Childhood trauma 😩 : memes

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 2 weeks ago

UI Designers need to bring back the childhood trauma aspect of software

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

It never went away. They just figured out how to make it subtle so it could be active all the time instead of just when the computer wasn't working properly. Do you really feel like you're using trauma-free software day-to-day?

[-] einlander@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Software integrating mandatory online accounts, ai, and other anti consumer tactics:

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

I will always remember Eternal Darkness for getting me off the couch to go reset my GameCube cause it appeared frozen. I didn’t get all the way there before realizing the game was fucking with me

[-] running_system@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

I almost fell for it while being at the brink of a nervous meltdown.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

It never left, they just monetized it.

[+] notreallyhere@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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[-] Marafon@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

iirc this is the screen you would get when the PS2 was borked and wouldn't boot properly, or something like that. It's been a long time but I do still remember the terror I associate with this image lol

Edit: Actually it might have been a disc read error

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago

It was a disc read error. In that era, the most likely issue was that your disc was too beat up to work properly.

[-] cm0002@libretechni.ca 15 points 2 weeks ago

Another big reason, a lot of the earlier PS2 models had a poor quality laser that would go bad really quick

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago

That kind of trauma is probably why I had stopped using optical media by 2005.

[-] Marafon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

That explains why I also remembered the smell and texture of toothpaste lol

[-] Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, so kind of like the red ring of death for us xbox kids!

[-] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Childhood
PS2

did i wonder into Instagram or some such nonsense? The 'verse is supposed to be just us old nerds.

[-] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I was trying to figure out some Commodore 64 screen I was looking at.

[-] Marafon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Bruh, 30 is the new 60 because of gestures wildly all around

[-] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

[-] waz@feddit.uk 18 points 2 weeks ago

I’m this old

[-] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Oh hey! The music started, must be about halfway loaded. Guess I'll go grab a snack.

[-] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Whoa, video games on a cassette tape??

How many floppy disks is that worth?

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Less than 1/20 of a floppy disk. It's like 60-70 kb per side.

Pretty sick what they could fit on those things, considering. Some truly beautiful art.

[-] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 5 points 2 weeks ago

PS2 was my last console, i still have a silver slim one just gathering dust because emulators exist, but for me that was the golden age of gaming...

[-] Shrubbery@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Relive the horror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uHLQHjtPLE

[-] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

That's goatse, right?

[-] Aganim@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I suspect this is some kind of console error? I've only owned a SNES before becoming part of the PC master race, so just like the kids of today this early millennial has no idea what he's looking at exactly.

[-] cm0002@libretechni.ca 2 points 1 week ago

It's the PS2 disc error screen, just before the actual disc read error message displays it does this little red animation. This is like the very beginning of that animation

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