Comment on How streaming changed the way you watch TV

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  as an Xer i played video games for years before they invented “save game”

  i’ve spent exactly 0.00 nanoseconds since then missing those pre-save-game days

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  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And for retro games, emulators have left even that in the dustbin of time.

    Sick of the last RPG save happening 20 minutes before a boss fight? Save at literally any moment with save states.

    That too much work? You can rewind the entire game.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Remember the C64 cheat cartridge? Saved off your game / reloaded it whenever you wanted.

      I wanted one so much, but I never got one 😔

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      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Me either, but I would have wanted a Fast Load cartridge instead, but we couldn’t afford that either.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    "You found a ‘tape’, with it you can save once "

    Yeah , what a bs thing.

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    • MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s part of the horror in survival horror though. I liked that feature in Resident Evil, etc.

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  • Sc00ter@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I sometimes wish manual save was a thing. Autosave is nice, but dont take away features please.

    Like in expedition 33. I didnt realize you could only fight the last boss 1 time, so i went and did endgame after the story. Now i cant see the ending(s) without doing a full play through or watching someone else do it on youtube.

    I started NG+ lol

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Remember popping in a CD?

  It could hold up to like 15 songs!

  Nostalgia is good & nice but nah I don’t need artificial limits on stuff today.

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    CDs can’t be erased on the cloud, to then either push other songs on you, or the “remasters” (cough-cough In Flames), and otherwise most digital albums still hold this “artificial” limit. Even worse is when they limit it to 2-3 minutes nowadays, because Tik-Tok.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      songs have been 2-3 minutes for decades now

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  • accideath@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Artificial limits can be great though. They force you to think about what you’re doing. Only 80 minutes of space on the CD? 36 frames in my camera? Make them count.

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Remember popping in a CD?

    It could hold up to like 15 songs!

    And remember paying $20 in 1996 for that 15 song CD, and remember your heartbreak when you listen through for the first time and find out there was only the one song you knew that you really liked and maybe two others that were just okay?

    Dark days indeed.

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  • waggz@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    what about when they started to make cd players that could read a data disc full of mp3s? what a time to be alive. no need for a changer in the trunk!

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ha ha yeah, around the time where 128MB mp3 players got accessible!

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• red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nah, it’s more thinking about a time where things like not missing your favorite TV show was very high on your list of priorities.

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• DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well, that’s like your opinion, man.

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