None of these forum website owners, here or NeoGAF gets any money from me, if their only source of revenue is ads and/or ads clicks. Adblock always on.

My contempt with the powers that be in this forum is even more than those at NeoGAF. I only hanged out and posted in the gaming section in NeoGAF, while the slimey behaviours of the powers that be there are mostly concentrated in the OT section. The powers that be in LYN however, goes beyond everywhere, and at one time, I was the butt-end of their joke because I stood for something I believed in and was vocal about it. Was in my "I give a shit" phase at that time,......now? I couldn't care less if LYN cease to exist at this moment, the conversations have gone elsewhere for the kind I need to fill my time with, and the main bulk of filler content posted here are from clueless millennials, dumb teenagers and kids who couldn't even post or spell properly, much less carry on any form of interesting conversations or debates.

"You know Ellie, we really are the last of us" - Joel, "The Last of Us".

I'm a dying breed. Even carrying meaningful long conversations today feels like a superpower.

After watching a couple of "YouTubers" sponsored by Nintendo with a copy of the Super Mario Odyssey game (because their collective subscribers numbers in the millions means fat juicy $$$ monetization ad moneh for Nintendo!), I can safely conclude that modern games has dulled their creativity senses to the point that they're don't get it or OVERTHINKING it when the solution is as SIMPLE AS IT F**KING GETS.

That's what shitty games like COD and Battlefield, and multiplayer games like Overwatch, PUBG and CS:GO does to you: you lose your sense of creativity in solving puzzles/overcoming endgame bosses, because the solution to every single one of these games is "just shoot everyone and survive", and these morons cant function outside of that mantra. When presented with anything slightly more complicated than that, they either blank out and loses the SIMPLEST boss fights, or OVERTHINKING what they should do to beat it, and when they can't beat it? "This game sucks!" is the first thing that comes out of their over-privileged mouths.

Pffffffttt, ...... MILLENNIALS.

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The better ones are the ones that are silently playing. Those babbling ones are clearly playing just to pad their viewer counts/likes/subscribers and have poor understanding or experience with Mario games.

You can see in the numbers of viewcounts that these playthroughs get: those acting like idiots, screaming and making stupid comments gets the most views while those who play skillfully gets very few views. What pisses me off is that these loudmouth moronic Youtubers who gets huge viewcounts then have the audacity to complain "why is this, why is that", "this doesn't explain things", WHEN THE GAME ACTUALLY EXPLAINED IT TO THEM EARLIER WHEN THEY ARE BUSY MAKING STUPID FACES, SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS OR SPEWING STUPID COMMENTS AT THE CAMERA. Pretty f**king bullshit, these kinds of nonsense had me screaming at the screen at the f**kers for not paying attention. Because these YouTubers have the attention span of a wet sponge and cannot hold attention any longer than a bullet shot from a gun in a COD game. Bloody idiots.

It's either of these two extremes: shallow noisy idiot YouTubers or speedrunners chasing time. I'd rather see creative skilled methods of attacking a level based on acrobatic moves of Mario, or imaginative ways to deal with puzzles or bosses in the game. Without an idiot moron playing the games with intent of fishing for "likes", clicks and subscribe. I also dont wanna play like a speedrunner, those players sucks the enjoyment of playing the game, all for the superficial glory of shaving time off "Any% complete" run. It's rare to find those who are skilled at Mario, commentate professionally (no screaming, making stupid faces,or COMPLETELY talking over everything in the game while streaming) and provide valuable insights into the games not generally known to public. I've posted "Ceave Gaming" on the SMO thread, based on his creative use of Mario's chaining together moves to reach areas previously thought impossible to reach.

Warms my heart to see a united front against loot boxes, microtransactions and games-as-a-service (GAAS). Even if you don't buy into these loot boxes, microtransactions and GAAS, the very fact that you handed your dollars to these four horsemen of the apocalypse (EA, Activision, Ubisoft, WB) signals to them that it is okay to support games with these slimy practices.

For every one of you, there's a 100,000 others who do, under the excuse of "my friends are playing it, and I'll get left behind if I don't join them". Once they get hooked in, the gambling nature of these loot boxes and the artificially long progression disguised behind grinding mechanism, further entice them to pay for these loot boxes under another excuse of "I dont wanna get left behind when other's are already so high level up than me", or "I work and I don't have time to grind, I'll just pay to get forward".

Add that these slimy corporations releases these games annually, voila! Congratulations, you're cattle. A cash cow.

https://twitter.com/JimSterling/status/930075633530605570



Moo.

Then how about this: you're paying a full price game for a game you only interested to play singleplayer in only, but all modern games are shoehorned with multiplayers aspect of it (in some cases, multiplayer content > single player campaign content) that you're effectively throwing away your money on a portion of a game you're not interested in.

Coz if you're not into multiplayer (which include that level chasing and progression), that is what effectively you're doing. And if you are into multiplayer, modern games developers purposely rewards very little in-game credits used for progression, to entice/force you into buying loot boxes and microtransactions. And if you choose not to buy loot boxes/microtransactions and choose to slowly grind your way in multiplayer, those who do indulge in those slimy practices will have unfair advantages over you in multiplayer, runing your enjoyment in the game.....and again, enticing you to buy more loot boxes or microtransactions to remain competitive.

Coz that's what's happening with Activision's COD:WW2 (forces you to spectate loot crate unboxing in game to progress through), EA's FIFA18 (Ultimate Team) and Battlefront II (Pay2Win and 40 hours grind to unlock only one hero to artificially lengthen your play time and keep you chained to playing the game), Ubisoft's Assassin's Origins (Heka Chests), and WB's Shadow of War (Pay2Win Orcs).

I'm gonna sound like an old fart, but during my days, when I pay set amount of RM buying a game, it comes complete, without Day 1 patches, without content broken into DLCs, microtransactions or loot boxes. Online multiplayer is the scourge that has been allowing these slimy practices to flourish.

And proud of it. No need emulators, we actually play them on floppies and arcades. None of these nonsensical gaming cafes and eSports.

Then you're not old enough. You're laughing at me sounding older than you, remember?

During my time, there's no Youtube. You play or you dont. None of this watch-people-play-like-and-subscribe thingy.

Really? During my days, Bob Barker just started hosting The Price is Right, and Jaws just came out at the cinema for less than RM5 a ticket. You're older than this?

Inb4 "we're fishing at the bottom of the barrel at who's older to allow complaining about modern shitty trends". Because modern trends are shit. Modern influencers have shifted from reputable and admirable people in the newscasting industry like Tom Brokaw and Walter Cronkite to screaming and yelling whatshisfaces on Youtube with colored dyed hair jumping around like monkeys in heat.

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Rex Cinema and White Castle fast food restaurant in 1970s > some shitty hostel (or whatever it has turned into now since it burnt down) and greasy, meh KFC where it is right now.

That very spot in KL was the place to be for movies, not like what it has turned into now: a hangout spot for Pinoys peddling fake cosmetics, and Indons and Banglas loitering around and holding hands respectively.

I'm an anomaly: I'm old but I don't act my age. I have the fact that I'm single and not burdened with stress of marriage and raising a family to thank for that. Makes me more open to changes and adapt (unless those changes are a "downgrade" or predatory in nature, then there's no point adapting to them, other than not being part of them and watch others make a fool of themselves being what others want them to be instead of being themselves.)

LOL, I absolutely adore the thread title change. During my time, indeed. The best days are the olden days. When you pay full price for something, you get the full product: not the nickel and diming happening these days with the products you buy - video games, motor vehicles, ....even food portions! "During my time" in the 70s and 80s, there's only kid's size and a single adult size meals. Now? You have Big Gulps the size of a baldi/pail and fast food meals designed to put you into cardiac arrest after eating it. Only for an extra RM1! Much wow, such value!

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During my time.........games are complete. No DLC, no microtransactions, no nickel and diming.

During my time.........internet toxicity while gaming is unheard of. Online multiplayer opened that floodgate of hate.

During my time.........people are not (or less) judgmental or nosy about racial and religious issues. And I'm thankful that my dad enrolled me into the school that reflect that same principle. Public school, I might add.

During my time..........primary and secondary education is a completely free amenity provided by the government. Now, you'll have to pay into private school to even hope to get that same level of education. Else you turn into the quality of teens frequently using the WeChat social space.

During my time..........the advertised picture of the burgers you see in advertisements in papers and TV is the same as what you get when you purchase them. Now? It's false advertising, propped up too look decevingly good, but the end result you get after paying is like having the same burger thrown against a brick wall: flat and sad. And oh, if you want the burgers that look like how it's advertised? PAY MORE by going to artisanal eateries that charges prices like it's a gourmet eating experience,....because they're taking advantage of the fact that minimum wage idiots are handling the burgers and cant be bothered to prepare them as how it should. Also, portion cuts. Big Macs in the 80s are two full patties, not one patty cut in half like what it is now. They faked it with using smaller buns now compared to what it used to, and therefore topped it with smaller "half" patties. Cheaper then than now too.

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"Bottle caps", "capping with tennis ball" or "throwing slippers". No microtransactions and loot boxes here. Multiplayer too.

Kids/teens/young adults/millennials these days are entitled spoiled brats.

Want something more tactical? Play "Empire". We called it "Empire", sometimes known as "Conquer".

*rolls up sleeve*



Many math books were sacrificed and mauled for its paper for this game, for me to hold the undisputed champion of "Empire" in Form 3 to Form 5 of my years in high school. Bring it!

Probably the same version of that game, but the card deck consists of cards with famous football players in the 80s. The deck of card is the equally distributed to two players, then the two players "deal" by putting those cards in the middle, the person in first turn will cup his hand and slam it down on the surface where the cards stack they both wagered, and see how many cards that the cupped hand slammed down on that surface can blow it upside down. Upside down meaning from face up to face down. Managing to do so, you keep those cards, and the next turn continues. Whoever manages to win the most (or all cards) win.

e-peen contest is sooooooo last decade, bruh. <-------trying "leet speak" like these vocabulary-challenged gamers/streamers/YouTuber.

My first fling with video games is that machine as well, with a single stick and a single red button on the side, purposely going to my neighbour's place waaaay early in the morning, so that I can play it there under the pretence of "buying frozen homemade icecream" he makes and sells for 10 sen a piece. Not aiskrim potong, but these "ice pops":



Where you can twist and break it into two halves in the middle because of that narrow section. It takes time to freeze though, and I used every single minute of that time hanging out at his place playing Pong on that thing.

Remember kids, those days we're not particularly worried about neighbours being perverts and molest you. Pedophilia or sexual perversion wasn't a rampant disease as it is right now, and we all know our neighbours very well with the Rukun Tetangga gatherings. I still remember my mom having baked kuih Seri Muka and kuih Bom and asking me to send a plate to the neighbours. That's what neighbours do in the 80s. Nowadays, you hardly see your neighbour's faces, much less do anything like these. Hell, you'd probably look the other way while driving out of the driveway, coz neighbours these days are obnoxious and inconsiderate of their adjoining neighbourhood and surroundings.

We do have those too, but the neighbour moved on to the harder plastic narrow middle casing because if the ice pop wasn't frozen properly it'll bleed through (or spray out like a broken fire hydrant ) when you bit that plastic at the end. Plus, breaking the pop in two (with that narrow middle helping) I can share it with my brother.

Some things never change though: the barbershop I go since kindergarten is still operating, and I still go there for my haircut, ......after all these 4 decades. Original owner passed away years back, the shop passed to his son, and I've had my hair cut by the father for half the timespan of my life, and now his son cuts my hair.

Still the same old facade, still have this thing around:



And for kids, that wooden plank they put on the arm rest so that kids can sit on that plank high enough for the barber to cut their hair. Still there.

I'll seek out modern "hairdressing salons" if I want my hair cut in the stylings of old lesbians. You know, with that thick hair at the top, but completely bald on the sides. Very androgynous and metrosexual. *can't say that with a straight face*



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