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8/1/2025, 3:25:21 PM
>>11898535
>collecting games, particularly outdated games, was absolutely a turbonerd hobby until the early-ish 2010s
This. Anyone who disagrees exclusively interacted with other nerds. You could buy N64 and PS1 games for less than $1 at Gamestop at one point. Normalfags had this retarded "New = Better" mentality that only iPhone users seem to have today. Yahtzee was the only one normalfag adjacent who was criticizing all the slop being put out and he was seen as a huge contrarian.
I genuinely believe there is no way the normalfags came to retro games on their own. I blame the video essayists, speed runners, indie spiritual successors and streamers/lets plays for this. I remember the conversations. They would buy whatever slop came out, play it, say it was good and then never think about it again.
>collecting games, particularly outdated games, was absolutely a turbonerd hobby until the early-ish 2010s
This. Anyone who disagrees exclusively interacted with other nerds. You could buy N64 and PS1 games for less than $1 at Gamestop at one point. Normalfags had this retarded "New = Better" mentality that only iPhone users seem to have today. Yahtzee was the only one normalfag adjacent who was criticizing all the slop being put out and he was seen as a huge contrarian.
I genuinely believe there is no way the normalfags came to retro games on their own. I blame the video essayists, speed runners, indie spiritual successors and streamers/lets plays for this. I remember the conversations. They would buy whatever slop came out, play it, say it was good and then never think about it again.
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