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It's probably like the people that insisted on calling the Game Boy the DMG (dot-matrix game) because that's what it was called in Nintendo's internal supply catalogs or something like that.
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Doesn’t help that Sony released the baby PSOne late in its lifecycle too
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I used to see people say psx but I never understood where they got it. I woupd say PS like some scrub n00b.
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Oct 18, 2019 02:16
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Wasn't psx its codename in production or something like that?
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Oct 18, 2019 02:24
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spaceblancmange posted:Wasn't psx its codename in production or something like that? I'm fairly certain this is the case. It always bothered me even back then that certain magazines always referred to it as the PSX went that wasn't the name of the console. I'll have to dig through some boxes to find my old Game Players magazines which are 90s as all hell.
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Oct 18, 2019 03:45
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And the GameCube was the GCN https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/12/13/the-name-game
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spaceblancmange posted:Wasn't psx its codename in production or something like that? It makes sense considering the Play Station (two words) was the name of the super nintendo CD addon Sony was developing with Nintendo until they got shafted and went their own way. Tack on the X and its their "2nd" prototype/console in a way.
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Oct 18, 2019 04:59
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Sony had a thing for that weird naming stuff. PSX stood for Playstation Experimental. The marketing push also had "Are you E?" everywhere with the "e" being red colored so it meant "are you ready?"
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You're all forgetting the radical Xtreme 90's factor, my dudes and dudettes. 
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My first thought was well they're not gonna call it the PS1 when the PS2 doesn't exist yet and apart from GB and SNES everything else was 3 letter abbreviations (NES, Gen, MSX, Sat).
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Pneub posted:It's probably like the people that insisted on calling the Game Boy the DMG (dot-matrix game) because that's what it was called in Nintendo's internal supply catalogs or something like that. How do you know this? Do you have a friend whose cousin's uncle on the mom's side works for Nintendo?
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Mu Zeta posted:Sony had a thing for that weird naming stuff. PSX stood for Playstation Experimental. The marketing push also had "Are you E?" everywhere with the "e" being red colored so it meant "are you ready?" I remember the market push saying "You are not ready" with the big red e, although they did pronounce it more like "red e"
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Oct 18, 2019 12:38
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I remember seeing "URNOTE"
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I don't think I ever called it PSX, nor heard it called PSX, though in both cases I'm referring to verbally. "PlayStation" is just as many syllables.KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:Doesn’t help that Sony released the baby PSOne late in its lifecycle too
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Oct 18, 2019 14:27
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wesleywillis posted:How do you know this? Do you have a friend whose cousin's uncle on the mom's side works for Nintendo? I kept running into people online that always had to explain the stupid reason why they refused to just call it a Game Boy everytime it came up and no one knew what they were talking about. Pneub has a new favorite as of 14:43 on Oct 18, 2019 |
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Oct 18, 2019 14:40
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wesleywillis posted:How do you know this? Do you have a friend whose cousin's uncle on the mom's side works for Nintendo? The original game boy does have "MODEL NO. DMG-01" embossed on the back. I don't know if "dot matrix game" is a backronym 
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Oct 18, 2019 16:44
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Gateway was everywhere in the 90s, ads being constantly shown on TV with the cows and stuff. I always wondered what happened to them, figured they were just victoms of changing market places, but NOPE they were shady as fuuuuuuuuck.
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Oct 19, 2019 23:55
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explain. I never owned a Gateway, so I dunno
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Randaconda posted:explain. I never owned a Gateway, so I dunno A bunch of their top execs were indicted on security fraud, plus their payment plants were full of hidden costs and penalties.
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Oct 20, 2019 02:07
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They also bought eMachines. Who the gently caress would buy eMachines.
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Oct 20, 2019 02:23
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When I think of eMachines, I think of this: I don't know precisely how the 'never obsolete' worked but I'm guessing it's similar to a mobile phone plan where you upgrade every so often.
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:When I think of eMachines, I think of this: Looks like (from the sticker) $20 a month and you can pay $99 every two years to trade in and upgrade. So $569 every two years to get a new computer.
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Hokkaido Anxiety posted:Looks like (from the sticker) $20 a month and you can pay $99 every two years to trade in and upgrade. So $569 every two years to get a new computer. They were shitboxes. Much like any PC or Mac back in that day.
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Gateway, at one point, had loving stores to sell their poo poo, iirc. It's kind of wild to know that in the pre-mid 90s, if you had a PC it was just as likely to be some no-name rando brand you picked up somehow as it was an IBM.
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twistedmentat posted:Gateway was everywhere in the 90s, ads being constantly shown on TV with the cows and stuff. I always wondered what happened to them, figured they were just victoms of changing market places, but NOPE they were shady as fuuuuuuuuck. My first laptop was a Gateway. No doubt that the cows were a selling point. The hard drive died on it within a few months, but their customer service was nice and put in a new one for free. I fried so many modems on it. If lightning struck within seemingly 100 miles of it when it was plugged it, it blew. Finally started buying cheap external ones at Walmart. Lightning fried them, too. It also had a weird glitch that if you put the thing on battery power for more than a minute or two, it'd freeze up. You had to take the battery out or let the power run out on the computer to start over to use it again.
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The last laptop I bought (my employers bought me the next one) was a Gateway. But it turned out they had already merged with Acer. And the less said about Dell the better.
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Sir Lemming posted:I remember seeing "URNOTE" I had a t-shirt with this slogan on it and I miss it dearly. That and my Conker’s BFD shirt showing “shh, Conker is taking a nap” with him passed out in a toilet. Still have my Dreamcast preorder shirt though. 
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:The last laptop I bought (my employers bought me the next one) was a Gateway. But it turned out they had already merged with Acer. And the less said about Dell the better. Dude you're getting a Dell!! I remember getting computers in the 90s as you'd go to a store and a bunch of nerds would build it for you based on specs and price you wanted. Which is why my first pentium was a 120 and not a 133.
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Movie chat: This is one of my favorite movies, Highschool High. https://youtu.be/oLf2PusBhFQ?t=4 Its a parody of all the "Inspirational teacher" movies from the late 80s, and early 90s. Its kind of what I call, a "disposable comedy", since a lot of the jokes reference contemporary (OJ simpson, Marion Barry) news or pop culture (Mike Tyson's book) from the times, but over all I think theres enough visual gags and "regular" jokes that its still good for laughs 25 years later even if there are a number of references that you would have had to be old enough at the time to really get them. .
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Oct 20, 2019 18:08
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Mu Zeta posted:They also bought eMachines. Who the gently caress would buy eMachines.
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I remember it being called a psx only after the psOne had been released, but that could be just because when the playstation came out in 94 I wasn't old enough to argue about it online.
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wesleywillis posted:Movie chat: I imagine it was really easy for Jon Lovitz to play a clueless white guy dealing with inner city youth because he could just go sit in the writer's room for a few minutes every so often.
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Just remembered this song out of the blue yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2qEwePLQgI Other than the singer's haricut/shirt combo, it's actually an amusing video! Especially for what I assume was an extremely low budget.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:They were shitboxes. Compared to today, yes. The thing is prior to Windows 95 computers were considered a tool, and a ton of people were terrified of them, so they didn't really need to evolve beyond being a shitbox. You didn't need a lot of power to type up some documents, or play Commander Keen.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LruIZwlTyBk
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namlosh posted:Wait, maybe I’m not SO dumb... According to phish.net, Phish has never played Gin and Juice in concert. They have played Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It, though. EDIT: I now realize that this was from a long time ago... empty baggie has a new favorite as of 22:45 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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One thousand years ago, superstition and the sword ruled. It was a time of darkness. It was a world of fear. It was the age of gargoyles.
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Seldom Posts posted:Just remembered this song out of the blue yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2qEwePLQgI Wait, is the extra singer who raps wearing one of those Proud Boy polos? I think he is, those double yellow stripes and the laurel on the breast. I had no idea those shirts were out in the wild. I cannot remember what reminded me of this, but there was a point when nerds were talking about Arrested Development and I thought they were talking about the early 90s Hip Hop collective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_4Y7Cei_bw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyDjRd0Tjss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VCdJyOAQYM Oh wait, someone was talking about the scene in Venture Bros were 24 brings up what he thinks is the ghost of Baba O'Jay and was confused by the scene. I remember in the early 90s this was super popular, but I guess the rise of edgier Rap and Hip Hop especially Gangsta Rap killed this positive, socially aware and lo fi stuff? In the mid of the 90s things did get harder, more aggressive and you saw this kind of stuff vanish.
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twistedmentat posted:Wait, is the extra singer who raps wearing one of those Proud Boy polos? I think he is, those double yellow stripes and the laurel on the breast. I had no idea those shirts were out in the wild. Pretty sure they just buy Fred Perry polos in black and yellow, you just didn't notice them until they became a uniform and not a random black polo. I think lately they've had their own branded ones made up though?
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Trabant posted:One thousand years ago, superstition and the sword ruled. AND THEN, FROM THE FIELD OF THE FUTURE A NEW KING WILL COME, TO SAVE THE WORLD OF THE PAST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USUucZVnno0
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