I honestly don't remember because I was too young. However I do remember growing up on all the classics like Keen, Duke Nukem, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, Rise of the Triad, Test Drive (1 or 2? definitely 2), Street Rod 2. The list goes on
that's highly debatable if we're talking about a $600 PC. I mean, yes you can argue that with games on PC you can always figure something out to get acceptable performance, but people in the market to buy a $300 console likely lack the experience, knowledge or time to do that
lots of people are going to be assholes on lemmy, because that's what they've always been. If lemmy communities are going to be better than subreddits, it's not because of what regular users do as individuals, but because of what the moderators and admins do with the collective
lemmy has one big advantage though, and that is that people have been registering at instances that align with their values (or lack thereof). Being able to remove a whole swath of users from your community because they've self-identified as incompatible with your values is something that hasn't really been possible on reddit
except the millions upon millions of people who can't even be bothered to vote. I know the systemic vote suppression probably counts for a significant part of it, but honestly most of the rest are skirting their civic duty
If I said either of those things to any of the women I work with I'd likely get fired before the end of the week. And they really do not want to fire me
an outrage!