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Dollar Tree stores, when they were a dollar.

Yeah it was a very nice point in time when you were tight on a budget and there was dollar tree near you, everything very affordable. Not everything was built to last and most of the food were arguably unhealthy but you got by with what you could get. Nowadays, we've seen Dollar Tree turn into just any dollar store you could think of.

24/7 Wal-Marts

It's been a while but there was that time Wal-Mart was opened for 24 hours. This allowed you to shop at 2 in the morning, in a big store, with next to no one. Sure some of the services might not be available but that isn't the point. And maybe it disgruntled a lot of overnight workers who're trying to get the store ready for the normal period of the day, now having anything disrupted and so few people to cover the store.

Video Games that were shipped in complete versions

Back when developers actually had to make sure that what they're shipping out to be played, was both good and functioning. Now everyone lately is so quick to release games that breaks on Day 1, require lots of patches that take weeks to even years, slapping on Early Access to milk even more money from people and eventually not even test it. While still charging top dollar.

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[-] 1dalm@lemmings.world 27 points 3 days ago

It's funny to me to see people mythologize how perfect video games were before they could be remotely updated.

Sure, game developers rely on fix-it-later updates much more than they should today, but games had bugs back then too.

[-] AskewLord@piefed.social 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

games back then were also done by dev teams of like a dozen people or two who did literally everything and you had like 1-2 people on each task. localizing games also took like a year or more from their country of origin.

now they are done by teams of hundreds or thousands, esp once you start adding all the middleware and outsourcing of various parts of the game they do now, and they are released internationally in dozens of markets at once.

it's lot easier to find bugs in a game that is 1MB than on that is 256GB

[-] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago

Hot take: games don't need to be 256GB. Even 10GB is pushing it.

[-] Ryoae@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

A lot of 7th gen games did great with that kind of space.

[-] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago

I thought that seemed a bit high, but you're right. Halo 3 was around 6.3GB and Reach was closer to 9. Genuinely thought they'd be way smaller than that.

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