• M68040 [they/them]
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    16 days ago

    I couldn't stand the thought of someone being nostalgic for a generation where two of the three are a hair away from being AMD APU-based PCs running weird operating systems. We need to ret-five-urn to tradition (All consoles being bespoke hardware with significant mutual incompatibilities and odd achille's heels with regards to different aspects of the rendering pipeline)

    • drhead [he/him]
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      16 days ago

      don't forget the absolutely inexplicable platform-specific bugs:

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    • comrade_pibb [comrade/them]
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      16 days ago

      we used to have real games bodged together on 6502 assembly but not anymore because of woke

      • Owl [he/him]
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        16 days ago

        You could fit over three million 6502s in the PS5 CPU's transistor count, yet modern games are not three million times better than the classics. Capitalist inefficiency at work.

  • AlicePraxis [any]
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    16 days ago

    that's the perfect time. no child of mine will be a gamer

      • AlicePraxis [any]
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        16 days ago

        yes we need young able-bodied soldiers to kick fascists heads in

        SATIRE, PARODY, MINECRAFT etc. I do not condone creating commie child soldiers (unless...)

          • AlicePraxis [any]
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            16 days ago

            playing minecraft is not merely gaming, it's praxis. so I'll make an exception

            I will provide my non-existent children with pirated copies tho, fuck Microsoft

  • buh [any]
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    16 days ago

    counterpoint: we're in the golden age of indie/small budget games

  • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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    16 days ago

    Counterpoint: The worst console generation inevitably leads to more sex. During the freeze-gamer Crash of '83 the population nearly exploded!

  • peppersky [he/him, any]
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    16 days ago

    The fact that our capitalist overlords have just decided to forgo any pretense and market actually addictive games and apps to children is unironically one of the many reasons I'll probably decide not to have children. It's a tiny reason next to climate change and everything else but it adds up.