I agree with part of what you’re saying, but I think it’s worse than you’re saying.

I think it’s more like if cigarettes were a bit less addictive, still gave you cancer, but nobody becomes a billionaire thanks to your addiction and cancer.

Including Lemmy, in a sense.

Even if not purposely, it’s designed to resemble systems that were built this way for that purpose.

What’s the problem? It seemed to do a good job explaining it. As a non-American who didn’t get the joke either, it was helpful

How many Oz in a Wizard again?

So then a TB must be about…a metric shitton?

LOL…yes. should’ve been an Eighth, but we don’t have a coin for that.

Your math is right. I was just thinking of a Byte as $1.00 and going from there. Then remembered that bits are smaller, but they shouldn’t be $1 because a single bit is not very powerful. But making it worth $1 or $0.01 would make the math messier.

But yes. Two bits are a quarter is probably the best compromise! Lol

Well…up until recently

A kilobyte must have sounded like so much memory back then.

A byte is 8 bits. Even if we want to call bits quarters ($0.25) and bytes dollars, 69KB would be $69,000! That’s a lot of dollars.

(And it’s actually 1,024 or something instead of 1,000, which just increases it that much more).

It’s crazy how KBs used to be incredibly meaningful, and now we’re buying multi-TB drives like they’re nothing!

EDIT: Math fail. Let’s say TWO bits are a quarter…lmao

I mean, choosing one over the other is one thing, but is it really like it used to be?

I thought the “console” wars ended because PC is the obvious winner.

Does anybody have brand allegiance to Xbox vs. PlayStation these days?

I grew up with many of these games!

I remember going to pick out PS1 games. Spyro the Dragon was the one I put the most time into.

On the Genesis, I also remember picking “Streets of Rage 2” simply because I liked Street Fighter 2 on the SNES and I thought it’d be the same kind of game. Best decision I made about a Genesis game!

I appreciate the joke here, but I’d guess people who don’t like negativity-filled posts. Especially when it’s about console wars from about 20 years ago that nobody cares about anymore.

There were definitely Sony fanboys, but I don’t think any of these statements were ever massively popular. I also highly doubt it was the same people saying both sides of the argument.

Kim’s Convenience was ruined by its last season and getting cancelled (or whatever happened to it).

Pretend it got cancelled a season early. It’s a bit of a GoT situation, but to a lesser extent.

Heh. I pre-ordered games on occasion when I knew I’d want a copy but stock would be limited.

For me, it was the people who bought GameStop warranties on their brand new games that befuddled me.

What are you trying to convince me to be scared of with that article?

I’m aware.

while the cops do some fucked up shit

Yeah, I live in Canada, and while the cops do some fucked up shit, it’s not nearly to the level as US cops.

I never see a cop and feel scared for myself or anybody around me. At most, I feel worried that there’s something happening.

Oman

Huh, you’re not very good at this conversation thing, eh?

Lol, someone asked you to explain your position, and you responded by asking questions asking about someone’s personal situation. I think you’re the problem here.