▲ 230 ▼ Return to the year 2000 with classic multiplayer DOS games in your browser (arstechnica.com) submitted 8 months ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/games@lemmy.world 33 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (3 children) Arstechnica writers have the technological knowledge of a parakeet. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 8 months ago* (1 child) Parakeets typically understand how to get what they need out of a shell. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 3 points 8 months ago permalink fedilink source parent [–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 8 months ago I was gonna say that he might simply not have been around when Red Alert 2 came out, but https://www.whitepages.com/name/Samuel-Sott-Axon/Los-Angeles-CA/Pl8a1drMk8b 40s Age Range So he's gotta be born no later than 1985. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Red_Alert_2 Release: NA: October 25, 2000 So he couldn't have been younger than 15 at the game's release (and could have been as old as 25). That being said, that game came out a quarter-century ago, and there are people in the workforce who won't have been born when it was released. Can't just assume any more. permalink fedilink source parent [–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 point 8 months ago I think they have the knowledge, but write only about what brings views. From how often they write about Elon Musk, you'd think they are his promotion department. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 8 months ago* (1 child) Parakeets typically understand how to get what they need out of a shell. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 3 points 8 months ago permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 8 months ago I was gonna say that he might simply not have been around when Red Alert 2 came out, but https://www.whitepages.com/name/Samuel-Sott-Axon/Los-Angeles-CA/Pl8a1drMk8b 40s Age Range So he's gotta be born no later than 1985. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Red_Alert_2 Release: NA: October 25, 2000 So he couldn't have been younger than 15 at the game's release (and could have been as old as 25). That being said, that game came out a quarter-century ago, and there are people in the workforce who won't have been born when it was released. Can't just assume any more. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 point 8 months ago I think they have the knowledge, but write only about what brings views. From how often they write about Elon Musk, you'd think they are his promotion department. permalink fedilink source parent