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    It's not my job to moderate your forums although I appreciate the interest. Might take you 15-20 minutes of browsing through pages of this forum and you'll find lots of what I described. Not hard to find with minimal effort. I would also point out that on many other forums online people refer to AtariAge in an extremely negative way for this behavior. This thread in particular as of late.

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    Other perspectives and opposing views are welcome. People who repeatedly violate forum rules, and/or people who openly encourage others in doing so, are not.

    Nice to see rule enforcement only I wonder why the mob of people calling people multiple variations of stupid and other forms of harassment get to do so with impunity? Selective forum moderation?

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    Might I turn your attention to this as you might find it educational?

     

    What does "Over your head" mean?

     

    Answers below cover the meanings, but nobody notes that there are two separate idioms here:

     

    In over your head - Out of your depth, a swimming metaphor. Im in over my head = I am faced with a situation which is beyond my abilities to deal with.

     

    X went over your head - a ball game metaphor. If something went over your head, you failed to catch (=understand) it. You have missed the point of something that someone said to you. Particularly used when someone misunderstands a joke or an allusion and responds to the literal substance of what was said, or when someone butts into a discussion to talk about something secondary to the main issue.

     

     

    Reading this and recent Lodmot's comments makes me think that the much derided WHO classification was perhas not so far off after all.

     

     

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    This has to be the worst advice I've ever heard! Fuck people and the outdoors. Lame.

     

     

    Your father gave you good advice (not caught up on posts). Save the money to spend time with your girl friend. Seriously. I mean it. Human interaction and spending time with the people you care about is more important than even a real console.

     

    Now stay off the internet for a few days. When ever I question something or asking "is that a good idea", I know it probably isn't, and if I can't let it go, leave it be. Go spend time with your dad, volunteer at your local animal shelter, kick soccer balls at a field until your feet fall off, help out with chores your parents may struggle with, meals on wheels. Stressing over real consoles isn't worth it, and stressing over something you deep down know will be crap surely isn't worth it.

  12. Posted

    So Lod you initially had an order for the collector's edition with the certificate of authenticity? That sucks man. I'd assume those will be worth something to someone later regardless what happens.

     

     

    Exactly. And that's what made the decision so difficult.

     

    Part of me is fucking pissed that I cancelled my Day 1 pledge, because the general consensus seems to say that they're likely going to at least ship the console to backers. So I lost out for sure on one of the rarer numbered units.

    Not that the system won't probably turn out to be rare/obscure anyway. xD

     

    The other part of me is glad I pulled out, and just got the joystick/modern controller duo instead. That way I'm still supporting the underdog, but not breaking the bank to do so. So if this thing really DOES flop, I'm only out $60.

     

    Technically I could still go for the woodgrain model tonight, or one of the black models (though I'd really prefer the wood model instead xD).

    If this thing hits retail/Amazon, I know for a fact I'm getting it. So either way, I'm supporting the cause. Not like us developers could even get the console earlier anyways.

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    Only we skeptics are the true followers of goddess Atari, as we revere the old ways and warn against following the NuTari charlatans. It is they who are blasphemers selling a fake religion and using trickery to deceive. Indeed, they have fooled many into believing they are the True Way with promises of Nutopia but show us only empty vessels. Oh, they're pretty vessels--ribbed for your pleasure--but empty nonetheless.

     

    Clearly the only way to resolve this is to travel to Mount Fuji for a fight to the death through our ancient ritual of Blood Pong, to be followed by the traditional meal of tacos.

    Best post ever in the history of all posts!

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    I think I have assumed that you're more familiar with Llamasoft (and, by association, Jeff Minter) than it appears you may be. Some background:

     

    Jeff Minter (Yak) and Ivan Zorzin (Gilesgoat) live in the same house. They're both the team behind Llamasoft and a couple that has been together for many years. The chances of one not telling the other about there being an AtariVCS port of Tempest 4000 are pretty slim as a result.

     

    Either way, it doesn't change the fact that Atari SA misrepresented its availability for their platform.

     

    This is as far as I am willing to take this part of the conversation. I'm really not thrilled with having to bring the developers' personal lives into it, and am not going to discuss anything that may cross into that territory any further.

    Yes, crazy I don't know the relationship status of game developers... And I agree sharing that information was in poor taste even if your logic was sound. For perspective I've been married 17 years and often no idea what my wife is up to. We're independent and happy. Possible Jeff talked to Atari and since it wasn't final didn't discuss with Giles. Or you're right. Who knows?

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  20. Posted

    I mean, I have no delusions of what I've put my money into. But I know these people aren't wasting their time either... and I truly do want them to succeed. I don't foresee a massive Atari resurgence of any kind, but I do recognize I'm buying a piece of Atari hardware that's not static... IE: something that can grow with my interests. Part of the reason why I've largely been uninterested (or lost interest) in the Atari Flashbacks. This new system will be an actual computer, with a decent loader. For whatever that comes out to be... I have the ability to put new games on it, and that's cool. Still, I'd love to see the ability for external storage. There are a lot of games that I have on Steam and GOG that are not resource intensive, and I'd love to be able to play them on the TV with my daughter.

     

     

     

     

     

    We are in a new "era" today. 3D printing and the internet have brought an end to corporate monopolies as it applies to the video game industry. That means ventures like this one CAN succeed, with very little overhead. They don't need brick and mortar, they don't need a distribution network, and they don't need the financial backing of a major corporation.

     

    Let me ask you... are you an Atari fan? Do you enjoy Atari and are you a fan of the franchise?

     

    I'm not going to be condescending, I mean this with sincerity. But... for whatever reasoning drives your aggressive agenda... whether you uniquely care about the individuals investing their money, or you just want to be the Peter Schiff foretelling the housing crash in this situation... I cannot say. But, if you are a fan of Atari, you should have a genuine interest in this succeeding. You certainly aren't helping that with this attitude. There's a large difference between keeping people honest, and being the Ralph Nader of the car industry.

     

    Who do you want to be? The one that helps steer the direction of the project, or the one who helps bring it down?

    Amen brother! About storage, I thought you could hook up an external hard drive to the VCS?

  21. Posted

    You're partially correct.

     

    The part that I (and many, many others) do know is that Llamasoft themselves stated that they knew nothing about any plans for an AtariVCS port of their game. That is fact.

     

    Everything onwards from the sentence beginning with, "my guess is that..." is, as you point out, conjecture. Hence why that sentence began with, "my guess is that..." You know, to make it clear that it was a guess on my behalf and not a statement of fact.

     

    Hopefully this clarifies things for you.

    Actually Jeff Minter I think his name is never said anything about it. It was Giles. The other partner. So one of two members of Llamasoft said it. Again we don't know enough.

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