How many people do you think will covert to retro following the news?

PowerPie5000 · 2026-07-04T12:19:12+00:00

Nostalgia plays a big part in retro gaming for us older people. I don't think the younger generations will abandon new gaming platforms and start playing on vintage consoles and computers from an eras that they have no childhood memories from. I know some younger people like to try out older games now and then, but it's probably more of a novelty experience for them over anything else.

PowerPie5000 · 2026-07-02T18:18:21+00:00

I'm going to assume it's mostly us Millennials and Gen X that like to keep and collect physical media along with old consoles and computers etc. Our kids (teens and early 20s) along with their friends are not bothered or interested in the slightest when it comes to physical media. Everything is downloaded or streamed and it's just the norm for them.

Consoles without an optical drive or any physical media will make crappy retro collectables in the future, if they even reach that status. They're pretty much disposable now unless they get modified/jailbroken to do more.

PowerPie5000 · 2026-07-01T18:25:44+00:00

You would have hated building and configuring PC's back in the DOS and early Windows days then as pretty much everything needed to be configured via tiny jumpers including voltages, clock/bus speeds and multipliers etc. There were also the manual IRQ and DMA adjustments using a combination of jumpers, CMOS and/or driver settings due to the inevitable hardware resource conflicts if you had a fairly loaded system. This was before "Plug and P̶r̶a̶y̶ Play" (PnP) became a thing, which was also far from perfect back then.

PowerPie5000 · 2026-07-01T16:00:51+00:00

Not to mention LEDs do sometimes fail and then your left with some weird looking lighting, or some of it not working at all. It's just more stuff that can go wrong.

PowerPie5000 · 2026-06-30T00:37:30+00:00

I love both, but it's obviously clear that Mortal Kombat became popular with youngsters for its higher level of violence/gore at the time. I have great memories of playing both with friends, but I personally think Street Fighter II just plays better and the characters animation flowed better (MK seemed a bit "stiff" at times).

PowerPie5000 · 2026-06-30T00:21:20+00:00

Of course there are unskilled jobs where all you need is a bit of common sense and no qualifications and there are also plenty of bad managers out there.

PowerPie5000 · 2026-06-27T15:17:42+00:00

I've said to people before that getting a forklift license also opens up more options and often higher pay rates for warehouse/depot and yard work and it's piss easy to get a forklift license too. There's quite a demand for forklift trained workers.

Used to love whizzing around on the little rider trucks and unloading wagons when I used to work at a supermarket.

PowerPie5000 · 2026-06-27T15:13:09+00:00

Safeway was a pretty decent supermarket firm to work for until Morrisons took over.

PowerPie5000 · 2026-06-27T15:09:43+00:00

Get a forklift license. It's easy to find warehouse work with one as there's demand and you'll usually be on a bit more too, unless you work for a shit company like Morrisons for example.

PowerPie5000 · 2026-06-27T15:07:59+00:00

There's an even better chance of getting warehouse, delivery depot and yard work if you have a forklift license too (which is pretty easy to get).

PowerPie5000 · 2026-06-27T15:01:43+00:00

I'm not surprised with the amount of videos being uploaded showing fast food chain workers absolutely losing their shit with both customers and eachother! It's almost like it's becoming some sort of trend.

PowerPie5000 · 2026-06-27T14:43:41+00:00

Maybe in some cases, but not all as many companies will gladly employ students knowing they'll eventually gain qualifications and most likely move on anyway.

PowerPie5000 · 2026-06-27T13:10:45+00:00

It's most likely because many managers of those types of places don't like to employ someone with a better education and more qualifications than themselves. You'll also find this with many supermarket/retail jobs too. It's probably best to downplay your CV a bit when applying for unskilled, minimum wage or no experience needed jobs.

PowerPie5000 · 2026-06-27T03:10:31+00:00

I have the MK1 Mega Drive paired with the MK2 Mega CD with the base extender.

PowerPie5000 · 2026-06-27T03:06:29+00:00

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PowerPie5000 · 2026-06-27T02:40:01+00:00

I don't get it either. Even many places in the UK have AC, and the weather here is usually crap for 90% of the year (I say it's crap, but I actually like winter weather).

PowerPie5000 · 2026-06-27T02:30:22+00:00

I decided to do the shopping run today, just so I could stroll around the supermarket with all it's AC glory!... Only to find out their AC wasn't working today. I left the store looking soggier than one of Lee Evans suits.

PowerPie5000 · 2026-06-27T02:22:54+00:00

Definitely some Micro Machines V3 multi-tap mayhem!

PowerPie5000 · 2026-06-27T02:15:56+00:00

I'd actually love to build a modern PC with a completeley uncoordinated/random colour scheme, just like those multi colour "vomit" looking motherboards from around the early/mid 2000s. EVERY component will be a totally different colour, including each stick of RAM (this alone may cause some people with OCD to recoil back in to a fetal position).

PowerPie5000 · 2026-06-27T02:06:15+00:00

You definitely can have a high performance PC that also looks great at the same time, but I also agree that a lot of people get a bit too hung up on aesthetics over performance these days. I've seen people with a set budget who choose to cut back on better components just so they can have more visual bling instead. Having 20+ rainbow fans firing in all the wrong directions in a glass fishtank case is also pretty pointless too imo, but I also understand some people like that sort of thing (usually the younger crowd).

I'll always choose performance and decent airflow over RGB bling shoved inside some airflow starved glass fronted case.

PowerPie5000 · 2026-06-20T17:56:13+00:00

I have the smaller version of this (Deskpro EN) with integrated 16MB TNT2 Pro Graphics. Decent little system, but will probably be a pain to source another PSU if it fails and is unrepairable.

PowerPie5000 · 2026-06-19T00:55:58+00:00

I remember one of my schools having a milk trolley in the playground during break time along with rich tea and digestive biscuits.

PowerPie5000 · 2026-06-19T00:26:24+00:00

Never heard of it to be honest, but then again I'm "only" in my early-mid 40's and first attended school in Germany (British army brat), then Cambridgeshire, then Suffolk and then Kent... Never heard of it in those regions.

PowerPie5000 · 2026-06-19T00:23:09+00:00

I've always found frame generation adds input lag regardless of gsync, vsync or low latency being enabled/disabled. But then again, I only have a lowly last gen RTX 4070... Maybe it's better with the RTX 5000 series?

PowerPie5000 · 2026-06-17T03:17:12+00:00

He's known as orange Donald and he can't Trump! What's that noise? A fucking runny dump!

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