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Yup. I politely e-mailed Jason asking him very nicely if he could take down those old videos because of the harassment I receive. He said he wants me to be filmed on his youtube channel. I pointed out that I'm not looking to get back into this work, I just want to peacefully move on and have the harassment stop.FinalBaton wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3einao_mJE&t=811s
New video from Jason, another Drakonized AV Fami
Probably pre-2013. Unfortunately later when I started adding an audio switch, clock divider and other circuitry it just made it worse because obviously I didn't do good work. Towards the end I started adding more to the design, this is from before that. Later I started using actual ide wire instead of those pointlessly large wires. Later I also used less and less of those connectors because as he said, they're kind of pointless.leonk wrote:The video he posted is new. He said he had it for only a year. Can you estimate when this mod was done? You said you weren't doing mods for a long time.
I completely agree with you. If that console were here I'd undo all of my old bad work as best as I can for free. Thanks for making such nice posts.leonk wrote:on a personal note; I'd love to see videos of the mod undone and modern one put in its place (Voultar's latest duo one is an awesome example)
Maybe it's just the preservationist in me saying all these retro gems need to be saved.
Yeah I watched it. There was no arm twisting involved. I was very polite with Jason. This is what Jason does when you politely decline to let him use you or your work for his own gain.leonk wrote:looks like this will not be the last video. See last 30 seconds.
Drakon. They won't delete this post and the videos won't be deleted.Drakon wrote:I completely agree with you. If that console were here I'd undo all of my old bad work as best as I can for free. Thanks for making such nice posts.leonk wrote:on a personal note; I'd love to see videos of the mod undone and modern one put in its place (Voultar's latest duo one is an awesome example)
Maybe it's just the preservationist in me saying all these retro gems need to be saved.
Yeah I watched it. There was no arm twisting involved. I was very polite with Jason. This is what Jason does when you politely decline to let him use you or your work for his own gain.leonk wrote:looks like this will not be the last video. See last 30 seconds.
Damn Tim, you know there are quite a few Americans out there who still lives in tents due to this shitty economy, and you're dropping loads on a single game which only last 20 min. Do you think it's fair? How much did you spend this time?
Uhm, I admitted to my mistakes, apologized for them and worked hard to clean up the mess they created years ago. Actually in 2013 right when all of these attacks started happening was when I had finally found time to sit down and started to seriously revise how I did my work. The problem is that skips has never once admitted to any of his mistakes or done anything to clean up the mess he's created.FalconFour wrote:Well, here we are, it happened. I went through all 17 pages of this saga, its highs (new folks popping in with an unbiased opinion), and the lows (the Drakon/Skips back and forth). Came in here from a YouTube video suggestion, then Googling who the heck Drakon was, and if he's still around. Remarkably, this thread still lives on.
Skips is an asshole. There, I said it. Seriously, Skips had some of the most rage-fueling comments right along side Drakon. Both of you two seem to have a personality type that I identify in myself as well - you cannot be wrong! And, that's how we got here, as awful as it is. (and I don't think Drakon needs any more bashing here - I think the bashing of Drakon has been seriously one-sided in light of the face-slapping that Skips has also deserved.)
Yes, this is my first post, but Google my name and you'll find quite a long history, stretching deep back into the ugly 10-plus year history I've had on the internet. Long ago I resolved that I'd never change my name, ever. I am FalconFour, now and for as long as I think I'll be around. Got the tattoo fer fuks sake, hah. That has proven to be somewhat valuable - in particular, Facebook and the persistence and relation of things, really taught me to be a generally better human being.
You look through my past, and you'll find some awful things. I was an awful person on the internet 10-plus years ago. Much of what I read coming from Skips and Drakon mirrors the same kind of thing I used to do on these type of wonderful PHP-based message boards, hidden by the anonymity of a random username, one step above 4chan.
What the persistence of a username, and its stripping of anonymity, has taught me is that you have to have the ability to look back at your distant past, laugh at it, and move forward. The proof of your current actions will erase the reputation of the past.
That's what I wish to offer to Drakon. Your reputation can only be one thing: good, or bad. It can't simply "not exist" by virtue of deletion (and indeed, asking it repeatedly to be deleted actually makes it worse, in my view as an outsider). See also: the Streisand Effect. In order to say "I'm better now, look! My old work was terrible, but I've learned from it!", you have to show, in photos and not words, that you've improved.
I understand that you really want nothing more to do with this. I have a similar problem - I made a boot CD by my name, and though I no longer have time or interest in improving it (it's sat idle for the past 3-odd years), it's all that most of the internet knows me for. For you, Drakon, your legacy seems to be left at Master of the Glue Gun.![]()
I really wish to offer some chance to prove your skills have improved, but conflicting with the idea of wanting to stay out of the modding scene, it's hard to reconcile. I do agree that your overclocked Super FX cart looks good (as a lay person), though the crystal attached by lead wires could be a problem (trace length; capacitance), that's the only quirk I'd point out. I'm not much a console gamer myself, but I have an NTSC Commodore 64 that I wish were PAL, and a Dreamcast that might be donated to a good cause. /shrug.
But if it were an option, at this point in the thread, I would TOTALLY be interested in throwing a device to Drakon to mod and take photos to allow us all to put the past behind us. I might suggest a Hakko FX-888D, though - it's my soldering iron of choice (with a chisel tip, not a damn conical tip!), best thing I've ever touched. And no, I think the use of flux is overrated (or overstated) - and my job is in electrical engineering/prototyping and embedded development. Good flux-core solder is king, however, in some cases (especially involving reflow and SMD work), flux IS necessary.
Hopefully this is constructive in some way, and not so long as to be glazed over.
Because I never ripped people off. Customers came looking for me to hire me. Many customers opened their consoles I had worked on and said the work was fine. Any helpful suggestions were always welcomed and applied. The problem is that everyone would and still will spend all day making fun of my work but nobody would dare lift a finger trying to help me actually improve my work. With the exception of voultar, he has helped me greatly, but unfortunately voultar also helps spread the impression that people who have done bad work do it on purpose, and voultar refuses to change this view.tusecsy wrote:How is this Drakon con-man not banned?
Goes around ripping countless people off for years and you guys still try to reason with him?
Kudos to people like Jason and Voltar for shining a spotlight on scumbags like this.
I'm actually enjoying having a chat with FalconFour. Unlike you, he doesn't think he's an expert on everything and he doesn't automatically label anyone who politely disagrees with him as being mentally handicapped.retrorgb wrote:Can someone PLEASE lock this thread? It's beyond ridiculous now.
Damn Tim, you know there are quite a few Americans out there who still lives in tents due to this shitty economy, and you're dropping loads on a single game which only last 20 min. Do you think it's fair? How much did you spend this time?