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[-] YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world 138 points 1 month ago
[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 61 points 1 month ago

It's gonna be a fun night followed by a hard, sleepy day

[-] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 month ago

Looks more like a few hours of cramping body and soul followed by 3 days of emotional hangover

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 month ago

Ehhhhh so this was in 2000. Your standard ecstasy pill (we’re assuming they’re not pipers; these don’t look shiny and they’re not shaped or outpressed) have between 70mg MDMA and 120mg (if they’re absolute fire.)

This would be about 400mg of MDMA total. While that is quite a lot, you’re not going to have a horrible time—I just wouldn’t do it in public because you WILL be a chattering mess. It’ll still feel amazing, though.

Source: oldhead, last time I rolled it was a total of about 450mg but spread out over hours and I was absolutely not in public, just writing naked with my partner)

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[-] rez_doggie@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago
[-] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago
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[-] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Eh, not double stacked so it's ok.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

AKSHULLY that wasn’t a thing in the 2000s, just marketing hype. Rolls back then had between 70 and 120mg of MDMA, and 120 is a basal amount you want to take if you fully want to get rolling.

Now it’s TOTALLY a thing, tons of rolls have 300-400mg in a single pill now. It’s insanity.

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[-] SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social 94 points 1 month ago

Rockstar used to go pretty hard.

[-] b000rg@midwest.social 33 points 1 month ago

This game, appropriately, is where I learned there was such a thing as uppers and downers.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

It’s likely they were trying to get the news riled up so they could cause a moral outrage that would attract attention to the game.

[-] deezbutts@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago

All right I'll ask the dumb question here, what am I looking at? From what I can tell they are tiny empty bags

[-] 31337@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 month ago

Those type of bags are usually used to hold illicit substances, and typically only bought by small-time drug dealers.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 month ago
[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 month ago

And electronics hobbyists!

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[-] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 66 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I miss that era. Companies didn’t mind a bit of edginess and weren’t afraid to market to adults. The console culture itself also isn’t what it used to be.

These days, gaming consoles all need to be safe enough for five year olds to play on them. And it’s caused everything to be just too bland and safe, both in marketing and the console itself. Can’t really have things like Xbox 360 Uno with the live camera feed and no moderation. Or the wholly uncensored COD lobbies.

[-] stufkes@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

I like the part between your two paragraphs. The early gaming era was really shitty when it came to diversity and... It's not even representation, it's not having to play sluts or princesses or whatever.

The now-era is all AAA all-the-same sanitised stuff, nothing to do with lack of edginess. Just corporate safety in mainstream appeal. Currently, indie games are where the experiments and interesting ideas happen.

[-] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

I'm certainly not going to say you're wrong on that first part. I've been online since 1996. At that time, the internet was the domain of white, heterosexual, nerdy, generally well educated guys. And me being a white, heterosexual, nerdy, well educated guy... well... going online felt like coming home. Those were my people. I still really miss those days.

But I also know that the experience of someone not like me would've been wildly different. I learned a bajillion slurs on COD lobbies after all. It's a good thing that more people now feel welcome online, as it led to platform growth and functionality that we otherwise wouldn't have had if it was just 'my kind of people'.

The current safe, sanitised, gentrified gaming sphere also has benefits: COD lobbies these days are very pleasant by comparison. You even have to sign a code of conduct to get on multiplayer. It feels more welcoming, less hostile. Of course, companies certainly have been financially incentivized to attract as wide an audience as possible. For example, the very first GTA game sold about 6 million copies. GTA V has sold 200 million. And with ever-increasing development budgets, you can't afford to cater to a niche, you want to cast as wide a net as possible to recoup those costs.

[-] stufkes@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

"the internet was the domain of white, heterosexual, nerdy, generally well educated guys. And me being a white, heterosexual, nerdy, well educated guy... well... going online felt like coming home. Those were my people"

Thank you for putting it so clearly. Yes, it is completely valid to long for a time where the own niche was the in-group. As someone who's been on the web from early on but a woman, it wasn't really "my people". It was never a safe space for me, but I totally understand where you are coming from. It's great to be on the side of the "default".

The only spaces I genuinely miss are phpbb forums. I honestly believe they are better than reddit, or the fediverse for that matter. Smaller interest groups have a self selection mechanism and better moderation. I think they could still foster a great environment today that would welcome nerdy educated people on a shared interest without specifically speaking to just one type of educated nerds.

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[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Bro here in Brazil, we have slurs in the millions since gaming took of in the 90s

The number reaches the Brazillions

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[-] pyre@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

this isn't marketing to adults. it's marketing to teenage boys.

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[-] oce@jlai.lu 54 points 1 month ago

I feel like it means: we are not like Nintendo, we make video games for adults (and children who want to play like adults).

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago

Also, our games are as good as drugs.

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[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 53 points 1 month ago

Everything reminds me of her..

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 month ago

Not much can top the 3DFX VooDoo graphics card boxes.

[-] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 33 points 1 month ago
[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Love it.

"Hey, you know what would be a good way to advertise our system? Let's just give children nightmares for about 40 seconds and then splash our logo on the screen at the end."

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[-] RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 month ago

PS2 is retro now? Damn, getting old really does sneak up on you.

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 23 points 1 month ago

Ps3 is starting to be referenced as retro now....

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I found my Green game boy Pocket and saw the 1989-1996 copyright.

It looks so pristine. 😭😭😭

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[-] WhoaDang@reddthat.com 27 points 1 month ago

This isn't a real PS2 ad. It's a fake created a few years ago by an influencer named Shy Smith.

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[-] namelivia@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

90s SEGA was the OG of this, we need 90s SEGA back

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[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 month ago

Can someone make a version of this photo, but its acetaminophen and the girl is just up-aged to how old she'd be now?

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[-] DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago

"Only Happy When it Rains" automatically begins playing in head

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[-] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

I find this funny, since I used to hide drugs like mushrooms inside consoles. I figured it was the one place literally no one would think to look. Just unscrewed them, put a baggie inside in one of those empty spaces (there's always a spot), and put the case back together.

[-] B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

There were some bizarre ads from around the late 90s to early 00s.

The Dreamcast Barber comes to mind.

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[-] catch22@programming.dev 14 points 1 month ago
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