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This is also unfortunate for software in general, not just games. If I want to relive the 90s, it’s possible to set up an old computer with Windows 98 and Offic
by infotainment 3y ago
This is also unfortunate for software in general, not just games. If I want to relive the 90s, it’s possible to set up an old computer with Windows 98 and Office.
But skip forward a decade — you cann’t run Facebook as it was in 2005; it’s gone forever. Same goes for any apps you installed on your iPhone; those are gone from the store and are never coming back.
- 486sx33 3y agoBut… this is the plan Stan :)
- rhplus 3y agoYou’re on the first steps to enlightenment. All material things are impermanent and imperfect. Facebook in 2005 is never coming back. It was always just a digital mandala created by you and your friends. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_marks_of_existence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_marks_of_existence
- bitwize 3y agoIndeed. It requires a shift in mental attitude from video games as things you can keep forever, to video games as events, like concerts. Enjoy it while it lasts, and when it is gone, be glad you got to experience it.
- secstate 3y agoThere's got to be some cosmic irony to using Buddhism principals of impermanence to help explain the next phase of post-WW2 consumer culture.