the 2010s are bad and here's why

2010 to 2013 was decent i guess but ever since then it's legitimately been a garbagefest. Microtransactions and DLC infest previously decent games as creativity and innovation slowly die out in exchange for corporate greed. why the fuck would you want to put your own unique spin on anything when what works sells? Late stage capitalism kicked in as game developers and corporations started selling worse and worse products and get rewarded for less and less effort. The only good games from this decade are the countless rereleases of older ones because companies have gone wild with them due to being massive lazy dipshits who don't want to put in the effort of making an actually worthwhile new game, so they nostalgia bait and give you the old shit youve played again over and over with an HD upscale and better textures.

Microsoft made windows 10 which at best is a decent windows OS and then immediately said they're going to stop making new windows OSes and only update 10. thanks alot micro$hit. Remember the days of XP and 7 where you actually had hardware acceleration and the OS had an appealing fun looking aesthetic? when EAX was a thing in PC games and actually made them sound super good? Nah, let's shit all over that, we have cloud streaming now! what, we need an actually good looking theme for an OS? why do that when we can just plaster flat colors and bland text over everything?
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Teen Titans Go tarnished the cartoon industry and led to a slew of shitty reboots that all set out to trash on their cartoon originals. We've seen a shift from the serialized action focused cartoons of the 2000s and late 90s to comedy shows for retarded kiddywinks being babysat by their tablets because their retard parents are too busy typing on twitter about how all cis white males are scum and how white men are the worst thing to graze the earth, and how they're so much better for divorcing their husband, taking half his stuff and getting money from him every month. the good shit like gravity falls, adventure time, TAWOG, Star VS and Steven universe all suffered immense seasonal rot or just died later on in the decade.

Streaming Services started growing as an industry as more and more companies get tired of just limiting their shit to netflix and want some of the streaming pie too, so now you literally have to keep a subscription to like 50 fucking different streaming services just to get the shit you want. Trump got elected and nearly drove the already collapsing country down a fucking cliff.
People say 2020 sucked because of covid when really it was a 2019 issue that bled into 2020.
the music industry has also gotten fucked too, with all of the good shit being replaced by crappy pop or more of that shitty fucking rap. i swear to god if i hear another rap song i am going to lose my fucking mind. it's everywhere.

We live in a society where we have more subway stores in america than there are hospitals.
i hate this decade and everything it stands for. the 2020s look to be more of the same too. it's hard to keep going on when literally everything around you is turning into absolute garbage. we are being thrust into a corporate run dystopia and literally no one sees any of the signs, and if they do they have 0 problem with it. its sickening
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MIDI is one of those things where unless you had the hardware it was designed for, Like space quest and the MT-32 or Heretic and the Sound canvas, no matter how much you fiddled with it, it would never sound how it was intended unless you had specific hardware which most people didn't. The only reason midi was used in the first place, as far as games go, was because it was a cost-effective way to store music before we had MP3 and hard drives large enough to accommodate them and PCs fast enough to run it.
Of course, for musicians, it was a quick and easy way to create a demo for a track because of the way it imitated other musical instruments.

More in general things move on and as technology moves on there are choices to be made and you can only support backwards compatibility with older API's for so long before they become cumbersome to keep full support for. Sometimes to move forward we have to draw a line. But I get it people don't like change but if we don't we are just stuck going round and round in circles with nothing changing or getting better. I mean would you rather listen to music in midi or mp3?

Netflix has NEVER had everything and there were services that run side by side with Netflix as I mentioned above LoveFilm. It's all about the balance if you give someone too much choice as we have with game market places (and fucking launchers ) and streaming services then they are more likely just to say screw it I'm just gonna pirate it because I don't want to pay each company £9.99 a month for something I can get for free and without ads (Looking at you prime video :/ )
 
MIDI is/was one main Reason to play and love DOS Games.
That is also Reason to
the 2000/10s are bad and here's why

What a Fun and great Experience to create DOS Environments with Soundblaster and Midi Sound for the Games in pure DOS.
DOS Box is ok too but not the same.....

NTFS / Windows Vista and up killed this....
 
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even if hardware Midi may not serve much of a purpose today it should still be kept because it wasn't harming anything. It's like the headphone jack where there was literally no good reason to remove it because it didn't do any harm.
 
People keep saying "DOSBox is not the same", but in the end if you had a computer running DOSBox next to a twenty-year old computer running DOS, most people would never be able to tell the difference. (And it would also be indistinguishable from a third computer doing nothing but playing a pre-rendered video.)

I have no doubt that there were a lot of things cut from Windows 10 that weren't doing any harm but have gone missed by practically nobody. It's one less thing to worry about.

Headphone jacks started being used for things like Square as general purpose I/O – probably not doing any harm, but it's understandable why some companies might not like that.
 
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It's not that we have removed midi support tho, it the same as it ever was ... if you run out and buy an MT-32 or sound canvas it will sound just as good on a modern machine as it would on a pure dos machine. You can even outfit DOSBOX with the MT-32 libraries and have it just as good. People still use MIDI all the time on modern systems and it's still just as valid as it was back then, what has really changed of course is we have moved away from external sound cards to motherboard integrated ones. Technology moves on but the Tech we have hasn't gone anywhere we can still enjoy it and play it and there are so many people out there preserving this with projects like SCUMMVM and DOSBOX

NTFS was a necessary step to make up the ever-growing support for large files. 4Gb is a hard limit on fat32 and would make computers even more difficult to work with today. Let's not forget, technology is built with 2 things in mind, what we need today and what could be possible tomorrow

I loved my headphone jack on my phone but I can understand in a world where more and more people are using Bluetooth that they would ultimately ditch it, if it wasn't done today then it certainly would be tomorrow and it allows them to cut cost and use that space for other things like more storage and battery life.

Many years ago I had to write some new call logging software because the old one was coming out of support and there was nothing on the market that could integrate into 3rd party software. Now I could have made a fancy GUI with all the bells and whistles that I could but rather than that I kept it as close to the old program as I could and added some quality of life updates like auto-fill, spell checking, auto-detection of the site from the phone number and a whole list of site equipment. People hated it at first because it was a change from what they knew. I got complaints from day 1. 6 months later I asked if they wanted me to take out the updates and people said no. Why because they realised it made their jobs a lot easier in the long run
 
Personally I blame Reagan, it was shit before him too but things got significantly more shit since his presidency.



I think this video has a really interesting perspective on this sort of topic about how "X generation is bad" or "It was so much better in X year!". If you want something to blame, blame neoliberalism, or better yet blame the Bretton Woods Committee. They're the ones who've been setting this shit in motion since 1983.
 
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It is of course different.
When you make a DOS Game running on an Machine with 4 MB RAM or less and have to configure the Expanded/Extended RAM including a CD Rom Driver and a Mouse Driver...and the needed Sound Variables.

Dos Box do not really care about such Things.... it has everything "prepared" and takes so much RAM from the Windows Machine as it needs.:).
 
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My point is that after you get the game running, the result is indistinguishable.

Yes, some people enjoy configuring RAM and drivers and so on in DOS. I would say, if that's more fun than actually playing the game, then perhaps one should find a better game to play? (And if one doesn't enjoy playing games anymore, then perhaps one should come to terms with that and find something else to do? Complaining on message boards seems to be popular...)
 
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The big problem is corporations receiving subsidies and bailouts from both the federal and state governments. Back in the Great Recession, I remember Ford and other car companies, instead of doing what us normal people have to do by cutting back on spending and saving up their money and riding things out until they get better, they and other companies received bailouts while everyone was getting laid off and/or getting their houses foreclosed on because of the former and/or getting scammed thanks to the Frank-Dodd Act allowing banks to give loans to people who normally wouldn't even qualify for a loan.

AT&T, who owns everything Warner Bros. Interactive, which includes Rocksteady, Netherrealm Studios, and other devs, was revealed to be in massive debt. Billions. There were talks of them trying to sell the entirety of the whole operation to Microsoft, EA, Activision, and maybe Ubisoft, but no one bought it. If Mortal Kombat selling the best in terms of fighting games other than Smash Bros. as well as the Batman games and the other stuff Warner Bros. Interactive puts out isn't generating a profit, it makes sense why none of the aforementioned companies (especially EA) snatched them up.

Companies that spend a lot already on the games themselves tend to spend far too much on marketing them. Imagine how much it cost to actually make Cyberpunk 2077 as opposed to marketing it, especially once they got Keanu to not only present it at last year's E3 (or whatever event it was), but to voice and to feature his likeness as one of the characters in the game? Hence why I think you saw the game rushed out the door in hopes of the company trying to recoup costs and to keep funds moving in exchange for a reputation that once was respected amongst the more hardcore gaming crowd and is now tarnished.

The entertainment industry is running a financial model that isn't sustainable, and honestly, if it imploded tomorrow, I think there would be more than enough entertainment for someone to consume than the time that they had in their life to devote towards said consumption. There's still games on the PS1, SNES, PS2, and even the Genesis I want to play through one day, but the sad reality is that once you have a job you're at for 75% of your day, you come home, exhausted, too many games to play, too much anime to watch, too many movies to choose from, and then you either do what you're familiar with, or you work on something else entirely. And if one gets married, has kids, etc., then their priorities shift entirely, and they may not play games for the rest of their lives as they'll be too busy raising their kids (and the trend among parents that I've observed is that they tend to limit video game time nowadays) and working two-three jobs all because the dollar is becoming less valuable as we just keep printing more money that has no backing other than the US having a workforce and infrastructure to keep producing, distributing, and designing goods and services to sell to customers both in and outside of the nation. And some of these people are still in debt from going to college, taking out loans for a car, or a mortgage for a house, they have to pay for gas to get anywhere (how are those gas prices, btw?), pay for groceries, prepare food, eat, sleep, wash, rinse, repeat the same routine every day just to survive when previous generations had plenty of money in savings and knew the ways to produce their own food, get their own water, and had the tools to be able to do things by themselves for less cost than it is now.

And hence, why you have a lot of people still stuck at home with their parents, especially when you have a situation in the world right now where the things you and I took for granted were taken from us, and maybe not a lot of people really put a lot of stock in spending time with other people physically, but for me, meeting with people in close physical proximity is always going to trump doing anything online, regardless of how much better that has gotten especially in the last year *winks at Steam Remote Play Together and Parsec*.
 
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@Silent_Gunner Wasn't Dodd-Frank (not Frank-Dodd) the legislation introduced to prevent predatory mortgage lending..? I'm also not sure what you mean by previous generations knowing the ways to get their own water?

But really, if there's one thing I've learned in the last year, it's that I'm sick of trying to discuss politics online. It's probably reasonable to say that's definitely something that wasn't quite so awful twenty years ago. (I almost wrote "ten years ago", but no, politics were pretty bananas well before 2010.)
 
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