Kids react to Gameboy, people get butthurt

[SD-Fiend]

It's a video, however.
Which means.... don't trust it.
The author could've chosen to keep only the kids that gave the answers likely to elicit outrage (outrage = popularity).
Or, worst case scenario, they may even have staged it up a bit.

I rather doubt that. They make videos like this all the time and it wouldn't make sense for them to start editing like that all of a sudden when they're already popular.

 

[80sboy]

What do they expect?

Kids today aren't going to want a Gameboy in the same way I wouldn't really want to drive a T-Model Ford, no matter how well it still ran.


I mean, I can appreciate it's legacy value and I'm sure it would make an awesome collector's item, but you wouldn't see me driving one into work.

Although compared with todays cars, I'd go for a car made in the 50s over the ones around now. Those tanks were built to last. You try getting into an accident with them plastic cars today and you'll shred them like tin foil. All you'd need to do is mod the inside, and BAM!

Yeah, uh, fun fact:

If you're in an accident you actually want your car to crumple. Hitting something in a rock-solid vehicle results in a more rapid deceleration, causing more damage to your comparatively squishy self. If your vehicle crumples it effectively acts like a cushion, albeit a rather unconventional one, spreading the deceleration over a longer period of time. Which modern cars are specifically designed to do.

So yes, I'm sure tanky old cars would come out of an accident looking in better shape than modern bubble cars. But the people driving them, not so much.

You're no fun, I want my 50s fuel guzzling tankmobile! >:O

 

[RA92]

Although compared with todays cars, I'd go for a car made in the 50s over the ones around now. Those tanks were built to last. You try getting into an accident with them plastic cars today and you'll shred them like tin foil. All you'd need to do is mod the inside, and BAM!

Along with Zhukov's explanation, you might find these tests quite interesting:

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Modern cars tend to not treat your legs as crumple zone.

From a programming perspective, the gameboy game was quite the feat to pull off. I don't care what anyone says, programming anything in assembly is NOT FUN.

I took up an assembly language course on the 8086 architecture recently, and I concur with this statement. The mind boggles to think that even the more recent Game Boy Advance had just a 16.8Mhz CPU and less than half a Megabyte of RAM, and they fit entire worlds in those.

 

[RA92]

I think my favorite one was this:

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Don't see anyone disagreeing with anything they said. Except for the sound of modems. Modems sound analog-awesome.

 

[Something Amyss]

Agreed, I really hate how some people have think being born in the 90's is some kind of accomplishment or that it makes them better and/or that not liking stuff they liked in the past is some sort of crime.

You understand this isn't a nineties thing, this is a every generation ever thing, right?

The ancient Greeks had writers making "kids these days" rants. Adults whined about my generation not appreciating stuff 20-30 years before our birth, too. Now we're just doing the same.

...Well, not me. I don't care that kids don't appreciate something that has been vastly surpassed in the subsequent decades. But a general "we."

Hell, I still have trouble with the nostalgia people have for eight bit. The games were mostly of poor quality with bad controls partially orchestrated to artificially extend play time.

OT: people are crazy and takei t personally

I hate it when people Takei personally. George belongs to us all.

see whar I'm talking about? dude no one is spitting on the grave of your childhood, I'm sure back then there were things you throught were dumb and old

Hell, people my age complained about doing math by hand. Which I'm sure has been abolished from the US classroom by now, but for different reasons.

 

[SD-Fiend]

I think my favorite one was this:

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Don't see anyone disagreeing with anything they said. Except for the sound of modems. Modems sound analog-awesome.

Call me crazy but I sorta wish I could go back in time and experience the internet in it's infancy and be bewildered at how simultaneously simple and difficult it was to use.