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WCDT strips 4311-4315 (20-25 July 2020)
BenRG:
Ah! Of course! Hannelore probably is out of the gossip loop. That confirms that Momo can keep a confidence and that May isn't telling everyone and anyone about her new relationship of sorts with Sven. To me, that suggests that it is more important to her than she's willing to say aloud. That it's making Sven hesitate because he doesn't want to appear to be 'buying an upgrade' for May suggests to me that maybe May is more important to him than he's willing to admit to himself just yet too.
I do get what Sven is saying though. I suppose, to him, it's like paying for extensive cosmetic surgery of his choice for a hook-up. Turning her into what he wants her to be. Far too close for his liking to implicitly taking ownership of someone whose independence of spirit is a key aspect of what makes her what she is.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 22 Jul 2020, 22:36 ---And no, I don't think ET's infamy is in any way Truthy. Leaving aside the commercial failure, it was an incredibly rushed project by a single programmer, and videos showing exactly how bad the gameplay was aren't difficult to find. The most you can say about ET's infamy as that many people accept it without doing research on it - but just because it's a popularly held opinion doesn't mean it's wrong, or that there's no basis for the reputation if you do dig.
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Truthy is probably a bad choice of word, but people who think it was not all that bad do exist. On the other hand, people who say "worst game ever" are generally using that phrase because the rest of the Internet does, not because they have played the game themselves. Which, let's face it, is a thing that happens.
To be honest, I'm probably going to regard "worst game ever" as hyperbolic regardless of what game you are describing.
awkwardness:
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 22 Jul 2020, 06:17 ---
--- Quote from: awkwardness on 21 Jul 2020, 22:46 ---
--- Quote from: Scarlet Manuka on 21 Jul 2020, 20:36 ---
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 21 Jul 2020, 20:10 ---There are copies of E.T. for the Atari 2600 on eBay for $1000.
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While I take your point, that's not evidence of anything much unless they're actually selling at that price.
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...oddly, it actually is
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"plus $306 'additional costs'..." !??!?!??!
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No idea...but it's not the only one selling for that high of a price listed
awkwardness:
--- Quote from: Case on 22 Jul 2020, 12:07 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 22 Jul 2020, 04:09 ---Ah, now I remember! I watched the documentary about that. Atari: Game Over. It was enjoyable.
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Ummh - from what I remember of the time (which is just slightly after the videogame-industry crisis proper - got my C64 in '86, by which time the crisis was pretty much history), a lot of it was Jack Tramiel repeatedly being so far ahead of the curve he ended up out-competing himself (and a lot of other folk to boot). Pushed the C64 at Commodore, coined the nifty 'Home Computer' label for rigs that were basically the common ancestor of both the contemporary PC (Commodore C64/128, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga and a few others, iirc) and almost pushed consoles of the market for half a decade - and just when his baby started taking off, he acquired Atari and the 2600 he'd just made forever obsolete?
Similar story with the Amiga/Atari ST competition in the latter half of the decade, I think I recall?
I have to admit I'm a bit peeved at accounts that appear to pretend that kids in the 80s and 90s only used consoles for gaming until the Intel-clone PCs entered peoples' living rooms. Far as I recall it, the 80s were very much the decade of the Home Computer.
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He bought Atari back, the ST was hsi baby...he pushed the Atari PCs and held steady as a distant 3rd or 4th before he stepped away. They continued to make both consoles and PCs before falling flat under his son
awkwardness:
--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 22 Jul 2020, 18:47 ---I miss my Commodore 64 so much. That thing taught my big brother to read, I swear.
Edited because new strip went up: I did NOT RECOGNIZE SVEN. I have no idea who that guy is, but I do not recognize him. If anything, when I first saw him, I thought it was Angus coming back to visit from New York.
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He's the latest victim of Jeph's obsession with short hair...and the worst part is he doesn't have his glasses on either
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