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  • cruseo@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    From the wood paneling to the Papasan chair to the Xbox, this photo is aggressively 1990s

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    • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Cannot be earlier than 2002, based on someone further down the thread identifying the game as THPS 4.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      TV and gear says 90s?

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      • cruseo@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Jeez, edits take forever to federate. I almost immediately edited that to say ‘early-00s’, but I guess the edit didn’t federate to your server yet.

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      • Crankenstein@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That Duke and the stack of Xbox discs says at least 2000s.

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    • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m trying to figure out what the poster under the playboy one is, it feels super familiar

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      • cruseo@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I think it’s a Conan The Barbarian movie poster

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    • gray@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The Playboy poster!

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  • Stolas@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nah. Let me get the vacuum. And the duster. And some wipes.

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  • jpreston1986@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Now there’s a face that says “If you came down 60 seconds earlier, you would’ve seen me with my dick out”

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    • jownz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Window too big… surprisingly not a basement!

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  • Chee_Koala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Pretty baller setup by the looks of it! Our console had to be living room based by parents decree, so they had more grip on our playtime. Ugh…

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    • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I heard tell of families that didn’t even keep their Nintendo connected to the TV. They would set it up each time they wanted to play it.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        When I was very young, a friend of mine’s parents removed the start and select buttons from the second controller to prevent Player 2 spamming pause. This sucked, because hella games used select as a necessary action for the game like changing weapons. So basically, if you were the guest player, you couldn’t do everything you may have needed to do to actually play.

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      • Chee_Koala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Double ugh.

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      • Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yes, needed to search for the signal every time

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Hey, at least you got a console.

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      • Chee_Koala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Very true, but 14yo me preferred 16h long gaming sessions We even got that OG Xbox for Christmas, although my dad did have to prank us by first only putting the DVD remote under the tree and be like “yeah, so when you do get it, you have this upgrade already, isn’t that neat??”. Then we went up and got the final surprise gift: the OG Xbox. That actually might be the first time I remember being exhausted from hype. Wtf, me and my brother were so happy with it.

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That dude was drowning in pussy.

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    • zarathustrad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I had a bedframe, but it broke.

      Bare mattresses on the floor are just more practical after a certain point. There are only so many bedframes I can salvage from the dump.

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Just do like I do and use some of the many millions you were given to buy yourself a new one.

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  • danekrae@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s the term we used when I was a young one, looking through ancient scrolls of lore.

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    • pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You mean Usenet groups?

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    PC gamers would have known what scrolling was even back then. You just scrolled with a mouse sitting at a desk instead of anywhere you are with a finger on a phone.

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    • Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think scrolling started with cable TV. You could scroll through 100+ channels looking for something worth watching. When you get to the end it’s 30 minutes later and you’d start all over. It’s no different from social media

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  • TrackShovel@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Why can I smell this photo?

    It’s not a bad smell, despite the clutter. A faint hint of mustiness as the basement for a bit of water in it in 1996, mixed with air freshener and your buddy’s laundry detergent.

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  • mad_lentil@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I didn’t really think of the Xbox as happening that long ago, but it really has been a few hasn’t it.,…

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What game is he playing?

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    • Fl1ppyR34@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s tony hawks pro skater 4, looks like he was loading his save file on the main menu when the image was taken

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      • TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Confirmed:

        Image

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    • The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I was trying to figure that out too. The background sort of looks like a halfpipe. Maybe one of the Tony Hawk games?

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      • TimeNaan@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Number 4 specifically.

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    • Chee_Koala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Maybe Deathrow? I only ever rented it a couple times, but I looks like a depressing arena so… could be 😆

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  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I used to have one of those round chairs, iirc, they were cheap crap, sold as the back to school furniture. I think mine ended up breaking or falling apart in some way.

    A lot has gotten better since then. A LOOOOOT.

    But there’s also a lot of good we lost along the way…

    If you asked me if I’d trade now for then, I don’t know if I could answer that question absolutely. Maybe there was a time between then and now that would be the best of both, but 2002 vs 2026? That’s a toughie. Maybe 2016 or 2015. But even then, there was some serious shittiness.

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    • TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Papasan chair. Originally made of sturdy rattan, and the seat bowl was separate from the base, allowing it to change in angle. Yes, the cheap versions are crap.

      The papasan chair gained popularity in the west when American World War II veterans brought them home from Asia. During the 1960s, the chairs became a favorite among college students due to their low price and unconventionality. The chair was introduced by Pier 1 Imports in 1975 and soon became one of the retailer’s iconic products. Towards the end of the twentieth century, the papasan had become a common piece of furniture in American homes.

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Playing Elder Scrolls.

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Also this?
      Image
      analognowhere.com/

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    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      gotta be morrowind, right? doesn’t look like oblivion to me. but it’s been a while

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      • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No, he’s playing Tony Hawks Pro Skater, I’m just answering his question.

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    • TimeNaan@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nope, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4. That’s a skate ramp in the background.

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      • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s ramping, not scrolling.
        (I can see what the game is.)

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  • KenOh@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Parallax scrolling

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I had those speakers. I miss them. 😭

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s a basic function of your mouse on your desktop PC, when you click on the bar on the right and pull down or up. What do they teach in schools these days?

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Or hardware horizontal/vertical scrolling on consoles like the NES

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  • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oh please. Who here hasn’t found themselves with a 1000 game console which was the same ten games with just their colors changed up over and over and you had to… scroll to find the version you wanna play?

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