WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]

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  • Another way to differentiate would be things like rendering technology. While raytracing is starting to be partially utilized a little bit, I’d hardly say it’s taken over yet, so there’s not much technological difference between a 360 and a PS5. Mostly boils down to more cores and faster with some minor extra features. Far more difference between even the SNES and the N64 than between the PS1 and the PS5 imo.

    You could also use Internet access as a determinant, but then even snes and Sega Genesis wouldn’t be retro (at least in Japan).

    Could just define retros as anything that fits at least one or 2 of those 4 characteristics of retro video game consoles, but the xbox360 is pretty much modern by all of them.



















  • Agreed most others wouldn’t use email as a replacement for casual chat, but its always seemed like an arbitrary choice. So many people waste so much space in emails because they treat them like letters, so the biggest difference seems to be the culture around them rather than the medium itself. If people formatted all text messages as

    "Hello Dear Friend,

    Here is stuff to waste space.

    Here’s what I actually want to say.

    More extra stuff.

    Sincerely, Walrus"

    I doubt we would see that much of a difference between them.