VinesNFluff

Wrong but also not completely wrong.

Framerates weren't really a

Thing.

Before consoles had frame-buffers -- Because Framebuffers are what allow the machine to build a frame of animation over several VBlank Intervals before presenting to the viewer.

The first console with a framebuffer was the 3DO. The first console people cared about with a framebuffer was the PSX.

Before that, you were in beam-racing town.

If your processing wasn't enough to keep up with the TV's refresh rate (60i/30p in NTSC territories, 50i/25p in PAL) -- Things didn't get stuttery or drop frames like modern games. They'd either literally run in slow-motion, or not display stuff (often both, as anyone who's ever played a Shmup on NES can tell you)

You had the brief window of the HBlank and VBlank intervals of the television to calc stuff and get the next frame ready.

Buuuut, as of the PSX/N64/Saturn, most games were running anywhere between 15 and 60 FPS, with most sitting at the 20s.

PC is a whole different beast, as usual.

Yeah....

What's fun is getting two or more forever DMs to be players.

Because then the game becomes gloriously collaborative.

Descent is pretty fun. Not as big of a fan as you are, but I definitely dig it.

Ackshuli -- By late 2000 there were a couple games on PC that could get there.

.... If you were playing on high-end hardware. Which most PC gamers were not. (despite what Reddit PCMR weirdos will tell you, PC gaming has always been the home for janky hand-built shitboxes that are pushed to their crying limits trying to run games they were never meant to)

Regardless that's beside the point -- The original MM still doesn't feel bad to go back to (it's an annual tradition for me, and I alternate which port I play) even though it never changed from its 20FPSy roots.

When you're god's most perfect killing machine but you also fit inside the palm of a hand and people make kissy noises at you.

It can but it's useless

It only works if the browser tab is focused.

Not very useful as a PTT key.

Why not all of those

Cars are a pollutant that is accelerating climate change.

Cars are a danger to everyone involved.

Driving is isolating as compared to walking or biking or commuting.

Car-first infrastructure makes cities uglier and uglier.

These are all true.

The bnnu

A pentium 100 shitbox hand built by my ol dad

This was well into the pentium II era of PC mind

Based dad based dad

Brand written big

What the product is written super tiny

If I could enshrine 1(one) regulation into law it would be to reverse that.