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You're really going to unearth that crap from 2013? I'll leave the comment, because people really should see it, but this thread is locked now. Have fun creating for your unattainable standards.

8 hours ago, Celest said:

More staff, makes me think whatever happen to the ones before them. Probably Real life things

 

And Congratulations y'all 

They're not replacing anyone really, unless you mean people from back when Ryon was still the owner.

Welcome to hell staff guys!

44 minutes ago, Jirobou said:

drama? haha guild are the real drama specialists, I am just a crappy amateur compared to them

This is your problem. You keep bringing up MFG and these theories that no one here cares about. Furthermore, it's irrelevant. If you have a vendetta with MFG, then maybe you should take it up with them. Ricepigeon's actions are justified and discussed before taken. The whole staff has a say in what we do with admins having the final words. If Rice was doing anything against our guidelines or going rogue, we'd know before hand and take action from there. Enough of this nonsense. I don't want to see anymore posts regarding this topic of MFG from you (or anyone else) anymore. Surely you can find something better to talk about. There's a great community of people here who "shoot the shit" about plenty of other topics. I'm sure you could find something that interests you.

15 hours ago, Jirobou said:

you may say, the thread was just informative, but so was my thread, I shared objective information about a dispute in the mugen community, for over a decade the guild was the largest mugen site, suddenly they start a war against the archive, and as a result they lost leadership by a landslide, how is it not important info that everyone should know? why it gets censored? :/

Your thread only STARTED somewhat tame by asking for help for something MA-related, but then you started bashing MFG saying they were a bunch of old assholes and whatnot. How is that informative exactly?

I specifically mentioned to you in that thread to knock off the "FORUM" bashing. You did not, so the thread was locked. It was as simple as that. Had you been bashing MMV or MA instead, it would have received the same treatment.

Just now, Starmie said:

Because they want more people to join their community and thus making them more unlikable. I just want some files I don't want to join an entire new community

I agree. I have the same exact mindset when it comes to forums and other services. In most cases, I never want to be apart of their communities. That's why MC was created with my own mindset in mind, thinking others might have the same. Downloads were open to anyone, even if you were banned.

16 minutes ago, Jirobou said:

so if some people repetitively make serious accusations without proof

and you ask them to provide a proof, you do it for the sole purpose of annoying them?

not because you legitimately want to see a proof that could back up these serious accusations?

I don't know what you've said to them, but it's probably more than just that. I've been at MFG for years, read a lot of different threads, and seen a bunch of people get banned. Some even came here and got banned for the same reason(s), and we don't like banning people here. I can't say for your case because I really don't know. Can you post here or PM me what exactly got you banned over there; a thread, post, something?

7 minutes ago, Jirobou said:

the server fees could go up to 500 bucks, even if you had a job, it would be insane to pay that much for a hobby

what if the owner has a family and kids? you're one selfish spoiled kid if you expect him to pay that much from his spare money

That's really his problem and no one else's. No one is requiring nor demanding the site to exist. It was the owner's choice and thus deals with the consequence.

7 minutes ago, Jirobou said:

because if you ask them to give you proof of adfly virus they outright ban you

that shows the bunch of hypocrites they are

they know there's no virus proof and they'll ban anyone who points it out

How is that proof? I could question it right now to Iced in PM or in that thread and not get banned. Why? Because I don't make a big deal of things usually over there or annoy people on a constant basis. Those who get banned are usually in that category. You sound like you are speaking from experience over there. Did they tell you why you got banned? What was the last thing you said over there before you got banned? (Assuming you got banned and are speaking from experience)

5 hours ago, Jirobou said:

the truth is guild ops can't deal with the fact archive took the crown

And you know this to be true because...?

9 hours ago, Mʀ. Sтᴇαl-Yoᴜя-Wαεfυ said:

Im not trying to cause any drama. I love the site, or did. I think a archive site is a great idea, and IMO Dizzy is a cool ass mod, shes great. But if theyre going to let things get deleted for any other reason than because you already have it, then, someone should preserve the stuff. Just so some things dont get lost. Someone may come along and fix them. Ive come across SO much stuff thats 404 and its annoying as shit. Like a MvC2 Tag Freeza Z2, and most of Infinite's old stuff. It took forever to find the old inifnite and betossj4 stuff.

But if theyre going to let someone just turn the site into a giant selective site cut into Capcom and SNK sections, and treat members and their posts any way they wish, then...IDK. Shit, you and the other mods dont modify and edit everyone's posts because you feel like it. And you guys just dont delete shit if you dont like it.

All Im trying to say is if something is lost on MA, someone should have it archived either here or any other site. Like Mugeno.

I understand completely.

34 minutes ago, Mʀ. Sтᴇαl-Yoᴜя-Wαεfυ said:

Someone should start archiving the rare and good characters before they get deleted.

That's insanely ironic, lol.

4 hours ago, Jirobou said:

the main reason i dislike guild is because they forgot all they used to stand for

they used to focus on the game, they used to dismiss drama, and look at them now they're a bunch of old drama whores who no longer care about playing

 

the staff is made of bitter old lowlifes, the base member is only good at quarreling and picking fights

I say it's a matter of months before their site turns into a ghost town, they're just a useless forum anyway, they have nothing relevant anymore

mffa, mmv or ma are much better communities where you can actually enjoy a discussion without having to shake off a bunch of thugs

There are plenty of members over there who care about playing the game. Sure they have off-topic threads, but so do most forums. Is that such a crime? I've been there for years and the most controversial topics that end up in drama are in the off-topic sections. I think you're focusing on a few cases and not the bigger picture. Furthermore, it's natural for people to criticize the things they enjoy. For example, I have a standard of character that I used to make and always tried to make that standard higher. There are a lot of creators who have standards much lower than mine and I'd expect the same as mine or better. So then let's say a character is released that I was really looking forward to, but then the quality suffered greatly, I'm liable to be saying something about it and helping them to improve. It might not sound nice to the reader, but it's just criticism. As for drama, you can't avoid it. It's everywhere, even here. In all my time being an admin here I've seen my fair share of drama here. Some behind closed doors and some in the public. If drama bothers you, simply don't partake in it. Take a break because making false claims about other forums won't get you very far. You're allowed to have your opinion, but you're pretty much spouting it like you know it's fact.

1 hour ago, Jirobou said:

 

I give them a few months before they end like trinitymugen

guild is nothing special, nothing useful, just an overstretched bland forum full of rude ass punks

all they had was their database, but it was flawed and doomed to end as an index of dead links

ah! and hyper dbz a collection of a handful of dbz chars, meanwhile there are bazillons of extreme butoden chars being made with much better sprites

so nobody gives two shit about hyper dbz anymore, nobody gives two shit about guild either

let these old lowlife ass punks rot

Lol, wooow. You are delusional if you truly believe that. Just because you don't like that doesn't mean they're going to crash and burn. It's a thriving forum that will keep going on for as long as mugen exists I'm sure. Also, we have a unspoken rule about forum bashing, so keep it to a minimum please. 

1 hour ago, Ricepigeon said:

A bit off topic here, but from personal experience I've found most Mugen characters that were 2MB and under to be of suspect quality. I'd consider 5-20MB to be the average size of a standard res character to be of acceptable quality, but that's going off track since we're talking about data bandwidth and hosting costs, not character quality. However, for the sake of curiosity, what would be the overhead if we considered 15 MB to be the average size of a character?

Hey some of my characters were 2MB, lol XD. It would about 586 GB with 15 MB average.

1 hour ago, Jirobou said:

anyway according to mugenarchive they are on two dedicated servers, since a justhost ded is up to 250 per month, the fees could go up to 500 per month

this is a whole different story than paying a 15 per month shared hosting, even with a normal job paying that much would hurt a lot, especially if you have a family, children and all the stuff

It's a lot of space, but why would 2 dedicated servers be needed? If they're paying for too much, then there's nothing I can do about that. I'm pretty sure I could get a stable setup for less. Hell, I could pay for a CDN and pay less. There are other options. I can't see why they'd need two dedicated servers, but whatever, I'm not gonna be their financial advisor. That's all up to them. Still, they could have ads on the site and not use adfly. If I host a character for free, then see it on mugenarchive behind an adfly link, it would mean they're making profits off of my work. Now what if this work was completely original; my own IP? Now it just poses a moral dilemma.

1 hour ago, Jirobou said:

 

What I said is there is no 100% ad free "massive" hosting plan

"massive" is the key word

what you can do with a shared server, you can't with a hundreds bucks dedicated plan

 

how much were the hosting fees of mugencoder compared to mugenarchive? they basically host 40,000 files currently so I would imagine it costs the hell of a lot

 

in fact it comes down to : servers do cost money

if you have big servers, those which cost hundreds, then either you are very rich and can afford to pay from your own money, or you're a normal person and you need ads to pay the bill

If you don't even know how much they pay, how could you make such a statement? You're just assuming at this point. 40,000 files isn't that large given most mugen characters are about 2MB on average. That's 79GB of files which a shared host could handle. Even if we bumped the average to 4MB per character, the required space would only be 156GB or so. Shared hosts can also handle the bandwidth required. MugenCoder scaled with what it needed and was affordable for me. I'm not rich, nor very rich. Anyone with a decent job could have afforded it. We were looking at maybe $300 at the end of the year. My point remains that its the site admin's choice to make the user experience worse with ads or just deal with the costs. This doesn't come down to whether or not your rich or "normal," but how selfish you are. It seems MugenArchive is hosted by JustHost.com (according to their WHOIS), in which the plans are very cheap. Barring domain registration, that's $15/mo. for shared and $100~$200/mo. for dedicated. I have no way of telling what plan they pay for, but considering the best shared plan there is marked as "Unmetered" for both Bandwidth and Storage, I'd say they could have easily chosen that. If not, the dedicated plan isn't terribly bad either.

There's only one thing I'd like to point out after reading all this because I think it's relevant. Jirobou has made the official statement that there isn't a site out there that allowed downloading for free with no ads and no revenue-gaining tactics whatsoever, when this is just false. Anyone who knows me from my mugen days knows that I hosted the mugen content of myself and a select group of other authors for absolute free, on a website called MugenCoder that was built from scratch. There were no ads and the only features that were locked behind an account (also free) were commenting and user profile features. Downloading was completely open to the public for free. MFG sites also do the same thing. These were just acts of generosity for a community we're apart of. So, depending on how you go about things, your financial status, and your attitude about things, it's quite possible. Usually one or more of these key items is out of line with those who choose to plaster ads all of their sites. It's a choice, not a requirement.

Congrats everyone.

I downloaded it and tried it out today while in the car (dad driving) and caught some pokemon as well as got to level 5 or so in a round trip. It's a pretty fun concept that I see being used for casual, on-the-go gameplay. It's not something you have to keep up. There's no stamina system or daily login bonus. Pokemon don't have levels, but CP and I've not tried a gym leader yet, so I'm not sure how combat works. There's no detection for people around you though, which I found to be a surprise. It would have been cool if my brother and I could have battled.

It's not truly possible to do unless the audio and video are on different channels. In an mp4 or wav, that information is already compressed and lost, so there's no 100% effective way to do it.

3 hours ago, JBWS said:

Hi am jaden 

You've done nothing spam threads since you've signed up. Do NOT spam threads with useless garbage. This is your first warning.

@Artoria Alter, I don't know if it's you doing this, but the offending CSS was found in your post that messed up the spacing of this page. My guess is that it's from a copy and paste of the source, but if I'm wrong that behavior will not be tolerated.

2 hours ago, Ricepigeon said:

On the topic of censors, I should probably point out that the adfly censors aren't 100% perfect and there are still some ways around it. Not much we can do at the time being.

Correct. At the very least it's a jab towards those who do think they can post such links without consequence.

1 minute ago, ゴーストキラー said:

 

Ahhhh, ok. Well that explains it, lol. Though I didn't suspect you would be behind it. Thanks for clearing this all up and fixing the censors.

Well it was a group effort, but I forgot to take them off after the 1st was done. No problem. Sorry again for the frustration it caused. My personal views on censorship is that there should be none for the record. You say what you want and the consequences will soon follow. :P

Actually, "honk" comes from the The Lonely Island song of a similar title. It's hilarious to say the least.

Dronekiller has been approved for Creator rank.

Yes, it's about the quality, but a bit of consistency helps too. For example, if you make one thing and then never come back to the forum or create anything else for the entirety, I'd not really consider that a Creator.