• 0 Posts
  • 23 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: August 15th, 2023

help-circle








  • For it to be "retro" a paradigm shift has to occur. Considering that PS3 and 360 were both HDMI systems, with online play, friend lists, private messaging, bluetooth/wireless headset supporting, and both have achievements, tell me, is that very different than the systems that are currently available? All that's really changing with your gaming experience is playing games with worse lighting and the tedious mechanics that plagued a lot of gen 7 games. PS2 and og Xbox are definitely retro, but unless cloud gaming all of a sudden became the norm and consoles just became streaming boxes, I think PS3 and 360 are still modern consoles.









  • Aside from the fact that your favorite shows/movies get deleted whenever licenses expire, or at the whim of Netflix's profitability algorithm, for a hot minute, streaming was everything people wanted back in the 90s. No commercials, a total MSF of about half of what you might have spent on cable if you have every major streaming service, and a trove of shows and movies to watch. Now, they're about to raise prices and shit out a bunch of bland mid content for dumb dumbs to watch. Forget the era of cheap streaming, I fear this is the beginning of the era of no more quality TV and movies.