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...is this retro? (media.piefed.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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[–] 211 points 9 months ago* (38 children)

I hate to break it to you but... It's been over 20 years. It's more retro now than the SNES was when the 360 came out.

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  • [–] [S] 133 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    You're hurting me.

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  • [–] 72 points 9 months ago* (5 children)

    This episode is 30 years old.

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    No u

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Shit, that saying is over 20 years old.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    You know that 'Cleopatra is temporally further away from the Great Pyramid' thing?

    Grand Theft Auto V's release date is closer to Half Life 2's release date, than to the present.

    Grand Theft Auto 4's release date is closer to the release date of the original Starfox or Street Fighter 2, than it is to the present.

    And you don't even want me to do any date comparison for the following:

    ... Let's do the time warp Againnn!~

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago (16 children)

    Frankly, the reason this is shocking to people is that games, graphically and mechanically, made leaps and bounds from the SNES to the 360, and gave largely stagnanted from the 360 to now.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (13 children)

    A LOT of people have completely failed to grasp how much technology has stagnated in the last 20 years.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (12 children)

    Yeah, my smart phone with Internet access basically everywhere begs to differ.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Phones didn't changed fundamentally since 2015.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Saying technology hasn't progressed in 10 years is a very different statement than technology hasn't progressed in 20 years.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Phones, as we know them today, entered market much later than consoles or PCs.

    My point is that eventually we hit the ceiling of progress. PCs and consoles hit their peak 20 years ago while phones did 10 years ago. Things haven't changed in a while for both of them and it doesn't feel so far that there will be major progress any time soon.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    The first smartphones were released in 2007....

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (6 children)

    You don't think there's any difference between today's phones and the 2007 ones? Not in cell coverage either?

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Not in terms of navigating a city, which have had universal coverage since the flip phone days.

    Also, just an FYI: GPS has had global coverage since the 1970s and doesn't require a cell signal at all.

    Smart phone advancements have been incremental since they were released, very little had changed in terms of basic functionality. The biggest difference is that you can listen to music while your getting navigated now.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (4 children)

    Dude, take the rose tinted goggles off for a second. I had a GPS navigation system for my car early on, around ~2010, maybe a little earlier, that thing was shit. It could hardly figure out where I was in the city. It would very often snap to the wrong road and I'd have to reboot it. Today, it's simple. I just pull out my magical everything device and use an app. Technology has progressed A TON in 20 years.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Yes. that is why smartphones replaced integrated navigation about 15 years ago. It's OK that you were a late adopter, but that doesn't change what happened. I was happily using google maps to navigate with my phone on a little holder on the dash and actively making fun of people like you by 2010.

    It was actually kind of funny to have better navigation and a better stereo in my 1993 Ford Ranger with a quarter million miles on it than dumbasses that bought new cars in 2010.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Why are you being so condescending about this and making so many assumptions about me? I wasn't a "late adopter." I was a teenager. I didn't have a smart phone. I didn't have a "new car in 2010" nor a built in navigation system. I was using a standalone TomTom GPS in highschool in a 1996 Honda Accord. That was 20 years ago. Technology is significantly better now.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Perhaps I'm in a minority but when the PS3 and 360 first debuted I did not consider even the NES to be "retro". I would have applied that term to the likes of an Atari 2600 or colecovision.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    The NES and Atari are separated by mere 6 years. The NES and Xbox 360 are separated by nearly 22 years. That's how much the perception of graphical advancement has decelerated. Sure we keep making leaps on graphical fidelity, but ever more in areas that are less and less noticeable every time.

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