Are things slower around here?

[Vipershark]

The point of my post wasn't to brag that I'll be getting a synth...

That's not what I was saying; I was talking particularly about the solo project part, while the thread is more about forum-wide activity as opposed to one person doing one thing.

Viper, certain projects failed in the past because of the people involved, and also the fact that school can interfere; but really if those past projects really wanted to, they could have just been put on a hiatus just while school was going.

We also tried that more than once. It didn't work. The projects died.

With a proper plan, collaborations could easily be done, and that's really not that hard to do. So yeah, I can say you're wrong, because the fact that past collaborations failed doesn't mean with a proper plan a new one would as well. And part of the reason stuff like TUGS failed was because deadlines were never enforced, and thus everybody just figured they could be lazy and just keep pushing for a new deadline, and then school happened. With a stricter hand and rigid enforcement, TUGS would easily be a success (AND there's been interest in another one from many people, expressed all over the forums(including me as well)).

If you've got some sort of other plan, I'm all ears. The reasons every TUGS had to be pushed out was because if they WEREN'T pushed out, there would have been ZERO completed entries in most rounds. You can't exactly have a competition if nobody finishes it.
It's not like this is a recent problem, either. Yeah, it's a whole lot worse now than it used to be, but this isn't a new concept. Are you unfamiliar with the whole "tsr projects never get finished" thing?