Phillyman

Reserved space for showing examples of Fusoya's negativity and why we let him go......Moderators feel free to add examples below and link to them.....

Let me start off by saying that I really hate to ban a member from these forums. When I started this project I did so because I wanted it to be a fun way for each of us to preserve a piece of history. Fusoya has been with Retromags since its start back in 2005, and even back in 2005 he fought me on countless issues pertaining to how this website runs. Back then he only wanted magazines that he scanned to be distributed to people that actively helped the website. I disagreed with him over this and it almost lead to me saying "Fuck it" and shutting down Retromags. Every person that scans a magazine knows the amount of work that it takes to preserve it electronically.....and of course it would be nice if more people helped out.....but that's not how projects like this works. When you start a project that relies on people "volunteering" there time and skills for "free"......you are almost always going to eliminate 98% of people from wanting to help. Seriously, just because I download an emulator to play some old games.....does not mean I am going to toss $5 their way.....nor does it mean I am going to learn a programming language and help program it. Fusoya had the idea that if we didnt release out the magazines to the "leechers" that they would be forced to help out. The problem is that back then Retromags was a very small site....getting only 100-200 visitors per day as opposed to now where we get 600-800 people a day visiting. When Retromags was a small site, the only traffic we were getting was from Mininova when we would "release" a new magazine. You hold onto the magazines and don't distribute them, no one will ever find out about us.....and it cuts down on the amount of people that would actually help out. So when Fusoya started his ranting on the forums about how he would not allow his magazines to be distributed, I just let him go as a member and banned him. Retromags shortly after returned to a calm state and we acquired some great members such as Meppi, Thor, Kbf_private_joker, E-Day, Triverse, Scurti, BarbieOnWeed, Mek1 and others. All of these members are great and without them Retromags would not be the great site it is today. We all scan when we can and share our work with others, in hopes that we will encourage a few more members to step forward and help out. My original goal for Retromags still echo's today.....that if we could get a solid 20 members that could scan and edit just 1 magazine per month.....that means we would have 4-5 new releases per week and that would be 240 releases per year. Anyways about a year or so ago, Fusoya and me got talking on instant messenger.....I thought he had become a better person and deserved another chance....so I brought him back. Since coming back Fusoya has been promoting a negativity across these forums that can no longer be ignored. He isn't a regular member, I would say he posts maybe 2-3 times in a 6 month period....but when he does post its usually taking a shot at myself, the website or our staff. His relentless comments and negativity have been ignored countless times by us.....and unfortunately he has been given too many "free passes". My decision to let Fusoya go has been a tough one, but I must take into effect that if we let him stay.....that it could deter new members from wanting to help for fear of being harassed by Fusoya.....or it could lead to an existing contributor leaving because they dislike the negativity he pollutes this site with. This site should be fun and a relaxed atmosphere.....not a place where you come and get pissed off. Please understand that NO ONE will ever be banned for giving CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. But if you are constantly promoting a toxic environment and trying to get under peoples skin....your time here will be limited. Ok stop reading this and go grab a magazine from the Download section -Phillyman

Yeah I gotta move to Ubuntu 64bit soon, as the 32 bit version only sees the first 3GB of my 8GB.

Well I use VirtualBox, which allows me to run XP within a Virtual Machine......So I get around it that way. My goal is to have a Dual Boot System....and have XP running within Ubuntu Vista x64 | | Ubuntu | XP

I can laugh at this happening

That is messed up, probably some kid that didnt get his dose of Ritalin, people dont think that this could have made those Firefighters unavailable for a real emergency.

hmmm I am not sure what you mean? You mean this? = as in you were about to post a picture of what I am talking about and forgot to? or You mean this? = as in you don't believe what I said above and require further proof?

Anyone remember the Super Mario Shampoo that Revlon made back in the 90's

Will probably end up getting the Black one.....since my DS lite is white.....dont want to come off as a racist or anything

You can buy the NDS/GBA cases directly from Nintendo (7 for $10) The Universal cases are sold by Mediashelving and another company.

Nah I think next week I will just remove EGM from the choices....force you guys to pick something else

Vote On Phillyman's Next Scan! To Be Scanned February 21st-27th 2009 Each week the Retromags community will vote on what I will scan the following week! I will pick four random magazines each week for you to choose from All Caught Up EGM Issue 5 ------------Gamers Republic Issue 1 GamePro Issue 19 ------------GameFan Issue 28

No but I had this convo with the girl I hand the girl a CD with 43 images on it and ask for it to be printed out on 8x14 and in landscape mode Girl - Just so you know, we charge a $0.50 opening fee for multiple files, I wont charge you this time Me - Really, cant you just highlight all the files and right click and print? Girl = Yea I am about to do that Me - Oh thanks for letting me know Me - How about if I submit them online? Girl - I still need to open the files Me - How about if I throw all the files into a PDF file? Girl - That would work. Me - "Thinking" ......I am soo never coming back here!

It cost me $0.59 to print each cover at Kinkos......and Nintendo sent me the cases (10 for $7)

Mine!

I still want someone to turn the old school NES track mat into a DDR game

Quiet! or duck dick becomes your permanent avatar

Let me explain.... Members vote from Saturday to Friday Night, then from Saturday morning until the next Friday I scan that issue, rinse and repeat. You will have 50% of the magazine by tonite, since this is a very early issue, I am preventing bleed thru with construction paper, which is slowing me down.....

Yea you are the resident perv now

Funny enough I just found my Gold pin the other night

I just beat it for the very first time, I came close when I was 8-9 years old, I made it to Death Mountain.....but let it be known that I just freaking beat one of the classics of all time :D :D Ok so that takes care of Link to the Past and LOZ, Now maybe time to beat Twilight Princess

I will batch resize EVERYthing I have scanned covers for so far, the only thing missing from this will be about 50 Next Generation magazines that are at my desk at work.

23 hours left http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=110348372049

I was more or less talking about the renaming of the entries. Not too sure what to do with the columns.....it is a bit messy.....and it doesnt line up with the index at the bottom. Maybe we could just do the Magazine info in the middle.....and then have the other two items (contents and index) centered under that?