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pcb:

--- Quote from: shardian on February 05, 2008, 09:09:29 am ---
--- Quote from: stan2323 on February 04, 2008, 06:09:11 pm ---Let me put my 2 cent in here.  All you that want to preserve “history” here is one for you to think about.  In my town a guy had an old house and the windows were real lead stained glass.  They were making his daughter sick.  He replaced them with new windows.  Well the town historical society sued him to make him put the original windows back in AND WON.  He owned the house out right and it was not on any historical registry or anything like that.  I am sick to death of people that care more about preserving history, animals, or any other thing at the expense of someone else’s health or finances but not there own.


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You have a link or something for that story? Is it recent or old? That is absolutely crazy, and I would think it could make national attention.

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The guy should stop letting his daughter lick the window. :)
Avrus:

--- Quote from: Sir Auros on February 05, 2008, 10:11:39 pm ---...and you say nothing to Avrus for also getting "verbally angry," or any of the other people in that thread? Like I said, the problem is that a certain viewpoint is accepted here to the point where it's apparently kosher to be abusive to people, regardless of saint's efforts to keep things nice around here.

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Naw man: sad, disappointed, bewildered. 
yalborap:
For the record, I am not against preservation of cabs. Rather, I am against YOU and the others on the same side as you in particular. Though yes, I will admit, I don't care about them as much as I could. I'm only 16; arcades were in their swan song by the time I was born, and by the time I was old enough to get properly into games, they were dead in the US. So I never had a chance for them to become a major part of my life; They're there as a second-degree part, simply because the SNES was a big part(we didn't get an N64 until they were down to $99, so my early early childhood was pure SNES), and hence other games from around that era(both timeline-wise and graphically) resonate with me.

So...Yeah. I've said what I'm going to say. React how you all wish, but I'm done with the fighting. I came here to have fun and discuss old arcades games and the tech involved in MAME cabs, not argue over this as if it could save the world's economy if we were to preserve enough cabs or burn them all as a hip new fuel source or something. We can have a civil discussion over this, but I'm not touching any further arguments.

FOOTNOTE: Reading over this, I really bounced from point to point too much....Oh well. Might as well just live with it instead of trying to rewrite it from the ground up.
Avrus:

--- Quote from: yalborap on February 05, 2008, 11:54:32 pm ---For the record, I am not against preservation of cabs. Rather, I am against YOU and the others on the same side as you in particular. Though yes, I will admit, I don't care about them as much as I could. I'm only 16; arcades were in their swan song by the time I was born, and by the time I was old enough to get properly into games, they were dead in the US.
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Right ... so that's why you wouldn't understand the passion of many of the people here.  I'm 33, I spent every waking moment I could in an arcade.

I took an hour and 15 minutes of buses to get into the 7-11 in downtown Calgary because they were the only place to have Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition.  The lineup was 75+ people from 6 in the morning until 2 or 3 the next morning.

It's a part of my culture and my youth as much as the Atari 2600, cartridges, the Commodre 64 etc.

I mean no disrespect by my post, but I don't think it's something I could explain.  If it wasn't a part of your culture I wouldn't expect you to understand the feelings these cabinets emote.

Judging by the other posters response I expect he's fairly young too because he just doesnt 'get it'. 
RayB:
At the end of the day... it's all about emotional attachment to inanimate (though interactive!) objects.
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