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Nerd Rage Against the Machine

Nerd Rage Against the Machine

by Adam on April 24, 2014 at 12:00 am
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  1. Gene
    Gene
    April 24, 2014, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Hahaha! and I saw this after 5-1/2 hours of mortal combat getting an nVidia 750ti to work in my Debian box. It didn’t even physically fit until I pulled out the motherboard and redid the water cooling.

    “Gettin’ stabby wi’ it” was never so literal.

  2. Ultimate Yes America 6-5000: The Movie
    Ultimate Yes America 6-5000: The Movie
    April 24, 2014, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    I’m only 18, but due to growing up in a poor household, I grew up with the likes of Atari and the NES. As such, I really hate hearing kids whine over not getting an Xbox when they wanted a PlayStation, or some dumb crap like that. Listen, kid, I didn’t have a cell phone until I was 16, and t you’re crying over getting an iPhone 5 instead of an iPhone 5s? That phone is getting shoved down your throat, you little bastard.

    • euphgeek
      euphgeek
      April 24, 2014, 9:41 am | # | Reply

      I’m 41, and we used to dream of having an Atari 2600. We didn’t even get our first computer until 1992 when I was in college, and it was an IBM PS/2 with DOS 5.0 and a 40MB hard drive. I didn’t even get a cell phone until I was living on my own. Also, we had to walk to school uphill both ways in the driving snow.

      • Mahnarch
        Mahnarch
        April 24, 2014, 1:19 pm | # | Reply

        Barefoot!

        • raison d'etre
          raison d'etre
          April 24, 2014, 2:16 pm | # | Reply

          “Also, we had to walk to school uphill both ways in the driving snow.”

          To get to summer school.

          • RIK
            RIK
            May 8, 2015, 3:05 pm | #

            Reminds me of Tom Smith (covering Frank Hayes, if I recall correctly):
            “And we walked twenty miles to the schoolhouse, barefoot and uphill both ways! Through blizzards in summer and winter! Back in the good old days!”
            See here: https://youtu.be/7tCM73mHd4E

    • Rena
      Rena
      April 25, 2014, 12:07 am | # | Reply

      Boy, let me tell you about the NES and Game Boy. And how much those cartridges cost. And we damn well liked it!

    • Jericho
      Jericho
      April 25, 2014, 6:27 pm | # | Reply

      That’s why MY kids (when I have kids) are starting from the NES and going up the line until they’re old enough to appreciate the difference!

  3. TaishiEa
    TaishiEa
    April 24, 2014, 1:26 am | # | Reply

    everytime i hear that a kid is upset since they can’t have the latest stuff given to them i calmly remind them they use to be used for cheap labor in the really old days.

  4. Thorbjørn
    Thorbjørn
    April 24, 2014, 1:48 am | # | Reply

    If you haven’t stared at a TV screen with stripes on it for ten minutes while waiting for your bandstation to finally load the data into you commodore 64, then you probably hadn’t had those weird tension head aches, as well…

    • Michael Corley
      Michael Corley
      April 24, 2014, 12:01 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe saving games to cassette tape on your TI 99/4A!

  5. Richard
    Richard
    April 24, 2014, 4:03 am | # | Reply

    Save games? Pfft! We did it hardcore mode EVERY time!!

    I played streets of rage from beginning to end twice in a row (because I selected the wrong option at the end boss).

  6. Izzie
    Izzie
    April 24, 2014, 7:57 am | # | Reply

    I love how there’s a bug in a baseball cap all like “What…?”!

    • Michael Corley
      Michael Corley
      April 24, 2014, 12:02 pm | # | Reply

      And the “must… Not… Kill…” Expression of Bug Prime.

  7. R. E. Hunter
    R. E. Hunter
    April 24, 2014, 8:54 am | # | Reply

    Ahh, good old Pong. I remember it fondly. “Beep… boop… beep… boop.”

  8. Jesse
    Jesse
    April 24, 2014, 8:55 am | # | Reply

    I’m 19, so I grew up with an N64. However, I still can’t believe when people focus on graphics more than if the game is actually fun. Also, is that Dudebug’s son or something? Speaking of which, we haven’t seen him in a while, have we?

    • Zimriel
      Zimriel
      May 22, 2017, 11:05 pm | # | Reply

      Dude, you grew up with Ocarina Of Time. That’s still better than every other game written ever.

  9. TheRedwolf
    TheRedwolf
    April 24, 2014, 9:05 am | # | Reply

    I feel exactly the same way, I grew up with SNES and NES and I still think those games look better than half the stuff we have nowadays because you can tell someone cared about it. I don’t give a crap if I can count the blades of grass if everything is boring and the game sucks, but if you give me a sheet of patterned green for the grass and make the stuff with character and build a story and set of mechanics that’s unique and fun, that’s what matters to me.

    • Deathtrap111
      Deathtrap111
      April 27, 2014, 12:24 am | # | Reply

      I’m sorry, a lot of NES/SNES games didn’t have any kind of story to them, a lot were just arcade games made into console games. Stop looking at the past with rose colored glasses, there were good and bad games just like now.

      • TheRedwolf
        TheRedwolf
        May 8, 2014, 11:04 am | # | Reply

        I never claimed that every game was that high of quality, but the ones that were blow most modern games out of the water. I’m sorry that I have a difference of opinion from you, but I don’t honestly think I’m looking with rose colored glasses as I frequently replay older games and I still play new games. Yes, there are plenty of great new games, and yes, there are plenty of great old games, but games nowadays just have something in the majority that feels different. It’s not all of them, but some.

  10. Tastymonkey
    Tastymonkey
    April 24, 2014, 11:22 am | # | Reply

    My first console was the Atari 2600, which I may still have somewhere. My first computer had no hard drive. When I hear people whine about graphics I want to make them sit and beat Contra on the NES WITHOUT the extra lives code. Or heck, play Battletoads for 12 hours straight with their mouth taped shut so they cannot scream at that game.

    • Mahnarch
      Mahnarch
      April 24, 2014, 1:23 pm | # | Reply

      HA! I just had my old 2600 out of storage the other day. Sadly, I need an adapter to get it to work on the newer TVs, which I’m too lazy to go out and find.

  11. Kth-77
    Kth-77
    April 24, 2014, 2:40 pm | # | Reply

    Well at least those old games had more colors than Brown and other brown!

  12. Davidk92
    Davidk92
    April 24, 2014, 2:59 pm | # | Reply

    Baseball Cap Bug is now my favourite bug.

  13. wingspin
    wingspin
    April 24, 2014, 4:17 pm | # | Reply

    I want to make a Mr. Wrestling or Mr. Wrestling II “Sleeper Hold” reference… but those guys are older than an Atari.

  14. Mister Jay
    Mister Jay
    April 24, 2014, 7:17 pm | # | Reply

    I lived through the Nintendo, Snes, Sega, Dreamcast, Ps1, Ps2, Xbox, and xbox 360 console wise. {i didnt own every system but i played my friends] Every time someone complains about grapics I want to strangle them myself. My Ideal game would be an RPG with lots of customization , choices, and endings.

    Then on the side for Graphics i’d have another game which wouldnt have any plot or gameplay all it would be is someone taking a few hundred pictures of an abandoned building and rendered it into an graphics driver so it came together looking like you were actually touring the building.

    Eventually when technology evolves enough combine the two. Right now there’s an Indie “game” called Japanorama where you stand in one place but is otherwise like my graphics game.

  15. Greenebeard
    Greenebeard
    April 24, 2014, 11:28 pm | # | Reply

    I love good graphics, but I still play my old games (super Mario 3, contra, etc). I hear these kids whine and I have that EXACT same “must not strangle” look as Bug. Thanks for the laugh!

  16. Bugster
    Bugster
    December 9, 2015, 2:31 pm | # | Reply

    I believe I am the only one who was alive when “Tennis for two” came out. Forget pong, kids, THAT was the oldest game ever!

  17. Courtney
    Courtney
    March 1, 2016, 11:46 am | # | Reply

    Seeing reviews on Steam complaining about 30fps also makes me feel like this.

  18. Mr. X
    Mr. X
    July 7, 2017, 1:25 am | # | Reply

    I’m not quite this old, but I remember the original Super Mario Bros. Like my parents before me, I say kids today are spoiled.

  19. Anne Onymous
    Anne Onymous
    October 8, 2020, 4:12 pm | # | Reply

    I am one of those “kids” you whine about. And no, I am not a graphics snob, not all kids are that whiny, and you used to be a little brat yourself.

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