The stream where Tommy convinced Snestastic of The Secret's magic powers was amazing. The examples were so absurd, like... if you think positively when stuck in traffic, the road will clear.
Oh, I don't know. Millions of dollars have evaporated into the ether and they still haven't managed to fart out their underpowered Android box (the sort of thing Chinese companies produce by the fucking hundreds every year), and he gets to play the victim in the aftermath when he eventually blames it all on haters. I think he got exactly what he wished for...a chance to bilk people of money.It cracks me up that this basically means that Tommy didn't wish hard enough. When you boil all success down to one person rewriting the rules of reality through sheer tyranny of will, then failure can only be because their will wasn't strong enough.
Yeah that's it, lol. Such an absurd example to use as your very first lesson from the documentary/book.Is this it? https://streamable.com/d37s2f
Snestastic is outwitted by Tommy of all people, the poor helpless guy.
One of the biggest debacles prior to Parastate, was Intellivision. Intellivision raised $11.5m from Republic investors and several more millions in pre-orders only for the company to constantly delay production, lose millions in a botched manufacturing deal, and is currently sitting on the brink of bankruptcy.
It is so incredibly telling how Tommy was constantly claiming/assuring/bragging/etc. that he's supposedly got a ton of friends everywhere in the industry. And yet, in his direst hour of need, when the Amico and Intellivision and the few people still left on the payroll are all dangling over the abyss by a fraying thread, the only even slightly notable industry figure who's ever come to their "aid" (and even then, not really; he just stops short of calling it an outright scam) is David fucking Jaffe.God of War (which I hated for its gratuitous excess before the more subtle Dad of War reboot) and Twisted Metal creator Doug Jaffe (he hasn't worked on anything since 2017 I believe, isn't he one of those trolling firebrands?) sticks up for his longtime friend Tommy Tallarico.
Literally that's what happens in the Jaffe video. The dude says he's a friend, but won't help him make a game for it.It is so incredibly telling how Tommy was constantly claiming/assuring/bragging/etc. that he's supposedly got a ton of friends everywhere in the industry. And yet, in his direst hour of need, when the Amico and Intellivision and the few people still left on the payroll are all dangling over the abyss by a fraying thread, the only even slightly notable industry figure who's ever come to their "aid" (and even then, not really; he just stops short of calling it an outright scam) is David fucking Jaffe.
Seems like right about now would be a hell of a time for all of these "friends" to come help Tommy out of the situation he put himself in. So where are they?
Literally that's what happens in the Jaffe video. The dude says he's a friend, but won't help him make a game for it.
Hmmm makes the Star Fox text look different
I kind of agree with Jaffe in the video. I don't think it was a scam, it was just a failed product. But I disagree with the sentiment that people are dunking on Tommy just because he failed. He brought it on himself with his antagonistic behavior.It is so incredibly telling how Tommy was constantly claiming/assuring/bragging/etc. that he's supposedly got a ton of friends everywhere in the industry. And yet, in his direst hour of need, when the Amico and Intellivision and the few people still left on the payroll are all dangling over the abyss by a fraying thread, the only even slightly notable industry figure who's ever come to their "aid" (and even then, not really; he just stops short of calling it an outright scam) is David fucking Jaffe.
Seems like right about now would be a hell of a time for all of these "friends" to come help Tommy out of the situation he put himself in. So where are they?
I don't see a lot to indicate that's actually what's going on here? The "Atmosphère" project for Switch has a completely different icon than what is pictured here, and Atmosphère for Switch is custom firmware, not Android. (I'm not an expert on this stuff though, and would happily defer to anyone who is.)
Yeah i think thats itOn Reddit someone wrote that Atmosphere was just a demo of a rhythm game for the Amico.
mr_me is something else man. Just a fountain of stubborn refusal to admit that they're clearly running defence for Intellivision. His constant insistence through technicality regarding FCC tests was infuriating to read through, and always defaulted to 'but their engineer said they passed', even when everyone continues to point out that those in the company are often lying through their fucking teeth at any given moment. That there are people in that thread that applaud him for being civil when he's as slippery and evasive as he is, and so obviously shillin' like a villain, well it pisses me off a LOT.
A civil bullshit artist is still painting pictures with shit, at the end of the day.
mr_me is something else man. Just a fountain of stubborn refusal to admit that they're clearly running defence for Intellivision. His constant insistence through technicality regarding FCC tests was infuriating to read through, and always defaulted to 'but their engineer said they passed', even when everyone continues to point out that those in the company are often lying through their fucking teeth at any given moment. That there are people in that thread that applaud him for being civil when he's as slippery and evasive as he is, and so obviously shillin' like a villain, well it pisses me off a LOT.
A civil bullshit artist is still painting pictures with shit, at the end of the day.
Mr_me is far too "polite" to be Mullis.
The Venture Bros had the best review of The Secret.That made me remember a funny story from years ago.
A coworker had brought in a plastic tub of games he wanted to get rid of because he was moving or something. I was looking through it, and mixed in was a DVD of "The Secret". I pulled it out and was like "why in the hell do you have this?" And he told me Tommy Tallarico gave it to him when he was working with him on some game years before. We had a good laugh about it.
sounds like a dating appAnd now there is this totally-not-official Twitter account that wants to (I cite) "help real fans of the Amico connect and associate with one another".
and still couldn't shit out an underspecced android box
Someone wants more money, eh?
He loves that he made the "oof" sound in spite of the fact it's a joke to kids.
Lol, I was wondering if that was going to happen. Internet sleuths wondering what happened to the Oof sound, and a paper trail leading back to Tommy.Do we know how much he asked for that sound effect? I suspect it is a huge amount of money.
In any case, this wildly backfired on social media and now people is digging in Tallarico's history and "discovering" the Amico mess… well done!