• paultimate14@lemmy.worldEnglish
    951·
    12 days ago

    Sorry but “slop” has been reserved for AI-relater insults only and I will not accept any dilution of that.

    • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      8·
      12 days ago

      My favorite definition was when it was used to describe cheap, mass produced clothes like your work clothes from around the 16th to 19th century, sailors would dress in their slop, etc.

      • Sunsofold@lemmings.worldEnglish
        22·
        12 days ago

        First, someone half-clever comes up with a neologism or repurposes an uncommon word to describe a new phenomenon.

        *Monkey’s paw of linguistic integration curls another of its infinite fingers*

        Someone not so clever hears the word and fails to understand the word. They take it to mean good or bad because they are too simple to comprehend more than a judgemental binary. Now they use their shiny new word that makes them feel clever for everything. More not so clever individuals do the same. Now it’s used by every idiot with an internet connection.

        The clever person sounds like an idiot by simply being the human surrounded by parrots saying the same thing, and the concept they were trying to bring into public consciousness is treated as the noise of the rabble. It is a battle even to get people to take it seriously.

        But, hey, at least the memelords get to feel clever and you can snort quietly for a half a second when you scroll past the memes.

  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    13 days ago

    This contextless superficial review of classics denies the groundbreaking gameplay, art styles, storytelling, and direction that these games contributed to the artistic medium that is video games.

    Like saying that The Godfather sucks becuase it is derivative and stuck in the time that it was created.

    Alright I’m done yelling at clouds.

  • hzl@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    28·
    12 days ago

    It’s fine. 40 is the new 30, 30 is the new 20, and this kind of youthful confusion about time and aging is exactly what I’d expect from a 10 year old, so it tracks.

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
      35·
      13 days ago
      • The 90s was about 10 years ago.
      • 2005 was about 10 years ago.
      • The 2010s was about 10 years ago.

      I don’t know why and I know it doesn’t make sense, but apparently everything feels like it was about 10 years ago to my millennial brain.

      Except 2020, that was like last year.

        • ahornsirup@feddit.orgEnglish
          9·
          13 days ago

          It kind of did. Shit started going to hell a lot earlier, but Covid (and the associated conspiracy theories etc. going mainstream) turbocharged it.

        • Klear@quokk.auEnglish
          2·
          13 days ago

          I have a method for estimating how many years ago something was - I think of a number and then double it. Used to work pretty well, but nowadays I’m noticing I need to add 4 to the estimate of anything that happened before COVID.

  • agentTeiko@piefed.socialEnglish
    20·
    13 days ago

    Are they just mad that the best year in gaming was 1998. Games back then can still be played today they don’t need a always online servers that will get shutdown. Every multiplayer game came with a free dedicated server and you could vote kick the cheaters or just people being assholes. Mods were everywhere and encouraged by the devs not lawsuits. Most games didn’t come with with a rootkit pretending to be DRM.

    • SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      13 days ago

      I would argue MOST games don’t have DRM rootkits today, just not the ones that spend more $$$ on marketing than development and writing.

  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipEnglish
    13·
    12 days ago

    This is so fucking stupid. If you substitute movies or books for the images it would just seem stupid.

    It’s weird video games get this strange space of “old”.

  • thearpist123@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    12 days ago

    I recently had a hankering to play Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. Because the game is so old and buggy, and because I’m running Linux, it took a lot of patching and tweaks to get running. Probably took around 4 hours, because you can’t tell which random fix someone posted a decade ago will work until you try it. It was a very authentic experience of gaming in the early 2000s, and the struggle made playing the game all the more fun.

      • thearpist123@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        12 days ago

        If I was on windows I’m sure the unofficial patch would’ve done it all, but in linux I had to use a couple of virtualisation tools I’d never heard of (whereas every game I’ve tried from this decade runs out of the box with Proton). The most hair-pulling step was that I had to run the game via a symlink because if the full path to the executable was too long it’d crash to desktop before I even got to hear the menu music. God bless the protondb commenter that figured that out.

        • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
          2·
          12 days ago

          Ah I see. I’ve been dragging my feet moving my gaming PC to Linux and stuff like this is why. Also I’m lazy.

  • Ech@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    12 days ago

    I just played Fallout 1 and 2 for the first time. Though they’ve certainly aged poorly in a lot of ways, both were still fun plays, and worth the experience just to see where the franchise came from, ya know?

    • The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPEnglish
      9·
      13 days ago

      Aged poorly as in the controls/UI? I remember seeing that people had modded some QoL changes, but I still haven’t taken the plunge.

      • Ech@lemmy.caEnglish
        9·
        13 days ago

        There was certainly a good deal of that, but my main issues were with “of the time” content stuff - sexism, bigotry, ableism, etc. Things to be expected in “edgy” nerd media of the time. Like I said, though, still fun to play through.

        For the more technical roughness, I highly recommend Fallout1in2 (if you have both 1 and 2), as well as the Fallout 2 Restoration Project. Both of those completely smoothed over the rough edges for me and added a number of QoL things that were very appreciated.

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
        6·
        13 days ago

        Yeah there are some really good mods for Fallout 2, even including some rudimentary party member control which helps a lot.

        I also want to shout out the mods Talking Heads and Talking Heads Actually Talk which while yes, you may or may not want on a first playthrough are both fantastic and blends right in with vanilla.

      • Ech@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        13 days ago

        Nice. I wouldn’t stress too much about the car. It’s definitely a later-game upgrade that takes a decent amount of work and resources to make happen. Definitely good to have, though, so keep it in mind as you play through the game.

          • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
            2·
            13 days ago

            You can get it reasonably early and i would personally recommend doing so as that’s when the game really opens up. I always beeline for it.

          • Ech@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            13 days ago

            Hah, yeah, it’s a bit of a tease putting it at the beginning like that. I can’t say if my playthrough was typical or not, but I ended up getting it about mid-way through or so. The money requirement was the biggest hurdle for me.

    • scops@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      The big draw of Wasteland 2 and 3 for me was getting classic Fallout-style gameplay with modern quality of life improvements. They’ve got very similar aesthetics and chunky gameplay, though Wasteland is more squad oriented