MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: preliminary shots

> > > perhaps Haze has Aspergers Egocentrism.
> >
> > Fixed !
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> I'm starting to get tired of people blaming everything on Haze for having a "big
> ego", the meme is getting old.
>
> LN

To expand on that...

It is now 2018... many regulars still involved with MAME today are approaching two decades of contributing to MAME, if they aren't there already.

What boggles my mind is that, after all these years working together, there are still multiple contributors who:

-- Have no problem talking smack in general, or about other people here...
-- But then act all offended when they get called out on it, like they did nothing wrong.

And people on the outside have continued to watch this group of people bicker and fight over the past twenty years.

MAME has made amazing progress over this time, but I sometimes wonder how much more progress could have been made, with all of the people that stay away, because they want nothing do to with the immature attitudes on this project.

The best part? The first reply one of those people will think of when they read this is going to be somewhere in the vein of "after all the time/money I've spent on MAME, I'm entitled to this attitude; fuck anyone else that thinks different." And that's the problem that keeps on going.

MAME is a fun project; it allows thousands of people to relive games and other systems of the past; for many, it takes them back to their childhood. And my kids will all be the first to admit that I myself have never really grown up.

But there are times that a grown kid should still act mature, just like there are times when actual kids are supposed to act mature. It would be nice one day if these people would learn the difference, and that acting like a five-year old stomping on the ground throwing a tantrum is not the correct way to get what you are asking for. And acting like an entitled seventeen-year old, whose parents have given them everything, and expecting the world around them to do the same, also doesn't work.

RELAX and just have fun. Remember, it's all about the games.