Gamer Rigs forum topics?

[tthurman]

Pincabs running PinballX

Cabinets and HTPC Setups Running GameEx

I've been browsing these threads hoping they will spawn some creativity on my part due in no small part to the amazing lengths people will go for a hobby they love. In doing so I noticed today they are both locked, which struck me as strange for threads whose sole purpose was to share what you have done with the community. Obviously there are individual build threads in this topic area too, and perhaps this has become more the norm, then again it occurred to me that perhaps these somehow got unintentionally locked during a server/software upgrade etc.

[Draco1962]

Actually they were intentionally locked to encourage future contributions here and encourage our members from both GameEx and PinballX to share and be exposed to one anothers projects - a little cross-pollination of ideas, platforms, etc.

[tthurman]

That completely makes sense, although it would have never occurred to me if you hadn't mentioned it.

Thanks!

[nullPointer]

This sort of speaks to the history of the forum. It used to be that we only had one thread dedicated to all arcade cabinet announcements, pictures, bragging rights, etc. Any time someone made a different dedicated thread for their own project we would merge it into the primary thread in the interest of keeping the forums nice and tidy (this legacy thread is what you see here). Later on when PinballX came on to the scene we did something similar there (archived here).

Then the forum team got together and collectively said, "Hey we like drooling over pictures of cabinets and pincabs as much as the next guy! We should encourage users to post about their projects as much and as often as possible." The result of that decision is the sub-forum you see here (i.e. the Gamer Rigs sub-forum). So now that our philosophy has changed slightly we archived and locked the old single purpose threads, the goal being to encourage the creation of threads dedicated to single projects. Let one thousand flowers bloom!

So there you go. TL;DR.

[tthurman]

So there you go. TL;DR.

IC

"Resident Windbag"

[tthurman]

Well, just finished the cab/htpc thread. The bar has been set high by many, impressive and intimidating at the same time!