Are things slower around here?

[Vipershark]

You seem to be missing the parts of my posts where I'm talking more about a general attitude (such as insisting that a future comic section should be all sprites) than tangible assets.

Because that's where the line kind of appeared, for me.

Comics, animations and the like had been brought up and at that point it became a pseudo-flame war about whether sprite comics/animations are any good at all. But... those things aren't restricted to sprites, and they should be looked at that way.

Not to mention all the "Hoorah! Sprites are as powerful as other mediums!" and the "We need to take a deep look into the meaning of sprites to revitalize our site."

Who the heck (on the staff) said anything about that?

Gorsal and I have both said several times that we're welcoming of things that aren't sprite oriented. The reason why the part about comics went to a discussion about sprite comics was simple: who here actually does regular comics? It had nothing to to with PIXEL SUPERIORITY or SPRITING ORIGINALITY or anything dumb like that; it was for the plain and simple reason that there's a very likely chance that if anyone WERE to actually make a comic, it would be a sprite comic. And by very likely I mean like 99% because come on, dude.

Some other members might have their opinions about that kind of thing but if you've been paying attention at all, none of us on the staff (aka the final decision makers) have said anything of the sort.

(not to mention that it's pretty much been established that we're (at least me and gorsal) against comics (of any sort) being anywhere outside of the creativity section)

sprites are still its main function since that's what most of the userbase does and that's what we have the most support for.

And that's just tradition-for-tradition nonsense.

How is it tradition-for-tradition when in that EXACT SAME SENTENCE I specified that functions other than spriting are coming, yet are currently unavailable?

The site is still spriting-focused because we have the infrastructure, member base, and resources to cover such things because they've been here the entire time. At this point in time, we don't exactly have that for other subjects.

I mean, if you want other sections, feel free to start putting together information, tutorials, project threads, support, and advertising and begin establishing a member base that does those things by yourself and I'm sure Dazz would be happy to accommodate you once you've got all of these things running smoothly.

But you're not going to do that, so instead of complaining about there being too much discussion of sprites, how about you instead think of a way for us to fix the site we've currently got (a spriting site) and once that's working well, expand onto other things?

We could start throwing in a buttload of new sections about programming and modelling and comics and stuff right now but it wouldn't change the fact that the forum is dying. It'd be the same old stuff, just with a bunch of empty new sections.

In other words, either offer something that actually helps us, or shut up and wait because we're working on it.