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Mike apparently donated to Willie's Sandwich Fund (For Charity) "For the record. Once it was brought to my attention these were refurbished I immediately emailed the buyers and have since issued them both refunds. I also told Willie I would pay him for them but he insisted that he didn't want the money and to just refund the buyers. Over the many years Willie and I have given/traded many things back and forth and in addition, I've given him a platform to promote his Youtube channels and podcasts. When I give something to someone it is theirs to do whatever they please, no strings attached. Either way, this is an opportunity to make this right with Willie as I always intended once he contacted me privately about it." It's always a defensive half apology

I've decided to start ghost writing insults for a nominal fee. If anyone needs me feel free to get in touch EDIT: Sorry, all, I just realized I should be using multi-quote. I'm not used to these high tech forums. Bit of a Luddite.

I've got my favorite delis on alert for when Atari Age comes collecting.

I think there's a side lesson here, and maybe it has been brought up but it's hard to keep up on these forums: People need to stop remembering the "good old days" with mike that i, admittedly, have only heard about second hand. It allows judgement to be be clouded and in a way it allows things like this to keep happening. I'm sure a lot of assholes were nice people before a certain turning point. The good memories are dead. You got to stop taking them into account in the present.

the water from pat's faucet has an INSANE abv

Your reasons are valid and I love a big glass of schadenfreude as much as the next fellow but it's nice to have a spot open now for other topics of interest that would normally be filled by Wacky McRetro's Nirvana Console

The reason is they are godless heathens! I eat all natural PB and I stir it like crazy! Pat's wrong and I'm right! I don't really care I just like to give Pat shit. =] /way off topic

I know that this is from a few pages back but I have to say... I am genuinely sick to fucking death of talking about this nonsense. As people who have been covering this since the announcement of the RVGS we sort of had to follow up here but boy howdy... can this please stay buried? =D At this point I'm ready for 18 more amiibo segments... =P

It was Tony Wilson. Thank you for clearing my head.

There's a quote attributed to someone from Factory Records (I'm really embarrassed I can't remember who) around the end of Joy Division/start of New Order era that basically states "if you have the choice to live the truth or live the legend... take the legend". it's not entirely applicable here but I think of it because I'd rather have the legend of Mr. Lee than finding out the boring ol' truth. We have plenty of insane nonsense from this ordeal to give us chuckles for a lifetime. Why else would I rather have the legend? In my mind Mr. Lee is Lin from Bloodsport in a total bullshit "hacker" den like the one in Kung Fury. (I brainfarted and thought Lin's name was Li. That is also embarrassing because I have, no joke, watched Bloodsport over a hundred times. Easy.)

I'm of the belief that a good sandwich is one of life's great pleasures. If you're ever in San Diego I know all the good delis =D That's way off topic! Sorry! Let me try to save it: So, what really bothers me about this whole Chameleon thing is... Shit. Never mind. Its all been said.

I would have liked to have put this in the Coleco Chameleon Epilogue thread that was suggested earlier. If one one happens I may copy this post over to there if that sort of thing one time doesn't ruffle feathers Pat and I recorded our last bits on this whole mess last night. They should be up sometime today. I have to admit I'm really happy the announcement of Coleco Holdings dropping the Chameleon came when it it did, it couldn't have come at a better time both in terms of recording and my general interest and patience. We've covered this since the RVGS announcement. It's been an often amusing, always bizarre ride that became infuriating and then increasingly tiresome. We both broke recording schedules to signal boost info when we could, sorted through the big bursts of info and followed the quiet days or weeks after waiting for an interview or more evidence. Don't get me wrong, we weren't all star reporters sleeping at our desks eating cold bagels and drinking stale coffee but I have a full time job, Pat has plenty of full time projects and it was honestly sort of obsessing us =D After almost a year on the same topic it was really nice to put a bow on it and push it out the door. We do a basic round-up, talk a bit about the drop, and Pat responds to some criticism that I managed to mostly avoid due to absence, I couldn't be in that video because of work. We did as much of our own research and conclusion making as we could but it would be absolutely insane and totally unfair to not give the Atari Age forum a massive amount of credit. we put together a bunch of stone tile flooring with massive gaps and every single damn time you all came and puttied it over, filled the cracks, and sent us in new directions. Lots of times I felt we were being a megaphone. All of us together, I think, are responsible for how this rode out. In short: I owe a lot of fuckin' beers to you out there. If you don't drink I'll provide the Martinelli's sparkling apple juice. That's good shit. Come say hey if you're at a convention I'm at. Would love to shake hands. Shout outs to Brian from Jag Bar, Eli from Piko, Kevtris, Retro Gaming Round-up, and a whole bunch of others I promise I'm not ommiting because I'm an asshole I just have really bad short term memory. Great info that really pushed the story along. Shout out to my cat, Spike.

I was mostly kidding, I'm sure we'll give this a little time to breathe =]

Ha, I'm well tired of that topic.

I really don't want to have to do another emergency podcast. Sorting out this bullshit is about as much fun as organizing dog turds by size and shape*. *hypothetically speaking =P