lr-mame-2003 will forget controller if started from arcade menu

[Riverstorm]

@dankcushions said in lr-mame-2003 will forget controller if started from arcade menu:

that is all i've ever said. we are all here to help each other and have fun working on this cool project! if you cannot control your behaviour on this forum, you will no longer have the privilege to use it.

It's clear you don't have autonomy or I would have been kicked due to our two disagreements. I'm feeling lorded over by your threat of banning my privilege. You are a forum moderator that has authority to ban people? It's a privilege for you to use them also I would imagine or are you vested and do have complete autonomy and that kind of power.

The thing I sincerely ask is what was wrong with my behavior or what is it I need to control? Yes I am very honest and unfiltered and grew up in a very rough, thick skinned environment so you would probably need to be more specific what exactly was wrong with my post in your eyes or perception. What I wrote is how I perceive you, in all honesty, it's my truth. Right or wrong in your eyes.

I thought about it the past few days. I do appreciate respect and appreciate your feedback. I have to say not everyone's style or idea of help in writing is beneficial to everyone. Yours is not so much for me. I don't mean everything but half the time I honestly and sincerely have no idea what you're trying to say. In your thinking process you answer questions perfectly and feel everyone should understand your answer. Your confused and hurt that people don't understand your answers. That's just not the case. Everyone processes information differently and different answers work better for some people. Caver came along and answered everything I didn't understand about Arcade in one post on this thread. I can really relate to his style of writing and answering questions. We all process information differently and his really brings it home for me.

Caver and Floob. When they answer a question It's clear and concise to me. You can see the thought and care in their answers. Floob and videos are analogous. I feel like they genuinely have a passion and want to share. I learn so much from them. Buzz is straight up. He knows the product and under the hood so well he can answer questions very precise, short and to the point.

Sometimes I feel wrong but in this case I feel I did nothing wrong. Half of the time I see no benefit in your answers for me. I have to respectfully say I would prefer not to interact if possible. Not everyone in the world is meant to be friends or get along perfectly. Sometimes personalities collide on such a large global venue as this. Which is ok. You can be respectful of someone and not like them. I guess some people you just have a natural draw or pull towards them like a leader and others not. Some people you can't help but to like them and can't explain why. They just have an aura. You want to be around them and learn about them. You have a natural curiosity about what makes them tick and how they think. What do they do in their free time. I feel like I get along with 99% of the people here.

You feel disrespected and/or misunderstood with your answers? If we need to interact or are working on the same idea or post I will show you the respect I think you're trying to garner from this post. I will definitely be more self aware when I answer or see a post from you. This is honest as I can be and I think I understand what your trying to say and hope you were able to get what you needed also.

For the record and in the simplest terms. I am here because of my love and passion of the 80's arcades. I have no hidden agenda or dark political objective. I have nothing to gain. It's a simple passion and love of gaming and I to enjoy partaking in such a cool project!

Have a great weekend and I hope we can move on and put focus on RetroPie from here on out. Long live RetroPie! :)

[dankcushions]

@Riverstorm i am a moderator. i've only banned spammers. i don't think it's a great look to ban people who you are disagreeing with or whatever, but i don't care for insults about my attitude, skill, knowledge, avatar! etc. i don't think i need to defend my contributions to MAME, and helping people, etc. they're small compared to what others have done, but i'm proud.

i'm not hurt that you didn't understand my answer. it is slightly annoying when this stuff is in the wiki and you keep saying it's not, but if you can't get the information out because of the way that it's written in the wiki, then it's the same difference i guess! the docs always need improving, and your posts prompted me to update a few things, so that's positive :)

listen man, i'm sorry that i was blunt with you and chose to dissect your post rather than explain it in a different way. fortunately there are others who are better at this! but for real i want both you, caver and all the other arcade fans on-side so we can get MAME on retropie the best it can be :)

[Riverstorm]

@dankcushions I agree I did exercise that boundary when you tore into my post like a bad paper mache and I am sorry. You did take a poke too regarding my posts being a load which I would assume is of the number 2 kind.

I agree it's terribly annoying to answer the same questions over and over. It's just human nature when visiting a new site but also a good way to attract more people and bring them on board expanding a project. A project is only as good and full of potential as it's leaders. I was never good at diplomacy due the family system I grew up in is the survival of the fittest.

I'm sorry but I get lost in your responses many times. I try to read and reread to find the answer, feature or bug I am trying to understand. In the end it's not meant to be personal I just wrote it off as a different style of communication that probably doesn't work for me and I just need to steer clear and stick to what works.

I have a hard time when someone says it works for me. Well that's a great starting point to know it's a working feature. I do like reading and reading Wiki's or watching video is great but I have to say I have missed some information due to the "flow" but you can blame the end-user's lack of ability or the writer but the end result is the same. Another post asking a question on how something works.

Some features I think work one way to discover my base understanding was incorrect so any further knowledge gained is skewed due to my original perception and understanding. That's the same for software bugs. I am thinking one way only to discover my original thought process is off and building knowledge from a bad base well it just compounds the resolution and understanding. Brew that together with people that all communicate and perceive differently and you have a recipe for disaster. It's inevitable it will happen once in a while.

I am easily bait-able and will go hook, line and sinker with whoever if I believe in what I am doing. In person or in writing it doesn't make any difference. If I may get beat up from a bigger guy in a face-to-face encounter it was never a deterrent. My boundaries are bit rigid for lack of better words and I need to make them a bit more flexible when it comes to life. It's a life long project I think. I don't have the energy to sustain arguments like some do. Not now anyways. I have two older sisters and younger brother and sister that like going to bat and we have/need a boundary that we respect or all hell breaks loose. It's like an uneasy truce some days. Growing up we scrapped it out, literally, physically.

Anyway before I write a book it's water under the bridge and I'm sorry. It's hard not to take something personal when you're at it every day. Maybe I just need a break as I am loosing focus that this is supposed to be fun and I should be enjoying this. When I first discovered RetroPie I was elated with nostalgia and sentiment. I should have kept my cool and not poked at you. Have a great weekend.