If this thread is going to live on infamy, I may as well repost the video in the OP

And fwiw, while the sounds this amp sim delivers seem to be quite nice, I'm not sure they're *that* outstanding (the main sound, as often with clean stuff, is coming from the guitar and playing anyway). But then, maybe ease of use at an affordable price is a decent enough selling point.
The interface looks like the equivalent of a Geocities website from 1998, though.
 
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[Nathan] said:
If you have nothing to do with owning the plugin then there’s no need to absorb this feedback personally.
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truth preach GIF
 
In 20+ years on TGP, Jim’s always been polite, sincere, and interested in adding value. He plays beautifully, and he’s been known to build excellent guitars. I don’t think he’s wrong in thinking the culture of this forum isn’t a good fit. Sometimes worthwhile stuff gets posted here, but you have to scroll past a lot of noise and sometimes downright nastiness to get to it. TOP may be cold and stuffy at times, but I don’t think you can get that many people on a forum and maintain a good signal-to-noise ratio without imposing buzzkill-level moderation.
 
burningyen said:
In 20+ years on TGP, Jim’s always been polite, sincere, and interested in adding value. He plays beautifully, and he’s been known to build excellent guitars. I don’t think he’s wrong in thinking the culture of this forum isn’t a good fit. Sometimes worthwhile stuff gets posted here, but you have to scroll past a lot of noise and sometimes downright nastiness to get to it. TOP may be cold and stuffy at times, but I don’t think you can get that many people on a forum and maintain a good signal-to-noise ratio without imposing buzzkill-level moderation.
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You know what? I quite like the noise.
 
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If that's your choice I'd respect that.
You have members here that post everyday saying nice things about Jim based on past experiences. I think that stands for something. Not sure what else to say. I prefer not to be cynical.
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I think you’ve misunderstood me. I don’t have an issue with Jim or this thread (in its original state). When I first saw it, I too thought “oh, another video spammer,” but that was the beginning and end of that thought. Even at this point, aside from thinking he’s maybe a bit overdramatic and sensitive to criticism (even when that criticism isn’t levied at him or anything he’s created), I don’t have any thoughts on or issues with Jim. As I already said, if he’s all everyone says he is, that’s a great addition to the community here (if he doesn’t run off).

If you reread my comment, I think it’s obvious that what I found peculiar about this thread was the comments and responses from the everyday posters.
 
@Jim Soloway I hope you stick around, I've been reading your posts for years at other forums and you're a good contributor.

Didn't we have a section for introductions or something like that? Maybe I'm misremembering but then we could give a proper hello!
 
Jim Soloway said:
You are assuming facts not in evidence. Let me repeat this AGAIN ... I HAVE NO VESTED INTEREST IN THIS PRODUCT. Seriously. I got exactly what every beta tester got: a free copy of the prelease software. I have no agenda and my preference would be just to have this go away.

And I will also repeat for the third time. I was asked to check out the site. I have now checked out the site. It didn't go especially well.
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This site wasn't always like this Jim, but recently it's turned to 💩, and it's not worth the effort here anymore, too much "rage" by too many self-titled "experts".

I should note that the above only applies to the digital and modeling forum IME, haven't checked the others so they might be fine?

Congrats on your retirement!
 
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djd100 said:
This site wasn't always like this Jim, but recently it's turned to 💩, and it's not worth the effort here anymore, too much "rage" by too many self-titled "experts".

Congrats on your retirement!
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ian_dissonance said:
So the UI is bad and people say the UI is bad and now the review is gone? He didn’t make the plugin, nobody said the playing was bad. A couple of knobs somehow didn’t recognize the guy’s name even though he’s been on forums as a useful contributor for like 20+ years, so yeah, that’s dumb of those couple of knobs, but this is silly.
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Assholishness is just a way of life for some these days.

Shoot first, ask questions later.
 
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