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Technology is kind of shit now (self.goodoffmychest)

submitted 2 months ago by Baggie to c/[email protected]

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I'm kind of sick of being into tech. Everything is riddled with ads and speculative investment. You have to manage your expectations so much because everything has a good likelihood of turning into garbage at a moments notice. It's just not fun anymore. I know I'm probably a bit nostalgia blinded, but I miss the mid-late 2000s and early 2010s so much. Games were new and interesting, tech was moving at a lightning fast pace, things were fun.

I know it's more complicated than that, and there are reasons things are how they are, but fuck man. Anyway, off my chest.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Games were new and interesting

The indie game scene is great, and old games are more accessible than ever. Here, I respectfully disagree.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

and old games are more accessible than ever.

Nintendo has entered the chat.

[–] Baggie 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'll concede that point, I spend most of my time on Indies these days. Maybe it'd be more accurate to say that mainstream gaming has devolved into mass produced slurry in a lot of places. Not all, but it's enough to feel kind of gross.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

BG3 would beg to differ, though that's quite an exception.

And honestly... A lot of games are great if you just wait to play them. I played Cyberpunk 2077 way after release, with mods to fix bugs, make combat more punchy and some other utilities, and it was an absolute blast. Stellar writing, the immersion... nothing like what I read about release, nothing like I've played before.

That's my most dramatic example, but it's happened to me in other AAAs too.