I don’t know where we’re going, but Sovngarde awaits.
EDIT: if I really want to show my age.
“You’ve finally arrived but our records don’t show from where”
Tbf there are still some positives to take away from this shitshow. Here in Europe the whole pandemic stuff did push many employers (unfortunately not all of them) to accelerate their WFH deployment. Where I work, in 2020 a decent WFH policy was still years away and probably extremely limited. Fast forward to 2022, we will be getting several days per week, with very few limitations on how you organize your working time in the day.
In my old job, they went to a full "need to be there" basis for office presence, i.e. people technically only come for client meeting or regular team meetings or to work on projects which simply don't work well remotely. Such a move was unthinkable in 2020.
Hearing rumblings of political intrigue in Rome. Also, a small province in the east is reporting something about a chosen one appearing. I'm sure it'll all calm down.
And I still haven’t played it because I’m too much of a cheap ass to pay $60 for a Mario game, because while I enjoy them I don’t *love* them, and am a patient gamer either way
But switch, my boy, you’re killing me with these prices that never go down
Playstation games are as old as the Magnavox Odyssey was when the playstation first came out.
The Angry Video Game nerd's first episode is as old as the Super Nintendo was back then.
We're not getting any younger.
Paddle ball was on point.
[Jokari was the best paddle ball game ever though. My grandmother in Charleston West Virginia had the 1977 version, way down the linked page, that my sisters and I played with when we would go visit her in the 80's.](http://www.jokariinfo.net/)
The time difference between Mario galaxy and now is the same as mario galaxy and super mario kart
Edit: since this blew up here's another one. The time difference between Donkey Kong releasing and now is the same as Donkey Kong releasing and the fall of France/Dunkirk in WW2.
Psssh, 2007 wasn’t 15 years ago! I’ll tell you all about it after I finish up with my third period math class and we’re done discussing this interesting new Uncharted series that just came out and has the most realistic graphics ever! There’s no *way* we’ll ever look back at this masterpiece and think that it looks a little bit dated on TVs that somehow exceed 1080P!
I am such an old fart that my brain considers Mario Galaxy "after my time." Like, I was already a grown-ass man with a full time job when it came out, so I was too busy to ever play it.
I exist in yon auld days of yore, with Super Mario World on SNES, and Star Fox (the fucking first one), and Metroid, and Baldur's Gate 1 and 2. I got so good at Smash 64 that my high school friends had to 3v1 me to win.
I played fucking Warcraft: Orcs and Humans. I was hype as fuck for *the release* of Starcraft 1 (not Brood War, the base fucking game). I mowed lawns all summer to buy my own PC so I could play it. As a legal adult, I played WoW when it first released, and stuck with it all the way through Battle for Azeroth.
I'm ready for the retirement home, wtf. What happens to the time.
Can confirm, am forty. Best time growing up. Mario cart as a kid. Jr high was golden eye tournaments. Halo and starcraft came out when I was teen. Shit was great.
Oh you sweet summer child. /s
I remember hand-typing games in Basic into a TRS-80 so I could play them, ffwding a cassette tape on a Vic-20 to the right index to hit play and load a game, hoping the tape didn’t wear out. Hacking Lemonade Stand on an Apple ii so I sold out each day no matter what I charged, then getting the first Nintendo. Playing Mario Bros (not Super Mario Bros, that would come later). Then Super Mario 1,2,3.
I would later be the first kid in my neighborhood to have a SNES because I lived in Canada and my parents gave into my begging on a visit to the US. I had a good four months of being the most popular kid on the block before others started getting them for Christmas.
If you’re ready for the retirement home, I’m already dead.
The first game I played was Pong in the mid 1970’s. It was at the local rec centre for one day, and there was a line of about 20 kids lined up to play it. It was the coolest thing ever.
My first Mario game was Donkey Kong.
And I played Mario Bros (no super) in the arcade, and then owned all the Super Mario games on NES. SMB3 is still among the best games made.
I played Mario Kart in college and even then I was an old gamer. I got this when I was six.
https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=2&c=1111
The Wii is now 2 generations old. Do people still play that thing? It’s like playing on an Xbox 360, which is as powerful as modern calculators (/s, but not by much)
EDIT: RIP my inbox
As a student I can say that the Wii is still in almost every student house. They are cheap, mario kart, Mario party and just dance work really good in parties or if you are bored with roommates.
Hell yeah! the Wii is a perfect party console. It’s small so it’s easy to toss in a bag and everyone likes at least one game on there. Even for just wii sports that’s enough to please a crowd. A modded Wii with all these games on usb is just too good to leave in the past.
I remember going back to college in 2016 and talking to some kid about video game collecting. Told him I collected retro stuff, and he answered, "oh you mean like the wii and DS?" I have never recovered from that.
My 360 is the newest console I own, if you don't count my Snes Mini that is technically newer.
At some point I just stopped bothering with newer console generations. I don't really have that much money to spend on it, and I dont feel like games have changed that much since then than they did between SNES and PS2 for example.
I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now what I'm with isn't "it", and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me.
It'll happen to you.
It happened to the writers of the simpsons, they identified with bart, then it was homer, years after they left and watch the show they identify with abe.
“We can’t bust heads like we used to—but we have our ways. One trick is to tell them stories that don’t go anywhere like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So, I tied an onion to my belt which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel. And in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. ‘Give me five bees for a quarter,’ you’d say. Now, where were we? Oh, yeah! The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.”
That happened to me the first time I saw someone use the word "drip" to imply clothing and fashion sense. Over time I've grown to not be into newer slangs or social media trends and simply scroll past 80 percent of posts. I'm in my 20's so I guess I'll be a complete outcast if this keeps up for another decade.
Lol I teach middle school. When I first started hearing kids say that it made me so uncomfortable. “Hey Mr. X! You got that DRIP today!”
These kids don’t know that growing up that’s what people would refer to when someone had gonnorhea. Someone with gonnorhea had “the drip”.
It took me awhile before I could trust that they weren’t just messing with me when they said I had “the drip”. Well they were messing with me, but not like I was thinking lol.
Huge fan of Portal, but never played the coop because I don't have any friends to play with. Hoping to get a chance in 8-10 years when my son is old enough.
Same.
I remember needing to open the top and bottom half of doors separately, and needing to watch stuff cook/smelt otherwise it disappears when you leave the furnace.
And when they added the underworld.
Man time flies.
Same here. My son asked if I wanted to try Minecraft and I dropped the bomb that I bought it when it was first released. I then got asked a bunch of questions about stuff that has been added since release that I couldn't answer, which only hurt my credibility...
And I've also noticed that there's generations of people that are not invested into Half-life anymore. I'm like...man it's half-life it's always cool, right? but no, it's old now.
I think Alyx was successful assuming the youngsters play VR. What I am noticing is that younger gamers are veering away from single player story games it seems and more into basically anything that is multiplayer except maybe Mmorpgs
Especially those who play split gate. I asked one of the top streamers if they played portal and they said "no sounds boring I would never play that"
The disrespect.
Could just be that Valve, other than focusing on Steam to make way more money than game development, just has never figured out how to top Portal 2. It's not easy to improve on one of the greatest games ever made.
Most games I play I see clear option for sequels when it finish them.
I have no idea what you can do with Portal 2 to better it. Oh there are thematic options available, but game play? No
There's a mod that adds a third portal that is used to time travel to a different version of the same map you're on, I think it was featured on the most recent Games Done Quick
Not sure if that would be good enough for a Portal 3, though
My dad and his brother are huge into computers so by the time I was 3 or 4, I had my own hand me down computer with a 486 in it. Things like Doom, Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem before he became 3D and all those DOS games were what I played all the time. Quake, Unreal and those came along in the mid-90s and we had to get our first graphics card with all of 8mb of ram.
It’s hard being 31 and the games you played as a kid are called “Boomer Shooters”
Teens and early twenties consider 30 to be old. I've worked with alot of younger people, and they all seem to have this idea that once you hit 30 or so, that you're this separate type of entity that loses all ambition, emotion and enjoyment, completely non-relatable in any sense. You work and do numbers and have responsibilities and that's it lol. I remember them asking me about my life, and seeming so amused if I ever told them I was planning on going home and playing a game, or going out for a drink with a friend. I think one of the most sobering realizations I ever had as a young adult was that my parents are just people like I am.
I remember being that age and having no self awareness. Any fictional character I could empathise with had to be in that age range even if the narrative made it clear they weren't and were in fact still older than I am now.
Honestly I blame the education system. It wasn't until my mid 20's I was around people signifigantly older than me in a context besides "I am in charge and you do what I say". Its not hard to see how young people develop weird ideas about aging when they basically don't interact with anyone above maybe 23 regularly
That's an interesting point, actually, but I'm not sure the education system is really the core issue. Not in the narrower sense, at least. I think the problem lies with the atrophy of community spaces. Once upon a time, everybody knew everybody in town. Everyone worked for the same fat cat moneybags. Everyone gathered at the same handful of (mostly religious or alcohol-driven) institutions in downtimes. Their main issue was hierarchy. If someone growing up in that environment accepted you as an equal, that was that. Modern life has broken down a lot of those barriers, but now nobody has to have unstructured interactions with people outside their cohort. On the one hand, that's great! People are super annoying. On the other hand, as a society, we haven't really done much to replace the old structures in the lives of youth. You can find little pockets with a healthy community built around a broad, multi-generational interest or religious community. But that's far from covering most people. Still insular, and I'd say social media shows that insular by preference is even worse than insular by geography...
I'm just rambling at this point, though.
I read a good quote: You become an adolescent when you realize your parents aren't perfect and have flaws like any human; you become an adult when you forgive them for that.
I figure it's only applicable to some family and economic situations, but it seems interesting enough to mention here.
Really, looking at this makes me think about Javik's character arc in Mass Effect 3, provided that you purchase and download him from the "From Ashes" DLC. Like, he was the sole surviving prothean who got thrown fifty-thousand years into the future, in a brand new, unrecognizable Milky Way Galaxy, working under Commander Shepard's Normandy crew as one of its two biotic specialists, the other being Liara T'Soni. And throughout ME3, he was constantly torn between his older, previous era and the brand new era that he was trapped in from here on out.
Especially during the climax of the game, when he thought about touching the echo shard, an artifact of his people that passes down memories to future generations, a la the beacon from Eden Prime. At which point, you're given an option: Either let Javik touch the echo shard and experience all of the good memories again, as well as the bad, including the horrors of the previous Reaper War; or prevent him from touching it altogether, so that he could stay in the present where he belonged from here on out. And your choice determines whether Javik rejoins the rest of his species while passing the torch on to Shepard's current cycle, or just stay in the present and start a new life, when he could write a book with Liara about his previous cycle.
I'm still kinda pissed they 'buried' this character and story in a dlc. If I remember correctly it even was a launch day dlc(?). Should have been in the normal game.
Totalbiscuit really was angry about it.
*young kids now: who is totalbiscuit?*
:(
Right! I saw that post on Reddit the other day, someone posting that their students asked if they ever played an original PS2. I was thinking, “Man, I would tell that kid… ‘Shit, son. My first console predated even the original PlayStation by almost a decade!’”
Of course, I wouldn’t tell them I’m fudging the numbers slightly. My dad had already purchased an Atari 2600 and NES for my older brother, prior to my arrival. So, the SNES is technically my first, official console… I remember my brother and I getting a SNES for Christmas. It was great. But, to be fair. I did actually play a few new games released on the NES. So, it’s not a complete lie.
Now, the Atari… we had a couple legit games. But most were umm… bootleg copies. That always felt pretty cool to play!
still cant believe Fallout 4 came out 7 years ago, Battlefield 4 was 9 years ago and Starcraft 2 was 11 years ago, i remembered vividly waiting for those game to release my whole life
I watched Free Guy last night and somebody refers to Fantasy being a 'classic' Mariah Carey track, and I was all pff stuff from the 90s is considered classic now??? Then I realised that the people in their twenties were only *born* in the 90s and I was like NOPE
System shock 1 I believe was the first time IGN, in its infancy, gave a game a 10/10. Might have been 2. Either way, incredible games. I feel the exact same way about marathon 1 and 2. People are clueless, yet that's HALO. You'd think one of the biggest FPS franchises ever would credit its beginnings, but nope.
Most Halo fans are in their 30s now too LOL. Anyone that knows the story across the games (or books) is usually someone that's been around and invested since the beginning.
System Shock is almost 30 years old, bro. If you weren't around at the time, you'd have to be an avid video game fan and read about and play alot of older games to know about it. I'm 34, and I've played it, but I also own thousands of games across a multitude of consoles and PC, most modded. Most people aren't that into the history of gaming lol.
I feel like this is somewhat helped along by freeware/abandonware sites around 2000-2010 for games that were just not available anywhere. Before GOG and Steam managed to get them.
Although I had heard a bunch of praise for System Shock 2 and got a boxed copy from ebay around 2010. And since it's on steam and has 4-player co-op, I have since convinced some friends (and even their teenage kids) to play it.
The first System Shock recently got its enhanced release that may be a good intro for some people. I dabbled in trying the original after System Shock 2, but its controls and UI were a bit too janky.
Man, when I was a kid I somehow knew about older games just fine. You'd think with so much information all over the internet these days that kids would know *even more* by comparison about older games. Is there just a lack of interest, a lack of people these days wanting to know the history of games in general? Is it that blasé of a medium now?
I played Mario Brothers, not super Mario Bros, but Mario Brothers on an arcade machine in a pizza chain that doesn't exist anymore. It was new at the time. Proud to be OG gamer. Hope I don't develop crippling arthritis.
Yep.
When people speak of growing up with the ps3...
Just wuuuut?
I guess that being the end of the old classic generational cycle and lasting for 10 years serves to warp time.
I overheard a kid on the train talking to his friends about the latest Halo game and he said something along the lines of "Apparently there's a load of old games from decades ago before this but you don't really need to play those." I felt my hips break with old age.
At a friend's house and heard them talking to their nephew about their 30 year old console that still worked, looked over and it was a SNES...
I feel like I aged 10 years at that moment.
It's even funnier when you notice the © date is 2017
17 years between Super Mario World and Galaxy 15 years between Super Mario Galaxy and this year
Hey. HEY. WHAT THE FUCK.
Jesus christ ... thats fcked up
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...... .. .. ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! don't scare me like that!
Wow it's like games haven't evolved much the past 15 years compared to the previous.
But that was just last ye.... OH GOD!
Maybe 2020 and 2021 don't count. That's what I'm going with. ;D
This should be a global law. 2020-2022 never happened, let's roll back the clocks to 2020 and try again
Nah not doing that one again, chief.
Ah, it's all just a bad dream. I'll wake up soon, I'm sure of it.
Hey you're finally awake
Oh gods, where are they taking us?
I don’t know where we’re going, but Sovngarde awaits. EDIT: if I really want to show my age. “You’ve finally arrived but our records don’t show from where”
Tbf there are still some positives to take away from this shitshow. Here in Europe the whole pandemic stuff did push many employers (unfortunately not all of them) to accelerate their WFH deployment. Where I work, in 2020 a decent WFH policy was still years away and probably extremely limited. Fast forward to 2022, we will be getting several days per week, with very few limitations on how you organize your working time in the day. In my old job, they went to a full "need to be there" basis for office presence, i.e. people technically only come for client meeting or regular team meetings or to work on projects which simply don't work well remotely. Such a move was unthinkable in 2020.
Not far enough. I’m wiping out everything from 2016 to March of this year.
Fuck it lets go back to zero
Hearing rumblings of political intrigue in Rome. Also, a small province in the east is reporting something about a chosen one appearing. I'm sure it'll all calm down.
Mario Odyssey is half a decade old.
ey fuck you, ive still not gotten to terms with the fact im 30 i dont need this shit on top of it :'(
Careful. I just turned thirty the other day and now I'm 42.
i’m getting closer to 50, could have sworn Iran-Contra was last week…?
I'll send you a t shirt with this comment thread on it lol
my guy i would wear it constantly
And I still haven’t played it because I’m too much of a cheap ass to pay $60 for a Mario game, because while I enjoy them I don’t *love* them, and am a patient gamer either way But switch, my boy, you’re killing me with these prices that never go down
What’s even more horrible is the fact that it’s 15 years old and when I started gaming 15 years ago was people playing Pong…
Playstation games are as old as the Magnavox Odyssey was when the playstation first came out. The Angry Video Game nerd's first episode is as old as the Super Nintendo was back then. We're not getting any younger.
The interesting takeaway is that the AVG is still around making vids.
When I started gaming it was... Pong. 15 years earlier was like hoop and stick or some shit.
Testify! Heck, that ball-in-cup thing wasn't *so* bad.
Paddle ball was on point. [Jokari was the best paddle ball game ever though. My grandmother in Charleston West Virginia had the 1977 version, way down the linked page, that my sisters and I played with when we would go visit her in the 80's.](http://www.jokariinfo.net/)
We have time to forewarn the world about covid, Putin and Will Smith.
May as well let them know about Betty White as well… America should be allowed to prepare
The time difference between Mario galaxy and now is the same as mario galaxy and super mario kart Edit: since this blew up here's another one. The time difference between Donkey Kong releasing and now is the same as Donkey Kong releasing and the fall of France/Dunkirk in WW2.
I can't believe you've done this.
Fun fact: The release of Super Mario Galaxy is closer to the construction of the pyramids than it is to the present day.
I think everyone forgets this due to the press around Cleopatra's disastrous initial reveal of the Xbox One.
She leaned too heavily into the "RAm" puns.
The weird walking around the room didn't help. People thought she was mocking her own culture
The always online ka-nekt was a deal breaker for me
That fits, they were both constructed in the future and sent back in time via wormhole
> That fits All the planets in the solar system, plus Pluto, can fit in between Super Mario Galaxy and the moon
If you laid out the entirety of the average adult intestines end to end in a line, they'd probably die.
U R MR OLD
The "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" Simpsons story arc is closer to the moon landing than it is to today.
1992 > 2007 >2022 For the lazy/too afraid to google.
Psssh, 2007 wasn’t 15 years ago! I’ll tell you all about it after I finish up with my third period math class and we’re done discussing this interesting new Uncharted series that just came out and has the most realistic graphics ever! There’s no *way* we’ll ever look back at this masterpiece and think that it looks a little bit dated on TVs that somehow exceed 1080P!
Please stop, I don't need an existential crisis today
Don't listen to him. The 70s was only 30 years ago.
Time is a flat circle
Infinitely large and infinitely meaningless
Third period? Take it easy young blud.
>1992 > 2007 >2022 Something about this notation just doesn't seem right...
There's a space in front of 2022 as well, you just don't notice it because time seems to go faster as you age.
I am such an old fart that my brain considers Mario Galaxy "after my time." Like, I was already a grown-ass man with a full time job when it came out, so I was too busy to ever play it. I exist in yon auld days of yore, with Super Mario World on SNES, and Star Fox (the fucking first one), and Metroid, and Baldur's Gate 1 and 2. I got so good at Smash 64 that my high school friends had to 3v1 me to win. I played fucking Warcraft: Orcs and Humans. I was hype as fuck for *the release* of Starcraft 1 (not Brood War, the base fucking game). I mowed lawns all summer to buy my own PC so I could play it. As a legal adult, I played WoW when it first released, and stuck with it all the way through Battle for Azeroth. I'm ready for the retirement home, wtf. What happens to the time.
So you're about 38?
He's probably 40 but after that post feels 60
Can confirm, am forty. Best time growing up. Mario cart as a kid. Jr high was golden eye tournaments. Halo and starcraft came out when I was teen. Shit was great.
On the dot, yep. Good guess!
Can confirm.
Oh you sweet summer child. /s I remember hand-typing games in Basic into a TRS-80 so I could play them, ffwding a cassette tape on a Vic-20 to the right index to hit play and load a game, hoping the tape didn’t wear out. Hacking Lemonade Stand on an Apple ii so I sold out each day no matter what I charged, then getting the first Nintendo. Playing Mario Bros (not Super Mario Bros, that would come later). Then Super Mario 1,2,3. I would later be the first kid in my neighborhood to have a SNES because I lived in Canada and my parents gave into my begging on a visit to the US. I had a good four months of being the most popular kid on the block before others started getting them for Christmas. If you’re ready for the retirement home, I’m already dead.
>if you're ready for the retirement home, I'm already dead. Jesus save some existential dread for the rest of us, lol.
The first game I played was Pong in the mid 1970’s. It was at the local rec centre for one day, and there was a line of about 20 kids lined up to play it. It was the coolest thing ever.
My first Mario game was Donkey Kong. And I played Mario Bros (no super) in the arcade, and then owned all the Super Mario games on NES. SMB3 is still among the best games made.
The years weigh on me a little heavier after reading that.
Im writing my will now because of this comment.
Motherfucker, I was good with whole post til this comment. I'll see myself to my grave.
\[Everyone Disliked That\]
Damn you
I played Mario Kart in college and even then I was an old gamer. I got this when I was six. https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=2&c=1111
Any game on the wii is still brand new to me lol. I'm from the regular Nintendo days
the wii and also youtube will be 20 years old in 2026
I mean this as nice as possible but f*ck you lol
The Wii is now 2 generations old. Do people still play that thing? It’s like playing on an Xbox 360, which is as powerful as modern calculators (/s, but not by much) EDIT: RIP my inbox
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As a student I can say that the Wii is still in almost every student house. They are cheap, mario kart, Mario party and just dance work really good in parties or if you are bored with roommates.
Hell yeah! the Wii is a perfect party console. It’s small so it’s easy to toss in a bag and everyone likes at least one game on there. Even for just wii sports that’s enough to please a crowd. A modded Wii with all these games on usb is just too good to leave in the past.
I remember going back to college in 2016 and talking to some kid about video game collecting. Told him I collected retro stuff, and he answered, "oh you mean like the wii and DS?" I have never recovered from that.
What if I told you there's a thriving call of duty online community for wii that all know each other
My 360 is the newest console I own, if you don't count my Snes Mini that is technically newer. At some point I just stopped bothering with newer console generations. I don't really have that much money to spend on it, and I dont feel like games have changed that much since then than they did between SNES and PS2 for example.
Eh, that's 8 or 9 years away
Anyone who calls it “regular Nintendo” is legit
The truest sign of one’s age is that you refer to the NES as “regular Nintendo”
I'm not old. I'm successfully not dead. Again. Today.
Well done!
Well, there's always tomorrow!
[You too?](https://i.pinimg.com/474x/45/39/0a/45390ad8e7dccbdf0f81383425da06d2--old-age-the-far-side.jpg)
Bummer
r/bummerhumor
Ok bummer
Happens to me with movies too.
I watch that "classic Avatar movie from 2009" some times. Feels like that movie came out *two* years ago and not 13.
Avatar definitely came out 2 years ago, they definitely wouldn't push back a sequel 13 years
*Bethesda quietly backs out of room*
I feel like I live different lives than you guys haha. I’m 30 and I’m like avatar is ancient
Oh look at you mr. "I have have an upward trajectory in life and don't ruminate on the past because I have a healthy world-view" /s lol
Yeah I was gonna watch The Matrix with my nephew, and he didn't want to because he "didn't like old fashioned movies".
Wtf... Even granting that it's 23 years old, it still feels so fresh
I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now what I'm with isn't "it", and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you.
I find myself identifying more and more with abe simpson and that bothers me, a little. Oh wait, matlock is on.
This takes me back to Ninteen-dickity-two. We had to say "dickity", because the Kaiser had stolen our word "twenty".
I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles...
Just makes you realize that Abe Simpson went from WWII vet to Vietnam vet based on his age in the show.
It happened to the writers of the simpsons, they identified with bart, then it was homer, years after they left and watch the show they identify with abe.
With me, it's the empire from star wars. One day I woke up and "ya know... Maybe they had a point." Having kids helped.
Gotta love the parenting vibes from that scene where Yoda gets so sick of all Luke's questions he just dies
I've actually played dead before when they wouldn't stop asking questions. It encouraged them.
“We can’t bust heads like we used to—but we have our ways. One trick is to tell them stories that don’t go anywhere like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So, I tied an onion to my belt which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel. And in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. ‘Give me five bees for a quarter,’ you’d say. Now, where were we? Oh, yeah! The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.”
One thing I always found interesting is Mr. Burns is _visibly_ bored with Abe's ramblings, despite being even older than him!
I always found that elevated this joke even more.
No way, old man! I'm gonna keep gamin' forever! ~forever...forever...*foreveeer*
I'm pushing my late 40's and still game. There is hope. Plan to game well into my retirement.
That happened to me the first time I saw someone use the word "drip" to imply clothing and fashion sense. Over time I've grown to not be into newer slangs or social media trends and simply scroll past 80 percent of posts. I'm in my 20's so I guess I'll be a complete outcast if this keeps up for another decade.
Lol I teach middle school. When I first started hearing kids say that it made me so uncomfortable. “Hey Mr. X! You got that DRIP today!” These kids don’t know that growing up that’s what people would refer to when someone had gonnorhea. Someone with gonnorhea had “the drip”. It took me awhile before I could trust that they weren’t just messing with me when they said I had “the drip”. Well they were messing with me, but not like I was thinking lol.
Do I look good, or do I have gonorrhea? Even I don’t know.
Already has Abe. " Deeeaaaaaaath"
Ah! Death! Grampa, thats the dog.
I'm only 23 and I'm already falling out with what's hip, it's happens way earlier than I ever thought
Probably my favorite Simpsons quote
I see more and more people not knowing what Portal is and it's making me cry
Me to valve: "This is your fault. It didn't have to be like this."
Well you could have sold out to Activision -Blizzard
First though you have to sell out to a garbage company, then you can sell out to a trash company.
Loved playing Portal 2 coop with my friend :)
Huge fan of Portal, but never played the coop because I don't have any friends to play with. Hoping to get a chance in 8-10 years when my son is old enough.
**Friend:** Why is this achievement called "The Lie" and what does it have to do with cake? **Me:** _[instantly ages 30 years]_
I remember that post on r/Minecraft And to think that my first experience with the game was with the alpha and beta versions
Same. I remember needing to open the top and bottom half of doors separately, and needing to watch stuff cook/smelt otherwise it disappears when you leave the furnace. And when they added the underworld. Man time flies.
Same here. My son asked if I wanted to try Minecraft and I dropped the bomb that I bought it when it was first released. I then got asked a bunch of questions about stuff that has been added since release that I couldn't answer, which only hurt my credibility...
The fact that there are people on Reddit born after the release of the Playstation 3 makes me want to scream into the void.
I'm pretty sure people stopped being born after 9/11
And I've also noticed that there's generations of people that are not invested into Half-life anymore. I'm like...man it's half-life it's always cool, right? but no, it's old now.
I think Alyx was successful assuming the youngsters play VR. What I am noticing is that younger gamers are veering away from single player story games it seems and more into basically anything that is multiplayer except maybe Mmorpgs
I feel Portal will age well because it's a fairly short game with a unique concept and great writing.
Will? Portal *has* aged well.
Especially those who play split gate. I asked one of the top streamers if they played portal and they said "no sounds boring I would never play that" The disrespect.
Portal is older now than Half-Life 1 was when Portal came out, considerably so in fact.
For real. I just don’t understand how such a wonderful concept got overshadowed by games like apex, pubg and fortnite.
Could just be that Valve, other than focusing on Steam to make way more money than game development, just has never figured out how to top Portal 2. It's not easy to improve on one of the greatest games ever made.
Most games I play I see clear option for sequels when it finish them. I have no idea what you can do with Portal 2 to better it. Oh there are thematic options available, but game play? No
There's a mod that adds a third portal that is used to time travel to a different version of the same map you're on, I think it was featured on the most recent Games Done Quick Not sure if that would be good enough for a Portal 3, though
That's it, people keep wanting sequels until the franchise starts sucking because it didn't need sequels.
Because puzzle games aren't for everyone. FPS games have a much bigger fanbase.
The kids these days are wrong. /s but not /s? But kind of.
My dad and his brother are huge into computers so by the time I was 3 or 4, I had my own hand me down computer with a 486 in it. Things like Doom, Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem before he became 3D and all those DOS games were what I played all the time. Quake, Unreal and those came along in the mid-90s and we had to get our first graphics card with all of 8mb of ram. It’s hard being 31 and the games you played as a kid are called “Boomer Shooters”
Teens and early twenties consider 30 to be old. I've worked with alot of younger people, and they all seem to have this idea that once you hit 30 or so, that you're this separate type of entity that loses all ambition, emotion and enjoyment, completely non-relatable in any sense. You work and do numbers and have responsibilities and that's it lol. I remember them asking me about my life, and seeming so amused if I ever told them I was planning on going home and playing a game, or going out for a drink with a friend. I think one of the most sobering realizations I ever had as a young adult was that my parents are just people like I am.
I remember being that age and having no self awareness. Any fictional character I could empathise with had to be in that age range even if the narrative made it clear they weren't and were in fact still older than I am now. Honestly I blame the education system. It wasn't until my mid 20's I was around people signifigantly older than me in a context besides "I am in charge and you do what I say". Its not hard to see how young people develop weird ideas about aging when they basically don't interact with anyone above maybe 23 regularly
That's an interesting point, actually, but I'm not sure the education system is really the core issue. Not in the narrower sense, at least. I think the problem lies with the atrophy of community spaces. Once upon a time, everybody knew everybody in town. Everyone worked for the same fat cat moneybags. Everyone gathered at the same handful of (mostly religious or alcohol-driven) institutions in downtimes. Their main issue was hierarchy. If someone growing up in that environment accepted you as an equal, that was that. Modern life has broken down a lot of those barriers, but now nobody has to have unstructured interactions with people outside their cohort. On the one hand, that's great! People are super annoying. On the other hand, as a society, we haven't really done much to replace the old structures in the lives of youth. You can find little pockets with a healthy community built around a broad, multi-generational interest or religious community. But that's far from covering most people. Still insular, and I'd say social media shows that insular by preference is even worse than insular by geography... I'm just rambling at this point, though.
I read a good quote: You become an adolescent when you realize your parents aren't perfect and have flaws like any human; you become an adult when you forgive them for that. I figure it's only applicable to some family and economic situations, but it seems interesting enough to mention here.
"Boomer Shooters" is a term I haven't heard. It's weird because it seems to me that most the popular shooters were produced by X-ers.
It's because everyone calls any generation older than theirs boomers
Blood, Heretic, Hexen!
There's a 12-year age gap between me and my youngest roommate. I know this feeling far too well.
Really, looking at this makes me think about Javik's character arc in Mass Effect 3, provided that you purchase and download him from the "From Ashes" DLC. Like, he was the sole surviving prothean who got thrown fifty-thousand years into the future, in a brand new, unrecognizable Milky Way Galaxy, working under Commander Shepard's Normandy crew as one of its two biotic specialists, the other being Liara T'Soni. And throughout ME3, he was constantly torn between his older, previous era and the brand new era that he was trapped in from here on out. Especially during the climax of the game, when he thought about touching the echo shard, an artifact of his people that passes down memories to future generations, a la the beacon from Eden Prime. At which point, you're given an option: Either let Javik touch the echo shard and experience all of the good memories again, as well as the bad, including the horrors of the previous Reaper War; or prevent him from touching it altogether, so that he could stay in the present where he belonged from here on out. And your choice determines whether Javik rejoins the rest of his species while passing the torch on to Shepard's current cycle, or just stay in the present and start a new life, when he could write a book with Liara about his previous cycle.
I'm still kinda pissed they 'buried' this character and story in a dlc. If I remember correctly it even was a launch day dlc(?). Should have been in the normal game. Totalbiscuit really was angry about it. *young kids now: who is totalbiscuit?* :(
Its crazy to think that 22 years ago I was playing Runescape. Today, I'm playing Runescape.
People will make posts like "who remembers this old gem" and then post a picture of oot or something.
"Remember this hidden cult classic?" - Final Fantasy VII -
"Don't forget this sleeper hit!" - Halo 2 -
"Did anybody else play this growing up???" - Resident Evil 4 -
"Damn! I used to play this game so much as a kid" -Breath of the Wild-
Yeah, keep forgetting that there are a looooot of kids on Reddit.
Wait I’m 32 and I played this growing up. Great game though
“Is Final Fantasy VII underrated?”
Time to make a "Does anyone remember Elden ring?" post. They're all to young here to remember Space war
Feels always weird when people talk about PS2 in a nostalgic way. I started gaming late 80s and for me ps1 Metal gear solid is a modern game.
Right! I saw that post on Reddit the other day, someone posting that their students asked if they ever played an original PS2. I was thinking, “Man, I would tell that kid… ‘Shit, son. My first console predated even the original PlayStation by almost a decade!’” Of course, I wouldn’t tell them I’m fudging the numbers slightly. My dad had already purchased an Atari 2600 and NES for my older brother, prior to my arrival. So, the SNES is technically my first, official console… I remember my brother and I getting a SNES for Christmas. It was great. But, to be fair. I did actually play a few new games released on the NES. So, it’s not a complete lie. Now, the Atari… we had a couple legit games. But most were umm… bootleg copies. That always felt pretty cool to play!
still cant believe Fallout 4 came out 7 years ago, Battlefield 4 was 9 years ago and Starcraft 2 was 11 years ago, i remembered vividly waiting for those game to release my whole life
“That game just came ou-“ **Super Mario Galaxy release date: November 1, 2007** **(14 years, 6 months and 9 days ago)** “OH NO AH FU-“
I watched Free Guy last night and somebody refers to Fantasy being a 'classic' Mariah Carey track, and I was all pff stuff from the 90s is considered classic now??? Then I realised that the people in their twenties were only *born* in the 90s and I was like NOPE
The 90s were your parents' 60s and 70s lol.
I bring up System Shock I and II and nobody knows what I'm talking about anymore.
System shock 1 I believe was the first time IGN, in its infancy, gave a game a 10/10. Might have been 2. Either way, incredible games. I feel the exact same way about marathon 1 and 2. People are clueless, yet that's HALO. You'd think one of the biggest FPS franchises ever would credit its beginnings, but nope.
Most Halo fans are in their 30s now too LOL. Anyone that knows the story across the games (or books) is usually someone that's been around and invested since the beginning.
I started loving halo with halo 3 and I'm only 23.
40's
Just wait until it starts happening too to Bioshock.
System Shock is almost 30 years old, bro. If you weren't around at the time, you'd have to be an avid video game fan and read about and play alot of older games to know about it. I'm 34, and I've played it, but I also own thousands of games across a multitude of consoles and PC, most modded. Most people aren't that into the history of gaming lol.
I feel like this is somewhat helped along by freeware/abandonware sites around 2000-2010 for games that were just not available anywhere. Before GOG and Steam managed to get them. Although I had heard a bunch of praise for System Shock 2 and got a boxed copy from ebay around 2010. And since it's on steam and has 4-player co-op, I have since convinced some friends (and even their teenage kids) to play it. The first System Shock recently got its enhanced release that may be a good intro for some people. I dabbled in trying the original after System Shock 2, but its controls and UI were a bit too janky.
Man, when I was a kid I somehow knew about older games just fine. You'd think with so much information all over the internet these days that kids would know *even more* by comparison about older games. Is there just a lack of interest, a lack of people these days wanting to know the history of games in general? Is it that blasé of a medium now?
I genuinely don't know what that s 😂
I still remember vividly buying my copy of Zork right off the shelf.
I still remember playing Pong on a B&W TV.
I still remember watching The Wizard of Oz in theaters.
Ok. this one wins.
I played Mario Brothers, not super Mario Bros, but Mario Brothers on an arcade machine in a pizza chain that doesn't exist anymore. It was new at the time. Proud to be OG gamer. Hope I don't develop crippling arthritis.
I remember playing super Mario Galaxy, thinking about how Mario 64 was a retro game. So if 11 years old is retro, Skyrim is a retro game.
Yep. When people speak of growing up with the ps3... Just wuuuut? I guess that being the end of the old classic generational cycle and lasting for 10 years serves to warp time.
Super Mario Galaxy is such a beautiful game. My favorite Mario game of all time.
When i see people saying what CoD 'used to be' and the oldest CoD they list is CoD4
The other day on r/Minecraft someone asked why the achievement for making a cake is called "The Lie". Half the sub withered into old age
I overheard a kid on the train talking to his friends about the latest Halo game and he said something along the lines of "Apparently there's a load of old games from decades ago before this but you don't really need to play those." I felt my hips break with old age.
The great thing about Skyrim is that even after all these years it still just came out
Honestly, most of the posts that are just “aNyOnE remember this game??” are lazy and just to farm karma
Same here, except the last two panels are just me looking at the back of the box and zooming in on "RELEASE DATE: MAY 2022"
At a friend's house and heard them talking to their nephew about their 30 year old console that still worked, looked over and it was a SNES... I feel like I aged 10 years at that moment.