[video=youtube;f9tHPyIcCLA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9tHPyIcCLA[/video]
Because screwdrivers are for stupid nerds.
I have no words for how angry I am right now.
[QUOTE=dustyjo;52235315]I have no words for how angry I am right now.[/QUOTE]
Probably why he did it. Bet a good chunk of people clicked on it and watched it because he destroys it.
quick reminder that this channel is only so big because he opens them in that destructive way, never have I seen him actually opening stuff carefully like anyone else would
God damn it...
[QUOTE=Plaster;52235345]quick reminder that this channel is only so big because he opens them in that destructive way, never have I seen him actually opening stuff carefully like anyone else would[/QUOTE]
Tbh I think this channel is ran by the most braindead guy possible
not only does he take things apart in a way that's genuinely unneeded but he does it in an impossibly ineffective way pretty much every time
He could turn these videos into genuinely educational and interesting things but he's just sort of an asshole
[QUOTE=Zang-Pog;52235357]If this was some guy destoying a old, rare painting or something like that he'd probably get his house firebombed. It's a shame not many people have any interest in preserving old technology[/QUOTE]
You say this like that's a good thing.
If a person who owns some piece of property chooses to destroy said property, they shouldn't have to worry about being attacked as a result.
guys, these things aren't that rare. destroying one is like pissing in a sea of piss
[url]http://www.ebay.com/bhp/pac-man-arcade-machine[/url]
[QUOTE=Egevened;52235367]guys, these things aren't that rare. destroying one is like pissing in a sea of piss
[url]http://www.ebay.com/bhp/pac-man-arcade-machine[/url][/QUOTE]
Nobody said they were rare. It's still moronic to hack up a vintage arcade cabinet with a sawzall, guy.
A normal person would've disassembled it and then reassembled it
[b]But this spawn of Satan destroyed a piece of history and along with it, a piece of my heart[/b]
There's a ton of channels that rely solely on destroying shit to cause outrage to get clicks. It's probably one of the most cynical types of channel there is.
The best thing to do is just ignore them. If everyone just ignored the dudes they wouldn't make any money, ergo they'd stop because holy shit I just spent 500 dollars on this fucking console and broke it and I didn't get any money for it
The problem is these channels generate massive followings of stupid irreverent schoolchildren that cannot be reasoned with and keep encouraging them to vandalize/destroy irreplaceable things. You and I ignoring this guy won't change anything.
You know once, when I was like... 12?...13? With my very first, very shitty video camera, I recorded myself smashing a plate on the sidewalk... just to see it break, just to see what it would look like on camera you know?
Pretty depressing to know that I should have stayed on that path and I could have been making successful Youtuber money by now.
Oh who cares. It's would fall apart eventually anyways.
People are free to break their own things.
[QUOTE=Paul-Simon;52235896]Oh who cares. It's would fall apart eventually anyways.
People are free to break their own things.[/QUOTE]
What asinine reasoning. Why bother preserving any antiques? They'll fall apart eventually.
I guess I should take a sawzall to my Roman era collection, since it won't magically sustain itself forever, right? Should I go ahead and chuck my WW1 C96 into a lake because "oh well it'll get rusty eventually, maybe"?
A 40 year old arcade cabinet in working original condition definitely merits preservation as the genesis of personal recreational computing and an icon of an important subculture through the late 70s and 80s. An entire generation was shaped by arcades.
I'm mostly offended by how low-effort this is tbh. Like "fuck figuring out how to do this properly, let's just literally rip it apart".
[QUOTE=Paul-Simon;52235896]Oh who cares. It's would fall apart eventually anyways.
People are free to break their own things.[/QUOTE]
I too am content to sit naked in a dirty field, motionless, since everything will return to dust anyways.
What a strange person.
So what if he destroys it. It's his.
[editline]16th May 2017[/editline]
And it's quite common.
[QUOTE=Grenadiac;52235936]What asinine reasoning. Why bother preserving any antiques? They'll fall apart eventually.
I guess I should take a sawzall to my Roman era collection, since it won't magically sustain itself forever, right? Should I go ahead and chuck my WW1 C96 into a lake because "oh well it'll get rusty eventually, maybe"?
A 40 year old arcade cabinet in working original condition definitely merits preservation as the genesis of personal recreational computing and an icon of an important subculture through the late 70s and 80s. An entire generation was shaped by arcades.[/QUOTE]
If you own the thing yourself, go ahead and chuck it in a river, I don't care :v:
It's your loss, and your loss only.
I always found it funny when people freak out about other people doing shit like painting their own rare guns pink or whatever. It doesn't matter.
It's the same for this video. None of us lost anything from this guys mass produced arcade cabinet being destroyed.
It was his anyways and you were never gonna use it, see it or hear about it.
[QUOTE=nerdster409;52236710]So what if he destroys it. It's his.
[editline]16th May 2017[/editline]
And it's quite common.[/QUOTE]
Personally I don't give a shit about the whole idea of "you shouldn't destroy things"
I totally support breaking drones and expensive shit
but if you're going to do it, do it in a way that's actually productive and useful and doesn't create so much more electronic waste that its pointless, or at least do it in a smart way
he could have easily disassembled this without destroying it and did what he originally planned, given the parts away to his fans
He could have easily done this in a way that was educational while still being fun.
>A man in questionable clothing destroys a perfectly good arcade machine.
David Soul taught him well @0:55
[video=youtube;VQzo0iu_vmI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQzo0iu_vmI[/video]
While I can agree that once you own something it's yours to do with what you please, we're talking about pieces of history that aren't in production anymore.
This means that if everyone gets one just to destroy it, then slowly we'll end up with almost none left. That's the sad path as then nobody will be able to get one just to say they have one.
I'm getting flashbacks to when the youtube channel poopoogarret destroyed perfect condition vintage mac computers. It's hard alone to find one mint but seeing mint ones getting destroyed is absolutely enraging.
The part that pisses me off the most is when he destroys the tv display. He even comments earlier about how cool it is that you can see the pac-man screen burned into the display. A literal picture of it's history... Then he just smashes it with a sledgehammer and goes "WHOA!" Fucking asshole.
All these destruction channels are total cancer. It pisses me off more that he's destroying a piece of history.
I think I wouldn't of been as bothered if he wasn't using it to shill some shitty mobile game
[QUOTE=Paul-Simon;52237050]If you own the thing yourself, go ahead and chuck it in a river, I don't care :v:
It's your loss, and your loss only.
I always found it funny when people freak out about other people doing shit like painting their own rare guns pink or whatever. It doesn't matter.
It's the same for this video. None of us lost anything from this guys mass produced arcade cabinet being destroyed.
It was his anyways and you were never gonna use it, see it or hear about it.[/QUOTE]
He's well within his right to destroy his stuff and WE'RE within our right to call him a piece of shit for doing so.
Done purely for the views and AdSense $$$
[QUOTE=Sombrero;52238054]I'm getting flashbacks to when the youtube channel poopoogarret destroyed perfect condition vintage mac computers. It's hard alone to find one mint but seeing mint ones getting destroyed is absolutely enraging.[/QUOTE]
Wasn't his entire reasoning just "I dont like old computers" or something?
Like doing this I [I]understand[/I] (as in, I still fucking hate it to the core, but I can see SOME REASON in it) cuz this dude is getting money and attention from angry people giving him veiws.
But that other guy sounds like he has a mental disorder
[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;52239308]He's well within his right to destroy his stuff and WE'RE within our right to call him a piece of shit for doing so.[/QUOTE]
Oh I weren't arguing rights. No doubt you're free to partake in this healthy discussion of differing views.
My view is that getting offended by this video is pointless, because the existence or non-existence of this particular arcade cabinet would never affect your life in any way, shape or form anyways.
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