> suck money from you
Remember when games were fun? You bought it, played it, the end. Then came wow and you paid a monthly subscription, ok, fine. Now it seems every game is about extorting as much money from morons as they possibly can with all sorts of tricks, if not even just blatantly by saying 'well, some players like to succeed faster than others'.
Gaming is literally over.
>Then came wow and you paid a monthly subscription
Because they constantly updated the content and had to maintain server stuff, it wasn't THAT much of a ripoff.
Phones and apps have billions of dollars of r&d poured into optimizing them to be as psychologically addictive as possible. We're not really dealing with a simple "coping mechanism" at this point. Give a perfectly healthy kid a phone and he will start to develop problems.
No, he's not right. Without a phone you cannot function in today's society.
So how does he do it, you ask? Simple: He pays other to essentially carry a smartphone for him and relay messages to him. That's not revolutionary, that's just called having a secretary, but obviously most people cannot afford that, so it's not good advice.
>ditch the smartphone >spend every waking hour of the day staring at 6 monitors
Tradergays are even more mentally ill than the worst social media addicted normies.
I don't know, but it kind of reminds me of when Classic WoW came out. Fun for about a month or two while you relived the increible nostalgia of original WoW, but then that feeling that "this isn't real, we've moved on for better or for worse" inevitably starts to seep in and everything feels tainted.
It's an interesting idea but 2000 is kind of a shitty cutoff. Internet modems did what 100KB/s at the time if you're lucky? The cellphones had awful interfaces, and battery tech at the time sucked, and you'd lose out on the golden era of pc gaming from 2000-2009.
A lot of people's lives are also driven by consumption, staying up to date with the goings on. Eventually everyone would consume all the content that they were interested in at that point, and then what? They'd just be bored, or constantly try to re-enjoy the same content? Or would they say: >ok this is was fun but it's boring now, let's go back to the modern world
rather than the people of the era that would do things in person to entertain each other.
Although, one idea if you wanted to try it would be to live in the Philippines or Japan.
Philippines is poor in a lot of areas so they haven't got access to many game electronics or phones, so kids all play outside like the 90s, and there's tight knit communities because everyone knows each other.
Japan, all their tech feels like it's from the 2000s, they still use fax machines.
>the golden era of pc gaming from 2000-2009
I remember hl deathmatch tourneys at my local lan place before tf1 came to prominence, which was soon dethroned by CS. The early pre-source CS days were definitely my golden years of gaming. Lock-ins from 10pm to 10am, starting new games of D2LoD and seeing how far we could get before our parents came to pick us up. Good times, man
And it's not just gaming. When was the last time you heard really creative good new music? I find some in the metal realm here and there still. But that's it. Everything else seems to be a same same remake of the shit I didn't like the first time around. Films too.
There are still good new books occasionally at least. I have a suspicion this will change too.
I would live in the stacks neighborhood from Ready Player One. It seemed comfy. The usual problems of society still existed, but a little bit of escape into the Metaverse / Oasis seems fine.
It's easier to call the coping mechanism the issue itself. Harder to find the deeper underlying problems.
Im not so sure, the apps are designed by israelites to poison your brain and suck money from you.
> suck money from you
Remember when games were fun? You bought it, played it, the end. Then came wow and you paid a monthly subscription, ok, fine. Now it seems every game is about extorting as much money from morons as they possibly can with all sorts of tricks, if not even just blatantly by saying 'well, some players like to succeed faster than others'.
Gaming is literally over.
>Then came wow and you paid a monthly subscription
Because they constantly updated the content and had to maintain server stuff, it wasn't THAT much of a ripoff.
Yeah. Like I said, ok, fine. It was fair.
>tfw i made a chess variant app to suck money
not israeli btw
what is usually the root of most people's problems?
unresolved childhood trauma? lack of intimacy/relationships/connection?
Lack of faith in Jesus Christ is always the problem.
Phones and apps have billions of dollars of r&d poured into optimizing them to be as psychologically addictive as possible. We're not really dealing with a simple "coping mechanism" at this point. Give a perfectly healthy kid a phone and he will start to develop problems.
No, he's not right. Without a phone you cannot function in today's society.
So how does he do it, you ask? Simple: He pays other to essentially carry a smartphone for him and relay messages to him. That's not revolutionary, that's just called having a secretary, but obviously most people cannot afford that, so it's not good advice.
Emails on the computer
SMS and calls on the phone
What else do you need?
Dont be naive. You know a smartphone is inevitable. Mandatory sms verification schemes, 2FA, etc
>Mandatory sms verification schemes
How is that smartphone exclusive
>Mandatory sms verfication
>comma
>2FA
SMS is 2FA?
>ditch the smartphone
>spend every waking hour of the day staring at 6 monitors
Tradergays are even more mentally ill than the worst social media addicted normies.
I don't know, but it kind of reminds me of when Classic WoW came out. Fun for about a month or two while you relived the increible nostalgia of original WoW, but then that feeling that "this isn't real, we've moved on for better or for worse" inevitably starts to seep in and everything feels tainted.
You can't truly relive the past
I feel like this would be the result as well.
It's an interesting idea but 2000 is kind of a shitty cutoff. Internet modems did what 100KB/s at the time if you're lucky? The cellphones had awful interfaces, and battery tech at the time sucked, and you'd lose out on the golden era of pc gaming from 2000-2009.
A lot of people's lives are also driven by consumption, staying up to date with the goings on. Eventually everyone would consume all the content that they were interested in at that point, and then what? They'd just be bored, or constantly try to re-enjoy the same content? Or would they say:
>ok this is was fun but it's boring now, let's go back to the modern world
rather than the people of the era that would do things in person to entertain each other.
Although, one idea if you wanted to try it would be to live in the Philippines or Japan.
Philippines is poor in a lot of areas so they haven't got access to many game electronics or phones, so kids all play outside like the 90s, and there's tight knit communities because everyone knows each other.
Japan, all their tech feels like it's from the 2000s, they still use fax machines.
alright until 2010 then
>the golden era of pc gaming from 2000-2009
I remember hl deathmatch tourneys at my local lan place before tf1 came to prominence, which was soon dethroned by CS. The early pre-source CS days were definitely my golden years of gaming. Lock-ins from 10pm to 10am, starting new games of D2LoD and seeing how far we could get before our parents came to pick us up. Good times, man
And it's not just gaming. When was the last time you heard really creative good new music? I find some in the metal realm here and there still. But that's it. Everything else seems to be a same same remake of the shit I didn't like the first time around. Films too.
There are still good new books occasionally at least. I have a suspicion this will change too.
>heard really creative good new music
When Frank Ocean's Blonde came out
That would be sick but not sure I could commit to it. Be better as a vacation destination to unplug
I would live in the stacks neighborhood from Ready Player One. It seemed comfy. The usual problems of society still existed, but a little bit of escape into the Metaverse / Oasis seems fine.
He’s israeli isn’t he