[RandallBrown]

When the Xbox 360 came out decades ago, the store I got mine from did this. They had like 10 consoles and there were like 200 people there. They did a raffle for the consoles and I got to buy one. It felt like I won the Xbox even though I still had to pay for it.

[transcriptase]

I never thought much of the need for trigger warnings until I read “the Xbox 360 came out decades ago”

[Arainach]

The XBox 360 release is closer to the (US) release of the NES than it is to the current day.

[SpaceNoodled]

Reading this was physically painful.

[giancarlostoro]

Dang. That wasn't supposed to be a challenge... That will have eventually become true no matter what tbh.

[Sophira]

Similarly, Windows XP's release is closer to the release of the IBM 5150 (the first-ever IBM PC) than it is to today.

[tosti]

But the difference in computing power is more impressive between the first IBM PC in 1981 and a new PC from 2001, than between a new PC from 2001 and now. At least subjectively (it might be that software in general got more slower than hardware got faster).

[Keyframe]

we're dead, practically.

[Bluecobra]

red rings of death, specifically :)

[pluralmonad]

Time to wrap us in a towel and put us in the oven!

[mvcosta91]

The original Crysis will be TWENTY YEARS OLD in 2027.

[kube-system]

And I still can't afford a GPU to play it

[Hamuko]

Don’t worry, you also can’t afford RAM to play it either. Not that it needs much.

[Fuzzwah]

30th anniversary of Quake's release today.

[godshatter]

That one for me is particularly painful. We were playing the alpha release before the game officially came out after work. I still work at the same place, though I've moved jobs within it a few times.

[croon]

I read a plot outline describing "turn of the century" and it threw me when I figured out they were talking about the early 2000s.

[teaearlgraycold]

Casual reminder we're all mortal! :D

[inigyou]

DX

I don't fear dying in a car accident. I dread the certainty that one day I'll be 80 and all I'll have left are memories, everything and everyone I ever loved will be gone (unless I have children which is very unlikely at this point), the world will be completely alien to me, and there's absolutely nothing I can do to prevent this - apart from dying even sooner which is even worse.

I think there are ways most people cope with this knowledge most of the time so they don't go crazy. I get why so many elites are obsessed with preventing aging.

[teaearlgraycold]

Become closer to people younger than you and not everyone you know will be dead when you're old.

[64738]

Just a few days ago I was thinking about firing up my 360 to play some Halo Reach. Any idea if the online matchmaking still works?

[jamesfinlayson]

I think the Xbox 360 online stuff was only shut down... two or three years ago? It hung around for a long time.

[salad-tycoon]

They have the Master Chief collection or something (almost all the games in one with a selector screen), I remember a year or two ago booting into and playing online game, plus there appears to be a discord server that organizes players to better reach playable numbers.

[Chaosvex]

It doesn't.

[nottorp]

Had that at a national electronics chain in romania for the PS5 launch.