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Jormungandr said:
"Teen-truck deaths are up by 400% nationwide because they won't look up from their fucking smartphones or look while crossing the road."
"Ah, so the solution is to ban all trucks?"
"Er, no. It's to get our teens to not fucking be such suicidal lemmings."
"Ban all trucks it is, then!"
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Honestly man every generation has its fuck ups.

And considering how hard fucked the zoomers were by life, I kind of give them a pass on a whole lot of shit to kill the pain because fuck. Seriously fucking hell these guys got fucked like, I at least got to see 10 years when the world wasn't on fire during the 90s these guys have never known a single moment when the world wasn't a shit hole.
 
Blasterbot said:
Man do I miss the 90s. yeah tech has advanced and it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. it is fucking tiring with everything always needing to be politics.
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I miss the early 00's -- like 2000--2007'ish.

The internet was still in its infancy in comparison to today (though obviously more developed than in the 90's), it wasn't all run by a few companies, et cetera.

I remember goofing off in my IT class (2003/2004), playing Flash games on sites like Newgrounds and Miniclip on, get this, Windows 2000 machines (still had '98 at home, haha, until 2004 when my brother and I got our own eMachines Windows XP computers).

Laptops were the coolest thing then since we could hide the screens from the teachers, compared to the desktops scattered around the room.

Microsoft Publisher was the big thing, which we did our mock GCSE projects on; Dreamweaver and such was for web design in college.

It was a simpler, funner time, and I do miss it.
 
Zachowon said:
I was born in 99...
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Shit dude, I was starting secondary school in '99 (born in '88).

So while I was doing dumb shit in a school with teens far older than me, you were still literally pooping your nappies. :ROFLMAO: When I was excited for C&C3 ("Finally, a new C&C game! Wait, where's all the cool futuristic shit seen in Tiberian Sun?") in late '06/early'07, you were still a grade schooler.

And now you're an adult, working with US glowie shit(?), and kids these days are now calling Xbox 360 games "classics", like how my generation and I referred to consoles and computers like the Mega Drive/Genesis, the SNES, the Game Boy, Playstation 1, Nintendo 64, et cetera, as classics. Hell, even the older ones refer to the original Xbox as classics/retro now. I was there for that shit as they launched!

Man, I feel fucking old. :(
 
Jormungandr said:
Shit dude, I was starting secondary school in '99 (born in '88).

So while I was doing dumb shit in a school with teens far older than me, you were still literally pooping your nappies. :ROFLMAO: When I was excited for C&C3 ("Finally, a new C&C game! Wait, where's all the cool futuristic shit seen in Tiberian Sun?") in late '06/early'07, you were still a grade schooler.

And now you're an adult, working with US glowie shit(?), and kids these days are now calling Xbox 360 games "classics", like how my generation and I referred to consoles and computers like the Mega Drive/Genesis, the SNES, the Game Boy, Playstation 1, Nintendo 64, et cetera, as classics. Hell, even the older ones refer to the original Xbox as classics/retro now. I was there for that shit as they launched!

Man, I feel fucking old. :(
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the wheels of time come for us all my friend.

My greatest regret in life is that my generation will not make things less shit for the next guys.
 
Typhonis said:
When were you born? Me it was 71.

my first console was the Atari 2600.
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In my case, I was born 1998 and my first console was the Nintendo 64, with many childhood days spent on release titles for it. Also played the original Starcraft a good bit. Playing Warcraft 3 until Starcraft 2 came out, then playing that on minimum settings for something like six years because of The Crisis Problem, has me fine with incredibly low graphical fidelity.

Edit: It's not like we were terribly poor, we were just fine with the N64 for a good while so we got a GameCube a year or two late and I happened to be at just the right age window.

Also, by "The Crysis Problem", I'm referring to the bundle of late-2000s and early-2010s titles that run like absolute shit on top of the line hardware from five years after they released because of development cycle issues from the rather abrupt shift to consumer-level multicore CPUs.

It's most famous with the first Crysis, due to it being a "for the next generation" title, but also hits pre-Activision Blizzard titles hard because of their rather odd development practices. Took them fourteen years from announcement to final product with two hard reboots of what they were doing with the engine to release Overwatch, because the foundations of that were the 2002-announced Starcraft Ghost.
 
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Morphic Tide said:
In my case, I was born 1998 and my first console was the Nintendo 64, with many childhood days spent on release titles for it. Also played the original Starcraft a good bit. Playing Warcraft 3 until Starcraft 2 came out, then playing that on minimum settings for something like six years because of The Crisis Problem, has me fine with incredibly low graphical fidelity.

Edit: It's not like we were terribly poor, we were just fine with the N64 for a good while so we got a GameCube a year or two late and I happened to be at just the right age window.

Also, by "The Crysis Problem", I'm referring to the bundle of late-2000s and early-2010s titles that run like absolute shit on top of the line hardware from five years after they released because of development cycle issues from the rather abrupt shift to consumer-level multicore CPUs.

It's most famous with the first Crysis, due to it being a "for the next generation" title, but also hits pre-Activision Blizzard titles hard because of their rather odd development practices. Took them fourteen years from announcement to final product with two hard reboots of what they were doing with the engine to release Overwatch, because the foundations of that were the 2002-announced Starcraft Ghost.
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Oh you sweet summer child.

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Morphic Tide said:
At least machine you were playing on had to be younger than you, as the system launched when you were... six or seven? I am fairly certain that specific N64 was manufactured before my date of birth.
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N64 came out in 1996 if my memory serves me correctly.

I was born in 86. My first console was the NES. Then Sega Genesis, then N64.

N64 was my favorite console of all time, and I have probably spent more time on that than all other consoles combined.

Shit, once or twice a year I still fire up an emulator and play some. I also play some of the n64 classics that were released on Switch.
 
I was playing the sega genesis at home. otherwise it was PC gaming. Grandma had an old atari and NES. played the crap out of the gameboy color (member batteries and how they did not have backlights?). then we bought a dreamcast with like a hundred burned games on the cheap from someone who was done with it after sega said they were abandoning the system. got a PS2 like a year later. fun times.
 
Blasterbot said:
I was playing the sega genesis at home. otherwise it was PC gaming. Grandma had an old atari and NES. played the crap out of the gameboy color (member batteries and how they did not have backlights?). then we bought a dreamcast with like a hundred burned games on the cheap from someone who was done with it after sega said they were abandoning the system. got a PS2 like a year later. fun times.
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First real "console" we had was a Commodore 64, tape deck for games included. It was a fucking pain to set up, but it was amazing to play those games (especially Paper Boy, haha).

Then we had a... I think it was either a x486 or x386 Windows 3.1 PC. My father was given Doom 1 and 2 on like thirty installation floppy disks, haha.

Next was the Sega Megadrive 2/Genesis II, for you Yanks. :) I remember when we bought Sonic 3 and Sonic and Knuckles on a day out, and I used to swap/share games with my mates (which is how I played Sonic 2 and Spinball and Echo the Dolphin for the first time).

I also had a 32X (Star Wars Arcade, Doom, and Mortal Kombat 2 were the only games I had on it, IIRC), a Master System Converter (which I shared games with a friend/neighbour for his Master System, so I could play them); never had a CD, though. We did have the infamous gun peripheral for the Mega Drive, though!

Game Gear, Gameboy OG, Gameboy Colour, and a Gameboy: Advance SP (I had the special Zelda edition with gold coating/Tri-Force markings, haha)... yup, had those, and the original Pokemons Red, Blue, and Yellow.

On the PC front, we got a Windows 95 PC and then, a few years later, a Windows 98 PC in the mid/late 90's. Aside from Police Quest and Doom/Doom II on the older PC, my first real games were Tiberian Dawn Gold and Civilization 2 from a combi pack. My passion basically grew from there.

My mother and father made a fuck up one Christmas -- I was supposed to get either a Playstation 1 or a Nintendo 64. Either.

They each thought that the other was going to handle the present, so my father bought a Playstation and my mother, a Nintendo 64. They admitted the fuck up to me years later when I was in my late teens (so in the late 00's and like ten years later), and on Xmas day they were looking at each other with an "oh shit/what the fuck" look behind me as I was excitedly zipping around after ripping off the wrapping paper, haha.

I was lucky to have both. :D

Then I got an Xbox with Halo one Xmas. :D

Except for a small stint with an Xbox 360 Pro for a few years, I've basically been a hardcore PC gamer ever since -- got my first XP PC when I was 16 in '04. It was an OG Gateway, haha.

Anyway! Apologies for my rambling!

Now kids are calling all those "retro" and "classics", especially the Xbox and 360. :( So, yeah. I feel fucking old. :(
 
Atari for me.

It has been wild to see the advancement of video games. I feel very sad for kids today that just start where we are now instead of getting to see the ground breaking classics come out and change everything over and over again. Missing out on incredible gaming experiences because they are out of date.

Yeah... the 90s and 2000s were the best time to grow up.
 
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