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[The Loyal Nub]

Oh yes. I forgot that the dialogue wheel went so that I couldn't click on it (but I could still type the numbers for the appropriate response). I found that hitting the windows key so that the game minimised and then re-selecting it fixed that.

 

Ooh I will have to try that!

 

My mum likes sci-fi and fantasy. I grew up reading Tolkien and Asimov, with (old school) Dr Who and Star Trek on the TV and Star Wars in the cinema...

 

Same here! Mom got me into Tolkien in the 70's and of course I was young enough (middle-aged child of the 70's here) to have been hit by the Trek, Doctor Who, Star Wars boom but somehow video games never grabbed me till I had a herniated disc in 2010 that had me out of work for 3 months and friend brought me over some games, while I was convalescing, to try out.

[YourFunnyUncle]

Ooh I will have to try that!

 

 

Same here! Mom got me into Tolkien in the 70's and of course I was young enough (middle-aged child of the 70's here) to have been hit by the Trek, Doctor Who, Star Wars boom but somehow video games never grabbed me till I had a herniated disc in 2010 that had me out of work for 3 months and friend brought me over some games, while I was convalescing, to try out.

I've been playing computer games since I got a Sinclair Spectrum+ in 1984. Longer if you count my sister's Atari 2600.

[The Loyal Nub]

I've been playing computer games since I got a Sinclair Spectrum+ in 1984. Longer if you count my sister's Atari 2600.

 

That makes you quite the veteran!

[YourFunnyUncle]

That makes you quite the veteran!

I was born in '75 and I think I'm the first generation that grew up thinking it normal to have computers in the home. I got my first when I was nine but had experienced others before then. I don't really have strong memories of what it was like not to have a computer.

 

Edit: Even though the chip that runs your monitor controls these days is almost certainly way more powerful then my old Spectrum...

[The Loyal Nub]

I was born in '75 and I think I'm the first generation that grew up thinking it normal to have computers in the home. I got my first when I was nine but had experienced others before then. I don't really have strong memories of what it was like not to have a computer.

 

I was born in 68' and never felt a pressing need to have one till 95'. I still remember using a typewriter to type papers in college! By 95' I had to have one though for work and in the line of work I am in it was mandatory by that point that I get one and get email or fall behind in what I was doing and face...unpleasant things.  Now I can remember them not being a factor in our day to day lives but I can't imagine not having one now!

[YourFunnyUncle]

I was born in 68' and never felt a pressing need to have one till 95'. I still remember using a typewriter to type papers in college! By 95' I had to have one though for work and in the line of work I am in it was mandatory by that point that I get one and get email or fall behind in what I was doing and face...unpleasant things.  Now I can remember them not being a factor in our day to day lives but I can't imagine not having one now!

Yeah I think those seven years make a big difference. For you the boom in home computers came in your teens, and they still weren't that useful for productivity, whereas for me I was still in primary school and by the time I hit Uni (college) age the world wide web was starting.

[Serza]

My mum likes sci-fi and fantasy. I grew up reading Tolkien and Asimov, with (old school) Dr Who and Star Trek on the TV and Star Wars in the cinema...

 

An old love, then!

 

I think I am going to give Mass Effect a go real soon. Like you I didn't think of myself playing fantasy or sci-fi till a few years ago. Now I can't get enough!

 

Same thing.

 

Don't forget to punch the reporter. It doesn't matter what else you do, you have to punch the reporter.

 

"I've had enough of your disingenuous assertions!"

 

I was born in '75 and I think I'm the first generation that grew up thinking it normal to have computers in the home. I got my first when I was nine but had experienced others before then. I don't really have strong memories of what it was like not to have a computer.

 

Edit: Even though the chip that runs your monitor controls these days is almost certainly way more powerful then my old Spectrum...

 

First PC when you were 9? Who would've guessed, we're actually alike in that way. Except the fact I got mine when I was eight, and, you know. Being a '95 kid. So about twenty years later... Filthy youngling, me!

[Fiery Phoenix]

I was born in 68' and never felt a pressing need to have one till 95'. I still remember using a typewriter to type papers in college!

lol, wow. Typewriters in college... that's making me feel pathetically young at 24.

[Serza]

I know, right. I haven't written anything other than by hand until high school, which is an era that starts some four years ago (209-2010-ish. Can't remember anything exactly these days...)

 

Of course, by then, I started using a notebook.

[The Loyal Nub]

lol, wow. Typewriters in college... that's making me feel pathetically young at 24.

 

Believe me, I am not misty eyed for them. They were a massive pain in the ass to use and typing a twenty page paper with footnote and bib was an ordeal in hell! When we got word processors in by the end of my college years it felt like heaven! PC's are so much better for getting things done creatively than the bad old tools we had! I even did a year abroad in Europe and the adjunct campus had very few typewriters and it wasn't like you could cart one over to Europe easily so I wrote a few papers out by hand on a pad!

[Lady Luminous]

I was born in '75 and I think I'm the first generation that grew up thinking it normal to have computers in the home. I got my first when I was nine but had experienced others before then. I don't really have strong memories of what it was like not to have a computer.

 

Edit: Even though the chip that runs your monitor controls these days is almost certainly way more powerful then my old Spectrum...

 

Lol, I was born in 1991 and didn't get the internet until I was 13! We had an old Windows '96 that had paint and word and a few games, but that was about it.  

[Fiery Phoenix]

Believe me, I am not misty eyed for them. They were a massive pain in the ass to use and typing a twenty page paper with footnote and bib was an ordeal in hell! When we got word processors in by the end of my college years it felt like heaven! PC's are so much better for getting things done creatively than the bad old tools we had! I even did a year abroad in Europe and the adjunct campus had very few typewriters and it wasn't like you could cart one over to Europe easily so I wrote a few papers out by hand on a pad!

Meanwhile, today's college kids complain about 'too much work', when it's literally easier than ever to write a paper nowadays.

 

You got to wonder what they would have done 50 years ago.

[YourFunnyUncle]

I remember it being a big thing that one guy came to lectures with a laptop while we were all still making hand-written notes. I never typed up an assignment with a typewriter, though.

[YourFunnyUncle]

Lol, I was born in 1991 and didn't get the internet until I was 13! We had an old Windows '96 that had paint and word and a few games, but that was about it.

I didn't have the internet at home until '97, but had access to it at university from '93. Not that the download speeds at the time allowed it to be anything like the internet today. Dial-up modems... Gawd...

[Serza]

Meanwhile, today's college kids complain about 'too much work', when it's literally easier than ever to write a paper nowadays.

 

You got to wonder what they would have done 50 years ago.

 

Waah, I complained a little bit, but that was... Ah, I'm weird, leave it at that.

I actually got a great topic, and I could get a page without any real effort. The second, I had to read the tiniest bit of info.

 

Ranged weapons and firearms in history. My kinda topic.

 

Fifty years ago, I would... Well, today's me would go like "OH F!" - in the best case.
If I was born back then, I wouldn't know any better, and would probably just roll along with it.

[The Loyal Nub]

Meanwhile, today's college kids complain about 'too much work', when it's literally easier than ever to write a paper nowadays.

 

You got to wonder what they would have done 50 years ago.

 

I know and with so many digital resources at their beck and call. I had to trot to the library, hunt the card catalog, and check the massive journal stacks to find articles. Now I can pretty much go online and have a useful source in seconds from a peer-reviewed journal. But I am sure they are working hard now too. I did go back to school in the 2000's to do some post-graduate work and it was tough going as well but I did have better access to resources than I had in the 80's.

[Serza]

I didn't have the internet at home until '97, but had access to it at university from '93. Not that the download speeds at the time allowed it to be anything like the internet today. Dial-up modems... Gawd...

 

I had a dial-up back when internet was a new thing for me. Had half-hour on it per month! Freaking expensive, and freaking slow.

Well, half hour on average, but still...

 

Thankfully, all the modern tech. I'm online pretty much all day, every day.

Would be hard to go without all the tech now. But it wasn't hard to go without it while I didn't have it, so...

[YourFunnyUncle]

I know and with so many digital resources at their beck and call. I had to trot to the library, hunt the card catalog, and check the massive journal stacks to find articles. Now I can pretty much go online and have a useful source in seconds from a peer-reviewed journal. But I am sure they are working hard now too. I did go back to school in the 2000's to do some post-graduate work and it was tough going as well but I did have better access to resources than I had in the 80's.

Remember microfiche? Revolutionary archive technology.

[Lady Luminous]

I didn't have the internet at home until '97, but had access to it at university from '93. Not that the download speeds at the time allowed it to be anything like the internet today. Dial-up modems... Gawd...

 

My mom would want to use the phone and always told me to get off the internet, and I would always tell her "But you told me to do my homework!" Lol. 

[The Loyal Nub]

Remember microfiche? Revolutionary archive technology.

 

I sure do! I believe the local library just discarded it a year or two ago (or what they had left)! No, things are definitely better with computers.

[YourFunnyUncle]

My mom would want to use the phone and always told me to get off the internet, and I would always tell her "But you told me to do my homework!" Lol. 

Ha! I remember getting very annoyed when people picked up the phone in the middle of a big download. On the plus side, there was a time when I had dial-up internet but no mobile phone, so if I wanted to avoid being called by work or some such I could just go online...

[Serza]

Ha! I remember getting very annoyed when people picked up the phone in the middle of a big download. On the plus side, there was a time when I had dial-up internet but no mobile phone, so if I wanted to avoid being called by work or some such I could just go online...

 

Clever... Very... clever...

[Lady Luminous]

Ha! I remember getting very annoyed when people picked up the phone in the middle of a big download. On the plus side, there was a time when I had dial-up internet but no mobile phone, so if I wanted to avoid being called by work or some such I could just go online...

Hehe, that is devious but awesome. 

 

I didn't get my first mobile phone until I was 16 - a crappy little flip phone that couldn't do much more than text - which would have been '07. But that little phone was glued to my hand, haha. 

[Fiery Phoenix]

Pffft, phones. I remember when people actually used these:

 

 

[YourFunnyUncle]

I never really liked mobile phones when they were just mobile phones. What I have now is a pocket computer that happens to be able to make calls. This I like.