Dial up was very common until the mid-2000's. No one was doing that unless they lived alone. They couldn't because someone would need to use the phone at some point. If you wanted to have the guide while playing the game you printed it out.
>what is a textfile
Don't forget if someone called your number when using dial up, or picked up the receiver on the landlines you got kicked offline.
You had call waiting? You should have added *70 to your modem dial settings to disable call waiting during the call. Someone calling you would get a busy signal instead of kicking you offline if you do this.
That ?single=1 solution still works but all the images are broken which defeats the purpose of HTML guide.
The actual answer? Same as speedrunners. Math-obsessed autistic gamers would play games for thousands of hours and calculate drop rates and encounter rates from it.
I have an account from 2004 and haven’t looked at the boards in ages. Only started browsing them again recently. Trannies, trannies everywhere. What the fuck happened? When did this change start happening? I went in expecting the old 4chan-lite version of gamefaqs and instead got troons with pronouns in their bios and people getting banned for calling things woke. How does a population of less than 1% somehow manage to worm their way into positions of power on every goddamn website?
I noticed it around 2019? That's when I got banned. It seems to have become even worse in the last few years, you can't even imply that you aren't a liberal faggot or aren't thrilled with liberal faggotry anymore. Some called it ResetEra-lite, now it is just ResetEra 2.
Insane people will invest an irrational amount of resources into pointless things while sane people will throw up their hands and realize it's not worth it. It's the same reason positions of petty authority in real life (HOAs, city councils, niche interest clubs, etc) almost invariably end up being controlled by nutjobs.
To further my previous point, the overlap between trannies and autism means that all of them are either tech-wealthy or NEETs.
It gradually started with TDS in 2016 or so and then became completely unbearable around 2021 or 2022. The early woke era, that started in 2011 and culminated in a backlash with Gamergate, didn't help either, though at that time there was a lot of fighting between woke/proto woke people and alt-lite types. That time was extraordinarily unbearable but got a bit better into Trump's first term, even if it wasn't great. Now it's worse than ever, and Fandom buying it out made the problem even worse. Really, the GameFAQs boards have always been trend chasers, and once 4chan lost relevance, they started going the retard Reddit route.
my favorite is when one of the extreme leftists accidentally wanders off the plantation and doesn't score 100% on even the smallest of lefty purity tests, it quickly becomes a feeding frenzy as they devour their own to a: use immense peer pressure and threats of utter ostracization to correct such egregious behavior and b: make it known to everyone else exactly what happens when you don't toe the line
Ars Technica was bad. Ben Kuchera was a mod there before becoming a writer for the site, to give you some idea of how bad it was.
I was actually not familiar with him, but seeing a picture of him and finding out that he wrote for Polygon is, along with what you said, highly informative.
