[G1 General] MERKJONES:
Interesting read ladies and gents. You all are entirely too soft right now. Haykuro is a kid, he's awesome at what he does, and I love all of his work. This should be commended of course, but at what cost to everyone? Given his remarks on his twitter page, and comments on these forums and others - it appears that he's never worked in a corp environment. If 900 people are antsy, anxious and just overall obnoxious about the process or progress of something, you cannot let that get to you. I know it's hard, hell most of us have been at that point where we wanted to quit what we were doing because of one asshole doing something to piss us off, right? I know when I was in HS working on projects, or recently working on projects at my older age - I've had those same idiots in the background hawking me about "WHEN WILL IT BE DONE?!?!" and just general stupidity. It's annoying yes, but whatever. It takes a seasoned individual to ignore comments like that, to not read the threads - and to just generally ignore anything that is not beneficial to your progress. My grandfather used to tell me that "If no one is criticizing your work, or generally hating on your success - you're doing something wrong." It's just how it is... people will be people, you'll get people of all ages that don't understand the process of creating something... that don't understand the process of beta testing, and all that. They want it NOW NOW NOW with more stuff associated with it than originally planned. Its how it ALWAYS will be. No matter what happens, how you were raised, no one is happy until they get everything they want, and then some.

Haykuro might be lost, he might not. So what, he's learned something more valuable than porting ROMS in this short run of his: It's patience. He learned what it's like to be raged by idiots, and general ignorant people. I'm hoping he's learning how to cope with people - learning that if you're going to do something for people, do it for yourself first. Make yourself happy, screw everyone else. Once you are happy and proud of your work, share it. And if they aren't happy with it, so what. If you put a smile on 40 people's faces, and a frown on 100 ignorant user's faces, so what. The 40 people are the ones that understand the process.

I will say that I truly am not surprised that this happened. When a user posts teasers and other such videos without any type of hands on demonstration that user's can play with, it builds the anxiety in folks. And when you build it in one, that user spreads that angst to two users whom spread it to eight users and so on. It's a mob mentality so to speak. The vids - in haykuro's case - were awesome. Loved seeing that stuff, but I'm sure people were like "Ok... well where is this, can I play with it? WTF?" Sure... some of the user's didn't understand the watermark explained, and didn't understand that these watermarks' are put in in order to track certain ROMS. Just like the MPAA puts dots on video's in theaters.

I think that the future developers at this site need to have a bit more patience with the people, I understand this is more of an advanced user forum - but of course there is no aptitude test to prove this, and novice users make it in and ask novice questions. Displaying teasers and screen shots with no BETA ROMs will cause anxiety in the users. The dev should explain things in larger detail about things holding you back on the release, or have some form of public release log that is written in either super advanced technical knowledge, or plain lamen's terms so people understand that there is a "SHA1 Encryption Watermark on the files, that I have just removed. This is preventing me from releasing the ROM because it is trackable." In this specific situation, Haykuro did in fact reflect this, but it appeared to be too late. I mean look at our world in 2009. Everyone and everything is on Twitter. We communicate via text and 150 character blurbs. Nothing is full length and explicit anymore. It's small blurbs, and fast. Everyone knows every little detail about everyone's life... at all times. Since the masses are converting to these newfound methods of communication - it's becoming harder to not express information slower... and in a more old school manner.

To re-cap my little two cents here:

* Devs should release more information in a changelog / RLS log, as they release more teasers. There should be a direct correlation between the amount of information in text (Change Log) and the teaser information (monumental changes such as Rosie UI).

* Forget what the ignorant ones are saying... you cannot please everyone in life.

* Do this for yourself and your friends. If it changes the lives of your friends and some other random people out there, you've made a difference and should be happy about it.

* Quitters never win, and winners never quit. If you quit, then quit. So long, farewell, hasta la vista amigo. Don't draw it out in some dramatical "Woe is me" speech, that - in my mind - is viewed as a selfish act that is not needed. Yes, we owe you the dev some praise, and respect - but the drawn out Goodbye letters and melodramatic martyr behavior, is not needed. It's basically saying you were making ROMS for acknowlegement, and not because it was enjoyable for you.

I hope this reaches all devs in good spirits. The circumstances surrounding Haykuro's departure are upsetting, I hope the young man can realize that people will be people, and throughout his life they will remain the same... and nothing will change. It's a psychological fact of human nature.