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[-] M68040@hexbear.net 44 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I couldn't stand the thought of someone being nostalgic for a generation where two of the three are a hair away from being AMD APU-based PCs running weird operating systems. We need to ret-five-urn to tradition (All consoles being bespoke hardware with significant mutual incompatibilities and odd achille's heels with regards to different aspects of the rendering pipeline)

[-] drhead@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago

don't forget the absolutely inexplicable platform-specific bugs:

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago

we used to have real games bodged together on 6502 assembly but not anymore because of woke

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

You could fit over three million 6502s in the PS5 CPU's transistor count, yet modern games are not three million times better than the classics. Capitalist inefficiency at work.

[-] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 41 points 4 months ago

that's the perfect time. no child of mine will be a gamer

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 30 points 4 months ago

Is there a reason to have kids other than making sure that Call of Duty deathmatch lobbies are full?

[-] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago

yes we need young able-bodied soldiers to kick fascists heads in

SATIRE, PARODY, MINECRAFT etc. I do not condone creating commie child soldiers (unless...)

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

How are you going to kill fascists in Minecraft without gamers checkmate liberal

[-] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago

playing minecraft is not merely gaming, it's praxis. so I'll make an exception

I will provide my non-existent children with pirated copies tho, fuck Microsoft

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

playing minecraft is not merely gaming, it's praxis

freeze-gamer

[-] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

*sigh* for all of my anti-gaming rhetoric I must admit there are some good video games, but I can probably count them on one hand

[-] buh@hexbear.net 30 points 4 months ago

counterpoint: we're in the golden age of indie/small budget games

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 21 points 4 months ago

It's a golden age of Linux gaming PC's, fuck consoles.

[-] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago

Counterpoint: The worst console generation inevitably leads to more sex. During the freeze-gamer Crash of '83 the population nearly exploded!

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

dont the dang kids have their nintendos thonk

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

They didn't consent to the Nintendo kitty-cri

[-] peppersky@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

The fact that our capitalist overlords have just decided to forgo any pretense and market actually addictive games and apps to children is unironically one of the many reasons I'll probably decide not to have children. It's a tiny reason next to climate change and everything else but it adds up.