>I could have done with more drug stories. The part where they turned down his crap weed and brought out the good stuff was tits.
That's how you know you've really made it.
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Actually, I need to reply twice to this...
I, obviously, was never there.
But I had the opportunity, while dumping Bounty Hunter, to chill with a guy who was... who shared with me his stories.... how he would party on a mega-yacht with Nolan Bushnell himself, and Hugh Hefner himself, and tons of naked chicks, and the drugs, the coke, the pot, and all the excess that was the 80's tech-boom and all the fun that wave of cash and success washed up on the lucky few. And he'd pull from his workshop various objects from that era, and reminisce about how incredible it was to be riding that wave at its peak, and it's maximum excess, photographs of himself partying with the very icons we look back on now and romanticize. It's like the Woodstock for the computer nerds, and if you weren't there, you missed it.
While I was alive at the time, I was the consumer, the wide-eyed kid buying and funding all of that excess, pushing quarters into the machines, and blowing on cartridges wedged into slots with pencils protruding from them to make them work.
The closest I'll come to that experience is that one time being allowed in to dump the code... dump his memories and look from the outside and be like, "Wow, man. Far out."
I would LOVE to see THAT documentary... the lifestyle behind the success. You only ever get hints and peeks.
Edited by Gatinho (04/28/15 04:40 AM)
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