Old Gamers

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Old Gamers is a community for people who like to play games but may not have as much time as they did or like to play different titles and at different speeds with more maturity. You do not have to be old to join in. It is all in the mentality.

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Thought this was apt (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by sytone to c/oldgamers

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Brought back memories of squeezing as much ram as possible for a game and a ram drive to speed things up.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Parents grew up in the era before modern computers.

So it's all magic to them.

The middle generations grew up in an era where computers were becoming common, but they were still nascent; you were frequently exposed to technical concepts and had to know some things about the technology to have a productive time using it, and there were often times it all went wrong and you had to look "under the covers".

So we know what we're doing.

And then kids now have grown up in an era where computers have become fully commoditised as phones and tablets, and the abstraction of the complexity behind a nice user interface is complete. A lot of kids have no idea what a 'directory' even is, because they've never had to know that.

So it's all magic to them too.

[–] sytone 1 points 4 weeks ago

Yea. I understand top to bottom because I had too. Built many a machine and still do. There is a segment out there getting into the lower levels but I feel it is a smaller group than what it had to be in the 80-90s