i think we need Cracked-style articles back. desperately. or like, a guy doing a weird thing and writing a piece on it. sites like those are declining faster than the glaciers.

  • @[email protected]
    24•8 months ago
    • less centralization
    • obscure flash games
    • random people’s crappy colorful html sites
    • being able to find random people’s crappy html sites on search engines, despite not meeting the modern strict ranking criteria or being bloated with SEO
    • being able to read fun, and sometimes unique and interesting ideas on said crappy html sites
    • less DRM everywhere
    • less commercialization and people trying to sell you crap (not saying less ads specifically because pop-up ads were everywhere)
    • more people just sharing things for the sake of sharing even if it sucks
    • anonymity
    • just generally the more raw and people oriented feel and less of the corpo ridden EEE/data-sucking/cloud-for-everything/enshittification bullshit we have to deal with on a constant basis these years
    • @kctrey
      8•8 months ago

      The Flash games are what I actually miss the most, but all good points. My coworkers and I would pick a game from addictinggames.com every week and compete. No micro transactions, no intrusive ads, just mindless fun.

      • @Agent641
        1•8 months ago

        Motherlode was such a fun game. Thats what got me into game dev.