[Lammy]

> The ads were EVERYWHERE and people I knew who had never even owned a games console were buying the PS1.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/06/06/the-sucking-or...

“When we saw the first commercials for the Playstation — glitzy, MTV style affairs that spoke to the sort of people we weren't — we began to worry. They were selling our heritage to the same fucking guys who used to beat us up in P.E.!”

[rovolo]

> Our heritage

Wow, that's quite the historical artifact. I can't get back into the headspace where people like PA thought they "owned" the concept of video games.

[sublinear]

I'm so glad this phoney baloney marketing concept called "nerd culture" finally died during the covid years. It was the basis for a lot of silly crap on the internet that should long be dead by now.