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Grungie

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  1. It's fine if the person is levelheaded, but in my experience, that only happens irl. Online that tends to be a rarity in my experience. It's also very common online where it's okay to associate negative stereotypes as the norm towards the opposing side, and negative stereotypes of what you identify with is either just a stereotype, or a blatant lie that was created as propaganda. So when you run into people like that, it tends to get pointless discussing things with them.
  2. I've never heard of this game before
  3. Which one are you talking about?
  4. I like the Wii now, but I hated it back then. The numerous drought periods of “real” games vs the onslaught of shovelware was rough. Nowadays people can remember the good games and ignore the bad ones.
  5. Some can be annoying, especially if you can’t customize the audio levels, but the ones that are obnoxious to me are kind of a rarity.
  6. Anya is precious and the true star of the show. RIP the dodgeball game
  7. Knowledge is key, but also you have to be able to properly get your point out. All the knowledge in the world won’t help if you don’t know how to explain it. I personally also tend to stay away from politics online and stick to more factual topics as opposed to opinions. With the factual stuff, it tends to be more black and white. Like “does this exist?”, or “is this feature possible?”. With politics, it tends to just get annoying, as lately, a lot of people tend to fall under “you have to 100% agree with me or you’re obviously the extremist of my opposing political affiliation”. Or how individual news sites are only considered factual if it agrees with them, and untrustworthy if it disagrees with them. So when you regularly run into people like that, it’s like, why bother?
  8. Apparently they were a big deal in the 80’s and 90’s, and it was considered a big mistake that Sega pissed them off so much that EA refused to support the Dreamcast, which was one of the downfalls of the console.
  9. Nice, I haven’t looked into it after I installed it. I’ve always just used the Windows key.
  10. Iirc, there’s a setting or something you can install that moves the start button back to the bottom left. Or just press the Windows key on your keyboard.
  11. The problem with using outdated operating systems is your chances of vulnerabilities on your computer will increase significantly as time goes on. You’ll be fine if it isn’t plugged into the internet, but if you do, it’ll be the equivalent of leaving your door wide open. Your computer won’t explode immediately after the end date, but as time goes on, your computer won’t be getting much software support from other companies besides Microsoft.
  12. It’s a free upgrade, that is if your computer has TPM 2.0, which isn’t as uncommon as people think.
  13. It could be attributed to the lack of economic/political stability in large parts of the continent. There’s also the issue of modern day infrastructure, for things like roads, electricity, and internet. Some places you’ll only be able to sell your product in the major city(s), but you’d have difficulty transporting the goods to other parts of the country due to poor roads, or warlords, or those other towns don’t have internet or even electricity.
  14. Most file recovery programs seem to mostly exist for recovering files from corrupted drives more so than you accidentally deleting something. Other than that, you need to get some FBI tier shit.
  15. It seems quick at face value, but then I remember that Windows 10 older than I act like it is.
  16. The only reason not to (besides just not wanting to) is if you have software or drivers that aren't supported. I have it and it works fine on my PC.
  17. Sounds like it’d be fun
  18. I'm sure it will eventually. Even looking at stuff not related to video games from when I was in high school, like fashion, looks dated by today's standards.
  19. It was cool for a bit, but most games just used it poorly.
  20. My job had me work from home in 2020 and parts of 2021, it was pretty nice. Sadly they wanted us back in the office.
  21. I can explain Green Day. Them and the Offspring were one of the first pop-punk bands to get signed to a major label and get major airplay. Grunge was on its way out, so they were considered fresh and different. You could say they timed it just right when they came out with Dookie, but looking at the competition in the genre at the time, there wasn't that much competition either.
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    Dreamcast

    It is kind of weird that the Saturn was the most popular Sega console in Japan. In Europe Sega probably carried over a lot of Master System fans for the Mega Drive, and you can read about the infamous console wars for how much money they pumped into marketing the Genesis for America. You can see how much damage the 32X did for the Saturn in the West, and in North America, they also botched the launch by releasing it 6 months early, and also didn't tell some major retailers. So some of the biggest stores for video games refused to stock the console.
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    Dreamcast

    I’m trying to remember where I found where it specifically listed Japan and not Asia, but here it has the sales figures for North America, Asia, and Europe: https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Dreamcast The Dreamcast only sold a little over 9 million units worldwide and half of the sales were in North America. It’s also documented on multiple websites on how the Dreamcast launch was a flop in Japan, and you can see than North America was a bigger market for the Dreamcast. The actual console was discontinued in Japan in 2001 like North America, but they still trickled out games for it afterwards, which could lead into the facade that it was more popular there. https://sega.fandom.com/wiki/Dreamcast https://segaretro.org/History_of_the_Sega_Dreamcast/Release There are multiple factors for the Dreamcast’s failures. The piracy aspect didn’t really help. Though they also didn’t help by releasing so many consoles in a short amount of time, and not really supporting them, causing a loss of consumer confidence. The 32X and Saturn definitely didn’t help in North America. Sega was also broke, so they couldn’t “tough it out” like Nintendo did with the Wii U, because Nintendo was rolling in bank after coming off the Wii and the DD, and the 3DS was also starting to do well. If you look at the sales figures for Sega consoles, they all had different stories and large variations in sales figures in different regions unlike Nintendo. Edit: nvm, found it. I think I could have mixed up the worldwide sales for the Saturn as opposed to just Japan, but still a big drop: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles_by_region#Japan
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    Dreamcast

    It wasn't that popular outside of the US either. It wasn't like the Saturn where Japanese sales were carrying it, or the Master System where European sales were carrying it. If you look at sales figures, it wasn't very high. The Sega Saturn sold about 8 million in Japan. The Dreamcast sold 2 million. People might have gotten the facade that it was doing better in Japan because it was on store shelves longer, but when you sell 1/4 of what your predecessor did, I wouldn't call that a success either. It also sold less in Europe than it did in Japan. A lot of the Dreamcast's failures had more to do with Sega as a company. They created a lack of confidence in consumers by releasing a bunch of hardware in succession, and a short amount of time, and not doing a good job supporting it. After the Genesis/Mega Drive, this is what came out: Sega CD Sega 32x Game Gear Saturn Sega basically played the Google game before Google. The 32X also did the most damage, as it was advertised as the 32bit console to own, only for the Saturn to be released 6 months later. When the Dreamcast came out, a lot of people were like "oh great, another Sega console, they're gonna abandon it soon".
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