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Wow, that brings back memories. Long nights, CRTs, that fresh and health-promoting smell of warm electronics in poorly ventilated spaces, microwaved garbage foo

by halper 3y ago

Wow, that brings back memories. Long nights, CRTs, that fresh and health-promoting smell of warm electronics in poorly ventilated spaces, microwaved garbage food, sugary drinks … not sure how my friends and I survived until adulthood.

waynesonfire 3y ago
You were one of the lucky to have found your people.
blackhaz 3y ago
I need to find a CRT and recreate one of those nights. Always wanted a 17" Viewsonic.
- digitalsanctum 3y ago
  I remember being pretty stoked after getting a flat screen CRT. Oh how things have changed
- short_sells_poo 3y ago
  I'd say you'll feel miserable and will wonder what is it you are missing from the old days. We look at it with rose tinted glasses, but for all practical purposes, everything was significantly worse back then. The kind of hardware and software we have available today was the stuff of the wildest dreams and imagination. I remember we could spend entire weeks in 4 player Doom 2 deathmatch during summer with my friends. We could spend an entire day just playing made-up scenarios where we tried to kite cyberdemons from one part of the map into another (an exercise which we called demon shepherding). I fired up Doom 2 again on one of the many ports and it looks great, all the nice memories came flooding back, and yet it wasn't the same. It made me realize that the magic wasn't in the games, or the computers or the people. The magic was in us being a bunch of kids born into infinite curiosity and no (real) responsibilities. That magic unfortunately cannot be recreated in adult life. Now if you spend an all-nighter on any hobby, your 30+ year old body will wake up feeling rubbish the next day. Do it 2-3 days in a row, and you'll feel like death. I can afford any piece of hardware and any game my heart desires, my steam library numbers more than 200 games. I have played less than half of them, and less than a quarter to completion. It's the age old curse of aging :) When you are young, you have time but no money. When you are old, you have money but no time.
  - ilyt 3y ago
    It took like a decade to get average LCD screen to look as good as old CRT. And still need a ton of post-processing to make old pixel art games to look as good as before on LCD. And I did play a bunch of games 10-20-30 years after they were released and they still hold up. My limit seems to be around SNES-era graphics, before that it just feels too ugly and clunky for me. Sure, many games just feel like any modern titles do everything better, but some play just fine if you can stomach some of the obsolete mechanics. > I fired up Doom 2 again on one of the many ports and it looks great, all the nice memories came flooding back, and yet it wasn't the same. It made me realize that the magic wasn't in the games, or the computers or the people. The magic was in us being a bunch of kids born into infinite curiosity and no (real) responsibilities. That magic unfortunately cannot be recreated in adult life. I thought about it a lot and come to conclusion that every new interesting experience bumps our "standard" up and so once you accumulate a ton of that it's just harder and harder to be wowed by new game, even if it is just fine, fun and plays nice. But me getting my first car in my 30s was still thrilling and I was giggling like mad so dunno about "kid" part. Yeah kids know shit all so everything new is exciting but that doesn't mean you can't find magic moments in the adulthood, just amount of work required is higher.
  - chanandler_bong 3y ago
    Youth is wasted on the young.
  - scubbo 3y ago
    > When you are young, you have time but no money. When you are old, you have money but no time. I've heard it described as a three-phase progression: * Child -> Time and Energy, but no Money * Adult -> Energy and Money, but no Time * Elder -> Time and Money, but no Energy (Where "Energy" is a short-hand including also physical capability and bodily health)
  - riversflow 3y ago
    Off topic: > Your 30+ year old body Hey, wake up call, not just to parent commenter but anyone. If you feel this way in your 30's chances are good you should probably spend more time focusing on your physical health. Start getting more exercise and working on your diet. You don't need to go crazy, just make small improvements and try to stick with them as much as you can. Start simple: Go for a short walk in the morning when you get up. Cut back on refined sugars, alcohol and sugary drinks. I'm in my early 30's and my capacity to push hard and be durable is stronger than ever. But I made small but steady steps on my diet and kept up a modicum of conditioning throughout my 20's. I love backpacking, so "durability" is something I'm very interested in. For example, this weekend I was easily able to stay up and game with friends in their early to mid 20's(UFC 5 release) until the wee hours of the morning. I then slept curled up in a ball on the couch(it was cold and that position kept me warm) and bounced up first thing in the morning after like 3 hours of sleep feeling great. I don't do things like that often because it runs counter to being healthy. Sleep is when your body repairs itself, and it is constantly taking damage. My experience also is that when you are young, you are just less in-tune with your body. By the time you are 30 most people are actually able to recognize how detrimental sleep deeprivation is in the moment.
- ukyrgf 3y ago
  Oh boy. I got my friend's old CRT when he was moving. Carried down 3 flights of narrow stairs, drove the hour back to my house, loaded it up the front steps, got my PS2 out of the attic, was so excited... and the PS2 doesn't work anymore.
- flir 3y ago
  I had one of those! It made this amazing clunk-wibble noise when you hit the degauss button, and weighed more than my first car. Memory says £600?
- graphe 3y ago
  You need the hard drive seeking noise too or it won't feel righr
- HappyDaoDude 3y ago
  Get on it sooner rather than later. Many CRT's were thrown out when they were considered obsolete and the ones remaining are dying from age.
rubinlinux 3y ago
> Dycus, a member of Razor 1911, died of throat cancer in 2012.
Unfrozen0688 3y ago
That's still me now but LED screens and mech keyboard...

by halper 3y ago

waynesonfire 3y ago

You were one of the lucky to have found your people.

blackhaz 3y ago

I need to find a CRT and recreate one of those nights. Always wanted a 17" Viewsonic.

digitalsanctum 3y ago
I remember being pretty stoked after getting a flat screen CRT. Oh how things have changed
short_sells_poo 3y ago
I'd say you'll feel miserable and will wonder what is it you are missing from the old days. We look at it with rose tinted glasses, but for all practical purposes, everything was significantly worse back then. The kind of hardware and software we have available today was the stuff of the wildest dreams and imagination. I remember we could spend entire weeks in 4 player Doom 2 deathmatch during summer with my friends. We could spend an entire day just playing made-up scenarios where we tried to kite cyberdemons from one part of the map into another (an exercise which we called demon shepherding). I fired up Doom 2 again on one of the many ports and it looks great, all the nice memories came flooding back, and yet it wasn't the same. It made me realize that the magic wasn't in the games, or the computers or the people. The magic was in us being a bunch of kids born into infinite curiosity and no (real) responsibilities. That magic unfortunately cannot be recreated in adult life. Now if you spend an all-nighter on any hobby, your 30+ year old body will wake up feeling rubbish the next day. Do it 2-3 days in a row, and you'll feel like death. I can afford any piece of hardware and any game my heart desires, my steam library numbers more than 200 games. I have played less than half of them, and less than a quarter to completion. It's the age old curse of aging :) When you are young, you have time but no money. When you are old, you have money but no time.
- ilyt 3y ago
  It took like a decade to get average LCD screen to look as good as old CRT. And still need a ton of post-processing to make old pixel art games to look as good as before on LCD. And I did play a bunch of games 10-20-30 years after they were released and they still hold up. My limit seems to be around SNES-era graphics, before that it just feels too ugly and clunky for me. Sure, many games just feel like any modern titles do everything better, but some play just fine if you can stomach some of the obsolete mechanics. > I fired up Doom 2 again on one of the many ports and it looks great, all the nice memories came flooding back, and yet it wasn't the same. It made me realize that the magic wasn't in the games, or the computers or the people. The magic was in us being a bunch of kids born into infinite curiosity and no (real) responsibilities. That magic unfortunately cannot be recreated in adult life. I thought about it a lot and come to conclusion that every new interesting experience bumps our "standard" up and so once you accumulate a ton of that it's just harder and harder to be wowed by new game, even if it is just fine, fun and plays nice. But me getting my first car in my 30s was still thrilling and I was giggling like mad so dunno about "kid" part. Yeah kids know shit all so everything new is exciting but that doesn't mean you can't find magic moments in the adulthood, just amount of work required is higher.
- chanandler_bong 3y ago
  Youth is wasted on the young.
- scubbo 3y ago
  > When you are young, you have time but no money. When you are old, you have money but no time. I've heard it described as a three-phase progression: * Child -> Time and Energy, but no Money * Adult -> Energy and Money, but no Time * Elder -> Time and Money, but no Energy (Where "Energy" is a short-hand including also physical capability and bodily health)
- riversflow 3y ago
  Off topic: > Your 30+ year old body Hey, wake up call, not just to parent commenter but anyone. If you feel this way in your 30's chances are good you should probably spend more time focusing on your physical health. Start getting more exercise and working on your diet. You don't need to go crazy, just make small improvements and try to stick with them as much as you can. Start simple: Go for a short walk in the morning when you get up. Cut back on refined sugars, alcohol and sugary drinks. I'm in my early 30's and my capacity to push hard and be durable is stronger than ever. But I made small but steady steps on my diet and kept up a modicum of conditioning throughout my 20's. I love backpacking, so "durability" is something I'm very interested in. For example, this weekend I was easily able to stay up and game with friends in their early to mid 20's(UFC 5 release) until the wee hours of the morning. I then slept curled up in a ball on the couch(it was cold and that position kept me warm) and bounced up first thing in the morning after like 3 hours of sleep feeling great. I don't do things like that often because it runs counter to being healthy. Sleep is when your body repairs itself, and it is constantly taking damage. My experience also is that when you are young, you are just less in-tune with your body. By the time you are 30 most people are actually able to recognize how detrimental sleep deeprivation is in the moment.
ukyrgf 3y ago
Oh boy. I got my friend's old CRT when he was moving. Carried down 3 flights of narrow stairs, drove the hour back to my house, loaded it up the front steps, got my PS2 out of the attic, was so excited... and the PS2 doesn't work anymore.
flir 3y ago
I had one of those! It made this amazing clunk-wibble noise when you hit the degauss button, and weighed more than my first car. Memory says £600?
graphe 3y ago
You need the hard drive seeking noise too or it won't feel righr
HappyDaoDude 3y ago
Get on it sooner rather than later. Many CRT's were thrown out when they were considered obsolete and the ones remaining are dying from age.

rubinlinux 3y ago

> Dycus, a member of Razor 1911, died of throat cancer in 2012.

Unfrozen0688 3y ago

That's still me now but LED screens and mech keyboard...