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Buy John Romero's Ferrari On EBay
TheMightyZog writes: "John Romero is selling his Ferrari Testarossa: eBay and his own site. Is anyone else distrubed by the graphic on the top of his home page?" At last check, the reserve was not yet met.
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The car comes with 50 free copies of daikatana. That together with 20 dollars of petrol, adds a combined total of 15 dollars to the price of the car! *BARGAIN*
Is anyone else distrubed by the graphic on the top of his home page?
Quite frankly, I am disturbed by all the graphics.
--Metrollica
Did anyone else notice a comment under user feedback at ebay, claiming that Romero won an auction and didn't pay for the item? Kind of what I felt after buying Daikatana.
Is anyone else distrubed by the graphic on the top of his home page?
Well, look at the face on the far right of the graphic. I see someone how's definitely not fit to drive. Maybe that explains why he's selling his Ferrari on EBay?
"Is anyone else distrubed by the graphic on the top of his home page?"
Yes, very much so, as it makes my mozilla segfault.
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"The chances of a demonic possession spreading are remote -- relax."
I'd bid for it as long as it didn't include any annoying sidekicks that got in the way of your driving and always died at inopportune moments.
It probably has lots of his long, silky hair in it.
Is /.'ing his server revenge for Daikatana?
I can see it now. While driving along peacefully at 65mph, obeying the speed limit, your 14 year old script-kiddie son sitting next to you remaps the fuel injector to inject the fuel at full capacity regardless of throttle position. Since he was running Windows, his computer crashes shortly afterwards and you find yourself cruising down the highway at 200mph. You put her in neutral, in a vain attempt to lose speed, but the engine over-revs and blows up. As you finally coast to a stop (about 10 minutes later), you teach your son a lesson.
Never remap fuel settings in Windows!
(Ok, so the above story wouldn't actually work because the butterfly valves would prevent any air intake to the engine, but who cares..)
--- At my sig, unleash hell.
Could someone post some background on this story, like who is John Romero and why would one care that he is selling his car?
The real problem is entropy.
I'm waiting for him to get rid of his girlfriend
Will /. be running adverts for QVC next?
Selling his car..
Stooping to doing commander keen clones for pocket pc for a living..
He even recently cut his hair short (expect it on ebay soon?)
Hey, it's only advertising if you think someone will buy it. And linux users don't pay for anything, remember? :)
The enemies of Democracy are
Adrian Carmack: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?
John Romero: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think with my rippin' Ferarri and my wad I could hook that up, cause chicks dig a dude with money.
Carmack: Well, not all chicks.
John Romero: Well the kind of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.
More data, damnit!
Why is it they never give me moderation points when good stories come along?
/. to stop linking them, and that HomeLAN is considering cancelling there sponsorship, isn't that a hoot?
:p
I'm a funny guy, I prefer to moderate when things are funny. Instead they give it to me when some company is fined millions involving thinks I don't know or care about.
Or when something scientific has happened over my head. I don't have a clue what's going on.
But this story, I see lots of moderation needing to be done here. "Who the fuck is John Remero?" +1 Interesting.
"Daikatana sucked!" +1 Insightfull
"I can't believe it's not butter" +1 Funny.
But for once, I find my self joining those usually modded down. This is news for nerds? Stuff that matters? Please.
I don't care if bill gates sells his wifes vibrator. I don't want to hear about it. We might as well start posting submissions for Penny Arcade.
"It's Monday, and PA is back at it!"
Posted by Whomever: Todays, 2:45AM
Timmy_l33t was first in line this morning, with important news about penny arcade! Amazingly they've posted yet another comic, this one apperently asking
Flame, troll, funny, I don't really care.
Computational Madness in a round package.
The lack of muffler and cat makes this car illegal for use on normal roads. But nowhere in the ad does JR mention that. Yet another undocumented feature.
Whatever the case, I've taken to calling them Testosteronas for reasons which should be obvious.
N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
Hmmm, sounds rather like that last game attempt of his, doesn't it?
-- "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." (Charles Darwin)
From John's description of the car:
The stereo is in a hideaway spot in the center of the car so when someone looks in, it's not there.
Yeah, people often break the window of a $100,000 car just to steal the stereo. I'm glad whoever buys this car won't have to worry about that. He better also make sure he doesn't leave a $20 bill lying out in the open on the dashboard.
Forget that. Why woud you want a Ferrari when you can have a 10-second K-car?
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:).
.he did it with a 2.2L 4-cylinder, lots of boost and no nitrous).
Check out this video
The cheer from the crowd is much cooler then the looks one gets for driving a Ferrari
(BTW check out this guys site. .
Nope... wouldn't happen. Her vibrator was licensed, not sold. But don't blame Bill... it's those damn vibrator manufacturers and their "per-vagina" licensing model.
--Rob