Remember popping in a CD?
It could hold up to like 15 songs!
Nostalgia is good & nice but nah I don’t need artificial limits on stuff today.
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ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Things boomers are nostalgic for:
❎️ the ways things actually were better.
✅️ inconvenience.
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 day ago
CDs can’t be erased on the cloud, to then either push other songs on you, or the “remasters” (cough-cough In Flames), and otherwise most digital albums still hold this “artificial” limit. Even worse is when they limit it to 2-3 minutes nowadays, because Tik-Tok.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
songs have been 2-3 minutes for decades now
accideath@feddit.org 1 day ago
Artificial limits can be great though. They force you to think about what you’re doing. Only 80 minutes of space on the CD? 36 frames in my camera? Make them count.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Remember popping in a CD?
It could hold up to like 15 songs!
And remember paying $20 in 1996 for that 15 song CD, and remember your heartbreak when you listen through for the first time and find out there was only the one song you knew that you really liked and maybe two others that were just okay?
Dark days indeed.
waggz@programming.dev 23 hours ago
what about when they started to make cd players that could read a data disc full of mp3s? what a time to be alive. no need for a changer in the trunk!
Valmond@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Ha ha yeah, around the time where 128MB mp3 players got accessible!
DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 day ago
Well, that’s like your opinion, man.
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Nah, it’s more thinking about a time where things like not missing your favorite TV show was very high on your list of priorities.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
as an Xer i played video games for years before they invented “save game”
i’ve spent exactly 0.00 nanoseconds since then missing those pre-save-game days
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
And for retro games, emulators have left even that in the dustbin of time.
Sick of the last RPG save happening 20 minutes before a boss fight? Save at literally any moment with save states.
That too much work? You can rewind the entire game.
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Remember the C64 cheat cartridge? Saved off your game / reloaded it whenever you wanted.
I wanted one so much, but I never got one 😔
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Me either, but I would have wanted a Fast Load cartridge instead, but we couldn’t afford that either.
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 day ago
"You found a ‘tape’, with it you can save once "
Yeah , what a bs thing.
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
That’s part of the horror in survival horror though. I liked that feature in Resident Evil, etc.
Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I sometimes wish manual save was a thing. Autosave is nice, but dont take away features please.
Like in expedition 33. I didnt realize you could only fight the last boss 1 time, so i went and did endgame after the story. Now i cant see the ending(s) without doing a full play through or watching someone else do it on youtube.
I started NG+ lol