I’m no expert but having worked in a business that started in a single industrial unit and then expanded into our next six units (having knocked through to them all) I can comfortably say that it’s a perfectly normal way of doing things. Oh and we also built an extra storey on top of them all. Duh…
Ignorance illustrated.
yes mate i don’t really see why they can’t comprehend that this is how many business work/have worked. i suppose if you’re in a business that doesn’t make any profits then the notion might seem foreign.
Fat Albert
1 year ago
Given the bottom is about to fall out of the global economy (especially the recent move away from the USD to BRICS currencies)… I give them about 9 months from opening and the venture will be wound up,
A fresh batch of down votes on all our comments… *sniffs air* yes. The Nostalgia Nerd has been through recently.
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Frisky Dingo
1 year ago
Two backers today, nudging the total up by £5098. They did EXACTLY what we said they would. They pumped in the money themselves to get them over the line. So much for “we will open anyways even if we don’t make the goal” they NEED this money and they need it for reasons other than given in the kickstarter. This is undoubtedly a scam and this has proven it. There’s no way a benevolent backer parts with that much money at the 11th hour. If they had a mind to they’d have done it much earlier.
Peter Leigh, I know you will read this. You are a grifter and a liar and now everyone can see it. I’d say you should be ashamed but you already know how shameful you are, but it never stopped you, because it’s always been your method. Lady Decade, Top Hat, Hawken, RCL, their grifts pale in comparison to the nakedly dishonest, smug, contemptuous and entitled way you have conducted yourself. You are scum and worst of all you’re scum hiding behind the facade of a woke, vegan, millennial nice guy, but even that personality is a lie for the public to see. I hope the retro community runs you thoroughly out of town you predatory, despicable, mendacious stain. Kickstarter should be investigating you and the grifters who collaborated with you.
At this point of posting there are 344 Backers with an average pledge of £74 each, my delicate nostrils are detecting the slight whiff of something both bovine and faecal in nature. It’ll need more punters than that to survive. Well done to them though, they’ve pulled through at the final hour and now Norwich will finally have a place where retro loving gamers can hang out and play games whilst chomping on delicious rabbit food. I hope they make a lovely series of videos about the trials and tribulations of setting up such a grand and never heard of before establishment for these are folks are real trailblazers, the original pioneers and innovators of all things retro. Before this, all Norfolk was known for was Bernard Matthews Turkey Drumsticks and Alan Partridge. So hats off to them.
One observer on twitter has noted that the £5098 that rolled in was a single pledge amounting to £98 followed by a £5000er. Wanna bet Sam or Peter just took out a quick Amigo loan for £5k?
Actually Nostalgia Nerd posted they were on £21,194 with 339 backers, then someone else posted them at £25,274 with 340 backers, which means backer number 340 threw in £4080. The next 2 backers put in £970 between them as NN posted an update of the kickstarter hitting target at £26,244 with 342 pledges. That’s very generous. Imagine all the good causes you could spend that £4080 on. All the homeless folks in Norwich you could help out. But instead, you give it to a couple of self confessed nerds to open a retro arcade pub. There’s no way that £4080 pledge wasn’t by someone connected directly to them or who stands to get their money back. These guys should be ashamed of themselves. Even if on the off-chance it was someone not connected to them – you are a prat for wasting money on a vanity project when you could have used for a decent cause and helped real folk in need.
Very interesting. Looks like an attempt to break the pledges up to look like more than one.
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Frisky Dingo
1 year ago
And now Quang has waded in with his trademark virtue signaling. Yes access to more arcades is great. But right next door to an existing one, in the esoteric bubble that is Norwich? Why not someplace that doesn’t have one yet?
I’ve been to the Revival events in the midlands and while I’ve played a few arcades at these events it is pinball which people really go wild for. You can’t really emulate the full electro-mechanical experience of pinball. In my local town there’s a place which has opened up with pool tables, mini-golf and other games. I get the impression this would do better than just another arcade.
I do love a pinball table. However, it’s funny you mention them…
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Collieuk
1 year ago
Has anyone noticed the silver membership reward vanished that gave 150 tokens? The gold membership reward was identical but gave an extra 150 tokens for £50, making the extra tokens presumably 33p each at that tier. If they were 50p at silver tier, you could imagine them being a quid each for regular punters. Is one token one credit? That could make your gaming experience somewhat limited unless you’re pissed and decide to throw caution to the wind, which for a pub, is exactly what they’d want. I’m not against tokens, but their lack of transparency over the value of them speaks volumes. Why is it a secret? If you’re getting 10% off for being a member for a year, it would be great to know how much that would save you.
I’ll be honest, if I were to pop along, it would be as part of a day trip to Norwich. I couldn’t really drink so it would be a single drink, maybe some snacks (if I’m going to Norwich all that way for a day out, I’m not eating crappy pub food) and a few goes on their limited choice of machines. I’d take my partner too. A couple of drinks, some snacks and a few goes on the machines between us.. That 10% has saved me about £5 for my one visit in a year. Incredible reward. They should have given backers lifetime discount. If things don’t work out that lifetime won’t be long though!
What a shame they have been so terrible at being transparent. They could have launched this as an exciting attempt to turn Norwich into the retro gaming hub of the East along with Retro Replay. There’s bugger all in that part of the world. But instead they wanted to make out they’re the sole oasis of arcade gaming in a city otherwise bereft of any such thing. Utter plonkers. I don’t dislike these guys like some of you, but I do think they’ve come across unnecessarily smug and misjudged their self importance. Maybe something they can work on between videos of them sweeping the floor.
I subbed to a load of different retro gaming channels but slowly I’ve unsubbed one by one as they’re started to annoy me for various reasons. Seems like youtubers are like bands, they’re all cool and out good work to build a following and then the output quality declines and they become full of themselves. I’m still subbed to the 8-Bit Guy but I can see that one going soon too with his idiotic Commander X16 project where all the scarce soundchips and other DIL chip stock will be used up meaning people are then unable to repair arcade machine and computers actually care about. There’s a reason people use FPGA, they still make them!
Well apart from his gun fetishes too if it’s the one I’m thinking of e.g walking into a Walmart with a semi automatic over his shoulder… Because he can.
I don’t think I ever saw that one. But because he’s written a few games in machine code he’s come across as very smug of late. In one of his videos that he took down he claimed he could write a full AI in 20 years if he wanted to.
Part of the problem with the retro channels is there’s only so many systems. Once you’ve covered the bulk of them it starts to get difficult to come up with more content.
i don’t watch any gaming channels regularly mate especially not the scripted “trying to be wacky” ones that certainly make up most of the popular uk ones. they’re insufferable.
I started my cull during COVID, where there was ample opportunity for creators to “Build Back Better” with some stunning new material due to the persistent lockdowns a lot were experiencing. alas this did not occur.
Some of the more notable culls include:
– Nostalgia Nerd: Quality of material went to shite – as discussed here
– Retro Recipes: All off a sudden it becomes ultra cheesy and a whole family affair
– ctrl-alt-rees: Spins off into solar power with a tenuous link to powering his retro
– 8 Bit Guy: House renovations & continual pushing Command X16 and his s/ware
– Mark Fixes Stuff: Poor guy was never the same after the fire incident
– Octavius King: She should pivot to a OnlyFans, the content might be better
That being said there are many very small (low subscriber count) channels that have very interesting, if otherwise somewhat unpolished content, that are well worth the time and effort to discover and watch.
I am not sure what happened to all the retro stuff I used to watch, they all just became so self important
Ashens: I think I am still sub’d to him but his videos never appear in my list so that tell you all you need to know
8 bit: God when I found out about the gun thing that really put me off. Plus all this crap about his pointless retro computer that as other have said will use up vintage chips needed for repairs. The machine will not do anything that others do. He is also king of the “too busy to make videos” mate that is your job what the hell are you doing for 40 hours a week.
Mark: I used to love Mark then the fire and he has really gotten strange. He says he wants to make YT a full time thing yet he makes no videos !
RMC: Ah Neil if we would stop adverting his cave for 5 mins and make videos again that would be good. Also the weirdo wit the arcade in the basement is a creepy fucker and I cant stand him.
Peter: I used to really love his stuff not now. Its all very “phoned in” again he is “too busy to make videos” This is what really winds me up, people want videos not bars, or books.
Sarah: I am not sure where to start with her. She really needs to get of the internet and stay off however this being her only source of income does not help. She clearly has a lot of issues that need worked through. He twitch stuff is just odd and not in a good way. She clearly has simps that enjoy the rat stuff or her having metal health issues on camera. Her book is a whole other thing that I am sure George will cover. Her relationship with Peter is also a strange thing. If I was Sam I might be worried an ex lover who write3 scripts and acts as a camera person but “we are just friends”
Actually I don’t have an issue with RMC, the content is relatively strong and he has strongly pivoted to equipment preservation, restoration and making the equipment available in a hands-on museum. Quite a gutsy move as the wear and tear on old (and now fragile and delicate) equipment must be quite high. I didn’t find the way he raised capital to do what he needed to do as “grift driven” as Nostalgia Nerd is making things, and Neil does do some genuine charity work too,
Perifractic’s endless stream of dad jokes and insistence on shoehorning his long-suffering wife and dog into every single video he makes… it’s all so tiresome.
Apart from the whole gun fetish thing + the dodgy as hell funding for the X16 (describes it as a charity, bypasses even the wafer thin safety net of established crowdfunding sites).
Or the general air of ungratefulness when people send him really expensive bits of gear. Although I think he might be afflicted with the condition of that character from The Mary Whitehouse Experience where everything that comes out of his mouth sounds sarcastic.
The best bit is that some Dutch bloke came up with a perfectly good 8-bit computer for $50, and he keeps rubbing The 8-Bit Guy’s face in it. No crowdfunding required either.
yes mate i mentioned this in a video, they took it away. someone put a screen grab in the comments on that video i think, or cut and pasted the text from it. seems a lot of people have been archiving the posts/changes etc.
I’d agree with your assessment here. Theirs is a milquetoast idea, that probably wouldn’t be even remotely interesting to anyone were they not attached to it. The sad truth that even though proportionally they’ve not managed to tap into the full extent of their respective fanbase, they can still count on particular fans who never miss an opportunity to be noticed and be near them, and would sign over their last penny to them if it meant they’d get a glance across the bar. Sad, really.
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Frisky Dingo
1 year ago
Has anyone else picked up on this (intentional?) typo on the Kickstarter page?
I reckon it was all meant as a 40th birthday present for Peter, whose birthdate is in April according to companies House, but it got a bit out of hand.
(Now that’s a conspiracy theory 😯 )
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Retro Replayer
1 year ago
It very much feels like Peter has a met a new woman, she’s determined to set herself up as the vegan chef of Norwich, and she is just using nerd and the others YouTube status to promote and now fund her business ventures. Interestingly, I saw nerd has at least one child from a previous relationship (she he is early videos). The fact he seems so keen not to disclose the fact that he and sam are in relationship seems suspicious as hell to me, given hes been called on it numerous times now. I can’t help but wonder if there is more to the nerd and Sam story…. A broken marriage, an adulterous affair? He’s also not been on YouTube much over the last year. I am speculating of course here. But if wants peeps to invest in his business, I certainly wouldn’t want to invest in someone whose perhaps been playing away from home, and left a broken home in his wake. Of course, this is pure speculation… But by not answering questions and being upfront with people, people are left to speculate and draw their own conclusions.
Not sure. Sam probably regrets getting involved with him. I wonder what he’ll be like to work with ongoing? I’d bet on him being too busy reading Octav1us’ scripts to do anything useful in the bar.
who knows mate but the whole thing seems rather pathetic to me. as many people have said, can he even class himself as a content creator now ? more like a creator of discontent judging from the opinions about him that are flying around and in all honesty it’s no-one’s fault but his own. he’s a generic uk “retro” youtuber, they’re ten a penny, and has a history of demanding money from fans for spurious reasons. is it any wonder that people seem to see this barcadia nonsense as yet another example of this ?
The longer this goes on the more it feels like its money to save Slice and Dice. Sam is “100%” sure its a real business but for a lot of strange and made up reasons her vegan board game cafe is not working out. So plan B open a Vegan arcade bar that we will move slice and dice into during the day and a bar / arcade place and night.
i thought it might have meant nerd, ashens and dazz. subjective i suppose !
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Frisky Dingo
1 year ago
Peter has added a comment referring to Wayne as a troll. Sure he may be spamming the comments but the questions are actual questions. To Peter you are a troll if you ask about the finer points of the business. This whole thing is a mess.
Peter, Dazz, whoever. We know you’re here, so go answer Wayne’s questions.
How you know he’s genuinely a troll is unclear to the rest of us. Ignoring him and continually trying to censor his comments just makes you look like you’ve got things to hide.
I’ve encountered barrages of questions like Wayne’s in person in my day job. Remember there are all sorts of people around.
to be honest i don’t think the people who’re being blocked on the kickstarter are actual trolls. i’ve said it myself before, i have aspergers and a lot of people DO find me difficult to deal with in person and i accept that but it stands to reason that a lot of other people in the so called community are in the same boat and, with this seeming to be the case, it doesn’t surprise me at all. the endless nagging questions seem in line with the kind of people such a business would be courting for their custom. i think it’s bizarre that they’re not being addressed, personally, as the only comments they’re responding to (more or less) seem to be the ones where they can say the 2023 equivalent of the classic vega+ team mantra: “we’re all really excited about this !”
i agree mate i am going to go over and have a look as apparently there’s a bunch of comments from wayne in the last 24 hours. personally i think he’s a genuine backer but is maybe a bit simple, but some of the questions he’s asked have been completely sensible and are not getting a response. also he’s a backer, idk at what level right enough, but treating backers with contempt and calling them trolls is just a joke at this point. as usual with these z-list youtuber “celebrities”, peter just seems to want people’s cash and zero interaction with them save for a “thanks for the cash, dude, yeah, we’re all excited !”. it’s mere lip service to the fact that others have given him their hard earned money and is a disgrace, in my opinion.
Well with less than 50 hours to go and NO media presence pushing the kickstarter, its pretty much dead in the water.
There’s still 3x £1k slots available which if filled would need £2.5k+ via other pledges to make it happen.. so will any friends and family take the plunge now (that haven’t already donated what they could before)?
Peter and Sam still have the get out clause to cancel the while project as mot being fully ready. Which will recieve no penalty and can enable them to relaunch at a more suitable time, but I suspect if he did that it would show clearly to his backers that all the money WAS going to be wasted and would have no impact on the bars ability to open and run successfully.
Having taking a little walk past Princes Road yesterday, it was warning to see the lights done, fixtures painted, bar in place, and signs of furniture and equipment moving ahead, so still not clear on why this kickstarter is still needed, since they have enough to open without it?
Perhaps more goodwill locally could’ve been a real helper to get the place up and running, a fantastic location, both historic and in scale with a captive audience that could’ve been monopolised easily on would have been to have taken over ‘The Iron Duke’ pub in Gt Yarmouth, massive parking location, huge family holiday residences and owned porporties nearby, only one other resturant close that doesn’t do vegan offerings, beach front location. But does need exterior tlc only to get it back up and running.
I can imagine the footfall would be considerably higher that the proposed site, but hey, I’m sure that was researched before hand.
Again all this site and project screams is a ‘what Sam needs, Sam gets’ cry from Peter to get her the capital to release her from debts with the former site and start afresh with a bigger premises this time using a partners and associates ‘celebrity status’ to garner interest.
As for all those attending the launch party as part of the VIP guest list, it’ll be the normal names, ones who don’t usually pay for tickets and will be treating this as free content to use on their channels to save a week’s effort finding content.
The same people who piled onto Quarter Arcades begging for access to the prototype for review, popped down to Tomb Raider the experience, used to feature in play expo promotions, etc.
Once something bigger comes along, watch how so many slowly move on too..
If it’s that close wouldn’t they just tip it over the limit with their own money to collect all the funds? Assuming they’re not being trolled and pledges will be removed near the end.
i think we’re all waiting for that moment mate although it’s entirely possible they’re at the “we really don’t have any other sources to tap for momentary funds” but i would find that unlikely, personally, and imagine they’ll push it over the line themselves just to get the 20k or whatever. it’s better than nothing !
Looks like they’re at it now. 12 new backers in the last few hours totaling £1100. I reckon we’ll see another flurry of similar sized pledges tomorrow. They’ll be attempting to spread them out to avoid suspicion.
The “Owt for Nowt Brigade” as my old Grandma would have called them!
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James P
1 year ago
Clearly you have hit a nerve with Peter. If this was such an amazing business idea he would not give two shits about what you are saying. Is he even a you tuber anymore his video output for the last year has been pathetic
well true i suppose mate. i genuinely think they thought they’d have it funded in a couple of days and could use the bountiful excess to put the cherry on top as it were, or just stuff the excess cash into their own pockets. the fact that it hasn’t gone that was has, in some small respect, restored my faith in humanity. this is 100% a business, there’s no other word for it, and these people are asking random strangers to pay for them to open it and expect those same random strangers to come down and give them money for food, drinks and game tokens. the entire thing is scandalous, it really is.
Yep, since when has a business expected the customer to pay for the place to open up? Maybe if this was some sort of co-operative with shareholders it would make sense.
Don’t you know that lot shill anything they get offered, no matter how useless it is or whether they will ever use it or not? Peter would peddle a range of nut and gluten free socks sewn together at both ends if it brought him in some cash, just like that cringeworthy crypto sponsorship he shoehorned into one of his terrible videos.
That crypto sponsorship which came soon after his tantrum video of “I need more views or Patreons, by the way I’m doing a new book”
Was the beginning of the end for Nostalgia Nerd.
I can’t remember the last time I saw a NN video I enjoyed. When the opening titles started featuring a load of other names I felt like his input was becoming minimal.
it’s the same person clearing their cache and cookies and doing it over and over, we will probably implement something to stop people doing that. probably.
For some reason, all of this Barcadia stuff just starts off the intro to ‘Sale of the Century’ for me with the immortal line ‘and now, live from Norwich, it’s the quiz of the week’ playing in my head.
Just to be pedantic, Sale Of The Century was never live. The intro went “And now from Norwich, it’s the quiz of the week”. Although in this case replace ‘quiz’ with cun&u^t^c [no carrier]
I’m no expert but having worked in a business that started in a single industrial unit and then expanded into our next six units (having knocked through to them all) I can comfortably say that it’s a perfectly normal way of doing things. Oh and we also built an extra storey on top of them all. Duh…
Ignorance illustrated.
yes mate i don’t really see why they can’t comprehend that this is how many business work/have worked. i suppose if you’re in a business that doesn’t make any profits then the notion might seem foreign.
Given the bottom is about to fall out of the global economy (especially the recent move away from the USD to BRICS currencies)… I give them about 9 months from opening and the venture will be wound up,
A fresh batch of down votes on all our comments… *sniffs air* yes. The Nostalgia Nerd has been through recently.
Two backers today, nudging the total up by £5098. They did EXACTLY what we said they would. They pumped in the money themselves to get them over the line. So much for “we will open anyways even if we don’t make the goal” they NEED this money and they need it for reasons other than given in the kickstarter. This is undoubtedly a scam and this has proven it. There’s no way a benevolent backer parts with that much money at the 11th hour. If they had a mind to they’d have done it much earlier.
Peter Leigh, I know you will read this. You are a grifter and a liar and now everyone can see it. I’d say you should be ashamed but you already know how shameful you are, but it never stopped you, because it’s always been your method. Lady Decade, Top Hat, Hawken, RCL, their grifts pale in comparison to the nakedly dishonest, smug, contemptuous and entitled way you have conducted yourself. You are scum and worst of all you’re scum hiding behind the facade of a woke, vegan, millennial nice guy, but even that personality is a lie for the public to see. I hope the retro community runs you thoroughly out of town you predatory, despicable, mendacious stain. Kickstarter should be investigating you and the grifters who collaborated with you.
well said mate. can’t really add more to that. the grift that keeps on grifting. what a bunch of spineless, swindling twats !
I look forward to your inevitable video marking this latest development.
It’s a well established tactic. Although it’s usually done at the start of a kickstarter to add some sort of legitimacy to a campaign.
Exactly. At the beginning. That’s when one might pledge ones own money into the campaign also.
People still might pull out at the last moment to torpedo the KS. Let’s wait and see what happens
At this point of posting there are 344 Backers with an average pledge of £74 each, my delicate nostrils are detecting the slight whiff of something both bovine and faecal in nature. It’ll need more punters than that to survive. Well done to them though, they’ve pulled through at the final hour and now Norwich will finally have a place where retro loving gamers can hang out and play games whilst chomping on delicious rabbit food. I hope they make a lovely series of videos about the trials and tribulations of setting up such a grand and never heard of before establishment for these are folks are real trailblazers, the original pioneers and innovators of all things retro. Before this, all Norfolk was known for was Bernard Matthews Turkey Drumsticks and Alan Partridge. So hats off to them.
One observer on twitter has noted that the £5098 that rolled in was a single pledge amounting to £98 followed by a £5000er. Wanna bet Sam or Peter just took out a quick Amigo loan for £5k?
Actually Nostalgia Nerd posted they were on £21,194 with 339 backers, then someone else posted them at £25,274 with 340 backers, which means backer number 340 threw in £4080. The next 2 backers put in £970 between them as NN posted an update of the kickstarter hitting target at £26,244 with 342 pledges. That’s very generous. Imagine all the good causes you could spend that £4080 on. All the homeless folks in Norwich you could help out. But instead, you give it to a couple of self confessed nerds to open a retro arcade pub. There’s no way that £4080 pledge wasn’t by someone connected directly to them or who stands to get their money back. These guys should be ashamed of themselves. Even if on the off-chance it was someone not connected to them – you are a prat for wasting money on a vanity project when you could have used for a decent cause and helped real folk in need.
My English failed me at the end there! No edit button. Still might as well have some more thumbs down.
Very interesting. Looks like an attempt to break the pledges up to look like more than one.
And now Quang has waded in with his trademark virtue signaling. Yes access to more arcades is great. But right next door to an existing one, in the esoteric bubble that is Norwich? Why not someplace that doesn’t have one yet?
I’ve been to the Revival events in the midlands and while I’ve played a few arcades at these events it is pinball which people really go wild for. You can’t really emulate the full electro-mechanical experience of pinball. In my local town there’s a place which has opened up with pool tables, mini-golf and other games. I get the impression this would do better than just another arcade.
I do love a pinball table. However, it’s funny you mention them…
Has anyone noticed the silver membership reward vanished that gave 150 tokens? The gold membership reward was identical but gave an extra 150 tokens for £50, making the extra tokens presumably 33p each at that tier. If they were 50p at silver tier, you could imagine them being a quid each for regular punters. Is one token one credit? That could make your gaming experience somewhat limited unless you’re pissed and decide to throw caution to the wind, which for a pub, is exactly what they’d want. I’m not against tokens, but their lack of transparency over the value of them speaks volumes. Why is it a secret? If you’re getting 10% off for being a member for a year, it would be great to know how much that would save you.
I’ll be honest, if I were to pop along, it would be as part of a day trip to Norwich. I couldn’t really drink so it would be a single drink, maybe some snacks (if I’m going to Norwich all that way for a day out, I’m not eating crappy pub food) and a few goes on their limited choice of machines. I’d take my partner too. A couple of drinks, some snacks and a few goes on the machines between us.. That 10% has saved me about £5 for my one visit in a year. Incredible reward. They should have given backers lifetime discount. If things don’t work out that lifetime won’t be long though!
What a shame they have been so terrible at being transparent. They could have launched this as an exciting attempt to turn Norwich into the retro gaming hub of the East along with Retro Replay. There’s bugger all in that part of the world. But instead they wanted to make out they’re the sole oasis of arcade gaming in a city otherwise bereft of any such thing. Utter plonkers. I don’t dislike these guys like some of you, but I do think they’ve come across unnecessarily smug and misjudged their self importance. Maybe something they can work on between videos of them sweeping the floor.
I subbed to a load of different retro gaming channels but slowly I’ve unsubbed one by one as they’re started to annoy me for various reasons. Seems like youtubers are like bands, they’re all cool and out good work to build a following and then the output quality declines and they become full of themselves. I’m still subbed to the 8-Bit Guy but I can see that one going soon too with his idiotic Commander X16 project where all the scarce soundchips and other DIL chip stock will be used up meaning people are then unable to repair arcade machine and computers actually care about. There’s a reason people use FPGA, they still make them!
Well apart from his gun fetishes too if it’s the one I’m thinking of e.g walking into a Walmart with a semi automatic over his shoulder… Because he can.
I don’t think I ever saw that one. But because he’s written a few games in machine code he’s come across as very smug of late. In one of his videos that he took down he claimed he could write a full AI in 20 years if he wanted to.
Part of the problem with the retro channels is there’s only so many systems. Once you’ve covered the bulk of them it starts to get difficult to come up with more content.
There’s a full article about him on vice from 3 years ago, after he destroyed a rare computer, that delves into it.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/889zga/8-bit-guy-ibm-7496-executive-workstation-computer-reset
i don’t watch any gaming channels regularly mate especially not the scripted “trying to be wacky” ones that certainly make up most of the popular uk ones. they’re insufferable.
Ahhh yes the “Great Reset” (un-subbing).
I started my cull during COVID, where there was ample opportunity for creators to “Build Back Better” with some stunning new material due to the persistent lockdowns a lot were experiencing. alas this did not occur.
Some of the more notable culls include:
– Nostalgia Nerd: Quality of material went to shite – as discussed here
– Retro Recipes: All off a sudden it becomes ultra cheesy and a whole family affair
– ctrl-alt-rees: Spins off into solar power with a tenuous link to powering his retro
– 8 Bit Guy: House renovations & continual pushing Command X16 and his s/ware
– Mark Fixes Stuff: Poor guy was never the same after the fire incident
– Octavius King: She should pivot to a OnlyFans, the content might be better
That being said there are many very small (low subscriber count) channels that have very interesting, if otherwise somewhat unpolished content, that are well worth the time and effort to discover and watch.
I am not sure what happened to all the retro stuff I used to watch, they all just became so self important
Ashens: I think I am still sub’d to him but his videos never appear in my list so that tell you all you need to know
8 bit: God when I found out about the gun thing that really put me off. Plus all this crap about his pointless retro computer that as other have said will use up vintage chips needed for repairs. The machine will not do anything that others do. He is also king of the “too busy to make videos” mate that is your job what the hell are you doing for 40 hours a week.
Mark: I used to love Mark then the fire and he has really gotten strange. He says he wants to make YT a full time thing yet he makes no videos !
RMC: Ah Neil if we would stop adverting his cave for 5 mins and make videos again that would be good. Also the weirdo wit the arcade in the basement is a creepy fucker and I cant stand him.
Peter: I used to really love his stuff not now. Its all very “phoned in” again he is “too busy to make videos” This is what really winds me up, people want videos not bars, or books.
Sarah: I am not sure where to start with her. She really needs to get of the internet and stay off however this being her only source of income does not help. She clearly has a lot of issues that need worked through. He twitch stuff is just odd and not in a good way. She clearly has simps that enjoy the rat stuff or her having metal health issues on camera. Her book is a whole other thing that I am sure George will cover. Her relationship with Peter is also a strange thing. If I was Sam I might be worried an ex lover who write3 scripts and acts as a camera person but “we are just friends”
Actually I don’t have an issue with RMC, the content is relatively strong and he has strongly pivoted to equipment preservation, restoration and making the equipment available in a hands-on museum. Quite a gutsy move as the wear and tear on old (and now fragile and delicate) equipment must be quite high. I didn’t find the way he raised capital to do what he needed to do as “grift driven” as Nostalgia Nerd is making things, and Neil does do some genuine charity work too,
Retro Recipes is a channel I can enjoy in the right frame of mind, but can’t deal with the over emotional stuff.
Perifractic’s endless stream of dad jokes and insistence on shoehorning his long-suffering wife and dog into every single video he makes… it’s all so tiresome.
not 100% on knowing who that even is but anyone who scripts “jokes” wants submerging in something awful until they stop moving !
Apart from the whole gun fetish thing + the dodgy as hell funding for the X16 (describes it as a charity, bypasses even the wafer thin safety net of established crowdfunding sites).
Or the general air of ungratefulness when people send him really expensive bits of gear. Although I think he might be afflicted with the condition of that character from The Mary Whitehouse Experience where everything that comes out of his mouth sounds sarcastic.
The best bit is that some Dutch bloke came up with a perfectly good 8-bit computer for $50, and he keeps rubbing The 8-Bit Guy’s face in it. No crowdfunding required either.
yes mate i mentioned this in a video, they took it away. someone put a screen grab in the comments on that video i think, or cut and pasted the text from it. seems a lot of people have been archiving the posts/changes etc.
I’d agree with your assessment here. Theirs is a milquetoast idea, that probably wouldn’t be even remotely interesting to anyone were they not attached to it. The sad truth that even though proportionally they’ve not managed to tap into the full extent of their respective fanbase, they can still count on particular fans who never miss an opportunity to be noticed and be near them, and would sign over their last penny to them if it meant they’d get a glance across the bar. Sad, really.
Has anyone else picked up on this (intentional?) typo on the Kickstarter page?
One word: “nasty” lol
I reckon it was all meant as a 40th birthday present for Peter, whose birthdate is in April according to companies House, but it got a bit out of hand.
(Now that’s a conspiracy theory 😯 )
It very much feels like Peter has a met a new woman, she’s determined to set herself up as the vegan chef of Norwich, and she is just using nerd and the others YouTube status to promote and now fund her business ventures. Interestingly, I saw nerd has at least one child from a previous relationship (she he is early videos). The fact he seems so keen not to disclose the fact that he and sam are in relationship seems suspicious as hell to me, given hes been called on it numerous times now. I can’t help but wonder if there is more to the nerd and Sam story…. A broken marriage, an adulterous affair? He’s also not been on YouTube much over the last year. I am speculating of course here. But if wants peeps to invest in his business, I certainly wouldn’t want to invest in someone whose perhaps been playing away from home, and left a broken home in his wake. Of course, this is pure speculation… But by not answering questions and being upfront with people, people are left to speculate and draw their own conclusions.
Not sure. Sam probably regrets getting involved with him. I wonder what he’ll be like to work with ongoing? I’d bet on him being too busy reading Octav1us’ scripts to do anything useful in the bar.
who knows mate but the whole thing seems rather pathetic to me. as many people have said, can he even class himself as a content creator now ? more like a creator of discontent judging from the opinions about him that are flying around and in all honesty it’s no-one’s fault but his own. he’s a generic uk “retro” youtuber, they’re ten a penny, and has a history of demanding money from fans for spurious reasons. is it any wonder that people seem to see this barcadia nonsense as yet another example of this ?
The longer this goes on the more it feels like its money to save Slice and Dice. Sam is “100%” sure its a real business but for a lot of strange and made up reasons her vegan board game cafe is not working out. So plan B open a Vegan arcade bar that we will move slice and dice into during the day and a bar / arcade place and night.
well he was in a relationship with octavius prior to this too mate (according to one of his close chums, anyway).
I take it you noticed that the one comment referred to “the nerds”, this would appear to be a nickname for the couple, confirming the relationship.
i thought it might have meant nerd, ashens and dazz. subjective i suppose !
Peter has added a comment referring to Wayne as a troll. Sure he may be spamming the comments but the questions are actual questions. To Peter you are a troll if you ask about the finer points of the business. This whole thing is a mess.
Peter, Dazz, whoever. We know you’re here, so go answer Wayne’s questions.
How you know he’s genuinely a troll is unclear to the rest of us. Ignoring him and continually trying to censor his comments just makes you look like you’ve got things to hide.
I’ve encountered barrages of questions like Wayne’s in person in my day job. Remember there are all sorts of people around.
to be honest i don’t think the people who’re being blocked on the kickstarter are actual trolls. i’ve said it myself before, i have aspergers and a lot of people DO find me difficult to deal with in person and i accept that but it stands to reason that a lot of other people in the so called community are in the same boat and, with this seeming to be the case, it doesn’t surprise me at all. the endless nagging questions seem in line with the kind of people such a business would be courting for their custom. i think it’s bizarre that they’re not being addressed, personally, as the only comments they’re responding to (more or less) seem to be the ones where they can say the 2023 equivalent of the classic vega+ team mantra: “we’re all really excited about this !”
i agree mate i am going to go over and have a look as apparently there’s a bunch of comments from wayne in the last 24 hours. personally i think he’s a genuine backer but is maybe a bit simple, but some of the questions he’s asked have been completely sensible and are not getting a response. also he’s a backer, idk at what level right enough, but treating backers with contempt and calling them trolls is just a joke at this point. as usual with these z-list youtuber “celebrities”, peter just seems to want people’s cash and zero interaction with them save for a “thanks for the cash, dude, yeah, we’re all excited !”. it’s mere lip service to the fact that others have given him their hard earned money and is a disgrace, in my opinion.
Well with less than 50 hours to go and NO media presence pushing the kickstarter, its pretty much dead in the water.
There’s still 3x £1k slots available which if filled would need £2.5k+ via other pledges to make it happen.. so will any friends and family take the plunge now (that haven’t already donated what they could before)?
Peter and Sam still have the get out clause to cancel the while project as mot being fully ready. Which will recieve no penalty and can enable them to relaunch at a more suitable time, but I suspect if he did that it would show clearly to his backers that all the money WAS going to be wasted and would have no impact on the bars ability to open and run successfully.
Having taking a little walk past Princes Road yesterday, it was warning to see the lights done, fixtures painted, bar in place, and signs of furniture and equipment moving ahead, so still not clear on why this kickstarter is still needed, since they have enough to open without it?
Perhaps more goodwill locally could’ve been a real helper to get the place up and running, a fantastic location, both historic and in scale with a captive audience that could’ve been monopolised easily on would have been to have taken over ‘The Iron Duke’ pub in Gt Yarmouth, massive parking location, huge family holiday residences and owned porporties nearby, only one other resturant close that doesn’t do vegan offerings, beach front location. But does need exterior tlc only to get it back up and running.
I can imagine the footfall would be considerably higher that the proposed site, but hey, I’m sure that was researched before hand.
Again all this site and project screams is a ‘what Sam needs, Sam gets’ cry from Peter to get her the capital to release her from debts with the former site and start afresh with a bigger premises this time using a partners and associates ‘celebrity status’ to garner interest.
As for all those attending the launch party as part of the VIP guest list, it’ll be the normal names, ones who don’t usually pay for tickets and will be treating this as free content to use on their channels to save a week’s effort finding content.
The same people who piled onto Quarter Arcades begging for access to the prototype for review, popped down to Tomb Raider the experience, used to feature in play expo promotions, etc.
Once something bigger comes along, watch how so many slowly move on too..
If it’s that close wouldn’t they just tip it over the limit with their own money to collect all the funds? Assuming they’re not being trolled and pledges will be removed near the end.
i think we’re all waiting for that moment mate although it’s entirely possible they’re at the “we really don’t have any other sources to tap for momentary funds” but i would find that unlikely, personally, and imagine they’ll push it over the line themselves just to get the 20k or whatever. it’s better than nothing !
Yep, I’m actually certain this will happen. Look out for a suspiciously large plegde or two in the final hours. That will be clinching proof.
Looks like they’re at it now. 12 new backers in the last few hours totaling £1100. I reckon we’ll see another flurry of similar sized pledges tomorrow. They’ll be attempting to spread them out to avoid suspicion.
It’ll be friends and family, they’ll pay them back from the “winnings”, with them having to lose the cut that Kickstarter gets.
definitely. this was predicted from day one. there’s no way they’re going to miss out on this money if they can avoid it.
yes mate as predicted, if they can avoid doing so there’s no way they’ll want to lose out on this money.
The “Owt for Nowt Brigade” as my old Grandma would have called them!
Clearly you have hit a nerve with Peter. If this was such an amazing business idea he would not give two shits about what you are saying. Is he even a you tuber anymore his video output for the last year has been pathetic
well true i suppose mate. i genuinely think they thought they’d have it funded in a couple of days and could use the bountiful excess to put the cherry on top as it were, or just stuff the excess cash into their own pockets. the fact that it hasn’t gone that was has, in some small respect, restored my faith in humanity. this is 100% a business, there’s no other word for it, and these people are asking random strangers to pay for them to open it and expect those same random strangers to come down and give them money for food, drinks and game tokens. the entire thing is scandalous, it really is.
Yep, since when has a business expected the customer to pay for the place to open up? Maybe if this was some sort of co-operative with shareholders it would make sense.
it’d make more sense, but it’d make less money (for the people who seem to be looking at it as a cash cow)
If it’s a static IP address from Norwich, it can’t be Nostalgia Turd. Surely he’d have a NordVPN sponsorship or something.
Don’t you know that lot shill anything they get offered, no matter how useless it is or whether they will ever use it or not? Peter would peddle a range of nut and gluten free socks sewn together at both ends if it brought him in some cash, just like that cringeworthy crypto sponsorship he shoehorned into one of his terrible videos.
That crypto sponsorship which came soon after his tantrum video of “I need more views or Patreons, by the way I’m doing a new book”
Was the beginning of the end for Nostalgia Nerd.
I can’t remember the last time I saw a NN video I enjoyed. When the opening titles started featuring a load of other names I felt like his input was becoming minimal.
We have received a huge number of down votes in our replies… Reckon we’ve definitely rattled some cages?
it’s the same person clearing their cache and cookies and doing it over and over, we will probably implement something to stop people doing that. probably.
Oh no, with all these downvotes we’ll have to do a Youtube and remove the dislike button.
it’s the same person clearing their cookies and cache and doing it over and over. beyond pathetic !
I like seeing all the downvotes. They’re hilarious. It’s not like upvotes can be exchanged for goods or services, it’s just numbers on a screen.
yes mate i like seeing them too to be honest, which is why we’ll most likely do nothing about them 🙂
For some reason, all of this Barcadia stuff just starts off the intro to ‘Sale of the Century’ for me with the immortal line ‘and now, live from Norwich, it’s the quiz of the week’ playing in my head.
I think I need help.
Just to be pedantic, Sale Of The Century was never live. The intro went “And now from Norwich, it’s the quiz of the week”. Although in this case replace ‘quiz’ with cun&u^t^c [no carrier]
Of course, no idea why I said live from, should have checked online before just relying on my old mind alone 🙂
get a fucking grip of yourself for christs sakes :p
Blaming you for their own failures? Sounds like the Vega farce.
Not sure if this is the wereferret or not but whoever it is is a cowardly fucking weasel.
indeed mate, par for the course. you can’t defend the indefensible so the only thing you can do is run sockpuppet interference, see: Kieren Hawken.
As good ol’ Fletcher said on Porridge, “don’t let the bastards grind you down”, or in your case – the stupid, stupid BASTARDS!