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Someone stuck it in here but it was taken from the Retro Facebook page iirc Sent from my YD201 using Tapatalk

behold! (windows only at the moment I'm afraid) https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwV9jPtdunRHeVNBVGRfODY4alE

I'll need $6,000,000 on patreon first though Sent from my YD201 using Tapatalk

Well I have a fairly free evening and couple of beers in the fridge Perhaps at some point we should have a proper weekend game jam for shit like this Sent from my YD201 using Tapatalk

Would you like that burnt to a mask rom with a 100+ year data retention guarantee?

And after that I quickly look at Facebook, only to be met with someone sharing a crowdfunding campaign called "Remember when..." Fortunately it's MK free, it's just a local cafe for dementia sufferers http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/remember-when-dementia-cafe

"Lawyers & showers" would be pretty good Sent from my YD201 using Tapatalk

It's not a book, it's laboratory-grade bulk paper Sent from my YD201 using Tapatalk

I want my copy etched onto slate cos that's a much more durable storage format than paper Sent from my YD201 using Tapatalk

I haven't looked, but wouldn't be surprised if the terms and conditions for the forum said that anything posted becomes copyright /owned by AA, so you would only need their permission to reproduce it, rather than the contributors Sent from my YD201 using Tapatalk

Well parish has just stepped down as editor in chief of usgamer to focus more on retronauts, now that they've built up a healthy patreon base over the last few years (and he cites Frank cifaldi's work on archiving as a reason for going all in) But yeah, whether you like retronauts or not, that's been the better part of what, 3 or 4 years of working under that model to be at a place where they can cover the cost of a studio space rental, flight costs to get them together, and server costs, with enough left over for him to survive doing some freelance work and putting the money towards gameboy world and good Nintentions MK, obviously looks at the successful patreons (retronauts, Jim sterling etc and just sees dollar signs, but not seeing the back end reality of those kind of projects that have a community that haven't been burnt Anyway, my patreon contributions so far consist of a few podcasts and YouTube channels, that I found more entertaining than TV etc, so rather than paying for a satellite package full of crap, I pay a fraction of that to stuff I genuinely want to see/hear The best part has been that as one video channel found it hard to keep going after a couple of years, they stopped producing, and that meant I didn't have to give them a couple of dollars per episode anymore, and a podcast that was bi-weekly ending up recording a lot less frequent, but would tell everyone to stop backing them because it wasn't fair, but I think a lot of the audience appreciated the honesty and continued to support them Unfortunately for MK, he has none of that good will and faith in his content that he would end up having backers willing to keep the fait I can totally see that he's seen recent events like Danny o'dwyer leaving gamespot and almost overnight end up with 15k per month for his documentaries that he wants to make, but he had essentially a proven track record of creating content that was interesting and that he knew other people wanted to see, Mike just thinks that he knows what other people want to see, and that they'll realise that once he pitches it to them (apologies, I'm a few strong Christmas beers into the evening) but it's a case of supply and demand, a lot of patreons realise theres a demand, and supply that, fortunately ad free and away from the shitness that the modern Internet outlets have had to try to survive, Mike is still of the delusion that he can convince people that they want what he can maybe supply, but the reality is that don't, and that's not how online content is transitioning towards sustainability Sent from my YD201 using Tapatalk

So if $9500 worth of backers are on-board, and MK starts to put an issue together, but then the backers get bored/scared/wise and withdraw at the last minute before it's shipped, MK is gonna be left with a mountain of magazines coming from the printers that noone wants, and he's had to pay for by remortgaging his house/back alley blowjobs Presumably though any of his plans to pay the writers/editors/artists will come after they've printed and shipped and collected a payment from backers, which means that wouldn't happen, and yet again the real people putting the work into the mag will get shafted Sent from my YD201 using Tapatalk

imagine those gritty high contrast photos of mikes garage, piled High with unsold retro magazines, covered in cobwebs, now that's scary Sent from my YD201 using Tapatalk

"Our server had never seen 20 people all at once before, it worked remarkably well considering i cheaped out and ran it on a pentium 166mmx that I found at a flea market" Sent from my YD201 using Tapatalk

Sounds like the Retro bit generations is worthy of being resold by Mr. Kennedy http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/11/hardware_review_retro-bit_generations