Music, game, novel, show, what have you. What do you love that’s particularly old?
My Atari 2600. Xmas gift in the late 70s.
MY WILLY
Your mom.
Oh wonderful, I’m glad to hear it. Don’t suppose you have any tips for navigating her incessant quilting talk while you’re here?
To put joking aside, I have been trying to make a sort of quilt pattern to add to one of my sweatshirts, but I’m not good at sewing and don’t have a sewing machine. So I would probably listen to her talk about quilts and how to make the edges look good.
I would also take quilting advice from OP’s mum
My wife
Came here to say, “my husband.”
My wife. 🥰
Their wife 🤭
OUR WIFE
John Grisham novels. Currently reading one from the 90s.
I like 80s movies too, but nothing I’d watch on a daily basis.
A handmade ceramic mug I bought when I first got out of homelessness. Probably about fifteen years old now. It’s white with a flared base and motif of a bison on it.
Gonna need a pic mate
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Nice mug bro!
It’s the game of Go. Also known as baduk, weiqi, igo. It’s a board game known for being pretty old.
Hell yeah. Go is amazing. Crazy that something with such simple rules can be so deep… Wish I had some locals to play with
The Sun
(the firey ball of doom, not the garbage newspaper)
To be fair the newspaper is also a giant ball of Doom
Good point
Video games in general, I’ve never stopped playing them.
There was a period of time where I thought I stopped liking them. But it was just because everything new was trash (early access slop or f2p nonsense) or my anti-genres.
Same here. I try not to nostalgia-hole myself too much, because I don’t want to fall out of touch with the state of things and end up like a crotchety old person complaining about how great things used to be.
I found myself caring less and less about newer games, and thought I was just getting over gaming in general. But when going back to replay some old favorites on a whim, I realized I still enjoyed them just as much as I used to. I don’t know if it’s a style thing or just the difference between physical-only and newer digital release models, but it does feel like they don’t make games like they used to.
What I’ve noticed over the years has been how accessible the unity engine is for new developers.
So many unity games tend to look the sameish. They use the same free content packs and follow the same tutorials. Unfortunately this engine also sucks for performance and it’s easy for it to feel slow and clumsy without extra effort.
After the popularity of Minecraft and Fortnite, it seems like every developer has been chasing that dragon. Bolting survival, crafting and grinding into their games.
It can be done well, but most of these games feel like classic mmorpg grinding, while offering nothing enjoyable in exchange.
On top of that there are predatory games that attempt to normalize the behavior of paying to win or accelerate earning something. Many unfortunate kids have been fooled into spending thousands of real dollars on what equates to nothing. In older games you earned outfits and characters based on skill and achievements.
Many modern games feel hollow and gross.
I’ve got a trumpet (YTR-6320) from the 80s I bought used a bit back. It looks beat to hell but it just sings! It’s as light as a feather aswell- I can play with one hand in my pocket.
Media-wise, I love some old 1930s swing and jazz tracks. It’s super interesting to hear how similar some songs are to modern music.
That’s freaking awesome! Trumpet is so cool, I have one that I wanna learn to play someday.
Hell yeah! It’s a tough instrument, but it’s the most expressive one (in my opinion). Trumpets always sound like the person who’s playing them, almost like an extension of your personality. I think there’s something wonderful about that.
My Purdue University Basketball lamp from the early 1990s. That or my townhouse built in 1986 if we are going for those. I didn’t go to Purdue if you are wondering.
Fountain pens. They don’t make custom alloys of gold specifically for their nibs any more because they’re not ubiquitous. An old “wet noodle” italic Parker or Waterman is a writing experience to behold.
I’m more fond of dip pens, they are terribly impractical but for me it’s a joy.
One of my favourite nibs is the blue pumpkin.
It’s my all time favourite. Brause Steno
Try out fudepens too. Fountain pens, but with a brush end. Sometimes they’re refillable (my preference), sometimes they’re not. They make them with actual bristle brush tips, but also foam tips like calligraphy markers.
I’ve come to really enjoy them.
This old game called Squarez Deluxe.
I know it’s old, I know it has low resolution, I know it doesn’t meet the standard of modern gaming, but it’s (in my view obviously) the best shape packing game ever made.
Like destroys Tetris… Which can’t even hold a candle to this game. Not to say that Tetris is a bad game, it’s a brilliant game!
I just think Squarez Deluxe takes it to the next level and gives so much room for player creativity.
The basic just is that you have a play field, and with a short timer for each, you are given blocks which can be various 9x9 shapes that you rotate and move freely on the grid and place at will.
All of the complexity comes from the special blocks which can have positive, negative, or in between effects.
Your positive tools are scarce, but if you use them creatively and with forward probabilistic thinking, you can have amazing, hour-long sessions that you cannot look away from.
Some of the special blocks are goo traps that explode so shapes that pass by get stuck. Some are acid that let you destroy blocks at will and you can form your pieces into very unique shapes that tuck in exactly where you need them.
There are bombs, mines, missiles, playfield expanders/contractors, etc.
The first two modes get you acquainted with the mechanics, but Extreme Mode is where the game is played.
The original developer is a cool dude and he changed it to freeware so you can grab DOSBox and hit myabandonware or archive and be playing like in minutes.
My PS2. Thanks to Homebrew and some gadgets I bought I can to play a ton of games in their original hardware and it’s been awesome.
I still got my PS2 with the HDD modded to load backups. Haha.
