What's the oldest thing you enjoy on a daily basis?
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Music, game, novel, show, what have you. What do you love that's particularly old?
I have many things that are very old and enjoy but I don't use them on a daily basis. Maybe my typewriter is what I use more often.
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Back in 1989 I had a co-worker friend who went to Jamaica and returned with a custom coffee mug with my name on it. It wasn't a cheap printed one, the letters were formed out of clay. I don't use it every day anymore, because I'm afraid it will break, but it's in my rotation. It reminds me that some people used to care something about me, for some reason.
I care about you, stranger. I hope you're doing well.
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My bifocal glasses. They were donated to me last year, and some fucking how, they're a perfect match for my prescription, and have absolutely no scratches.
They were manufactured in 1988, literally 2 years before I ever got my first pair of glasses.
I didn't exactly sign up for big ass thick bifocals, but the last prescription glasses I paid for cost me $217, are scratched to hell and back, and the frames split at the nose bridge.
They're big, they're ugly, but they just fucking work, even clearer than my most recent actual prescriptions.
You can't complain when it's free!
Retro is always in. Rock it!
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Music, game, novel, show, what have you. What do you love that's particularly old?
As far as a "thing", which I would define as an object and not a person or animal, I would have to say my two McIntosh amplifiers. I have an MC7100 and MC7108.
Both were built in 1992. I am listening to the MC7108 in my office as I write this.
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Music, game, novel, show, what have you. What do you love that's particularly old?
Video games in general, I've never stopped playing them.
There was a period of time where I thought I stopped liking them. But it was just because everything new was trash (early access slop or f2p nonsense) or my anti-genres.
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My wife. 🥰
Their wife ðŸ¤
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Music, game, novel, show, what have you. What do you love that's particularly old?
Earth?
But to give more sensible answer: Computer Chronicles, and it's on YouTube.
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I'm more fond of dip pens, they are terribly impractical but for me it's a joy.
One of my favourite nibs is the blue pumpkin.
It's my all time favourite. Brause Steno
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Music, game, novel, show, what have you. What do you love that's particularly old?
Mrs Smith down the street getting dressed at 8:15am by her window.
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A handmade ceramic mug I bought when I first got out of homelessness. Probably about fifteen years old now. It's white with a flared base and motif of a bison on it.
Gonna need a pic mate
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Music, game, novel, show, what have you. What do you love that's particularly old?
Sweet sleep. Speaking of which, back to bed I go.
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Gonna need a pic mate
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Nice mug bro!
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Video games in general, I've never stopped playing them.
There was a period of time where I thought I stopped liking them. But it was just because everything new was trash (early access slop or f2p nonsense) or my anti-genres.
Same here. I try not to nostalgia-hole myself too much, because I don't want to fall out of touch with the state of things and end up like a crotchety old person complaining about how great things used to be.
I found myself caring less and less about newer games, and thought I was just getting over gaming in general. But when going back to replay some old favorites on a whim, I realized I still enjoyed them just as much as I used to. I don't know if it's a style thing or just the difference between physical-only and newer digital release models, but it does feel like they don't make games like they used to.
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Same here. I try not to nostalgia-hole myself too much, because I don't want to fall out of touch with the state of things and end up like a crotchety old person complaining about how great things used to be.
I found myself caring less and less about newer games, and thought I was just getting over gaming in general. But when going back to replay some old favorites on a whim, I realized I still enjoyed them just as much as I used to. I don't know if it's a style thing or just the difference between physical-only and newer digital release models, but it does feel like they don't make games like they used to.
What I've noticed over the years has been how accessible the unity engine is for new developers.
So many unity games tend to look the sameish. They use the same free content packs and follow the same tutorials. Unfortunately this engine also sucks for performance and it's easy for it to feel slow and clumsy without extra effort.
After the popularity of Minecraft and Fortnite, it seems like every developer has been chasing that dragon. Bolting survival, crafting and grinding into their games.
It can be done well, but most of these games feel like classic mmorpg grinding, while offering nothing enjoyable in exchange.
On top of that there are predatory games that attempt to normalize the behavior of paying to win or accelerate earning something. Many unfortunate kids have been fooled into spending thousands of real dollars on what equates to nothing. In older games you earned outfits and characters based on skill and achievements.
Many modern games feel hollow and gross.
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I think 13 year olds are a bit too young to get married
You mean they violated the law?
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Music, game, novel, show, what have you. What do you love that's particularly old?
This old game called Squarez Deluxe.
I know it's old, I know it has low resolution, I know it doesn't meet the standard of modern gaming, but it's (in my view obviously) the best shape packing game ever made.
Like destroys Tetris... Which can't even hold a candle to this game. Not to say that Tetris is a bad game, it's a brilliant game!
I just think Squarez Deluxe takes it to the next level and gives so much room for player creativity.
The basic just is that you have a play field, and with a short timer for each, you are given blocks which can be various 9x9 shapes that you rotate and move freely on the grid and place at will.
All of the complexity comes from the special blocks which can have positive, negative, or in between effects.
Your positive tools are scarce, but if you use them creatively and with forward probabilistic thinking, you can have amazing, hour-long sessions that you cannot look away from.
Some of the special blocks are goo traps that explode so shapes that pass by get stuck. Some are acid that let you destroy blocks at will and you can form your pieces into very unique shapes that tuck in exactly where you need them.
There are bombs, mines, missiles, playfield expanders/contractors, etc.
The first two modes get you acquainted with the mechanics, but Extreme Mode is where the game is played.
The original developer is a cool dude and he changed it to freeware so you can grab DOSBox and hit myabandonware or archive and be playing like in minutes.
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Music, game, novel, show, what have you. What do you love that's particularly old?
My Purdue University Basketball lamp from the early 1990s. That or my townhouse built in 1986 if we are going for those. I didn't go to Purdue if you are wondering.
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The Sun
(the firey ball of doom, not the garbage newspaper)
To be fair the newspaper is also a giant ball of Doom
