MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Recording a video after playing it

> > > Well, I'm sorry you find it "terrible". I personally don't think it rises to the
> > > level of mildly annoying - but we're all different.
> >
> > You seem to think this is a subjective issue and therefore subject to debate. It
> > really isn't.
> >
> > > I don't have an arcade cabinet. I don't have arcade controls. I don't have the
> > lights
> > > dimmed to restrict reflections, and I don't play naff pop music in the background
> > for
> > > ambiance. There are lots of ways I don't emulate the original experience. It's
> just
> > > not that important to me. I accept it may be to you, and of course, I'm happy you
> > can
> > > run the games any way you please.
> >
> > You are of course free to use emulators in any way and under any context you like
> > (though unlike buying arcade controls etc., playing under the correct aspect ratio
> > costs you neither time nor effort, so why you deliberately force a "Fat Chun-Li"
> > aspect ratio on your games when they weren't developed that way is bewildering).
> > Rather, my comments, and those of others here, are based on your public
> encouragement
> > - and yes *propagation* of the notion that it's somehow a good idea to do what
> you're
> > doing, when it simply isn't. It's hard to sit silent and watch bad advice like this
> > encouraging others to do the same, who will eventually give the same advice to more
> > people.
> >
> > Or if you prefer: privately it's no big deal, but publically it isn't right, and
> > disservices the original developers to boot.
>
> I'm sorry, but from my side of the fence it looks like you're trying to apply a hard
> set of rules on what people should, and shouldn't do. You're trying to dictate to
> people what is, and what is not, acceptable. That's the problem.

No, that really isn't the problem. The problem, which you reenforce with each of your responses, is that the point we are making seems to be sailing too far above your head to see. It's honestly becoming comical to read them, as you continue to plod down an entirely irrelevant line of reasoning. Your advice/public statement of preference/whatever you want to call it is indeed objectively bad, arguably irresponsible, and wrong for several very good reasons I and others have pointed out. You've unwittingly touched a nerve that for years has been with many of us who care about accurate preservation and honoring the original developers (without whom the games wouldn't even exist), but instead of trying to see why, you continue down a defensive path. It's too bad, especially considering that some of your other posts have actually been enjoyable to read!

Anyway, I'm not going to waste any more time with this pointless discourse. Know this, though: in the future if you DO continue posting this silly "advice" to counteract what you perceive to be "bullying" from people with good intentions who are merely addressing a long-standing and deep-seated problem, it's not exactly going to cast a good light for you in this community, which is composed of people who largely know better (as should be obvious to you by now).