Old, Outdated, And Wrong Information - People still believe this?

[Judge Dredd]

One of the problems with the internet is that information lives for a long time. This is good, but also means things can become outdated. This also happens in real life where people know of a topic but then never update their frame of reference.

I was curious if other people have experienced this, and what examples people have.

While this thread is not about The Mandela Effect, it crosses over with this.

I'll start with three (or more like five).

Cheap Minis
What started me down this road was a video about RuneWars. A fantasy miniatures board game that I assume failed to find an audience, because was sold off really cheap at some point, As a result was recommended as a great source cheap Dungeons and Dragons figures. That was five years ago, and now the game is hard to find, and when I do see it, it goes for RRP or higher. Yet searching for budget Dungeons and Dragons miniatures (or cheap miniatures in general) will bring up lots of threads, videos, and recommendations for RuneWars. Oddly enough, the video I watched specifically mentioned that the bargain price is unlikely to last forever.

The same happens with Warhammer. I often see post recommending a starter box that has long been out of print. (I think it was the 9th edition Marines vs Necrons box, if curious)

Star Wars Legion is, or was, cited as a super cheap minis game. These days, it's more expensive than Warhammer.


VR
I don't own a VR headset. I'm not a shill for VR. When I talk about VR, there are people who still assume the VR landscape is as it was in 2016. A bunch of overpriced tech demos and no games. When I, someone who doesn't even own a headset, starts listing games for it, (Half Life Alyx, Boneworks, Walking Dead Saints and Sinners, Beat Saber) it starts with dismissals like "that's one" or "that doesn't count", but as I keep listing games (Into The Radius, Hotdogs Horseshoes And Handgrenades, VTOL, I Expect You To Die, After The Fall, Arizona Sunshine, Vertigo Remastered) eventually they just give up and change the subject.


PewDiePie
We all know PewDiePie. The most popular YouTuber, plays horror games and pretends to be scared by them, right? Except no. PewDiePie is retired and is living in Japan with his family, occationally posting vlogs about him learning to draw and taking up climbing. Even before his retirement, he was making all sorts of content for years. It would be like defining Michael Jackson as that kid from The Jackson Five. I think most know at this point Mr Beast is the top Youtuber, but PewDiePie is number 9 according to Wikipedia.

 

[Forklift Certified]

USA is a democracy
No its a fucking constitutional federation.

 

[PovertySprocket]

Cool first car
Fuck off zoomer, millenials are having a bidding war over that 1999 Civic with a stick.

 

[Chromeo]

Anyone else love finding those old books from the 90s/early 00s about the Internet and how to "surf the web"? They list emoticons and websites you can visit, stuff like that.

 

[PonderosaPete]

I think it's called dissemination of information. While we are getting faster at spreading information due to technology, human ability to process and absorb new information increases at a much slower rate.

 

[Soup Sammiches]

It's only gay if the balls touch.

You're a fag no matter what. Deal with it.

 

[Jotch]

Sneed is the old guy behind the shop counter not the guy on the porch.

 

[Calandrino]

The bath salts cannibal zombie wasn't on bath salts. It was just some black guy on weed.

Miami cannibal attack - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

While police sources speculated that the use of a street drug like "bath salts" might have been a factor,[3] experts expressed doubt, since toxicology reports were only able to identify small amounts of marijuana in Eugene's system, leaving the ultimate cause of his behavior unknown.[4]

 

[Crabpuncher]

KingCobraJFS thread has the incel tag, but he has had sex with at least 7+ women, has many women friends(buddy trolls).
I assume this is a left over from the creation of his thread which was during the begining of a dry spell (after dating at least 3 woman and having sex with them) where he swore off dating and women in general.
Considering now his Ex-from less than a few month ago is one of the best new lolcows on the site, its a really weird thing to see tagged, especially when searching for actually incel cows/communities.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Anyone else love finding those old books from the 90s/early 00s about the Internet and how to "surf the web"? They list emoticons and websites you can visit, stuff like that.

I still smile when some 90s or early 2000s show unironically calls it "the information super highway".

Though with computers, there's some I could go into. One upon a time, AMD GPUs were an inferiour product to nVidia, and you pretty much had to go nVidia if you wanted your games to work right. Now? Not so much. AMD GPUs have been pretty solid. As far as I can tell, there's no reason to go nVidia these days outside of maybe hardware ray tracing, but people still insist on seeing AMD as the shit tier option.

Related to that, ultra and even high settings have been pointless for a while. There's been a bunch of videos on this subject but I still go back to this one from 7 years ago.

The short version, the days when graphics settings made a noticeable quality difference are long gone. Even side by side it can be difficult to tell a game running on mid settings from the same game running on ultra, but mid gets triple the performance. And yet, if a game can't run 4k 120fps on ultra settings, people complain.

KingCobraJFS thread has the incel tag, but he has had sex with at least 7+ women, has many women friends(buddy trolls).

I see that happen to Rev, Grummz, SmashJT, and other gaming drama/culture war YouTubers who are married and sometimes even have kids. It's not the same because in those cases it's a throwaway insult and not a tag on their threads (it could be, I've just not checked).