NanoMar 18
wyatt
funny how nothing ever changes

i will once again suggest not buying new video games and just finding more old games to play. there's like 50+ years to choose from, at least 20-30 of them good… you seriously don't need to play the shiny new ones every year they come out.

And if you don't take a goddamn stand, shit like DLSS5 is just going to keep being shoved down peoples' throats and engines are going to start requiring shit like that
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Show threadjohn localhostMar 17
@wyatt or you can just play both old games and new games and just have fun with them
Show threadwyattMar 17
@mjdxp or you can not buy into an industry that boils oceans for fun
Show threadjohn localhostMar 17
@wyatt not sure how having fun playing deltarune is boiling the ocean but whatever, you play what you want and i'll play what i want
Show threadwyattMar 17
@mjdxp purposefully missing the point
i'm carving out an exception for deltarune
Show threadMatilda LoveMar 17
@wyatt indie games too ofc
Show threadNeil E. HodgesMar 17
@wyatt And replacing SRAM save batteries on old cartridges is a great way to learn how to solder. :3
Show threadthe esoteric programmerMar 17
@wyatt what's dlss5? I heard it some on my timeline today, but I have no idea what it does
Show threadwyattMar 17
@esoteric_programmer it's shit is what it is.
search for it, i don't want to explain because it would take effort and i'd rather not think about stupid things like that any more.
(something about "enhancing" pictures by feeding them through a visual autocomplete)
Show threadthe esoteric programmerMar 17
@wyatt ah, so stuff which requires more and more compute resources for ever diminishing returns? gotcha. We didn't have enough with all the stuff modern studios put in their games, we obviously need more, right? /s
Show threadwyattMar 17
@esoteric_programmer it's worse than that, you should look for screenshots
Show threadthe esoteric programmerMar 17
@wyatt I mean, I'm fully blind, so I wouldn't know the difference either way, but I'm seeing the increasing bloatware on software, and games are at the head of the queue there for sure. But yeah, I searched it real quick, damn it, worse than I thought indeed
Show threadwyattMar 17
@esoteric_programmer ah ok i'll accommodate then
it takes a 3-D face or body or whatever and tries to imagine what the details would look like, changing the entire look of their face in the process and replacing it with some generic "white person face" most of the time
Show threadDTrasler WritingMar 17
@wyatt At the risk of sounding odd, I have 600+ hours logged on Borderlands2. I'm still enjoying it. And last night I started Tomb Raider 2 again....
Show threadwyattMar 17
@Dtraslerwriting i was playing fallout 2 the other week, and final fantasy 7 in windows 98 on a voodoo3 yesterday
Show threadDTrasler WritingMar 17
@wyatt OK, that helps me feel normal! Thanks!
Show threadLarhanya of the Muddy WatersMar 17

@wyatt Are people really playing games from 1976? On what?

But also...I wonder if my mom still has our old Intellivision. 🤔

Show threadwyattMar 17
@Larhanya I have no answer for 1976 except I guess a few have Fairchild Channel F's and pong consoles.
For 1977, however,
Show threadLarhanya of the Muddy WatersMar 17

@wyatt VIC-20s are as old as I am? Oh damn, my junior high was still using them in 1993.

Also, that is a damn fine collection of PC history you have there.

Show threadwyattMar 17
@Larhanya vic-20 is 1980, commodore PET is 1977 though. If you can find one. So is Apple II, and so is the TRS-80.
Atari 2600 is 1977 which is why it's the one switched on in the picture :p
Show threadLarhanya of the Muddy WatersMar 17
@wyatt Very cool!
Show threadDavid H. McCoyMar 18

@Larhanya @wyatt

“B-17 Bomber…watch for flak!”

Show threadLarhanya of the Muddy WatersMar 18
@davidhmccoy @wyatt OMG I can hear the voice 😂
Show threadNanoMar 18
@wyatt The thing that baffles me the most is the pricing situation. Sometimes I can literally buy a physical copy of an old game I always wanted to play but never had the opportunity to, on a videogame console I still own, at a price not so far off of modern triple A games.
Show threadNanoMar 18

@wyatt and companies don't care about their old system being messed with! What do you mean it's illegal for me to get custom software on my gameboy flashcard? Who's gonna raid me? Nintendo? Are they unhappy I bought Pokemon Green even though it never was released outside of Japan?

It would cost them money for one person enjoying the console's library on their own original hardware privately and without making money. It's the least of a the threats they could have to deal with.