/vr/ - Retro Games

I still call it 4chan even though it’s 4channel

>>10445668
Calling lives “guys”.

"Aeris" is an obvious one.

>>10445668
>Do you call levels
Nobody calls them levels anymore grandpa. Levels are the thing you level up, the locations you play in are just that, locations, maps, stages.

borked
grok

Negro

>>10445668
I still say Alex the Kidd.

>>10445676
we used to call them "free men"

>>10445668
>Do you still call Peach "Princess Toadstool"?
Yes when referring to Princess Toadstool

>Do you call levels "boards"?
Only my cousins did this, that's a throwback though. We also used to call him "Golden Sonic" before we knew he had a name

>>10445717
Extra guys, free men, 1 ups, extra lives I used them all. Still do.

>>10445668
I used to work with a 90 year old guy with an old school New York accent, we had another black coworker but he would always forget his name and would just refer to him as "the colored fella." I miss that nigga like you wouldn't believe

>>10445676
"toys" or "dolls"

I still occasionally refer to Mario the character as "Super Mario" which you don't really hear anymore.

Oh, yeah, and calling the NES just "Nintendo" or "regular Nintendo."

I have no idea why but I keep calling my son's Switch a Gameboy and I can't stop myself.

>>10445820
Definitely regular Nintendo. I remember this fondly

>>10445721
This. That's just what they're called.
The only reason this is dated is because you don't have extra lives anymore, except in games like Mario, because you just respawn or lose outright. You only have a single health meter, not a lives/guys counter.

>>10445892
Lol.

I call levels either levels or stages and define myself as a scrub because I still suck at video games.

>>10445668
I will always call him Dr. Robotnik

>>10445720
>Only my cousins did this, that's a throwback though.
So where did "boards" come from? Never heard that one before

>>10445676
Mans.

>>10446059
It probably derives from traditional board games. Games have a "board" and a video game has several of them so each level is a different "board."

>>10445820
>regular Nintendo
My old nigga.

>>10445668
I still say program instead of app.

>>10446070
I always though boards was some Canadian thing like toon.

>>10446080
I always hated app and also refuse to use it.

Is "gamepad" out of fashion nowadays? People just say controller, right? I still call them gamepads or just pads but I don't think any of the companies use that terminology for their controllers anymore. It was mostly an NES and SNES thing.

>>10446080
I have trouble not calling SSDs "hard drives" in casual conversation. When I started catching myself I suddenly realized why our parents had their various idiosyncrasies, like calling game cartridges "tapes." It's sometimes really hard to adopt new lingo for certain things even if those things are technically not the same.

>>10446080
I always make sure to say "Application" when talking about a program on a desktop and differentiate it from little piddly apps on phones and such.

>>10446080
For me, "app" as a diminutive always meant an applet

>>10445712
I just say Alex the Kid.

Sometimes I'll still call TOoT "Zelda 64".

i find the term "multiplat" to be quite cringe

>>10445668
I'm still gonna refer to Claymorton and Speardovich as Mack and Yaridovich even with the name change

PSX is still in my vernacular though PS1 has gradually overtaken it.

not video games but I notice zoomers all call college "university" now like they're Europeans when back in MY DAY everyone called it "college" even if it was a state university.

>>10446675
I thought university and colleges were two different things.

>>10446681
They both offer undergraduate programs, which is usually what people mean when they say they're going to college/university. Universities are bigger, more expensive and have post graduate programs. "I'm going to University" (or especially "Uni") Is something I NEVER heard Americans say unless they were talking about what specific University they were going to. Americans would always just call it "College." Europeans on the internet used "university" as the generic term for institutions of higher education until zoomers started picking it up

>>10446641
Back in my day we used to call it "the great playstation".

>>10446697
It's a colloquialism. "To university" is akin to "to a university". They also say they're "going to hospital", not "going to the hospital". That's why we call them bongs

>>10446697
I remember when I was visiting relatives in the U.S years ago and told them I was going to university that Fall, all of them said something like, "oh, college?" so you're definitely right about the part about Americans calling it College.

>>10446058
my double nigga

>>10445668
No joke, I called it a "video game" and some zoomer called me a boomer. He said they're just called "games" now. Fucking hell. Did anyone else here know this?

>>10446171

"App" and "application" in this sense have both always been bad. The concept is that the computer is being applied to a real-world problem, via a particular program, in order to solve it. But you can just call that program a program in the first place. Any entity that can meet a lot of different needs depending on how it's employed can be called an "application" by this reasoning. It's overly vague. You could hire a maid to clean your home and call that an application of the maid. You could go see a movie and call the movie an application of the movie theater. It's just stupid.

If anything, "app" is better than "application", even for desktop PC programs, because it distances the term further from its stupid origin. It may as well be a completely new nonsense word that was coined and put to work solely to free people from having to say the longer word "program", or from having to come up with an existing word that captured both "program" and "collection or network of programs consistently used together under one identity for one purpose" (since technically some "applications" are not just single programs, but are also reliant on web servers or whatever). This coinage could even be called an application of the concept of language.

Anyway I still say "Dragon Warrior" to refer to the NES DQ games. I mean that's what the labels on the cartridges in my closet say, and who am I to defy those?

>>10446735
Children of the screen just have simpler speech. "Games" could be video games, tabletop games, sports games, mind games, etc.
That being said, yes only old people like our parents say "video games" because a person that needed to actually mention video games in a conversation would mention a specific game or genre or at least say [console] games, not
>yes fellow kids I too play video games that is my hobby as well

>>10446097

Why not call them hard drives? It's not like they aren't hard. If anything they're even harder than the spinning-disk type. It's not quite like "Nintendo tapes" since there is no actual tape in a game cartridge. I mean if it's become conventional to think an SSD isn't a hard drive then fair enough, but there's nothing in the term "hard drive" itself to establish that. It'd just be an arbitrary convention, as arbitrary as calling an SSD a "drive" to begin with when there's no "drive"-ing motor inside it making any part of it spin.

>>10446542

Haha I still say "Zelda 3" in reference to LttP.

>>10446735
Just call the retro video games to specificy exactly what you're talking about. Then say new games for anything else, there problem solved

I called the TV remote a tuner for a long time.

>>10445668
I still call them:

Aku Aku: burdega
Videgoames: marcianitos
Robotnik: tritonero
multiplayer: jugar a dobles

>>10446675
University has more prestige

Joystick instead of controller.

>>10445720
>We also used to call him "Golden Sonic" before we knew he had a name
The game tells you his name before you play as him.

>>10445818
Super Mario Wonder just came out. They call him Super Mario all the time.

>>10445668
Koopa for Bowser and Robotnik for Eggman.

>>10445668
"system" instead of console.
"arcade stick" instead of fight stick.

>>10446735
Nah, that zoomer is just cringe.

>>10446080
I still say program because I'm not talking about fucking phones.

>>10446735
Sounds like an extra stupid kid.

>>10446954
I use Bowser or Bowser Koopa, when I feel particularly elderly I'll say King Koopa. Never liked Eggman, thought it was retarded and made him sound like a fucking pussy, Dr. Robotnik is clearly a superior name.

>>10446080
App is a shitty forced word by corporations to trick stupid people who get intimidated by "big words" like application or "smart words" like program or software. App is a confusing retarded catch all term that only stupid people use and it sounds cringe as fuck whenever someone actually uses it, especially IRL.

Not using app doesn't make you old. It makes you a non-mouth breather.

I still say nigger

>>10445668
i call kills "frags"

I will always say Dr. Robotnik. I think everyone says Duke 3D due to how you accessed it through DOS, at least that's my head cannon.

>>10446697
>>10446728
The colleges themselves know that they're driving people into lifelong poverty so they'd rather not be known as simply "college." Encouraging people to refer to you as "university" is a marketing tactic.

>>10446809
My silent generation grandparents always called it a "clicker" which even boomers typically didn't do.

>>10447381
Wasn't "fight stick" just MadCatz's specific branding for it's lineup? Did Hori and the other companies call their products fightsticks?

>>10446742
>"Games" could be video games, tabletop games, sports games, mind games, etc.
Love games?

>>10446697
Very much this, I noticed the change happening around 2014-2017

It's moot now after the new movie but for a while I was under the impression that Nintendo really wanted to erase the whole "Mario is from Brooklyn" thing. I never let that one go and I'm glad to see it's made a comeback.

>>10445668
His name is Robotnik, not Eggman

>>10446080
Yeah same. I also get pissed off when people call every breakfast sandwich a mcmuffin.

>>10446735
Fuck them. Call them full color video attractions from now on to drill your superiority in.

Did anyone else ever say "boss of the game" or was my friend group just stupid?
End of level boss is the boss of the level, and the end of game boss is the boss of the game.

>>10445668
For some reason we called bosses “head enemies” and I still use it ironically now

>>10448334
Also probably because one my first games was Metroid, I’ve always referred to health as “energy” even though almost no games call it thar

>>10447482
>Never liked Eggman
I never knew about the Eggman name until the internet was a thing in my life. I was born in a country that games were not translated so I didn't care about dialogues at all, video game magazines would call him Robotnik and that was the name I knew him for.

>>10445668
I call the koopa kids by their super show names (except for Ludwig, idk why)

>>10448325
Never heard that, everyone just said last boss or final boss

>>10447923
Do you love me?
Are you playing your love games with me?

>>10448325
Maybe if there were no other bosses? Otherwise people would say final boss. I recall someone calling a gym leader in pokémon a gym boss once.

>>10448312
I don't think I've ever heard anyone do that. Thankfully.

>>10445668
“Birdo? The crossdresser from Super Mario Brothers 2?”
Robotnik
In Dota 2 I picked up “Buriza” from a buddy even though I never played Dota 1 myself (and never bought one myself, because I was always an extra-poor POS 5)
“Final Fantasy 3” for the one with Kefka in it

>>10446641
>PSX is still in my vernacular though PS1 has gradually overtaken
I call it The Play Station.
As in
>Do you want to play The Play Station?
All other playstations get called PS2, PS3 etc. But not The Play Station

>>10446641
Ever since the PS2 came out I've always referred to the original as the PS1. It just made sense to me, I remember seeing PSX though and got confused, as to why they didn't use PS1, as it sounds like a different console.

>>10446735
I’m technically gen z. That guy was just retarded. Game can refer to soccer, chess, poker, pool. Fuckin anything.

>>10449898
>birdo
>crossdresser
Birdo is a female character that wears a red bow and shoots eggs. If it shot globs of cum it would be a crossdresser.

>>10446809
Flipper.

>>10446758
It is Zelda 3 though. It says so on the game.

>>10445668
>>10445676
>>10445717
>>10445721
>free guys
>boards
magical times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yOOFMIKr5I

>>10445668
I define modern consoles based on bits carried forward as a 2x the previous gen, so the PS5 is a 1024-bit console.

>>10445668
Robotnik

>>10445668
I say 'Expansions' when refering to DLCs.

>>10446080
I say app for phone applications and programs for desktop programs.
>>10446097
I can't say "solid drive" so I just say SSD. If people weren't depressingly tech illiterate it would probably not be an issue.

>>10446675
It's because college usually means community college nowadays. Nobody gives a shit about CC since it's basically just a step people take to avoid paying outrageous university fees, so when people are actually going to university they say it.

>>10446675
Good, maybe your zoomers will finally make the push to drop the retard units so you can join the rest of the world in using the metric system.

>>10451264
Expansion packs

>>10451264
I say expansion pack when a DLC is big enough to be regarded as one, like the Fallout NV ones. Otherwise, small and not very significant stuff gets to be called DLC, because that's usually what it is.

still call them computer games, even the console ones

>>10451429
metric is a reddit system

sorry that memorizing conversions is hard for your midwit brain and you need everything in multiples of 100/1000 to satisfy your autism

>>10446058
Does anyone actually call him Eggman, outside of contrarian weebs and japs? Robotnik is so ubiquitous that SEGA even retconned his name to be Ivo Robotnik with 'Eggman' just being a nickname.

>>10446087
The real oldhead name is 'joypad'.

>>10445668
I refuse to call the Super NES/Super Nintendo "sness". That just sounds dumb.
>What lingo do you still use that dates you? Do you still call Peach "Princess Toadstool"?
I'm fine with calling her Peach because "Toadstool" always felt like a last name anyway. Also, 80s/90s kids in Japan had been using Peach/Eggman the entire time.
>>10447482
>>10448119
Good news, your English localization uses both Eggman AND Robotnik. Play 10 minutes of this obscure 14 year old game called Sonic Adventure sometime.
>>10446080
I remember people using "app" back in the 90s/2000s as a short for "application", but they meant an actual OS application (like .exe files) and weren't talking about whatever "cool", trendy thing you could get on your phone. Nowadays it seems "apps" are only used for smartphones, sadly.

Nowadays "press start" is often out of fashion. The buttons are now nonsense symbols but I still think of them as start/select.

>>10452112
Paddle

>>10452120
>I refuse to call the Super NES/Super Nintendo "sness". That just sounds dumb.
How did this even come into vogue? I never knew that was a thing until YouTubers started saying it that way so my only guess is that kids who didn't grow up with the NES/SNES and just assumed they were pronounced like a word and ran with it.

>>10446741
>application
In the computer sense means it is 'applied'--attached--to a larger program. As for why the term took off for smartphones to refer to programs, my guess is that Apple was considered the apps that shipped with the iPhone to be applications that bolted onto other programs on the phone. And third parties ran with the app store taking it far beyond what Apple originally intended by making them into full-fledged standalone programs, but just kept using 'app' because it was trendy and helped set the iPhone apart from computers.

>>10452120
I’ve always pronounced each individual letter: N-E-S or S-N-E-S

>>10452106
Everyone who started with Adventure or later calls him Eggman. Calling him Robotnik at this point is contrarian, like calling Princess Peach Princess Toadstool.

>>10446752
Isn't 'hard drive' short for 'hard-disc drive', as a contrast to floppy discs?

>>10452138
Many acronyms are said aloud as if they’re words, even though it’s actually correct to do this >>10452141. I’m 40 and lots of friends said Ness or Sness back then.

>>10452141
Everyone I knew back then called it a "Super Nintendo" or just "Nintendo"

>>10452146
I believe when you’re referring to floppies, it’s spelled disk.

>>10451372
Historically wasn't it the other way around? There are institutions in the UK explicitly called college that are older and more prestigious than a lot of generic universities.

>>10452138
I first heard it from PAL region YouTubers, most of whom grew up with Sega consoles. It seemed to spread to zoomers in North America after that.

>>10452106
My nephew gets confused when I call him Robotnik because he is 8 and only watched X and Prime.

>>10452154
Nah it's just american English vs commonwealth English. Because the tech originated in the US, 'disk' is more common in official use, but both are acceptable.
Program vs programme is a more debatable one.

>>10452158
Almost no one in the U.S. says 'uni' like Europeans. We generally just say college.

>>10452145
The difference is Nintendo very consciously obsoleted Princess Toadstool starting with Mario 64, whereas Sega adopted Robotnik as a secondary official name for him that they still occasionally use in the modern day.

>>10452176
They don't really use Robotnik much at all these days really. They made it canon as a gesture to older fans but Eggman is overwhelmingly more used both in the games and within the fanbase. Robotnik is very rarely used outside of Gen X and early millennial circles.

>>10452148
>>10452163
Maybe it was regional. My area was always S-N-E-S.

>>10452120
>14 year old game called Sonic Adventure
*24 year old

>>10452197
DELET THIS

>>10452190
Me and my friends always said 'Nintendo' and 'Super Nintendo'. NES/SNES was just used with writing, like with PSX (you would NEVER say Pee Ess Ecks, always PlayStation), N64, or SMS. I didn't hear 'enn ee ess/ess enn ee ess' verbally spoken until video game youtubers got popular in like 2007.

>>10452203
People who read gaming magazines back then might have been the ones spreading the spoken "S-N-E-S"

>>10452203
I definitely said PSX in conversation alongside NES, SNES, and N64. Sega systems were different. Those were always just Genesis and Saturn.

>>10452210
I definitely said PSX out loud, but I’ve never once said GCN which was Nintendo’s official acronym for the GameCube in North America.

>>10452214
Yeah Gamecube was always just Gamecube in conversation. I think it must have something to do with linguistic cadence. Certain acronyms roll off the tongue more smoothly than others. Plus some systems had actual names that sounded like acronyms like CD-I and 3DO.

>>10445668
>lose at Bejeweled
>"I died"

>>10446080
This and I absolutely refuse to call anything outside of Google Play Store an app.

>>10445668
"Smilies" instead of "emojis".
Here's some for you AIMbros https://www.mysmiley.net/free-aim-smileys.php

>>10452450
I hate how English netizens had an entire dictionary of lingo and slang that basically went extinct when weebs took over the internet and just copied whatever Japanese netizens did.

I still say PM instead of DM

>>10452450
I still say "pound sign" instead of "hashtag"

>>10452450
i always called it 'emoticons'

>>10452670
I sometimes call it the 'number sign'

I say "fetch."

>>10452670
It's still the pound sign, but it's also a hashtag under some circumstances.

>>10445818
Jump Man.

>>10452774

Not video games but I still refer to remote controls as “clickers.” They stopped making ones that click before I was even born. I just picked it up from my parents.

>>10445668
I don’t do this, but I have some friends in my age group that refer to movie CGI as "graphics" which I find amusing.

>>10452176
>Sega adopted Robotnik as a secondary official name for him that they still occasionally use in the modern day.
Only in English localizations, and usually only as a joke (see Sonic Generations). Sega these days goes out of its way to bury the Robotnik name as much as possible.

I refuse to say "The Cowboys played the Washington Football Team" on Thanksgiving. I won't do it.

>>10452909
They’re the Commanders now.

I will never call playing a game in the same room as someone "couch co-op". We're playing two-player/multiplayer mode, you terminally online fucks.

>>10452909
/sp/ jannies made it all the way to /vr/ just to delete your post, very dedicated trannies they are

>>10446058
This. I will never call him Dr. Eggman.

>>10452145
>Calling him Robotnik at this point is contrarian, like calling Princess Peach Princess Toadstool.
But her name is Princess Toadstool.

>>10452186
Yeah but nothing after SA1 matters, so...

>>10452894
They only did that for a couple of years because the guy in charge of Sonic Team was mega autistic about the Adventure era because it was too connected to the Classic Era and he wanted to made a hard delineation between Classic and Modern Sonic. It is literally a point of fact that Eggman's last name is Robotnik because his grandfather is Gerald Robotnik and his cousin is Maria Robotnik. You can't have Shadow exist and then pretend that all of Sonic Adventure 2 didn't happen.

Ryu and Ken's moves are Hadoken, Shoryuken, and Hurricane Kick.

>>10452986
As opposed to what?

>>10452987
Tatsumaki.

Calling it the "Mega Drive" is one for me, since any zoomers who call it anything at all call it the "Genesis" because that's what the internet calls it.

>>10452542
People really haven't dealt with what a massive cultural scrubbing has occurred to the western internet over the last decade and a half.
It's all well and good writing it off as nostalgia, and maybe that's right, but at least GenXers have their Pearl Jam CDs. For the millennials who's "time" was that 00s-era internet so little of it exists, and what does exist is useless.

>>10453060
Lycos, angelfire, megashare, etc. So much was list in the purged. I remember two major purged, the worst was 2012 iirc. Tons of stuff was lost, luckily archive.org saved a nice handful, but nobody will ever know what it was like before that, it's really a memory holed era of flash games, Joe Rogan.net and crazy webpages by ordinary people about their hobbies.everything is so homogeneous and wall-e Idiocracy, I'm going to fucking kill myself

>>10445668
I began referring to "bosses" as "mayors" because I have severe mental retardation.

>>10446080
The term "app" was used long before smartphones. Did everyone collectively forget that or something?

>>10446735
Why didn't you just kick his ass or at least threaten him? Don't let some faggot like that you boss you around.

>>10453060
Millennial internet culture is like the earliest era of film where 75% of silent movies are lost.

>>10453065
>>10453115
Another issue this creates is that it allows people to re-write the past, because there's basically no evidence to point to to prove them wrong. Also the ones who like to play up the negatives for laughs who, either intentionally or unintentionally, serve as the basis of what was "real."

I'd say that 4chan plays into this by its temporary nature.

>>10452915
The Football Team is perfect, though. It shows just how soulless and sanitised the sport is; all of the franchises should be renamed like that. San Francisco Football Team, Detroit Football Team, Green Bay Football Team...

It was called Control Deck and anyone saying otherwise wasn't there.

>>10453065
I can often spot a zoomer LARPing as a millennial when they define that era as 'Myspace instead of Facebook' or referring to old flash videos like 'End of Ze World' or 'Badger Badger Mushroom' as 'early Youtube'

>>10445820
>>10445913
I still call it regular nintendo.

>>10446597
Good man. I forgot what the original name was, but I knew right away that it wasn't claymorton.

>>10453138
That’s a huge issue and it’s already starting to happen. The early 2000s internet is thought of like a demo version of the internet, but it was truly the Wild West.

>>10445668
I don't use it anymore, but where I'm from we called beating a game with 100% completion "wrapping it"
Like "I wrapped Ocarina of Time."
Anyone else say this back in the day, or was it a small regional thing?

>>10453731
Well to be fair, early YouTube was pretty fuckin awful. I remember trying to find songs on YouTube and the upload quality was like 5kb bitrate and my internet would constantly buffer on the video. Remember video buffering on fucking everything, holy Christ on a cracker. Luckily p2p made it wayyy easier to download Music and movies and videogames. I remember audiogalaxy in Like 2001, then Kazaa and lime wire. Also being able to google pretty much anything and get relevant search results. Google blows donut goblins these days.

>>10453791
Where are you from? I've never heard that.

>>10453791
First time I've ever heard this.

>>10453795
Use search operators. Most of G*ogle's problems come from them trying to code the search function so it can parse normalfags asking it questions like "I accidentally 93mb ram, what do", which can be bypassed by using proper search operators.

>>10453795
The charm of early Youtube is that it wasn't full of people trying to be famous and most importantly wasn't dominated by the big channels. A popular Youtube video could have had nearly a million views and the uploader was somebody named 'retard42069'

Also you could find pretty much movie or TV show made before 2000 on there if you were willing to watch it in 240p split into 10 minute parts

>>10453806
western canada

>>10453791
In Latin America we used "flipping the game over". We called it that because of the arcades, when you finished a game it started over from the beginning again. It may not make much sense translated to english though.

>>10453816
No, is just downloaded everything back then. Nobody was into streaming back then, especially because most people (myself included) had shit internet, even dsl where I was buffered like a crack addict. Id just leave the computer on over night downloading stuff and hope to God there was no connection errors. I hated waiting for videos to buffer, just to sit there longer than the fucking video itself before it's ready. Then re buffering of you rewind, ohh God Im so glad we're past that

>>10453828
Oh wow. Yeah for some reason I thought wrapping was like wrapping a present like "putting a bow on it", but it was probably the same sort of origin where it meant the game wrapped back around.

>>10453138
This is an existential problem for humanity. You can crack open a 400 year old book and still read it. But everything we do today is frustratingly temporary. We have no preservation worth a damn.

>>10453883
Something like 95% of historic knowledge has been lost, you know. Everything we know about Aristotle I think it was comes from second and third-hand sources because none of his original writings have survived. There's a huge 300 year blank spot in British history from between the end of Roman Britain to the beginning of the middle ages, because no written works from that era have survived.

Most of the data lost with digital decay is irrelevant and worthless trivia. Nobody 200 years from know is gonna be interested in some shitty browser game made by a bored 12 year old in 2003.

>>10453883
400 year old books are really hard to read. They don't use language in any way you expect.

>>10453795
Ah yes Limewire. Your direct link to the malware factory. If there's one thing I don't miss is how incredibly easy it was to get random infections back then. You'd spend 15 minutes online and now your browser has 8 new toolbars and there's a popup ad that runs away from your mouse pointer as you try to close it.

>>10453883
only nice hard covers properly stored survive that long. Leave a paperback out for a hundred years and its not going to be much more than lint and dust

>>10453913
I’ve ruined a few computers being a dumb kid and doing this. My first mishap was with our old win98 machine. It only had like 256mb of storage, so I started deleting shit to download more roms and I ended up deleting stuff from the windows folder and it totally just fucked everything up kek. I’m so glad I wasnt the stupid kid who got hoodwinked on the internet to rub magnets on the hdd to fix it, I was totally that gullible, kek

>>10453904
Yes, but that history is hundreds to thousands of years old. This was fucking ten years ago

>>10453912
400 years is roughly Shakespeare, which isn't that alien. Go back to Chaucer and thats when you really need to learn what the fuck you're looking at. But even so, you can at least read the words. Good luck interacting with a Word document in 400 years.

>>10453904
Who's talking browser games? Our banking industry still runs on COBOL which is ancient and the people who know it are literally dying of old age. The problem now is that super important shit aren't any better off or more long term than those browser games.

>>10445892
based

>>10452670
"To delete this message, press the hashtag sign."

>>10445892
kek I might start doing this on purpose.

>>10453940
Chaucer isn't that bad if you read the words it loud. His London English is the basis of what we use today, so all you really need is a gloss for the occasional words that changed significantly. Get into stuff like Gawain and the Green Knight that's like half Scottish and you're fucked.

Another amusing example is the Domesday Book. The original is still perfectly readable (if you know Latin), you can go to the right library in England and see it for yourself. The modern version the BBC made in 1986 for the 900-year anniversary, the one on laserdisk.... not so much.

We're going to lose so much shit because of lack of preservation. It's dumb as hell.

>>10452980
They still won't call him Robotnik regardless. The most it's been alluded to as of recent is in Frontiers when you hear Eggman laugh about how he turned Sonic's derogatory nickname for him into his theme, but he never actually refers to himself by his real name.

>>10453940
>Good luck interacting with a Word document in 400 years.
You can print word documents you know.

>>10445695
>What do you call levels
Depending on the game I call them “maps”, usually for first person games and more open games (not necessarily open world but think the difference between Bob-Omb Battlefield and Bianco Hills vs Donut Planes 1)

>>10447640
Same

>>10453939
Pretty much. It's like, I don't know, Boomers going to buy a Beatles record in the 80s and being told everything has vanished, sorry. Rolling Stones as well.
...We can do you one single by The Small Faces and the A side is scratched.

Another thing is that you could have a website on a hard disk, but it's all but forgotten about so it's never accessed. I wonder how many of these Ghost Sites there are out there?

>>10454105
>They still won't call him Robotnik regardless.
They can and do.

>>10453883
>>10453904
It feels like history has pretty much ceased to be made in the contemporary era. It has just been "the present" since the dawn of the 21st century with nothing truly notable.
We sent rovers to Mars in 2003, I guess.

>>10454330
>Boomers going to buy a Beatles record in the 80s and being told everything has vanished, sorry.
Kinda yeah. I can't access any of stuff I used to. It's 100% the plot from mgs2, unironically. Ai filtered information to only save what the elite think is worthy of being recorded. It was happening as mgs2 was being played, the plot was already in the works for this. It feels like the next evolutionary step of "the victor writes the history", but completed orchestrated to keep control in the same central spots.

>>10453485
I advise you all to boycott the NFL until they get rid of that and go back to a 16 game season.

>>10454063
>Another amusing example is the Domesday Book. The original is still perfectly readable (if you know Latin), you can go to the right library in England and see it for yourself. The modern version the BBC made in 1986 for the 900-year anniversary, the one on laserdisk.... not so much.
That's absolutely hilarious. All this technology that locks you out of information because you need a bunch of other contemporary tech to interface with it. Its like that South Park episode where Cartman went into the future for a Wii only to find that the one he found in a museum couldn't plug into any modern televisions. And trying to maintain compatibility has its own problems. Productivity software like Microsoft Excel is a bloated nightmare because they don't want to break compatibility with spreadsheets companies have been using since the 80s.

If you think about it, we're in the first generation of modernity. The Industrial Revolution was only about 200 years ago. We're not used to dealing with such rapid obsolescence. Its why our drinking water has lead in it now. Our pipes are all hitting the end of their useful life snd nobody considered that inevitability and the cost of not updating. We generally just ride it until the wheels fall off and now those wheels are falling off every decade or so.

>>10454360
"The victor writes the history, only the victor decides its the victor to begin with."

I feel you about not being able to access stuff. Planet Elder Scrolls died and took so many memories of my time on the forums with me, like when I had an argument with AlienSlof about her weird porn lol.

I do miss forums. I think I'd rather their negatives than the negatives of the communication platforms we have now, and I include this cesspit in that.

>>10454125
Most people don't even own printers nowadays. I have one but I rarely ever use it.

>>10454364
>Our pipes are all hitting the end of their useful life snd nobody considered that inevitability and the cost of not updating.
That's been a problem for years I. City's. San Francisco and New York city have some of the most dilapidated plumbing and water systems in the world. They just push it under the rug, and keep on putting a new coat of paint on it until it just duck ng collapses. There's no good way to fix the sewer system in San Fran or New York, too much urban planning destroying passage ways to pipes. Buildings will have to be torn down in order to fix these problems and I'll be playing retro vidya inawoods with water turbines from mountain creeks.

>>10454330
The worst are the message boards. Every site had a message board that retained a wealth of searchable information amassed through casual conversation. Most of those have been wiped from the Earth. Reddit is a nightmare if you try to actually find stuff and 4chan retains nothing unless you count archive sites, which themselves aren't comprehensive. Watch the chaos when GameFAQs eventually shuts down.

>>10454379
Like other anon said, planet elder scrolls was massive. With it, went a piece of the heart of lorkan, into the void outside of mundus... I can only imagine what kind of suicidal tendencies the gamefaq fags will exhibit when their ship goes down.

>>10454378
I remember reading that they found a still active water main in New York made of fucking wood. Like a hollowed out tree trunk, probably from 1890.

>>10454378
The plumbing and sewer systems were built in the 1880s-1910s when you had no zoning or environmental regulations, could dig anywhere you wanted, and get about 20 Irish workers killed or injured in the process (there were another 40 where that came from). Unfortunately it's not possible to do that anymore.

>>10454405
Kek, what a clusterfuck. Any metropolitan areas with a population over 50,000, quickly starts to degrade in quality of life. This is a trend seen since UR the first recorded city and documented throughout history in Greece, Egyptian, Roman, Mayan and Aztec civilizations. The more people concentrated into a small area, the more problems.

>>10454379
>Watch the chaos when GameFAQs eventually shuts down.
This is why I try and save the ASCII FAQs I like when I can, even just for the aesthetics.

>>10454401
The worst part is that these message boards and forums must cost basically nothing to maintain on a modern set of hardware, so it'll be spite that has them go offline, when they could just as easily be mothballed. Same with Geocities. Fucking hell, it's been 14 years since it died, and when it did it took the old internet with it.

>>10454408
Furthermore those cities were industrial centers back then, they paid for themselves. Any materials needed to construct a sewer were cheap and locally available or produced locally, and there were plenty of people on hand with the talent to design and put them together. NYC is completely parasitic now, it produces nothing and exists only to house hedge fund managers and latte hipsters. So even without all the modern government regulations and bureaucracy it would still be ruinously expensive to rebuild those sewers.

Are there any forums or message boards still alive? I'm thinking of finding a handful of good ones dedicated to retro anime and video games and just retiring there.

So much of the internet as it is feels like a young man's game...

>>10454401
The wise thing would be to lock the website down and convert it into a static version of itself people can store locally and browse as if it were the real deal. I'm sure it's too massive for most people but certain good folks could continue to host it and at least make sure it exists somewhere.

So many things that we take for granted as normal is actually really bizarre. Like even here, "retro gaming" is essentially a misnomer. Even the oldest game consoles are crazy future tech considering recorded history spans 10,000 years. We act like it's perfectly normal to need to take up soldering as a hobby to keep a Turbo Duo from 1993 up and running. Or buy an upscaler so you can use old systems on a current TV. Or have to dumpster dive for a CRT so that you can play Duck Hunt. These things that existed within our lifetimes now require jumping through hoops in order to keep using, like it's a post-apocalyptic scavenger culture that took only 30 years to happen.

>>10454446
"Alive"? Yes. "Active"? Very much less so. Digital Press is still kicking. GameFAQs, obviously. Mortal Kombat Online, last I checked.

Oh, speaking of Mortal Kombat Online, just the concept of fansite for a specific franchise. Now it's just subreddits.

>>10454419
Europe is a bit better off but they had to have two world wars on their continent in order to modernize. Nothing sets a fire under your ass like your cities being obliterated.

>>10454473
>Now it's just subreddits.
And wikias. Or fandoms. Or whatever it's called now.
One thing missing from the individualised fan site is that they'd always have the hosts own takes on things.

I just checked DmozTools (a web directory) and clicking the links doesn't work, brings up and XML error. A site that worked for decades doesn't now for some reason. Isn't getting pages to load a solved problem? Obviously not!

>>10454431
>The worst part is that these message boards and forums must cost basically nothing to maintain on a modern set of hardware, so it'll be spite that has them go offline, when they could just as easily be mothballed. Same with Geocities. Fucking hell, it's been 14 years since it died, and when it did it took the old internet with it.
I think what's happened with a lot of those old fansites and message boards is that the people started them back when they were college students and actually gave a shit about whatever it was the website was about. Now those people are going to be in their 40s and 50s and unless they have a protege to pass it down to, they really just want to bail. After a while it becomes an albatross they're carrying around rather than a passion.

>>10454493
And no kids today would want to do it because they're either just consumers, or "creators" so they don't dirty their hands with this.

I kind of want to make a message board for 00s internet culture, but Heaven knows I can't moderate it because I work a 9-5, 5/7 just like anyone else who was around then. Or maybe we just have to rethink the time that you sink into the digital world in general?

I've been feeling that "the internet" is sort of "over" for a while now, and maybe the best that could be done is to carve out a quiet corner to "retire" to for people who feel the same.

>>10454440
The US just isn't a manufacturing economy anymore. If anything that hurts poor areas even more. What the fuck is Mississippi or West Virginia up to these days? The people living there are trapped in a town that lives and dies by it's local Wal-Mart. Like that's the only job available to them. You work at the sole store that's also the sole goods supplier.

>>10453939
The library of Alexandria burned in a day. It's easier than ever to preserve knowledge, and more knowledge than ever is preserved. Historically, very little information was ever actually written down because copying was such a chore before the printing press was invented. Nowadays there are countless copies of most everything created digitally, even if it isn't readily accessible.

>>10453961
Good riddance, I say. The sooner banks collapse the better.

>>10454345
There have been significant improvements in science and technology, a top end computer from 2003 is worthless today because of how advanced modern computers have become. A budget smartphone is more powerful than a $2000 PC from 20 years ago. Not to mention the advancements in the healthcare industry and new discoveries in history. You are being myopic because you have the luxury of skimming hundreds of years' worth of discoveries in a few minutes and then comparing it equally to what was accomplished only within your living memory.

>>10454360
Boomers had the same issue when it came to trivial nonsense like jokes or television advertisements or any other disposable consumer product from their era. Good luck finding a Sears toaster from 1957. The things that were valuable were mostly preserved, just as it is today.

>>10454532
Same story across the West, really. We make nothing, and what is made elsewhere is shit, and never is it an option to make things that aren't shit.

Just accept the tat and work in service forever?

>>10454536
>a top end computer from 2003 is worthless today because of how advanced modern computers have become. A budget smartphone is more powerful than a $2000 PC from 20 years ago
This is nonsense and I can't be bothered to explain to you why.

And besides, this is getting into a quantitative argument rather than a qualitative one. Who cares if a smartphone is "more powerful" than a Windows XP-era PC when it can't do shit, and when what it's interacting with is shit?

>>10454536
>The library of Alexandria burned in a day
That's a load of bull. The library of Alexa dria was a dilapidated mess that has been ransacked, rebuilt, robbed, destroyed, rebuilt and ransacked before it was finally set ablaze. Most of the information from Alexandria was already transfered to thebes iirc

>>10454532
Trump tried anyway, he said we should actually build things.

>>10454532
Actually manufacturing has been moving into the South for decades, it's part of the reason why southern states moved towards the Republican party, a party traditionally associated with northern industrial interests. North Carolina has a larger manufacturing industry than New York does, and Atlanta has the fourth-largest tech industry in the US after SF/Seattle/Austin.

>>10454536
>even if it isn't readily accessible.
But that is the fundamental problem. We keep changing what can access what. Stick an audio CD in your PS5 and see what happens. For us it seems like not such a big deal because we're living it. But think about a few hundred years where a specific technology only had a lifetime of about 40 years. And then got replaced by a similar but technically different technology that had it's own short lifetime of a couple decades. And so on. Trying to make sense of it and find the specific combination of technology to access the information inside of it will be a nightmare.

>>10454543
It's not nonsense. A mobile phone from 2011 can run a PS2 game, and the newest IPhone can natively run a PS4 game. 8gb of RAM was considered MASSIVE back in the day, now we're getting to a point where 32gb is cheap and readily available. Just because you haven't kept up with tech development doesn't mean it isn't there.

>can't do shit
Stop using Apple products. Unironically works on my machine

>>10454546
You can't just start building stuff in America again. Companies want cheap labor overseas. Tariffs are an option but we also don't want other countries placing crazy high tariffs on goods we want from them that we may not be able to produce in necessary quantities here. The economy is just too global these days, which is a political advantage since it means world powers are less likely to start shooting at each other.

>>10454564
I don't need to because everything available on CD can be downloaded off the internet and stored in a hard drive. How much music do you think has been lost in human history? Remember, back in the day it overwhelmingly was passed along orally. Nobody remembers what the pop standard of 1123 was, hell we don't even know the vast majority of what was popular in 1923. As another anon pointed out, something like 80% of all silent-era films made were lost.

>>10454536
>hey guys did you see the numbers this year?
>they're up!
>last year they were up. and now they're up-er even more

>>10454586
What point are you even responding to

>>10454585
One of the worst aspects of mankind is that we could conceivably create a single repository of every piece of software, and music and writing and media, and create a couple of duplicate backups just in case, and give everyone on the planet access.

But we don't live in that world, we never will live in that world, and so instead billions of us will have to spend collectively trillions upon trillions of man hours to create our own duplicate collections that will all eventually disappear when we die.

>>10454603
Why should we do that? And more pragmatically, who would pay for the creation and maintenance of it?
The overwhelming majority of what humanity creates is, to be blunt, worthless. Through the passage of time society separates the wheat from the chaff and naturally preserves what is worth preserving, for the most part.
The funny thing is the the redundant decentralised preservation technique is FAR more resiliant to the ravages of time than is a single centralised database; one of the great follies of the human psyche is its tendancy to submit to centralised collectivism in spite of it time and time again proving to bite us in the arse. If all of your books are stored in one library, all it takes is one fire to destroy it all. But if every page is duplicated a thousand times and stored in a thousand different libraries...

>>10454621
>Through the passage of time society separates the wheat from the chaff and naturally preserves what is worth preserving,
[citation needed]

>>10454629
Why do you think the great masterpieces of classical art and music have been preserved, but not the scrawlings and cachophonies of rank amateurs? There's my bloody citation; what you can see in a museum.

This thread was far more interesting talking about the cultural void left by the loss of early internet sites and forums than it has been since Stephen Pinker turned up.

>>10454673
Imagine thinking that shitposts and fanart made by 12 year olds is a culture worth preserving.

>>10454681
See: >>10453138
You just want to denigrate it so you don't have to care that it was destroyed.
Also, if you believe in some sort of invisible hand preserving things, you must be proper pissed off that Beowulf didn't burn in that Library fire, huh?

>>10454681
Yeah I'd rather read 60 years of nature geo magazines while I'm pooping, maybe jack off to some floppy titty tribal bitches jungle fever

>>10446080
Anyone got that image of everything now being called an app with Steve Jerbs in the middle?

>>10454692
You are projecting your childhood nostalgia onto society at large, because YOU enjoyed playing flash games and reading old forum posts, then it is society's duty to for ever preserve them so that you can relive being a 9 year old at your own leisure. It is a ridiculous level of conceit. The fact you would conflate limewire with Beowulf speaks volumes.

>>10448014
IIRC they even went as far as to publicly disavow the whole notion of Mario being a plumber, but it looks like they've since walked it back.

>>10454621
>The overwhelming majority of what humanity creates is, to be blunt, worthless. Through the passage of time society separates the wheat from the chaff and naturally preserves what is worth preserving, for the most part.
Don't our nukes still run on 5.25" floppies or some ancient shit? It's not just preservation, it's futureproofing. Which we're not good at doing.

>>10452127
I still call options/share buttons on PS4 controllers start/select.

>>10445668
>Do you still call Peach "Princess Toadstool"?
Of course, that's her title. Who are you to address her by her familiar name? Show a little respect.

>Do you call levels "boards"?
No, that's like a redneck that doesn't play video games thing.

>>10445820
>regular Nintendo
based

Also this is a minority opinion, but my gang pronounced SNES "ess-ness" even though we knew most people said "sness".

>>10453138
>Another issue this creates is that it allows people to re-write the past, because there's basically no evidence to point to to prove them wrong.
This happens so fucking much, right here on this very board. There are a million things I remember that people are wrong about today and think they're right about because they type it into google and either get one answer, or no answer at all, therefore it "doesn't exist".

>>10454734
>The fact you would conflate limewire with Beowulf speaks volumes.
Why? 99% of Anglo Saxon literature was lost in that fire, so it could be exactly that for all we know.

Also, don't try and psychoanalyse me, you Daria-brained motherfucker. Does it make you make you feel smart because you only care about what the elite say you should care about?

I'm bored of talking to you. If you don't care then just let us talk about trying to preserve what we can, and you wont care regardless, right?

>>10454536
>Good riddance, I say. The sooner banks collapse the better.
Children who think they hold opinions like this are so asinine.

>>10454761
Not him but damn your post reeks of peak pseud.

I always refer to defeating opponents in videogames as "killing them" or losing "getting killed"

>>10454761
>I'm bored of talking to you
holy cringe

>>10454681
Nobody is saying to preserve every single thing ever. This isn't about somebody thinking that Sonic feet porn needs to be in a museum. It's that the important shit isn't being stored any differently than the garbage.

>>10454775
>This isn't about somebody thinking that Sonic feet porn needs to be in a museum
It unironically should be, the sexual proclivities of 21st century people will be of great interest to future historians

>>10454764
Fuck off. I'm not the one who tries to write off 20 years of cultural creation is toilet noises. No one would do that for any other era. No one would say "Why preserve music from the 40s and 50s?"

>>10454770
Because it's so exciting and thrilling and interesting to talk to a guy whose position is "I don't care, unless it's old then I do care"?

>>10454761
>it could be exactly that
If that's the case, then modern culture has nothing worth preserving and society is lost.

>uhm you're just a bootlicker
And here comes the ad hominem. I don't give two shits what authority figures say I should care about; the difference is I don't assume that what I care about is what everyone else should care about. Because I, unlike you apparently, am capable of understanding the theory of mind.

>just preserve everything
I ask you again, why? And who will pay for it? It's easy to say society 'should' do this that or the other thing, but society does not have infinite resources to dedicate to those things. Whether you like it or not, choices have to be made regardless of sentimentality. You only care about early 00s internet pop culture because it is resonant with you; most people do not care and do not value it. Chintzy amateur games and mindless discussions about long-dead television shows are in the grand scheme of things of little cultural value. And you know it subconsciously. That's why you take it so personally when I suggest it.

>>10454775
>important shit
The only examples I have thus far been provided are forums for sharing video game fanfiction and music piracy sites. I would agree with you if great novels were being lost to time, but they're not. The things that are getting filtered out are, by and large, menial garbage that only autists care about because they invested their own time into it.

>>10454761
>>10454780
>>10454784
everyone involved in this braindead discussion is a gay autistic retard, including me.

>>10454784
>I would agree with you if great novels were being lost to time, but they're not.
How would you know? It's all gone.

Shakespeare was preserved in one single folio. No one gave a shit until 100 years later.

>>10454807
Surely you're not seriously suggesting the greatest novel ever written was hidden on some GeoCities forum post lost to time, are you? Don't tell me you're that bad-faith.

>>10454824
Why is something like that so unbelievable?
Where else would a writer, writing in the late 90s or early 00s, have put it? "He would have gotten it published from a major printing house"? Of course, some guy sent in a manuscript, let's print it! Nonsense, I'm sure you'd agree.

Look at something like the module tracking music scene. Some absolutely amazing music came from that, but if it's not on Modland or Modarchive it's gone.

The amount of shit that just vanished over the last few decades, and what's impossible to you is that any of it was good?

>>10454839
Because if it was worth saving, someone somewhere would've archived it.

>the amount of shit that has vanished over the last few decades
Your slang betrays you. It is shit. Most all of it.

REGARDLESS, the original point I was making before we got caught chasing red herrings, is that preservation is more widespread than ever. Sure, some stuff slips through the cracks, but far less often than ever before. You know this to be true. You KNOW it. That's why all the complaints in here are about 'punch George Bush/Obama' flash games and Sonic porn fanart being lost.

I call controllers "sticks" because I grew up around black people.

>>10454784
Legendary films are being streamed on the exact same platforms as Hallmark Christmas movies. When these operations go down they don't just take the crap with them. They take everything they're holding. And as physical media disappears and companies want absolute control over their IPs, you're effectively at a point where piracy is the ONLY preservation option.

>>10454767
I lost a man is something I used to say

>>10454849
>Because if it was worth saving, someone somewhere would've archived it.
The Honjo Masamune, one of Japan's national treasures, vanished without a trace after World War II and is likely sitting in some G.I.'s attic. You overestimate the clarity in which this happens. Lots of times it's a lottery. Other times it depends on the personal fame and fortune of the individuals involved. There are so many variables that you can't reliably say "good things get saved, bad things don't." Plus, there's confirmation bias here. Clearly we know Shakespeare because Shakespeare was preserved. We don't know how good the things were that weren't preserved because they weren't preserved well enough for us to know them. How are we judging things we've never seen?

>>10454980
Also, don't we have a lot of renowned artists who weren't appreciated in their time? Didn't Edgar Allen Poe die broke in a ditch or something?

>>10455005
William Blake never had a book officially published and had to do it himself.

PSX

Doom-like and Duke-like, when applicable

>>10446597
the guy on his shoulders is a pet/dummy and the one talking is the knife as its been established that weapons speak

>>10445668
>>10445720
Pauline must be pissed that her old beau Jumpman blew Brooklyn with that homewrecker Peach Toadstool in her fancy "Shroom Kingdom" and is now known as Mario.

>>10455293
I like to imagine Pauline broke up with Mario after he let a gorilla kidnap her on his own job site. That's why Mario was pissed and tried to get revenge in Donkey Kong Jr.

>>10454980
>The Honjo Masamune, one of Japan's national treasures, vanished without a trace after World War II and is likely sitting in some G.I.'s attic.
Said GI is almost certainly dead by now and any of his relatives would have come across the thing if that was the case so we'd have heard of it.

>>10455293
Peach actually rejects Mario on-screen in Odyssey so he should try to hook back up with Pauline at this point

>>10455319
It's possible they won't know what they're looking at. It doesn't even really look like a stereotypical katana since it predates that. The thing could have been sold at a flea market or garage sale for all anyone knows.

>>10455298
An NYC union tradesman through and through, no fuckin' way even a gorilla making off with his gf was gonna interrupt the lunch break whistle signalling a lunchbox full of italian meats an shit for the pudgy plumber.

>>10454564
>Stick an audio CD in your PS5 and see what happens
wait are you serious? I have a hard time believing this but I don't have a ps5 to disprove your implication

>>10453823
Lived in western Canada all my life, can confirm. Surprised this term wasn't used elsewhere.

>>10455343
Honestly it all makes some sense. Pauline leaves him and he gets fired for the Donkey Kong incident, goes on a therapeutic hunt for the ape and his kin, bounces around different jobs here and there, and finally gets a job as a plumber with his brother, and falls into a pipe that takes him to the Mushroom Kingdom.

>>10445695
What if two things were called levels and we just used our brains.

>>10451221
sovl

>>10451221
What's with the accents? Are they Canadian or something?

>>10454750
Those floppies still work excellently and still do their intended job.

>>10445892
>my son's

your wife's son

>>10454980
Correct, just because lots of menial trash gets lost to time doesn't mean that genuinely cool shit hasn't been lost too.

>>10454750
>>10455536
The missile launch systems actually use 8 inch floppies, the very first floppy format and truly ancient. I'm intrigued at how they keep them going, must be repair depot trained on component level repair (easy enough), deep supply of spares for things like worn heads and mechanics no longer in production, and supply of NOS floppies (also tricky but they don't need that many). Unlike 5 1/4 in disks, 8 inch was mostly gone by the mid 80s.

>>10455536
Yeah until they don't. Waiting until shit starts actually breaking before doing anything about it is a stupid way to maintain a car, let alone critical infrastructure.

>>10446697
The school I went to was called a university. So I said I went to university. There's a school called a college in my hometown, so people said they were going to college. The college taught classes that were transferable to the university, like an option for first year students, of certain degrees, to stay at home for one more year.
I'm not sure if this is a leafland thing or not though.

>>10446641
PS1 will forever be the PSone. PSX4lyfe.

>>10446641
Where did PSX come from, anyway?

>>10456072
Some early development name that ended up being adopted as the PlayStation's abbreviation in print mags back in the day.

>>10453913
>>10453936
I almost miss computer viruses at this point. Now there's no malware because it's built into everything you use.

>>10455594
Unlike later 3.5" hard plastic diskettes where all pretenses of quality were dropped to make them cheap, to where they failed if you sneezed in the same area code, old 8" floppies could be, and would be, made to a very high quality of standard which made them extremely dependable, especially when you actually handle them with some respect. The fact that those have remained in use for all this time is a testament to how they actually fulfill their jobs well still.

>>10455923
Cars and floppy disks are an awkward comparison, cars are large and relatively complex machines which go through use cycles even as the engine is idling, there's shitloads of things to mind for maintenance and lifespan.

I would say that updating to a more modern format which still has some industry support and where the technical knowhow to troubleshoot still exists would be an advantage, but this is a basic item fulfilling an uncomplicated task, at low intensity and stress, and in a very non-hostile environment, and also very seldom.
These things are nothing but keys, if they needed to be replaced, they would be.

>>10455359
even the ps4 cant play CDs bro

>>10456235
I think it's more indicative of the problem than any one example being itself a problem. I'm sure you can find instances where maintaining the status quo is advantageous or, at minimum, not risky. But human nature is such that if this is how people behave when they can, it also means they're behaving that same exact way when they shouldn't. Hence the banking infrastructure example.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-banks-cobol/banks-scramble-to-fix-old-systems-as-it-cowboys-ride-into-sunset-idUSKBN17C0D8/

This is not a situation you want to be in. But it keeps happening and doesn't seem like anyone is learning their lesson. Society as a whole treats critical pillars of civilization like a sitcom dad being nagged to clean out the garage.

>>10455359
I would LOVE for you to disprove me. Please do. The sad truth is that the laser assemblies don't include CD lasers anymore. I mean, sure, I GET it but...fuck.

>>10456290
>The sad truth is that the laser assemblies don't include CD lasers anymore
I think we should blow ourselves back to the stone age and start over.

>>10454536
>computer technology
NASA still uses reliable tech from the 70s. A mere upgrade to something that was invented for its purpose isn't notable and the limits of silicon are close. What you say in the past 20 years is simply miniaturization.
People from the 80s were expecting self-tying shoes and antigravity devices... by 2015.

>>10455335
He's acting like Important Things have some sort of glow around them.
>"How this but be an important think because of the star it has in my inventory screen."

>>10455335
He's acting like Important Things have some sort of glow around them.
>"I know this is an important thing because of the star it has in my inventory screen."

>>10456072
The PS stood for PlayStation and the X stood for expansion because it was supposed to be an add-on for the SNES. Then after the Sony/Nintendo/Philips/TOASTERS TOAST TOAST drama, the PSX acronym never got changed to PS1 because it's not like anyone was calling it World War 1 until the sequel either, and then the PSOne was the slim redesign.

Kids today who never lived in a pre-PS3 world call it the PS1 because why wouldn't they? How could they possibly know they're incorrect?

>>10456792
It also helps that the PSX was coming out around the time we started to shift from the grossout and radical 90s into the WWE late 90s/early 00's attitude era where everything was gritty, badass, etc. and having that X in the acronym went far

>>10453791
>wrapping
yup, same, western canada too
wrapping a game was a great accomplishment

>>10445695

>>10446741
I op on one of the oldest emulation channels on IRC and we've always referred to all games by their NA names (the people still around are all North American or European).

>>10445668
I call this guy Rye-(You)

>>10457154
Only psychopaths pronounce it any other way.

>>10457196
So all the chatacters in games with voice acting and Ryu himself are psychopaths?

>>10455514
those boys are canadian as maple syrup

>>10448312
I'll call breakfast sandwiches consisting of meat, egg, and cheese on an English muffin "McMuffin clones," (or "bootleg McMuffins" if they're particularly bad) but other than that, it's a "biscuit sandwich" or "croissant sandwich."

>>10446952
that’s from Sonic 3
Does Sonic 2 tell you the name of Super Sonic?

>>10457154
based 90s white kid

I call continues "quarters".

>>10457409
>tfw even arcade cabs have experienced inflation and nothing is 1 quarter anymore

>>10457426
One quarter games stopped being a thing even in the late 90s. The only machines still $0.25/credit were retro stuff like Pac-Man and Galaga.

>>10445696
i feel like i know these only because my dad was a sysadmin in the 90s
>>10453065
>archive.org saved a nice handful
I've been trawling mp3 blogs from the mid 00s lately and it always feels like a minor miracle when you can find an track or mix that's still accessible

>>10452120
"Sness" means zSNES. Super Nintendo means Super Nintendo.

>>10445720
>Golden Sonic
I used to call Super Shadow "Speedy Shadow" lol

>>10445668
I never called levels boards, what kind of faggot would? Don't think that's an age thing.
>>10445695
>calling somebody grandpa on the retro board
zoomer you don't belong even if later consoles do.
>>10445820
Hell yeah

I never stopped using rofl

>>10457282
Yes.

>>10457426
>>10457691
there's an arcade bar here where everything is a quarter, or token, and tokens are often cheaper, being 10 cents on Thursdays, half price on Saturdays, and some other deals throughout the week. they're free for me. people keep giving me their extras faster than i can spend them because i'm cute. pinballs are base model though. lots of other options in the area for well maintained premium/deluxe/LE pinball

>>10445676
They were always called "lives".

>>10445668
>Do you call levels "boards"?

I have never heard someone say this, ever. Who the fuck calls a level a "board"?

>>10446080
App is just a cheap shitty program for a phone.

Program is the correct term for fully developed software that you use seriously on a desktop or laptop.

No, I will not mingle the terms.

>>10457282
>>10459513

>>10459527
This was a thing back in the day among certain people. It wasn't exactly widespread and had an inner city and/or redneck undertone to it.

>>10454779
Nah, you're pseud as fuck made, and I don't see any reason to take your non-pinions seriously. Pretty sad showing, you never really made it through the "fledgling junior high intellectual" phase huh

>>10448325
Never heard that but I like it. I might use it

Sometimes instead of saying zero or nothing I say zip.

For instance the score is seven - zip

>>10461182

>>10445668
i still call dlcs expansions except cosmetic dlcs, i call those trash

>>10453786
The internet bubble already burst by then. It wasn't a secret club. It was already lame.

>>10458257
Dude, I found this obscure Finnish band I used to listen to. I used an archived version of cnet from 2004 to find the name of the band and somehow it's on some weird obscure Finnish music site that would absolutely not pop up in Google search results.

>>10458257
>>10461453
>be me, scouring the net for obscure trance mixes from 1999-2015
>find old forum with links to download all of the mixes I want
>100% of them are broken rapidshares, zippyshares, megauploads etc.

>>10457691
>Game Over. Please Insert 40 Quarters.

>>10459521
Newfag
>>10459527
Newfag

>>10461492
it's a terrible feel. if someone didn't dl them and then reup them on slsk they're lost to time

>>10446059
>>10446070
>>10446081
it might actually be a Canadian thing, because French Canadians used to say "tableau" for a video game level, but that is actually more of a pinning board. no idea why that would be, though.

>>10462196
I recently found out by accident that a DJ from the early 00's i used to follow had died a few months prior. In a panic I snapped up every single mix I didn't have from his site and listed on his forum torrents. Surely enough, a few months later, with nobody to pay the renewal fee for his website, the entire ftp archive of mixes he had available and the forums just vanished from the net entirely. Thankfully I grabbed all these when I learned of his death but this kind of shit is just going to keep happening.

>>10446087
I used to call them “paddles” because that’s what my parents would call them, but I stopped by the time I was about 10 because even at that age I thought it sounded silly and stupid.

>>10462292
Good thing you caught it, you should mirror it to increase the safety of this preservation.

>>10462264
I don't know if it's a Canadian thing, because I have never heard anyone until this thread refer to levels as boards. Unless it's a generational thing.

>>10446087
I remember them being called "paddles"

"You can use four paddles with N64 but only two with the PSX"

>>10446735
He's just confidently retarded, don't let his hubris beat up your ego.

>>10452169
For me a programme is a literal physical schedule of events and a program is the actual execution not said plan

>>10452218
CD-I is an acronym: it stands for compact disk interactive

>>10455363
Said it. Also western Canada.

>>10452450
I say "emoticons".

>>10454637
Classism, obviously.

>>10454761
But Daria was right about nearly everything on that show...

>>10445668
Calling your in-game mmorpg character a "char" and not a "toon." We also didn't say "roll." You don't "roll a new toon," you "make a new char."

>>10454576
>The economy is just too global these days, which is a political advantage since it means world powers are less likely to start shooting at each other.
Have I fallen into a time warp to 1913?

>>10445668
>Do you still call Peach "Princess Toadstool"?

Anyone who doesn't do this is retarded.

>>10462874
Nobody in their right mind says "toon". Not in the past, especially not now. I will fucking die on this hill.

>>10452670
I call them octothorpes.

>>10462874
>>10463452
holy shit this. I dunk on every WoW-trained zoomer who says toon

To me they'll always be Dr. Robotnik and Nack the Weasel.

>>10450334
>he doesn't know

>>10457241
Just say Rye-You, you fucking weeb.

>>10463621
I didn't realize Nack even had a different name until very recently.

>>10453791
Back then I didn't know anyone who cared about 100%ing games. Achievements didn't exist. Like sure, we all loved videogames, but we still played outside and had lives like lol even back then who the fuck has time to find every single item and do every mundane task in a game. Treating gaming like it's a job will forever be baffling to me.

>>10457154
cringe

>>10465852
Dude we all know that's not how it's pronounced anymore. This isn't even remotely 'weeb', we just collectively know now. I bet you say it with a retarded hick drawl too. RAH YEWWW.

>>10452120
>refuse to call the Super NES/Super Nintendo "sness
Super Nintendo is a far cooler name.

>>10465852
do you jyalapenoh and tortilluh too?

>it's YEWEY Bowl, speak American boy.

>>10446597
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8iPUK0AGRo

>>10452120
Sness or "snezz" is a bongtard thing anyway.

>>10466957
We were kids, so we only got a new game every once in a while, so we would play the shit out of the ones we did own. It wasn't out of a sense of obligation. Also, even given that, OoT was probably the only game I actually wrapped.

>>10452670
#metoo
pound me too LOL

>>10445668
>What lingo do you still use that dates you?
FF2/4j
FF3/6j

As in, "FF3/6j was one of my favorite SNES JRPGs." There were some websites that used this lingo in the mid 90s and it stuck with me.

>>10466957
>>10467024
Oh and Tony Hawk. There was a point in time I would wrap that daily.

All projectile moves are called “fireballs”

>>10445668
PSX
Confused zoomers can eat a dick

>>10446087
Picked up "remote" from my parents

>>10467286
I got into fighting games with SF4AE and all projectiles were still called fireballs. Even to this day projectiles are fireballs. That's not boomer ling, saying shit like Hurricane Kick instead of Tatsu is

>>10466996
This is one of those things people won't understand if they grew up playing games after voice acting became standard. We had no fucking clue how to say certain things. Forget Ryu, I didn't even know how to say Guile. I was too young to know it was a real word so I called him "Geel" for like two years. It didn't help that even when things were spoken aloud the audio fidelity was so shit that you couldn't always make out what was being said. Ryu's tatsu came off like "CHA CHA CHA CHA DA DA DA!"

GRASSHOPPER

>>10446080
>he doesn't call background services/daemons TSRs

For OP:
>magic series

>>10462292
Ah yes. The idea that people think they're special for downloading files is never going away now. People are too self absorbed.

>>10445676
Niggas

>>10446641
I never owned any of the later models, so the original is just "PlayStation" to me. "PS2" (as in pee-ess-two) and "PS3" come next, and I have never needed to utter the names of the others aloud.
>>10445820
This, nobody ever called it the NES, it was "Nintendo" or later you had the "Super Nintendo".
Relatedly, "playing Nintendo" for playing video games in general.

Less lingo and more muscle conditioning, but if you spend any time at all gaming with zoomers you'll find they're very resistant to using the face buttons and D-pad. Their hands just do not want to work that way. Their thumbs are either constantly looking for the analog sticks or they have zero dexterity in their thumbs to the point they have trouble doing a running jump in Mario or holding a charge while jumping or dashing in Mega Man X. For us it's so natural to rock our thumbs around the controller face but nowadays that analog sticks and shoulder buttons perform most games' primary action while face buttons are mostly auxiliary, kids have a completely different conditioning.

I call "glitches" flaws, people think it makes me sound like an Asian Dad.

>>10452163
>>10452138
I'm from England and most people I knew called them the "nezz" and "snezz" as if they were words rather than acronyms.

>>10468691
Kys
>>10462292
Wanna share?

>>10467709
I dont know what a tatsu is, but Rye-you’s moves are fireball, a-fat-set-fooget and for-you-ken.

>>10469078
>or holding a charge while jumping or dashing in Mega Man X
I always immediately went to the menu and bound dash to R, otherwise charging or just shooting at all during a dashing jump would require either pressing three face buttons at once or using double-tap dashing which are both awful options

>>10471572
Nah, you gotta learn the thumb rock. I lay my thumb across Y, B, and A and manipulate the buttons that way. I can charge, jump, dash, and any combination of the three pretty easily. It's instinct at this point. The human thumb is a pretty amazing thing, to be honest. You'd think you couldn't hold Y while tapping A and leaving B totally idle but you absolutely can.

>>10465796
As of Captain Rainbow, Birdo is officially female because it was proven in a court of law that she uses a vibrator to masturbate; something only a woman can do.