Dude, who even knows.
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In retrospect a big part of the wonder of the ‘90s was that even trivial vidya entertainments would be, like, part of a competition between Peter Molyneux and Will Wright and Richard Garriott and Sid Meier to create the most accurate simulation of the entire world according to their own personal theories of the underlying metaphysics
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It’s interesting how Internet attitudes towards piracy went from “It’s great, but for legal reasons, don’t talk about it here.” to “You’re stealing from the creators!”.
Relatedly, the Internet of old would’ve either ignored or been highly amused by disturbing YouTube videos aimed at children, and they would’ve laughed at the mainstream media for making a big deal out of it similarly to “What is your teen texting?”. Gone is the presumption of ironic detachment, and I miss it.
This has obvious good and obvious bad aspects, and was probably inevitable given simple aging effects, but yeah, I know the feeling you’re describing.