I don't know where else to put this, so I'm putting it here.

Earlier this morning I talked about how someone posted a comment on my Girl's Garden video early last month focusing on how I said that the SG-1000 failed due to its Colecovision-esque hardware paling in comparison to the Famicom, saying that the SG-1000 was on par with the NES, that the NES had extra memory in its cartridges, and used a homebrew game instead of one from when the system was officially supported to prove their point.

Not surprisingly, both of my YouTube videos for Girl's Garden got a dislike, and somebody chimed in saying that the SG-1000 had a faster processor speed while also saying that just because the game the other person picked was homebrew didn't make their point irrelevant. Basically, they were white-knighting this person as well as the Colecovision hardware itself by spitting out a processor speed rather than actually adding to the conversation.

SG-1000 had the same hardware as the Colecovision under the hood, and nobody at Sega was really taking it to the limit. That didn't happen until the homebrew community happened. Sure, Coleco hardware had a faster processor, but as fun as the games that were made at the time can be, they had a harder time blowing people away away, especially when you put them side-by-side with the NES. It doesn't matter what you've got under the hood or even in the cartridge for the game you're playing, be it extra memory or RAM or what have you; if the competition is winning and you can't match what the competition has, you're going to have a hard time and your system is going to fail if you can't come up with something that works. People should be able to figure that out. But nope. I have to spell EVERYTHING out.

And even though I like the games that the system have, people want to focus on that one statement and be like "How dare you criticize our favorite system!" and spit out a processor speed at the drop of a hat like it means something rather than saying "Well, there's more to it than that..." Heck, the SG-1000 had no third party support, and I want to think it was because Sega didn't want to work with any of its competition from the arcades. That more or less made things harder for Sega until much later on.

Point is: specs aren't everything, even though they are a thing. Too bad some people who are into gaming can't figure it out, whether it be with a PS4, an XBox One...or something with the hardware specs of a Colecovision.

Popular social media sites and popular parts of the Internet at large suck when it comes about talking about games because of the people in it acting like that. The gaming community needs to grow up and be better.

Re: Talking about games on the Internet sucks. The Internet needs to be be
By: Watercress to All on Tue Jul 14 2020 05:33 pm

Point is: specs aren't everything, even though they are a thing. Too bad some people who are into gaming can't figure it out, whether it be with a PS4, an XBox One...or something with the hardware specs of a Colecovision.

This is something the gaming and technology communities both seem to really struggle with. Be it a computer somebody built or a new console or some prebuilt you get from Best Buy, people seem to fail to understand that just throwing high-spec components at a computer does *not* make it a good or cohesive machine. Here I am playing my favorite games from Half-Life to Kerbal Space Program on a Core2 Quad and a GT710 GPU, but every time I mention how well it works there's inevitably some jerk who has to come along and be an armchair expert, telling me I must have it so terrible or set to like 1/8th resolution because I'm not running it on the bleeding-edge Ryzen and GTX2080.

It's mind-numbing. I can't even begin to put into words how tired I am of the gaming community in particular spouting this nonsense.

Here I am playing my favorite games from Half-Life to Kerbal Space Program on a Core2 Quad and a GT710 GPU, but every time I mention how well it works there's inevitably some jerk who has to come along and be an armchair expert, telling me I must have it so terrible or set to like 1/8th resolution because I'm not running it on the bleeding-edge Ryzen and GTX2080.

Had it happened on Reddit, they'd also expect you to have an SSD drive to the point that they assume everyone who has a PC has an SSD drive.

Re: Talking about games on the Internet sucks. The Internet needs to be be
By: Watercress to Nkeck72 on Fri Jul 17 2020 08:09 am

Had it happened on Reddit, they'd also expect you to have an SSD drive to the point that they assume everyone who has a PC has an SSD drive.

Hah! Yeah. The funny thing is I actually *did* have an SSD as a secondary drive not too long ago for long-term or archival storage, and it died five years into its life. Meanwhile, my HDD from 2010 is still spinning and perfectly functional.

It's like people have forgotten that there are different use cases and that not every user needs a supercomputer that fits on their desk with write-limited fast storage.

One of my Girl's Garden videos got another dislike, this time the longplay.

I've basically deleted the tweet thread that caused some random idiot to chime in and spout out a processor speed like it meant something.

It amazes me how people can take a new way of conveying information that was hip and awesome and wonderful 25 years ago and turn it into the living embodiment of human vitriol.

It amazes me how people can take a new way of conveying information that
was
hip and awesome and wonderful 25 years ago and turn it into the living embodiment of human vitriol.

Unfortunately that's what happens when communities turn into echochambers.

Unfortunately that's what happens when communities turn into echochambers.

Tribalistic hedonism has brought out the worst in everyone on the Internet and has just screwed up everything under the sun, not just gaming. Virtually any term that brings up images of goodness is subjective because of it.

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By: Watercress to Nkeck72 on Mon Jul 20 2020 08:00 am

Normalization ruins everything.
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Kurisu Yamato - www.xadara.com

Normalization ruins everything.

This, too.

Normalization has led to people being blunt and apathetic when people become absolute dickheads. It's happening so often that there are things that have become the new normal, and it's to the point where people add to the problem and proceed to jump in, chime in and dogpile, not realizing that they've become part of it.

Applies to gaming, but also applies to other things, too.

Re: Re: Talking about games on the Internet sucks. The Internet needs to b
By: Watercress to Kurisu on Mon Jul 20 2020 08:24 am

This, too.

Normalization has led to people being blunt and apathetic when people become absolute dickheads. It's happening so often that there are things that have become the new normal, and it's to the point where people add to the problem and proceed to jump in, chime in and dogpile, not realizing that they've become part of it.

Applies to gaming, but also applies to other things, too.

It isn't even that - it's the fact that anyone and everyone can get involved in something, thus destroying the very aspect that makes it unique. It outcasts the very types of people who made it what it is, whatever that subject may be, and inevitably causes such to become a bastardized form of what it once was, as bland and annoying as any "typical" thing can be.

People's shitty attitudes are secondary to that. When you have a scene people don't want to join by default, you are less likely to attract idiots as they would have to work to gain clout in the scene and cause damage to it - not be elevated to some guru status by default as happens in more typical circles. _____
Kurisu Yamato - www.xadara.com