Shit that reminds you that you’re getting old - Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fwd: Damn young’uns

[1Tonka_Truck]

My neighbor's daughter, who was a toddler when they moved in, just graduated college.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

I'm still pissed off about that.

I totally ignore it.

And even if it's no longer the smallest planet, it's now the biggest dwarf planet, so winning. Pluto will always have planet-space in my heart.

 

[Sneak 'n' Snore]

Saw through the community happenings that the pedo boykisser discord owner got doxed and for a second I thought he himself was underage until I realized people born in 2005 are adults after all
Still fucked up nonetheless...

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

This Gentleman became Supreme 10 years ago on Thursday

 

[Orange Rhymer]

Yes, pixel stuff developed precisely because of the hardware limitations of the day, but it’s also still immediately recognizable as belonging to a certain game/franchise: you will never mistake the art style of a TMNT game for, say, a Double Dragon or Streets of Rage. Now look at four brown hellscapes of a battlefield and tell me which one is COD, nu-Halo, Battlefield, etc. As to modern games having modern system requirements, they have to be able to interface with the hardware and OS the same way as everything else, so yes, they do need modern hardware/driver compatibility at a bare minimum.

Speaking of vidya and tech need shit, how many generations are we from nobody knowing why the fuck the ‘Save’ icon is a clipped-corner blue square with a white rectangle in it? A: and B: drives were on the way out in the 90s, and basically extinct by the very early 00s. Figure old Gen Z are about the last people who might recognize that symbol as a picture of a floppy disc.

There was a humorous story regarding the 'save icon' :
Upon showing a zoomer an actual 3.5" floppy, he replied
"Oh! You 3d printed the save icon!"

More computer related:
RAM: I still catch myself saying "megs" when I mean "gigs".

Hard drives with terabytes still blows my mind.
My first was a 20 meg HD (external, huge, separate power supply), and I thought I was Le 31337 haxxor.

 

[AnOminous]

Hard drives with terabytes still blows my mind.
My first was a 20 meg HD (external, huge, separate power supply), and I thought I was Le 31337 haxxor.

I liked when those old 20 MB HDs came with a piece of paper, often handwritten, on it where you had to enter the bad sectors on it manually.

And it sounded like a jet engine when it spun up.

Some PC cases still have one of those full-size 5 1/4" HD slots for those.

 

[glass_houses]

There was a humorous story regarding the 'save icon' :
Upon showing a zoomer an actual 3.5" floppy, he replied
"Oh! You 3d printed the save icon!"

More computer related:
RAM: I still catch myself saying "megs" when I mean "gigs".

Hard drives with terabytes still blows my mind.
My first was a 20 meg HD (external, huge, separate power supply), and I thought I was Le 31337 haxxor.

It is mind blowing to have witnessed the entire birth, lifespan and death of what was a revolutionary bit of kit when I've only just reached middle age.

 

[Derrick]

until I realized people born in 2005 are adults after all

I will never be able to comprehend people online announcing their birth years as beginning in a 2. I see people say they're born in '2003' or whenever and I think, 'what is this a middle schooler?' and then I have to stop, do the math in my head, and think , 'no this is a full grown adult in their 20s'. I read their posts and I wonder what sort of life they must have had. It's fascinates me to think that they've gone through a while childhood contained entirely in the current century. What must that be like? What is it like to have gone to school during Covid? to have always have information at your fingertips? to have never been inside a video store because you can stream whatever you want in seconds? to have no memories of 9/11 or the life before hand? If they were born in the USA on or after October 2001 then they're almost exclusively lived in a time of war for their country, what's that like? It makes me wonder, what sort of people will they become, given that they're now becoming adults I suppose we'll find out real soon.

 

[AnOminous]

to have always have information at your fingertips?

And yet never having opened a book. Being a literal retard. Being incapable of understanding the concept of knowledge that is on paper. Being an absolute shit human being. Who thinks people disagreeing with you is a crime. Being a goddamn retard. Being a zoomer.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

It really feels like it shouldn't be so far in the future yet.

 

[Dieter Laser]

I liked when those old 20 MB HDs came with a piece of paper, often handwritten, on it where you had to enter the bad sectors on it manually.

And it sounded like a jet engine when it spun up.

Some PC cases still have one of those full-size 5 1/4" HD slots for those.

I still have mine and it still spins up just fine after all these years. Old PC hardware is just a different breed. I may have 200tb of storage that fits in a 2’ cube, but that 20meg drive impresses me more.

Thread tax - I asked a streaming device to play classic rock and it played 311. Yeah….

 

[.T.N.U.C]

I still have some cassettes. About half were stolen along with other stuff. But I have every INXS album up until X on cassette. The Swing is their best album. My favorite INXS song is Johnson's Aeroplane.

I hadn't heard their first album (1980 Australia, 1984 rest of world) until this year, and was pleasantly surprised. I had it on heavy rotation for a few weeks. I didn't realise they'd had that new wave ska type sound early on.
I like Michael Hutchences description of it as "naive and kind of cute".
Not that I like ska, lamest genre everAt one point I was in a mostly ska band because they got regular gigs and I still can't wash the shame off but the album was refreshing. I'll have to give Swing a listen. I avoided INXS like the plague growing up because their later singles were ubiquitous and I'd always thought of them as a lame top 40 band.
Another sign of getting old and maturing; now being able to listen to and appreciate musicians that I used to think sucked, because younger me thought they weren't cool enough at the time.

 

[Balaam's Ass]

I sometimes think people born a couple decades before the 20th century are in a similar position to those born a couple decades before the 21st century. Both witnessed radical changes in technology and how people lived.

The former saw the rise of horseless carriages, electricity, radio, motion pictures, and airplanes, then later television, nuclear weapons and space travel. The latter, the rise of personal computers, home video games, the internet, smartphones with cameras, GPS, and access to limitless information, and now artificial intelligence and who knows what else.

Yet both still retained a memory of how things were in "the old days." It's like they straddled the boundary between two dramatically different worlds. That's the way I feel.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I sometimes think people born a couple decades before the 20th century are in a similar position to those born a couple decades before the 21st century. Both witnessed radical changes in technology and how people lived.

The former saw the rise of horseless carriages, electricity, radio, motion pictures, and airplanes, then later television, nuclear weapons and space travel. The latter, the rise of personal computers, home video games, the internet, smartphones with cameras, GPS, and access to limitless information, and now artificial intelligence and who knows what else.

Yet both still retained a memory of how things were in "the old days." It's like they straddled the boundary between two dramatically different worlds. That's the way I feel.

yeah I was using a computer in pre-school, the old (then still fairly new) TI-994a
amazing workhorse for preschool education, as weird a niche as that sounds like
had a speech synthesizer and a crazy big educational library starting as soon as a kid could understand 1,2,3 and 4 they were good to go on this fucker
but yeah getting to see the change from "my parents have a lot of books but that needs a trip to the library" to "oh wow a computer at school that can punch up tons of AP articles" to the modern onlines where it's like star trek and you just get whatever in a minute is weird

 

[Adrenochrome Dreams]

There are now people in their mid-20's born in the 21st century

 

[AnOminous]

yeah I was using a computer in pre-school, the old (then still fairly new) TI-994a

This was literally my first computer. To be strict in naming, it was TI-99/4A. And then there was the Sinclair (I forget which kind but one of the ones with a shitty membrane keyboard). And then the TRS-80. The first I really loved was the Apple ][+.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I was thinking "wasn't the Apollo 11 landing 40-something years ago"? Nope, it's over half a century ago. The last Moon landing was Apollo 17 in 1972, 50 years before 2022.

 

[Dysnomia]

I think people making "pixel art" now may miss the point of why there's "pixel art" in the past: low resolution and system resources.


Don't "retro"-style games usually somehow have current system requirements?

They played retro games on emulators and haven't actually played on a CRT. So they don't understand the games aren't supposed to look like a bunch of colored squares stuck together. I was playing Castlevania on Mesen with the NTSC Blarg filter and I thought it looked pretty good. I hate it when people use fug filters like super eagle and then put whole playthroughs up. It doesn't make the game look good. I'd rather see the raw pixels if you are gonna do that.

I've seen comments complaining about low res sprites in older games available on Steam. Like Phantom Brave. Yeah. Try turning that filter off then.

I see so many games that should be able to run on my potatotop but can't. But there are games like Vampire Survivors that I have no issue with. Sometimes it's a crap shoot. I tend to pirate if there's no demo then if it runs I will buy it on sale.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

So they don't understand the games aren't supposed to look like a bunch of colored squares stuck together.

I didn't know 16-bit games ran at 240p until sometime around 2000. CRTs can make the pixels blur together so 240p can look like 480p.

 

[3deadniggers]

The obsession with generating the perfect recreation of pixel games is a mental illness. Play the game as it looks because games weren't designed for CRT or these weird filters. You played what you had on whatever TV your family could afford. TVs were a luxury good until the early 2000s when we started to see multiple TVs in middle class and working class households. Until then you may have had a black and white one.

Feeling disconnected from the world makes me feel old. I don't want to be a part of clown world and I live in Europe where the cities and towns have been overrun by hordes of Africans. Everything is dirty, you can't trust any one you see walking past you and everything feels threatening in a way it never did growing up. You visit the village you grew up in and there's entire new housing estates and it's twice the size it was ten years ago. It gives a weird midlife crisis where your head is demanding you do something to move forward in life while your heart is pulled into a deep abyss seeing how bad things have become. Wanting a family while fearing putting your kids into an education system so twisted. Even something as simple as wanting your kid to grow up among people who look like them and share a culture feels so distant now. The token Asian kid is now the token White kid and it's such a miserable thing to consider. We're always told "Every generation thinks the next one is disrespectful and stupid in ways they weren't" but time moves so much faster now and it's hard to think that quote was looking at the difference between Millenials, Zoomers and gen Alpha. Technology and mass immigration has completely changed life as we knew it. I don't think we can go back, but I don't know how you go forward when everything is so bleak.