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| 02:20 | <@celticminstrel> | ...Atari is releasing a new console? o.O |
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| 03:01 | <&[R]> | Atari still exists? |
| 03:15 | <&McMartin> | Looks like the Chapter 11 Vivendi filed a while back actually got them back on track. |
| 03:16 | <&McMartin> | "Atari, SA (formerly Infogrames Entertainment, SA) is a French multinational holding company headquartered in Paris. Its subsidiaries include Atari Interactive and Atari, Inc." |
| 03:16 | <&McMartin> | It looks like at this point their strategy is to not bother with new games at all and just keep the old catalog in publication. |
| 03:18 | <&[R]> | Did they actually have any amazing games? I know they have a ton of historically significant games... but I mean playability wise. |
| 03:19 | <&[R]> | Or I guess, maybe a better question, is do they have any good video game franchises? |
| 03:19 | <&McMartin> | The answer to *that* is no. |
| 03:19 | <&McMartin> | Of the work they did before their first collapse, in the mid-1990s, S.T.U.N. Runner is best-in-class |
| 03:19 | <&McMartin> | And in the 80s, I mean, Asteroids was kind of a big deal |
| 03:20 | <&McMartin> | Tempest was probably my favorite from that era |
| 03:20 | <&McMartin> | I will still play Yars' Revenge when I break out the 2600 |
| 03:20 | <&McMartin> | Also Solaris, but it seems they only published that and Doug Neubauer retained personal copyright. |
| 03:22 | <&McMartin> | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari,_SA#Game_franchises_currently_owned_by_Atari,_SA |
| 03:22 | <&McMartin> | Most of these are not in fact actually franchies. |
| 03:22 | <&McMartin> | Air-Sea Battle was, at best, a tech demo for the 2600. |
| 03:23 | <&McMartin> | Alone in the Dark and Rollercoaster Tycoon appear to be the standouts, but those were not created by the group I'm willing to actually call "Atari" |
| 03:23 | <&McMartin> | (A name basically currently now held by those who were once Infogrames and GT Interactive) |
| 03:40 | <&[R]> | "the same way you execute any script... make a ruby script where the first line is run this other script" |
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| 05:36 | <&McMartin> | More GB stuff. https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2018/01/31/sundry-refinements/ |
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| 08:30 | <@gnolam> | Huh. So that's what happened to Infogrames. |
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| 11:47 | | * TheWatcher aargh |
| 11:47 | <@TheWatcher> | "So I was doing X and Y, and then I got a 'fatal warning' message!" |
| 11:48 | <@TheWatcher> | "When did this happen so I can check the logs?" "About 8:30" |
| 11:50 | <@TheWatcher> | except that a) there is no 'fatal warning'; give me the fucking actual error message. and b) nobody was doing anything at 8:30, the closest activity was 15 minutes before, ffs |
| 11:54 | <@Tamber> | "Well, I got an error and it stopped me from doing what I wanted to do, so it's clearly a fatal error." |
| 11:55 | <@Tamber> | "And the actual error? Er, I think it said something about a ...a lilliputian snotweasel?" |
| 11:56 | <@TheWatcher> | when("general_error") { return "532 Lilliputian snotweasel foxtrot omegaforce"; } |
| 11:56 | <@TheWatcher> | >.> |
| 12:00 | <@TheWatcher> | (Except nothing ever generates that, so really that's more of a "can't happen") |
| 12:09 | <@Tamber> | Except as soon as you've added that message, in which case someone will hit it who has no sense of humour. |
| 12:10 | <@TheWatcher> | Oh, it's been there for about a year now ;P |
| 12:12 | <@Tamber> | ha |
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| 17:23 | <&ToxicFrog> | "Millions of computers throughout the world are executing millions of instructions per second for millions of seconds without a single error [...] In spite of this, nobody trusts a computer; and this lack of faith is amply justified." |
| 17:26 | <@Tamber> | *snicker* |
| 17:26 | <&ToxicFrog> | And while I'm quoting, "We build computer systems like we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins." |
| 17:27 | <@Tamber> | hah, too true. |
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| 17:28 | <@abudhabi> | Yes. :D |
| 17:29 | | * ErikMesoy approves |
| 17:30 | < Emmy> | Blah. F*@! Printers |
| 17:30 | < Emmy> | You'd /think/ it would be pretty easy to make MS Access print a label on a printer. |
| 17:30 | < Emmy> | and normally it is. |
| 17:31 | < Emmy> | but not when it's an IKO ML 1190, apparently. |
| 17:41 | <&[R]> | Seems like Computer-Printer interactions are an endless source of WTFs |
| 17:42 | | * [R] currently has a printer/scanner that if left on for more than 4 hours will dead-lock itself |
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| 17:52 | <~Vornicus> | printers, like email, hate the living |
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| 18:38 | <@TheWatcher> | I used to think printers were devices of Satan |
| 18:39 | <&jerith> | Satan is a lightweight compared to printers. |
| 18:39 | <@TheWatcher> | However, I came to the conclusion that Lucifer himself couldn't have come up with them, yeah. |
| 18:40 | <&jerith> | It's the working *just* well enough that you don't toss them all into the ocean that makes them so infuriating. |
| 18:53 | | * McMartin reads backscroll, can indeed aver that should you happen to add WARNING: KITTENS ARE INSUFFICIENTLY FLUFFY into your megabytes-per-minute logs, You Will Get Support Calls About It |
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| 18:54 | < Emmy> | TheWatcher: that is EXACTLY what i said to my boss and when i got home |
| 19:04 | <@Tamber> | McM: At least that means someone's reading them, I guess? |
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