I welcome all my comrades to the patient gamer community. For those who require, we also have a subset of comrades in the retro emulation community. This is a wonderful place to be by choice. This is not a place of suffering.
Retro gaming can come with a little suffering. For example: I got Crusader No Remorse and No Regret on GOG but I can not get used to the controls like I was when I had the demos as a kid. Some old games really need some modern control schemes. 🤣
It’s part of video game history. In the early days of a genre developing, the conventions weren’t established.
Like in the early days of RTS, you had no idea WTF was going to happen with a right click or left click. Can units be queued? Do buildings construct or have a timer and then you place then to deploy instantly? Some game’s limitations are seen as part of their charm (e.g. Starcraft 1 and it’s limitations are considered part of their game mechanic now and valued as they are).
Some games are just painful though. Golden Eye for the the Nintendo64 binds look up/down with strafe left/right…which is insane now and needs to be remapped to make the game playable.
Retro games cab come with quite a bit of suffering though, in setting up emulators and compatability fixes and BIOS files to get things working properly. Although modern tools and guides simplify this, many consider these to be part of their enjoyment.
Yeah, there’s definitely some stuff that just hurts to play. But that’s part of the charm, I guess.
Honestly it’s a great place to hang out when you can’t afford the alternative, too, even if it’s not by choice. There are some absolute gems from decades ago that still hold up to this day.
the little arrow on the sign should be pointing to the right, but since this is a shitpost, will assume it’s intentional
fun fact: the original meme is a combination of two photos joined right at the bridge. that’s why the sign points the wrong way (and indicates a “left” exit)
makes sense, what with the american signs and the european road markings
I understand it as the author saying he won’t do either.
I was gonna downvote based on this but then I checked where it was posted
Back at the end of October last year, my broke ass could finally afford to build my first PC in ten years. After replacing my old i7-6700k machine, I popped in a 4TB Samsung nvme SSD in the new rig and it clicked along fine until a couple of months ago.
One day I catch a BSOD and my 25+ years of troubleshooting skills were getting nowhere. I finally noticed that the BIOS was no longer seeing the Samsung SSD so, being the impatient little turd that I am, I bought the equivalent 4 GB Western Digital drive from Best Buy and started a warranty claim on the Samsung unit with plans to throw it up on eBay.
I paid $300 for that sucker at the tail end of October 2025. MSRP is now $900.
Oh, and fuck AI.
Surely that drive is still in warranty?
I need a couple SD cards. I use to buy a super cheap pack of 2x128GB for 23$CAD. Its over 60$ now. I’m not buying them at that price.
