Laseractive/Laserdisc board suggestion

[BlueBMW]

I'm amazed that this thread hasnt been locked up yet....  Or at least moved to fighting street.

[nectarsis]

Somehow I missed this topic until now, so let me clarify a few things.

1) The shoutbox is unmoderated, for better or worse. Anything goes, unless you're Nintega, in which case you get your ass thrown right out.

End of story.

So in other words, turbogrfxfan, nectarsis, Opethian, and all the other self-appointed moderators can go eat shit? Okay.

I love when you fucks just make shit up...like I never talk about Turbo-Grafx or anything. Me and Tatsujin have hour long fapfests to Shadow of the Beast, Sapphire, and Super Darius 2 music. Feel free to join in ^.^

I've never, not even once tried to tell people what they can and cannot talk about, nice try necrophile. It is, however, rather annoying when I go to take a shit and I come back and read the shoutbox and there's 3 pages of turbogrfxfan, nectarsis, and Opethian bashing me. Glad to see their consistent undying efforts to keep conversation Turbo-related.

Opethian makes no sense, either. He throws a pissy fit when we talk about NUON and other obscure consoles yet he sits there fapping for hours about FM Towns and whatever obscure shit consoles nobody has ever heard of that he likes.

And I do enjoy nectarsis' hour-long fits of drunken stupor, filled with unbridled rage and typing errors. It entertains me so

Can you seriously not fucking read nat's warning well before this post (and your next)??  Seriously the slander is getting old Greg.  We never claimed we were mods so TRY and follow what we type for once.  Plus the "drunken" BS/typos is old...especially for someone that beats the  SAME dead horse like he's funny/unique.  You act more and more like Ninny every day...great company to be in.

[turbogrfxfan]

Sai. In those three pages you left one key person out of it and that is you.

[TheClash603]

Some people have made some really good points regarding how the Laseractive is indeed a NEC console, at least in some regard.  To me the most obvious comparison is the Super Grafx, which is also backward compatible with old media and has a tiny library (smaller than the Laseractive's library that uses NEC capabilities, ironically).  Furthermore, each of these system were released at a poor time and were soon to be obsolete to consumers with technology that was roughly a year away.  The Super Grafx had to compete with the SNES and the Laseractive had to compete with the PSX (obviously the discrepancy with the Laseractive tech might be a bit more glaring).

To play devil's advocate, the only real argument against the Laseractive in my opinion is that the Sega Pac has a significantly larger number of games in the Mega LD format than the NEC Pac has in the LD-Rom2 format.  The Sega Pac (from what I hear, with no real numbers to back this up) was by far the more successful Pac, which is why most of the games were released on this format.

Anyway, I am not a mod, and it seems that the mod has made up his mind, so pushing the issue might be irrelevant at this point.  It is just a shame that the reasoning behind not supporting a sub-forum was along the lines of we'd be opening the door to a SNES sub-forum, which is just out of touch and way off the mark.

It's a damn shame that the ultimate Laseractive resource that I've found is a website that has not been updated in several years.  http://www.cyberroach.com/new_laseractive_pics/default.htm  This website could get some good traffic if it were to become the leading resource for this NEC-ish system.

[GameFreak]

It's a damn shame that the ultimate Laseractive resource that I've found is a website that has not been updated in several years.  http://www.cyberroach.com/new_laseractive_pics/default.htm  This website could get some good traffic if it were to become the leading resource for this NEC-ish system.

Keep this thread here alive -->  https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/index.php?topic=10096.0
Usually when you do a basic google search on NEC stuff, it will link to a specific thread on pcengine-fx.com website. So I don't think LA needs it's own section to give this website traffic. Just keep the above linked thread alive and full of useful info about the LA and people looking for info on LA will be linked to it through a basic web search.

[nat]

This thread is closed after this response, and not because I feel the need to have the last word, but because of certain individuals failure to heed warnings. Said parties will take a one week vacation from the forum.

What the hell?  There are three mods.  They were created primarily to keep up with the potty-mouthing. 

Nat's a great guy and I don't want to make this personal.  The mods have to deal with a lot of crap and I respect that.  I trust Nat's judgement when it comes to banning troublemakers and keeping a semblance civility around here, but acting like he can pull rank on global decisions is bogus.  While the mods don't sip wine with the boss on a veranda, but they do have occasional meetings and report goings-on, so there is a go-between function there.

Perhaps I was a little too assertive in my declaration there will be no LA subforum. You are correct in that all final decisions ultimately come down to Aaron and what he wants to do with the board. I have become comfortable taking liberties speaking on his behalf over the past few years on certain issues as his free time doesn't allow for constant involvement and monitoring of goings-on.

As you may or may not know, Aaron and I do know each other in "real" life, and we do get together occasionally to shoot the shit while sipping scotch and smoking cigars, as NecroPhile put it. I know he trusts my judgement, but perhaps I've become a little too comfortable. That said, I retract my statement that there never will be a LA subforum. I won't be making that call, but I'll say this... There probably won't be. At least not any time soon. I've made clear I think it's a poor idea, I think we have too many sub forums as it is. In my opinion, consoles like the LaserActive and SGX are not worthy of their own dedicated areas. There's just not enough to them, really. There's no reason LA discussion can't take place in the already existing PCE area. LA repair and mod-related threads can go in the Repair and Mod area. Someone made the point that creating a separate sub forum for the LA would be like creating a separate sub forum for the CoreGrafx, another for the Duo, etc, and I agree with this viewpoint.

All that said, regardless of my personal feelings on the subject I'll present the proposal to Aaron next time I see him.

Anyway, I am not a mod, and it seems that the mod has made up his mind, so pushing the issue might be irrelevant at this point.  It is just a shame that the reasoning behind not supporting a sub-forum was along the lines of we'd be opening the door to a SNES sub-forum, which is just out of touch and way off the mark.

The whole Genesis & SNES subforum thing was just a radical example of one possible scenario, not so much a realistic concern. My primary reason for opposing the creation of a separate LA area is that it's not really an NEC console in the strictest sense and we have too many (in my opinion) sub forums as it is.