If the poster didn't mean to be hurtful or insulting, they wouldn't have reached out with backhanded spite that people aren't busting their asses to assist this project. A project I sincerely hope does well, despite the fact it is of little interest to me since I only code in C these days and have little interest in games.
My interests in the Amiga scene currently are solely in porting old 68k BBS software to OS4/MOS - you'd laugh me out of the building if I got indignant and asked for help while berating people in the process, wouldn't you? Sort of a cutting off your nose to spite your face deal, no?
I do get your point, Goose - and apologize for not practicing what I would like to preach, but belittling the "talent" with terms like "bigshot", "boasting", and otherwise generally telling people they are not "DOING THEIR PART!!!11" is simply nonsense and will only hurt their project in the end. A cruddy and patronizing attitude isn't going to teach people E, now is it? I may have said what I said in an unpolished manner, but I stand by what I said and others will agree the guilt trip factor sucks. You ain't gonna catch flies with vinegar - and it irks me when the coders here are having to defend themselves with things like "well after a long workday, I'll see what I can do!". Real life is real life, it is what it is and hobbies come secondary. Sorry to burst that bubble.
Some people cannot afford to "take breaks" from long workdays, I'm afraid. People don't work, they can't feed their children, and all the romantic notions of revitalizing the classic Amiga gaming scene while berating people to work on community projects doesn't change that. I had a problem with the attitude behind the slam against the community that seemingly was calling people useless, not the project itself in the least.
