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MAME is a condom
Posted on September 13th, 2007 at 7:45pm by Pi.
Categories: Unimultiverse, Stuff, Untranslated.
I wrote this about the beginning of 2006, probably January the 22nd, on the now defunct mame.net boards. It was a response towards some troll who wanted to tell us what MAME is about, which IMHO is a very rude form of being idiot. Some people found this analogy both clever and fun, and since I have nothing special to say, I’m reposting it here. I haven’t changed a single word from the original post.
> Anyone who says mame is about documenting hardware and not playing games is a
> hypocrite and talking bollocks.
Well, let’s see if I can explain this to someone who is shortsighted. I mean shortsighted because you only see MAME from your point of view, that’s the point of view of someone who only wants to play the games and doesn’t give a damn about anything else. (more…)
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