The nightmare PS2 dirty disc screen, and mainstream multiplayer games without anticheat rootkits
Edit: mainstream
Setting up your computer before you go to bed to download a demo for a game thatโsโฆ 20 MB large! Waking up in the morning to inevitably discover the download failed part way through.
Getright was my choice for years, until it decided to scrap an entire 600MB iso I had downloaded over 56k, and start over. Getright pissing me off was thebmain reason why I got pretty good at perl 25 years ago - I decided to write my own download manager.
I remember using a program called Go!Zilla to accellerate and manage my downloads, you could even pause downloads!
Not as extreme, but I still remember downloading GTA 5 for 16h, that was some shit internet
sometimes I still have to do this, sure not for something thatโs only 20mb but a 1gb file can take a whole night to download in my uni accommodation. The landlord doesnโt seem to give a shit though because theyโre still advertising that the building has โup to 100mb/sโ wifi speeds.
The French revolution.
The App Store not being filled with predatory trash
Itโs so hard to find remotely good games nowโฆ I have hit the point that I donโt even bother looking at anything but paid offline games but even those often have microtransctions. I am glad that you can get a refund most of the time as long as you only used it less than an hour.
Thereโs a curated list of no-bullshit mobile games which are real fun, without any microtransactions: https://nobsgames.stavros.io/
Mobile Gaming can be fun. :)
Social media not being the focus of every government, advertising agency and activist organization in existence.
