LOL hahaha. Of course. Here’s the reality: video game nerds like us spent our weekend nights inside games. When we were young, after school or work, we weren’t just “playing” ..we were living in arcades, battling for high scores, dissecting strategies. Every year brought new massive cabinets and motion-based machines, and that raw excitement was irreplaceable. Unlike the normies, gamers like us were grinding gold and coins long before crypto and digital wallets became trendy buzzwords. Back in the early internet days of the 1990s, farming items, gold, and platinum in Diablo, Ultima Online, and EverQuest was busier than our actual day jobs. And the first moment the world truly connected through online games? That was unreal. On Ultima Online’s official launch day, players were introducing themselves by country, saying things like: “My grandfather and yours fought in WWII — and now we’re playing together. How insane is that?” That was the first time the world genuinely felt connected. The virtual world outshined real nightlife districts by a mile. This was the narrowband era. Servers were fragile, and just putting an image on your homepage could get you treated like a criminal. Early Ultima Online? One step could take minutes. No exaggeration. We weren’t using undersea fiber from Japan to North America. Japanese players literally signed contracts with American AT&T providers and dialed by phone line all the way to Lake Superior servers. The lag was borderline unbelievable but no problem at all because fun. Going out to real-world parties? Not even remotely an option. When EverQuest hit its peak, anyone who invited you out on a Friday or Saturday night was friendship-ending. If you had time for nightlife, you clearly weren’t camping rare named spawns. Why go drinking when you could go dragon hunting? And yes.... the excitement was bladder-bursting level. We literally couldn’t leave to use the bathroom. Then PC performance went insane. Overclocking, benchmarking, higher resolutions.. nonstop. Then came story-driven shooter campaigns like Medal of Honor and Call of Duty, plus multiplayer games that simply never ended once you started. At some point, our lives even turned into nightly virtual bank robberies. Gamers were absurdly busy. There was zero time for old men’s social gatherings, elite banquets, or brain-dead club parties. The truth? Video games completely surpassed real-world entertainment. When my wife first came to my place, she was horrified and asked: “Why is there an arcade table cabinet in your living room? Does it cost 100 yen per play?” “Why is the next room filled with towers of empty boxes, CDs, and DVDs?” “Why are there so many screens and PCs ,,,, are you trading stocks?” “Why are hoses filled with green liquid running from all these PCs to giant metal towers on the balcony?” “Why are arcade controllers everywhere?” “Why are PC parts literally covering the walls?” Because at night I was being a blacksmith, a cute elf, a soldier, a bank robber, and a world saver — then going to work to make games, talking games, “researching” games by playing them, rushing home, and staying busy landing headshots. How long do you think it took before that finally made sense to her? I’ve lived a life that was insanely busy! and incredibly fulfilling. I’m proud. I’ve experienced every kind of place, moment, and community in the game world... and traveled the real world too, talking about games with people everywhere. It’s been an overwhelmingly fun life. There was no time wasted in decay. Every second was converted into XP, coins, or skills. And yes,,, even within the same game industry, there are plenty of people who have never written a line of code, drawn a single pixel, composed a bar of music, or written a line of specs.... yet somehow stay busy burning entertainment budgets with outsourcing vendors and license holders. They still love saying “when we made this game,” dropping the word "made", while bragging about nightlife war stories like that’s an achievement. For the record, those fake “industry guys or producers” (and there are a lot of them) live in a completely different world from us.

Wondering why Apple’s new iteration of their “clear” case for the iPhone 17 Pro has an ugly white rectangle on the back of it. Looks a lot worse than the previous gen that simply had the MagSafe lines showing.

What is with the change of music for the opening of the Belgium GP? #f1

🎮 Retro games shaped generations. But many are vanishing. Some, like educational games by Yaakov Kirschen, who died on April 14, were almost lost forever. Journalist @Kirkman explains why preserving niche software matters. blog.archive.org/2025/05/07/… 🕳️ #VanishingCulture

🔥HERE'S MY VIDEO EDITING SHOWREEL 2025! Why yes, besides FGC, I work as an Editor, Thumbnail Designer as my main job! I'm looking for both new and veteran YouTubers/VTubers/Brands to work with! Retweets are VERY APPRECIATED🙏 Please take a look and let me know your thoughts!

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Our Sydney event has ended, but the celebrations haven't! ⚔️ For those who couldn't attend, we've got epic loot to celebrate 30 years of Warcraft with you. ✅ Follow Like & RT ✅ Share your favourite memory of your first Warcraft game 🎁 Bonus: Add a screenshot or picture!

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Just finished my most difficult Apple Silicon storage upgrade yet... 512GB to 8TB on an M3 Max MacBook Pro! This was especially difficult, as it required installing around 100 extra tiny components to use the second set of 4 NANDs...

❗ UPDATED ALERT ❗ ASD’s ACSC understand a number of malicious websites and unofficial code are being released claiming to help entities recover from the CrowdStrike technical incident.

I’m a big Street Fighter fan. Finally figured I’d sit down and watch the old (American) TV series. I’ve only seen the first episode but holy shit this is awful. Please tell me it gets better or there are some redeeming qualities?!

Gonna take you for a ride back to the arcades with MARVEL vs. CAPCOM Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics! 7 legendary games, one Super Heroic collection, coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4, and Steam in 2024. #MarvelVsCapcomFightingCollection #MvCFightingCollection

RIP Akira Toriyama

Seems VMware is finally going to be a part of Broadcom after much delay. Deal to close on 23/11.

Please use this for remixing. I want to see how well this goes with your song choice! #AzucenaChallenge

Could someone clarify the timeline of some of the #StarTrek series for me? Am I correct that SNW sits between ST Enterprise and TOS chronologically? With the initial phase of discovery around the same time as SNW before the jump to the future?

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Hey F1! It’s silly season. Do something!

Just enjoyed the Voyager episode Blink of an Eye. What a good episode. #Voyager

Remember the Apple Newton? We're so close to making a video on it, but we NEED an Apple Newton Interconnect Dongle and are having a little trouble sourcing one. But if any of you have one laying around that you wouldn't mind us playing around with... leave a reply!