I honestly didn’t want to sound rude. If i did I’m sorry. I had a honest question and thank you for taking the time to post your comments to clarify. You have sacrificed so much so people can enjoy your work and i thank you. if i ever save up enough money for my home server i would be happy to lend my processing power to your projects. But for now cryptocurrency miners will continue to jack-up the prices.
I don’t think anyone was accusing you of that. To me it just sounded a little uninformed, not rude. I think the thing is there is a disparity of information between people who are involved (like poita), people who follow closely, and people who are new or don’t follow these projects so closely. In any case posting your enquiry in the forum rather than by private topic I think is helpful as it provides an opportunity for others who are thinking the same thing to get an answer. 😃
Exactly. Though typically, any post that begins with a phrase like “I don’t mean to sound rude but…” is usually followed by something that could be interpreted as rude - even the person writing the post can see that, hence the preface. In this case, I think you asked a perfectly legitimate question that I’m sure others were wondering about also, and I don’t think it was rude to ask. Those of us who have been on this board for more than a decade often forget that not everybody is as informed as we are, and lesser beings than Poita have been know to pounce on posts like this one with venomous wrath - which is totally unfair, but also human nature. If you had spent years of your life and thousands of dollars working on these projects, and then somebody new comes along and asks “why aren’t you doing this or that?”, it’s very easy to take offense and overreact when posting a response. I know I’ve been guilty of that myself.
So my response was really just to express my admiration for how Poita handled your question, in the hopes that others (myself included) might learn from it. If we want the next generation of fans to continue to care for and about the original trilogy, we need to continue to politely answer their questions, even if the answers seem obvious to us or have already been posted many times before.