Lodmot Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Atari is bad. o u o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+frankodragon Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Spriggy Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 And to remind our viewers of the Taco Time Zones, previously disinterred by Flojo. Taco Sunday it is! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Spriggy Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Atari is bad. o u o 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lodmot Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Yay! I influenced memes, lul. xD 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racerx Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Poor Maxime (who I assume is our own illustrious Max lvi). He's going to continue to ask ridiculous questions, continue to disregard people's obvious answers to them, and continue to be ignored by "Atari." All of his "please" and "merci" makes it all the more pathetic. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+frankodragon Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Any day ending with a "Y" should be a taco day. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 I think we can officially proclaim Ataribox to be a clusterfuck. Sutton and Rao analyzed countless cases of scaling and expansion, both successful ones and those that ended in disaster. In reviewing the most spectacular failures, they identified three key factors that resulted in the kind of expensive, embarrassing, late-stage collapse that is the hallmark of a clusterfuck. They were: Illusion. A clusterfuck starts with the decision maker’s belief that a goal is much easier to attain than it actually is. Yep, "simple as that." Let's pin this one on Fred. Impatience. A misguided idea alone does not produce a clusterfuck. The idea also needs a champion determined to shove it along, usually over the objections of more-knowledgeable underlings. Feargal's got a bit of a history with this. Rob too! Incompetence. When errors of information and timing meet blatantly stupid decisions by people who should know better, disaster tends to ensue. Mike, they're singing the song of your people! “People make better decisions when they look into the future and they imagine that they already failed, and they tell a story about what happened,” Sutton says. With better planning, it won’t be a story that has to be bleeped out. And that's the story of this thread. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariNerd Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 But, guis, Atari SA has promised us something special for the next update, making all of our patience and loyalty in waiting the last few months ,with scarce details, totally worth it. Certainly, that means, if their time-line is anything to go by, they'll have a working sample from the lab, pretty close to final form at least, by now, if not already early production samples to test, before final sign-off and beginning of roll-out, in March/April, from the factory. It won't be anything like a promotion of other things, like the Replicade minis or anything else they've licensed their name to, like that new Intellivision thingy, which technically, would be a new console, with Atari games, as promised, but, eh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybercylon Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 (edited) I think we can officially proclaim Ataribox to be a clusterfuck. Yep, "simple as that." Let's pin this one on Fred. Feargal's got a bit of a history with this. Rob too! Mike, they're singing the song of your people! And that's the story of this thread. Right on the mark. Save this one for the next clusterfuck... I wonder what other current vaporware console am I thinking about where just the names are changed. It is a template for real life clusterfuck too (let's face it ... vaporware consoles don't exist, so they are can't reflect real life). Oh... and main meat of this story is tacos. Don't forget that. I've probably have eaten more of those in the last 6-8 months than in the several year prior. I've fed my inner taco. Edited February 10, 2019 by cybercylon 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+frankodragon Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 I never knew SNAFU was an acronym. Then I thought some certain game for some other system of how it should really read on the box. (The IntelliVision guys are gonna kill me for that.) 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 I never knew SNAFU was an acronym. Yeah, that's probably the naughtiest title for any classic game, aside from "Beat 'em and Eat 'em." I envy you coming to this for the first time: https://youtu.be/XnrgtEzblOE 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almightytodd Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Is there a game called, "FUBAR"? There should be. Maybe an Atari Box exclusive? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thanatos Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 New sequel released! Don't worry, Tacos do make an appearance. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBerel Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Ronald E. Searfoss Jr.22 hours agoThey couldn’t have given us any less in the last update.Tommy O'Neil1 day ago@Atari Your “less is more” notion is going against what your consumers are asking of you (with the exception of James Joseph Sullivan ). You may have disabled refunds from the Indiegogo project, but people can get it through other means and more will likely do so if this goes on. IndieGoGo’s terms of use say you should provide “quality and substantive updates at least once a month to contributors”, which you’ve clearly broke and can potentially be reported for (if it hasn’t happened already).Tommy O'Neil1 day agoLook, all I'm trying to do for you guys as a backer is act as a brake pedal for you, as you're speeding towards a brick wall. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 “People make better decisions when they look into the future and they imagine that they already failed, and they tell a story about what happened,” Sutton says. With better planning, it won’t be a story that has to be bleeped out." Problem: Whenever I do that I loose the gumption needed to start anything. Granted, within the context of this thread it still makes sense, since Atari SA shouldn't be trying to make a console. I'm just trying to warn folks that overly negative thinking can be just as dangerous as overly positive thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Please do not confuse doing things badly with not doing anything at all. By imagining what could go wrong before you do it, you can avoid stupid mistakes. You can make your own Linux-based "AtariBox" for the price of commodity hardware, without paying "Atari" a cent and certainly without waiting. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lodmot Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Ronald E. Searfoss Jr.22 hours ago They couldn’t have given us any less in the last update. Tommy O'Neil1 day ago @Atari Your “less is more” notion is going against what your consumers are asking of you (with the exception of James Joseph Sullivan ). You may have disabled refunds from the Indiegogo project, but people can get it through other means and more will likely do so if this goes on. IndieGoGo’s terms of use say you should provide “quality and substantive updates at least once a month to contributors”, which you’ve clearly broke and can potentially be reported for (if it hasn’t happened already). Tommy O'Neil1 day ago Look, all I'm trying to do for you guys as a backer is act as a brake pedal for you, as you're speeding towards a brick wall. I was waiting for these kind of gifs to appear xD That's awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBerel Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 I knew you were..... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom_of_Krankor Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 How long until they put a capture card in a jaguar shell? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 How long until they put a capture card in a jaguar shell? TACO shell. The Atari SA crew wouldn't be able to pick the Jaguar out of a lineup. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+frankodragon Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCAT Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Alright, Let's Play some Jaaaaaaag! its gonna be a Jag and Taco night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBerel Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 (edited) I know where they can get a case. Plus, the first approved peripheral... Edited February 11, 2019 by JBerel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atariboy2600 Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 ATARI BAD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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