I'm really interested in internet downfalls, so two things that really interest me is the clusterfucks that were Beenz and Gaia online. It's both sad and fascinating to hear about how huge phenomenons fall apart :omg:k:

Yeah, maybe giving people infinite money was a bad idea

There were a few programs released on LD, most notable BBC's Doomsday program. It's said that these LDs stored about 1GB of data per side, so yeah, it was bigger and less space than a DVD.

So, in theory, someone could've made a Lazer Disc based video game console? Knowing the wild west approach to tech in the 80s, I wouldn't be surprised if someone considered that

I found this site while looking for screenshots to use in a drawing. This site hosts screenshots from various episodes of the show.

It looks to be from around 2015.

Well, I was going to mention John Titor but in terms of web design. The guy who invented the pop-up ad regrets it now.

I'm too young to have had a lazerdisk in my youth. I always assumed they were basically DVDs but bigger and with less storage.

How do they even work anyway? Are they analog like VHS?

On my FeedDemon app. I usually read the RSS feeds for forums.

Aside from that, I frequent the RSS feed for The Mod Archive

This song is fun

I remember when their video games (especially the GameCube, GBA and DS ones) had their own sites that were run on Flash. Good times...

It's a shame the recent websites are, by the look of it, hard to archive. I remember Animal Crossing New Leaf's Website had the title screen music playing while the colors changed depending on the season yet when I looked it up on the web archive it came up with an error.

It annoys me how many digital products are turning to a subscription model. I understand why for businesses it's a good idea, but I really wish we could just go back to the times where you bought a product for $100 and just owned it.

Same here. To this day, I still refuse to buy any software and only use free applications with most of them being open source.

(I actually pirated a video editing program, but between you and me we can keep it a secret... Sorry Melon.)

Yeah, never buy subscription software. Always a scam no matter what company sells it.

Freeware, open source, or one time paywalls are much better for long time use as it won't cost like $69.99 a month until the end of time.

i love this! here's a payphone i spotted in london (there's still a lot there!):

https://i.imgur.com/U9bvVeg.jpg

Can you time travel in those?

It annoys me how many digital products are turning to a subscription model. I understand why for businesses it's a good idea, but I really wish we could just go back to the times where you bought a product for $100 and just owned it.

It's a good thing we have free engines like Godot. Which is where everyone is fleeing too after the GameMaker price change

Compared to the recent version I bought two years ago, this was a lot more basic and the only way to write actual code is to use the script editor as most of it was drag n' drop

I think this basic style was because this was targeted at a young audience in a time where resources on programming and game development weren't easy to obtain


The biggest thing going on right now with Game Maker is that it's switching to a monthly payment model, a far cry from this version of the engine which was freeware until 6.1.
I'm gonna see if I can make a game on here just to see how far I can push this thing.

I also tried to get RPG Maker but it was behind a product code, woops

Good move, if we only focus on the negatives, nothing positive will ever happen

The PS2 era GTA games definately

I just started watching the Rerez video on that game. I should finish it though, it was the middle of school hours when I watched it