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[Tracksuit PHd]

Having to listen to kids complain about 2 seconds of buffering on a 1080p jewtube video annoys me greatly when they're on a 300 Mb+ fiber connection. I remember tracking down tools to download Flash animations from Newgrounds back in the day so I wouldn't have to download it every time I wanted to watch them on a 14.4 kbps dial-up connection.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Gen Z's take on what is "Retro Gaming"

What would that make NES and SNES games to them?

“awesome really deep rpgs for the pc they can sink a ton of time into”

It's not on PC, but what if one suggested Chrono Trigger?

 

[BadGoy1488]

It's not on PC, but what if one suggested Chrono Trigger?

you can get it on steam and it runs great it's the ps1 version though. not many downsides imo, and has the Toriyama cutscenes.


Tax: one of my coworkers first console was a ps3, mine was NES. He's only heard of Metal Gear because of Phantom Pain, literally 0 other context to the entire series. My age adjacent coworker and I will sometimes reply to him like a Slig from Oddworld saying "What?"..he doesn't get it, but we do, and it annoys him. Another friend of mines young son has been "getting into old anime"...he's watching Yu Yu Hakusho...he has never heard of Astro-boy or even Akira.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I still recall when tabbed browsing was a new thing. It still sorta feels new to me.

14.4 kbps dial-up connection

Downloading a 640 x 480 JPG can take awhile, at that speed. Also vids were usually not streaming then -- usually crappy little clips.

mine was NES

First personal console was an N64, but I played NES and SNES vidya before then. Even the late '90s were just a decade after NES days.

(N64 still works BTW)

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Having to listen to kids complain about 2 seconds of buffering on a 1080p jewtube video annoys me greatly when they're on a 300 Mb+ fiber connection. I remember tracking down tools to download Flash animations from Newgrounds back in the day so I wouldn't have to download it every time I wanted to watch them on a 14.4 kbps dial-up connection.

I was born in the 80s and remember the Flash days but having a video pause so it can buffer is still annoying idc.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

It's not all bad. I've been having some good attention with the ladies...

...A pretty 20-something wearing a Nirvana-Nevermind tour shirt at the gas pump asking me what Nirvana is, and how to operate the pump...
...A confident 30-something female 'Engineer' shocked that I am 'allowed' to drive heavy equipment on company property, and that my travel/expenses are unrestricted.

I guess it's because I act masculine, and not like a faggy soyboy?
Or else it's daddy-issues. Either way, I'll take it.

 

[AnOminous]

Reminds me of a 'meme' I saw once

This has to be some kind of fucking joke, right?

Tax: one of my coworkers first console was a ps3, mine was NES.

If you even recognize, much less have ever used one of these, you are an oldfag.

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

I've been having knee troubles on one side the last few weeks, and unlike past times, it just hasn't... gone away.

I'm a seriously committed weightlifter, and because of my age (turn 35 soon) it occurred to me that this just might be the time shit starts failing when it comes to high performance. Like, I might never FULLY recover from whatever is ailing me. After all, 35 is ANCIENT in terms of weightlifting already.

Gonna be diligent with rehab/taking it easy, but I'm considering a very real possibility that my heavy squatting days might be over.

Sadge.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I saw a chew toy shaped like a flip phone labeled "Retro cellphone chew toy". I had to click away to preserve my withering youth.

 

[Larry Potterfield]

Sitting in a modern car and nearly having a stroke trying to figure out how to use the menus. I used to show my parents how to connect to the car via bluetooth, now I can barely figure it out myself.

 

[glass_houses]

Sitting in a modern car and nearly having a stroke trying to figure out how to use the menus. I used to show my parents how to connect to the car via bluetooth, now I can barely figure it out myself.

I drove my housemate's car the other day. I've been the passenger in keyless ignition cars many times, but this was the first time that I was behind the wheel. The handbrake was a fucking button. If I went too slow, I got beeped at. If I went too fast, I got beeped at. Periodically, I'd feel the computer fucking with the steering wheel. I tried to turn off cruise control, the display said that it was off but I could still feel it in the accelerator pedal when the computer decided that I was going too fast. The only way to interact with anything on the dash was through a touch screen.

The car was lovely and comfortable inside, perfect climate control and visibility, the engine was barely audible, turned on a twenty cent piece, the brakes were smooth as silk.

The entire vehicle is one bad software update away from being a huge, expensive, absolutely useless brick.

 

[TapewormSalesman]

Reminds me of a 'meme' I saw once

Spoiler: Gen Z's take on what is "Retro Gaming"

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It's a meeeeeeem, you dip

I think there was an older version that had Halo in the ancient gamer

 

[ToroidalBoat]

The dislike I have using "smartphones" (and mobiles in general) was incomprehensible to someone young enough to not recall 9/11.

 

[Lady Bizness]

I remember my grandparents complaining about my parent's generation's slang. So here I am, upset by the slang of the youth of today. But there are some differences.
My parent's slang had some staying power. I recognize it, it was long lived, iconic, and not completely unintelligible. When I watch old videos there is a bit that's nonsensical, incredibly stupid, and perhaps very regional (see Valley girls) so I'll admit that there's probably some linguistic survivorship bias.
These days you can't keep up with it. There's no reason to bother knowing what rizz izz because it will be replaced with the next thing in thirty seconds. "Phat" as stupid as it was, lasted for years. I still hear people use "sick" and "sweet".

 

[grump]

I'm seeing the start of an attempted reinvention of the 90s as a mini version of a parody 50s where it supposedly was a conservative hellscape with lynched gays hanging from the streetposts and women chained in kitchens. I guess Bubba Clinton was a hardcore racist after all.

Funny enough this is occurring at the same time another narrative they are trying to push that today is somehow the most conservative time in US history.

 

[AnOminous]

I guess Bubba Clinton was a hardcore racist after all.

He let Hillary run the whole "super predators" thing and lock up record numbers of black men. Because you see, niggers are "super predators," that is what that phrase meant.

 

[The Last Stand]

Tax: one of my coworkers first console was a ps3, mine was NES. He's only heard of Metal Gear because of Phantom Pain, literally 0 other context to the entire series.

I feel the same way when people's first (or only) GTA experience was V or its online mode. Or seeing a 20-year-old game like San Andreas get reduced to memes and clickbait.

 

[glass_houses]

I drove my housemate's car the other day. I've been the passenger in keyless ignition cars many times, but this was the first time that I was behind the wheel. The handbrake was a fucking button. If I went too slow, I got beeped at. If I went too fast, I got beeped at. Periodically, I'd feel the computer fucking with the steering wheel. I tried to turn off cruise control, the display said that it was off but I could still feel it in the accelerator pedal when the computer decided that I was going too fast. The only way to interact with anything on the dash was through a touch screen.

The car was lovely and comfortable inside, perfect climate control and visibility, the engine was barely audible, turned on a twenty cent piece, the brakes were smooth as silk.

The entire vehicle is one bad software update away from being a huge, expensive, absolutely useless brick.

Just as a carry on from this: the housemate just told me that he had to get roadside assistance yesterday, because he tried to open the fuel door while the rest of the car was locked and the computer had a hissy fit. It locked everything and refused to unlock. It's possible- even likely- that if the housemate had read the manual he'd have known how to reset the computer and get the car open himself. Still, it's yet another point against these computers on wheels. A ten - twenty year old car will certainly refuse to run if the computer glitches, but at least it'll let you open the fucking doors.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

[MrBeast] audience is overwhelmingly small kids

Can you imagine growing up with favorite childhood entertainment involving online streaming vids by Current Year "influencers"?

(glad I was a little kid before 9/11)

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

My back now starts to experience pain when I go on intense fairground rides.

On top of that. I do remember when I got my first camera as a child, you don't get the picture right away when you take it. Finding cameras like that are very rare now.

Extremely disturbing is that those who spent their early childhood struggling during the great recession have become adults now.