adam_y

I have a theory that our job is just to get out of the way when the boomers die off.

Hand over the power to the next gen.

Maybe let us have some basic income and our first gen consoles and we'll be cool.

You wish.

He was the kid everyone copied from in the older version of this.

Fun fact, TinEye lists this image as first uploaded to the internet in 2015, nearly a whole decade ago.

It has been pretty unfunny for nearly ten full years now.

Is this showerthoughts or oldbumperstickers?

So he's determining the price of peoples goods for them.

That's like walking into a shop taking what you want and throwing a few coins, if any, at the till whilst shouting, "I think you over estimate the value of these goods"

That makes a lot of sense.

As far as I'm aware, if your TV did start to provide feedback as you played you were in for a bad time.

I guess I'm thinking more holistically. Gaming is often seen still as a visual medium, but you'll know that the physical set up was part of the fun/not fun.

I suspect you might remember man parties and lugging gear around just to play with friends. In theory it wasn't exactly easy, but somehow still enjoyable for it.

And I forgot the smell and the heat too. That warm ozone thing a lot of them had going on.

Yeah, when you turned them on they frequently had push buttons with satisfying resistance and a click.

As an object they had their own tactility, often solid and heavy (as opposed to the sort of articulated physicality of most modern monitors). You could often feel the static electricity across the glass.

They even had their own sounds. The hum of warming up, the whine and clunk of being turned off.

When we talk about nostalgia it's often the sensations adjacent to the activity that we are talking about.

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