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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.
I'm vastly amused by the fact that this Italian supercar is humbled by the same annoying automatic seatbelts that I, to this day, cannot stand. It was DOT regulation at the time, so all US-market cars in 1991 had them, but ... you just don't think about that when you think about Ferraris.
Incidentally, "testa rossa" is Italian for "redhead" -- I believe it was a reference to the fact that at least some of these had red valve covers (or something like that -- anyone know?) in the engine. Most are red to go with the meaning of the name.
Don't care much for the wheels. I'd think a good set of BBS wheels, like the ones on this car, would be nicer. But if you have that much money to spend on a car, you have the money to drop $1500 on a good set of wheels and tires.
i am a soviet space shuttle
"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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I would be most grateful if someone could send me the advertising rates for these kind of adverts.
TIA
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.
Although this goes well beyond what should be discussed on /. and has practically no significance at all, I have to say that 'Heavily Modified' bothers me when it comes to cars like this.
;o)
I always find it a bit sad. Like the original creators didn't do a good job. If you spend that much money, why buy a car that you don't agree with?
And if you (apparently) plan to sell it, it's pretty silly. Almost no-one will agree your mods are so kewl. By now they are out-dated, start to fail (believe me, I had a 911 Turbo and the one mod caused me a major headache) and it's practically impossible to bring the car back to it's original condition.
When a car like this is modified it usually means that it was just a rich kids toy. Not someone that bought it because they loved the car. For the true lover, there's nothing but the original.
In any case, the $100K Buy It Now is horribly over-priced. You get an original Testarossa from the same year for a little more than half of that. And it will still be worth something 10 years from now. (for example, not that I anything about this car, so this is not a recommendation)
I'm waiting for him to get rid of his girlfriend
John Romero was a "rock star" of the computer game industry in the early 90s. He then disappeared to work on the "ultimate computer" game. Instead fucking it up, releasing Daikatana, and now needing to sell his Ferrari to buy Ramen Noodles.
In summary, he's no one relevant and you shouldn't care.
A few years ago he wrote a little computer game with John Carmack. You may have heard of it... it was called Doom. He went on to do Quake before falling out with Carmack, and leaving id software to start his own company, Ion Storm. They released the moderately successful Deus Ex, and the, erm..., not so successful Daikatana.
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
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.
1) The picture on top is scary. :-)
2) Fuck Romero's site, I'm more interested in his girlfriend's server. She's got some nice pics there and she's quite the looker.
Humorless sig goes here.
Hmmm, sounds rather like that last game attempt of his, doesn't it?
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