Lollypops and chocolate cakes

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I don't see what exactly has changed around this place, it's always been chock full of whingers. If people actually moved away from relying on the home page for new posts, they'd realise that people are still asking questions about Amiga problems and what not and actually getting answers. Sadly there seems to be awful lot of thread hijacking lately, but again, this is nothing new, only now it's people bitching about CUSA instead of the whole Red vs. Blue thing. Yes, it's fun to hijack a thread every now and then, it alleviates monotony of this place, but FFS it is getting beyond a joke, it seems like some people just like the look of their own ramblings. Unfortunately, for the Amiga community as a whole, it appears that a good percentage of its members are so stuck in the past that even their mentality has failed to mature. Why people can't embrace new ideas and community spirit around these parts it well beyond my comprehension.

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Well we have Franko banned...

Since when? I saw the "BANNED FOR LIFE" but just assumed that was him messing about again...

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Yeah, and some people are happy to hold up the sheet music...  

Now, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum... :lol:

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He's not banned. I just checked. Actually, our permanent banned list is quite short. Last one was yesterday, a automated spambot account. Before that it goes to last May then it gets really old.
He's just joined a few others I've seen that have changed their member title to Banned.  
If Franko would stay out of the CUSA topics and not start any on them. He'd be fine. He has a whole website of his own to rant on, not to mention the rest of the Internet.

Meh, thought so...

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Bill Buck

Or the Billsy saga, that caused bucket loads of drama and many deleted posts/threads :lol:

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am I the ONLY one that actually learned something from using an Amiga (my First Computer) and that this knowledge translated into how I use Every single other device I have ever used since?

I honestly don't understand this attitude. (meaning that a person is not a true Amiga user unless his finger are actively on an Amiga)

Frim my Amiga I learned how to be frugal using my programs (started out with bare bones A2000, booting from floppy with the smallest amount of memory you could get at the time. ) I still learned how to use DPaint with that set up.

A few years later when I moved to LA and was looking for work at an animation house they "tested" me on their proprietary paint program.
It was a sad little affair where you had to exit out of Every tool to Enter another tool. and you could only use ONE tool at a time. recall DPaint let you use several tools at once. I picked this up in literally seconds because it was WAAAAAY easier to figure out than DPaint.
The person testing me was absolutely astounded at my prowess - I kid you not.

I wasn't trying to show off. Amiga just taught me very important techniques in figuring out how software worked and because it was WAY ahead of it's time made ME ahead of my time.

This gave me an edge that others did not have.

laugh all you wish, but I am an Amiga Snob for a really good reason. I carry Amiga with me in my brain even if I have not touched my old Amiga 2000 is a long time. It exists where it counts. And continues to inform my work no matter what device I use.

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One particularly important thing my Amiga's and C64's taught me was patience