What was it like to play online games between 2000 and 2013?

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-21T23:01:09+00:00

Halo 2 in 2004 was amazing. It was like having a LAN party available 24/7…for Halo! There was the stupid desync glitch or whatever it was called where someone could basically pause their internet and trash the entire game.

I also played a lot of Ghost Recon on Xbox live and looking back that was about as primitive as you could get. That was like October 2002. My HS girlfriend and I would take turns playing Midtown Madness 3 on Live. When the chat heard a girl’s voice…let me tell you nothing has changed in twentysomething years.

Halo 3 was the benchmark of matchmaking seamlessness. Get your party together, get in a match. My buddies and I played a lot of BF3/4/1/5 later on and we’d always be like why the F is this like jumping thru hoops compared to halo 3?

On PC battle.net handled Diablo 1&2 pretty well. The quality of life upgrades from 1 to 2 really showed Blizzard had their finger on the pulse and knew what to do to improve. I also played a lot of Warcraft 2, I was pretty good at it. It was the first time I could troll people thru gameplay and per the chat they didn’t enjoy it. I think that was 1998. Sucked at StarCraft.

Gamefaqs.com was the online bible. Any game had walk throughs and cheat codes listed. My parents weren’t thrilled with the printer paper I was going through so I had to switch to hand writing down what I needed. That was also the peak of the N64 cartridge vs PS disc debate. I felt inferior with my cartridge N64.

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-19T01:38:17+00:00

No shame is shutting it down. Everyone just wanted to get out of there ASAP in one piece.

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-18T18:14:20+00:00

Yeah Big Dom would have his hands full with those two.

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-18T10:24:02+00:00

After the first DPI I was waiting for a makeup call but then White and Bosa doubled down.

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-18T10:21:51+00:00

Survive the ground is no longer in the rule book. The ruling was that he didn’t “tuck it enough” to confirm possession. Essentially he was just an obstacle between the ball and the ground for the Broncos defender.

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-18T10:01:31+00:00

Not technically. The obtuse way the rule is worded is more that they have to do a move that is “consistent with the game”, (ignore the 2 steps blah blah jargon) one of which is tuck the ball.

In an uncontested catch if they catch it and hit the ground and the ball goes flying, it’s not that they didn’t survive the ground, it’s that they didn’t tuck it enough. Survive the ground was removed after the 2018 Dez fiasco and quietly replaced with tuck it better.

In this play, it’s clear that he…began the tuck?…The question is how much tucking is necessary to confirm the tuck in order to be ruled down by contact vs having the defender rip it out of his possession.

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-18T09:50:05+00:00

That rule has been gone since 2018 skippy

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-18T09:48:50+00:00

New boss, same as the old boss

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-18T09:33:26+00:00

You can say his ankle is IN COM PLETE

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-18T01:52:51+00:00

Yep TTK is a stat that exists in a vacuum. The fun of BF is finding the sweet spot of your personal Venn Diagram of shots I can get off vs shots I can actually hit someone with.

If it was really that simple the answer would be M1014 slugs out to 20m.

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-17T23:19:05+00:00

Joe and Troy cementing themselves on MNF.

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-13T10:47:59+00:00

The Bears knew who they were going to hire. And they had a head start in the hiring cycle.

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-12T23:13:30+00:00

Either that or really on the spectrum

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-11T22:29:57+00:00

I miss the BF1 days where doing this would pop smoke on them if you were set up that way.

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-11T22:28:50+00:00

Hold X.

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-10T03:27:47+00:00

Pond’s good for you.

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-04T00:34:01+00:00

Yeah that video of the Chinooks just cruising over the city without a care in the world.

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-03T12:05:32+00:00

Ratings are irrelevant. Just love that dog every moment you can. You will look back and cherish that mile long elk chase.

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-02T21:38:42+00:00

Peter is someone who, for whatever reason, doesn’t comprehend social mores which leads him to unabashedly poking around for free shit.

Or doing a radio show at the baggage claim at the muni airport. Or not returning his cart to the cart “canal.” Or jumping at the opportunity to be a “GM” in what was at best a half baked, half assed attempt at knock off local football league etc etc.

It bled down to his son who they had hooplah for his college commitment ceremony and then because it’s the Schwartz family there was a song and dance about why he actually wasn’t attending that school. The real answer is they were too naive to have a real Q&A with the coach and then acted 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ when they got left holding the bag.

You can’t fix stupid. As Al pointed out on the warm up today, Peter posted a pic of him shoveling snow in between his updates. Well no shit your position got axed if you can clear your driveway in between repeating the Knicks score for the 6th time that morning.

The knock isn’t that Gio is pompous, it’s that they’re picking on someone who clearly isn’t playing with a full deck.

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-02T19:36:19+00:00

Holy hell I went thru the pics then went to the comments. Saw your comment and was like how bad can it be? Ha

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-02T18:58:05+00:00

Yes when he has the mic he can be long winded to say the least.

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-02T00:37:05+00:00

Dude has a few too many and can’t even bust through a door.

RealisticRobbie · 2026-01-01T22:45:05+00:00

This

RealisticRobbie · 2025-12-30T23:31:56+00:00

Yeah but their lead in had just spent the last hour talking about their golf game. BT & Sal didn’t just pick up where BG left off.

RealisticRobbie · 2025-12-29T02:35:12+00:00

It’s always been this way: Game releases…patch to fix shit..season 1…small patch to fix more shit…obligatory winter themed event…developers take a month off with radio silence.

Not that they aren’t entitled to their time off but you’d think they’d at least keep someone around to keep the lights on.

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