OT: Majorly Annoyed

[VorpalBunny]

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Well, I remember seeing TSR-80's when I was in grade school and playing Zork I in High School on a 286...

- apparently out grognarded VB

 

[reapersaurus]

yep!
[slight hijack] When you grow up, and Atari 2600's Combat, or Air-Sea Battle is the height of multiplayer goodness, than you tend to have less exacting standards on animation, and CGI in movies & games.

Personally, I'm SO sick of 'everyone' bashing movies for "unbelievably bad CGI" I could puke. What ever happened to a shred of suspension of disbelief?
The young (prevalent) approach on the internet is that everything has to be better than ever seen before, or it's "The Worst Evar!@"

[/hijack]

 

[welby]

play a mud over telnet. That got me through some boring college days.

 

[PowerWordDumb]

Gah, they blocked irc from the colleges net access....i cant connect! what will i do! i cant breath, its getting dark....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Just drink some more Pepsi Blue, and you'll be fine. Except for the drinking Pepsi Blue part - ewwww.

(Yes, it's going to follow you forever )

 

[d4]

i'm out-grognarded by some of you, but when i was in college i was the only person in the whole dorm that had his own computer in his room.

of course, it was a PC-clone that wasn't even good enough to be X86 anything, had no hard drive, and had a monitor that could only show four colors.

still spent half of my first semester playing the original Pool of Radiance on it though!

 

[Wolf72]

Nin-ten-doh???

why back in MY day it was the Atari 2600!!! and dang it ... we loved it. Until it started overheating, then it needed a 15m break (and so did my thumb).

ah ... the atari joystick, I still think it was one of the most rugged and usable joysticks I've ever used.

 

[Halivar]

All I had was one of those little hand-held football games with the lights that you got from Radio Shack.

And it wasn't even mine. I "borrowed" it.

Then I finally got to use an Apple IIgs at school. Oh, the bliss of four colors...

 

[Mark]

The Origin of the Wargaming Term "Grognard"

 

[Krieg]

In my senior year, they added a laser printer that could only print characters (no graphics) and we liked it!

Hey! Be nice, ASCII graphics count you know!

Personally, I'm SO sick of 'everyone' bashing movies for "unbelievably bad CGI" I could puke. What ever happened to a shred of suspension of disbelief?

I just wish that CGI wasn't viewed as the answer to EVERY technical problem. Far too often it's become a crutch to good filmaking.

play a mud over telnet. That got me through some boring college days.

And to think that it was probably less than 10 years ago to boot!

Anyone else ever come out of a MUD induced daze & realize that they've been in the computer lab for 24 straight hours?

All I had was one of those little hand-held football games with the lights that you got from Radio Shack.

Those rocked!! Hard!

 

[Silver Moon]

(An old fogey like my can't resist jumping into this one...)

Arthur, you are so spoiled. Why when I was a boy the only computer in the high school was a huge main frame that did all of the cumputing for the whole town, and we students were only allowed access to it for one period a day under the direct supervision of THREE math teachers to ensure that we wouldn't break it. We had to write all of our code on machines similar to word processors and stack the disks and wait our turn to put them into the computer's only disk drive. The student behind you would also yank your disk (which was a 9-inch floppy) at the first error message (even the ones you could override). The school didn't get the first TRS80's (nicknamed Trash 80's) until I was about to graduate.

We also had to walk twenty miles to school both ways, but that's another story...