I am going to start this post by saying that I am not posting as a member of the }MG{. I will also point out that I am not posting as someone who is for or against Trem Fusion, much as I dislike their tactics of pushing
their client/server on people and using Tremulous's services for as long as possible. Those are my personal opinions, and as such are not relevant at the moment.
I am instead posting as a member of the Tremulous Community.
"Oh, no," I hear you thinking! "He's going to go all player1 on us!" Let me assure you that I have no intention of posting random pictures in this thread, although I do have a couple saved on my hard drive for special
occasions such as this one. You may sleep easy tonight knowing that I will not, under any circumstances except those used for demonstrational purposes, type lik dis c4us3 1ts r3411y 4nn0ying 4n h4rd 2 r34d.
Where to begin? Where to begin? At the beginning.
A little introduction may be of use, for those of you who do not know me. I am a mapper, a writer, an }MG{, (Yes, I am affiliated with }MG{, but I am posting with my own thoughts, not those of our top-secret collective groupmind that you're not supposed to know about) a modeler (In training), winner of Best Gameplay in one of Survivor's early mapping contests, and a webmaster. How do these skills relate to the thread?
They don't, so disregard them. This thread isn't about me.
I joined the forums in May of 2006, and was welcomed with arms that, if not necessarily open, were at least tolerant of my crummy maps. As Time has marched onwards in its eternal journey, the Great Pyramids have eroded an additional millimeter or so, gas prices have gone up, huricains have hit the coastline of the southern United States a good many times--and the behavior of this community has dropped so far I'm surprised it hasn't hit bottom yet.
"But wait! I thought this thread wasn't about you!"
Oh, right, I digress to the main point now.
This thread is about TremFusion, (Currently Version 0.0.3) which at the moment is a client modification. If you need to see exactly what it modifies, see the first post in the thread.
Now I do not support this custom modification, nor do I disavow it. I believe that this client might have excellent potiential behind it, if used correctly. However, the way Amanieu is comming across to the Humble Reader (that is to say, the way he is coming across to me), it appears that he is pushing as hard as possible to get others to use his client, disavow from stock Tremulous, and eventually to fork from Tremulous after he 'steals' Tremulous's already shaky userbase.
Note that I said, "the way Amanieu is coming across," which does not necessarilly refer to his actual intentions. I have no idea what his actual intentions are, and I am not in a mood to guess.
I am well aware that Amanieu's comment of, "yes, tremfusion is a fork," makes the 'real' Tremulous developers uncomfortable. Hell, I'm not a Tremulous developer and *I* am more than a little uncomfortable.
But the MG}{s, the TF team, the Tremulous community, and the Moderators, my god, the Moderators who are supposed to be *preventing* this kind of happenstance on the forums are throwing antimatter on the fire!
Do you have any idea how you're appearing? You're so caught up in arguing--both sides, all the sides--over Amanieu's client/port/fork/Whatever it really is, that you're not stopping to think about what you're actually *doing*!
Forums are not just words and posts, they are delicate political entities, with people behind them. (Whether the people are intelligent enough to post in coherant sentences or not is not relevant at the moment)
You (And I'm referring to everybody who is so childlishly arguing in this thread--you know who you are) are carrying out the equivilent of shouting in the middle of a bank when people are trying to do their business. You're starting a brawl in the middle of a peaceful lobby--and you're not even drunk! (Actually, I have no way of ascertaining that fact, but if you *are* drunk it would explain quite a lot)
You're forcing people to pick sides, driving spikes in the already-too-large rifts in the forum. Some of these arguments don't even fully pertain to TF! (Lava Croft is coming to mind for some strange reason...it must be the weather)
Stop acting like a bunch of children with their panties in a knot.
Start acting like mature members of the Tremulous community.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll take my holier-than-thou self outside and start doing something productive, like burying pennies in hopes that they'll grow into a money tree.
