gaming
partcularly directed towards the convo in one-liners (didn't want to completely hijack the one-liners) hehe
you know the cliche 'hard to teach an old dog new tricks'. well I started gaming on 2600 & Intellevision. At some point my appeal for newer games started to dwindle exponentially.
my personal apex was 16-bit era (in my mid teens). It just can't (and won't) get any better for me, because of the euphoric memories locked in that timeline. i realize this is a factor of linear progressive existence more than anything else. but 2D 16-bit days were pretty damn cool also, so it just makes it that much harder to move past.
getting old sucks in this respect. some people are more adaptive than others. i'm not so much.
also, my old-time stubborness is directly mostly towards console gaming. in the PC world, I'm a lot more open-minded to what's new. Particularly because multi-player FPS games is where it's at, and doing this on a console totally BLOWS!
Like playing multi-player Halo on an X-box with a gamepad and 4-way split screen VS a mouse and keyboard and your own monitor? No contest.
I hope that much of this is just a 'new old guy' phase and that I will experience some kind of personal renaissance in years to come.
hehehe... in the meantime, keep those good game suggestions coming!
you know the cliche 'hard to teach an old dog new tricks'. well I started gaming on 2600 & Intellevision. At some point my appeal for newer games started to dwindle exponentially.
my personal apex was 16-bit era (in my mid teens). It just can't (and won't) get any better for me, because of the euphoric memories locked in that timeline. i realize this is a factor of linear progressive existence more than anything else. but 2D 16-bit days were pretty damn cool also, so it just makes it that much harder to move past.
getting old sucks in this respect. some people are more adaptive than others. i'm not so much.
also, my old-time stubborness is directly mostly towards console gaming. in the PC world, I'm a lot more open-minded to what's new. Particularly because multi-player FPS games is where it's at, and doing this on a console totally BLOWS!
Like playing multi-player Halo on an X-box with a gamepad and 4-way split screen VS a mouse and keyboard and your own monitor? No contest.
I hope that much of this is just a 'new old guy' phase and that I will experience some kind of personal renaissance in years to come.

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