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When the Xbox 360 came out decades ago, the store I got mine from did this. They had like 10 consoles and there were like 200 people there. They did a raffle fo
by RandallBrown 3mo ago
When the Xbox 360 came out decades ago, the store I got mine from did this. They had like 10 consoles and there were like 200 people there. They did a raffle for the consoles and I got to buy one. It felt like I won the Xbox even though I still had to pay for it.
- transcriptase 3mo agoI never thought much of the need for trigger warnings until I read “the Xbox 360 came out decades ago”
- mvcosta91 3mo agoThe original Crysis will be TWENTY YEARS OLD in 2027.
- kube-system 3mo agoAnd I still can't afford a GPU to play it
- Hamuko 3mo agoDon’t worry, you also can’t afford RAM to play it either. Not that it needs much.
- Fuzzwah 3mo ago30th anniversary of Quake's release today.
- godshatter 3mo agoThat one for me is particularly painful. We were playing the alpha release before the game officially came out after work. I still work at the same place, though I've moved jobs within it a few times.
- Arainach 3mo agoThe XBox 360 release is closer to the (US) release of the NES than it is to the current day.
- SpaceNoodled 3mo agoReading this was physically painful.
- giancarlostoro 3mo agoDang. That wasn't supposed to be a challenge... That will have eventually become true no matter what tbh.
- Keyframe 3mo agowe're dead, practically.
- Bluecobra 3mo agored rings of death, specifically :)
- pluralmonad 3mo agoTime to wrap us in a towel and put us in the oven!
- Sophira 3mo agoSimilarly, Windows XP's release is closer to the release of the IBM 5150 (the first-ever IBM PC) than it is to today.
- tosti 3mo agoBut the difference in computing power is more impressive between the first IBM PC in 1981 and a new PC from 2001, than between a new PC from 2001 and now. At least subjectively (it might be that software in general got more slower than hardware got faster).
- teaearlgraycold 3mo agoCasual reminder we're all mortal! :D
- inigyou 3mo agoDX I don't fear dying in a car accident. I dread the certainty that one day I'll be 80 and all I'll have left are memories, everything and everyone I ever loved will be gone (unless I have children which is very unlikely at this point), the world will be completely alien to me, and there's absolutely nothing I can do to prevent this - apart from dying even sooner which is even worse. I think there are ways most people cope with this knowledge most of the time so they don't go crazy. I get why so many elites are obsessed with preventing aging.
- teaearlgraycold 3mo agoBecome closer to people younger than you and not everyone you know will be dead when you're old.
- croon 3mo agoI read a plot outline describing "turn of the century" and it threw me when I figured out they were talking about the early 2000s.
- nottorp 3mo agoHad that at a national electronics chain in romania for the PS5 launch.
- 64738 3mo agoJust a few days ago I was thinking about firing up my 360 to play some Halo Reach. Any idea if the online matchmaking still works?
- Chaosvex 3mo agoIt doesn't.
- jamesfinlayson 3mo agoI think the Xbox 360 online stuff was only shut down... two or three years ago? It hung around for a long time.
- salad-tycoon 3mo agoThey have the Master Chief collection or something (almost all the games in one with a selector screen), I remember a year or two ago booting into and playing online game, plus there appears to be a discord server that organizes players to better reach playable numbers.