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#Old tech/internet/gaming nostalgia
vapid sonnet
wraith stag
Same
vapid sonnet
tribal fiber
vapid sonnet
vapid sonnet
vapid sonnet
vapid sonnet
lets do something different: whats the thing that always associates with holidays for you in entertainment? music? certain movie/tv series? a game? meme?
azure glen
Mario Kart and going for blood with my siblings
vapid sonnet
that sounds fun
wraith stag
lets do something different: whats the thing that always associates with holiday...
Watching the twilight zone with my mom and playing all my new games I get the next day
rotund tulip
Band of Brothers
vapid sonnet
coral forge
Before Halo, there was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vHZcZJTegQ
I don't know what game first started doing those cheesy announcer lines but it was probably Quake or Unreal
Halo defintely perfected the gameplay though
vapid sonnet
vapid sonnet
Ok, bit late asking this, but im geniuenly curious- what are some of the regional (or your own family's) new years customs you at least try to follow (well, aside from fireworks)?
past holly
Ok, bit late asking this, but im geniuenly curious- what are some of the regiona...
not sure who started it but we blow out candles at midnight (least till covid we did now we just extinguish them with caps)
azure glen
New Years is my anniversary! So we celebrate that!
vapid sonnet
blowing out candles is interesting one. Is it kind of like birthday for planet? I like the idea tbh
Anniversary is great! Hope you have a good one each year 😄
azure glen
I mean, I think my fiancee realized she married the first character to get killed in a horror movie one year when I just walked outside after hearing a chainsaw going off at around midnight
arctic holly
Pretty much nobody in my family or extended family drinks, so we just grab sparkling grape juice. Didn't gather this year because we did family Christmas on New Year's Day.
coral forge
Champagne, always that
and a toast to the new year
A kiss as well if that is an option
vapid sonnet
back when these things were all over the internet
vapid sonnet
ASCII art was fun. Too bad it also is very spammy
rotund tulip
My fave of those was the 'hold my flower'
cosmic magnet
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
neat gorge
┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)
gusty flare
Yeah I love old tech.
old tech in question:
past holly
Circa 2007
vapid sonnet
oh geesh, back when latest windows was vista
i remember when iphones came out. Lot of potential at the time, but so many base features were missing
and of course "phone app has stopped working" memes
candid orbit
wow the old photo icon really hit me with whiplash there
vapid sonnet
Do you remember what was the first game you played that had save games?
rotund tulip
Not video games, but computer games, which probably would have been the Jumpstart games
ionic stump
Crystal Caves had save games I think
marsh vale
Do you remember what was the first game you played that had save games?
Final Fantasy or maybe Gaia I'm guessing? Idk, I couldn't read back then.
maybe link or zelda
vapid sonnet
Mine was c&c tiberian sun (not oldest game with save files i've played but first one i remember playing on PC). First non-strategy game (so no Age of empires or civilization).. I believe Max Payne was the one
...i feel this meme
neat gorge
ouch
vapid sonnet
want to feel old? its now closer to 2050 than release of this game (1997)
azure glen
Okay, this is a conversation that my fiancee and I get into frequently. There is an old pc game that was a motorcycle racing game. You would race through a city and cops would try to pull you over and you would literally kick them off their bikes. There were like 3 different tiers of bikes you could buy and if your bike was too damaged you'd end up running on foot instead of riding your bike. Does anybody else remember/ know of this game?
last wave
Were the cops only on motorcycles, or also in cars?
Doesn't matter, I found it
Road Rash for PS1
vapid sonnet
Can confirm its likely this one. I remember having a personal rule at one point to just run if crashed
azure glen
Yeah that looks right
vapid sonnet
speaking of old games, i remember playing one game when i was a kid and did not really understand english at the time. I've been trying to find it but have not succeeded. I believe it was called arsenal, although it couldve been just something i read from random spot of the screen and considered it a name.
key points i remember:
*it was RTS game
*it only had vehicles
*base building was done via bulldozer- anything you wanted to build the area was marked by the flags, bulldozer had to level the area out and drive across all the flags for the thing to be built
*credits were earned via ore- if i recall correctly, it was similar to red alert 1, however ore came from designated spots
*vehicles i remember: jeep (unarmed scout vehicle), tanks, submarines, propeller plane
any idea what game it couldve been?
vapid sonnet
I know we have mentioned how driving was with navigating only with maps on paper. But does anyone have any good stories related to it?
random picture from the internet
ionic stump
I...uh...now need to figure out what the bot didn't like or I misspelled. Or not. It wasn't important
Especially as I finished downing my lunch
rotund tulip
My mentor at my first job preferred using paper maps to relying on gps or even instructioms printed off the internet so occasionally i would miss our turn off trying to read these tiny ass roads
tribal fiber
I...uh...now need to figure out what the bot didn't like or I misspelled. Or not...
You're good. There's a combination of three letters in "skyscraper" that our bot flags way more than necessary (I can see the message in our logs)
vapid sonnet
rotund tulip
I always loved the old Pixar teasers which were like their own little short films
arctic holly
I think they used to make me mad because I was anticipating what happened in the trailer to happen in the movie. Always disappointed.
rotund tulip
I can see that as a kid, but nowadays it's a fun little detail
The Monster's Inc one was hilarious
vapid sonnet
since i saw #1093946809279336528 discussed some F1, here is classic F1 moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5lnQlxBKcs
also those sounds...
vapid sonnet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bSk-8C76dc
Hard to believe this game came out 9 years ago
vapid sonnet
past holly
cosmic magnet
vapid sonnet
fun fact: pong was not coded, but was made using hardware circuitry
this is the entire game
marsh vale
My friend made pong 20 years ago in his vocational technical high school class while majoring in computer electronic technology. I was in a different major, but I think it would have been neat to see these schematics back then.
wraith stag
Was working on some work for my project this week my college has an editing lab and in house processing
vapid sonnet
past holly
10 years...
neat gorge
woof. almost went but didnt... i am not far, that's my old stomping grounds
past holly
The girl that put it together is on tiktok and talks about it ALOT
tribal fiber
Even the ball pit?
vapid sonnet
vapid sonnet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE4BdIP6bvc&t=83s
in few months, its 10 years from the most epic match in world cup history
past holly
Bratz Liptunes MP3 Player - 2007
Aga 'Gravstenen' model 4346 (Sweden, 1963)
PC World - December 1994
past holly
Concept Cubicles
Abitare Annual 2 (1987)
vapid sonnet
tbh that cubicle concept looks good, but also spooky at same time
past holly
I kinda dig/love the idea of 1 light but just using a refector to share the light to save on power
dusk lodge
rotund tulip
Oh man, that is old school
pallid stump
vapid sonnet
past holly
vapid sonnet
vapid sonnet
coral forge
Ok I actually dooon't know what that is
coral forge
Forums, lol you should have put one of someone roasting a newbie for not searching a topic first before posting
vapid sonnet
laser pointer
neat gorge
Different tips = different shapes for the red dot
coral forge
👍
vapid sonnet
coral forge
My brain is constantly waiting for a moment to shout this
rotund tulip
OMG blast from the past
vapid sonnet
"at least i have chicken"
rotund tulip
My friend group quoted this and Ze End of Ze World constantly
cosmic magnet
I think 4.
arctic holly
At least 2 of those
cosmic magnet
Wait! I had 5! If you number them from left to right, I had 2, 4, 6, 7, and 9
vapid sonnet
personally i see only 2 charger ports that me or my family hadnt had a phone with. or at least i dont recall so
nokia switching from second one from right to third from right was huge
neat gorge
i'm too old to recall. def had a few of these multi-cords tho
neat gorge
same lol. that one still came after my ancient proto-smartphone i talked about forever ago in here
vapid sonnet
i still get annoyed sometimes thinking about scart cables. When they worked, they were great, but if you had to try to connect one without seeing the back of your TV...
vapid sonnet
these things knew phone call was incoming before phone did
past holly
But they where top teir speakers
coral forge
You talking about this sound?
https://youtu.be/gpQS41WQSPY?si=brdP_BtjnGPs78qh
Unironically one of the best shitpost songs he's ever made
coral forge
past holly
Bringing this back with some OLD E3 post that was rediscover recently
https://www.tumblr.com/suppermariobroth/753556385875279873?source=share
coral forge
past holly
2005 dj tech
neat gorge
Instagram
past holly
Found this oldy on a archive hard drive full of just early internet videos @severe herald thought you would enjoy
dusk lodge
God I miss my account. It still exists and I can see all my original pets. But I can't recover it. Account One year younger than the site itself
severe herald
Found this oldy on a archive hard drive full of just early internet videos <@185...
Oh my god. This is glorious. The laptop. The swirls. It's like no time has passed.