I think so.
Positives: Left to our own devices, not getting interference from admins.
Negatives: Left to our own devices, not getting new members from Atari's new hit games.
Except there aren't any new Atari hit games so we weren't getting any new members anyway.
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
It was only a matter of time before we'd wake up one day to find the forums being "upgraded" indefinitely.
Hope is the denial of reality
There are times when I miss the old forums (and related drama on several boards) but the few times I went back to peek it wasn't even a shell of its former self. I hadn't looked in nearly a year now.
Was kind of funny, how the less Atari took an active hand, the better things were.
Except Ciel, she was cool.
Some people say that "what you post in the net remains there".
I realize it is not true, now, just a fancy slogan.
Gamer wisdom says "never upgrade something that works".
Well, it was upgraded...
I felt more sadness when my HDD failed 2 years ago, than now.
I do not miss the old forums, I just miss the old people... who are here...
Freedom - When people learn to embrace criticism about politicians, since politicians are just employees like you and me.
She sure was. And hi, ltns everyone. Wish I could have saved ac, but it wasn't to be.
Edit: I think when I was taking an active hand it was better, but of course I want to pat my own back
Hey, long time no see!
Yes you were definitely one of the good guys
Hey Rand! Do you guys think the forums are gone gone, or exist somewhere and could be archived for posterity?
All those moments, like tears in rain
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
"I have seen things you can't imagine. DBZ'ers posting "penis" in Community Chat, Moderators handing out warnings like candy." Yeah, something like thatOn a serious note, I know a couple folks involved in the internet archive project so am wondering if they could help here...
Given that they chronicle the growth from teen to late/mid 20s of quite a few posters here, it might be prudent to let sleeping dogs lie
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
When the announcement went out a while back about ataricommunity being removed, a know a few of the RCTers at least attempted a backup.
I tried as well, but since the only forums worth saving, the TDU and NWN2 beta forums, were no longer linked to from the main listings I couldn't figure out a way to save it, so I gave up.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
I believe database was actually there and probably indexable until this most recent Atari fail. I'm not aware of any large-scale backups that were attempted. But large chunks of it were nuked before the Exodus and the shutting-down of places like the Community Chat. I'm inclined to agree with Nessus that it's probably best that it stays that way.
That's fine, and why I asked in case there was interest in preserving for any reason. It went through many "purges" anyway between the time I left and the time it was deep-sixed, so yeah lots of things worth saving likely don't exist anywhere
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Shot tag, asshole. Some of us browse on mobile devices
Your tears nourish me
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Some of us approve
So is there an Atari exec I can email? That pic offends me, it's CLEARLY racist.
How do you expect to run with the wolves at night when you spend all day sparring with the puppies?
- Omar Little
I am amazed that they dedicated money to look inside old databases.
It seems they may not have anything good to do with the money.
Probably web admins were at risk of being fired so they needed to boost their utilization.
So it is about people trying to keep their jobs. I prefer a few posts lost instead of jobless families.
I never liked human interaction of some DBZers, BTW.
Some had a bit harsh and vulgar manner.
And I felt bullying was quite present there.
Freedom - When people learn to embrace criticism about politicians, since politicians are just employees like you and me.
Update from beyond
http://www.inc.com/kevin-j-ryan/vide...of-things.html
Video Game Company Atari Still Exists--and It's Getting Into the Internet of Things
The inventor of Pong and Pac-Man is joining the 21st century.
Few electronically produced images are more synonymous with the late 70s and early 80s than that of Pac-Man munching down on small white pixels or rocket ships zapping poorly drawn, 2-D asteroids in the sky. And few American brands evoke this era more than Atari does. The video game maker churned out arcade classics like Asteroids, Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Mrs. Pac-Man, and Missile Command.
Now, years after fading from the public eye, the company is looking to make a comeback. According to a statement published on its site, Atari will be releasing a line of Internet of Things-connected devices that will range "from the very simple to the highly sophisticated."
Details are limited on what exactly the products will be, but if you're hoping for a new gaming console, it looks like the answer is a definitive "no." The statement says the "product line will include categories such as home, pets, lifestyle, and safety," and they'll be able to connect to the Internet without requiring Wi-Fi. The new product line will involve a partnership with Sigfox, a French wireless company with its own IoT network.
The statement says development will begin this year and more details will be available in the near future. Atari didn't immediately respond to a request for more information.
After dominating the burgeoning video game industry, the company fell from grace in the early 80s, when the video game bubble burst and the industry shrank from $3.2 billion to $100 million over the course of two years. Atari ended up with so much excess inventory that it literally buried 700,000 consoles and games in a New Mexico landfill.
The company stopped innovating as quickly as it once had, and newcomers Nintendo and Sega came to dominate the home console industry by the early 90s. Atari declared bankruptcy in 2013.
Atari was founded in 1972 by entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell, who also founded kid video game haven Chuck E. Cheese. Later that year, the company launched Pong, the first video game to gain mainstream popularity. The simplistic, line segment and ball-based game became a staple in bars and arcades. Bushnell sold the company to Warner Communications for $28 million in 1976. The company has changed hands several times since. Hasbro bought it in 1998 and then French holding company Infogrames purchased Hasbro in 2001, later renaming the entire subsidiary Atari Inc.
The newest announcement is Atari's latest attempt at a comeback. The company recently got involved with mobile and casino games, but nothing has approached the popularity of the company's earliest releases.
The Internet of Things industry might be a smart bet--there are currently 6.4 billion IoT-connected devices, and that number is expected to rise to 21 billion by 2020. But it's hard to know why this go-round for Atari should be any different, how its products will compete with what's already out there--and, perhaps most importantly, how Pong and Pac-Man will figure in this picture.
Categorically not using anything Atari made for anything of importance, ever. Especially if connected to the internet.
Nope. Nope.
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
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