"Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.” ― Douglas Adams, “The Salmon of Doubt”
Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
This is def nostalgia goggles, so many games were broken buggy messes back then because there was no way to ship updates
flapperfivethousand@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
As someone who recently started hoarding old tools I wish that was true for all things.
We just recently got a singer 500a and its still impressive the engineering that went into that thing. The machine work is beautiful, and if you told me it was made in a CNC machine today I would of believed you.
Today modern and new, just means slave labor and plastic molded parts. Besides computers a lot of things haven’t really changed. And often when they have changed it’s for the worst. If I get a sewing machine today it would come with some app and internet connection for no reason, and would have plastic parts that struggle to get through 3 layers of cloth. While the singer 500a was meant to run 24/7 and is essentially the same exact thing.
For the most part the world has kind of been solved sense shortly after the industrial revolution. All the general commodities we interact with where mostly at their peak form back then. Dish washers, fridges, washing machines, driers. They’re all almost exactly the same as they where when they where invented. There have been minor improvements that have been added over the years but for the most part things are in general just shittier.
You can blame so many things, you can say that mass production, trickle down economics, exporting labor etc all causes this. You can say that everyones access to mass produced garbage is an indicator of wealth and poverty dropping. What I don’t think you can say anymore is that things “products” are better than they where in the old days.
I agree with your statement about cultural aspects though. Other than that when I hear some new innovative product the first thing that comes to my mind is its going to be another internet of things device that constantly bugs me and asks for more data, while providing 0 utility over the old version of the product, if anything its going to add more friction to my task, or attempt to insert a paywall into my life where one never existed before.
forestbeasts@pawb.social 1 week ago
We’re 26. The new stuff is crap, and that’s not just nostalgia goggles, it is actually objectively worse.
There’s plenty of new stuff that isn’t crap, like say indie games. But the platforms, the consoles, etc.? Those are intentionally disrespectful these days in a way even, say, the Wii/PS3 era of consoles wasn’t (and they certainly weren’t perfect either, it just started getting way worse way faster after that).
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I guess GenAI slop is making me age faster, then
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 week ago
When a game sucked ass then you had a physical product you could sell or trade to offload it. Instead of the whole game getting the servers shut off and delisted within a year if it’s bad today. Even the bad games were better back then because of this
placebo@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
On one hand it’s nostalgia, on another - over-fixation on a certain type of games that are designed to be addictive and drain your wallet. But there are many other games to play that are nothing like that.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 week ago
i’ve played single player games my entire life and got nothing but shit for it. i guess because they don’t have all the drama of multiplayer games and the constant updates?
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No, they weren’t. Most had bugs, but they weren’t game-breaking. A lot of people took joy in finding and exploiting the bugs too. Dupes, etc.
Yeah, some shitty games were loaded with bugs.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 week ago
bugs? nah, not a problem
whistles in Morrowind
FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Thats not really fair. Morrowind was so buggy someone decided they needed to remake the entire game engine to play it. I wouldn’t say most games where like that.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
Bloodline the masquerade was also infested. We remember these because the games were so good they were worth fighting to get running. The ones that were buggy and bad are mostly forgotten.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Try playing the original SEGA catalog. Lemme know how many of those games work.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Most of them? Care to provide some examples without the ridiculous “don’t work” hyperbole? Clearly most Sega games were functional, otherwise no one would’ve been playing them.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 week ago
Did you try blowing in them?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That wasn’t actually good for the cartridge, long term. My parents provided us with q-tips, but we were a Nintendo family. I had a few friends that had the SEGA Master System, and though I don’t remember the titles, I do remember several cartridges that we never played, because there were problems with the game a level or two in.