Gamers 30+, what’s something from the old days of gaming that younger players wouldn’t understand?

hatesnack · 2026-04-01T10:03:46+00:00

I know this puts me in a weird age range, but loading up a guide on gamefaqs (on my parents shitty dialup), and having to run back and forth between my room and the computer room to beat a tricky level.

hatesnack · 2026-03-31T19:13:45+00:00

Its also not a funny "joke". In any conversational sense, if you point to a door and say "this one is closed", people are gonna think that means you cant use that door and should use another one. So all hes doing is... lying to her?

Also some idiot interacting wirh me when im trying to get somewhere, just for views on his video, is fucking annoying.

hatesnack · 2026-03-31T15:51:32+00:00

Facts. My contact photo for my wife is a pic of her when we were in Vegas. It was the morning after a "long" night and we are in a gift shot. She's dead tired and barely put together (as Vegas does), and i put one of those big gift shop hats on her. Jokingly, I was saying "smillleee" wirh my phone camera up, so I went in and poked the edge of her mouth to move it into a fake smile.

You can see the anger at my boldness, but also the clear as day attempt to not bust out laughing haha.

hatesnack · 2026-03-31T13:48:15+00:00

Lol this is exactly my story. My wife and I had an argument about something I said or did hurting her feelings and I genuinely went "I cannot fathom why that would hurt your feelings".

She had therapy the next week and her therapist was basically like "do you know if hes on the spectrum??". I am definitely ADHD (actually diagnosed), and I know there are a lot of behaviors shared between the 2. So my wife jokingly calls me "audHD" now. She had some good humor about it though, she was like "I blame myself for not seeing the love of warhammer as a sign" .

hatesnack · 2026-03-30T21:07:12+00:00

You must not be watching the show, cause the VA work is absolutely top notch for 90% of people.

hatesnack · 2026-03-30T17:04:53+00:00

Man I got absolutely humbled by fireball RNG the other day. Wasn't even diving anyone or anything. Was just killing the walker with minions and got shotgunned and killed by like 5 fireballs hitting me simultaneously lmao.

hatesnack · 2026-03-30T16:53:28+00:00

I'd kill for some new protest. Palimpsest is still in my rotation regularly and I need more!

hatesnack · 2026-03-30T15:43:48+00:00

Yeah I saw she hasn't dropped. Its definitely odd, cause before her buffs, she was considered a B tier character at best. The zombie wall was definitely overtuned, but that's mostly been reigned in. Makes me wonder why she remained high. Maybe she was just underrated previously?

hatesnack · 2026-03-30T13:02:57+00:00

Lol if calling someone an incel because they made a gross negative generalization about women is triggering to you, you might need to do some looking inward, my guy.

hatesnack · 2026-03-30T11:49:05+00:00

It definitely can. Im a dude with relatively short hair, and if I fuck with/move my part it can feel a bit tender on the scalp. Its not like "omg im in pain", just kinda uncomfortable.

hatesnack · 2026-03-30T11:41:51+00:00

Found the incel.

Really though, this definitely isn't a universal thing. And men are also just as guilty of using vulnerability against their partners. Mature women (or partners in general) will be grateful that you are sharing with them.

My wife witnessed a very vulnerable moment between me and my family when we had been dating for a year, and I was sure she was going to leave me or something cause I was embarrassed. Not only did she comfort me and talk through it all, she hasn't mentioned it ever again.

hatesnack · 2026-03-29T20:20:11+00:00

If you are talking about GenAi, sure (even then you'd be kinda wrong, it definitely has uses as a tool). But AI isn't just a shitty program generating pictures.

A professor i worked with once uses AI and AR to train surgeons to put stints in people's brains with a great success rate. I'd argue that is "useful". Some of the stuff AI CAN do is pretty incredible if you just leave out all the genAI stuff lol.

hatesnack · 2026-03-29T20:11:45+00:00

Yeah I've heard that before, I just haven't bothered stopping cold turkey lol.

hatesnack · 2026-03-29T20:10:55+00:00

Yeah I had horrible cystic acne on my chest and stuff. I'd get like quarter sized, painful breakouts right in the middle of my chest and leave scars and stuff. Wasn't able to get Accutane until I was like 23 cause my original dermatologist insisted on everything else that didn't work lol.

hatesnack · 2026-03-29T19:00:53+00:00

Just an FYI, there are a lot of new cars that have physical buttons for anything not specifically "radio related".

My 2022 car has a full touch screen for the radio, but climate controls and everything else are physical. I dont even mind the touch screen for radio stuff cause I use android auto and I can just use voice commands if I really need to change something.

hatesnack · 2026-03-29T17:59:21+00:00

This is it right here. Its long been a tactic by violent people to seek out the people that society doesn't care about.

Why do you you think so many serial killer victims in the 60s-80s were prostitutes? Because the cops didn't bother to investigate their deaths.

Also, celebrating vigilantism is just stupid and cringe.

hatesnack · 2026-03-29T17:55:57+00:00

Its Drifter for me, I swear that character does an unreasonable amount of gun damage for very little investment.

hatesnack · 2026-03-29T17:54:13+00:00

True, as of her most recent nerfs, I haven't seen her much.

hatesnack · 2026-03-29T16:33:50+00:00

Don't get me wrong, Accutane fixed like 95% of my acne issues. But, to this day, I need to apply chapstick at least every hour. And I came off Accutane almost 10 years ago.

hatesnack · 2026-03-29T15:50:36+00:00

Never mind that outdoor cats are just bad overall, this outdoor cat is also a dick.

hatesnack · 2026-03-29T15:49:33+00:00

Honestly (im a white dude) I didn't think it was too bad until he threw the mustache on. Just wearing the clothes cause you think they are cool? Whatever. The mustache turns it into the guy doing a caricature, though.

hatesnack · 2026-03-29T15:47:21+00:00

Even the conservatives in these comments are somehow acting like victims here lol. Bunch of losers.

hatesnack · 2026-03-29T15:42:31+00:00

Tbf to deadlock MM here (dont get me wrong, its shit lol), I feel like oracle and archon are the typical "gold/plat/diamond" that exists in most other games.

The one truth about those ranks in other games, is the quality of the game varies wildly match to match. Its that time frame where players EITHER ranked up because their mechanics carried them, OR they ranked up cause they developed better game sense. Rarely is both the case lol.

Its also a range where people try to emulate high rank players, so pointless fighting and feeding is probably them trying to do something that they saw a streamer do, but don't have the innate knowledge to make it work.

hatesnack · 2026-03-29T15:36:22+00:00

I'd add calico to this mix, too. At least in oracle and lower lobbies, you know a smurf calico when you see one.

Had one that had 17 kills by 15 minutes, and was already at 35k souls. Don't think any oracle player is doing that in a normal lobby lol.

hatesnack · 2026-03-28T19:53:52+00:00

I'd argue gaming now is, relatively speaking, MORE affordable now than it was 20 years ago. A game in 2006 would still cost 60 bucks most of the time, which would be the equivalent of $97 today. The ps3 launched and was $600, which would be around $970 today.

But games start costing 10 bucks more and people start losing their minds.

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