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I am very humbled by the support and kind words I have received, so thank you all But I do want to just clarify this a little.
The reason I am taking a break is not due to the comments in here from users or mods. I am used to and welcome criticism, you cannot improve without it. The reason is the amount of work I put in and the low return (relatively) it gets. What I started and create is always niche, I knew than going in, after a couple of years with pretty much 1 to 2 videos a week not to mention a website to mange I fell drained, and I suppose I had hoped what I did made more of an impact.
That said the lack of any meaningful feedback, specifics or technical details as to the issues despite me asking all clearly (oh the irony) and the draconian way it was delivered was incorrect and I did not want to cause any further disruption in that topic.
My experience is programming, network & hardware construction and overall large scale IT work gives me a fair level of technical knowledge. I have made small games, projects, demos and worked in small teams on other personal projects on addition to huge ones in my job. That does not mean I know everything, I never profess to, never have or will, I Learn what I can, see techniques, understand and then try to describe that in a more entertaining and simpler form, I do not always succeed but I try and learn, adapt and improve. I could describe things at a deeper technical level, but it would be Ignored, lost or misunderstood, my medium has to be digestible chunks and as visual as possible.
Please do not start a dog pile on others for that, I see Durante is here and has said sorry and accepted his actions were incorrect and abusing his position, which is good,thank you. Constructive criticism is a benefit, attacks are not as has been said.
If you are going to verbatim my videos, please do it correctly, I said "The torch and other light sources cast Likely stencil based shadows" if you look at how they cast and draw up the tree line as they walk closer, this is how they appear and they have used in the past. How can I trust you when you get the basics wrong, fatal error :-/
To add, anytime I analyse a game via released media I can only go on what I see, I also add my bits as often as possible (I think, appears to be, looks like) but I cannot keep saying this ever sentence, it would do peoples heads and ears in. The assumption is made on the viewer these are my educated guesses, if I have fact, Dev info or whitepapers, talks I use them but much is not publicly shared. For example I stated Uncharted 4 used a tessellated sea-level and many said I was wrong, but final game, it did.
I also stated that Horizon used a horizontal stretched CB technique roughly 1920x2160 and it did. When I have the games I go as detailed as I can.
NXGamer, I'd like to apologize for the tone of my posts in the previous thread. They were not befitting of the role of a moderator, and worse, became a distraction for that thread and now this one.
It's important to me personally, as a very technically-minded person, that this kind of content can always freely be discussed and even criticised.
But I failed to do so constructively, and as a mod that really is the minimum standard I should live up to. After discussing it with the team, it is also clear that there should have been warnings on certain posts attacking NXGamer in the other thread. Not only did I fail to moderate accordingly, by choosing to enter the discussion instead I gave the appearance that I condoned it all. For all of that I am sorry.
Can I please just say that I am happy with Durante and his actions here have been great, this has blown up and not my intention.
Happy to draw a line under it and we can all move on to bigger and better things. 2018 is nearly here so we can have a fresh start. Discussion is good and games, tech, art, hardware etc is a passion we all share. We can concentrate on that and not dwell on negative moments, it is not worth the effort it takes.
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