can spread in that particular way THEN i would suggest sending the address to pgamblin.

hurtand165

[hurtand165]

so john rugg, a.k.a bongo123, a.k.a zimmaframe strikes again. oh well at least your pc is safe.

hurtand165

[Monopoly60v8]

so john rugg, a.k.a bongo123, a.k.a zimmaframe strikes again. oh well at least your pc is safe.

So "bongo123" sent "madman" a virus because he didnt like the layout he made? :? Thats sooo sad (ops maybe I shouldn't say that, i'll start getting viruses now :-? )

madman i'm glad you're gonna stick around and hope you decide to post also, i've always enjoyed reading your posts 8)