Perhaps some day I'll open up the GC to clean it up, try another wireless install, or maybe just shorten the excessively long wires I used (didn't have proper wire strippers at the time), but I probably won't bother unless the thing fails. It's good to know a few tips if I should need to install a XenoGC again. To be honest, the only reason I installed a XenoGC was to boot GBI directly from discs.
This is all for my personal consoles, I wouldn't try to sell any of my work considering my skill level. The next console mod that I might attempt is my PSOne (it looks pretty simple), but before that I've got a new analog stick to solder into a GameCube controller.
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I agree with points made by both voultar and guspaz. From voultar I agree that if you need a video showing you everything when there's good enough instructions then you shouldn't be attempting the install yourself. From guspaz I agree that not using wires is a bit overkill for the sake of making something look nice.
When I look at that superfx adapter board right away I see a big heavy thing attached to little weak solder pads designed for a small sop chip. It's very pretty to look at, but is it a good idea? If you hit that big heavy dip adapter board with a little force you could probably pull the sop pads right off of the pcb. The way I did it is uglier to look at, but since I used dabs of glue to secure wires, force on the eprom wires isn't transferred to the solder pads.
I still receive useless comments about hot glue. Because there's still way out of date things that were recently posted about me and not taken down. All because Skips and friends can dish out endless criticism for years but he can't take any himself. I agree my modern work may not be the prettiest to look at. My point was that my work has long since stopped using excessive hot glue. People still go around the internet thinking I use excessive hot glue because of these out of date pictures and videos of the worst examples of my work that trolls could find that are posted with my name attached to them.
Voultar helped me improve my work 10,000x faster than all these other people. Because unlike other poeple, voultar didn't post things to publicly shame me claiming that he did it to somehow help. Voultar actually gave me the benefit of the doubt, contacted me via pm, and gave me friendly suggestions which all turned out to be great.
When I look at that superfx adapter board right away I see a big heavy thing attached to little weak solder pads designed for a small sop chip. It's very pretty to look at, but is it a good idea? If you hit that big heavy dip adapter board with a little force you could probably pull the sop pads right off of the pcb. The way I did it is uglier to look at, but since I used dabs of glue to secure wires, force on the eprom wires isn't transferred to the solder pads.
I still receive useless comments about hot glue. Because there's still way out of date things that were recently posted about me and not taken down. All because Skips and friends can dish out endless criticism for years but he can't take any himself. I agree my modern work may not be the prettiest to look at. My point was that my work has long since stopped using excessive hot glue. People still go around the internet thinking I use excessive hot glue because of these out of date pictures and videos of the worst examples of my work that trolls could find that are posted with my name attached to them.
Voultar helped me improve my work 10,000x faster than all these other people. Because unlike other poeple, voultar didn't post things to publicly shame me claiming that he did it to somehow help. Voultar actually gave me the benefit of the doubt, contacted me via pm, and gave me friendly suggestions which all turned out to be great.
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I take criticism from other modders all the time you fuckwit. I don't take criticism from you because you are a god damned idiot. The criticism I get is not public because I did not have to be publicly outed for terrible commissioned work before I would even consider taking it. My modwork is where it is today BECAUSE I took criticism from others and acted on it quickly. You think I just descended from the heavens on the shoulders of angels with the level of work I do today? No, my older mods were complete and utter shit. However, they paled in comparison to yours. Your work was some next level autistic bullshit that is unparalleled in the history of retro gaming.
I rolled with the few punches I got about it and improved on what people pointed out as wrong. Unlike you I did not cry about people "trolling" me when they brought up valid points that were blunt and straight forward. I pulled up my damn big boy pants and weathered through it. I did not sit down and cry TROLLS when people made public comments directed at myself or my work like you do. Your problem is you see most criticism as trolling because it was not done privately and that every negative reaction to your work as trolling. Boo fucking hoo. Grow a spine and be a man for once. You aren't fooling anyone, back before you were outed your mentality was "if it works its good enough". I even made comments to you about it privately in Skype (like you keep whining on and on about in this thread) and you still took that stance. No one is buying your bullshit about your old commissioned work as being 100% "inexperienced". I would say more like 30% inexperience and 70% not giving a fuck. In short you just didn't care until you finally got had on the various forums. I find it great that your work is much better than it was but don't bullshit everyone, people know you are full of shit dude.
P.S. If you don't want negative responses from me stop dropping my name with your bullshit in a poor attempt to slander me. In case your dumbass has not noticed I have only been responding directly to you when you choose to go on with your "woe is me skips is mean" malarkey. If you don't want negative responses from me stop poking the beehive. The only place I have mentioned you outside this thread in MONTHS is here. Also people have emailed me the shit you say about me in PM's. They also think you are full of shit. You seriously are fooling very few people dude. Just stop with the Skips is a dastardly fiend crap you are trying to spin, no one believes it except MAYBE your very close group of friends.
I rolled with the few punches I got about it and improved on what people pointed out as wrong. Unlike you I did not cry about people "trolling" me when they brought up valid points that were blunt and straight forward. I pulled up my damn big boy pants and weathered through it. I did not sit down and cry TROLLS when people made public comments directed at myself or my work like you do. Your problem is you see most criticism as trolling because it was not done privately and that every negative reaction to your work as trolling. Boo fucking hoo. Grow a spine and be a man for once. You aren't fooling anyone, back before you were outed your mentality was "if it works its good enough". I even made comments to you about it privately in Skype (like you keep whining on and on about in this thread) and you still took that stance. No one is buying your bullshit about your old commissioned work as being 100% "inexperienced". I would say more like 30% inexperience and 70% not giving a fuck. In short you just didn't care until you finally got had on the various forums. I find it great that your work is much better than it was but don't bullshit everyone, people know you are full of shit dude.
P.S. If you don't want negative responses from me stop dropping my name with your bullshit in a poor attempt to slander me. In case your dumbass has not noticed I have only been responding directly to you when you choose to go on with your "woe is me skips is mean" malarkey. If you don't want negative responses from me stop poking the beehive. The only place I have mentioned you outside this thread in MONTHS is here. Also people have emailed me the shit you say about me in PM's. They also think you are full of shit. You seriously are fooling very few people dude. Just stop with the Skips is a dastardly fiend crap you are trying to spin, no one believes it except MAYBE your very close group of friends.
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Making a public mockery of myself or anyone else helps nothing. It only removes any potential competition. I've always taken constructive criticism that wasn't posted in a way to belittle me or make a public example of myself. The only thing that's bullsh#t is the mentality that skips and friends have that making public examples of people is better than just talking to others like a normal person.
There shouldn't be punches in the first place. Making jabs at each other just turns people into angry @ssholes like skips. I used to do the same thing, it made me angry and I said a lot of things I regret saying that are very uncharacteristic of me. I'm sorry for ever being anything like skips and his friends. I never complained about criticism. I complained about the fact that people used criticism as a thinly veiled excuse to making a public mockery of me, because it's the only way they can feel better about themselves, and to get more attention for themselves.
Reading skips post shows how he's not a big boy. Look at how he completely overreacts to even the smallest negative thing said about him. Just because skips took it up the @ss and liked it doesn't mean that everyone else should. People shouldn't have made jabs at skips' work, under no circumstance is being that way justified.
Back before I was "outed" skips had already made his mind up about me and he refused to see any truth. It didn't matter what I did or said, skips brainwashed himself into believing that I was scum who deserved this and nothing would change that. To go after me the way skips did you pretty much would have to make yourself believe that in some angry alternate reality talking like a normal person to someone wouldn't work. Voultar never treated me this way. So I learned a lot from Voultar, he's a great person.
Skips had already made up his mind that I didn't care. Nothing I would say or do would convince him otherwise and it was obvious. I think it's great that skips was more serious about these things, but I also have a life outside of this. Because of that it just took me longer to progress.
Until skips and friends remove negative out-dated pictures and videos of my work that inspire random people to troll me I won't stop bringing skips up. All the trolling and hate are annoying, but unlike skips I don't whine like a little b#tch when someone says even the smallest negative thing about me. Skips does more whining over my text posts than I ever did over pictures and videos about me. Even though text posts are relatively harmless in comparison.
I also think it's great that skips overreacts and shows his true colours any time I say anything negative about him. Skips is and always was going to make negative comments about me regardless of what I did. I even went out of my way to send skips an e-mail about any of his concerns. Skips admitted to ignoring this e-mail and going ahead with posting negative things about me. I waited patiently for years and stayed pretty quiet and skips still continued posting negative things about me. It's very clear that skips never had any intention to stop using me for attention.
Any time I do anything to defend myself skips just accuses me of whining. Skips likes his angry alternate reality. For skips to admit that he was wrong would make skips look pretty stupid.
There shouldn't be punches in the first place. Making jabs at each other just turns people into angry @ssholes like skips. I used to do the same thing, it made me angry and I said a lot of things I regret saying that are very uncharacteristic of me. I'm sorry for ever being anything like skips and his friends. I never complained about criticism. I complained about the fact that people used criticism as a thinly veiled excuse to making a public mockery of me, because it's the only way they can feel better about themselves, and to get more attention for themselves.
Reading skips post shows how he's not a big boy. Look at how he completely overreacts to even the smallest negative thing said about him. Just because skips took it up the @ss and liked it doesn't mean that everyone else should. People shouldn't have made jabs at skips' work, under no circumstance is being that way justified.
Back before I was "outed" skips had already made his mind up about me and he refused to see any truth. It didn't matter what I did or said, skips brainwashed himself into believing that I was scum who deserved this and nothing would change that. To go after me the way skips did you pretty much would have to make yourself believe that in some angry alternate reality talking like a normal person to someone wouldn't work. Voultar never treated me this way. So I learned a lot from Voultar, he's a great person.
Skips had already made up his mind that I didn't care. Nothing I would say or do would convince him otherwise and it was obvious. I think it's great that skips was more serious about these things, but I also have a life outside of this. Because of that it just took me longer to progress.
Until skips and friends remove negative out-dated pictures and videos of my work that inspire random people to troll me I won't stop bringing skips up. All the trolling and hate are annoying, but unlike skips I don't whine like a little b#tch when someone says even the smallest negative thing about me. Skips does more whining over my text posts than I ever did over pictures and videos about me. Even though text posts are relatively harmless in comparison.
I also think it's great that skips overreacts and shows his true colours any time I say anything negative about him. Skips is and always was going to make negative comments about me regardless of what I did. I even went out of my way to send skips an e-mail about any of his concerns. Skips admitted to ignoring this e-mail and going ahead with posting negative things about me. I waited patiently for years and stayed pretty quiet and skips still continued posting negative things about me. It's very clear that skips never had any intention to stop using me for attention.
Any time I do anything to defend myself skips just accuses me of whining. Skips likes his angry alternate reality. For skips to admit that he was wrong would make skips look pretty stupid.
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You were not belittled. You were criticized, got uppity, then got banned from at least one place that I can remember (Nintendo age?). Maybe someone from Nintendo Age can hop in this thread and explain that ban for us, might clear some things up! Don't try to hoist yourself up as some idol of modesty and professionalism, you are anything but that. What happened to you is people got tired of it and you and the cards were laid on the table for all to see.Drakon wrote:Making a public mockery of myself or anyone else helps nothing. It only removes any potential competition. I've always taken constructive criticism that wasn't posted in a way to belittle me or make a public example of myself.
You (or myself for that matter) were never considered competition by any of the actual professional modder's that do this as a second (or primary) job. Don't fool yourself. What happened with you was a public outing that was at least a year or two in the making. It was one giant train wreck that began the instant you started posting on public forums.
That is also your problem, you see the modding community as competition while most of us see it as a giant community effort. I guess that is why you kept all your little known "Drakon specials" that you found on the internet to yourself then tried charging people like Phil a premium for them. You worked against the community with your shady tactics and you got burned for them.
*EDIT* Nice edit there retard. You are so full of shit with this "Skips had this planned out the whole time crap". Phil already debunked this bullshit. I actually considered you a friend until I saw how brutally dishonest you were.
P.S. Did you ever end up telling that Russian you were renting that bed out to that it previously had bedbugs and you never got it treated? Poor bastard probably got eaten alive every night and didnt know why. Just a shining example of your amazing character and honesty eh?
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On nintendoage number of people who disagreed with me were blatantly flaming me in a thread. I was replying in a very polite way to them. Just because my opinion differed from them they felt that posting angry things at me was justified. I got banned because a moderator didn't want to deal with a mob of people being angry at me for having a different opinion. The moderator even admitted to me in pm that I was acting politely and they were the ones who were out of hand. Unfortunately the moderator was siding with them, because there were more of them. Forums are unfair like that, it's no big deal.
No customers brought concerns about these aspects of my work to my attention. Once customers did bring it to my attention in a way that wasn't intended to bash of course I took it seriously. Phil mentioned that he hated work done with glue. I sent Phil pictures of work I did without glue. I never ignored what people asked for.
Now skips is trying to make it sound like everything I ever posted publicly was a waste. If this isn't psychosis then I don't know what is.
What I noticed was that the moment I stopped giving out my work for free, the people who asked for my work would start publicly trying to make me look like some sort of an @sshole. Even though I had been really polite to these people, I'd even spent time helping a number of them for free. There's a weird mentality here that if you don't give out your work for free you're automatically an @sshole who deserves public shaming.
I even had some people message me who had also fallen victim to the mob mentality and altered facts to justify their public mockery, the way that skips and a lot of other people do.
I pushed Phil, and a number of other people away from hiring me. Phil asked to commission me to build him an overclocked superfx cart and I didn't feel like taking the job. By skips' mentality everyone is a thief because if you learn bits and pieces of what you do from other work then you're a thief in his mind.
Skips will literally believe anything I tell him about me. So yes, it was me, I killed Jesus.
Even if skips considered me as a friend he still refused to believe that he could be wrong about anything. Therefore, if I thought differently from skips, skips would take it as me not caring. Because, in skips' mind, he's the only opinion that people should care about. This is why skips believed I don't care and nothing would make skips think otherwise. Of course I cared, but skips couldn't handle me having different opinions about some things. Unlike skips I respect his different opinions and I don't make it my life mission to try to force him to change. I'm only trying to get skips and friends to stop making public examples of people and to take down current bashing posts because the hate messages that I still receive today are annoying and based on extremely out-dated examples.
No customers brought concerns about these aspects of my work to my attention. Once customers did bring it to my attention in a way that wasn't intended to bash of course I took it seriously. Phil mentioned that he hated work done with glue. I sent Phil pictures of work I did without glue. I never ignored what people asked for.
Now skips is trying to make it sound like everything I ever posted publicly was a waste. If this isn't psychosis then I don't know what is.
What I noticed was that the moment I stopped giving out my work for free, the people who asked for my work would start publicly trying to make me look like some sort of an @sshole. Even though I had been really polite to these people, I'd even spent time helping a number of them for free. There's a weird mentality here that if you don't give out your work for free you're automatically an @sshole who deserves public shaming.
I even had some people message me who had also fallen victim to the mob mentality and altered facts to justify their public mockery, the way that skips and a lot of other people do.
I pushed Phil, and a number of other people away from hiring me. Phil asked to commission me to build him an overclocked superfx cart and I didn't feel like taking the job. By skips' mentality everyone is a thief because if you learn bits and pieces of what you do from other work then you're a thief in his mind.
Skips will literally believe anything I tell him about me. So yes, it was me, I killed Jesus.
Even if skips considered me as a friend he still refused to believe that he could be wrong about anything. Therefore, if I thought differently from skips, skips would take it as me not caring. Because, in skips' mind, he's the only opinion that people should care about. This is why skips believed I don't care and nothing would make skips think otherwise. Of course I cared, but skips couldn't handle me having different opinions about some things. Unlike skips I respect his different opinions and I don't make it my life mission to try to force him to change. I'm only trying to get skips and friends to stop making public examples of people and to take down current bashing posts because the hate messages that I still receive today are annoying and based on extremely out-dated examples.
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Just stop, everything you say just makes it worse.
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I'll stop when I stop receiving stupid comments because out-dated bullsh#t about me gets taken down. Nothing I do would make anything better. My work improved, did that stop anything? Nope. When I did nothing it still got worse.ApolloBoy wrote:Just stop, everything you say just makes it worse.
Skips doesn't want those things taken down because that's the only way he's ever get any attention. Skips rants endlessly about how he rolls with the punches and wears his man-pants. Yet if I mention anything negative about skips he can't resist replying and he blows up like a little b#tch. If skips is so convinced that nobody believes me, then why does he get so anal and have to reply whenever I speak the truth about him?
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Oh god, somebody has forgotten to take their meds again.
Note to Drakon: Remember to take your meds everyday
Note to Drakon: Remember to take your meds everyday
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>My work improved
Still looks shit tbh, buy some thinner wire and kapton tape ffs
For me this is a hobby, it ain't fun then what's the point?
Still looks shit tbh, buy some thinner wire and kapton tape ffs
For me this is a hobby, it ain't fun then what's the point?
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Thanks for the nice suggestions. My point is I still receive random messages about excessive use of hot glue, which stopped a very long time ago.gojira54 wrote:>My work improved
Still looks shit tbh, buy some thinner wire and kapton tape ffs
For me this is a hobby, it ain't fun then what's the point?
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Your autism is showing.Drakon wrote:I'll stop when I stop receiving stupid comments because out-dated bullsh#t about me gets taken down. Nothing I do would make anything better. My work improved, did that stop anything? Nope. When I did nothing it still got worse.ApolloBoy wrote:Just stop, everything you say just makes it worse.
Skips doesn't want those things taken down because that's the only way he's ever get any attention. Skips rants endlessly about how he rolls with the punches and wears his man-pants. Yet if I mention anything negative about skips he can't resist replying and he blows up like a little b#tch. If skips is so convinced that nobody believes me, then why does he get so anal and have to reply whenever I speak the truth about him?
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It's amazing how skips has to convince himself that someone is mentally challenged because that person thinks differently from skips. Even if skips believes that I'm mentally challenged, it's pretty pathetic that he would think it's cool attacking a challenged person. Skips will never believe that he's wrong, about anything. Skips preaches and inspires harassment and hate, not help. It's because skips convinces himself that people who don't agree with him all the time are "trash" and that talking to them like normal people won't work.
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Where the hell is your caretaker. You really shouldnt be out wondering places on your own.Drakon wrote:It's amazing how skips has to convince himself that someone is mentally challenged because that person thinks differently from skips. Skips will never believe that he's wrong, about anything.
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Skips is so anal from being f#cked in the @ss for so long. I'm sorry that he attacks anyone who opposes him, even people who he believes are mentally challenged.
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You really should listen to Apolloboy and just stop, you really arent making things better for yourself. All you have managed to do is make this thread extremely entertaining for people passing by. That is probably why the mods have done nothing to shut it down, people find your antics hilarious at this point.Drakon wrote:Skips is so anal from being f#cked in the @ss for so long. I'm sorry that he attacks anyone who opposes him, even people who he believes are mentally challenged.
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I'd happily stop if posts, videos and media made to attack other people's work including my own were removed. It's okay if you repost a picture that the author him/herself posted, without mentioning that person, for the sake of a bad example. But reposting it years later and mentioning that person's name just makes people think that's what the person's work still looks like.
The fact that skips has convinced himself that I'm mentally challenged just shows skips' true colours. Skips is okay with the idea of publicly shaming mentally challenged people. Skips can't stand me speaking the truth about him. If skips was really so convinced that what I'm saying is a lie and people don't believe it then skips wouldn't feel the need to immaturely respond to the truths I publicly say about him.
The fact that skips has convinced himself that I'm mentally challenged just shows skips' true colours. Skips is okay with the idea of publicly shaming mentally challenged people. Skips can't stand me speaking the truth about him. If skips was really so convinced that what I'm saying is a lie and people don't believe it then skips wouldn't feel the need to immaturely respond to the truths I publicly say about him.
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Drakon wrote:I'd happily stop if posts, videos and media made to attack other people's work including my own were removed. It's okay if you repost a picture that the author him/herself posted, without mentioning that person, for the sake of a bad example. But reposting it years later and mentioning that person's name just makes people think that's what the person's work still looks like.
The fact that skips has convinced himself that I'm mentally challenged just shows skips' true colours. Skips is okay with the idea of publicly shaming mentally challenged people. Skips can't stand me speaking the truth about him. If skips was really so convinced that what I'm saying is a lie and people don't believe it then skips wouldn't feel the need to immaturely respond to the truths I publicly say about him.
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Spinning your wheels in the mud there, sounding pretty desperate.
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Once again. Even though Voultar decided he believed bullsh#t skips posted about me Voultar decided to give me a chance and be decent towards me. I learned way more and more good came from from what Voultar did than years worth of public shaming from many people accomplished.
The mentality that someone is beyond reason and decency and that public shaming is the only help is really wrong, and out-dated. I'm glad that most of the world has woken up and realized this. I really hope that skips and his friends learn that someday too. I want to see a welcoming community that tries to help each other instead of all the public attacking that takes place which scares a lot of good talent away.
If you're feeling angry towards someone on the internet because their work isn't good enough or you feel that they're not progressing fast enough, realize that other people have different lives from you. If a person disagrees with you or isn't progressing as fast as you think the person should, that doesn't mean that the person doesn't care. Sometimes you just need to be patient with people. If you're that angry then you're probably too generous with your efforts. I used to act the same way as skips and then I realized that I was being a complete @sshole. When I stopped being so generous with my efforts I suddenly acted much nicer towards others.
The mentality that someone is beyond reason and decency and that public shaming is the only help is really wrong, and out-dated. I'm glad that most of the world has woken up and realized this. I really hope that skips and his friends learn that someday too. I want to see a welcoming community that tries to help each other instead of all the public attacking that takes place which scares a lot of good talent away.
If you're feeling angry towards someone on the internet because their work isn't good enough or you feel that they're not progressing fast enough, realize that other people have different lives from you. If a person disagrees with you or isn't progressing as fast as you think the person should, that doesn't mean that the person doesn't care. Sometimes you just need to be patient with people. If you're that angry then you're probably too generous with your efforts. I used to act the same way as skips and then I realized that I was being a complete @sshole. When I stopped being so generous with my efforts I suddenly acted much nicer towards others.
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Here's what I can tell you all.
Drakon sent me a PM on the Shmups forum. We had a long correspondence concerning any and all criticisms that were dealt his way. We chat on Skype, and I try to offer him some advice.
Here's what I can tell you from my point of view:
There have been a plethora of claims that can be substantiated with video evidence (Jason providing 2 of those), that Drakon did some shitty (paid for) mod-work, and did some customers pretty shitty.
I'm not interested in arguing the merits of this. It's pretty self explanatory. Just look at Jason's videos of the Front Loader and the AV Famicom, Jesus Christ..
Hopefully, as a result of all of this. Drakon has learned a little humility, and though I don't agree with 90% of his position and his interpretation of what's happened to him over the past couple of years, I'm a believer in 2nd chances. I don't believe Drakon was ever a victim of Skips or anyone else. Drakon believes that Skips is primarily responsible for the harsh criticisms he's been in receipt of for the past couple of years. Skips has has nothing to do with the mod-work, or the very poor relationships Drakon fosters with his customers. If Drakon is unable to see that, I can't do anything to help him.
However, I've been nice to the guy, and have helped him out with his mod-work. The goal for all of us is to improve ourselves, and be better than what we were yesterday. If Drakon can just accept this and move on, he would probably get along just fine in the community.
Drakon sent me a PM on the Shmups forum. We had a long correspondence concerning any and all criticisms that were dealt his way. We chat on Skype, and I try to offer him some advice.
Here's what I can tell you from my point of view:
There have been a plethora of claims that can be substantiated with video evidence (Jason providing 2 of those), that Drakon did some shitty (paid for) mod-work, and did some customers pretty shitty.
I'm not interested in arguing the merits of this. It's pretty self explanatory. Just look at Jason's videos of the Front Loader and the AV Famicom, Jesus Christ..
Hopefully, as a result of all of this. Drakon has learned a little humility, and though I don't agree with 90% of his position and his interpretation of what's happened to him over the past couple of years, I'm a believer in 2nd chances. I don't believe Drakon was ever a victim of Skips or anyone else. Drakon believes that Skips is primarily responsible for the harsh criticisms he's been in receipt of for the past couple of years. Skips has has nothing to do with the mod-work, or the very poor relationships Drakon fosters with his customers. If Drakon is unable to see that, I can't do anything to help him.
However, I've been nice to the guy, and have helped him out with his mod-work. The goal for all of us is to improve ourselves, and be better than what we were yesterday. If Drakon can just accept this and move on, he would probably get along just fine in the community.
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My complaint is people sending me unhelpful comments about work that's years out of date. This is what skips inspired and continues to inspire. Skips wants everyone to believe that just talking to me or anyone else whom he dislikes normally the way voultar did won't work. Clearly it works. It works better than anything skips and his friends ever did.
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Re: Thread Split: Drakon's Modding
Let's apply that logic and method of thinking into a different context:Drakon wrote:My complaint is people sending me unhelpful comments about work that's years out of date. This is what skips inspired and continues to inspire. Skips wants everyone to believe that just talking to me or anyone else whom he dislikes normally the way voultar did won't work. Clearly it works. It works better than anything skips and his friends ever did.
Let's pretend that Drakon murdered Apolloboy, and Skips witnessed it and told everyone what had happened. As a result, Drakon was convicted and is now having illustrious prison romance.
Is Drakon being punished because he committed murder? Or is Drakon being punished because Skips made comments about it?
It's called bad press.
Re: Thread Split: Drakon's Modding
I never complained about the posts when they were more somewhat relevant. Although during that time the only comments I was sent were all filled with hate instead of being constructive. I'm complaining about the fact that skips clearly ignores that my work has improved, and that talking to me normally does work. Skips still goes around posting the worst examples of my very out-of-date work and telling people that making good comments to me is a waste of time.
Re: Thread Split: Drakon's Modding
So, this is about the Messy Modwork thread, isn't it?Drakon wrote:I never complained about the posts when they were more somewhat relevant. Although during that time the only comments I was sent were all filled with hate instead of being constructive. I'm complaining about the fact that skips clearly ignores that my work has improved, and that talking to me normally does work. Skips still goes around posting the worst examples of my very out-of-date work and telling people that making good comments to me is a waste of time.
Because that's the only place that I'm aware of that pictures of your work has ever been a conversation piece. I'm not aware of Skips ever telling anyone that making good comments about you was a waste of time. As a matter of fact, I do recall Skips discussing the idea of taking the pictures of your mod-work down to give you a break and 2nd chance. Somehow, this still continues to be perpetuated.
Re: Thread Split: Drakon's Modding
Skips never wanted to take anything down. Skips didn't take anything down, and he never will. I posted a link to the thread in 2015 where he posted the same old pictures and just had to mention my username in connection to them. If people weren't still sending me ignorant messages about hot glue I wouldn't be bringing it up here.
I recall reading a few posts by skips saying that I don't care etc etc. You've seen yourself that isn't true. But skips still refuses to believe it. People read that and instead of sending me useful tips I get useless bashing, because they believe that I don't care.
I recall reading a few posts by skips saying that I don't care etc etc. You've seen yourself that isn't true. But skips still refuses to believe it. People read that and instead of sending me useful tips I get useless bashing, because they believe that I don't care.
Re: Thread Split: Drakon's Modding
Actually I was getting ready to discuss with Wyo over on retromods to take them down. I think I even mentioned it in the retromods chat that day (which is what voultar is referring to). When you started shit over there before I could discuss it with the site admins (you cant edit really old posts, admins have to) I dropped the idea entirely. If you hadn't been a complete jackass there would have been a pretty big amendment to that whole thing. Unfortunately you just kept on like you did here, showing you really had not changed at all. You can keep telling yourself what you want but you shot yourself in the foot on this one dude.Drakon wrote:Skips never wanted to take anything down. Skips didn't take anything down, and he never will.
P.S.I did not mention your name with the pictures on the new thread. The only time i dropped your name was in a comment regarding the type of glue gun you use, it was not in regards to your work itself.
I am no longer taking free or paid modding projects, please do not contact me asking for my services. Thanks .
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Drakon wrote:Skips never wanted to take anything down. Skips didn't take anything down, and he never will. I posted a link to the thread in 2015 where he posted the same old pictures and just had to mention my username in connection to them. If people weren't still sending me ignorant messages about hot glue I wouldn't be bringing it up here.
I recall reading a few posts by skips saying that I don't care etc etc. You've seen yourself that isn't true. But skips still refuses to believe it. People read that and instead of sending me useful tips I get useless bashing, because they believe that I don't care.
If I were to see Jasons Front Loader Video, and AV Famicom Video. I too would also believe that you have very little regard for the quality of work that you put out for commission work.
That's Skips opinion, and he's entitled to it. If you disagree, champion your own opinions and show the world what you're capable of. Skips doesn't control the internet, nor has Skips stolen the thoughts and opinions of 99.9% of the modding community. There's a plethora of pictures, videos, and customer testimonials to extrapolate all of this from. It doesn't come out of thin air.
I believe you give Skips too much credit for those things. Whatever the perception is out there of your work, only exists because of your work.
How is anyone suppose to believe any different? I saw a picture you posted of some SNES reproductions or something. But that pales in comparison to that avalanche of shitty mod-work that everyone else has seen. There is no consistency. Provide some, and these tunes will change.
Re: Thread Split: Drakon's Modding
Oh sorry I was wrong, I mentioned your name when I thought one of the mods over on neo-geo was using your account to try to elicit reactions out of people. I was wrong about that but still, I did not drop your name with the pictures. The thing is people know your work so well that they just KNOW who it belongs to when they see it. I actually made it a point NOT to put your name on the pictures this time around. Its not my fault people just knew who it belonged to.
I am no longer taking free or paid modding projects, please do not contact me asking for my services. Thanks .
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For the record skips is the one who started all this sh#t. I sent skips an e-mail asking to discuss what was up which he completely ignored for the sake of making this mess happen. Which continued for years. Excuse me for not believing skips actually wanted to end anything, but everything he's done shows he has no interest in ending anything. I went out of my way to try and communicate with skips like a normal person but he had no interest in that. For someone who boasts about how much he rolls with the punches skips really acts like a huge baby whenever I publicly post the truth about him.
The first post in that modern messy mod thread says something like "famous drakon examples" and then you posted a lot of out-dated pictures of my work. Like I said, I wouldn't be making a big deal out of this stuff if I didn't still receive stupid messages based on those even up until today. I'm letting you know the direct result of reposting things like that. It leads to new people thinking nothing about my work changed.
Once again this "plethora" is long out-of-date. If it were remotely recent I wouldn't be complaining.
The first post in that modern messy mod thread says something like "famous drakon examples" and then you posted a lot of out-dated pictures of my work. Like I said, I wouldn't be making a big deal out of this stuff if I didn't still receive stupid messages based on those even up until today. I'm letting you know the direct result of reposting things like that. It leads to new people thinking nothing about my work changed.
Once again this "plethora" is long out-of-date. If it were remotely recent I wouldn't be complaining.
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Re: Thread Split: Drakon's Modding
Drakon wrote:For the record skips is the one who started all this sh#t. I sent skips an e-mail asking to discuss what was up which he completely ignored for the sake of making this mess happen. Which continued for years. Excuse me for not believing skips actually wanted to end anything, but everything he's done shows he has no interest in that. For someone who boasts about how much he rolls with the punches skips really acts like a huge baby whenever I publicly post the truth about him.
The first post in that modern messy mod thread says something like "famous drakon examples" and then you posted a lot of out-dated pictures of my work. Like I said, I wouldn't be making a big deal out of this stuff if I didn't still receive stupid messages based on those even up until today.
Where are the un-outdated pictures of your work?