>fixing notebook for a ~70 years old lady 
>comes, pays, asks about gaming tier GPUs for her desktop 
>little took back I inquire about the price range and what 
games, solitaire, sudoku, puzzle games...
>nope, I play the Assasin
>Assassin's creed? 
>yes, on my grandsons console, I just love Venice
>she pauses
>and killing people
  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    2 months ago

    Tomorrow’s bingo halls will instead be net gaming centres, and the old men sitting at tables in bars playing cards will be playing Balatro.

    • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You jest, but if someone opened up a bona fide internet cafe in my area, I just know it’d be filled with nostalgic 30-to-40-year-olds playing Counter Strike 1.6 and yelling at each other.

      LAN parties need to come back…

      • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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        2 months ago

        The upmarket ones can advertise having new CRT monitors. By then, surely someone will have started a factory somewhere making them in artisanal quantities for well-heeled retro-gaming enthusiasts.

        • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I mean, it would be pretty awesome to see a top-ot-the-line CRT with contemporary materials and techniques. Like, the apgee of CRT displays :-?

          • Obi@sopuli.xyz
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            2 months ago

            This is probably not really possible. Was watching something recently about how modern cassette players are super bad compared to the ones from the peak of the technology. Like they’re bigger, offer less functionality, and aren’t as reliable etc. Because they’re not benefitting from economy of scale anymore, the old assembly lines are long gone and creating new ones that can beat the old stuff is crazy hard/expensive. So they just all use the one model available for the actual mechanism and it’s trash.

            So if someone made a CRT today it probably wouldn’t beat the old stuff.

            • pory@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Worse for CRTs than that - the manufacturing process and power draw of the finished product wouldn’t pass modern environmental regs. The heavy glass is leaded, because the CRT is beaming you in the face with radiation. Leaded glass is a big no-no nowadays. Even if someone got a CRT factory up and running they wouldn’t likely be allowed to operate domestically in Europe/North America, and shipping 200 pound glass sealed vacuum flasks is a recipe for lost inventory.

              Not to mention, even with economies of scale in play, the kind of monitors/TVs that modern CRT enthusiasts want cost thousands of dollars new in the late 90s/early '00s. The material costs wouldn’t have gotten cheaper, so even if somehow Sony or whoever started producing CRTs at scale again they’d likely be $3k+ luxury products (again). Flatscreen panels, even those HDR 8K OLED ones, are simply way way cheaper to manufacture and ship.

              My 32 inch Trinitron ($35 on craigslist, it was actually free but the dude agreed to $25 to drive it over and I tipped him ten bucks) cost some schmuck $999 in 2003, that’s $1800 in today money. A quick amazon search shows that if you’re willing to pay $2k on a TV in 2025 it buys you a 65-inch 8k 120hz Samsung display. An 85-inch 60hz 4k display also by Samsung is “only” $1200. No CRT purist niche is gonna make producing 200 pound radioactive power sucking naturally blurry chonkbeasts worthwhile for a company, even if they could theoretically get them made for as cheap as they made 'em in 2005.

        • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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          2 months ago

          Someone opened a video game hang out place 3 years ago and it’s still somehow going strong. So clearly there is some demand and isn’t an entirely possible business model.

          Like a decade ago we had these weird net cafes that were actually digital casinos I guess? That was weird, I think the law got to them.

    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      If global warming doesn’t eradicate humanity by then we will have to pick between dnd nights and lan party sundays. This motivates me to live.

      • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Back in Uni, we’d just do weekend-longs:)) We landed at that sweet spot where laptops were ok-ish enough to be able to run the LAN staples without combusting in a 20m² room with four beer-farty and sweaty people, on 40°C summer days.

        We’d start off with some frags, run a couple of boardgames, fall asleep for a couple of hours, wake up, make coffee, start from the top! Pretty sweet experiences, Borderlands 2 is amazeballs when the entire team’s in the room and wasted.

        Edit: if we got lucky, we’d manage to corrupt one of our posh classmates who were renting. If not, we’d just alternate between hotboxes in the dorm:))

      • Omega@discuss.online
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        2 months ago

        DnD nights with 50 year olds would be the most hilarious, thought provoking, action filled and emotional adventure ever.

  • Pnut@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Guessing at her generation here but: “I love Venice. And killing the great grandparents of Nazis”

    • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I had some 60 year olds in my guild in Guild Wars. They told me about a 90 year old that raided a few times with them.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    2 months ago

    I’m currently watching a granny’s let’s play of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on YouTube. She’s lovely. And has an avatar of an angry grandma holding the controller the wrong way around.

  • astrsk@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    And this will only get better as millennials start getting over that hill.