Comment on Why old games never die (but new ones do)

OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• mriswith@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Survivorship or survival bias.

  And yeah, it’s the same old “they really knew how to make * in the past”. Houses, bridges, spoons, video games, whatever. It’s just that the well made ones survive, and the badly made ones don’t.

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  • YodaDaCoda@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Listen my spoons from the 1950’s cannot be beat. I hate how hard it is to find them.

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    • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Have you looked in your silverware drawer?

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  • WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And yeah, it’s the same old “they really knew how to make * in the past”. Houses, bridges, spoons, video games, whatever. It’s just that the well made ones survive, and the badly made ones don’t.

    Idk, there’s certain structures like the pyramids where you gotta give credit where credit is due.

    They really knew how to make some shit.

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