/retro/ - Y2K

>>4627
And a belated happy new year!

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>>4841
> I had figured out how to play videos in /dev/fb0, but not audio. As I discovered, you need to install SDL2 to build FFplay along with FFmpeg, and that pulls in some useless dependencies.
I boot my ARM SBC to fb0 at 640x480, and don't run Xorg most of the time (only via startx). The OS is Ubuntu 16.04, but I removed a bunch of stuff I don't like (systemd, pulseaudio, most GUI stuff...) and the stock ffplay package works fine here with sound via alsa driver. It's linked with SDL1, as you can see here.

>>4842
I keep coming back to this, setting up a Pi3 right now. I might pick up a Pi4 or Pi5 this summer and make it my main desktop. One of my main Linux gripes was installing recommended distros only to find out it had 90 tweak programs clogging up the start menus.

>>4842
>>4844
Based RPi knowers. For any uninitiates, a few years ago we created a step-by-step to getting up & running with Raspian. No RPi hardware needed!  :
https://alogs.space/robowaifu/res/4969.html#4969

>>4843
Yeah, I could take the time to thoroughly work things over.  Probably should, too, but if I'm going to re-engineer package management I have to do it systematically, to fold in other features I want, etc.
>640x480
God's true resolution!

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>>4846
>God's true resolution!

Yes. We actually live in really prude times now and people don't seem to be aware of it. The 80s and 90s were sexually a lot more open. The pearl clutching started in the late 90s and accelerated in the 00s.

>>4516 (OP) 
Browsing Negrogrounds and what the fuck happened? Since when it was fine to accept the crayon eating tards at Deviantart with open arms? Both sites were the opposite of each other and now they're the same shit?

>>4548
You forced faggotry onto others, they'll snap, it's an endless cycle of the weak destroying shit and future generations will redo their shit until hey get burned out.

>>4581
Newgrounds was losing relevance after the death of flash, so when Deviantart and Tumblr went to shit NG pivoted to being the "alternative" art website. Come to think of it NG was always full of degenerates so I'm not too worried about them, I would only worry about the censorship culture that permeated DA/Tumblr seeping into NG.

My mom watches this sometimes and she told me that they put a disclaimer before the reruns claiming that the show doesn't represent the views of the network airing it because of how "outdated" it is despite being edgy when it was airing.

>>4516 (OP) 
As others have already pointed out, Archie Bunker's character was written as satire, much like Homer Simpson.  That is to say that media provides prescriptive rather than descriptive depictions of society.

It's a relatively small group of people who decide what to prescribe as "real", so I wouldn't put any stock in the fact that such-and-such used to be considered kosher.

>>4823
I don't know what your problem is, but the links work fine for me.

>>4822
https://archive.is/YzVuJ
Interesting, second one worked on my phone, first one didn't so I used the archive.

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I hate what the internet has turned in to.

>>4832
makes my eyes bleed

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>>4832

Can you still get parallel and serial cards for newer computers?

Cool early-2000s tech conference showcase compilation
https://youtube.com/shorts/4klgLVD9lgk?si=ld5KBTYoSu7VdxJV

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>>4677
Yes, many old machines are still used in various factories, so there is still a demand for them. Although, it is an other question if you can buy them in your local computer store, because they most likely stopped carrying them a decade or two ago, so you'd have to order online. Or just use USB adapters.

Watch this too 

https://youtu.be/znPJZK1lwaY

Here

>A Videodisc You Can Record On - Sony's CRVdisc
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=ooiRZxtPx_Qgi
And even if you are not interested in any of that, you should still check out the Venturer rides:
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=A4ttoWK4yX8
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=O33vKqK3YdU
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>>3405
>The internet has always had its own speech patterns and common phrases, the difference now is that the main population driving language evolution has become normalfags who view the internet differently (in a more casual way) to those who were around in less user friendly more technically oriented times.
Yeah, back then a lot more of it felt like in-jokes that were relegated to certain sites or parts of the Internet other than the basic Interweb speak most people could understand. Nowadays it's a relative handful of big sites influencing online language. I will say that even a lot of older memes didn't age that well either, but at the same time I feel like people could communicate better without stuffing their writing to the gills with a bunch of unfunny rhetorical cliches. Am I really supposed to be amused by "Sir, this is a Wendy's" after seeing it for the thousandth time?

Also, I just learned a few minutes ago that Mike Matinee just released a video where he mentions just the phenomenon I'm bellyaching about.
>The whole lolcow community is anons LARPing about how normal and not lulzworthy they are right?
They actually seem to be more self-aware about their autism than they used to be; I'll give them that. The old lolcow imageboards were a lot more fun and less faggy though, even if they were arguably more spergy.

>>3405
>The whole lolcow community is anons LARPing about how normal and not lulzworthy they are right?
I haven't visited the site in a long time, and while it is filled with 'anons', it was infamous for the goon atmosphere that it had, especially with the hatred of all things anime.
>>3408
Am I really supposed to be amused by "Sir, this is a Wendy's" after seeing it for the thousandth time?
I feel like this is a huge problem because nobody ever wants to articulate themselves anymore. All they want to do is use the same smug snide comment for the one millionth time in a row and get their upboats so that they can feel socially validated for being an obnoxious retard. I understand why people on the internet are getting more and more hostile and combatative as the years go on. This kind of environment where nobody wants to truly talk to one another and instead use dumb one-liners only festers that kind of climate.

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>>2564 (OP) 
>seen twin towers or witnessed 9/11, even if you were 3 or 4 back then?
1996 here, so I was in kindergarten.
I don't remember much of that day beyond school ending early and me going back home to play some Crash Team Racing or Tomb Raider, blissfully unaware of the events that happened. My parents might have been in the living room watching the news, but at that time news and politics just seemed like boring old people activities, so I didn't bother investigating.
My parents nor my school never told us what happened, and I only found out a year or two later.

>>3303
This board is specifically designed with millennials and Zillennials in mind. It’s 1990s/2000s nostalgia, I.e. those ideally born between 1985 to 2001 are welcomed here to express their reminiscing about their younger years during those two decades. 

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>>3403
I don't see how someone using that phrase makes them a bot any more than saying some other online colloquialism like "n00b" or "normalfag" makes someone a bot, nor do I see how one could deduce that anon watches YouTube kids just from their comment alone. That's quite a reach and blindly talking down to them in that fashion doesn't help anyone. Anon is an old fart to enjoy himself like the rest of us here, not to be shat on. All this started just because someone politely wished to claim that they don't jive with the Zoomer label and wish to be referred to as "Zillennial", then the thread devolved into whatever this shitshow is.

>>3404
To be honest I personally don't care what lingo or terminology is being used. Whatever you can say to get the point across, as long as everyone understands what we are talking about. I see plenty of people here using certain phrases that the average person has no clue what it means. Even "lol" is not everyday speak in real life. 

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I ended up going down a 9/11 rabbit hole recently, and it put me in a pretty bad state of mind. I saw someone making an offhand mention of the allegedly lost "lol superman" gore video, and that piqued my morbid curiosity. I considered myself pretty jaded about the attacks due to memories of all the maudlin imagery and cheap virtue signaling that was everywhere right after 9/11 (and that helped justify America playing world policeman and getting even more people killed), but I didn’t really know the grisly specifics of what happened. I remember people jumping to their deaths, but I never thought much about it. I'd never considered what became of the jumpers' bodies when they hit the ground, that people in the vicinity were in danger of being killed by falling bodies (intact or not) and rubble, that the whole area was strewn with body parts, or that emergency personnel might come across victims of the attacks whose lower bodies had been turned to mush but still weren't completely dead. I ended up coming across some footage where you could hear bodies thumping as they hit the ground and an old /x/ thread that had been archived and included some pretty graphic images. Part of me is glad that these things have been brought to my attention, but another part feels like I would have been better off not knowing the gruesome details.

I posted earlier in the threads about not caring at all about 9/11, so it’s kind of weird that I developed a bit of an interest in it decades later. I 

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oh yeah, still at it babyyyyy

Question: what are the oldest accounts that you have created and still use on a regular basis? Mine's an account on an image board (yes, fucking really) that I created in 2012.

>>4814
>2012
ahem not retro :^)
My email account is from like 2002

>>4814
>>4816
Mine's from 98, Yahoo.

>>4814
I believe its from 2008, I forgot any older ones.

>>4783
That was fun, but I'll echo it feeling like a fusion of cartoon eras (especially the way Clare is a ballbuster). Hope he can get more out without sacrificing quality.

>>4466
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnCvazVHHwU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAtjgKulvws
Yo nigga, Halloween and Punkracker are go. Looks and sounds great.

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https://www.youtube.com/@mongopangolin6974
This animator's style is a throwback to 90's WB stuff like Animaniacs. I haven't watched their 6 minute short yet but this stuff is really good

>>4808
These capture the 90s style perfectly, the only giveaway is the clean "digital" look but even that is easily masked by the VHS artifacts (2nd video).

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>>4705
These audio tracks reminded me of this
https://x.com/TaskControllers/status/1772950602009510288
Found a great FL Studio Setup that converts audio into compressed in a way that sounds like XBox Live.
Did some of my own audio where I pitched up my voice and then put it through the "Xboxify" setup & it really started sounding like a mid 2000s youtube vid
The download link is in the comments of the tweet
The download has everything, but you may need kerovee and dblue crusher if you don't already

>>4413
I love Duran Duran!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbFAUFTMtLE

>>4420
I had no idea that they did Rio, let alone that they liked Nagel's art.

>>401
I would've tried to live in that. Maybe I am deranged, but looks quite appealing to my senses.

>>4412
Vietnamese nail salon art?

>>4809
It looks kinda fancy or glammed up (even if dated) - I can see how the ladies dug that stuff. I kinda enjoyed the haircut experience for the same reason - never had enough coverage for pompadours and such but big crazy hair always sounded cool to me.

>>4584
360s are dirt cheap, you can buy one and mod it yourself or just get one that's RGH'd already

>>4425
>Could the equally cult-tier and forgotten Haunting Ground be one of them?
Now I played that too, I' not quite sure if Eternal Darkness had any influence on Haunting Ground. It was quite an interesting game, with its own unique mechanics and ideas, but I fail to see any parallels with Eternal Darkness.

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Wapanese vidya, you say?

>>4641
Haven't played that one, just found its music and gameplay vids interesting. As for the connection, I just wondered if it took some influence from being made in the /retro/ timeframe, but it's much more likely to have taken from the Resident Evils. 

How did you like it?

>>4765
Interesting is the word to describe it. This is definitely a game to try, as it has original mechanics and ideas that you cannot really experience anywhere else. The dog, of course, is the primary one. You gotta run an hide and stuff, and yet you have a bodyguard which can potentially help you in a critical situation.
The plot is kinda cool, despite being japanese-style weird... and yet, overall, I'd say something is lacking. Maybe it's a bit too drawn out... not sure. I'd just say that it is worth trying it, but if it won't click - don't prerss yourself to the finish (or search for "early escape" ending in the web and get that one, so you will technically complete the game, heh).
Overall, compared to Eternal Darkness, I'd say Eternal Darkness was way more solid.