I have to say that I have not been happy with my experience with Vizzed as of late. For starters, I'm not getting to go on here as much as I would like. That has had to do with my terrible work schedule that I had which is another story. I quit that job last week because it had gotten to a point where it was a terrible environment to work in due to the other workers that had been recently hired. I was going to make a post about that, but the site was down yet again! This has been something I have gotten really tired of since this year started.

A lot of times, I would be playing a game (which I didn't hardly even have time to play), and it would start resetting because Vizzed would keep going down for maintenance. This would happen about every 2 or 3 minutes. It got to a point to where I quit the site for a while. Then, when I was really needing to talk about what happened at work the other week, Vizzed was down all day, and I couldn't post, login, or anything. I'm not even sure if I'll be able to post what I'm writing now! LOL! I don't know how much longer I can stay with a site that is this undependable.

I need a place where I can escape from real life and not have to deal with all these problems I'm having in real life. I don't want to get into what happened with my job, my living situation, or anything else, but I was going to talk about why I quit my job and what I plan to do about that. I am starting a new job tomorrow, but I have overwhelming anxiety and worry about that. I don't have anyone in real life. No friends, no family, no girlfriend. All I have is Vizzed. I come here not just for the games, but also to get things off my chest because I have no one else to talk to, and I don't think that will ever change.

I want to keep coming here, but I can't keep coming to a site that is always down and not working. I hardly have any free time because I spend all my time working or doing chores my mom or dad can't or won't do. The stress in my life right now is too much, and I need a place to get away from it. Vizzed has provided me with that escape, but it is failing me right now. I'm not too surprised to hear the RGR plugin won't be working anymore because of flash being disabled. Although, I am disappointed by that because that's how I played all my games.

As a result of that, I'll have to use the browser emulators which don't work as good, and I can't play the Nintendo games with them. This means I probably won't be doing as many game reviews. I don't want to play the bad games, but that's about the only ones I can play with this type of emulation. So, I'll probably be doing more rants than reviews in the future if the site is even still around by then and not down for more maintenance, other problems with the database, etc. I need Vizzed and the community to lift my spirits and keep me going. These days, I feel I can't trust anyone in real life, and this is all I've got.

However, I can't continue to come here if it is going to continue to be an undependable/unpredictable website. If I have to, I will quit just like I keep having to do with everything and everybody else in my life. I'm sick and tired of dealing with people I can't trust and keep stabbing me in the back. I feel like Vizzed has turned its back on me as well. I don't care what it takes, but I will find something else or somebody else that understands and will work with me instead of against me.

Let me be real with you, the Retro Game Room is a relic of some time in 2012 or earlier, it's only gotten worse since then. For your emulation fix, something like standalone emulators or Retroarch if you want it all-in-one will do you alright. Hell even mednafen has it own standalone emulator if you wanna mess around with the magical thing known as command prompt.

The reason the site went down is that David made a coding error, and as a result the entire database was entirely wiped (Still unsure of why it got completely wiped if it was just a coding error, but whatever). Thus we had to restore the site from a backup that dates back to November of last year. I do think stability should be prioritized over features, I want my Jenga Tower not to wobble thank you.


Btw if you want to always have a place to escape to Vizzed related, we have a Discord, nice for if you got a phone.


Also good on you for quitting your job due to working environment, I did that with my previous job and my current job is a lot better.

Boured : I hope my new job will be better too. I have to get in bed pretty soon which means I don't have much time for a reply. I'm going to try to start up on supper if nobody is in the way so I can get in bed early. We start work at 6 a.m. and work to 4:30. It's a 10 hour day Monday - Thursday and possibly 8 hours on Friday.

It sounds like there is a lot going on with Vizzed I'm not aware of. For what it's worth, I think what will keep people from leaving the site is the chance to get on here and keep doing whatever it is they use Vizzed for. It's impossible to do that with all the downtime Vizzed has had over the past several months.

I'm afraid of trying to download emulators because of viruses. RetroArch does do the job, but there is no way to load ROMs into that emulator unless there is another emulator in the RGR I don't know about. Anyway, I'm just glad I finally got time to go on here and make a thread. Hopefully, I can keep doing that. I'm also hoping/praying my new job will work out too.

Really going through a tough time in my life that seems to never end. It feels like a struggle just to keep a place to live, and that alone is killing me!

Most of the downtime has been due to the database issue. There shouldn't be anymore going forth - not sure why you think there has been so much, unless I've just been conveniently offline when it happens (which is a possibility, I'm not being sarcastic). That's mostly fixed now, so there shouldn't be anymore downtime. Sometimes the site goes down due to server strain but it usually comes back up within a minute or two, though I don't use the RGR so I'm uncertain how it affects that. And yeah, we do a lot of improvements behind the curtains that aren't always announced - so don't worry, going forth things should be back to normal.

I hope your new job works out for you. I'm sure it's going to be tough, but you've got this.

Minuano : I'm glad you wrote that , I was going to write it but it means a lot more coming from an actual admin than someone like me.

Yes the site has issues sometimes, and i understand the frustration of losing a lengthy post to maintenance.

The RGR is indeed old and will soon not be here at all when flash goes. I personally don't use it at all so it won't affect me but it will likely a lot of other users.

Also i'd advise you to find other sources to vent your frustrations out on. I myself used to care way too much for this site and all it did was make me bitter honestly. As boured stated the discord is also a good place to just chat and vent. That way if the site is down you can still communicate with the community of vizzed.

As someone who suffers from anxiety and depression being reliant on one thing really can make you suffer more. If you have more than one output for your emotions and thoughts you don't have to panic and struggle if one of them is down or absent. It really makes coping a lot easier from personal experience.

sonicmcmuffin : Hate to hear about the RGR, but I will look into the discord server. I have a lot more to say about my new job that was supposed to work out for me but didn't. I ranted about it in discord: https://discord.gg/vZmUjx.

I understand where you're coming from. This crash wiped out over 100 hours of my layout work on this site. I'm struggling to stick around on that alone. Even if I did drift off for awhile though, I know I'd be back. I always come back. This place has too many memories, and you're Luigi. We need you here, you're the only Luigi we've got. I'd rather not have a Luigiless vizzed thank you.

pennylessz : I made another thread about how I felt about Vizzed later on. It wasn't really about Vizzed, but it was about more drama going on in real life. I don't know why I keep making those threads. I want to get back to doing more game reviews or possibly something else since the RGR is basically dead now. However, I don't have anybody to talk to in my real world, so that's why I keep posting those types of things.

I tried doing it on Discord, but that place was just dead. Maybe, if all else fails, I'll start posting on Facebook again. Although, I'd rather stick to Vizzed.