What was gaming in the 00s like?
That's the 90s this is the 00s
like gaming now but a bit less gayonly a bit though
>>748020269That's a good question, my friend. You used to buy games, and you would get a box. The box might have a book, and the book was the equivalent of the wikis you can find on the internet in 2026. I saved these images recently but couldn't find a reason to post them. It's a game I used to love when I was younger.
>>748020269Imagine the best time of your life, the happiest you've ever been, then triple it.
>AIslopping pictures of chain storesdead internet
>>748020371This is the book I mean, and it's officially called a manual.
>>748020426It's the closest gen Z will ever get. But it is a very weird thing to do I agree.
Gaming has never been better than it is today. You get tons of great modern games and can play retro games in a million different ways. Just this quarter alone we get E day, Control Resonant, OOT Remake, Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave, and GTA 6.
>>748020269I was living in an ex socialist country and in 00s we only started to get famicom and snes consoles.
Not that different from today, except you bought games in the store instead of downloading them.
>>748020269Taking a piece of paper to the magazine aisle and writing down the cheat codes without buying the magazine.
>>748020614>Gaming has never been better than it is todayHow old are you that you think that?
>>748020269>>748020341>>748020426>Soon we won't be able to find real retro gaming photos because people like OP will have drown them all out in a sea of fake AI images insteadWorst timeline.
>>748020269Hopeful.
>>748020653>Not that different from todayThat's not true at all. The internet is very different compared to back then, and I'll have to assume you weren't even there.
>>748020269mostly shit, until steam came along and saved gaming
WOW that console is 5 years old now! It means I can get it for a few bucks!
Transparent green consoles were readily available vs impossible to get limited edition variants.
>>748020674That's some scary shit that the images people would archive would probably have no way of knowing if it's AI or notInternet history being rewritten is probably worse than dead internet theory
>>748020614>Just this quarter alone we get E day, Control Resonant, OOT Remake, Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave, and GTA 6.There's something genuinely wrong with your brain if you think these games are worth celebrating in any capacity
>>748020674@grok generate a video of a man interviewing people at 2:30 am in a seven eleven near disney world. asmr large breasts
>>748020792I felt like you for about a decade because I was being swallowed in masters, saving for a home, etc but now that I have some stability I like things again.
like this
>>748020726In the 00's? No, I was on the internet then, at least for the latter half. And I think I didn't have steam until quite a bit later. Now, the internet was a lot better back then, that's indisputable.
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>>748020269imagine everything played like the day one release and you had no installs or dlc/microtransactions. if you wanted more content you had to hope for a sequel. a lot of anons also say they were prone to get shitty games because the internet didnt exist but i always found magazines to be reliable. would i get banned if i started a general magazine thread on /lit/? thats its own nostalgia to me because we had tons of subscriptions
>>748020341>>748020674Honestly my subconscious knew something was off because the image quality was too high for something that would've been taken in the 2000s. It looks like it was taken on a modern day iPhone, but it should be lower res and have duller color grading. Like this mockup I did in picrel
>>748020269I just sent this photo to chatgpt and it thought it was real, not AI generated. We are fucked.
>>748021037>no installsBull fucking shit, larper. You clearly didn't have a PS3
>>748020946>the internet was a lot better back then, that's indisputable.Why would you say it's not that different, then? Considering we had the internet back then, and you could play games on the internet, it would be a lie to say that gaming is the same. If I play multiplayer games today, I just get banned a lot. They added report systems to games so it's much easier to get banned on the modern internet. That's why it bothers me when someone claims things were the same back then.
>>748021101i guess i dont count those as the whole of the 2000’s because i didnt know a lot of people who would get the consoles on release. most people i knew were saving up for a ps3 until 08, and the ps2/gamecube define the decade better. but yeah, second half was the beginning of the end
>>748021118Because I exclusively play single player games, I guess. It doesn't really make much difference for me whether I buy them at a story, order them on Amazon or download them.It's the internet itself that I miss more. Less centralized. More small, specialized forums. Less algorithms telling you what you should be browsing. You went on there, searched for what you're interested in and went on your way.
You'd see shit like this on the train like it was normal.I miss Obama.
>>748021382Why wouldn't you see this anymore today? If anything gaming is much more popular and normalized than it was 20 years ago. Especially handheld gaming, with the Switch
I just went by the game coversfound some good games that way
>>748020776Yeah, real historical photos being buried under AI slop is going to become a real issue fast. If it isn't already.People like OP are doing it intentionally too. When they get called out for it they just hand wave the issue away, like they've done nothing wrong. In another 5 years when you google "best buy 1999" it's going to be all AI generated stuff like OP.
>>748021469Portables arent portable and most people just browse shit on social with smartphones.
>>748021382>I miss ObamaKill yourself
>>748020747>modern console is now 5 years old>It’s even more moneySuch a gay timeline
>>748021353>It's the internet itself that I miss more. Less centralized. More small, specialized forums.I was on a forum before I came to 4chan, and it was a Warcraft 3 forum, because that's what I played. I don't think I miss forum posting, because it was a lot slower compared to 4chan. 4chan is closer to a chat room than a forum.
>>748020674>>748021040You should be able to tell its fake in one second considering the big ass fucking Halo poster is clearly using a Halo 4 render.
>>748020269>>748020341i've been pirating games since the 2000s so i never knew these feels
>>748021118>If I play multiplayer games today, I just get banned a lot.That's called a personality problem. Back in the day you'd probably get banned for being "That guy".
>>748021527Can't wait for those $5000 checks anon
>>748021382>I miss Obama.Obama is the literal reason why you don't see this anymore.
post real gaming images
>>748021501I do really miss portables. I always felt like portables like the GBA and DS were sort of like the last bastion of true retro gaming, since due to the hardware limitations they still looked and played like SNES games despite being made in the 2000s. But now the hardware is too good and Switch ports are just straight ports of Playstation/Xbox games. And now the only "retro games" we get are gay pandering poser indie games, which just aren't the same
>>748021563>It's okay if people try to pass off fake photos as real because you should know it's fake>No I won't disclose its fake in the original post, only once you've "caught" meWhat causes this mind set?
>>748021719Look up duper's delight.
>>748020674You should see Pinterest, it's nothing but slop as far as the eye can see being passed off as real images.
>>748020341lol why is Sapphire 10 bucks cheaper than Ruby?
>>748021687Balding boomer second from left represents 75% of this site
>>748020341no it is late 90s which also is early 00's. I had a gameboy color and n64 in 00's. i still have my n64. i got two of those and two dreamcasts and two gamecubes cause my parents split up.
>>748020341one of the biggest tells of AI is the font. it's always the same font no matter what it generates. (unless told to change it, but people rarely seem to do that)the same for any AI generated websites. they always look the same.
>>748021687I worked at a GameStop from 2009 to 2011. I thought gaming was dying and I was right BUT it was a thousand times better than it is today.
>>748021785Yeah, I used to use it but shit is a mess now. You can at least strong arm google to show real images with the "before:2022" line. But even that only works like 60% of the time.
>>748021491Facebook is horrible for that. I noticed a shit ton of AI 9/11 pictures being shared as real with the people in the windows, and of course boomers who don't know any better totally eating it up.
>>748020269It was like sailing to frontier America, you were in uncharted lands. The future was hopeful, people were making cool ass games, tech was allowing devs to get creative, shareholders and greedy CEO's weren't sucking the life out of the industry yet, it was niche but also big enough that there was money and resources plugged into it for creativity and curiosity for ideas. Journalists, devs, and gamers were actually united, IGN was trusted, no identity politics, no sweet baby inc type of bullshit anywhere. Games were made by nerds for other nerds who loved games and quality escapism into interesting and cool places. Money ruins everything though, and as soon as games started invading normie spaces and greedy cunts realized you could make a dime off it, it was over. Now an idea or a line of dialogue has to go through multiple offices just to get approved, that wasn't a thing back then, Halo CE was made by less than 100 people, Halo Campaign devolved was made by 2,000+ people, most of them are just advisors and consult on what goes or does not go into the game. No wonder game devs are going broke. They spend half their budget on whether something is offensive or not, this was never a thing back then, a handful of likeminded individuals got together and made cool shit. That's what it was like.
>>748021838Right now, yeah. But like the spaghetti will smith images, or hands, it's eventually going to get better. Once it does I legitimately expect shit like this to show up in kids textbooks when they're covering y2k.
>>748021862One of the few good things about Reddit is they usually do a good job at curating all of that by deleting AI slop in subreddits dedicated to sharing images/media.
>>748021587>Russia, China, and BrazilYikes
>>748021758and now look how it ruined so many people, half that room would be trannies and soys now
>>748021849For some reason, when I think of 2009-2010 gaming I think of shitty flashy melodramatic anime games in legacy franchises like FFXIII, Resident Evil 5, Other M, and Skyward Sword. It was shit, but it was at least a different flavor of shit from the shit we have now
>>748021719Retard, I didn't say any of that. I said you're stupid for not figuring it out instantly and even being remotely tricked by it.Not the person who posted it by the way.
it has come to a point that i don't know what is real or ai anymore
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>>748022007cringeI'll rather enjoy AI Kino than go to that trash site.
>>748020269Early 2000's? You didn't have a clue what was going on in the industry or what games were being developed beyond what you read in magazines with just few images to work your imagination with. A lot of times games just flew under your radar and dropped unceremoniously and you had no idea you were about to play kino. Late 2000's was different, internet exploded and the mystique was gone you already knew what was coming out a year in advance.
>>748022187>wake up anon, we are going to video game world>wtf mom i said i wanted to go to Disney land i already have video games at home you stupid cunt
Blockbuster was kinda shit, but what I do miss are the mom and pop video stores. Cheaper, more interesting collections, and even as someone who likes replaying games multiple times, getting a full playthrough in 4 days was a good deal if you were poor. There's something to be said as well about having a time limit where you make time for a game... rather than infinite choices like we have now. It just felt more normal.
>>748021040>Honestly my subconscious knew something was offhow are luddites this fucking stupidit's entirely anachronistic. you should've been able to clock that it was fake without a community note, like how people can clock that you aren't a real woman in real life.
>>748021890I dont get why people waste their time making AI videos of the nost mundane shit on Facebook like dogs at the vet or cooking a meal. Then people call them out for it AI and the person who posted it first denies it's AI then offers no explanation why they made it. I get using it to make funny or weird over the top shit but they dont use it for that they use it to things you can already find videos of online or film yourself. Ita just lazy
>>748022363>*slaps her to the ground*>You stupid bitch... you stupid fuckin whore>*unbuckles belt*>I'll teach you to fuck with me, mom!! Take me to video game world will you...
>>748022161>>748022212>>748021758
>>748020529>It's the closest gen Z will ever get. But why? Real photos of these places exist, it wasn't *that* long ago. When did Toys R Us go out of business? 2018?
>>748022187>it has come to a point that i don't know what is real or ai anymoreWhy does it matter? It's funny to me how scared the peasants are of AI. If you were talking to someone (and had no idea it was AI, but found out later it was), would that bother you?
>>748020269I was reading Nintendo Power off of the grocery store shelves in the morning before school. And my mom would let me rent games from Blockbuster. Always got the most random shit.
>>748022538
>>748022574>if you were having sex with a woman but later found out it was actually a man, would that bother you?
>>748022552Because all the real photos are being replaced by AI images people are passing off as real. Why google toys r us when grok can just show you what it was like?
>>748022005>Once it does I legitimately expect shit like this to show up in kids textbooks when they're covering y2kThere's something unbelievably horrifying about the inevitability of AI getting good enough that there's absolutely no way to tell what historical images are real and which ones are fake.
>>748020269Big tits everywhere since white teens were the main target audienceNow is full of nigger asses everywhere
>>748022528What needed to happen early on was all the big social media sites needed to come together and make not properly tagging AI as a bannable offense. I'm talking 4 years ago when the AI boom was just starting. Set the standard early so you don't end up with third-worlders exploiting dumb boomers for $$$ by spamming AI anthropomorphic animal slop. and antagonistic political bait.
>>748022616Hmm, i dont remember that part about the lan parties i went too in the past.
>>748022646Thank you for not answering my question. I'm closing the one thread I have open. I assume the shitskins flooded in because I have literally one thread open and they're dodging each other like they usually do. Please enjoy each other's company.
>>748022574No.>>748022646If the sex was good, no.
>>748022703Nigger asses > big tits every single fucking day of the week, you low-T beta
>>748020341I still dress like this.Although what is that angry foid on the left? Was this the early signs of the doom to come from Snoy? I don't remember this, I must have wiped it out of my mind because it failed.
>>748022783>I still dress like this (jeans, sneakers, t-shirt)WOOOWWWW INCREDIBLE TRULY KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE
>tfw posting on /v/ for the past 20 yearsThey used to call me a newfag...
>>748020269>System link 4 Xbones in a basement>Get a pizza and 20 wings for $25>Have all your brehs over>Mom made brownies for everyone. >Play for hoursIt was better than anything you'll ever experience in gaming
>>748022714Instead they did the exact opposite, Zuckerberg realized that AI slop memes keep people glued to his apps like zombies, and Elon came up with a system where a guy in Mumbai can cover rent for the month by setting up an AI-generated account with a name like @MAGABarbie1776 and pandering to retarded fat retirees in Oklahoma
>>748022741Everyone's a shitskin to you because that's your only defense on the internet. Oh someone threw a curve ball at me? Ah a shitskin!
>>748020774I miss this era of transparent tech. I would have bought a Switch without a second thought if it came in the transparent purple that the Gameboy used to come in.
>>748022782You are a black man
>>748022927I preordered this for that very reason.
>>748022528I saw my dad watching a youtube video that was just a slideshow of AI-generated photos of Cuba. He's *from* Cuba, he knows what it actually looks like, he has literally thousands of real photos of it. The whole thing is fucking psychotic.
>>748022915Calling people Indians isn't my only defense.I also call people trannies sometimes.
>>748022927Transparent-styled casing won't work today because it melts easily and technologies of today produces more heat.
>>748022574Why are you defending this? What is there to gain from passing off fake photos as real ones?
>>748022858They used to call me a Habbo tourist
>>748022741he answered the question nigger
>>748021527But he deported so many people that he was given the prestigious title of Deporter in Chief and pioneered the drone strike as the most effective way to kill on a battlefield.
>>748022846They didn't dress like that in the 80s.
>>748022915
>>748022898It's always some retarded shit like:>"Barron Trump says his Dad is doing a great job and if you hate America, you should leave the country. Do you agree?" [usflag]Then 7.6k boomers in the comments going, "Fully agree!", paying some Nigerian's electricity bill for the year in one post.
>>748022783Anon, it's AI
>>748021382Fuck you.Obama destroyed America.Gaming was at its peak with high hopes of even better.Now it is all woke shit.
>>748022965I remember in middle school a friend and I pooled our money together over a summer to try to get the Halo Xbox (how we were going to share it was a logistical issue we didn't consider) but ultimately failed to get it because we were 4 bucks short due to the sales tax. We could have scourged up 4 more dollars and returned on another day but we found it so demoralizing that we just took back our shares to do something else with it.
>>748022783>I don't remember thisBecause it an OP are fake images being passed off as real.
>>748022040Technically all those people are soys, don't let their grungy/edgy looks fool you, deep down they're as weak as the zoomers of today. As for being trannies, society then as a whole has yet to consciously understand what being a troon is, but even back then they knew something was wrong, it's just that they've no idea how to express it. They were trapped and would instantly come out if they knew how.
>could have had a fun y2k nostalgia gaming thread>instead OP uses an AI slop image, ensuring the thread will be nothing but shit flingingcool
>>748023327Still gonna post real images, so far the only ones that are AI are the first two.
>>748022987So that's why it went away and likely isn't going to come back despite the nostalgia bucks that could be made on it? I always thought it was just changing tastes.
>>748022987Explain >>748022965 then
>>748022783>I am absolutely certain that I forgot about this thing that never happened.This is the power of AI on the simple minded. The future is gonna be a blast!
>>748023327No shit flinging (unless it comes from these asses).
>>748023480>ai slop image
>>748022574(You) are literal cattle
Not 2000s, but close enough.
>>748022363Kid me would much rather go to video game world than gay ass Disney World.
>>748023142And the middle-aged divorced guys awkwardly hitting on the "girl" posting the slop
>>748023241>We could have scourged up 4 more dollars and returned on another day but we found it so demoralizing that we just took back our shares to do something else with it.You learned a great and valuable lesson that day.
>>748020674That mandela effect shit was testing suggestibility, idea propagation and information adjustment in the digital age for just this reason
>>748021040The halo 4 master chef in a early 2000s picture gave it away instantly>>748020269Everytime i went to a department store with a gaming section it was like being inside a candy store for my impresionable 8yo mind, but the candy was so goddam expensive i could only watch and imagine how great it would be and my parents were just telling me to stop fucking around and help them to carry something or to try a new pair of shoes, thank god for mod chips and pirate game sellers.
AI is the future. Either evolve or go broke. Your only other option is to only play old boring shit.
i remember seeing an entire shelf of wrapped conker's bad fur day for the 64 on sale for like $5man
>>748023327The AI slop will continue until morale is irrecoverably damaged.
>>748022528I could ask literally anyone using AI the same question. When I see people flood an AI thread with 50 variations of the same absolutely mundane non-sexual thing I can only wonder what the fuck was going through their head at the moment and why did they think anyone would be interested in seeing all of that.
AI slop lets them bury the old world. Eventually the slop will corrupt your memories just throiugh the sheer volume of it. Its inesecapable
>>748023464>simple mindedHey simpleton, I've never said "I'm absolutely certain".But it's true that LLMs will insert fake memories into people, it's possible to do so for something that happened just a few hours ago, I mean you yourself hallucinated that I said that I was certain as if it was a testimony.
the 90s and 00s sucked get over it
>>748023583>A vague, generalized call to action punctuated by a threat.AI would have made a better post.
>>748023713I urge everyone ITT to get going on making your own folders of real images of what you love. Google search results are gonna be inundated with AI slop soon that will be so good you'll have to inspect every image. Get on it now while you can still tell pretty easily.
>>748020269Everything before ubiquitous broadband internet was extremely fun because you didn't have roving packs of wordrape gangs keeping tabs on people and trying to crush their spirit over whatever thing, and turning everyone into scared tribal ironyposters.
Imagine being a gen beta or whatever. Growing up and getting a degree in history, only to realize every historical photo in your childhood textbooks were fake.
>>748020269You had a higher chance of grabbing a random game and playing something good, and even something bad still had all kinds of effort put into its aesthetic and story.
Can't remember if this was 90s or 00s, but if you were a PC gamer you would sometimes get fucking books as a manual for your games.
>>748020502>NWNI 'member.There should be a pdf copy of that user manual somewhere on the internet.Nowadays, PDF means pedophile, by the way. S.M.H....
>>748023497looks less like ai and more like a modern blender render photoshopped to look like an old DoA ad
Don't care, not dying in your gay war. Your demotivation doesn't work on me.
>>748023867It was nice when "games" were like a monolithic thing and you could reliably talk to other people who game about any given full-price title and they'd have tried it. It used to feel like there was a "gamer canon" that you could study much in the way people study literature, but that's probably 15 years gone by at this point -- different genres are basically separate silos now and each one has thousands of decent entries.
>>748023818Hey that's the perverted furryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhru-sRNx8g
>>748023818Add "before:2023" to your search strings and you drastically minimise the risks of encountering AI art. The "before:2023" is not just a keyword, but a command that tells google not to give you any results from 2023 and later. It's not entirely perfect, but it works immensely well.
I was with a friend, and we visited his uncle and he had a modded Xbox, and it as modded for more than just playing pirated games. I'm pretty sure it as overclocked. Would that even provide a benefit?
>>748023802I'll never not be mad at how everyone just blamed the lies on wmds in Iraq squarely on just Bush and not including the whole clown media apparatus and went on with their lives. We could have ended it all there20 years of our lives could have been better
>>748024021nta, but extremely basedthank you anon. pretty sure i used to know that command for college research purposes but never considered using it for that.
>>748020674>>748023551>the year is 2070>my grandkids are telling me about how in 2026, Elon invented an Iron Man suit to defeat the woke mob (that wanted safety regs in his factories)>Say that I was there and doesn't sound true>"It did happen, grandpa, watch this video!"
>>748023742>I don't remember this, I must have wiped it out of my mind because it failed.You saw an image displaying nothing you could have ever experienced in your life, declared that it WAS something you experienced, and then blamed yourself for purposefully forgetting the made up scenario. You are the useful idiot that AI misinformation preys on.
>>748022161That's from a college party in Brazil by the way.
>>748023820It all comes down to the fact that the people are different now, and in an emergent way because of the technology. It's why all those "log off your phone and it's still 2006" posts don't get it, everything about society revolves around the Internet right down to the conversations you have with other people. A whitepilled view is that these are necessary growing pains in response to normalfags and thirdies getting access to instant communication, and in a few generations, this will all be looked back on the same way we look back on primitive medicine.
>>748024062At least it was only the 20 years that actually matter and not something like the last years of our lives right before the social security safety net collapses, right?
>>748024027I would imagine so yeah. I doubt it would give you more frames, but probably helps with slowdown in certain games.
>>748024062The best part is half the people who lied us into Iraq got to keep their jobs for so long that they were still around to lie us into Iran
>>748024062lol, ok nerd
>>748023679*clears throat*Obviously AINext
>grow up during the peak of gaming with no responsibilities>everyone who missed out copes by calling you "unc"lmao
>>748024021basedand also using the Wayback Machine to scrub old sites is a foolproof way of getting real images
>>748020269Imagine gaming in the 90's, but worse.
>>748023318
>>748024241they'll never understand just how good we had it.
>>748024134Yeah I declared it has one possibility, but retards like you cannot handle more than 1 possibility, your mind cannot handle juggling with what if, so the concept uncertainty is foreign to you.
>>748024229It's not, the smudginess is the result of someone taking a digital picture of a real photo with a crappy phone.
>>748020269ai image
>>748024062>Still bitching about BushWake up grandpa, a new political boogeyman just dropped.
>>748024173If only the government would spend their resources identifying the sources of tortious interference and nerds weren't coopted by salesbros and HR ladies into this feminine culture of subversive reputation destruction, instead of, you know, everybody focusing on hunting down textbook pirates and fat rappers in New Zealand. You're right, though, it's definitely an emergent phenomenon with such strength that I often wonder if we aren't just seeded biological bootloaders for digital superintelligence.
>>748024118It did happen, I was there
>>748020341You know it's fake because it doesn't have the anti-nigger theft protection cases.
>>748022574>how does changing and completely making up history affect you personally?
>>748024118Ah yes it's just those filthy righties who want to do this good input.
>>748024271What would you even look for? The old internet was kind of the wild west. If you didn't know the url you'd be hard pressed to just find the website.
>>748024361>Still arguing as if the made up AI picture was real. You got fooled and now you're embarrassed, so you're lashing out like the literal retard that you currently are.
>>748024435Could you actually buy the GBA for such a paltry sum in America? I think back in the day, here in Sweden, I payed about twice as much.
>>748024451This is the worst time to be a real nerd in history, and it came right after the best time.
>>7480202692, 100 disk trays of pirated videogames via newsgroups and three full floppy trays along with dozens of bootcd and maxmumpc demo disks.
>>748022574>If you were talking to someone (and had no idea it was AI, but found out later it was), would that bother you?I love this projection. Just because your are comfortable with your own ignorance doesn't mean everyone else has to be
>>748024652Someone's going to lose his knees when that table breaks.
>>748024271Now that's an interesting position to play games in.
>>748024539Eh, I get his point. In another 30 years nobody is going to know what is real or fake anymore. Just look at how much AI has advanced in half a decade.You're going to have people in the 2050s with y2k mania like we have 80s mania right now. Except instead of hanging up real posters, it's going to be AI generated images of a blockbuster or toys r us ad that never existed. Maybe a fake OOT magazine page for good measure.
>>748020663He is thirteen.
>>748024781Furniture was built different back then. It was all heavy as shit for a reason.
>>748022574What kind of smooth-brained, dipshit can't tell when an AI is "talking" to you
>>748024550Start with one website that you know was popular back then and then once you get as many images as you want off of there, you can scour for links to other cool websites in the community news posts and affiliate sidebars. The Internet used to truly have a big web feel to it, and webmasters would link to other sites they knew of and liked regularly. There even used to be aggregate sites for the Top 100 of whatever topic, just a page of 100 links to popular websites surrounding whatever. You can also sort websites by file type on the Wayback Machine, which makes it even easier, pic related as an example.
>>748024602But I'm not arguing that it was real, see you are hallucinating again because you are too dumb to hold conceptual conversations. Stick to talking about last ball game and gossips, you cannot handle even rudimentary concepts and this is critical because the problem is not that you have a limit to how many concepts you are able to consider as possible, we all have a limit, the problem is that your limit is so low that it makes it difficult for you to understand the very concept that you are too dumb to handle concepts in the first place.
>>748023327>implying it’s op’s fault and not the people mindbroken by ai’s existenceYou can just ignore it, you know
>>748024817Spending too much time on the internet will fuck your perception of the average person, because you have to have like a 105+ IQ to find your way here, solve captchas, type at a rate that will allow you to post frequently, etc. Unfortunately, even 4chan represents a significant step up from the actual average person, I'd guess like an entire SD up. The average person can already not reliably tell the difference between curated AI picture/video. Go on FB or YT comments underAI media and see for yourself. We aren't 10 years away. We're like a year away, at most. The logarithmic trend in the last few years will be reversed by a thermo/materials breakthrough, like it always is.
>>748024412Jews. Jews never change.
>>748024903ThisYou would get hand-me-down furniture from 30 years ago that was fucking solid. Then private equity firms realized people don't end up buying shit when the stuff they had was well made with quality parts.
>>748024976Real image repositories could be worth money someday, though it'll probably be a grey/black market thing. This isn't a terrible idea.
>>748024817My point was that framing it as one side of this is stupid. They're ALL in on this shit.
>>748021687the dude's ponytail is fucking amazing, shame it's probably gone by now
>>748024435fake ai slow
>>748025081>you can just ignore itYou can't though because it poisons the well just by existing. It's a simulacrum of reality that gets mixed in by an increasingly unaware populace until the amount of people who don't know any better reaches critical mass, and history itself is changed because no one was around to know what's real and what's not. Imagine if generative AI existed in the 1950s and you didn't know if the photo you're looking at was real or not because you weren't alive in the 1950s to know any better.
>>748021147Looks like the main bridge set of Star Trek Enterprise
>>748021687I remember Game Stop at our local mall, I remember when we used to have a mall. Those were such fun times, everyone was so chill, video games was just a hobby for male nerds. What happend to our hobby, and this Nation take Mr back bros, I want to go back.
>>748025247>waiting outside of best buy in the snow for an xbox 360>dude pulls up and busts a grill out of the back of his suv>straight up just grilling out of the trunk of his car at 2 AM in the pickup lane>best brat i've ever hadthey just don't make life like they used to
>>748025026>But I'm not arguing that it was realIndeed, you're completely avoiding the subject to attack me because I keep pointing out how much of a retard you are. It's a classic deflection tactic used by children who hate being held accountable for their actions.
>>748025087Probably, but as the years go on a lot of the context will be lost.Some people here were able to spot that OP was fake, due to things like the camera quality being wrong, and the games on the shelves.But a kid who wasn't alive then isn't going to know. So the problem balloons as the generation who was alive then gets older.>>748025209I agree, that's kind of what I meant by my post. It's going to be global issue.
>>748020269I pirated most of my games.
>>748020269They're coming back btw
>>748024539He was just the first example I came up with because he's the grok guy and everyone knows who he is. Feel free to substitute it with Satya Nadella (Microsoft)/Sundar Pichai (Google) creating AI videos about how India was a superpower in 2020.
>>748022667>unbelievably horrifyingWhy? Most pictures are already fake with filters, editing, etc. you can only trust what you see with your own eyes and it's been that way for a long time. At least AI might make people stop believing everything they read or see online
>>748025445I can tell this is a real picture because it includes a date in the bottom left corner set a style commonly seen in pictures of that time
>>748025567Ai generated counter argument
>>748025290I mean it's just sort of a higher-level expression of individual perception, anyway. We do all kinds of truncation in our heads, nothing we're seeing is "real." Obviously it will accelerate the process of mental/symbolic speciation, political silos, etc. but likely not to such a degree that we need to worry about it in our lifetime. The process will be slow because humans are slow to change even when saturated in a new paradigm, and that's going to be a meaningful bottleneck in the next 60-80 years. We're still arguing about gay people, ffs.
>>748024521They don't have those in small towns because people don't steal. Theft, murder, etc are for cities
>>748024903I'd say it's not so much that furniture is built different, because you can still get sturdy furniture if you pay for it, and more the advent of IKEA making furniture that is cheap and affordable. Now you can fully decorate a home for relatively cheap, but the drawback is that the stuff also isn't built to last generations.
>>748025461>Spirit halloween stores but for Christmas toys.very exciting
>>748025570sadly not even that's foolproof cause I see that a lot in obviously fake pictures too.
>>748025730
>>748020269No trannies in the store or online.It was great.
>>748021849Yep, not as good as the early 2000's, but we didn't even know how good we had it compared to today. I was a teenager then I thought man, in the future gaming is going to be so great. As systems get more powerful, hahaha.......ugh.
>>748025818>booth babeswould a gen alpha even believe these were real
>hmm this looks kinda interesting i think ill get it i guess>age of empires 2>still playing it
>>748025817I'm kinda retarded.
I wonder where everyone back then are now
>grow up being told I can't cite wikipedia>those same people are now just generating AI images of my childhood and passing them off as real
>>748025875In order to game you have to be able to get a job that doesn't expect you to regale them with tales of your weekend plans as part of your job description and also pays a liveable wage. Unless you're in hardware admin/IT, good luck with that.
>>748020716i miss imagining the future with hope instead of dread
>>748025471Fair enough. We've been under siege so long I've become paranoid, sorry.
>>748025924So this one isn't AI, but it is staged.
>>748025982Can't you just lie about what you do on the weekend like most people presumably do?
>Starting a thread with a fake imageGoddamn OP is ALWAYS a relentless faggot
>>748024350
>>748021587Brazil! or yeah, pidorussia
>>748025567Are you 16? Grow up.
>>748025924The people who did hard drugs are mostly dead, burnt out or high proles.The nerds are either NEET failures (Discord people), trans (including those working in California,) or grippy sock cases. A lucky few are drowning in HR Stacy pussy and cash because they studied the right thing and sold their soul.Everybody else you can find behind a counter or on the side of the highway after an accident.Then there's the refuse left here after everyone migrated to Discord/IRC. Probably the closest thing to people from that era you'll find, due to arrested development.
Meanwhile gaming in 2026.
>>748026035Saying things that aren't true will lead you down the path to Zoggedom in time.
I couldn't afford games in the 90's. But my dad kept giving me all his old computers. My mom wanted me to read more books so she would often drag me to a local used book store, this store had an insane amount of used legal and pirated games, consoles, and computer hardware in the basement area. I don't think my mom knew about, she probably would have been pissed if she knew what I was spending my allowance on.
>>748026149>The people who did hard drugs are mostly dead, burnt out or high proles.almost died in 2012 and 2019 due to drugs, but I am unkillable
>>748026180I love AI running up all the prices of gaming hardware! I love it!!!
>>748020341>>748020269honestly give it a 15% chance the thing that prompted these has ever stepped foot in a blockbuster or toys r us
>>748026030I don't think anything i have saved is AI but i guess while you're going on an AI patrol scan you can tell me if this is AI or not
>>748021719People from low-trust retarded societies love to blame people for their dishonest bullshit
>>748026312Do you still like drugs?
>>748021687
>>748025607There is a massive difference between faulty memory and deliberately misrepresenting the past through fake imagery and spreading it as though it was real. Stop being a morally ambiguous midget and stand tall.
>>748024350There's 0.00000000% of an ad like this happening todayAbsolutely NO chance
>>748021805I'm sorry to hear about your hair-loss
>>748026378I largely don't take them any more. My whole personality shifted and many things are topsy turvy
Just game on a CRT.
>>748026412as though it were*
>your mom could actually afford the consoles >by the end of the generation you had all three>used game classics getting down to like 5$ because shops wanted the shelf space >brand new games were actually top-of-the-line, incredible offerings at the time, pushing tech boundaries>everyone loved gaming, thought cell phone internet and games were literally fucking retarded>on bus to school everyone would brag about their handhelds. Learned of Valkyrie Profile from a nigger bragging about his PsP. Based nigger
If time is a circle then i hope stuff like this can come back, i imagine it was pretty fun
>>748022480It will only get worse
>>748026502Retreat further, midget. I can barely see you now.
>>748023292We always knew that being a man is difficult and that weak men would desperately try and avoid it. Nothing new or revolutionary about it
>>748025924All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you.
>>748026579Pipe down already, I just don't want to watch you butcher the language.
>>748026491>VLC playerEmbarrassing,,,
>>748023502The fact that I can't consume any of these foods or drinks anymore makes it seem like an even longer time ago, since 6 years ago I got sick/poisoned with a inflammatory illness and a drug and food hypersensitivity, I am going to die before the end of the year most likely, not many options for different steroids to take to get rid of the pain and once these stop working life will become unbearably painful, already lost every part of life that makes it worth living one after another very quickly and each permanently, no cure or fix possible for any of it, years ago.
>>748020614Trvke, /v/ have been captured by doomer circle jerk and can't see the light.
>>74802285821 years and counting. Back when I was underageb& and captcha didn't exist and image macros and demotivationals were the shizz.
>>748026625>Have a good spirit>Dive repeatedly headlong into the abyss>The abyss is now not so badTIL: Every good person has a moral obligation to loot, rape, steal and kill. TY and happy cakeday!
>curious, google whether or not turkey vultures pass the mirror test>google's shitty AI summary "NO! they dont lol only ravens do lol">right, have there been any studies>"uh no lol but they probably dont lol do you want to know more about ravens"well that wasnt fucking helpful>just search for videos instead>get a video thats blatantly AI, isnt even a turkey vulture, uploaded by an indian nameSam altman's inevitable suicide will be marked as a national holiday when it happens.
>>748023502Why were you addicted to slop?
>>748020269>>748020341It was so good that people stopped killing themselves, just out of pure excitement for the future to come.
>>748026346Rachid lotf has been making art before AI, so likely isn't AI (I wont rule out AI assisted since I don't know his stance of the matter these days). He does get dogged on a lot though for being a kitsch artist. Like thomas kinkade.
>>748026708It's just poor and disenfranchised people vs. career people w/ substantial vacation time, good work/life balance, etc. The share of the former has grown substantially since they were kids, and they're mostly lamenting that I'd imagine.
>>748026546Matchmaking and low population 5 vs 5 servers becoming the norm killed this.
>>748026625I miss those chunky desks. They had so much space to put shit on.
>>748026625I wish the future wasn't so sterile. even back then, during the 2010s at least, everything was monochrome and futuristic. Why didn't it stop there?
>>748026656That really sucks anon. I hope you find a way to mediate some of the pain
>>748026625its always 2008 when the soul starts vanishing
>>748026656Bro you gotta message rockstar and see if you can get GTA6 early
>>748026949>>748026793lmao didnt even see this, the graph starts rebounding in 2008really is one of the objectively shittiest years of all time and zoomies are going to be nostalgic for it in a couple of years
>>748026949THANKS OBAMA
>>748026751I dunno buddy, seems like AI told you as it is but you were either too retarded or too autistic that you rejected it's answer?
>>7480269492008 is when the bricks took over everything
>>748026656Damn. We're all on borrowed time. I'm so sorry anon, man was never meant to know the hour of his death. Thank you for the sobering reminder of my own mortality.
This is when the timeline shifted. The rest of 2007 was kino and among the best years but I remember by the end of 2008 it started going to shit.
>>748026786It was good and cheap back in the day, now it's bad and expensive like everything else
>>748026843>The share of the former has grown substantially since they were kidsI don't think so. Its just that most here were kids back then with enough and more time and now facing the consequences of their actions back then.
>>748027113It's a good thing steve jobs died from ligma.
>>748026793>there's a place to escape from normies and their nonstop social violence>suicide rates go down>memes become mainstream, gaming goes mainstream, streamers become a hot button topic>normies enter the internet>immediate return to the meanlmfao you can't make this shit upi guess when you saturate the mental landscape and leave alternative thinkers nowhere to go, your only choice is to exile or exterminate them until you're left with the eusocial collective. we need a new frontier badly.
>>748027210It was never good.
>>748027264Who is Steve Jobs?
>>748026958Probably won't end up playing GTAVI because I only have a PC. I could end up living longer but we will see, I still have to try to get my disease recognized by the insurance company so they don't impose work requirements on me and take my medicaid because I can't work anymore, and see if the university level hospitals my rheumatologist is going to get me into can do anything to stop the pain without steroids, but so far the disease started highly aggressive and has not stopped without active steroid use for any amount of time and I can only take one formulation of Prednisone (prednisolone specifically) that I have found so far as the others set off a hypersensitivity and cause further pain in my glands and muscles, and that steroid eventually, sometime soon, will stop blocking my immune system and it won't work anymore and the pain will come back.
>>748027259You can't possibly look at inflation vs wage growth charts and believe this.
>>748026843These jobs barely exist these days and they're mostly given to nepo hires.I actually have an engineering degree but I haven't obtained a job to go with it for multiple years by now.
>>748026793interesting
>>748027113The beginning of the end.
>>748026625I do like the tiny tube tv in the new photos at least. Wonder what model is it.
>>748020269https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qpEVl-Q-Ks
>>748027367Doesn't seem much different from the past, in fact there were even worse decades.
>>748027298A lot of interesting things happened in 2008 that killed what zoomers seem to like about 90's/00's culture. All I can say is... I'm glad USAID is gone.
>>748025605>>748026145Lol you can't even pretend I'm wrong, just get mad
>>748020614Still not gonna play GTA6
>>748027594No – you're absolutely right!
>>748027454It's a bit frustrating on more normie sites when people talk about the internet getting worse over the past decade, because there's really no way to bring this up without getting called racist
>>748020269u go here with no intentions and end up getting whatever looks cooli got this and was never able to progress past the beginning
>>748021147I would assume anyone supposedly running Windows XP these days is either on a virtual machine, or is disguising 10 or 11. Trying to run the actual thing now would have it riddled with all sorts of malware and hacking attempts
>>748027679Anyone who calls you a racist isn't worth listening to.
>>748027679Being racist isn't a bad thing
>those now defunct stores you used to get your games from before GameStop became the norm, and before you just started ordering your games online instead
>>748020269no jeets or spics and niggers stayed in their lane
>>748027542 I concede, but I have no idea how I heard the wrong information dozens and dozens of times including taking two economics classes at a T1. The narrative I've heard is the polar opposite and was presented like an existential threat. Weird.
>>748027679It sparked an idea. During the war Ukraine/Russia war a few years ago an undersea cable was cut. That inspired me to look at where those cables actually are and how many of them exist. Take a look at a map sometime, fascinating stuff. But you can immediately tell by looking at that map where the problem zones are, connecting us to the worst people. The solution is simple. Those cables have got to go.
>>748027879same aura
>>748027542Not saying you're wrong, but the fact that the source is a hedge fund with what looks like the NATO symbol in the top right is just setting off alarm bells in my head lol
>>748027960This fad is more of a bastardization of the era.
>>748027585*eyeroll*
>>748020269>>748020341I will never know how this feels because my overprotective parents didn't allow me to play games as a kid
>>748027879What the fuck is that real?
>>748020269Apparently Toys R Us is making a return, is that why this thread got made?
I remember the last thing I bought from Toys R Us as they were going out of business was a Ness Amiibo.
>>748027981I did some quick tool-assisted and manual research, and it seems like it's true, though obviously buying power is complicated and things like real estate in urban areas are outliers.
>>748028029E3 2005
>>748028085You were the reason they went out of business
>>748020269Physical
>>748027743Bring back sodium light bulbs.
>>748020341>00sI never understood why people don’t just say the full specific decade “2000s” “00s” could mean anything like “1800s” or “1900s” since they all contain the “00” in them. Just saying.
>>748026546God, wolf:ET, i had so much fun in that game, even was in a gay little clan with kids from my school.
>>748028206I don't even recognize them
>>748028171Common sense and context clues. If you have trouble with those two very simple things you legitimately have autism, sorry.
>>748021147My beloved Fruitger Aero!
>>748028290Top is Killzone 2 Middle I think is battlefieldThird is MW1 or 2
The world was quieter. That alone improved gaming. The world is much worse because we have a constant influx of information being fed to us via our phone.
>>748020341Tells:>RE4 costs less than FFX, which released 4 years earlier>GameCube sign is left justified while PS2's is presumably centered>PSP cases are thinner>Best Buy didn't start using that font/shade of blue until the late 2010s>Price tags are wrong>Demo stations weren't set up like that>People have copypasta'd legs
>>748028170I really do wanna ask the retarded FAGGOT who kickstarted the LED revolution why every streetlight, shoebox light, and headlight is now a beehive of evil just piercing your eyes everywhere you look when you go for a walk at night. I swear to God, I'm actually fucking getting pissed that I can't look anywhere without my eyesight being assaulted with intense afterimages from every angle because of LED lights.notice on the left, you see MORE area overalleven though right is better lit in the areas that are lityou actually see MORE on the left
>>748020674I was going to say this photo had to be faked. The image quality is to high for being the 2000's, and that big Halo poster was using the Halo 4 version of Master Chief and the box art on some of the games like Melee, and Ruby and Sapphire are fucked up. Jesus were going to get the point that the only way you can tell if something is bullshit on the internet is that you lived through it yourself and even than half the people are going say your lying despite the fact you know for 100% its bullshit because you were there yourself.
>>748028337>frutigerWe just called it Aero.
>>748028357In RPGs, you were forced to try out different builds and see what worked instead of having "META OP NETRUNNER BUILD" flashbanging you every time you open youtube/twitter because the algorithm detected that you lingered 0.5 seconds too long on a Panam cosplay photo and deduced that you're probably doing another run of Cyberpunk
>>748024796Ikaruga's vertical mode
>>748020674THAT'S NOT WHAT POV MEANS
>>748027847I see your McKinley Mall Media Play and raise you a Super Flea
>>748028357The world was always noisy, but it can still seem quiet, put your phone away and see.
>>748028521We didn't call it anything, it just was the fad at the time, soulful though.
>>748028337>>748028521We called it Web Gloss 2.0
>>748028476theyre cheap as fuck to run and last forever so theyre run practically at full power all the timethey should be using warm light bulbs instead of cool light too
>>748020269>that sloppaI never saw a game store that looked like a fucking supermarket.
>>748028398>Chains of Olympus together with original Xbox and GBA
>>748028170this
>>748028476This shot pisses me off so much. The only silver lining is how many got fucked by cheap LEDs that immediately turned purple, which still sucks compared to orange but is kind of neat in its own way.
>>748028682That's living in the pod tier argument, it's cheaper
>>748023818>ywn play Melee with the Mr. Show crew.
>>748028171I might be mistaken, but I don't think there is anyone on /v/ who could attest to the state of gaming in the 1800s or 1900s
>>748028476LEDs are more stable and last longer, putting them everywhere was a cost cutting measure. The human element wasn't even considered.
>>748028932This is slop. XBOX is fucked uo looking, that game has halo health ammo etc but clearly isnt halo, and the stand is some generic anime looking shit but not a real game.
>>748027338Ligma balls
I said in a previous thread that Gen V/VI was a sweet spot for gaming.>Bigger devs could put out great games>Smaller devs could still put out games and potentially have a hit, or even do at least one sequel that polishes up some of the previous game's flawsOnce the Xbox 360 dropped, that was the beginning of the end.
>>748028951>The human element wasn't even consideredOh really? The tank-sized pickup trucks with tiny flatbeds that can't store anything that have colossal LED floodlights lifted high enough off the ground to completely blind pedestrians while simultaneously preventing the driver from seeing anyone walking in front of him wasn't designed with humans in mind? Couldn't have noticed.
>>748021469you take out a $500+ handheld on public transport in the US you getting mugged
>>748022212>Block C>Reihe 3>Platz 24Arbeit macht frei
>>748029081Watch your tone goyim, or you're getting the raised xenon headlights next
>>748020269better
>>748022976wtf are they doing? This is not the meta
>>748029110This is kind of meme desu. I went to college in DC, and since I was a dumb sheltered kid from the suburbs I'd routinely take out my expensive laptop to play games/watch anime on the metro. Nobody ever bothered me.
>>748028951>[...] was a cost cutting measure. The human element wasn't even considered.Sums up the current day pretty well
>>748029030basically hd game development made the minimum budgets to develop games so high that killed a lot of smaller and medium sized dev teams from all around the world and it eventually lead to shit we're in today
>>748029030I think most people put the end of the golden age around the 7th gen, yeah.
>>748020269You could actually spend $5 dollars on used disks and collect a physical library of insanely good games for dirt cheap.Zero microtransactions. Its just you, and a game. Everything thats on the disk is what you paid for.Games were actually mysterious and not data-mined for all their secrets and easter eggs on launch.
>>748029505mystery, that's what we're missing
>>748028997I have this other image from the same person that shared the other one. I wanna say it's real because you can see in the top left a smidge of a wood table that the person is laying these photos on, but I won't deny the bad quality raises some eyebrows.
>>748028206>>748028290I don't know why he even saved that version.
>>748029168OP is AI slop
>>748029312>>748029327Yep, and the jump from SNES/Genesis to PS1/N64/Saturn killed some devs too, Technos comes to mind. We should have froze gaming around when the Dreamcast released and the other three consoles debuted. That was as good as it got, mainly that could have kept SEGA in the console business and they could try to balance things out with software sales.
>>748022161imagine the smell
>>748022616dayum. I missed out on wilder parties
actually being blown away by technical advancements instead of them becoming memes the zoomers make fun of on launch.
>>748023875good times
>>748021785I used this website a lot until it became riddled with AI. it's unusable now
>>748022161>the girl with the pony tail and the two puppies kissing as her wallpapercute.
>>748021118>If I play multiplayer games today, I just get banned a lotThat sounds like a You problem, have you ever tried not acting like a spastic tard in chat? Actually, what are you even doing that results in this?
>>748023875I had the Falcon 4.0 book which was like 300 pages chock full of aviation nerd shit written by fighter pilots.
>>748020269>>748020341I can't articulate why I know these are AI at this point. But I can still tell almost instantly. It's weird.
>>748030290I wish it would at least have an "ai" post filter
I miss all the different magazines there use to be
>>748020614>Just this quarter alone we get E day, Control Resonant, OOT Remake, Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave, and GTA 6.You would only be excited about this if youre retarded
>>748020269>>748020341It was nothing like this. At least not in Europe.
>>748030602>It was nothing like this.Of course, because they're both AI photos
>>748030586I miss strategy guides
>>748021491>real historical photos being buried under AI slopA more schizophrenically minded person might speculate that this is the true purpose of the technology.
>>748027542this is bs
>>748026650why
>>748028337flat shietstyle needs to die
>>748025098peak SATANIC
>>748028206>>748029763>such a connisour of 7th gen crap that I knew each one immediatelyThey could have been even meaner and used MoH10 twice since the multiplayer and campaign used different assets and engines too. Luv me generic, okayish military shooters.
>>748030704It's also to push digital ID because advertisers are currently losing billions advertising to AI bots
>>748028476>you actually see MORE on the leftThat IS the actual problem though. Light pollution is bad and this is trying to focus light where is should be - the road - instead of 'everywhere'.
>>748028012I'd argue that it's not so much about the depicting the era itself as it is about depicting what the people of the time thought the future would look like. It's no different than looking at back what people in 1910 thought 2000 would look like and having a chuckle at their optimism too.
https://i.postimg.cc/pXFdmhwV/20260608-164722-2.jpg
>>748028951>The human element wasn't even considered.CAPITALISM!! FUCK YEAH!
>>748031193It's a problem when the LED lights are spaces out too far and there's enormous pockets of sidewalk that get virtually no light, where if they were sodium lights instead, I'd be able to see. Also, for whatever reason, sodium light pollution never forced me to drape my bedroom windows, but the disgusting LED replacement out there now does.
>>748031193Intensity matters. The way it is now, you end up with pools of light that your eyes are constantly adjusting to, and you can't see oncoming off-road hazards like deer.
>>748026650>Not shaming him for discordur a fag
>>748027542>>748027904Now show the breakdown between execs and regular people, fuckheads
>>748022528>>748023656It's the lazy man's content farm. They spend all their time on social media. When they see people getting attention for posting interesting things, they also want in on that, but they can't, either because they are too lazy to actually capture, edit and post it, or because they literally don't have anything interesting going on (because they are lazy and don't do anything).With AI however, they can avoid both those things. Don't have anything interesting to share? AI generate something interesting. Have something interesting to share? Why go through the effort of capturing and editing? Just have an AI recreate or work off of it and then post that instead. They then get all the big boy attention from clueless boomers and women, and that's not even considering the profit opportunities they can implement such as sponsorships.
>>748021849Im convinced POS google will one day remove that command too. Hope someones working on a better search engine.
>>748031193>Light pollution is bad and this is trying to focus light where is should beThat is not how light or light pollution works. The old bulbs emitted wavelengths in the lower visual band and were fully refracted at shorter ranges. LEDs emit higher frequency wavelengths in the visual band (hence why it is white light) and travel longer distances before rayleigh scattering gets it, they therefore make light pollution much worse than the old bulbs.The installation of LEDs had nothing to do with focusing light or providing better clarity or any of that kind of bullshit, it was simply to cut down on maintenance and the drain on power grids as suburbs expanded. For reference, suburbs don't even need white lights to be navigable at night, yellow bulbs provided sufficient illumination in addition to vehicle headlights. The rare pedestrian traffic at these times didn't need it either.
>>748028476I feel you. Can't even go for an early morning walk without getting flashbanged by a car a mile down the road. They really need to ban headlights that bright for anything other than an emergency response vehicle and if you are so night blind that you can't see without turning the mile ahead of you into day time then maybe you shouldn't be driving in the dark in the first place.
>>748022161this will now be my background
>>748031369The government is responsible for public infrastructure such as this. Capitalism had nothing to do with it since it's your tax dollars at work and they get that at gun point, de facto AND de jure.
>>748032016Why did they never make the KFC console
>>748032437because the mustard race can't ketchup
i think the one thing everyone forgets to point out about early 2000's gaming is the lack of scalpers buying up everything new
>>7480269492007 specifically was when we shifted timelines
>>748028650You think the person intentionally generating fake retro images of toys r us cares about his proper use of English?
>>748022719>>748030073>>748022616>boosty qr code>that turkish carpet mousepadIt's a modern video filmed in russia apparently
>>748032190>if you are so night blind that you can't see without turning the mile ahead of you into day time then maybe you shouldn't be driving in the dark in the first place.Like literally everything else in society, it's designed with boomers in mind. They love these lights because they are that blind.
>>748020674>PC games in a physical store in 2000s getting anything but the bargain binextra fucking fake
>>748032593I kinda miss the "the cake is a lie" girls who were trying to fit in, they seemed as desperate for geek dick as much as geeks were for pussy
>>748028206WAOOOWWW I CANT BELIEVE THE 3 FPS GAMES WITH A GROUNDED AESTHETIC LOOK THE SAME
>>748032716>geek dickThey were like that for free internet attentionThey already had enough of Chad dick irl
>>748030308those are pig tails not a pony tail.
>the xbox ruined pc gaming by buying a bunch of successful PC exclusive studios and forced them to make console trashIt was a grim time. RTS died, Adventure games died, tactical FPS died, RPGs died for a long time and FPS became gay shit like Halo. The cover shooter was born and was incredibly lame, a game of whack a mole. Gears did it alright, but for the most part it sucked. Everything was brown with bloom, including Zelda.It was a dark time of corporate takeover and dead creativity. We had no indie games back then and anything taht required more than an iq of 80 was shitcanneed by studios.It was the age of EA, Ubishit and Activision. THQ tried but failed to keep some spark going.
>>748023271They became terrible around like 2010s but that was a lifesaver for 10 year old me, surprised they seem to be totally forgotten, it was like game pass before game pass.
>>748032716I miss scene girls, I don't care what anyone thinks.
>>748032950>RTS diedRTS dying was no one's fault. It was a holdover from when gaming was a niche for a small selection of nerds that made up the primary gaming market up to that point, it was never going to survive the console boom and gaming going mainstream in the 00s.
>>748032950My latest bit of culture shock was seeing people nostalgic for the MSG3 piss filter when it was absent from the remake.
You walked in, bought your game, went home, put it in your console or installed it on your PC, and played it. If it sucked you could take it to FuncoLand or wherever and trade it in, or sell it on eBay. Back then you probably wouldn't get ripped off selling it online. You could also still rent physical games even in stores which weren't dedicated game stores. Online was really just getting started and was an option, not a requirement. It was a really good time to play video games, just from the sheer amount of choices alone.
>>748020657...until they started selling gaming magazines in plastic wrap. Fuck that.Imagine paying for a magazine to look at pictures like a cuck instead of buying 5-6 pirated games for the same price.I'm grateful they exist though because one of the Playstation magazines we bought had a guide for Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow which we had and couldn't figure out, and Red Dead Revolver which we didn't have at that point but goddamn whet our appetite for it and was well worth it when we eventually bought it.It also had this screenshot which was great fap fuel. Still haven't played Soul Calibur nor cared for it.
>>748026793What happened between 2003 and 2005?
Video games had a choice between being creative entertainment for everyone or children's entertainment and they went with the latter.
To me, I can at least accept that while games in the 00s were great, you had to be either too geeked into the gaming stuff like magazines or TV shows, or dead fucking god you had a pc that was actually the family computer and instead of looking up for boobies, you would stumble on some blog stuff that actually talk games because otherwise you had shit like Ratatouille for the PS2, Shark Tale for the Gamecube and Spongebob SquarePants for the GBA at home. Ain't no one buying shit that was niche at that time.Fuck, I still regret that I saw a bundle that included the three DMCs and one that was Ea sports games at Walmart, and I picked the Madden one while my cousin grabbed the DMC one, while my dumb ass grabbed the sports one because I thought sports were cooler back in the day. Fuck.
>>748021382Yep. God, I fucking hate how the Epstein class is ruining this country.
>>748021539Its actually less money when inflation adjusted
>>748033217Soul Calibur 3 (that image) is really good, and I hate fighting games usually. I play it with my friends when we meet up.
>>748033254Iraq war
For you young newfags I could understand asking about the 90s? but now the 2000s? Man the march of time has really been a giant bitch. and for what its worth I had a fucking great time. >Anon goes to university in early 2000s with his modded PS2, GC, and a custom built water cooled PC>RedOctane dance pads + burned copies of all the Japan only DDR mixes up to 5th or MAX>Playing in the common room one day, meeting new people throughout the building >Nerdy artistic girl in spaghetti strap tanktop doing nothing to limit the bounce >We hit it off, end up spending many a night in my room. Gaming in the 2000s.
>>748027019anon.. the current nostalgia year is 2018..
>>748033462The average /v/ anon is in their early 20s, and it's 2026. For a lot of them they were barely conscious of it, some weren't even born. We're the old men, Ace.
>>748022187This is the Sony store in NYC. Its a bit disappointing compared to the Nintendo store down the block, but its still a nice place to sit down and rest your legs.
You now remember the lotr video games and this one dnd game they made.
>>748022387I remember one year they had a summer pass where you can rent unlimited games for 3 months, for I think $60. You just could only take out one at a time. I spent that entire summer just playing my local Blockbuster's entire Gamecube collection. Shit was amazing.
>>748028476>notice on the left, you see MORE area overall>even though right is better lit in the areas that are lit>you actually see MORE on the leftThis is an issue with the way the light is diffused, not whether it's LED or not.What's more annoying is that since the light is set to be focused and intense, this makes it easier for somebody to do sneaky shit in the "after" pic since the non-illuminated spots are truly dark.
>>748033217From something awful site from the 2000s.
>AI continues blurring the line between real memories and nostalgia ghost inserts, at least in still photos >will soon be used for far more sinister purposes, if it isn't alreadyWe need another one of these about 100 times stronger posthaste:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
>>748033667Name of game?
>>748028476>I really do wanna ask the retarded FAGGOT who kickstarted the LED revolution why every streetlight, shoebox light, and headlight is now a beehive of evil just piercing your eyes everywhere you look when you go for a walk at night.You want to ask him, I want to kill him
>>748020341>Halo 4 art
>>748033360Most real fans were "geeked in" be it online or in the magazines and guidebooks available everywhere, at every mall or newsstand. Even going back to the 90s and 80s where there was shovelware, if you were lucky enough to get games as presents, your parents knew which ones you wanted specifically so you wouldn't end up with garbage. Not counting imports which were their own thing - that required real commitment and knowledge.
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>>748033971Demon Stone, little one.
>>748021758It's sad that pc and internet usage in the early days just used to be males having a good time and 90% of the women thought it was stupid and didn't want anything to do with it, so it was a great escape for us. Now it turned into hell with all the fucking normies trying to get attention.
>>748033580Are they really? Its hard to tell since the Metastatic Tourist Incursion . I know some of us are >here foreverbut I didn't know if we were dealing with a decade worth of tourist faggotry with a dropoff in newfags coming to the site outside of that, or if its really younger people showing up here as we did in the mid 2000s and they're just broken because they grew up in an era where not only social media, but all the garbage that came with it has come to fruition.
>my kids are popular at school and don't care about video gamesTruly a dark time.
>>748034281We had shit like IRC, bash.org, SA and PoE. What do they have? Tictoc, Discord and Reddit.
>>748026416I genuinely want a room like this
>>748034281There were a lot polls in the 2010s aimed at getting some sort of read on the demographics here arranged by anons who were just curious about the data, while they weren't comprehensive and are somewhat unreliable, the trend that kept coming up over and over was that anons were in their early 20s. So to be clear, I am extrapolating from a limited data set. Most anons seem to move on from 4chan by their 30s, obviously with exceptions. In addition to that, it explains the subtler shifts in board culture that happens every 5 or 6 years as newfags show up and oldfags graduate.So, yeah, I'm willing to bet anons curious about what gaming was like in the 00s are genuine about it. I look at it like how people are nostalgic for the 80s aesthetic even if they never lived the period.
>>748029763I went to one LAN party in my entire life, just one. It was the release day of Halo 2 and an acquaintance whose parents were splitting up and his dad let him have a sleepover w/ 10+ classmates Wires all over the house, tvs in every room. One of the weirdest and most fun nights of my childhood.
>>748026013what will he do next?
>>748027671that's not gatorade
>>748030462for me its the way the text has to always be readable to the viewer, its always tilted ever so slightly towards the pov
>>748035573the orientations are weird, the text is too clear and and the fonts are bizarre
>>748034064you type like an LLM
>>748034064>your parents knew which ones you wanted specifically so you wouldn't end up with garbageI got Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast three times.
>>748020269it was a golden age
>>748031369Nigger who do you think pays for streetlights? You do. It is literally an entirely socialized process.
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>>748036056Just streetlights? Aren't you forgetting the dozens of consultancy firms that also need to be paid?
>>748033118or the brown and bloom CODlikes from the 2010s
>>748034491To use the nerdiest possible reference, I'll never not be grateful that I was alive to see that era, but I can totally understand why the Elves that saw the Two Trees of Valinor were fucking depressed by what came after the fall and the contrast. We had the choice and requirement to seek out culture online of interest - we had not yet been algorithmically bubbled into a few sites, with all the same content happening on (non-searchable for the most part) platforms. When I made fan translation and undubs, they were always available on torrent sites and the like - now we see some mods and projects censored off major hosting, and others confined to some Discord faggotry that if it ever gets shut down, nobody will be able to pick it up because its just some goddamn channel with a link to some google drive or whatever file share. Pic related's data ended over a decade ago.. I can only imagine how much worse things are now>>748034868>So, yeah, I'm willing to bet anons curious about what gaming was like in the 00s are genuine about it. I look at it like how people are nostalgic for the 80s aesthetic even if they never lived the period.I don't begrudge them that. The problem is that its seemingly only the aesthetic they give a shit about. If you're going to say OH YEAH MAN IT WAS SO MUCH BETTER AND MORE BASED BACK THEN when you make your xitter post with some vague approximation, its just a literal meme unless you give a shit why it was better. You say everything sucks now, but you don't change your behavior to be less cancerous or are willing to take on the values of that era (including how this site and its culture sprung out of the old hacker ethos - why anonymity, online privacy, security , FOSS, splitting the online and offline world , are part of it) then its just a momentary skinwalking fad. >>748035714I'm sorry, I can't fit it all overlayed on a dancing tiktok. >>748035831Well, you got something good on unfortunate repeat
>>748036665>Well, you got something good on unfortunate repeatIt was a damn good game. I still run through it a couple times each year, I just wish the gunplay was better, blasters are a pain to use at mid range because the bolts are so slow.
>>748020269Paradise. Gaming was an activity solely for dorky nerds who actually cared about the hobby. You didn't have posers polluting the hobby, tourneyfags and sponsors stripping everything of fun and fanservice, or lgbtrannies and sjws using them as a platform for moral grandstanding and groomingMainstream media wrote off video games as a niche, and so they were allowed to thrive free from corporate mandates... until they grew bigger than movies and drew hollyjew kikes' attention
>>748033413Look up how much it was this spring.
>>748028915This post has good flow and used the correct term. I like this guy.
>>748020614>Gaming has never been better than it is todaySure>centralized corporate servers that rape the experience>microtransactions, battle passes, lootboxes that turn games into cash flows to be milked>incomplete games that are lost forever once the plug is pulled on the servers. no backups allowed>games tied to accounts, which means that you can have your money stolen>censorship to hell and back. no fanservice allowed. women are fugly men with lipstick. and don't you dare include words like "night" or "assassin" in your nickname because the profanity filter will get them>an endless sea of remakes, remasters and rehashes because the industry is creatively bankrupt>hardware prices launched into the stratosphere. game prices too ($70 games? forget it)And it keeps getting worse
>>748029030It was that fucking Killzone 2 trailer man.That was the end of everything.And this is coming from someone that liked KZ2
>>748033853>This is an issue with the way the light is diffused, not whether it's LED or not.It's because of the intensity of white LEDs. Equally diffused, you'd still see this effect because the chemical lamps produce less light, so there's less difference between light and dark areas. Eyes and sensors can adjust to low intensity light, they have trouble with high intensity light in dark areas.
>>748020341>that boxart for melee
