Article From A Scene Preacher Man

To readers of this post before this message was posted up I’d like to say sorry for the stupid mistakes I made in this article. Sigh.

I am the sad scene preacher man, listen to my word.

Firstly I hope you’ve taken note of changes to the site, in the fact that we are now officially linked to Footygamer and we are looking to contributions from you talented viewers of the site. Now onwards from that, I’ve gone back to my Football Manager Community article roots today – and I have produced the first scene article for this place since a while back. Firstly though I’ll guide you to this:

Hot Topic: Another topic that is, well I’d be lying if I said widely discussed, but it certainly has been looked at in detail by two sites as we speak is the fact Rob has got a good old slagging off from CM Frenzy. It’s pointless really on me commenting much on this issue, as Rob has pretty much covered it in his response – which may be of interest too you. For what it’s worth I am totally with Rob on this issue, and I feel that the amount of work and dedication he puts into running a site that is basically sending people out of it should not be critiqued so harshly; to be honest he can’t help with the Blog thing, I mean we are the highest updaters currently, and although some of the stuff he advertises shamelessly on his site is crap – it’s content, be your own critic. Spike has also published a rushed piece on this issue which I feel may be out there to cause a bit too much unnecessary controversy for a relatively minor issue, but he said Team Talk is great so fuck it, here is the link.

Dicussion: A short and scene related one today, as you have got the other bit of news as well. One thing I love about these discussion posts is that there so bloody easy. Now, my discussion focus point today is one that doesn’t need much coverage, Why Don’t We All Just Listen To Caleyjag?

My Views

I’m not into hippy talk. Yes, I know the community has no fucking spirit and talking about is going to change nothing (I shall refer to this article) – but there is one ‘Let’s Unite the Community’ man who actually interests me. And that is Caleyjag. Ever since Caleyjag left the limelight so to speak he has carried an enormous reputation with him, and instead of sitting back and doing nothing and living off the praise and respect he may get of forums he has got off his arse and tried to change the scene is ways I couldn’t ever aspire to do, mostly due to lack of coding abilities though . The Jagmeister J (bloody hell; I should get put down for that) has two ongoing projects (not including the recently formed FM Scene Forum which I know little about) – and some others which seem to look on the dead side of things – which if exploiting to there full possibilities could do amazing stuff for this faltering community. My FM CV and its interlinked Community Downloads Project have been largely overlooked despite their genius, but are they sleeping giants waiting to take off? Like ‘Jagged Little Pill’ (by Alanis Morissette if your asking; yeah, the “ironic” one) could it start off slow but expand quickly this year too dominate the scene? It’s all up to the members of the community, and because of this I don’t really think they will.

To explain about Caleyjag and his project to those who don’t know, Mr Jag used to be the owner of huge resource site SortItOutSI where he established a rep for himself of being an innovator and creator of the site side of things. He left a while back for reasons that are unknown to me, and ever since then the site has generally become rather stale under the lack sure leadership of Smithjurd. Caleyjag has produce a wide range of quirky and pretty awesome sites over the months since leaving the Resource Gaint including Message In The Movie, FM Stories and The Caley and Cleon Show, plus a new site called FM Scene that has only been brought to my attention during me writing this bloody article. I actually cannot keep up. But I will be concentrating on the ones a) I know the most about, purely as research is tiresome and b) I think can help the community the most.

One of his first love childs after the interesting podcasts of the Caley and Cleon Show was My FM CV, an expansion on Play FM where members would play online tournaments at Susie, yet now they also record results from there previous games to gain points and have the best manager CV so to speak. Again, brilliant idea, beautifully executed. So far this has been quite successful though – then comes the Downloads Project. If this goes down the pan the community should be ashamed. It basically sees sites sign up to the project with means that when a download is submitted to the project and is spread evenly on each of the site, sharing is good etc etc. and in the end all the sites see equal downloads, which could see whining people stop complaining about sites grabbing there work, as they know what they’ll be getting themselves in for.

So, get uploading to the Community Downloads Project you scary graphics creators. Okay? All these ideas have received critical acclaim, well praise as it sounds a bit strange to say that about an FM site, from casual posters at Throw In to intellectual what knots at FGN endorsing them – so what does the future hold for these kind of community sites? I hope good things, really, as there great ideas that if people stopped worrying about the exclusivity of there own site could really work. But with the community in the supposed ‘tatters’ it is today, will ambitious projects like this take off…

Your Views

Well, discussion post this isn’t really, but there are still points we can touch on. Are you a fan of Caleyjag’s ideas, there are obvious flaws with some? Do you really think they will take off – I sure hope they do. Is the community actaully in a mess, or are we just bloody moaners? I’d go for the latter. Finally, do I sound like I’ve been brown nosing Caley through this whole piece? Gulp. Please comment or email me, the usaully stuff. And don’t forget – send in your article contributions. Bah.

For further reading on this issue go here, where an actaul discussion is taking place in TI’s scene forums. Wow.