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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

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Yeah, E.T. sucked.

What I remember about the Atari 2600 era wasn't so much the system, but how different things were 35 years ago ... when my Christmas wish list was circling things in the JCPenny, Sears, and Service Merchandise catalogs.

My kids don't even know what a catalog is.

Oh, and I also ditched my mom to play Pac Man on the Atari at Sears one day and I shit you not, they didn't even shut down the store and issue a Code ADAM. Crazy.
 
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Dryden said:
Yeah, E.T. sucked.

What I remember about the Atari 2600 era wasn't so much the system, but how different things were 35 years ago ... when my Christmas wish list was circling things in the JCPenny, Sears, and Service Merchandise catalogs.

My kids don't even know what a catalog is.

Oh, and I also ditched my mom to play Pac Man on the Atari at Sears one day and I [Mark May] you not, they didn't even shut down the store and issue a Code ADAM. Crazy.
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That's just because she didn't really want to find you.
 
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Zurp said:
I'm 38 years old. When I was a kid, our family had an Atari 2600. Everyone probably 60 years old and younger, maybe to about 25 to 30 probably know what an Atari 2600 is/was. Anyway, we had this one game called E.T. Yeah - it was based on the movie. I've recently learned that it has been dubbed the "Worst Video Game of All Time." While I don't remember it being a good game, it certainly wasn't terrible. Anyway, I guess Atari lost a million dollars on the game, which amounts to about 100 billion dollars in 2015. Anyway, as the legend goes, Atari buried all these extra copies of the game in a landfill. E.T. has been credited with killing Atari.

So, fast forward to 2015, and someone made a documentary about Atari and the E.T. game and digging it up. They found the game, but they also found a bunch of other games and crap from Atari from when they died. "They" (whoever made the documentary) concluded that E.T. did not actually kill Atari. Atari was going to die anyway.

My point?
The cult is out there, yelling that E.T. killed Atari, and they want everyone to know it. Atari, in their minds, is the greatest video game system EVER. Atari "did things the right way" (success with honor). Any claims that Atari was a bubble that was about to burst gets ridiculed by every internet tough guy under Yar's Revenge. The cult will stop at nothing; and even if they dig up all of the proof they need that shows that E.T. did NOT kill Atari, they won't believe it.

The hidden secrets are in that landfill, unless the landfill shows evidence to the contrary.
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One man's gold is another man's " trash".
 
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Zurp said:
I'm 38 years old. When I was a kid, our family had an Atari 2600. Everyone probably 60 years old and younger, maybe to about 25 to 30 probably know what an Atari 2600 is/was. Anyway, we had this one game called E.T. Yeah - it was based on the movie. I've recently learned that it has been dubbed the "Worst Video Game of All Time." While I don't remember it being a good game, it certainly wasn't terrible. Anyway, I guess Atari lost a million dollars on the game, which amounts to about 100 billion dollars in 2015. Anyway, as the legend goes, Atari buried all these extra copies of the game in a landfill. E.T. has been credited with killing Atari.

So, fast forward to 2015, and someone made a documentary about Atari and the E.T. game and digging it up. They found the game, but they also found a bunch of other games and crap from Atari from when they died. "They" (whoever made the documentary) concluded that E.T. did not actually kill Atari. Atari was going to die anyway.

My point?
The cult is out there, yelling that E.T. killed Atari, and they want everyone to know it. Atari, in their minds, is the greatest video game system EVER. Atari "did things the right way" (success with honor). Any claims that Atari was a bubble that was about to burst gets ridiculed by every internet tough guy under Yar's Revenge. The cult will stop at nothing; and even if they dig up all of the proof they need that shows that E.T. did NOT kill Atari, they won't believe it.

The hidden secrets are in that landfill, unless the landfill shows evidence to the contrary.
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Kudos for the 80's tie in.

I agree completely and been hoping/saying it all along....I hope to Joesus that they keep digging and find out that Freeh's "omissions" were out of taste and some sense of kindness to the family and he was sitting on gruesome, undeniable details from Day 1.

I don't harbor any illusions that the hardcore cultists will ever let that throw them mind you but watching the rationalizations of the clinically insane will be some fun trolling.

Who knows? A clever motherfucker might already be over there, working his way in, deep cover....waiting.
 
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Bill Lucas said:
My bet is on SouthernPABuckHunter or whatever he's called. There can't really be people that think like him in the world.
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The humor isn't that he says what he says. I'm also convinced that he's a deep troll. Doing what? I don't know - I can't wait to see.
The humor is in that no one over there argue with the stuff he says. They don't always agree with him, but they don't tell him off, either. Imagine an Ohio State fan who claims that Woody Hayes was right to hit the Clemson player, the player deserved it, and Woody kicked that guy's ass. So I state that in a forum, and not a single one of you calls me out on it. Yeah - I'm a big goob, but you guys aren't much better for not smacking me in the back of the head and peeing in my shoes.
 
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Zurp said:
The humor isn't that he says what he says. I'm also convinced that he's a deep troll. Doing what? I don't know - I can't wait to see.
The humor is in that no one over there argue with the stuff he says. They don't always agree with him, but they don't tell him off, either. Imagine an Ohio State fan who claims that Woody Hayes was right to hit the Clemson player, the player deserved it, and Woody kicked that guy's ass. So I state that in a forum, and not a single one of you calls me out on it. Yeah - I'm a big goob, but you guys aren't much better for not smacking me in the back of the head and peeing in my shoes.
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Charlie Bauman was a better man for having his throat touched by Woody. He was certainly no "victim" or whatever you want to call it.

Believe the media spin if you will but the only real victim here was Woody, the Hayes family and OSU football.
 
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Zurp said:
The humor isn't that he says what he says. I'm also convinced that he's a deep troll. Doing what? I don't know - I can't wait to see.
The humor is in that no one over there argue with the stuff he says. They don't always agree with him, but they don't tell him off, either. Imagine an Ohio State fan who claims that Woody Hayes was right to hit the Clemson player, the player deserved it, and Woody kicked that guy's ass. So I state that in a forum, and not a single one of you calls me out on it. Yeah - I'm a big goob, but you guys aren't much better for not smacking me in the back of the head and peeing in my shoes.
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Tbfair I have heard some rationalizations... or at least partial rationalizations.
Along the lines of "he shouldn't have done that, however that guy was playing dirty as hell all game"... I don't know how true it is. I wasn't alive. I can take Woody for the good and bad, same as I take Tressel.
The only infallible humans that's existed are Lincoln and JFK... and only cuz they were assassinated. Being assassinated does wonders for one's reputation and historic legacy.
 
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The Cult's alumni elected BoT crazies fire back at President Barron's recent middle finger toward them with a letter to the editor in the Centre Daily Times. What a freak show. I always envision the alumni-elected BoT members being relegated to the status of sitting at the kids' table for Thanksgiving dinner -- a wobbly card table with mismatched chairs and adults occasionally admonishing them to keep it down while the grown-ups are discussnig important matters.

http://www.centredaily.com/2015/05/10/4742417_their-view-alumni-trustees-forced.html?rh=1

Board member Anthony Lubrano started a thread on BWI to let the Cult know that such foolishness will not stop any time soon. The Cult then laps up Lubrano's insanity with posts about calling President Barron's office in support of the alumni-elected board members and a gif of applause for Lubrano.

http://bwi.forums.rivals.com/threads/our-response-to-president-barron.12567/
 
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