Childhood trauma 😩 : memes

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 7 months ago

UI Designers need to bring back the childhood trauma aspect of software

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

It never went away. They just figured out how to make it subtle so it could be active all the time instead of just when the computer wasn't working properly. Do you really feel like you're using trauma-free software day-to-day?

[-] einlander@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Software integrating mandatory online accounts, ai, and other anti consumer tactics:

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

I will always remember Eternal Darkness for getting me off the couch to go reset my GameCube cause it appeared frozen. I didn’t get all the way there before realizing the game was fucking with me

[-] running_system@feddit.org 6 points 7 months ago

I almost fell for it while being at the brink of a nervous meltdown.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

It never left, they just monetized it.

[+] notreallyhere@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[-] Marafon@sh.itjust.works 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

iirc this is the screen you would get when the PS2 was borked and wouldn't boot properly, or something like that. It's been a long time but I do still remember the terror I associate with this image lol

Edit: Actually it might have been a disc read error

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago

It was a disc read error. In that era, the most likely issue was that your disc was too beat up to work properly.

[-] cm0002@libretechni.ca 15 points 7 months ago

Another big reason, a lot of the earlier PS2 models had a poor quality laser that would go bad really quick

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 7 points 7 months ago

That kind of trauma is probably why I had stopped using optical media by 2005.

[-] Marafon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

That explains why I also remembered the smell and texture of toothpaste lol

[-] Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 7 months ago

Oh, so kind of like the red ring of death for us xbox kids!

[-] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Childhood
PS2

did i wonder into Instagram or some such nonsense? The 'verse is supposed to be just us old nerds.

[-] Marafon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Bruh, 30 is the new 60 because of gestures wildly all around

[-] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

I was trying to figure out some Commodore 64 screen I was looking at.

[+] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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[-] waz@feddit.uk 18 points 7 months ago

I’m this old

[-] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Oh hey! The music started, must be about halfway loaded. Guess I'll go grab a snack.

[-] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 5 points 7 months ago

PS2 was my last console, i still have a silver slim one just gathering dust because emulators exist, but for me that was the golden age of gaming...

[-] Shrubbery@piefed.social 4 points 7 months ago

Relive the horror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uHLQHjtPLE

[-] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

That's goatse, right?

[-] Aganim@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I suspect this is some kind of console error? I've only owned a SNES before becoming part of the PC master race, so just like the kids of today this early millennial has no idea what he's looking at exactly.

[-] cm0002@libretechni.ca 1 points 7 months ago

It's the PS2 disc error screen, just before the actual disc read error message displays it does this little red animation. This is like the very beginning of that animation

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