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Stop trying to make "fetch" happen!
The Wii is retro gaming. Let that sink in.
I think my mind is frozen in time, because the line for what is "retro" to me is solidly between the transition from 2D to 3D.
For me it's anything prior to 360/PS3, because from then on the graphical and gameplay leaps have been incremental compared to what came before. You really don't consider N64 or PSX retro?
Hmm, I guess N64 would be to me. Maybe because I didn't have PlayStations (went from Nintendo to Xbox), they all seem more modern to me.
Maybe it's more accurate to draw my mental line as cartridge consoles vs CDs.
We called the NES retro gaming when the N64 was out. The PS3 is retro gaming, too. So GTA5 and Skyrim are retro re-releases.
I often thing about this. Technology moved so fast in those days and then it sort of plateaued. Things are certainly getting more powerful of course but nothing like that old generational leap we used to feel.
I think it's also a testament to the age of the medium as well. Most gaming fans are young gen xers or millennials. The medium grew up with its fanbase and with that comes the perspective of a youth. A 7 year old looks back at their preschool years like ancient history, a teen the same of grade school. Combined with how antiquated the tech was it felt holder. Median gamer age is rising and if you ask a 35 year old about when they were 25 it would feel a lot closer.
Yup. The 360 came out 15 years before the Series X was released, yet the graphics improvement from 2005 - 2020 is minuscule compared to 1990 - 2005.
I thought the PS5 felt like more of a generational leap than the PS4 did.
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"He's old, get him!"
Send him to Carousel.
We’re not worthy!
Roads!? Where we're going we don't need roads...
I work with people who haven't even seen fucking Ghostbusters.
It's a painful existence to feel this old, but I console myself with the knowledge that most of them will be renting until they're about 60.
Jesus, I know we're getting to be bitter curmudgeons, but that's just sadistic.
I knew my time was up when most of my coworkers hadn't seen Shawshank Redemption. Watching that was just the cost of being bored in the late 90s.
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Did this once with a Soylent Green reference. I wasn't even the oldest person there and nobody knew what I was talking about.
"What's with lgmjon64 hating soy or something?"
No, (s)he said something about people, I think @lgmjon64@lemmy.world just hates everyone...
You know what the problem was? It's people.
They said you was hung.
And they was right.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
"I'd buy that for a dollar!"
You're the man now, dawg ahahahhh owww
Not a movie but a song reference tale of woe:
Some propaganda training meeting at the office and there were treats to eat. One of the guys grabbed an apple pie and had a bite, but it also had lime in it so he said
Coworker: "Yuck, I hate lime with apple"
Me: "I guess you prefer your lime in the coconut."
...
Coworker: "I've never had lime with coconut before."
Me: sigh
We had a teacher make a "Bueller? Bueller?" reference once. You could see her die inside when we didn't laugh.
It's not like we didn't get it, it just wasn't funny. I don't know if that would have made it worse for her.
Hey, before the internet, "memes" had to last for a long time. She's just showing off how environmentally conscious she is by not throwing that one out yet.
Me pointing out that one character from world war z that uses a crowbar as weapon looks like Gordon Freeman, the whole class not understanding at all.
He hasn't been in a game for 16 years, so it makes sense.
What?! He's that guy, based on that character played by Charlie Sheen. In that movie with the antagonist from Time Cop.
Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe?
Because it's dull, you twit, it'll hurt more.
Works the other way around too. If you're the only one in the room actually keeping up with pop culture, because everyone else is just too old to care.
Being a boomer is a mental state, change my mind lmao.
I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
Your winnings, sir
I'm not even old but I like watching older stuff. In my college, whenever I try to reference Seinfeld or IT Crowd nobody gets it.
Yeah, but the longer you have to wait to find someone who gets it the sweeter that moment is. I'll go a good decade not working with anyone who knows a damn thing about Starship Troopers, but when I do... That's a good, knee-slapping lunch we'll have before one of us quits to never be seen again.
I'm doing my part!
Do you want to know more?
Both of those hold up so well too. Just good comedy.
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"show me the money Jerry!"
Me ITT: Ok, I got about 3, I'm still young! :D
Meanwhile my film fan brain: Why so few though :.(
You should at least get the Casablanca ones if you're a film fan!
Extremely cold take, but it's a fantastic film.
Shit, it's definitely time for a rewatch 🙈
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