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protokatie:


--- Quote ---Honestly, the more I read these stupid, ---smurfing--- flamefests and bashing on excited newbies with cabinets some consider classics, the more I want to just buy and destroy an old cab, post the video to youtube, and post a link to it in every active thread here.
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I know where to get a '57 chevy that you could put the cab on! Hell, around here would could even get the news crew to start the fire!

Meh, as I have said before, it is good to restore an old cab, but not necissary!

DaveMMR:


--- Quote from: Sir Auros on February 04, 2008, 09:16:11 pm ---Honestly, the more I read these stupid, ****ing flamefests and bashing on excited newbies with cabinets some consider classics, the more I want to just buy and destroy an old cab, post the video to youtube, and post a link to it in every active thread here.  :soapbox:

This is one of the most newbie-hostile online communities I've ever joined, and the MAME vs. Restore crap is a big part of it. At least, that's how I perceive it.

Edited because the autocensor doesn't pick up the f-word for some reason.

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It's only hostile to those who skip the manifesto and forum rules.   Sorry you perceive it as such but....  well, are you expecting to win support with your "outrageous" comments?   ::)

yalborap:

Okay, I look at it this way.

You know what matters to me? The internals and artwork. And if you can strip the artwork off and gut the parts, you know what you're left with?

A worthless, damn, plywood box. As long as you don't break the internals, and you don't destroy the artwork, what you do to that worthless plywood box DOES NOT MATTER. Because no, just because that wood is 20 years old does not mean it's even vaguely valuable. It's still cheap plywood. Now, if someone made a gorgeous, amazing, uber-rare hardwood cab that looks like the finest oak desks mated with a Tron cab to produce the single best thing ever? Yeah, sure, that's valuable.

But again. Cheap, crappy plywood. Does not matter.

Side art, internal components? DO matter. Parts were, to my knowledge, saved or have entered the collections of people who can use them. The rest, does not matter. The only thing we must preserve is that which effects the experience and cannot be recreated.

But that's just me. And I'm a mere 16 year old who wasn't around for the arcade days, so maybe I'm talking out  ---my bottom---.

Sir Auros:

Re:DaveMMR

It's attitudes like yours that make me think that for all of saint's hard work monitoring the boards, this is one of the most antisocial forums I've used. No, I don't expect support, but I'll damn-well voice my opinion whether or not the more extremist nerds here like it.

RayB:

Actually this site's pretty cool. Even the debates have some intelligence to them. Visit any other forum related to a really "mainstream" topic (like car modding) and you'll see a rather huge IQ drop in the discussions compared to here.


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