Uncs really had set up like this?
>>221208100no, my bedroom was just books and a 13 inch TV. I had to keep my video game consoles in the living room so my parents could monitor how long I played them for.
edging we used to call it
>>221208100That's much nicer than anything i had
>>221208100Not really, it would have been pretty unusual for a teenager to own both a pc and console like that.pretty sure I had that exact desk at some point though.
Kill Bill is off by half a decade.
>>221208100I went to a video game museum in Berlin, and they actually let you sit down inside the replicas and play the games, instead of having it behind a ropeGermany > Croatia I guess
>>221208100this is not worth preserving
>>221208216My brother used to put up posters he got from videogame magazines and such. They were always full of folds and never as neat as the stuff in OP.
>>221208563We don't get to make the call.
>>221208228Really? I actually had this and my family was around lower middle class I would say.PC where I mainly played Command and Conquer and a small TV with an Xbox.But I mostly stuck with my PC especially since I got into Runescape after that, so I never really got another console.
>>221208658you're probably an only child.
>>221208658I would say that's pretty unusual unless you're an only child, either that or your perception of your parent's social class is wrong. Though of course, if this would have been in 2003/4 it's a bit different.
I wasn't allowed screens in my room, I had insomnia though so I hate-read my way through a lot of books
>>221208404>You need a museum to experience playing Resident Evil in the living room againJUST
>>221208216>>221208228>>221208784How fucking poor were you WTF? Not having a PC and at least one console was unheard of.
>>221208919having a PC in your bedroom was a rich kid thing. we had a family PC that everyone used and it wasn't even close to being good enough to run games.
>>221208919having both your own pc and a console was unusual, but a household having both was not that unusual.>>221208938>it wasn't even close to being good enough to run games.Not my experience.
>>221208100Pretty much>>221208824How do you hate-read books
>>221208938Maybe in some really poor countries like Brazil or Poland. So did kids bring their family computer to school for LAN parties?>>221208991Console was usually the household console, yes. Hooked up to the biggest TV in the house. PC was not.
>>221208100what's with the carpet? a friend of mine had it, why was it so common everywhere?
>>221209044>Console was usually the household console, yes. Hooked up to the biggest TV in the house. PC was not.I think you have things skewed here or come from a relatively affluent environment, computers were relatively much more expensive than consoles.https://www.chicagotribune.com/2021/09/20/cost-of-a-computer-every-year-since-1970/https://www.inflationstation.net/?filter=&include=all&orderBy=year&order=asc&asOf=mostRecent
>>221209044I never heard the term LAN party until I started using the GameFAQs forums around 2004. never went to one myself.
>>221208100>reallyIDK, looks plausible.the city carpet might have been kept because it's servicable.the posters are pinned up way too neat.the CRT computer screen looks small. less than 15". I have my doubts about that.
>>221208228>unusualit was quite usual for teenagers in the 2000s to have a computer, for all kinds of reasons, and a TV and probably a console too.unless the parents were psychos.
>>221209159Dude, I bought my own PC with money I made selling cookies and muffins when I was 6 years old. That was in 2005. Good enough for runescape and star wars battlefront. More likely that your parents didn't love you enough to cough up like 4-5K kr for a computer and monitor. That's exactly what a PS2 cost when it released.Those links are banned in the EU btw.>>221209231You're not white, are you?
>>221208100I'd exclude all these posters, but yeah, a modded psx and a computer connected uding a modem or early broadband was somewhat common in middle class families. The PC was usually built after bartering parts, or buying second hand parts. Some of my friends went by using old cyrix 686/ amd k6-2's. Many paid/upgraded their pcs by selling pirated copies of ps games.
>>221209159>>221209396if the family had a dad who knew how to use a computer, then it was the family computer.if the dad was digitally illiterate, then the kid got the computer.
>>221208100No way a teenager would have a preschooler city carpet like that lol
>>221209231>LAN partywere you a pre-teen in the 2000s or something?every teenager in the 90s and 2000s knew what LAN parties were.LAN parties only dwindled when internet became better, no longer dial-up.
>>221208100we had the "family computer" in the living room, having your own TV, pc and console in your bedroom was something for the upper 10%
>>221209396>2005Well that explains it, computer prices nearly halved from 2000 to 2005. You're talking about an almost entirely different era.>That's exactly what a PS2 cost when it released.Yes, but back then consoles also usually dropped in prices rather quickly and also it was very, very unusual to get them at release.
>>221209460croatia. maybe they were poor and didn't want to ditch a perfectly serviceable carpet.family being poor would also explain the TINY CRT. that thing looks like 12" or something.
>>221209438Everyone in the family had at least one computer. Parents would've had laptops and maybe a desktop. Kids always had desktops. No such thing as a "digitally illiterate" father in Sweden in the 2000s. They were all playing wc3 and quake with their kids. My parents played quake before meeting IRL.
>>221209473I was a preteen in the 2000s and I tagged along with my older brother to some neighborhood lan parties of halo 2
>>221209396yes I am white.>>221209473PC gaming in general was more popular in Europe so you have a bias. consoles were the big thing in early 2000's America.
>>221209504>Everyone in the family had at least one computer.hugely depends on the disposable income and the cost of parts in that country.I know people living in what isn't considered western countries, and they are fucked TODAY when they want any kind of tech, even just electronic components.
>>221209517I blame europe's shit internet at the time.also general distances. it was trivial to go to a friend's home and play with him on his console.LAN parties definitely compensated for shit internet. they were the place to copy everything, and frag some faggots until FlashFXP needed more files put in the queue.
>>221209044We did our Lan Parties in the house whose parents were away for a weekend/week long trip. I remember a friend whose fsmily lived in a house instead of a commie flat, and their neighbours were startled to see lan cables hanging from the upper floor into the basement. During that era the equipment was relatively pricey, a 10 Mbit hub was 60€ and a 100Mbit router around 300... there was a guy working at an university which sometimes borrowed equipment when we were more than 8 people at a place. We usually did this on early september before starting classes.
>>221208100my room and tv was much bigger than that
>>221209642During those days computers often came with double network cards, so you could daisy-chain them if you didn't have a hub. Just sucks if someone in the chain has to leave. At my house we had these things instead of ethernet. I don't know how the hell it was good enough to play anything because I had huge issues getting wifi to reach my room some years later around 2010 when routers and wifi was much better..
>>221208100I never understood posters on the wall.
>>221208100my older brother's room was like this minus the posters and car rug play mat
>>221209818are you acoustic?
I had a poster of a bikini model above my bed. My brother had put it there. I think it trigger my puberty lol.
>>221209757Daisy chaining? You mean old 10 Base-T over coax cables? We used them first but it was a pain in the neck to crimp these cables. Perhaps I'm a bit older than your parents, when you mentioned WC3 I understood Wing Commander 3, not Warcraft 3.
>>221209861Ok well let's say I like the Matrix like OP image. Why would I put a poster up to remind me of something that I already know I like?
>>221209948You actually answered his question.
>>221208919It depends on your parents opinions more than wealth. Parents are against videogames = no consoles for you.
>>221209489Here the top 10% were the only families who didn't let their kids have a console because it was bad for their mental development.Glad my parents split early and my mom let me have one. My father just confiscated my Doom 64 cartridge.
>>221208784>>221208785No most of the stuff was just used and not that expensive.Old TV I got from my grandma and a old PC from my dad.
>>221208919PC was shared. I had my PS2 in my room.
>>221208100>GTA SABased
>>221208100I bet none of your fairies could pick the last CRT monitor I had.
>>221209818same, I would rather have a blank wall or a painting
>>221208100The blue light is retarded
>>221208100>Video game museum A billion memberberry movie posters are the main feature of the exhibitModern devs suck
>>221208938In what year? I grew up in a trailer park and I had my own pc and an xbox by like 2004 if not earlier.
>>221209502Nigga most kids didn't even have a console (PS2/PS3), much less a PC and TWO monitors in their rooms. That carpet is the only thing accurately representing Croatian kids from that era, everything else is based on the west.>metal gear>half lifeThe average teenage boy only knew GTA, FIFA, some fighting and Nintendo party games
>>221208919When and why did Swedes become such insecure flex culture niggers over their parents spoiling them? Wait, no, I get it, never mind.
>>221208919PC was in my parents room and the ps2 was in the living room
>>221210373Why are white trash always surprised to discover that their parents spending money they didn't really have like niggers isn't universal? Why do you think you lived in a trailer?
>>221210431>nooooo you must live in a cardboard house and never take a day off and survive on lentils until you're 65 This is why y'all are called wageslaves
>>221208100yooo i used to have one of those rugs
>>221210517Every kid and preschool had one you ain't special
>>221208100this was my room without the posters
>>221208919Thirdies getting really assmad over this post for some reason
When did everything go so wrong?
>>221209396> I bought my own PC with money I made selling cookies and muffins when I was 6 years oldLol fucking tutorial ass tier country
>>221212701did you generate this with the new chat gpt image model?
>>221208919Outside of nordlands, not having a PC in the house wasn't that unusual in the 2000s. I think we got out first one sometime around 2005/2006.
>>221208100Imagine being a 2nd world country like Croatia and making a model of what you think a White middle-class American boys bedroom looked like in the 00s. I’d rank this up there with China making replicas of European cities.
>>221212716No, saved it from a guy on /g/'s battlestation threads
>>221212742She's going to cut herself holding her sword like that.
>>221210942I have never willingly had posters up in my room before, or photographs for that matter. Hmm.
>>221208938same
>kill bill
>>221208100I don't know why it has a zoomer neon light hue and where it's even coming from as we didn't have those. Is the picture edited? Otherwise it's fairly typical stuff for a teenager from the 2000s. The traffic carpet maybe isn't so much a teenager thing though.
>>221208919You are really clueless about the reality. Even in well-off families it was extremely common to have only one pc or two, one for the kids and one for the parents. If every kid in your family had their own pc then your family was rich or you were the only kid in the family.
>>221209502If you notice there's also a ps1 in there so this is obviously from the early 2000s and small CRTs were common back then.
>>221208100>>221208404>these are considered museum worthy nowunc bros..... i dont feel so good......
>>221208100A real croat teenager at that time would've had posters of John Paul II and Ante Gotovina as well.
>>221208100In 2001 my dad bought a pc andacop pulled him over thinking it was illegal for civilians to own those.Honestly they should have stayed illegal for civilian use.
>>221214192It was illegal to own a pc in Serbia?
>>221208100That carpet is nostalgic because they were in school; I don't think anyone had that carpet in their home.
>my childhood is considered Museum tier nowWHAT THE FUCK?
>>221208100This was my childhood.
never had the traffic play mat :(
>>221208100Do Americans really put like advertisement on their walls?
>>221208919I had a PS1, PS2, PSP, PS3, PS4, three PCs and three laptops before I turned 18 and I'm not even a firstie kek.
>>2212127012008-2009, according to the chart, which is accurate
>>221214253In general yugoslavia it was illegal to import one you could make and own one that way but you couldnt import one.Anyway that was overturned but this smalltown cop didint know this.
>>221212832Swords are not razor sharp, you need a decent amount of force to cut with them.
>>221215598Completely depends on the type of sword and it's intended use. But yeah making a sword (or even a knife) razor sharp would be very dumb as the edge would roll/break very quickly. Cutting type blades (which are the most common type when people think of a sword) were indeed sharp. Very sharp. Dullness didn't appear until piercing swords started rising in popularity due to armor and mail. But you also didn't need a lot of force to cut. There's still historical swords in medieval collections in good enough condition to cut you and they will. Medieval longswords in Europe for example had a "working edge" comparable to for example a kitchen knife as seen on dozens and dozens of surviving examples. >https://www.arms-n-armor.com/blogs/news/medieval-longword-edge-sharpness>https://artofswordmaking.com/gallery/sharpness-of-the-medieval-swords>https://museumreplicas.com/sharp-swords-and-sword-sharpness/Medieval smiths were insanely good at edges, angles and bevels.
>>221208100I never had posters. My boomer parents never got me any. And before you say that some of those are from magazines, I didn't get those either.I always envied kids with posters.
