Instant crash for me. Pixel 6

After reading that post, I’m actually pretty glad they’re leaving.

Exactly. What’s going to happen? 30 yr dev cycles?

I mean I’m a fan of elder scrolls. What’s going to happen it its development cycle?

So growing up my uncle taught me all about computers. We built them together (early 90s, so DOS days - not even MS-DOS), built the drivers together, etc. Ended up being a pretty significant hobby for me even now.

Going to college, I thought that since tons of my generation were going into computers, we’d flood the market, pay would crash, and every subsequent generation would have tons of people too, so companies would hire the young college kids.

Now, I realize I screwed up. People older than me have no idea about computers. People younger than me have no idea about computers. They use them all the time, but almost have even less understanding of how they actually function than older people. My guess is that older generations had to make everything work, so they have a bit of knowledge to use to figure out new things. Younger generations have had everything catered to them, so they haven’t ever had to figure a single thing out. If it doesn’t make perfect sense to them immediately, they leave.

Just yesterday I couldn’t figure out how to find a profile I followed on Instagram. There was a fresh out of college kid I work with that kind of chuckled and made a (good natured, but naively insulting) remark that basically insinuated I was too old to get tech. I couldn’t take it, so I told her that I was actually using the first phone I hadn’t put a custom OS on and how a couple Xmas’ ago, I had built an unRAID server because I was sick of my computer bogging down with all the extra stuff I had it do. They hadn’t even heard of a command line before.

So long winded rambling aside, it makes me sad that no one knows, or even wants to know, how things work anymore. They seem to want it served to them and the slightest amount of work will make them move on. Every generation says the kids are horrible, etc, so I’m hoping it’s just that and we’ll still have a generation of scientists and engineers.

Absolutely detest them. I still consistently play old games because they’re a blast and make me remember when I was a kid. That won’t happen for my kids with their games, as the servers will be long gone and close to zero companies are going to spend more time updating the game to not need a server. I’m an old man yelling at my lawn, but games went from trying to entertain to trying to suck every cent they can out of you.

One of my biggest enjoyments is hacking games up as well. You can learn about coding (set ammo to -1 - is it unlimited, 0, or game crashing). Sometimes it’s fun to be a god after a stressful day. Sometimes my kids play with me and I don’t want to have to tell them no, worry about them dying every couple seconds and getting frustrated, or having to drop it altogether.

I just want to buy a damn game and play it how it entertains me the most - not have to deal with server errors, not have to deal with 12 year olds screaming, not have to deal with people who have far more time than I do being 1000x better.

So far I have no problems with 99% of what everyone else seems to have. It’s not super intuitive to sign up and figure out all the instances/sites, but it wasn’t THAT hard and I’m not planning on signing up too often. Finding new subreddits (for lack of the terminology knowledge) really needs to be improved - it took me well over a day to figure it out (but admittedly I was only using jerboa).

The only things that bug me are some missing quality of life features my 3P Reddit app had, like automatically making as read when scrolling past and being able to quickly hide/dismiss seen content. I’m not used to seeing the same articles over and over. Also, and it’s pretty dumb, but being able to double tap for up vote and triple tap for down vote. Don’t need it, just drive myself crazy since it’s so ingrained.

The only other “complaint” I have is simply the amount of content. I was subscribed to quite a few niche subreddits that fit my interests/humor well, and those obviously haven’t migrated over. The YEARS of help in computer subreddits or whatever isn’t here. There’s no crazy specific subreddit to discover with tons of content.

With all of that being said, I currently have zero plans or desire to go back to Reddit, and it really hasn’t been all that hard so far. I swapped out my homescreen shortcut on my phone and I’ve been enjoying my time so far. I’m desperately hoping that this doesn’t die out in a couple days/weeks/months because it’s good to have competition, Reddit is effectively dead to what I need it to be, and I have zero desire to give Reddit any money after their views on us came out (to name a few reasons of many).

I also hope the toxicity stays away, but I’m not that naive. And I’m REALLY hoping that people with more time than I have bring over their comments/posts so I can search for them here. Reddit was one of the last places I knew that wasn’t stuffed full of ads and bot-generated, search-optimized posts that made little sense and didn’t help at all.

Doom 2016 - remake of a classic that everyone loved, with the soundtrack being a very large part of it.

I LOVE RPGs and open world games. Love the Fallouts (all of them except 76), elder scrolls, dragon age, old baldurs gates, etc. Basically every game that’s apparently indicative of liking the Witcher 3. But holy hell, I’ve played it 4x and can only get 10 hours or so into it before I have to turn it off. I have no idea why honestly, because every thing about it screams that I’ll love it.