A professional communication. Astounding. They may have had a chance, a small one, if they had this guy in charge earlier instead of Thomas.
From their Facebook group. They confirmed they've been letting people go and they don't have the employees to process refunds (and let's be real they don't have the money either) but somehow they're going to move forward with test units.
Just from that most recent failed one, if I'm reading it correctly, though.
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Yup, Amico didn't ruin shit! Idiots like DJC and Retro Bro selling their souls for mediocre android games and the chance to cosy up to that idiot Tommy was all it took for them to check their credibility, their brains, and their morals at the door. They all had no problem getting together with Tommy and other execs to go over press releases to better spin the bad news that was going to come out. They were fine with taking part in a concerted effort to bilk investors and fellow retro gamers out of money until Tommy stopped pretending to be their best bud...it's so pathetic.
He subsequently made all of those private, and even hid his channel for a short while. I assume he does all this for internet attention, since there's nothing of value in anything he has said. At least the "haters" have some moral truth on their side as they waste time pointing and laughing at this debacle.
Sure seems that way. There's a real cultish vibe to many of them, particularly the ones who have rhapsodized about how they loved being in a community with likeminded friends to talk to. One of them hosted 2 Amico events at game stores around Massachusetts and credits Amico and Tommy Tallarico with saving his life.
It's what makes it all so bizarre. If the Amico videos bumped them into 10's of thousands of views, I could see it being worth it, but scraping a thousand or two isn't going to do much. Then you see them talk about Tommy being their friend, and you realise how insidiously Tallarico courted those parasocial relationships, and it comes off as very exploitative.
Tommy Tallarico is a delusional narcissist who is high on his own supply. He has stated that he is a big believer in "The Law Of Attraction" as popularized by The Secret, the same "power of positive thinking" pseudo-religion that influenced Donald Trump. It's dangerous and destructive.
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Yeah most likely, he describes himself in his Twitter bio as a "Social Media Personality" lol
Again I somewhat liked Earthworm Jim franchise back in the 90s and have that nostalgia for old Virgin games but I'll never understand this shit.
Stoked you had an Amico day! It's great to see... (I already want to throw up in my mouth...).
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Also known as the "gish gallop." Unfortunately for Intellivision, the truth caught up with them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
One thing I would love to happen, is for someone to make a compilation of every single person Tommy has claimed is his friend. It's gotta be in the hundreds by now.
Whether this particular situation actually happened or not, I think he lives in some make believe land where he actually believes all the BS he says, which is why he always says the stuff so confidently.Reddit - Dive into anything
Audio here. He didn't sound like he was joking around or being sarcastic.
It wasn't exile so much as it was a recognition that the genius of Tallarico shouldn't be confined to the mere tens or hundreds of millions of people who own a Nintendo machine, but should instead be available to the audience of billions that he would be able to target with his own machine.
Because little piggy Tommy cried Wii, Wii, Wii, all the way home
I wish someone would do an auto tune song about that, in the style of Sweet Brown or Antoine Dodson. I don't care if that trend is 10 years old, because Intellivision is 40.
