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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 days ago (13 children)

NGL, I don't feel like the Xbox 360 or Wii are really "retro". A lot of the games still hold up decently well from a visual standpoint imo. Obsolete? Sure. Old? Sure. Retro? Nah.

I think the GameCube generation is the border of "retro". That's where you still had some games that looked old (like Animal Crossing), but you also had games that still look relatively good (like Pikmin). Imagine calling Crysis "retro". That's the same generation we're talking about.

I'm also saying this as someone who remembers the N64 fairly well.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean, the 360 can run GTA 5...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And skyrim! Anything retro can't do that

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Yes, it's like they now are the "retro consoles" no matter their age, no other will enter that realm.

The golden age of sorts.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (4 children)

2012 laptops are still very modern and people calling them old are mean :(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

yes exactly!

stop being mean to my thinkpad friends! (those being, friends with thinkpads, and laptops themselves, which are automatically friends)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I have a laptop for uni work that I bought in Jan 2011. It's got Lubuntu running on it and most of my work is done on Google Docs... so I'm not seeing the benefit of upgrading really.

It works.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Given how maimed the modern laptops are, I'm willing to consider "modern" a slur for laptops. Give me back my Ethernet, video outs and all the USB!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Give me back my Ethernet

Some ThinkPad: I have Ethernet
Buyer: Cool! I am choosing you!
Package arrives
Unpacks
Buyer: What the... there's no Ethernet!
Some ThinkPad: Look closer! There's even Ethernet icon!
Buyer: I see that, but there's just...
Some ThinkPad: That's it! ThinkPad Ethernet extension port. You didn't say "RJ-45".

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not a joke: When I was playing the Wii for the first time I legit thought "Damn, when this becomes retro Ima feel so old."
Prophetic.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

agreed, anything that came after whatever was current when I was born is new and everything that happened before I was born is prehistory :3

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