Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!pro2-240.barrie.connex.net!user From: kennedy@woodentulip.com (Sean Kennedy) Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk,scee.yaroze.freetalk Subject: *ping* Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 01:07:00 -0500 Organization: Wooden Tulip Ltd. Lines: 119 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: pro2-240.barrie.connex.net This is a RANT! I lost my Hard drive, my server died, my SGI boxes are nothing more than HUGE X-windowing paperweights. And boy am I in a funk.. Well it has happened. The North American arena of the Net Yaroze members has trickled to a stand-still. Since Bill Rehbock left for the VM Labs project; taking most of the vital organs of the Net Yaroze program along with him, the North American sector of Net Yaroze has been hit with the largest case of Membership Lethargy That I have seen. There are a few reasons for this: First of which is the Net Yaroze developers web-site. My Gosh! Even the much bally-hooed king crimson of software sites MICROSOFT.COM has a more exciting web-site than what I have to see. I am being Very Critical here. I do not apologise for this. Mr. Purdue may be offended by this, but this is a MUCH bigger issue than he. I'm telling it like it is. Since I have been on the Internet since the Stone Age, I have seen the comings and goings of the way things are done and not done in regard to the World Wide Web. Stagnation is NOT a viable Option! The Net Yaroze member site can only be described as boring as cold sticky morning porridge. This is an important factor here. The yaroze program is for hobbyists who will praise the virtues of the platform to their friends, and indirectly stimulate the development of budding persons who wish to grow up to be Game Developers of Intereactive Computer Entertainment. Why is it that the program that was so successful here, is left to rot, while the Yaroze Team in England at Waverly House are putting us to shame with their innovative look and feel, and savvy when it comes to a really pretty web-site. It looks like aready we have some North American detail defecting to Europe... Oh, yes, get the really good 2:1 AKA 220/110 Volt step down transformer if you plan NOT to blow up your Yaroze... Web-site maintenance is one thing, but come on! It IS really nice to know about the last On-line conference of SURVIVAL that took place last August, in 1997! It is So Nice that I'd rather go to the local cemetery and stare at monuments or something! And Java bits and ActiveX containers that are broken? Why do we want to see the broken bits. Its like being forced to drive in a Rusted/ dented rental car. So that is the first part that is poor for morale. The real question that I am asking here is: Where are the Sony people? Specifically, where is J. Patton?? I met J. At the E3 meet in Atlanta last May, and my impression of J. Was that he was a really decent fellow. But decent or not he should be putting press releases on the Yaroze site at least once every Quarter! If J. Is going to be the Leader of the Net Yaroze program here in North America, I'd like to keep up with what is happening. Even if it is a "The Weather Here in San Fransisco is Just Fine Thank You" kind of Press release. We Need Something! Programmers are human too, When what is happening in the Net Yaroze is less invigorating than flipping on the tube and watching an episode of "Frasier" then the Project is going to go down-hill. The Net Yaroze program is MUCH, MUCH, MUCH more than just an add-in featured PlayStation that some technophile bought Just Because it cost more than $500! The Philosphy of the Net Yaroze Program is to "Lets Go Do It Together". This driving force that is something akin to me as a child going to build a tree fort with my friends. ME: "Hey, Why don't we make a Tree Fort!" FRIEND1: "Yeah! That would be Neat!" ME: "We could be Pirates!" FRIEND2: "Oh, and we could make a secret door!" ME: "Cool!, Let Do It!" FRIEND1: "Yeah, LETS GO!" It is very easy now to visualise the actions that occur after this dialog. Currently in the Net Yaroze Program, this has not been the case. It alarms me to see that this kind of mentality that was put out by the initial team of Bill Rehbock and Greg LaBrec is now woefully missing in our gathering. Al I am doing is rattling the cage a bit. I think that there would be some benefits to stirring up the web-site a bit. Making some "R-ah R-ah R-ah" noises and getting some activity together. Otherwise, dust is going to gather on the black Playstations, and then where will we be? The time for Grieving about August 1997 is past. We have to have some info on Whats happening in Novemeber. The December. Then in 1999 We celebrate One Less Year until I have to suffer from the Milleneum BUG! When I see the good people putting out posts of the sound of a PIN dropping, the radar goes into high-res mode and I goto Yellow Alert. Always pays to be cautious. -sean