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Annon is confronted with the pasing of time and the inevitablity of his incoming death

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨greentext@sh.itjust.works⁩

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  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    PS1 was released in North America in Sept. 1995, 30 years ago.

    So the grandpa was born in 1967 to be 28 in 1995, which does make him 58 in 2025.

    Still, it sounds more like the grandpa was buying the PS1 for his 8 year old son in 1995.

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    • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      thank you for the reality check

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      • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah, but that doesn’t gut punch annon; which is primarily what I’m here for.

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    • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I bought a 3Dfx graphics accelerator so i could play Final Fantasy VII on the PC when it came out. It was more expensive than a PS1 would have been but i was a cool PC gamer, of course, not some console peasant. I’m a bit older than OP’s grandpa in this story. And now get off my lawn, damn kids!

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      • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I had an ATI 3D Rage Pro. Fucking loved that thing. I used that all the way up to 2006. Man, MechWarrior 3 looked so good on that.

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Still, it sounds more like the grandpa was buying the PS1 for his 8 year old son in 1995.

      Sure, like how my parents bought “me” a computer when I was 4. Before windows 3.11 was a thing.

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      • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        kids my age were playing console games by the time they were 6 - 8 years old easily - 8 years old is not like being 4 years old; still, I think parents often do buy things for their kids that are really for themselves and this could clearly be an example

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    • rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Still, it sounds more like the grandpa was buying the PS1 for his 8 year old son in 1995.

      Could very well be the other way around. My dad was born in 1967 and gamed on the PS1. I still have his Resident Evil strategy guides.

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  • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That the math checks out only make me angrier

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    • Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      2 successive generations at 20 years isn’t statistically typical in north America in the last 60 years.

      The math checks out, but isn’t a median representation.

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      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Kids got two more years not to ruin the run.

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      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        it is for a poor shitty place.

        plenty of the women I went ot high school with all had kids by 22/24.

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The only slightly suspicious thing here is that both grandpa and pop had kids at exactly age 20. Not only is that a little younger than average, it’s also a very convenient number for a made up but easy to calculate scenario.

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      On one hand it’s suspicous, on the other hand it’s a convenient number if your parents and grandparents were around that age but you don’t want to put in their actual ages because you have a habit of not giving out personal information.

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      • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That’s when the word “about” is useful. My grandpa is “about 60” and my dad is “about 40”, he got the PS1 when my dad was a kid. My dad had me when he was “about 20”…

        I don’t think people tend to make up specific ages that are not accurate when they’re trying to obscure someone’s exact age.

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    • tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Maybe but it’s not crazy. My father in-law had his first kid at 17. His second son also had a kid at 17. Crazier still is that second son’s baby mama was 16 and she was born to a 16 year old.

      I wish I was making this shit up.

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      • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Here baby, come meet your 32 year old grandma.

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    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m the first person on my dad’s side to not have a kid before 20 in 5 generation.

      Shit does happen.

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      • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Do you know anybody else who had 2 generations like that? It used to be more common but even back in 1970 the average was above 21. These days it’s above 27.

        northwell.edu/…/geriatric-pregnancy-increases-com…

        With every average there will be people above and below the average age. And since there are some people having their first child in their 40s, the median is actually probably below the average.

        I found it more suspicious that both times the father was supposedly aged at the suspiciously round number of 20.

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  • Lioffproxy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Dude im 40. My grandma was playing tetris on the snes and prince of persia on the ps2. nothing weird about grandparents playing consoles. Also i’m a grandpa now.

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      statistically it is weird though, most boomers weren’t playing console games.

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  • toxicbubble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    first mistake was taking advice from 4chan

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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Several steps happened before taking the advice

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fifth gen has aged very badly compared to the third and fourth before it.

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    • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The graphics in non stylized art styles have aged (Lara Croft exhibit A) and I’d say controls have aged as well (tank controls in tomb raider and resident evil exhibits B and C)

      But the gameplay was as good as it ever was. Crash Bandicoot, FFVII, Spyro, essential games of the generation. Despite my criticisms RE and Tomb Raider are as well. And these may be nostalgia talking but I think Chrono Cross, Tony Hawk Pro Skater and Metal Gear Solid and Syphon Filter belong on the list too.

      I feel like complaining about early 3d era aging badly is like complaining about Its a Wonderful Life or Casablanca aging badly because they weren’t in color and they talk funny

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  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And for an actual answer, it depends on the games you have and if you have the proper peripherals (memory cards, analog controller for the few games that require or greatly benefit).

    Even getting it connected to a modern TV requires an adapter, and while you might be able to get a “good enough” one for cheap online, it’s kind of a shitshow with unreliable cheap crap all over too.

    Honestly if anyone is interested in PS1 amd doesn’t already have the “setup” of a decent CRT and the hardware, they’re probably better off emulating on their PC, maybe using a CRT shader.

    If you want the “experience”, you’re better off getting a PS2 and soft-modding it. I wouldn’t even know where to start with trying to find a modchip and the right burnable CDs and drive to burn with. Modded PS2s can load from an internal hard drive, network, or USB depending on the hardware model.

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    • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Could also get a PS3, depending on how you feel about its settings for displaying on LCDs. That way, you have a console, but it has an HDMI port.

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  • orioler25@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t get why people are so bothered by the passage of time. Y’all, you wouldn’t believe the gaming hardware we have now if the ps1 isn’t supposed to be far away (and it’s even changed a very little bit since 2019).

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    • deltapi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The dawning realization of how little time we have on this earth hits really hard for some people, harder still for those that aren’t making the best out of their time.

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    • sheogorath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I just realized that most of the people commenting online are younger than me now and it made me more chill in reading all those comments now. (No, this is not me coping with the feeling of dread due to being reminded of my own mortality).

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      the same reason people are bothered by so many other things.

      they freak out at their lack of control and they wish they could control things.

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      • orioler25@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh, you thought that was a question. I know what the fear of aging and death is my guy, I was making a joke about it.

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Time is an illusion, yo.

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  • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Adult people having fun is truly a hainous thought.

    This would work just as well if their grandpa got it with 55.

    The trick is that you are imagining their grandpa getting it at a young age.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    *Bannon

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  • Chakravanti@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You should play Armored Core: Masters of the Arena if you can wire up another PS1 to battle mechs PvP on screens not visible by the opponant.

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Tell OOP that in less than 10 years, he’ll be almost 30.

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