I've been asked to come here and clear up some misunderstandings about me. I was first told at the horrible hour of about 7 AM as I was getting ready to quit IRC to leave the house for a weekend trip. I didn't bother replying then, and forgot about it (mostly) over the weekend. Now that I'm back, it seems that some of you are confused by who I am and what I do on TSR. Allow me to set the record straight:
1. I was never, nor am I now, a FA.
2. I was and still am a forum mod.
3. I am a modder and programmer that contributes to the community at large.
I am not as active on TSR as I used to be. In fact, I'm not as active on any site anymore, mostly due to lack of time, what with being in college and spending most of my remaining free time writing, programming, or doing other activities I can actually enjoy. Most of the free time I have is spent on IRC channels instead of the forums.
Like it or not, I basically consider TSR my “home.” It was the first site I registered on when we got the Internet back in the glory days of Napster and dialup. I was twelve at the time. From there I learned how to make craptastic recolors, moved on to making hacks for the Sims 1, and right near the end of it all, made my very first program. (Sims Skin Manager Plus!. Yes, I was young.)
Where did I learn to recolor? Where did I learn a lot about hacking? Where did I learn how the skn, cmx, and bmp files were tied together? That's right, TSR! No matter what other sites I register at in this community (Sims 1 or 2), I still always consider TSR my home, and have many friends there.
I always felt, though, that I would be welcomed pretty much anywhere I went. I mean, after all, I have a site, I create free stuff for the community, and most people tend to respect that, especially
if the rules say they should. That's why I feel comfortable hanging out at N99, TSR, and MATY simultaneously, and still do now. (I'm in TSR's chat and MATY's chat at this very moment.)
So, you can imagine how I felt when I was told that people at PMBD were angry at me...
[06:25:03] <Pescado> The PMBDers have noticed Jfade's TSR connection and have gone apeshit again.
I'm a free creator but they're mad at me because I'm at TSR? Wha? Weren't they
aware of this fact already?
So I came to look, only to find people basically mad at me over a screenshot of a post made ages ago about Wikipedia and how I felt that one of the editors there was being a little bit too controlling. (Yes, I still feel this way about Wikis in general, which is why I haven't bothered updating the Sims 2 Wiki because someone would just come and undo it immediately afterwards again with something stupid like [needs citation] or some such nonsense.)
That's it, and suddenly I'm an evil person? Even if it were true that I was a FA at one point in time, you'd still be upset by it?
I searched, and he's not anymore, so yay! But boo because I never thought he was. It actually makes me sadder when a creator goes pay or has been pay and I didn't know it.
So I pay out of pocket, every month, for a
website where I distribute my hacks and programs that
apparently you all like and use, (not to mention the
other sites that I host) and yet you still think of me as a horrible, rotten person because of the fact that I am connected to TSR?
You know,
neriana, maybe you're correct:
ETA: Interesting signature, jfade. Yes, trying to please everyone will lead to failure. As far as I can tell, you didn't take that advice to heart.
I have been trying to please everyone, doing exactly the opposite of what my signature says. That ends here. From this point out, I'm going to do what I want, when I want, for myself. No more requests, no more listening to endless feature requests for programs, nothing! I'm going to make things when I want to for my own enjoyment and share them with the community at large when I feel like it, and I'm going to continue to associate with all of the “evil” people at TSR because they are my friends. In the end, I could care less what you or anyone else thinks about that.
You may address any further concerns, apologies, or insults to jfade AT djssims DOT com if you can be arsed to do so. I will not be replying to anything else here.
PMBD
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