ver$hy ver$h
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GTA taught me how to drive.
How Computer Games Shaped Our Imaginations.
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constant escape
winter withered, warm
Oh my.
Dusty
Tone deaf
A friend of mine confidently claimed that learning to drive would be easy enough (in his 30's) because he had played so much GTA. I felt he was only half-joking. He failed his test multiple times.
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Did anyone buy this? https://www.analogue.co/editions/hyperdub-mega-sg
Dusty
Tone deaf
Back to the original post, I use games as a substitute for real urban exploring. Too scared and lazy to actually vault the walls of private abandonded military bases, instead I've spent many hours just wandering around open worlds like GTA and now most recently the horribly flawed Cyberpunk.
constant escape
winter withered, warm
Is it really that bad? Seems to be making all the news.
ver$hy ver$h
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Woops does this for real.
Leo
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I'm like rip van winkle: totally missed it all, never played one in my life. pac-man a few times at video arcades back in the 80s, never anything at home. a pinball wizard, though.
not putting them down, just not my thing and not likely to become my thing at this point. probably why I don't act with honor and courage, a weak, mask-wearing Democrat.
not putting them down, just not my thing and not likely to become my thing at this point. probably why I don't act with honor and courage, a weak, mask-wearing Democrat.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Isn't this more from Choose Your Own Adventure books and Dungeons and Dragons etc? May have detoured via computer games to end up in the everyday but surely it originated there.
constant escape
winter withered, warm
I'd say so. In fact you can probably trace out a heritage from D&D and other such board/dice games even into contemporary shooters. Fallout and Borderlands are built as series of dungeons, complete with chests, loot, etc.
So yeah I think much of the dynamics we are talkin about predate video games. Video games perhaps just bolstered the rate at whic such language and sensibilities were inoculated into the mainstream.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Also the influence. I mean looking at this cyberpunk thing that everyone is talking about, the aesthetic appears to be totally borrowed from a million predecessors... but maybe loads of people will play it and get more absorbed in it than they ever would have done in Neuromancer and it will end up shaping our actual culture more directly than the things it's built from.
ver$hy ver$h
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There's the 'leveling up' talk in business etc now. Spotify having "guilds" and "chapters" in their offices.
ver$hy ver$h
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Swr88 1 year ago (edited)
These renders are absolutely amazing. I really miss the days when 3d art and electronic music like this was bleeding edge and the true potential of computers and the internet was still unknown. The 1990s was a very exciting time to be alive.
Gibs 4 months ago
Playing ps1 late into the night listening to tunes like this. Those are some special memories.
prod. dxm 5 months ago
This has the same type of vibe that the Mario Kart menu music has.
milk vitasoy 5 months ago
the reason the 90s had such a positive, utopian futuristic aesthetic is because that was the last time our collective outlook on the future was positive. post-9/11, this entire sort of y2k shiny pastel futurism died out. it's good to come back to this and remember my early childhood when everyone was hopeful. :')
luka
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The Good Old Days of Neoliberalism.
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