I don’t mind trolling, what I DO mind is BAD trolling.
What happened? We millennials, the one’s who grew up with BBS forums and USENET were the pathfinders to it. And what do you little SNERTs do? You spit upon our legacy.
I didn’t fight in the Sega/Nintendo wars just for you dingbats to swat at low-hanging fruit; we taught you better than that! No, instead you WILLINGLY reach for the rotting apples you can reach with a stick.
How can you do this to my veteran brothers and sisters? You kids wouldn’t survive the Star Wars Prequel trenches back in the early 00’s!
Sonny, you don’t know about the old days. Back when I started we were connecting at 2400 baud, barefoot, in the snow, uphill (both ways). We didn’t have fancy pictures or emojis to express ourselves. We had to use actual words!
And since most BBS’s were local, you couldn’t just post with wild abandon thinking you’ll never meet anyone that you’re arguing with. No. These people knew where you lived…
Oh you Nintendo jerks think you’re SOOO special huh? When I was running interference for the Genesis defending the Blue Blur himself, you dingbats claimed your little white box was better.
Yeah yeah you had Actraiser, but nothing holds a candle to Golden Axe!
You kids and your fancy high speed whatsits and mega whosit computer thingamabobs. When us Gen X’ers wanted to troll people we had to yell real loud so our neighbors would hear us.
I remember my 1st 300 baud modem and people picking up the phone causing you to get disconnected. Got my 1st computer back in 1978 and learning to program in GW-Basic. Watch computers go from tape drives to floppy disks to 3 1/2 disks and finally one of the 1st home hard drives took up a 5 1/4 bat drive and was only 5 MB.
Loved the Local BBS system because you actually would go meet the people and make awesome friendships with local people that shared your passion.
Is it sad that winning the Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot, walking through work laughing maniacally, punching a co-worker in the face, and screaming “I’m rich bi-otch!” is my number one fantasy/life goal?
Lol Nintendo & Sega need not have even fought a war , they did enough on their own to obliterate any market value they had , sega died & Nintendo is barely hanging on.
I had Yoshi and Metroid.
My friends had Scorpion and master chief.
It was so embarrassing to be saddled with the wimpy child game consoles. Nintendo was the worst. In fact I partly blame Nintendo for contributing to creating the crybaby, soyboy generation.