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Originally Posted by Fellowroot
They way some of you guys talk about these scores is like getting together with your friends and having a good old time sharing ideas and strategies.
Let me tell you, competitive gaming is not always like this.
I had all of my inps open to download then Clay beat me on I'm Sorry and LOCKED his inp over mine. Then Paul Hornitzky beat my Hal21 score and LOCKED his inp over mine as well. And to that I said *curse* them and then beat both of them back and locked my inp over theirs!
It is not always a friendly competition.
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Fair point. I guess the more competitive you are, the less friendly it will become! For most of us gaming is indeed a friendly pasttime. In your case the frustration at their unsporting conduct weighs heavier than your desire to contribute to the gaming world; i get that. So i suppose other instances of hiding gameplay should similarly be scrutinized individually and perhaps not lumped together as a whole. Thx Eric.
I've always maintained that it is up to the players themselves to decide if his/her gameplay should be visible to others (though i was speaking mostly in terms of MAME for the TG scoreboard back then)... On sites like MARP you obviously can't hide anything. Ultimately it's up to each individual gamer, where and what to post - though i always think it's quite a shame and a bit of a damper when i see a hidden inp (or rather, don't see it!). I did have a few instances before where the players i was trying to beat had hidden their inp. Later i learned that some of them were hidden because at the time no tools existed at TG to include the inp, but most of the scores later than about 2007 were indeed hidden at the demand of the players themselves. So i thought about hiding mine as well... but just could.not.do.it. It just seemed.... somehow 'wrong'...! So i just posted it, and said, "go ahead, watch it and beat it".
My stance/mindset comes i guess from the shared activity that used to be gaming in the 80's, as stated before. Every time we discovered something new on a game, we bragged about it, showed it off, and waited for the next big break in one of our gameplays. Speaking of gaming as a shared activity: pinball! don't forget pinball! Used to play right flipper and give my friends the left one, that was always fun, especially when you reached grand champion as a duo! :P
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Originally Posted by Tenser
I can see your point on this and I most likely would have done the same thing. I've always been against public videos of gameplay on RU. I also think when a score is approved that the video should be deleted so as to not entice the mods to watch it for their benefit as well.
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A surprising remark! Especially since you're a donor who can also watch the vids (so not just the mods). The fact that this possibility exists of viewing others' gameplays is one of the coolest things about RU! You haven't stated exactly your reasoning behind why you are against it (or perhaps you did do so in another thread, forgive me if i don't go hunting for that). So, is it just a natural tendency towards hatred of modulators, or...?
