dada wrote:
About half a year of working on it on and off, like maybe once a week for a few hours. It's not easy, and you need to have some degree of patience. But it's not really very difficult, it just takes some time and dedication.
Finally someone who understands that writing a good article isn't something that can be done in a spare afternoon!
dada wrote:
You shouldn't think of other contributors as just being malevolent trolls. They often have useful opinions that should be carefully examined. And sometimes they don't, in which case you can just ignore them or find someone to arbitrate if they're persistent.
Even so, I find it extremely unlikely that you'll have to deal with that at all. I was able to do whatever I wanted because I was the only one interested in doing the heavy lifting. I can't imagine it'll be any different in your case.
Fat printed sounds good.
It won't be easy to write an article that can improve the old ones and editing these articles will be nearly impossible without breaking the flow.
They will have to be completely rewritten.
And at the present timepart of the research has already been done hehe! 😁
Dominus wrote:It can never be avoided that someone looks at your work and finds it dumb and shit 😉
That said if you take care and write good this can be avoided. I know you don't fully grasp what I wrote about the authors intent to write about whole systems opposed to custom made rigs but try to keep that in mind when you rewrite the article. At least try to see that point.
How can you know what the author intended or not? You can't see into his mind, or do you know who wrote it?
His opinions may have been completely different from yours (in that custom made rigs in your opinion are different in whatever way).
I don't see how being able to do repairs and/or customizations is relevant to retrogaming and retrocomputing. Both are verbs in a way, what you are trying to say sounds like when you ride a bike you bought at a store, then you're cycling, but when you ordered parts and put it together yourself, then you're not cycling?
Sorry buddy, but I'm not yet convinced.
Edit:
Dominus wrote:...and finds it dumb and shit 😉
And just ftr (and to show you I do read more carefully then seems apparent), I actually didn't use the word "dumb" till page 4, and that wasn't about the article itself. Actually, I never called the article dumb anywhere hehe 😉