As of 4 days ago Wrecks is 10 years old, and as such AAUK did something drastic, he closed his depository! all that research is gone to time... ...Or not. hes made a tumblr for Wrecks now: http://sonicwrecks.tumblr.com/ Bunch of neat information I forgot AAUK collected is now posted and will continue to be posted, so you should follow it. Btw, were mentioned and it sounds like he doesn't like us too much. :\
Really? Can't fathom why, but if true, that's a bit unfortunate. Nice to see all this tasty info getting posted though.
He said it was because of our reaction to the proto-blaze pic that made his decision not to give us the data and instead put it up on tumblr, and that SSMB is a disorganized mess when it comes to its media section. Yeah it is nice hopefully he gets around to uploading more consistently.
Well until a year ago it was, then he closed down everything but the depository and webcomic it was built off of. now everything was moved to tumblr so AAUK can purge the data without just deleting it all.
Yep. Here's the quote in question: I don't remember our reaction to that Proto Blaze thing being THAT bad; but whatever, it's good to see that all this information is going somewhere rather than being lost.
I don't know who reacted like that, but they deserve a good thwack upside the head. That's not classy at all. Or maybe people don't subscribe to how I define classy (respectful, professional... maaaaybe a little bit of arrogance, but not enough to be off-putting.) Wouldn't mind at least helping sort data. At the least, the wiki people here should know pretty damn well how much of a pain sorting tons of data can be.
That seems a bit unfair. He's getting mad because of people's reactions on the forums, even though most of them have nothing to do with the actual running of the site?. And the second half of the topic (which is only two pages long) is about "no, guys this image is real, there's no reason for AAUK to fake it?" If it was a sprawling 20-page topic claiming that everything Kevin Eva ever said was wrong (like over at the official Sega message boards when people complained about him saying certain games weren't canon), I could see him being more upset about it. But this? Eh. Seems like a non-event. Really, the only thing I questioned in that topic was people getting super excited over his own fan conjecture about when the image could have been drawn, and if it had anything to do with Sonic Adventure 2 based on the color scheme. But even then, he never said "oh yes this was drawn in the year 2000," he just made an idle comment and people ran with it. At the end of the day, if he wants to just slowly reupload it over on tumblr, fine. But there's a reason the wiki connected to this site is referenced by many people. If given a pile of data, people are going to go through it, sort it, and archive it in the most accessible way possible, even if sometimes real life makes that uploading slow. I know if a terabyte of images dropped into my lap, I'd get super excited and go through it, even if there are alot of things in there that we probably already have backed up on the wiki.
From what I remember Gene, we found that proto Blaze pic on that Sonic wikia place that absolutely no one likes so everyone was calling it fake. I don't remember at all Sonic Wrecks being mentioned back then, unless that's how we found out that it WASN'T fake. But yeah, the whole thing was about it being found on the Sonic wikia and everyone being skeptical was about THAT.
Pretty sure everyone knew that the source was Sonic Wrecks, seeing how AAUK had put big Sonic Wrecks watermarks over it.
Seeing how we don't delete threads, of course we do: http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=29309
It just looks like people were saying bullshit until the source was verified. I'm sure everyone here has been though enough 'discoveries' to want to do that. The proto blaze image does look pretty unofficial, it seems odd to take personal offense to such an average piece of work.
We're not in the business of personal conflicts and crazy politics - Sonic Retro aggregates information on its wiki so it's not spread across the internet, tucked away in places nobody will find and not at the mercy of a bazillion different servers and hosts who may cease to exist at some point. Preservation! I'm not sure why a single forum topic that I can barely remember should influence that but each to their own I guess.
Yeah, our personal conflicts and crazy politics phase was in the mid-2000s. :v: Now we just aggregate info, playfully mock other sites, and hide silly easter eggs across our own site. That logo on the top left is looking funny...
