• The Picard ManeuverOP
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      131 year ago

      I think my mind is frozen in time, because the line for what is “retro” to me is solidly between the transition from 2D to 3D.

      • @samus12345
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        1 year ago

        For me it’s anything prior to 360/PS3, because from then on the graphical and gameplay leaps have been incremental compared to what came before. You really don’t consider N64 or PSX retro?

        • The Picard ManeuverOP
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          31 year ago

          Hmm, I guess N64 would be to me. Maybe because I didn’t have PlayStations (went from Nintendo to Xbox), they all seem more modern to me.

          Maybe it’s more accurate to draw my mental line as cartridge consoles vs CDs.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      We called the NES retro gaming when the N64 was out. The PS3 is retro gaming, too. So GTA5 and Skyrim are retro re-releases.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        I often thing about this. Technology moved so fast in those days and then it sort of plateaued. Things are certainly getting more powerful of course but nothing like that old generational leap we used to feel.

        I think it’s also a testament to the age of the medium as well. Most gaming fans are young gen xers or millennials. The medium grew up with its fanbase and with that comes the perspective of a youth. A 7 year old looks back at their preschool years like ancient history, a teen the same of grade school. Combined with how antiquated the tech was it felt holder. Median gamer age is rising and if you ask a 35 year old about when they were 25 it would feel a lot closer.

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          Yup. The 360 came out 15 years before the Series X was released, yet the graphics improvement from 2005 - 2020 is minuscule compared to 1990 - 2005.

        • ivanafterall
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          31 year ago

          I thought the PS5 felt like more of a generational leap than the PS4 did.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            I feel like the jump from the PS360 to the PS4/One was reliability.

            I didn’t spend too much time with the PS4, but it felt like there was less crashing, and better console reliability.

    • Sombyr
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      11 year ago

      The day I added a GameCube to my retro setup was the day I accepted everyone gets old eventually.

    • @Kerandir
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      11 year ago

      I bought a Myoomini plus and that’s the retrogaming I need and doesn’t hurt at all.

  • @lgmjon64
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    151 year ago

    Did this once with a Soylent Green reference. I wasn’t even the oldest person there and nobody knew what I was talking about.

  • WhoisJohnGalt
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    121 year ago

    Roads!? Where we’re going we don’t need roads…

    • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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      41 year ago

      No truth-handler, you! Bah, I deride your truth-handling abilities!

      • RobotsLeftHand
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        11 year ago

        I can hear this sentence. I always loved the cadence Grammer gave to the reading.

    • kase
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      21 year ago

      For your viewing pleasure. The channel it’s uploaded on isn’t the original creator, but the original video is taken down temporarily (along with the rest of their content, unfortunately), so this is all I got. But I definitely recommend checking out their channel once they’re back up, if you’re not already familiar!

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    I work with people who haven’t even seen fucking Ghostbusters.

    It’s a painful existence to feel this old, but I console myself with the knowledge that most of them will be renting until they’re about 60.

    • RobotsLeftHand
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      21 year ago

      I knew my time was up when most of my coworkers hadn’t seen Shawshank Redemption. Watching that was just the cost of being bored in the late 90s.

      • MrScottyTay
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        11 year ago

        I never watched it as a kid, I enjoyed watching them later, with watching the second for the first time last year. Enjoyed the game and the latest sequel too.

  • @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    We had a teacher make a “Bueller? Bueller?” reference once. You could see her die inside when we didn’t laugh.

    It’s not like we didn’t get it, it just wasn’t funny. I don’t know if that would have made it worse for her.

    • The Picard ManeuverOP
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      61 year ago

      Hey, before the internet, “memes” had to last for a long time. She’s just showing off how environmentally conscious she is by not throwing that one out yet.