Tech you miss/ new tech trends you hate - ok boomers

[Man at Arms]

Dealing with literal retards mentally incapable of understanding basic concepts is so fucking frustrating. WHY WHY WHY CAN'T I JUST MURDER THEM?

Cause murder is bad, and you're better than that my little kiwi fren

 

[The Last Stand]

I miss when there was more than one sports game title out on the market. You had NBA Live, NBA Jam, NBA PrimeTime, NBA 2K, NBA Street to name a few examples. Now, the market only has room for ONE or two if you're lucky.

Also, when people say 2K, they normally mean the basketball game. Now, the moniker of 2K is associated with WWE, TopSpin, golf, even a Lego game. It sounds generic when you stick it anywhere.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

I know CD-ROMs were a vector for shovelware, shareware, and dubious software, but I miss software packs on CD-ROM, sometimes on multiple discs. In addition to what companies would do, package older games in a series together (often on multiple discs), LucasArts had Monkey Island Madness (Monkey Island 1 & 2), Activision had Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom, Maxis/EA had SimClassics, Sierra had collections for Space Quest and Leisure Suit Larry, the earlier games sharing space on a single CD-ROM but the later ones with multiple CDs.

It was a great way to still get older games that had normally been discontinued otherwise.

Around 2010, I received a CD-ROM for Mac ("Games of Fame: 9 Big Ones") from 1997 but had full versions of (originally disk-based) older games. OG versions of Warcraft and Marathon, Glider PRO, and half a dozen others. (Glider PRO is great. Don't bother with the in-browser version but it has been ported to modern systems as freeware.)

 

[Negev]

I feel like newer devices are made from brittle glass with how easily everything breaks. controllers either just stop working or get awful drift/stuck buttons, phones just fall apart like wet cardboard, even stupid shit like the fountain for my cats water just stops working for no reason. I miss when you could buy something and just replace it when you felt like it or when it was finally really old, I feel like most electronics I get now that aren't very high end barely last a year.

 

[HahaYes]

I feel like newer devices are made from brittle glass with how easily everything breaks.

This shit is always done on purpose to make you spend more wagebux on dogshit quality equipment that shits itself again in even less time than the last one you initially got. At the same time you're also prevented as much as possible from repairing it yourself should parts or the entire thing break. You can take care of your equipment and ensure it has as long a life as possible with usual measures (not throwing or dropping shit like a chimp, protective cases, common sense around handling etc), but the entire business model is built around forcing you to replace things regularly, just look at the Phoebus Cartel and light bulbs being purposely designed to burn out faster in order to sell more of them. It's an atrocity.

 

[Señora Airi]

Exclusivity rights and its consequences. Plus sports games are in that weird spot where normies are only gona buy the sports game with the associated league, and the more "hardcore gamers" don't really play sports games at all. It would be nice to have another NFL Street or Blitz: The League game.

I miss when there was more than one sports game title out on the market. You had NBA Live, NBA Jam, NBA PrimeTime, NBA 2K, NBA Street to name a few examples. Now, the market only has room for ONE or two if you're lucky.

Also, when people say 2K, they normally mean the basketball game. Now, the moniker of 2K is associated with WWE, TopSpin, golf, even a Lego game. It sounds generic when you stick it anywhere.

 

[Catgirl Fornicator]

Dealing with literal retards mentally incapable of understanding basic concepts is so fucking frustrating. WHY WHY WHY CAN'T I JUST MURDER THEM?

Its even worse when the retards are in a management position and just chew out people actually doing their jobs. Then the business plays dumb about how everything is falling apart and company reviews are down the shitter with people walking out. Its simple. remove the slavedriver "managers" and let people do their jobs in our supposedly "free" society. Its not like they ever do anything about the slackers who do nothing but shirk work at every opportunity anyway.

People who use computers every day for work, school, and/or play never bother to learn ctrl-C/cmd-C, or anything else that would save them time and a trip from the keyboard to the mouse.

Its also amazing how many don't know how to use CTRL-F.


I miss when fan mods didn't all point you to a Discord/massive data harvesting operation platform. Its very hit or miss whether or not they are laid back or ban happy Stasi redditor faggots that just want to go on random banning sprees.

Long term thinking is not in the average discordfag's mindset and when the server inevitably gets nuked within 1 year whether due to autistic infighting, inactivity, or copyright C&D like Yuzu, there's nothing to back anything up from short of one or two outsiders having the brain cells to back up the mods and fan projects. But the retards just insist that ephemeral discord servers are some kind of beacon of long term internet preservation (LMAO). When actual website forums like this one do a far better job with about the same amount of effort and random assholes not being able to just pull the rug from under you at a moments notice. At least not permanently.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

I know CD-ROMs were a vector for shovelware, shareware, and dubious software, but I miss software packs on CD-ROM, sometimes on multiple discs. In addition to what companies would do, package older games in a series together (often on multiple discs), LucasArts had Monkey Island Madness (Monkey Island 1 & 2), Activision had Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom, Maxis/EA had SimClassics, Sierra had collections for Space Quest and Leisure Suit Larry, the earlier games sharing space on a single CD-ROM but the later ones with multiple CDs.

It was a great way to still get older games that had normally been discontinued otherwise.

Around 2010, I received a CD-ROM for Mac ("Games of Fame: 9 Big Ones") from 1997 but had full versions of (originally disk-based) older games. OG versions of Warcraft and Marathon, Glider PRO, and half a dozen others. (Glider PRO is great. Don't bother with the in-browser version but it has been ported to modern systems as freeware.)

Expanding on this (and I'm sure the sentiment isn't uncommon), it's more of the premise of missing disc-based media. Yes, I know discs get scratched up, yes I know how the whirring drive is noisy, yes I know that the de facto anti-piracy measure was to require the CD-ROM (or DVD) in the drive, but it was neat to amass a collection of games on CD, either through individual games, bundles, or sometimes on burned copies.

Regrettably, it's much more economical to stick with digital (DRM-free and/or pirated) material on external drives. It's similar to books--physical books are great but they take up a lot of space and often aren't worth the price, and I'm not about to go printing and binding my ebooks.

 

[AnOminous]

I miss when fan mods didn't all point you to a Discord/massive data harvesting operation platform. Its very hit or miss whether or not they are laid back or ban happy Stasi redditor faggots that just want to go on random banning sprees.

I don't mind if a Discord exists but I'm not going to join it. If the mod is so obscure you need a Discord full of autistic dipshits who you have a 50/50 chance at best they'll actually help you instead of just arbitrarily banning you for something retarded, then I can skip it.

 

[Never Scored]

I know CD-ROMs were a vector for shovelware, shareware, and dubious software, but I miss software packs on CD-ROM, sometimes on multiple discs. In addition to what companies would do, package older games in a series together (often on multiple discs), LucasArts had Monkey Island Madness (Monkey Island 1 & 2), Activision had Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom, Maxis/EA had SimClassics, Sierra had collections for Space Quest and Leisure Suit Larry, the earlier games sharing space on a single CD-ROM but the later ones with multiple CDs.

It was a great way to still get older games that had normally been discontinued otherwise.

Around 2010, I received a CD-ROM for Mac ("Games of Fame: 9 Big Ones") from 1997 but had full versions of (originally disk-based) older games. OG versions of Warcraft and Marathon, Glider PRO, and half a dozen others. (Glider PRO is great. Don't bother with the in-browser version but it has been ported to modern systems as freeware.)

In the late 90s, you'd sometimes get CDs in magazines that gave away full versions of old games for free. I got Star Control II that way.

 

[geckogoy]

I know CD-ROMs were a vector for shovelware, shareware, and dubious software

This is a bit baffling to me, lowering the bar of distribution to what we have today has created the worst shovelware outbreak ever, like 99.99% of the stuff on steam is garbage

 

[the rat]

I feel like newer devices are made from brittle glass with how easily everything breaks. controllers either just stop working or get awful drift/stuck buttons, phones just fall apart like wet cardboard, even stupid shit like the fountain for my cats water just stops working for no reason. I miss when you could buy something and just replace it when you felt like it or when it was finally really old, I feel like most electronics I get now that aren't very high end barely last a year.

The problem comes from using glass where it really shouldn't belong, why don't we just use high quality plastic for displays like we did years ago and aluminium for the body? This way if I do drop my phone it won't have a 95% chance of shattering into a million pieces and the plastic screen wouldn't be that bad really.

But no, you see, glass is HIGH QUALITY and PREMIUM. Who gives a shit about durability? More glass, glass body, glass buttons, EVERYTHING needs to be glass. Oh your overpriced shitty 2k dollar phone broke because you dropped it and it's made out of fragile glass? Buy a new one

 

[Testament]

Please enable Javascript and reload the page.

This nonsense annoys me to no end.
I tried to look up names for a little writing project I was doing last night, and I just sighed when the site appeared, vanished, then said "You are not allowed to disable Javascript on our page!!" Then your page isnt worth the trouble.

 

[Creative Username]

If only Javascript-like shit had done a confirmation dialog for every script from the very start instead of auto-running, we might have had a better Web. Same for cookies, too. You'd better have a damn good reason to have me store that shitty base64 token on my machine, random website.

 

[Negev]

The problem comes from using glass where it really shouldn't belong, why don't we just use high quality plastic for displays like we did years ago and aluminium for the body? This way if I do drop my phone it won't have a 95% chance of shattering into a million pieces and the plastic screen wouldn't be that bad really.

But no, you see, glass is HIGH QUALITY and PREMIUM. Who gives a shit about durability? More glass, glass body, glass buttons, EVERYTHING needs to be glass. Oh your overpriced shitty 2k dollar phone broke because you dropped it and it's made out of fragile glass? Buy a new one

I think with iPhone the back of the phone is even fucking glass. my cousin dropped his and the entire front and back shattered, my shitty android has the fucking case slowly peeling apart from dropping from 1 foot like twice. I even looked to find cheap deactivated phones and now even those are 500-700 bucks. I miss when I could accidentally drop something and it didnt have 6 catastrophic meltdowns.

 

[Harvey Danger]

I don't mind if a Discord exists but I'm not going to join it. If the mod is so obscure you need a Discord full of autistic dipshits who you have a 50/50 chance at best they'll actually help you instead of just arbitrarily banning you for something retarded, then I can skip it.

I already avoided all the "join our Discord to download our software" developers. I think a lot of that was driven by reddit exodus, combined with the attraction of real-time chat and free file distribution bandwidth.

The smaller, niche communities who stayed on reddit were tolerable for a while, but post-2020 every one has gone insane, botted, or dormant. And now reddit itself blocks VPNs without signups, so I've hit complete refusal to use the site.

I hate that the small Internet is getting smaller, not from site death, but from sites assuming that the crap they couldn't get away with 10 years ago is now normalized and acceptable.

 

[the rat]

I think with iPhone the back of the phone is even fucking glass. my cousin dropped his and the entire front and back shattered, my shitty android has the fucking case slowly peeling apart from dropping from 1 foot like twice. I even looked to find cheap deactivated phones and now even those are 500-700 bucks. I miss when I could accidentally drop something and it didnt have 6 catastrophic meltdowns.

Funny thing actually cause I used an iPhone 4 for like a year and the thing fell out of my pocket while I was climbing over a wall and went face flat onto the concrete, the thing only got a scuff on the side no cracks or anything.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Its even worse when the retards are in a management position and just chew out people actually doing their jobs. Then the business plays dumb about how everything is falling apart and company reviews are down the shitter with people walking out. Its simple. remove the slavedriver "managers" and let people do their jobs in our supposedly "free" society. Its not like they ever do anything about the slackers who do nothing but shirk work at every opportunity anyway.

Its also amazing how many don't know how to use CTRL-F.


I miss when fan mods didn't all point you to a Discord/massive data harvesting operation platform. Its very hit or miss whether or not they are laid back or ban happy Stasi redditor faggots that just want to go on random banning sprees.

Long term thinking is not in the average discordfag's mindset and when the server inevitably gets nuked within 1 year whether due to autistic infighting, inactivity, or copyright C&D like Yuzu, there's nothing to back anything up from short of one or two outsiders having the brain cells to back up the mods and fan projects. But the retards just insist that ephemeral discord servers are some kind of beacon of long term internet preservation (LMAO). When actual website forums like this one do a far better job with about the same amount of effort and random assholes not being able to just pull the rug from under you at a moments notice. At least not permanently.

100000000% true. 99% of Discord groups are fags, troons and their simps. I remember being banned from an AK one for stating that a picture of a Kalashnikov that I had taken (that they took from Reddit lol) was not indicative of a QC error

They proceded to cry to a fag/tranny mod and BANNED.

Who gives a shit, they were busy sucking off reddit tier AK builds and the like.

I don't mind if a Discord exists but I'm not going to join it. If the mod is so obscure you need a Discord full of autistic dipshits who you have a 50/50 chance at best they'll actually help you instead of just arbitrarily banning you for something retarded, then I can skip it.

Yep if your.mod or software is 100% Discord hosted, Fuck off faggot. Learn to host a website.

I already avoided all the "join our Discord to download our software" developers. I think a lot of that was driven by reddit exodus, combined with the attraction of real-time chat and free file distribution bandwidth.

The smaller, niche communities who stayed on reddit were tolerable for a while, but post-2020 every one has gone insane, botted, or dormant. And now reddit itself blocks VPNs without signups, so I've hit complete refusal to use the site.

I hate that the small Internet is getting smaller, not from site death, but from sites assuming that the crap they couldn't get away with 10 years ago is now normalized and acceptable.

Man this hurts so many cool little communities got destroyed when some discord power fag tries to simp for a "woman" and bans anyone that isn't a simp retard for daring ot question "m'lady" or not be a furry degenerate like they are

 

[Creative Username]

Yep if your.mod or software is 100% Discord hosted, Fuck off faggot. Learn to host a website.

Hell, they don't even need to buy a shitbox VPS, slap nginx on it, and point a DNS record at it when shit like GitHub Pages exists. They could even use the GitHub "release" feature if they're that allergic to HTML. There's literally no excuse to only host builds on fucking Discord.

 

[AnOminous]

Hell, they don't even need to buy a shitbox VPS, slap nginx on it, and point a DNS record at it when shit like GitHub Pages exists. They could even use the GitHub "release" feature if they're that allergic to HTML. There's literally no excuse to only host builds on fucking Discord.

Other than some sort of grooming.