Willie

Imagine if you wanted to participate, but you didn't turn genitals on during character creation.

It'd be very very bad for schools in the US in rural areas. There's no way they'd be able to afford equivalent services to what Google offers them for basically free, ever again. Many children would lose their assignments to Google Drive and others would be sad from losing what's basically a time capsule of their entire life that was stored in there.

Another loss would be Android, and the Google Play Store. So many phones would basically become waste overnight. It'd be absolutely tragic. At least that's the way I see it.

Most less technically literate folks would lose their ability to use their computers overnight. They'd go to Chrome to make a google search to go to their favorite website, and when they see the page showing that Google cannot be found, they'd just assume their computer is broken. Microsoft would be the 'saviour' in this. I'm sure they'd happily push out an update for Windows that resets your default browser to Microsoft Edge (again) and your default search engine to Bing.

Later down the road, whoever buys the old Google domains would likely be able to spread some sick malware and steal a lot of data from people who didn't prepare properly.

That's just what I can immediately think of. I'm sure there's more, or something worse I forgot about. Haha.

You should really just assume that anything you post to the internet has the chance to someday be public, even if it is currently private, and here's the important part. Anything you post that is public, has the chance to be on the internet forever.

Even on Reddit there were bots constantly collecting logs of every single post ever made to the website. Some people would use it to spot bot accounts and create reports, or see what kind of posts a user they were looking to ban from their sub had made and then deleted; but you could totally use it to look at comments a user had deleted for more nefarious means.

Unfortunately, the way I find the internet works for most folks. Is that the things you want to last forever go away, and the things you want to go away last forever. ):

I'd get the fourth sword, then I'd take a regular dagger, and cut open a pregnant cow or cat or dog or something. I'd then slay all the kittens or calves or puppies with my new sword. Since the animals are not born yet, they would have an age of less than 0. When we add their negative age to mine, I'd become weeks or even months younger per kill! With this I will have everlasting youth!

Well, let's answer the easy ones first,

Old game on og hardware, obviously retro. New game on new hardware, obviously not. I'm like... 99% sure that I'd say it has to do with the age of the thing. I mean, I'd consider the N64 to be retro now. But the GameCube really isn't quite yet, despite being old enough to drink. I'm not quite sure where the cutoff would be though, and I'm also pretty sure that the PS4 may never be considered retro somehow.

That didn't really answer anything though. To figure out what the answer to your first question is, let's do a little thought experiment. Games where the art style mimics a retro game: Would you consider these to be retro? In my opinion the answer is 'no'. So I don't think that a game that runs on say the NES but was made yesterday would be a retro game. I think it has to be something from the era, almost. By playing the game, you're doing some retro gaming, but you're not playing a retro game.

So on the flipside. Playing a game for the NES on the Nintendo Switch for example. You are playing a retro game, on modern hardware. That almost certainly would be retro gaming, since the game is old enough.

Technically my idea is almost the most open interpretation of retro gaming. The only thing it doesn't allow to be considered retro gaming would be a game created today, made for retro hardware, and emulated. That would not be retro gaming in my opinion, since the only thing that links it back to that era is the hardware it was targeting.

I'm curious to see what others think

tl;dr

New Game, Old Hardware = Retro gaming
Old Game, New Hardware = Retro gaming

Saw this in the new posts feed. Totally thought this was going to be about laundering the beef jerky like how money laundering works. Was wondering what dirty beef jerky would be, and how you were going to make it clean. Haha.

An arrow pointing into a box, like the download icon. That's all I can really think of...

Well, you can always put one foot on each side. Make an account on both, use both a bit.

kbin has a better interface, in my opinion though, I'm cheering for them!