a fixture of my childhood .... in the early 00's. aXXo being the other one.
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#32Is the main motivation for these groups notoriety? In particular this group was created before I was born, which makes me extremely curious about what makes them keep going this long.
Yes and no. Access to warez dumps is more interesting part.
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#33Wow, that brings back memories. Long nights, CRTs, that fresh and health-promoting smell of warm electronics in poorly ventilated spaces, microwaved garbage food, sugary drinks … not sure how my friends and I survived until adulthood.
I need to find a CRT and recreate one of those nights. Always wanted a 17" Viewsonic.
I'd say you'll feel miserable and will wonder what is it you are missing from the old days. We look at it with rose tinted glasses, but for all practical purposes, everything was significantly worse back then. The kind of hardware and software we have available today was the stuff of the wildest dreams and imagination.
I remember we could spend entire weeks in 4 player Doom 2 deathmatch during summer with my friends. We could spend an entire day just playing made-up scenarios where we tried to kite cyberdemons from one part of the map into another (an exercise which we called demon shepherding).
I fired up Doom 2 again on one of the many ports and it looks great, all the nice memories came flooding back, and yet it wasn't the same. It made me realize that the magic wasn't in the games, or the computers or the people. The magic was in us being a bunch of kids born into infinite curiosity and no (real) responsibilities. That magic unfortunately cannot be recreated in adult life.
Now if you spend an all-nighter on any hobby, your 30+ year old body will wake up feeling rubbish the next day. Do it 2-3 days in a row, and you'll feel like death.
I can afford any piece of hardware and any game my heart desires, my steam library numbers more than 200 games. I have played less than half of them, and less than a quarter to completion. It's the age old curse of aging :)
When you are young, you have time but no money. When you are old, you have money but no time.
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#34To prove that you are elite, what do these mean: RZR, FLT, DRG, TDT, TRSI? Oh wait, you can just look these up on the internet :(
I miss tKC (The Keyboard Caper) and Phrozen Crew. FAiRLiGHT was popular during the game CD / SecurROM days iirc. PARADOX, CLASS, SKIDROW and RELOADED I remember as well. Reading .nfo files was fun, the artwork was great too.
I remember the sometimes less than subtle jabs these groups threw at each other in the nfo files :)
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#35Ooh, as a pre-teen of An Early Post-Soviet Country, I remember how puzzled I was as to what the hell that message and the files with those curly logos in the folders of most of my pirated DOS games actually mean. A paper dictionary lookup (razor = "habemeajaja" or "raseerija" or "žiletitera" in Estonian) didn't help either. Also, in our language, "warez" rhymes with "vares" [v-uh-res], which typically stands for "hooded crow" (corvus cornix), so... this + 1911... uh... that didn't make sense either.
As a boy really into drawing, I was seriously impressed by that ASCII art, though. It is surely a big part of why I still find the DOS/ASCII aesthetic the most pleasurable in terms of computer graphics and GUIs.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I need to find a CRT and recreate one of those nights. Always wanted a 17" Viewsonic.
I'd say you'll feel miserable and will wonder what is it you are missing from the old days. We look at it with rose tinted glasses, but for all practical purposes, everything was significantly worse back then. The kind of hardware and software we have available today was the stuff of the wildest dreams and imagination. I remember we could spend entire weeks in 4 player Doom 2 deathmatch during summer with my friends.…
It took like a decade to get average LCD screen to look as good as old CRT. And still need a ton of post-processing to make old pixel art games to look as good as before on LCD.
And I did play a bunch of games 10-20-30 years after they were released and they still hold up. My limit seems to be around SNES-era graphics, before that it just feels too ugly and clunky for me.
Sure, many games just feel like any modern titles do everything better, but some play just fine if you can stomach some of the obsolete mechanics.
> I fired up Doom 2 again on one of the many ports and it looks great, all the nice memories came flooding back, and yet it wasn't the same. It made me realize that the magic wasn't in the games, or the computers or the people. The magic was in us being a bunch of kids born into infinite curiosity and no (real) responsibilities. That magic unfortunately cannot be recreated in adult life.
I thought about it a lot and come to conclusion that every new interesting experience bumps our "standard" up and so once you accumulate a ton of that it's just harder and harder to be wowed by new game, even if it is just fine, fun and plays nice. But me getting my first car in my 30s was still thrilling and I was giggling like mad so dunno about "kid" part. Yeah kids know shit all so everything new is exciting but that doesn't mean you can't find magic moments in the adulthood, just amount of work required is higher.
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#37Man, lot of games I played were due to them, good times. They had such a trusted reputation.
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#38Is the main motivation for these groups notoriety? In particular this group was created before I was born, which makes me extremely curious about what makes them keep going this long.
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#39Shoutout to C.O.R.E, who for some reason are missing from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_warez_groups
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I need to find a CRT and recreate one of those nights. Always wanted a 17" Viewsonic.
I'd say you'll feel miserable and will wonder what is it you are missing from the old days. We look at it with rose tinted glasses, but for all practical purposes, everything was significantly worse back then. The kind of hardware and software we have available today was the stuff of the wildest dreams and imagination. I remember we could spend entire weeks in 4 player Doom 2 deathmatch during summer with my friends.…
Youth is wasted on the young.