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Re:Old Man Yells at Cloud: Technology has gotten objectively... by k_sze on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @02:51AM (#34321784)
Part of the reason this was all acceptable in the LAN party era was that you were having fun together with friends while dealing with the annoyances. You could curse, you could laugh, and you could eat pizza together while you were wrestling with the faulty ethernet hub (remember those?) or whatnot. I remember I once accidentally blew a transformer at my friend's home while getting set up, and we all had a good laugh.

Nowadays, you play a game over the internet and you would be lucky to have even a friend next to you watching enthusiastically and intently.

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Re:Old Man Yells at Cloud: Technology has gotten objectively... by subradios on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @10:17AM (#34326087)
More than that, people knew that they were going to have to do technology stuff, and tech stuff was oriented more at semi technical users.

So people actually learned how to do stuff, and that in itself was fun. Whereas the current low friction set up is so difficult to fix that if the first three Google results don't work, there's nothing you can do.

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Re:Old Man Yells at Cloud: Technology has gotten objectively... by subradios on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @10:17AM (#34326088)
More than that, people knew that they were going to have to do technology stuff, and tech stuff was oriented more at semi technical users.

So people actually learned how to do stuff, and that in itself was fun. Whereas the current low friction set up is so difficult to fix that if the first three Google results don't work, there's nothing you can do.

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Re:Old Man Yells at Cloud: Technology has gotten objectively... by justinlloyd on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:41PM (#34334421)
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