Rollo

[RolloTheGreat]

Gstanford has posted here way more than me already.  And he is a mod busting spammers.  

I like him being here.  


Rollo, you are right though.  We should be starting cliques, there is only a small handful of people here. I could imagine that there are people that want the abt to burn completely out, sadly enough.  
Growing the site is ambitious already.  PC tech forums were huge in the past, today they are lakes drying up.  The world has moved on leaving mainly only a few old school geeks and countless shills.

I like posting here because I feel like you guys are real.  You may have vastly different opinions but I do t mind that.  Going to other tech forums and it's the same BS over and over.  The same conversations, he same ideas, the same agenda.  You can go to anyone of those tech forums and find the same topics on any other forum.   It is so bad, almost the exact same words being used even if its supposed to be a different person.  Those forums are a joke.  

Sadly they have ran off most real people who their nonsense and the younger generations have found the Internet is full of several other great ways to mingle.  Building up a tech forum to huge these days looks  to be impossible to me.  But that doesn't stop me from spending my spare time here.  I have a age old love for the tech forum, sharing in the technology as spectators.  If other people join, all the better.

Those people (Gstanford, SickBeast, Apoppin) are hoping we all end up on BTR and help grow that site. (all of us except me anyway)

You're right about the internet forums as well. Waste lands full of shills marketing to one another. Younger people don't do things like post on tech forums for the most part, and those of us in the "old guard" who are not associated with any companies dwindle by the year.

Another reason the forums are dying is the attrition of tech companies and lengthening of intervals between relevant changes in technology. Look at video cards. NVIDIA is still making architecture changes every 1.5 years, but the "Fiji" is pretty much the GCN tech AMD launched four years ago with a new type of memory.

Annual incremental improvements for intel as well, with AMD basically riding the Faildozer tech that also launched four years ago.

What is there to talk about? NVIDIA is the only company making new tech with significant strides forward.

The console market has an eight YEAR product cycle and uses old, weak tech. The reason I like the XBone is at least they tried to make it a "one size fits all" media device. (I see that as a lot more useful than "PS4 can play 30% more games at 1080p)

Your analogy about lakes drying up is spot on, I gave it to Apoppin when ABT started and he was telling me it was going to be "bigger than Google" and "Google level success is easy!". I think we made a $50 bet back then, but he never paid me.