I think I was just running everything through a pentium 4 at the time, to be fair there’s a hell of a lot more triangles on them luclin models to calc. The best thing about project 1999 was showing people what it was like back then and telling them “and we absolutely loved it”

I remember my dad being nonplussed that I would now need a separate piece of PC hardware to handle gfx because of this expansion

It’s proportional to the average amount of text on a card

I grew up in an evangelical household. The argument I’ve gotten in return is that they weren’t “forced”, people have to offer in charity, welfare is evil because it forces it.

So instead we design a society that rewards shitty greed and self centered actions. I’m sure God loves it.

Lol this was the first thing to came to mind

Lol

I’m glad I don’t see any of the techie guys I knew from college because they all behave this way, and also have the very obnoxious belief that anyone less successful than them has earned their lot in life. I have one friend who still sees them and I laugh whenever I hear about them racking up insane bills at a restaurant, completely oblivious to how it feels for the normal people they then demand to bill split with. They even charged my friend his share of a hotel stay for a trip he had to back out of, just insane shit

Ah communism as defined as “that thing I don’t like”

The pink one that looked like Pepto bismol was the only one I ever touched, often when I was tired of slurping down unhealthy amounts of energy drinks

Ah, I thought it might be horizon. Would’ve given whatever you needed to get off your feet (haven’t played in over a year)

This a private server?

I played on a very large server, but I specifically remember a gnome mage becoming my arch nemesis. He went as far as to wear shadow reflectors when we would end up in the same battlegrounds, and would spam emotes whenever he killed me. I hope he found that as enjoyable as I did, I thought our little tiff was hilarious.

I miss it sometimes too. I made friends on old forums and mirc groups, although the lack of size and new faces tended to lead to their closures. I often think about the way centralization impacted online gaming as well. There was a very odd period where people didn’t realize they could be anonymous dickheads, and segmented playerbases (on seperate servers, essentially) had a social imperative to not be dickish because you would have repercussions from the community. There were some really magical days playing everquest/ffxi/WoW and encountering the same people, fostering a sense of community. Everything is so faceless now, I really wish there was some way to get that back but it seems like you can’t really get people onboard with that anyways.

In terms of forums its probably for the best, remaining an outcast in a forum where everyone else has built up a reputation/cliques is not ideal

Reddit has consistently made me miss the old web1.0 decentralized forums from the olden days (which honestly had plenty of its own negatives, so thats saying something), and I’m glad that hexbear is part of a project to kind of bring some of that energy back.

Yeah I also had someone comment on a random sentence that I wrote fairly lackadaisacally, and when I kindly asked if they were commenting on my word-barf or the actual content they just downvoted me. Jesus christ. Its amazing how much can and should be learned about how forum design impacts discussion (hey I actually wrote a paper about this in college when web 2.0 was emerging!), and how little it seems to direct continued forum development. To be fair, the way reddit is designed also makes it really easy to artificially astroturf and elevate/stifle discussion for large actors.

The only thing we have, that can’t be done away with without an anonymous style format (ala the chans), is user notoriety, but its not that big a deal here imo. Might be worse if the userbase was smaller. Definitely remember being annoyed at that in the web 1.0 days

The way discussion is handled on youtube makes being the first person to say anything paramount, anything else is largely lost in the ether. I’ve thought about commenting on some rancid chud content before but realized its not even going to come close to being seen, all thats there is just gonna be a billion chuds agreeing with each other. Its really up to content creators to address other content creators (and is maybe a good reason more leftists should embrace content creation as a hobby)

Its was definitely dipshits downvoting threads about trans issues/people/solidarity, I’ve been here from the beginning! I think thats just another very good example of how it just stifles discussion. I remember kind of hating youtube doing away with downvotes but I’ve realized it just makes the importance of people engaging (read: openly rejecting) shitty people go way up and thats probably better (though admittedly discourse in youtube is ass)

When I see bazongas my eyes actually literally pop straight out of my head and onto the floor where I’m left sobbing trying to find them again. Thanks, obama