[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/vr/ - Retro Games

View post   
File: 100 KB, 640x427, Photo-2-640x427.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1587032 No.1587032[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Hold me /vr/ ;_;

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/04/video-ars-talks-to-the-experts-on-ataris-dump-at-yesterdays-big-dig/

>> No.1587116

>almost everything is crushed and/or burnt
>everything else no longer works because it sat unprotected under ten feet of dirt and garbage for 30 years
So it's exactly what everyone was claiming it was going to be when you faggots got all excited about it when it was announced. Did you think that there were just going to be millions of cartridges buried in perfect condition in shipping containers? Atari was a bankrupt company that was trying to get rid of excess stock so worthless that they couldn't pay people to take it. This isn't exciting or newsworthy.

Go fuck yourself.

>> No.1587326

>>1587116
why are you so angry about this?
Mad that your precious atari games got thrown away?

>> No.1587343

>>1587326
I'm angry because people are shocked that a bankrupt company got rid of excess stock as cheaply and quickly as they could. This time it just happened to be shitty video games. We've known for thirty goddamn years what they did, it wasn't an "urban legend". This isn't the first time someone has done digging in a landfill and found atari games in the garbage.

Seriously, why do you even care about this? Just play some goddamn vidya.

>> No.1587345
File: 906 KB, 325x203, there_is_no_need_to_be_upset[1].gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1587345

>>1587116

>> No.1587402

So, is anyone going to hold Atari responsible for this? Corporations can't just shit all over the environment however they want. Creating a massive fucking landfill of non-biodegradable materials is a pretty serious hazard. Do they expect future generations to clean up this shit? Do they think it's just going to be absorbed into the earth and disappear from existence?

>> No.1587405

>>1587402

Captain Planet pls go

>> No.1587424

>>1587402
That's just how landfills in general work sadly. Some day we're going to have to actually deal with all the garbage we've buried underground.

>> No.1587427

fake as fuck, shit was planted by Microsoft. nothing to see here folks.

>> No.1587428

>>1587402

People in 1983 didn't give a fuck.

>> No.1587429

>>1587427
how do you feel about the moon landing

>> No.1587431

>>1587343
You complete me.

>> No.1587560
File: 18 KB, 350x243, nuclear_weapons_atmosphere.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1587560

>>1587424
>Some day we're going to have to actually deal with all the garbage we've buried underground.
No.. not really. There's no such thing as "non biodegradable", it will all break down within a few hundred years. And its not as if these things haven't happened before. Even the Romans had landfills full of shit, where do you think we find all their pottery and iron that wasnt used for weapons. Not everything came out of Pompeii.
Most unused landfills (at least near me) have had housing developments built ontop of them. Open mining pits are also used quite often. The one in Alamogordo is in the middle of the desert, and when it was first opened, it was thought that was the only use for the area. Pic related, Alamogordo circa 1940.

>> No.1587674

The less "biodegradable" the shit in landfills is, the better. Ideally, recycling technology will advance to a point where it will become increasingly feasible economically to mine them.

Landfills are just holding zones until market forces require their contents again.

l2capitalism