Past crazes

[matrixmann]

Erinnert sich noch jemand daran wie es gegen Ende der 90er der größte Zeitvertreib auf dem PC war, Moorhühner zu schießen?

Somebody remembers still how, at the end of the 90s, it was the biggest time killer on the PC to shoot up grouses?

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[matrixmann]

Needed to look that word up as I knew no translation for it.
I had expected that it was a crazy German idea, as I know no translated version of that game, but seemingly it was just part of an advertising campaign for Johnnie Walker back then at the end of the 90s. So there needed to be one - and "grouse" seems to be the correct term for these birds.
It was just a pretty ridiculous game, not very complicated, you needn't think much about what you're doing - but, well, in that way it maybe also served a good purpose. Revel, just don't think too much about evil in the world...
In that terms it also was pretty much a 90s thing.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

At least shooting birds may help develop reaction or something not like some pokemon go. I hope the craze is over. Imagine people in 20 years will be writing something like " I used to play this game to catch pokemons". If we make it that far, of course. And did you hear that god damn awful song some retarded kid made "I play pokemon go" in a very annoying voice? And he has a billion views. So embarrassing.

[matrixmann]

Shooting strangely looking birds that are kept in a comic-like manner at least is somewhat funny as it's exaggerated.
Pokémon and the craze being over? These pocket monsters haven't been gone since the time of the millennium. You maybe don't know, but the first games already existed for the Gameboy. This generation of games still is somewhat interesting in a technical manner as they carried some errors in them, which lay down the base for the basic cheats. So to say, it were technical exploits of the basic way the cartriges worked internally while playing. Stuff like that, if you know, at least aren't totally in vain.
The second generation of games with the topic of these monsters also kept that up - but that's more a thing of today rather than when they maybe were released.
Think of a pocket computer with limited graphics, compared to today, no harddisk, but the the cartrige to play has a clock function on it. Well, it didn't have a date function, but it worked with weekdays and time of the day (for generating 3 kinds of daytime), and it carried on with that clock function even if you didn't play the game.
Not too bad in a technical way for about 15 years ago. (Only problematic if these cartriges keep on living - after 10 to 20 years the battery cells reach their natural limits of lasting, so do the memory chips to keep the save. Seemingly the clock function causes a larger workload for the chip than if there was none and they only laid idle.)

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

This sounds Greek to me, honestly. I am just looking from the point of view of a consumer. I think they are a bit degrading for people who play them. And in general everything associated with them seem to be primitive.

I don't know, I honestly don't like devices like i-pad or smartphone. I mean they might be cool with lots of functions but let's say if I want to write an article I wouldn't use one of those, I prefer a good old computer. Both for research and writing. They are only good for some mindless stuff or writing "lol" and "omg".

[matrixmann]

Admittedly, the technical aspects are more a subject for adult users which dig out stuff from their childhood than the consumer users. It's something that requires higher cognitive functions than youngsters and kids can offer.

(*laughs) Then there's already two of that kind.
I don't know, once you learned to write with both hands on a keyboard, you don't desire for a device where you can type only with one hand and one or two fingers at best.
This really isn't designed to write long texts, it's just for that optically focussed stuff like photos and videos.
If you got nothing else, well, then it's better than absolutely nothing, but it's no working conditions for a longer time.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Happy I am not alone. Seems everyone loves typing their heads off with those, even some complete geezers. But again, it is some mindless stuff. And I hate auto correcting, sometimes it goes out of the way to screw with you.

[matrixmann]

Auto correcting is a pain in the ass if you write in several languages. Especially since they only hand it out with a pre-installed correction that follows your mother tongue.
Horrible for people like me, if it comes down to cyrillic letters it's even more horrible as you have troubles finding a "langauge package" to install after the original one as such exotic ones tend to only come with if you buy a device meant for that areas they get used in.
Know it from switching keyboard layouts in software manually and finding basic material for doing this.